$4,128 / item
Row Brass Pendant Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Row Brass Pendant Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 8 x W 120 x H 150 cm.
Brass
$2,460 / item
Two Cones Wall Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Two Cones Wall Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 25 x W 25 x H 125.5 cm.
Metal, Brass
$5,997 / item
Mimosa Brass Pendant Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Mimosa Pendant Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 16 x W 126.4 x H 50 cm.
Brass
$1,360 / item
Orange Yellow Asymptote Wall Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Orange Yellow Asymptote Wall Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 22.5 x W 13.5 x H 13.5 cm.
Metal
$1,312 / item
Light Blue Asymptote Desk Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Light Blue Asymptote Desk Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 13.5 x H 22.7 cm. Materials: Powder-coated metal.
Metal
$2,507 / item
Light Blue Profiles Pendant Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Light Blue Profiles Pendant Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 13.5 x H 67.5 cm. Materials: Powder-coated metal, white glass.
Metal
Intense Green Profiles Pendant Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Intense Green Profiles Pendant Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 13.5 x H 67.5 cm. Materials: Powder-coated metal, white glass.
Metal
Intense Yellow Profiles Pendant Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Intense Yellow Profiles Pendant Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 13.5 x H 67.5 cm. Materials: Powder-coated metal, white glass.
Metal
Orange Yellow Profiles Pendant Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Orange Yellow Profiles Pendant Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 13.5 x H 67.5 cm. Materials: Powder-coated metal, white glass.
Metal
$2,507 / item
Light Yellow Profiles Pendant Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Light Yellow Profiles Pendant Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 13.5 x H 67.5 cm. Materials: Powder-coated metal, white glass.
Metal
$2,507 / item
Light Green Profiles Pendant Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Light Green Profiles Pendant Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 13.5 x H 67.5 cm. Materials: Powder-coated metal, white glass.
Metal
$4,092 / item
Light Yellow Profiles Floor Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Light Yellow Profiles Floor Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 20 x H 159 cm. Materials: Powder-coated metal.
Metal
$4,092 / item
Orange Yellow Profiles Floor Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Orange Yellow Profiles Floor Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 20 x H 159 cm. Materials: Powder-coated metal.
Metal
$4,092 / item
Light Blue Profiles Floor Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Light Blue Profiles Floor Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 20 x H 159 cm. Materials: Powder-coated metal.
Metal
$4,092 / item
Intense Yellow Profiles Floor Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Intense Yellow Profiles Floor Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 20 x H 159 cm. Materials: Powder-coated metal.
Metal
$4,092 / item
Intense Green Profiles Floor Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Intense Green Profiles Floor Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 20 x H 159 cm. Materials: Powder-coated metal.
Metal
$4,092 / item
Light Green Profiles Floor Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Light Green Profiles Floor Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 20 x H 159 cm. Materials: Powder-coated metal.
Metal
$3,974 / item
Intense Green Profiles Floor Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Intense Green Profiles Floor Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 20 x H 156.7 cm. Materials: Powder-coated metal, white glass.
Metal
$3,974 / item
Intense Yellow Profiles Floor Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Intense Yellow Profiles Floor Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 20 x H 156.7 cm. Materials: Powder-coated metal, white glass.
Metal
$3,974 / item
Light Blue Profiles Floor Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Light Blue Profiles Floor Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 20 x H 156.7 cm. Materials: Powder-coated metal, white glass.
Metal
$3,974 / item
Light Green Profiles Floor Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Light Green Profiles Floor Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 20 x H 156.7 cm. Materials: Powder-coated metal, white glass.
Metal
$3,974 / item
Light Yellow Profiles Floor Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Light Yellow Profiles Floor Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 20 x H 156.7 cm. Materials: Powder-coated metal, white glass.
Metal
$3,974 / item
Orange Yellow Profiles Floor Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Orange Yellow Profiles Floor Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 20 x H 156.7 cm. Materials: Powder-coated metal, white glass.
Metal
$2,164 / item
Orange Yellow Profiles Desk Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Orange Yellow Profiles Desk Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 16 x H 40.5 cm. Materials: Powder-coated metal.
