Lynn Chase African Portraits "CHASE" Ceramic Footed Planter
By Lynn Chase Designs
Located in Rochester, NY
A fabulous footed planter by Lynn Chase, "Chase" from her African Portraits series.
Porcelain
Maison Marnyhac, "African Venus" , Planter France, Circa 1870
By Maison Marnyhac 1
Located in PARIS, FR
Exceptional planter by Maison Marnyhac in chiseled and gilded bronze and Algerian onyx representing a young African woman kneeling, carrying an oval bowl decorated with foliage.
Onyx, Bronze
$6,636 / item
Aarde Tall White Planter by Indigenus
Located in Geneve, CH
Over the past 8 years, the Indigenus team has collaborated with South Africa’s top designers to create planters that are art pieces in their own right. 2022 has seen exciting collabo...
Stone
$6,636 / item
Aarde Tall Terracotta Planter by Indigenus
Located in Geneve, CH
Over the past 8 years, the Indigenus team has collaborated with South Africa’s top designers to create planters that are art pieces in their own right. 2022 has seen exciting collabo...
Stone
$6,653 / item
Aarde Tall Sandstone Planter by Indigenus
Located in Geneve, CH
Over the past 8 years, the Indigenus team has collaborated with South Africa’s top designers to create planters that are art pieces in their own right. 2022 has seen exciting collabo...
Stone
$6,636 / item
Aarde Tall Grey Planter by Indigenus
Located in Geneve, CH
Over the past 8 years, the Indigenus team has collaborated with South Africa’s top designers to create planters that are art pieces in their own right. 2022 has seen exciting collabo...
Stone
$6,636 / item
Aarde Tall Brown Planter by Indigenus
Located in Geneve, CH
Over the past 8 years, the Indigenus team has collaborated with South Africa’s top designers to create planters that are art pieces in their own right. 2022 has seen exciting collabo...
Stone
$6,636 / item
Aarde Tall Black Planter by Indigenus
Located in Geneve, CH
Over the past 8 years, the Indigenus team has collaborated with South Africa’s top designers to create planters that are art pieces in their own right. 2022 has seen exciting collabo...
Stone
$6,044 / item
Aarde Square Terracotta Planter by Indigenus
Located in Geneve, CH
Over the past 8 years, the Indigenus team has collaborated with South Africa’s top designers to create planters that are art pieces in their own right. 2022 has seen exciting collabo...
Stone
$6,044 / item
Aarde Square Black Planter by Indigenus
Located in Geneve, CH
Over the past 8 years, the Indigenus team has collaborated with South Africa’s top designers to create planters that are art pieces in their own right. 2022 has seen exciting collabo...
Stone
$6,044 / item
Aarde Square Sandstone Planter by Indigenus
Located in Geneve, CH
Over the past 8 years, the Indigenus team has collaborated with South Africa’s top designers to create planters that are art pieces in their own right. 2022 has seen exciting collabo...
Stone
$6,044 / item
Aarde Square Grey Planter by Indigenus
Located in Geneve, CH
Over the past 8 years, the Indigenus team has collaborated with South Africa’s top designers to create planters that are art pieces in their own right. 2022 has seen exciting collabo...
Stone
$6,044 / item
Aarde Square Brown Planter by Indigenus
Located in Geneve, CH
Over the past 8 years, the Indigenus team has collaborated with South Africa’s top designers to create planters that are art pieces in their own right. 2022 has seen exciting collabo...
Stone
$6,044 / item
Aarde Square White Planter by Indigenus
Located in Geneve, CH
Over the past 8 years, the Indigenus team has collaborated with South Africa’s top designers to create planters that are art pieces in their own right. 2022 has seen exciting collabo...
Stone
$7,077 / item
Aarde Trough Terracotta Planter by Indigenus
Located in Geneve, CH
Over the past 8 years, the Indigenus team has collaborated with South Africa’s top designers to create planters that are art pieces in their own right. 2022 has seen exciting collabo...
