Lucite and Steel Casters Three-Tier Bar Cart. This unique piece is designed both to hold and display vast quantities of liquor and drinkware, with sturdy Shepherd casters on the four ends supporting the rigidly aligned shelving. The top side edges are curved, and the whole piece is the pinnacle of Mid Century Modern design. 

Size: 24 x 16 x 24 in. 

Mid-century modern or Mid Century Modern (MCM) is a movement in interior design, product design, graphic design, art, architecture, and urban development that began to develop roughly between 1945 and 1970, most popular in North America, Brazil, and Europe due to economic and social shifts in the post-World War II period but was present in various ways all around the world. The term was used as early as the mid-1950s, and was first formally defined as a design movement by Cara Greenberg in her 1984 book “Mid-Century Modern: Furniture of the 1950s,” now recognized by scholars and museums worldwide as a significant design movement concurrent with the Modernist and minimalist movements, with which it shared many aesthetic components. It is typically characterized by clean, simple lines and honest use of materials, and generally does not include decorative embellishments, with perhaps the most significant aspect being the embrace of newer materials such as Lucite, chrome, acrylics, and aluminum for most if not all of the works. Critics believe the mid-century modern movement was an American reflection of the International and Bauhaus movements, including the works of Gropius, Florence Knoll, Le Corbusier, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and American, Brazilian, Italian, and Scandinavian architects were very influential at this time with a long-lasting impact on conceptual aspects of engineering and art into the 21st Century developed by the Structuralists and New Brutalists. California in particular retains many of the architectural and sculptural results of mid-century modern, with the city of Palm Springs especially noted for its myriad examples, and Brazil is the only country in the world where an entire city (and the country’s capital), Brasília, was built entirely in the mid-century modern style, inaugurated in 1961. The Danish Modern movement that evolved directly from mid-century modern is still popular today, most clearly through the proliferation of the retail giant IKEA.

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