Crater Unique Sculptural Bowl in Carved Grey Marble by Andres Monnier
Located in Geneve, CH
Crater Unique Sculptural Bowl in Carved Grey Marble by Andres Monnier Unique Piece Dimensions: D 20 x W 20 x H 10 cm.
Marble
Organic Rough Form Baptiz Black and Gold Marble Bathtub by Andres Monnier
Located in Geneve, CH
Baptiz Black Marble Bathtub by Andres Monnier One of a Kind Dimensions: D 110 x W 190 x H 50 cm.
Marble, Stainless Steel
Sharp Rectangular Double Mirror with Irregular Black Stone by Andres Monnier
Located in Geneve, CH
Tempus Mirror by Andres Monnier One of a Kind. Dimensions: W 40 x L 75 x H 190 cm Materials: Portoro black marble.
Stone
Set Of 4 Irregular Rough Form Red Travertine Candle Holders by Andres Monnier
Located in Geneve, CH
Set Of 4 Secta Candle Holders by Andres Monnier Unique Pieces. Dimensions: W 20 x D 10 x H 80 cm (Dimensions may vary and can be customized) Materials: Red travertine.
Travertine
Rough Form Grey Travertine Side Table with Organic Hewn Base by Andres Monnier
Located in Geneve, CH
Mens Side Table by Andres Monnier Unique Piece. Dimensions: D 20 x W 20 x H 50 cm.
Travertine
Organic Split Form Grey Stone Fire Table with Center Opening by Andres Monnier
Located in Geneve, CH
Apparentia Fire Table by Andres Monnier Unique Piece. Dimensions: D 150 x W 150 x H 40 cm.
Stone
Organic Shape Mirror with Grey Stone Base in Center by Andres Monnier
Located in Geneve, CH
Narciso Uno Mirror by Andres Monnier Dimensions: W 35 x D 60 x H 180 cm Materials: Eran grey mirror- glass, black marble Piece inspired by the myth of Narciso, of Greek mythology.
Stone
Ordo Unique Side Table & Stool in Oak Wood by Andres Monnier
Located in Geneve, CH
Ordo Unique Side Table & Stool in Oak Wood by Andres Monnier Unique Piece Dimensions: D 35 x W 35 x H 50 cm.
Oak
Iter Unique Floor Mirror in Puebla Travertine Stone by Andres Monnier
Located in Geneve, CH
Iter Unique Floor Mirror in Puebla Travertine Stone by Andres Monnier Unique Piece Dimensions: D 25 x W 70 x H 180 cm.
Travertine
Beio Unique Wall Mirror in Puebla Travertine Stone by Andres Monnier
Located in Geneve, CH
Beio Unique Wall Mirror in Puebla Travertine Stone by Andres Monnier Unique Piece Dimensions: D 5 x W 40 x H 140 cm.
Stone
Unique Round and Oval Shape Grey Quarry Stone Fire Table by Andres Monnier
Located in Geneve, CH
Prometheo Uno fire table by Andres Monnier Dimensions: D 160 x W 100 x H 40 H cm.
Stone
Ecos Wall-Mounted Mural in White Onyx & Steel by Andres Monnier
Located in Geneve, CH
Ecos Wall-Mounted Mural in White Onyx & Steel by Andres Monnier Unique Pieces Dimensions: D 5 x W 80 x H 200 cm.
Onyx, Steel
Kazekage Unique Water Feature in Carved Basalt Stone by Andres Monnier
Located in Geneve, CH
Kazekage Unique Water Feature in Carved Basalt Stone by Andres Monnier Unique Piece Dimensions: D 25 x W 40 x H 25 cm.
Stone
Nuvē Hand-Carved Mural in White Marble & Steel by Andres Monnier
Located in Geneve, CH
Nuvē Hand-Carved Mural in White Marble & Steel by Andres Monnier Unique Pieces Dimensions: D 4 x W 140 x H 80 cm.
Marble, Steel
Iwaya Architectural Altar Set in Carved Travertine Stone by Andres Monnier
Located in Geneve, CH
Iwaya Architectural Altar Set in Carved Travertine Stone by Andres Monnier Unique Pieces Dimensions: D 300 x W 300 x H 170 cm.