Stone
$7,077 / item
Aarde Trough Sandstone Planter by Indigenus
Located in Geneve, CH
Over the past 8 years, the Indigenus team has collaborated with South Africa’s top designers to create planters that are art pieces in their own right. 2022 has seen exciting collabo...
Stone
$7,095 / item
Aarde Trough Grey Planter by Indigenus
Located in Geneve, CH
Over the past 8 years, the Indigenus team has collaborated with South Africa’s top designers to create planters that are art pieces in their own right. 2022 has seen exciting collabo...
Stone
$7,077 / item
Aarde Trough White Planter by Indigenus
Located in Geneve, CH
Over the past 8 years, the Indigenus team has collaborated with South Africa’s top designers to create planters that are art pieces in their own right. 2022 has seen exciting collabo...
Stone
$7,095 / item
Aarde Trough Brown Planter by Indigenus
Located in Geneve, CH
Over the past 8 years, the Indigenus team has collaborated with South Africa’s top designers to create planters that are art pieces in their own right. 2022 has seen exciting collabo...
Stone
$7,077 / item
Aarde Trough Black Planter by Indigenus
Located in Geneve, CH
Over the past 8 years, the Indigenus team has collaborated with South Africa’s top designers to create planters that are art pieces in their own right. 2022 has seen exciting collabo...
Stone
$3,024 / item
Steen Medium Sandstone Planter by Indigenus
Located in Geneve, CH
The Afrikaans (South African language) word for rock or stone is “steen” and this is the inspiration for the low, stone-like shaped Steen planters.
Stone
$3,016 / item
Steen Medium Terracotta Planter by Indigenus
Located in Geneve, CH
The Afrikaans (South African language) word for rock or stone is “steen” and this is the inspiration for the low, stone-like shaped Steen planters.
Stone
$5,373 / item
Steen Large Sandstone Planter by Indigenus
Located in Geneve, CH
The Afrikaans (South African language) word for rock or stone is “steen” and this is the inspiration for the low, stone-like shaped Steen planters.
Stone
$5,360 / item
Steen Large Terracotta Planter by Indigenus
Located in Geneve, CH
The Afrikaans (South African language) word for rock or stone is “steen” and this is the inspiration for the low, stone-like shaped Steen planters.
Stone
$1,728 / item
Steen Small Terracotta Planter by Indigenus
Located in Geneve, CH
The Afrikaans (South African language) word for rock or stone is “steen” and this is the inspiration for the low, stone-like shaped Steen planters.
Stone
$1,733 / item
Steen Small Sandstone Planter by Indigenus
Located in Geneve, CH
The Afrikaans (South African language) word for rock or stone is “steen” and this is the inspiration for the low, stone-like shaped Steen planters.
Stone
$5,978 / item
Soma Tall Sandstone Planter by Indigenus
Located in Geneve, CH
Over the past 8 years, the Indigenus team has collaborated with South Africa’s top designers to create planters that are art pieces in their own right. 2022 has seen exciting collabo...
Stone
$5,452 / item
Soma Medium Sandstone Planter by Indigenus
Located in Geneve, CH
Over the past 8 years, the Indigenus team has collaborated with South Africa’s top designers to create planters that are art pieces in their own right. 2022 has seen exciting collabo...
Stone
$5,978 / item
Soma Tall Terracotta Planter by Indigenus
Located in Geneve, CH
Over the past 8 years, the Indigenus team has collaborated with South Africa’s top designers to create planters that are art pieces in their own right. 2022 has seen exciting collabo...
Stone
$4,083 / item
Soma Small Sandstone Planter by Indigenus
Located in Geneve, CH
Over the past 8 years, the Indigenus team has collaborated with South Africa’s top designers to create planters that are art pieces in their own right. 2022 has seen exciting collabo...
Stone
$5,452 / item
Soma Medium Terracotta Planter by Indigenus
Located in Geneve, CH
Over the past 8 years, the Indigenus team has collaborated with South Africa’s top designers to create planters that are art pieces in their own right. 2022 has seen exciting collabo...