Metal
$2,164 / item
Light Green Profiles Desk Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Light Green Profiles Desk Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 16 x H 40.5 cm. Materials: Powder-coated metal.
Metal
$2,164 / item
Intense Yellow Profiles Desk Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Intense Yellow Profiles Desk Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 16 x H 40.5 cm. Materials: Powder-coated metal.
Metal
$2,164 / item
Light Yellow Profiles Desk Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Light Yellow Profiles Desk Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 16 x H 40.5 cm. Materials: Powder-coated metal.
Metal
$2,164 / item
Light Blue Profiles Desk Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Light Blue Profiles Desk Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 16 x H 40.5 cm. Materials: Powder-coated metal.
Metal
$2,164 / item
Intense Green Profiles Desk Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Intense Green Profiles Desk Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 16 x H 40.5 cm. Materials: Powder-coated metal.
Metal
$2,164 / item
Light Yellow Profiles Desk Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Light Yellow Profiles Desk Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 12.3 x H 34.5 cm. Materials: Powder-coated metal, white glass.
Metal
$2,164 / item
Orange Yellow Profiles Desk Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Orange Yellow Profiles Desk Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 12.3 x H 34.5 cm. Materials: Powder-coated metal, white glass.
Metal
$2,164 / item
Light Green Profiles Desk Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Light Green Profiles Desk Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 12.3 x H 34.5 cm. Materials: Powder-coated metal, white glass.
Metal
$2,164 / item
Light Blue Profiles Desk Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Light Blue Profiles Desk Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 12.3 x H 34.5 cm. Materials: Powder-coated metal, white glass.
Metal
$2,164 / item
Intense Yellow Profiles Desk Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Intense Yellow Profiles Desk Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 12.3 x H 34.5 cm. Materials: Powder-coated metal, white glass.
Metal
$14,608 / item
Lever Rounded Nickel Pendant Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Lever Rounded Nickel Pendant Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 108.5 x H 96.5 cm. Materials: Nickel, white glass.
Brass
$14,608 / item
Lever Rounded Brass Pendant Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Lever Rounded Brass Pendant Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 108.5 x H 96.5 cm. Materials: Brushed brass, white glass.
Brass
$2,164 / item
Intense Green Profiles Desk Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Intense Green Profiles Desk Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 12.3 x H 34.5 cm. Materials: Powder-coated metal, white glass.
Metal
$7,428 / item
Waves Half Circle Wall Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Waves Half Circle Wall Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 3 x W 43 x H 86 cm. Materials: powder-coated metal, white acrylic.
Metal
$7,428 / item
Waves Half Circle Wall Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Waves Half Circle Wall Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 3 x W 43 x H 86 cm. Materials: Brushed brass, white acrylic.
Brass
$7,428 / item
Waves Eyebrow Shape Wall Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Waves Eyebrow Shape Wall Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 3 x W 117 x H 34 cm. Materials: Brushed brass, white acrylic.
Brass
$7,428 / item
Waves Eyebrow Shape Wall Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Waves Eyebrow Shape Wall Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 3 x W 117 x H 34 cm. Materials: powder-coated metal, white acrylic.
Metal
$5,476 / item
Oyster Dark Wood Floor Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Oyster Dark Wood Floor Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 40 x H 184 cm. Materials: Dark wood, white glass.
Glass, Wood
$6,576 / item
Free Drawing Motive Ceiling Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Free Drawing Motive Brass Ceiling Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 13.5 x W 152.5 x H 95 cm.
Brass
$5,192 / item
Short Motive Brass Ceiling Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Short Motive Brass Ceiling Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 13.5 x W 94.5 x H 68.4 cm.
Brass
$7,286 / item
Long Motive Brass Ceiling Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Long Motive Brass Ceiling Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 13.5 x W 94.5 x H 131.4 cm.
Brass
$4,908 / item
Plate and Spheres Pendant Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Plate and Spheres Pendant Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 65 x H 88.5 cm. Materials: Brushed brass, white glass.
Brass
$4,128 / item
Big Girlande 2 Ceiling Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Big Girlande 2 Ceiling Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 16 x W 150 x H 59.5 cm.
Brass, Metal
Balancing Variations Pendant Light III by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Balancing Variations Pendant Light III by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 16 x W 117 x H 87.5 cm.