Travertine
Mizukage Unique Water Feature in Carved Basalt Stone by Andres Monnier
Located in Geneve, CH
Mizukage Unique Water Feature in Carved Basalt Stone by Andres Monnier Unique Piece Dimensions: D 40 x W 80 x H 50 cm.
Stone
Existencia Unique Candelabra & Censer in Gray Quarry Stone by Andres Monnier
Located in Geneve, CH
Existencia Unique Candelabra & Censer in Gray Quarry Stone by Andres Monnier Unique Piece Dimensions: D 90 x W 90 x H 60 cm.
Stone
Dona Unique Wash Basin in Carved White Marble by Andres Monnier
Located in Geneve, CH
Dona Unique Wash Basin in Carved White Marble by Andres Monnier Unique Piece Dimensions: D 50 x W 50 x H 20 cm.
Marble
Ilito Cylindrical Drinking Vessel in Carved Black Marble by Andres Monnier
Located in Geneve, CH
Ilito Cylindrical Drinking Vessel in Carved Black Marble by Andres Monnier Unique Piece Dimensions: D 15 x W 15 x H 25 cm.
Marble
Sekichū Unique Floor Candelabra in Carved Basalt Stone by Andres Monnier
Located in Geneve, CH
Sekichū Unique Floor Candelabra in Carved Basalt Stone by Andres Monnier Unique Piece Dimensions: D 40 x W 30 x H 130 cm.
Stone
Lattice Unique Sculptural Daybed in Carved Black Marble by Andres Monnier
Located in Geneve, CH
Lattice Unique Sculptural Daybed in Carved Black Marble by Andres Monnier Unique Piece Dimensions: D 70 x W 130 x H 70 cm.
Marble
Icis Unique Sculptural Chair in Black Marble & Steel by Andres Monnier
Located in Geneve, CH
Icis Unique Sculptural Chair in Black Marble & Steel by Andres Monnier Unique Piece Dimensions: D 60 x W 50 x H 90 cm.
Marble, Steel
Lingüa Unique Sculptural Chair in Carved Travertine Stone by Andres Monnier
Located in Geneve, CH
Lingüa Unique Sculptural Chair in Carved Travertine Stone by Andres Monnier Unique Piece Dimensions: D 80 x W 60 x H 100 cm.
Travertine
Filaria Unique Sculptural Chair in Steel Metallic Filaments by Andres Monnier
Located in Geneve, CH
Filaria Unique Sculptural Chair in Steel Metallic Filaments by Andres Monnier Unique Piece Dimensions: D 60 x W 60 x H 110 cm.
Steel
Duna Unique Console in Red Travertine Stone & Steel by Andres Monnier
Located in Geneve, CH
Duna Unique Console in Red Travertine Stone & Steel by Andres Monnier Unique Piece Dimensions: D 20 x W 120 x H 40 cm.
Travertine, Steel
Perspicere Unique Console Table in Hand-Carved Travertine by Andres Monnier
Located in Geneve, CH
Perspicere Unique Console Table in Hand-Carved Travertine by Andres Monnier Unique Piece Dimensions: D 30 x W 140 x H 112 cm.
Travertine
Cicla Unique Dining Table in Solid Oak Wood by Andres Monnier
Located in Geneve, CH
Cicla Unique Dining Table in Solid Oak Wood by Andres Monnier Unique Piece Dimensions: D 80 x W 120 x H 72 cm.
Oak
Lavene Unique Side Table in Carved Travertine Stone by Andres Monnier
Located in Geneve, CH
Lavene Unique Side Table in Carved Travertine Stone by Andres Monnier Unique Piece Dimensions: D 20 x W 30 x H 50 cm.
Travertine
Papaia Unique Side Table in Carved Green Onyx by Andres Monnier
Located in Geneve, CH
Papaia Unique Side Table in Carved Green Onyx by Andres Monnier Unique Piece Dimensions: D 20 x W 30 x H 50 cm.
Onyx
Solsticio Unique Wall Sconce in White Marble & Aluminum by Andres Monnier
Located in Geneve, CH
Solsticio Unique Wall Sconce in White Marble & Aluminum by Andres Monnier Unique Piece Dimensions: D 6 x W 25 x H 25 cm.