Stone
$4,083 / item
Soma Small Terracotta Planter by Indigenus
Located in Geneve, CH
Over the past 8 years, the Indigenus team has collaborated with South Africa’s top designers to create planters that are art pieces in their own right. 2022 has seen exciting collabo...
Stone
$3,921 / item
Soma Slim Sandstone Planter by Indigenus
Located in Geneve, CH
Over the past 8 years, the Indigenus team has collaborated with South Africa’s top designers to create planters that are art pieces in their own right. 2022 has seen exciting collabo...
Stone
$2,935 / item
Tuber Tall Brown Planter by Indigenus
Located in Geneve, CH
Over the past 8 years, the Indigenus team has collaborated with South Africa’s top designers to create planters that are art pieces in their own right. 2022 has seen exciting collabo...
Stone
$2,935 / item
Tuber Tall White Planter by Indigenus
Located in Geneve, CH
Over the past 8 years, the Indigenus team has collaborated with South Africa’s top designers to create planters that are art pieces in their own right. 2022 has seen exciting collabo...
Stone
$2,633 / item
Tuber Medium Sandstone Planter by Indigenus
Located in Geneve, CH
Over the past 8 years, the Indigenus team has collaborated with South Africa’s top designers to create planters that are art pieces in their own right. 2022 has seen exciting collabo...
Stone
$2,935 / item
Tuber Tall Black Planter by Indigenus
Located in Geneve, CH
Over the past 8 years, the Indigenus team has collaborated with South Africa’s top designers to create planters that are art pieces in their own right. 2022 has seen exciting collabo...
Stone
$2,942 / item
Tuber Tall Terracotta Planter by Indigenus
Located in Geneve, CH
Over the past 8 years, the Indigenus team has collaborated with South Africa’s top designers to create planters that are art pieces in their own right. 2022 has seen exciting collabo...
Stone
$2,633 / item
Tuber Medium Brown Planter by Indigenus
Located in Geneve, CH
Over the past 8 years, the Indigenus team has collaborated with South Africa’s top designers to create planters that are art pieces in their own right. 2022 has seen exciting collabo...
Stone
$2,633 / item
Tuber Medium White Planter by Indigenus
Located in Geneve, CH
Over the past 8 years, the Indigenus team has collaborated with South Africa’s top designers to create planters that are art pieces in their own right. 2022 has seen exciting collabo...
Stone
$2,633 / item
Tuber Medium Terracotta Planter by Indigenus
Located in Geneve, CH
Over the past 8 years, the Indigenus team has collaborated with South Africa’s top designers to create planters that are art pieces in their own right. 2022 has seen exciting collabo...
Stone
$2,633 / item
Tuber Medium Black Planter by Indigenus
Located in Geneve, CH
Over the past 8 years, the Indigenus team has collaborated with South Africa’s top designers to create planters that are art pieces in their own right. 2022 has seen exciting collabo...
Stone
$2,633 / item
Tuber Medium Grey Planter by Indigenus
Located in Geneve, CH
Over the past 8 years, the Indigenus team has collaborated with South Africa’s top designers to create planters that are art pieces in their own right. 2022 has seen exciting collabo...
Stone
$2,935 / item
Tuber Tall Sandstone Planter by Indigenus
Located in Geneve, CH
Over the past 8 years, the Indigenus team has collaborated with South Africa’s top designers to create planters that are art pieces in their own right. 2022 has seen exciting collabo...
Stone
$2,935 / item
Tuber Tall Grey Planter by Indigenus
Located in Geneve, CH
Over the past 8 years, the Indigenus team has collaborated with South Africa’s top designers to create planters that are art pieces in their own right. 2022 has seen exciting collabo...
Stone
$2,494 / item
Tuber Small Terracotta Planter by Indigenus
Located in Geneve, CH
Over the past 8 years, the Indigenus team has collaborated with South Africa’s top designers to create planters that are art pieces in their own right. 2022 has seen exciting collabo...