Brass
Balancing Variations Pendant Light II by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Balancing Variations Pendant Light II by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 16 x W 117 x H 78 cm.
Brass
$2,294 / item
Triangle Box Nickel Pendant Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Triangle Box Nickel Pendant Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 10 x W 15 x H 57.6 cm.
Nickel
$2,957 / item
Shapes Triangle Nickel Wall Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Shapes Triangle Nickel Wall Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 6 x W 12 x H 14.2 cm.
Nickel
$4,128 / item
Shapes Triangle Brass Wall Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Shapes Triangle Brass Wall Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 6 x W 12 x H 14.2 cm.
Brass
$2,957 / item
Shapes Square Nickel Wall Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Shapes Square NIckel Wall Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 6 x W 12 x H 23 cm. Materials: Nickel, white acrylic panels.
Nickel
$7,120 / item
Lines and Triangles Floor Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Lines and Triangles Floor Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 5 x W 31.5 x H 100 cm.
Metal
$4,128 / item
Shapes Square Brass Wall Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Shapes Square Brass Wall Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 6 x W 12 x H 23 cm. Materials: Brushed brass, white acrylic panels.
Brass
$3,158 / item
Lines and Triangles Pendant Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Lines and Triangles Pendant Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 15 x W 15 x H 142.5 cm.
Metal
$4,506 / item
Flat Shapes Brass Ceiling Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Flat Shapes Brass Ceiling Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 20 x W 40 x H 53.3 cm.
Brass
$4,506 / item
Flat Shapes Nickel Ceiling Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Flat Shapes Nickel Ceiling Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 20 x W 40 x H 53.3 cm.
Nickel
$2,306 / item
Silver Brass Floor Light II by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Silver Brass Floor Light II by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 20.5 x H 174 cm. Materials: Brushed brass.
Brass
$9,746 / item
Silver Brass U Pendant Light by Atelier Areti
Located in Geneve, CH
Silver Brass U Pendant Light by Atelier Areti Dimensions: D 20.5 x W 120 x H 163 cm.
Brass
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.
The right table lamp, outwardly sculptural chandelier or understated wall pendant can work wonders for your home. While we’re indebted to thinkers like Thomas Edison for critically important advancements in lighting and electricity, we’re still finding new ways to customize illumination to fit our personal spaces all these years later. A wide range of antique and vintage lighting can be found on 1stDibs.
Today, lighting designers like the self-taught Bec Brittain have used the flexible structure of LEDs to craft glamorous solutions by working with what is typically considered a harsh lighting source. By integrating glass and mirrors, reflection can be used to soften the glow from LEDs and warmly welcome light into any space.
Although contemporary innovators continue to impress, some of the classics can’t be beat.
Just as gazing at the stars allows you to glimpse the universe’s past, vintage chandeliers like those designed by Gino Sarfatti and J. & L. Lobmeyr, for example, put on a similarly stunning show, each with a rich story to tell.
As dazzling as it is, the Arco lamp, on the other hand, prioritizes functionality — it’s wholly mobile, no drilling required. Designed in 1962 by architect-product designers Achille & Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, the piece takes the traditional form of a streetlamp and creates an elegant, arching floor fixture for at-home use.
There is no shortage of modernist lighting similarly prized by collectors and casual enthusiasts alike — there are Art Deco table lamps created in a universally appreciated style, the Tripod floor lamp by T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings, Greta Magnusson Grossman's sleek and minimalist Grasshopper lamps and, of course, the wealth of mid-century experimental lighting that emerged from Italian artisans at Arredoluce, FLOS and many more are hallmarks in illumination innovation.
With decades of design evolution behind it, home lighting is no longer just practical. Crystalline shaping by designers like Gabriel Scott turns every lighting apparatus into a luxury accessory. A new installation doesn’t merely showcase a space; carefully chosen ceiling lights, table lamps and floor lamps can create a mood, spotlight a favorite piece or highlight your unique personality.
The sparkle that your space has been missing is waiting for you amid the growing collection of antique, vintage and contemporary lighting for sale on 1stDibs.