Mid-century 3D furniture: 29 free 1950s–70s models for renders and games
The free Mid-Century Home pack: sofas, a pod chair, a walnut sideboard, a 1950s range that opens, radios and lamps, true to scale in six formats.
Mid-century design, roughly the 1950s to the 1970s, is everywhere in 3D work: interior renders, retro games, film sets, product shots that need a warm room behind them. It is also easy to get slightly wrong. A sofa from 1975 in a 1955 kitchen, or a chrome range in a teak living room, looks off even to people who couldn't say why.
The Mid-Century Home pack is 29 free models from those three decades, at true scale and in the era's colours. This post shows what is in it and a few things that make a period scene feel right.
What is in the pack
Counted on 31 October 2026. Six of the 29 are colour or wood variants: the same shape with a new surface, which is how a pack grows without new risk.
| Room | Models |
|---|---|
| Living room | 1970s three-seat sofa in burnt orange, mustard and sage; 1970s pod swivel chair in two colours; oak lounge chair; Chesterfield club armchair; walnut sideboard with sliding doors; oval coffee table in two woods |
| Kitchen | 1950s range oven (the door opens, the drawer slides out); 1950s refrigerator; 1950s farmhouse table; painted farmhouse chair; 1970s chrome dinette chair in three colours; retro two-slice toaster; stovetop whistling kettle; blue floral porcelain teapot |
| Sound and vision | 1960s valve radio (the dial turns); 1960s stereo radiogram; 1960s television set |
| Light | mid-century gourd table lamp; mid-century tripod floor lamp |
| Hall and details | painted Windsor settee; mid-century coat stand; wrought-iron magazine rack; snake plant in a footed planter |
Models that move
Three models have moving parts, cut out of the mesh and given their own clips:
- The 1950s range oven (76 cm wide, 96 cm high, 86 cm deep): the oven door opens (
open,hold_open) and the bottom drawer with its baking tray slides out (pull_out). It comes with a roasting tin inside. - The walnut sideboard (1.60 m wide): the doors slide (
slide). - The 1960s valve radio: the tuning knob turns (
turn).
Getting a period scene right
Know which decade you are in
"Mid-century" covers three decades that look quite different:
- The 1950s: pastel and cream kitchens, chrome trim, enamel appliances, painted wood. In the pack: the range, the refrigerator, the farmhouse table and chairs.
- The 1960s: teak and walnut, Scandinavian lines, slim tapered legs, low and long sideboards. In the pack: the sideboard, the radio, the radiogram, the television.
- The 1970s: burnt orange, mustard, olive and brown, chunky upholstery, pod chairs, more chrome and plastic. In the pack: the three-seat sofa, the pod chair, the chrome dinette chairs.
Mixing them can work, because real homes mixed them too, but do it on purpose. A 1950s kitchen next to a 1970s living room reads as a home that was lived in for twenty years. Three decades in one room reads as a prop store.
Keep one palette
The era's colours carry the look more than the shapes do. The pack sticks to sage, mustard, burnt orange, teak and walnut. If you need a model in another colour, a surface-only change ("make the sofa olive corduroy") keeps the shape exactly and costs 50 credits, much less than a new model. How edits work.
Use true scale
Many mid-century sofas and lounge chairs sit lower than today's, and rooms were often smaller. If your models are at true scale, the room looks right without tweaking. If one model was scaled by eye, everything around it looks wrong. Every model in the pack is in metres with its base on the ground.
Let the materials do the work
Oiled wood, worn enamel, woven fabric and chrome need proper PBR materials to read under light: roughness for the sheen of oiled teak, metallic for chrome, a normal map for the weave. Check them in a light setup you control, not only in a store's screenshot. Our post on what game-ready means has a short test.
For renders or for games?
Both. The standard level (around 50,000 triangles for most models) is fine for real-time scenes and close interior renders. The low level, at a quarter of the triangles, is for rooms seen through a window or a game on a phone. Every model comes as GLB, glTF, FBX, USDZ, Blend and OBJ, and signed in you can download the whole pack as one zip per format. For interior work in particular, see 3D furniture for interior renders.
Questions
Is the Mid-Century Home pack free?
Yes. Anyone can view the models in the browser; downloading is free with a Sleipner account (an email and a 6-digit code). There is no download limit.
Can I use the models in client work or a game I sell?
Yes. The library licence allows royalty-free use in personal and commercial work, client work included, no credit needed. It has three rules: don't resell or re-share the models as models, don't claim you made them, and don't train AI on them.
Do you have a 1950s fridge that opens?
The 1950s refrigerator in the pack is static. An earlier, stocked version was withdrawn because of a dent in its door, and this one replaced it. If you need the door to open, you can make one and the studio will try to cut the door as a moving part.
Is there a modern version of these rooms?
Yes: the Modern Home & Products pack has clean, unbranded furniture, lamps and products from today, including a linen sofa, oak chairs and a fridge-freezer. See free modern furniture.