Stone
$2,494 / item
Tuber Small Sandstone Planter by Indigenus
Located in Geneve, CH
Over the past 8 years, the Indigenus team has collaborated with South Africa’s top designers to create planters that are art pieces in their own right. 2022 has seen exciting collabo...
Stone
$2,494 / item
Tuber Small White Planter by Indigenus
Located in Geneve, CH
Over the past 8 years, the Indigenus team has collaborated with South Africa’s top designers to create planters that are art pieces in their own right. 2022 has seen exciting collabo...
Stone
$2,494 / item
Tuber Small Grey Planter by Indigenus
Located in Geneve, CH
Over the past 8 years, the Indigenus team has collaborated with South Africa’s top designers to create planters that are art pieces in their own right. 2022 has seen exciting collabo...
Stone
$2,494 / item
Tuber Small Brown Planter by Indigenus
Located in Geneve, CH
Over the past 8 years, the Indigenus team has collaborated with South Africa’s top designers to create planters that are art pieces in their own right. 2022 has seen exciting collabo...
Stone
$1,965 / item
Tuber XS Brown Planter by Indigenus
Located in Geneve, CH
Over the past 8 years, the Indigenus team has collaborated with South Africa’s top designers to create planters that are art pieces in their own right. 2022 has seen exciting collabo...
Stone
$1,965 / item
Tuber XS Black Planter by Indigenus
Located in Geneve, CH
Over the past 8 years, the Indigenus team has collaborated with South Africa’s top designers to create planters that are art pieces in their own right. 2022 has seen exciting collabo...
Stone
$1,960 / item
Tuber XS Terracotta Planter by Indigenus
Located in Geneve, CH
Over the past 8 years, the Indigenus team has collaborated with South Africa’s top designers to create planters that are art pieces in their own right. 2022 has seen exciting collabo...
Stone
$1,960 / item
Tuber XS White Planter by Indigenus
Located in Geneve, CH
Over the past 8 years, the Indigenus team has collaborated with South Africa’s top designers to create planters that are art pieces in their own right. 2022 has seen exciting collabo...
Stone
$2,494 / item
Tuber Small Black Planter by Indigenus
Located in Geneve, CH
Over the past 8 years, the Indigenus team has collaborated with South Africa’s top designers to create planters that are art pieces in their own right. 2022 has seen exciting collabo...
Stone
$1,960 / item
Tuber XS Sandstone Planter by Indigenus
Located in Geneve, CH
Over the past 8 years, the Indigenus team has collaborated with South Africa’s top designers to create planters that are art pieces in their own right. 2022 has seen exciting collabo...
Stone
$1,965 / item
Tuber XS Grey Planter by Indigenus
Located in Geneve, CH
Over the past 8 years, the Indigenus team has collaborated with South Africa’s top designers to create planters that are art pieces in their own right. 2022 has seen exciting collabo...
Stone
Early 20th Century African Mortar
Located in New York, NY
Early 20th Century African Mortar
African Shell Planter
Located in Sausalito, CA
Beautiful African shelled wood planter. **Planter only, does not come with plant.
Shell
Monkey Planter, Ceramic Sculpture by Ardmore from South Africa
By Lovemore Sithole, Siyabonga Mabaso
Located in New York, NY
Monkey planter, ceramic sculpture by Ardmore from South Africa.
Ceramic
Dalsgaard African Teak Planter for Illums Bolighus
Located in San Mateo, CA
Danish modern planter by Brdr. Dalsgaard for Illums Bolighus. This looks to made of afrormosia wood also known as African teak.
Sheet Metal
North African Studio Pottery Jardiniere or Planter
Located in Bellport, NY
A dramatic Mid-Century handcrafted planter or bowl. Black and white relief and hand-painted.
Stoneware
North African Terracotta Vessel
Located in Dallas, TX
This antique North African terracotta vessel is a rare find, complete with a sturdy base holder for added stability. Its faded and unique African-inspired designs, dating back to the...
Terracotta
North African Terracotta Vessel
Located in Dallas, TX
This antique North African terracotta vessel is a rare find, complete with a sturdy base holder for added stability. Its faded and unique African-inspired designs, dating back to the...