Marble, Aluminum
Lithica Portable Fire Pit in Travertine & Stainless Steel by Andres Monnier
Located in Geneve, CH
Lithica Portable Fire Pit in Travertine & Stainless Steel by Andres Monnier Unique Piece Dimensions: D 30 x W 30 x H 8 cm.
Travertine, Stainless Steel
Derritio Unique Fire Table in Travertine & Stainless Steel by Andres Monnier
Located in Geneve, CH
Derritio Unique Fire Table in Travertine & Stainless Steel by Andres Monnier Dimensions: D 80 x W 160 x H 40 H cm.
Travertine, Stainless Steel
Pyrus Rock Pyramid Installation in Basalt & Stainless Steel by Andres Monnier
Located in Geneve, CH
Pyrus Rock Pyramid Installation in Basalt & Stainless Steel by Andres Monnier Unique Piece Dimensions: D 250 x W 250 x H 250 cm.
Stainless Steel, Other
Irregular Wavy Double Mirror with Natural Grey Stone Base by Andres Monnier
Located in Geneve, CH
Illusio double mirror by Andres Monnier One of a Kind. Dimensions: D 80 x W 25 x H 190 cm - Each mirror Materials: White Quarry Stone Andrés Monnier is a Mexican artist born in Gua...
Stone
Irregular Wavy Single Mirror with Natural Grey Stone Base by Andres Monnier
Located in Geneve, CH
Illusio Single Mirror by Andres Monnier One of a Kind. Dimensions: D 80 x W 25 x H 190 cm Materials: white Quarry Stone Andrés Monnier is a Mexican artist born in Guadalajara but b...
Stone
Aua Unique Table Lamp in Pink Marble & Aluminum by Andres Monnier
Located in Geneve, CH
Aua Unique Table Lamp in Pink Marble & Aluminum by Andres Monnier Unique Piece Dimensions: D 15 x W 20 x H 20 cm.
Marble, Aluminum
Lyra Unique Pendant Lamp in White Marble & Aluminum by Andres Monnier
Located in Geneve, CH
Lyra Unique Pendant Lamp in White Marble & Aluminum by Andres Monnier Unique Piece Dimensions: D 20 x W 20 x H 20 cm.
Marble, Aluminum
Cosmos I Unique Chandelier in Basalt, Aluminum & Glass by Andres Monnier
Located in Geneve, CH
Cosmos I Unique Chandelier in Basalt, Aluminum & Glass by Andres Monnier Unique Piece Dimensions: D 50 x W 160 x H 40 cm.
Aluminum, Other
Deditos Unique Pendant Lamp in White Marble & Aluminum by Andres Monnier
Located in Geneve, CH
Deditos Unique Pendant Lamp in White Marble & Aluminum by Andres Monnier Unique Piece Dimensions: D 15 x W 20 x H 25 cm.
Marble, Aluminum
Sharp Rectangular Double Mirror with Irregular Black Stone by Andres Monnier
Located in Geneve, CH
Divergente Double Mirror by Andres Monnier One of a Kind Dimensions: W 120 x L 90 x H 180 cm Materials: grey quarry stone, glass (mirror).
Stone
In Mensa Veritas Unique Plate in Carved Black Marble by Andres Monnier
Located in Geneve, CH
In Mensa Veritas Unique Plate in Carved Black Marble by Andres Monnier Unique Piece Dimensions: D 25 x W 25 x H 4 cm.
Marble
Besho One Of a Kind Bench in Travertine Stone by Andres Monnier
Located in Geneve, CH
Besho One Of a Kind Bench in Travertine Stone by Andres Monnier Unique Piece Dimensions: D 40 x W 130 x H 50 cm.
Travertine
Kanzitō Unique Side Table in Oak Wood & Travertine Stone by Andres Monnier
Located in Geneve, CH
Kanzitō Unique Side Table in Oak Wood & Travertine Stone by Andres Monnier Unique Piece Dimensions: D 30 x W 30 x H 50 cm.
Oak
Guachi Fire Table in Puebla Travertine Stone & Stainless Steel by Andres Monnier
Located in Geneve, CH
Guachi Fire Table in Puebla Travertine Stone & Stainless Steel by Andres Monnier Unique Piece Dimensions: D 150 x W 150 x H 50 cm.