Terracotta
Early 20th Century African Water Vessel
Located in Chicago, IL
African water vessel. The terra cotta tone is the natural color of the pre-fired clay, which continues to darken with age.
Ceramic
Arts and Crafts Beaten Brass Planter c1900
Located in Altrincham, GB
Arts and Crafts Beaten Brass Planter with Puffed Out Panels c1900 - 9"diam x 8"h - Cape Town, South Africa
Brass
West African Malinese Hand Crafted Terracotta Pot / Sculpture
Located in North Palm Beach, FL
This beautifully handcrafted pot was made by the finest ceramic artists in Mali and is a rare collector's item. Made from the terracotta of the grounds of Mali and sculpted into this...
Terracotta
Brightly Painted Terracotta Niger Vessel, Africa, 1920s
Located in New York, NY
1920's Niger Brightly Painted Terra Cotta Vessel Weathered natural patina Two available and sold individually. (G2550)
Terracotta
Brightly Painted Terracotta Vessel, Africa Niger, 1920s
Located in New York, NY
1920's Niger Brightly Painted Terracotta Vessel. Weathered natural patina. Two available and sold individually.
Terracotta
Antique Primitive Rustic Large Plant holder Mortar African
Located in Stow on the Wold, GB
A wonderful primitive rustic wooden mortar Made from hardwood, this piece has been hand crafted. The piece is very versatile and can be used as a planter holder, small table or stoo...
Hardwood
Ceramic Tiger Planter , hand made in South Africa
By Senzo Duma Ceramic Arts
Located in North Miami, FL
Tiger Planter by Senzo Duma Ceramic Arts. Hand sculpted by Thabo Mbhele and hand painted by Junoth Ncube in South Africa.
Ceramic
Sold
H 6.5 in W 11.42 in D 11.42 in
Antique Tribal Jardiniere, African Ironwood, Decorative Bowl, Planter, Victorian
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is an antique tribal jardiniere. An African, ironwood and cast iron bound decorative bowl, dating to the late Victorian period, circa 1900. Wonderfully naive tribal craftsman...
Iron
Vintage Japanese Porcelain African Wild Animal Jardiniere Cachepot Planter Pot
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Vintage Japanese Porcelain African Wild Animal Jardiniere Cachepot Planter Pot.
Porcelain
Large 19th Century North African Brass Jardinière Pot
Located in Godshill, Isle of Wight
Large 19th century North African brass jardinière pot This is a large handmade piece decorated with animals from the region and with a deep brass collar at the top of the vase Th...
Brass
Early 20th Century Nigerian Wedding Pot
Located in Wainscott, NY
Early 20th Century Nigerian wedding pot. Gorgeous etched pot with classic design and engravings
African Large Storage Containers
Located in Sarasota, FL
Large African Storage Containers/Pots, low fired earthenware with beautiful burnished shoulders Wuld make a wonderful table!
African Large Storage containers
Located in Sarasota, FL
Large African Storage Containers/Pots, low fired earthenware with beautiful burnished shoulders
Earthenware
Early 20th Century White Clay Zulu Pot with Intricate Triangle Etchings
Located in Amarillo, TX
White clay zulu pot with intricate triangle carvings.
Clay
Early 20th Century White Clay Zulu Pot with Intricate Arch Etchings
Located in Amarillo, TX
White clay zulu pot with intricate arch carvings.
Clay
Sold
H 7 in W 7 in D 7 in
Early 20th Century White Clay Zulu Pot with Intricate Diamond Shaped Etchings
Located in Amarillo, TX
White clay zulu pot with intricate diamond carvings.
Clay
Postmodern design was a short-lived movement that manifested itself chiefly in Italy and the United States in the early 1980s. The characteristics of vintage postmodern furniture and other postmodern objects and decor for the home included loud-patterned, usually plastic surfaces; strange proportions, vibrant colors and weird angles; and a vague-at-best relationship between form and function.