Travertine, Stainless Steel
Duo Reflected Black and Gold Marble Sculptural Coffee Table by Andres Monnier
Located in Geneve, CH
Raza center piece by Andres Monnier One of a kind. Dimensions: W 90 x L 160 x H 40 cm.
Marble
Nudo Dos Unique Outdoor Daybed in Heavy Woven Textile by Andres Monnier
Located in Geneve, CH
Nudo Dos Unique Outdoor Daybed in Heavy Woven Textile by Andres Monnier Unique Piece Dimensions: D 120 x W 180 x H 80 cm.
Textile
Vid Unique Cylindrical Bottle Holder in Carved Black Marble by Andres Monnier
Located in Geneve, CH
Vid Unique Cylindrical Bottle Holder in Carved Black Marble by Andres Monnier Unique Piece Dimensions: D 15 x W 15 x H 25 cm.
Marble
Nudo Uno Unique Outdoor Daybed in Heavy Woven Textile by Andres Monnier
Located in Geneve, CH
Nudo Uno Unique Outdoor Daybed in Heavy Woven Textile by Andres Monnier Unique Piece Dimensions: D 120 x W 180 x H 80 cm.
Textile
Vanité Unique Console Table in Carved Travertine Stone & Steel by Andres Monnier
Located in Geneve, CH
Vanité Unique Console Table in Carved Travertine Stone & Steel by Andres Monnier Unique Piece Dimensions: D 60 x W 160 x H 120 cm.
Travertine, Steel
Set Of 2 Crpyta Console & Mirror in Travertine & Steel by Andres Monnier
Located in Geneve, CH
Set Of 2 Crpyta Console & Mirror in Travertine & Steel by Andres Monnier Unique Piece Dimensions: D 25 x W 160 x H 180 cm.
Travertine, Steel
Ritus Dos Unique Candelabra & Censer in Carved Basalt Stone by Andres Monnier
Located in Geneve, CH
Ritus Dos Unique Candelabra & Censer in Carved Basalt Stone by Andres Monnier Unique Piece Dimensions: D 40 x W 30 x H 130 cm.
Stone
Ritus Uno Unique Candelabra & Censer in Carved White Marble by Andres Monnier
Located in Geneve, CH
Ritus Uno Unique Candelabra & Censer in Carved White Marble by Andres Monnier Unique Piece Dimensions: D 20 x W 12 x H 20 cm.
Marble
Silva Bench in Basalt Stone & Black Stained, Burned Walnut by Andres Monnier
Located in Geneve, CH
Silva Bench in Basalt Stone & Black Stained, Burned Walnut by Andres Monnier Unique Piece Dimensions: D 60 x W 180 x H 70 cm.
Stone
Zitō Unique Sculptural Stool in Solid Oak Wood & Stone by Andres Monnier
Located in Geneve, CH
Zitō Unique Sculptural Stool in Solid Oak Wood & Stone by Andres Monnier Unique Piece Dimensions: D 30 x W 30 x H 60 cm.
Stone
Mantis Chair in Solid Oak Wood & Ivory Upholstered Backrest by Andres Monnier
Located in Geneve, CH
Mantis Chair in Solid Oak Wood & Ivory Upholstered Backrest by Andres Monnier Unique Piece Dimensions: D 50 x W 60 x H 60 cm.
Upholstery, Oak
Aura Unique Console Table in Carved Solid Quarry Stone by Andres Monnier
Located in Geneve, CH
Aura Unique Console Table in Carved Solid Quarry Stone by Andres Monnier Unique Piece Dimensions: D 40 x W 130 x H 100 cm.
Marble
Arx Unique Dining Table in Carved Travertine Stone & Steel by Andres Monnier
Located in Geneve, CH
Arx Unique Dining Table in Carved Travertine Stone & Steel by Andres Monnier Unique Piece Dimensions: D 90 x W 140 x H 72 cm.
Travertine, Steel
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.
It's hard to resist the allure of a beautiful pool. So, go ahead and daydream about whiling away your summer in paradise.
Alessandro Mendini, Michael Graves, Ettore Sottsass and other design luminaries contributed to this unusual collection of porcelain wares representing a time capsule of late-20th-century decorative art.
Aided by photos taken of the maestro in his Milan studio, we honor the influential design talent who died last month at 87.
Adam Charlap Hyman and Andre Herrero, rising young design talents, are debuting a new, eclectic line of textiles.