ORIGINS OF POSTMODERN FURNITURE DESIGN
CHARACTERISTICS OF POSTMODERN FURNITURE DESIGN
POSTMODERN FURNITURE DESIGNERS TO KNOW
VINTAGE POSTMODERN FURNITURE ON 1STDIBS
Critics derided postmodern design as a grandstanding bid for attention and nothing of consequence. Decades later, the fact that postmodernism still has the power to provoke thoughts, along with other reactions, proves they were not entirely correct.
Postmodern design began as an architectural critique. Starting in the 1960s, a small cadre of mainly American architects began to argue that modernism, once high-minded and even noble in its goals, had become stale, stagnant and blandly corporate. Later, in Milan, a cohort of creators led by Ettore Sottsass and Alessandro Mendini — a onetime mentor to Sottsass and a key figure in the Italian Radical movement — brought the discussion to bear on design.
Sottsass, an industrial designer, philosopher and provocateur, gathered a core group of young designers into a collective in 1980 they called Memphis. Members of the Memphis Group, which would come to include Martine Bedin, Michael Graves, Marco Zanini, Shiro Kuramata, Michele de Lucchi and Matteo Thun, saw design as a means of communication, and they wanted it to shout. That it did: The first Memphis collection appeared in 1981 in Milan and broke all the modernist taboos, embracing irony, kitsch, wild ornamentation and bad taste.
Memphis works remain icons of postmodernism: the Sottsass Casablanca bookcase, with its leopard-print plastic veneer; de Lucchi’s First chair, which has been described as having the look of an electronics component; Martine Bedin’s Super lamp: a pull-toy puppy on a power-cord leash. Even though it preceded the Memphis Group’s formal launch, Sottsass’s iconic Ultrafragola mirror — in its conspicuously curved plastic shell with radical pops of pink neon — proves striking in any space and embodies many of the collective’s postmodern ideals.
After the initial Memphis show caused an uproar, the postmodern movement within furniture and interior design quickly took off in America. (Memphis fell out of fashion when the Reagan era gave way to cool 1990’s minimalism.) The architect Robert Venturi had by then already begun a series of plywood chairs for Knoll Inc., with beefy, exaggerated silhouettes of traditional styles such as Queen Anne and Chippendale. In 1982, the new firm Swid Powell enlisted a group of top American architects, including Frank Gehry, Richard Meier, Stanley Tigerman and Venturi to create postmodern tableware in silver, ceramic and glass.
On 1stDibs, the vintage postmodern furniture collection includes chairs, coffee tables, sofas, decorative objects, table lamps and more.
Beautiful plants deserve beautiful homes. It’s time to introduce antique and vintage planters and jardinieres to your home’s interiors and outdoor garden area.
The word “jardiniere” has roots in French, but the appeal of these vessels is global. The popularity of jardinieres — ceramic pots intended for cut flowers or plants — quickly gained traction in the United States during the start of the 20th century, when you could find them in some middle- and upper-class American homes. Jardinieres had already been coveted goods overseas for at least a couple of centuries by then, as intricate planters crafted from Chinese porcelain or gilded-bronze versions from Japan could be found in the living rooms of wealthy Europeans.
Today, the love for planters and jardinieres knows no bounds. And whether you consider yourself a proper gardener or merely a doting plant parent, there is likely a use for a planter inside or in the lively outdoor space around your home.
Outside, a pair of marble and terracotta planters or cast-iron urns designed in the neoclassical style can add a stately touch to your landscape design while helping establish boundaries between the areas you’ve created for gardening and entertaining.
Bare corners in your living room or dining room can often be difficult to populate with furnishings that fit just so, and a planter can change that. While it’s possible to get maximal impact from minimalist pottery — an understated mid-century modern planter could deliver on that front — you might be pining for an on-trend planter with pizzazz. Look to an outwardly angular fiberglass design decked out in bright colors to give your blooms a run for their money, while mounted or vintage hanging vessels can serve as the frame for nature’s organic artwork, quite literally taking your gardening skills to the next level.
Browse a broad collection of antique and vintage planters and jardinieres on 1stDibs today.