Customizable Italian Blue Ivory Glass Beach Decor Post Modern Cabinet/Sideboard
By Cosulich Interiors & Antiques
Located in New York, NY
Bespoke, handcrafted 3-Door modern cabinet credenza with Seaside-Inspired Elegance. This exquisite, customizable sideboard is entirely handcrafted in Italy, embodying a striking seas...
Brass
Customizable Italian Blue Ivory Glass Beach Decor Post Modern Cabinet/Sideboard
By Cosulich Interiors & Antiques
Located in New York, NY
Bespoke, handcrafted 3-Door modern cabinet credenza with Seaside-Inspired Elegance. This exquisite, customizable sideboard is entirely handcrafted in Italy, embodying a striking seas...
Brass
Post modern bar cabinet by Belgochrom, 1980s
By belgochrom
Located in Leuven, Vlaams Gewest
Beautiful brass/copper postmodern design cabinet by Belgochrom. Belgochrom used to make high quality furniture that was sold in high end furniture shops all around belgium. The we...
Brass
$7,200Sale Price / set|37% Off
Pair of Monumental Post-Modern Obelisk Cabinets
Located in Palm Springs, CA
A truly unique pair of Post-Modernist cabinets in the form of a faux porphyry obelisk or pyramid on four gilded balls, resting on a black plinth base. Each cabinet contains four draw...
Laminate, Wood
Elegant Post Modern Masterpiece Cabinet, Italy, 2000
Located in Munich, DE
Exceptional cabinet designed for a luxury fashion shop, maybe Valentino or Versace in Italy in 2000s. These wonderful cabinet are custom made, in very high quality, The exterior fro...
Brass
Alber Bar Cabinet by Madheke: Leather & Wood, Post-Modern Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Alber Bar Cabinet by Madheke Dimensions: D 338.5 x W 56.2 x H 256.3 cm. Materials: Leather and wood. Finish options: Bordeaux Leather. Dunkelbraun Leather. Marine Leather. Beige Lea...
Wood
Post Modern Chinoiserie Dry Bar Cabinet C. 1990s
Located in Saint Louis, MO
A really fun Post Modern bar cabinet with a Chinoiserie nod that adds an uplifting air whether in or out of use into any space.
Wood
$1,920Sale Price|20% Off
Post Modern Bar Cabinet / TV Cabinet with Original Lion Head Hardware
Located in Wichita, KS
This stunning black and silvered cabinet can be used for many purposes. it was originally a tv cabinet and has been fully restored into dry bar. The pull out tray is mirrored and h...
Metal
Delon Cabinet by Valentina Giovando: Wood & Brass, Post-Modern Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Delon Cabinet by Valentina Giovando Dimensions: W 200 x D 47 x H 145 cm. Materials: Wood, Fabric, Brass, Fiberglass, Nails, Studs, Metal sheet. Valentina Giovando, Lives and works i...
Zinc, Brass
Vintage post modern travertine & brass cabinet by Ello Furniture, USA 1980s
By Ello Furniture
Located in Hastings, GB
Polished travertine-clad cabinet by Ello Furniture, 1980s. This 3 door cabinet has brass tab handles and brushed gold metal sides and brushed gold metal plinth base. Metal has a smal...
Travertine, Metal, Brass
$2,800Sale Price|20% Off
Post modern light gray gloss lacquer 4 door credenza Cabinet
By Ello Furniture
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Post modern light grayish/blue Lacquered 4 Door Credenza Cabinet.
Metal
Henredon Scene Two Cabinets, Olive Burl Wood, Post-Modern Design, 1986
By Henredon
Located in Round Top, TX
Pair of Scene Two Henredon cabinets in honey colored olive burl wood with one adjustable shelf inside each cabinet. These feature Macassar ebony wood trim around the doors and sculpt...
Olive, Burl
Midcentury Post Modern Demilune Credenza or Cabinet in Glossy Laminate
By Karl Springer
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A large substantial storage piece from the late 1980s. It features an elongated demilune form finished in a beautiful modern glossy laminate and four doors that open to storage shelves.
Laminate
Post modern vintage travertine & brass 3 drawer cabinet by Ello Furniture, 1980s
By Ello Furniture
Located in Hastings, GB
Polished travertine-clad cabinet by Ello Furniture, 1980s. This 3 drawer cabinet has brass tab handles, shiny gold metal sides and shiny gold metal plinth base. Metal has a small amo...
Travertine, Metal, Brass
12 Cubes Cabinet by John Eric Byers, Maple and Brass, Post-Modern
By John Eric Byers
Located in Geneve, CH
12 Cubes cabinet by John Eric Byers Dimensions: D 150 x W 38 x H 122 cm Materials: sawn + blackened + maple + brass All works are individually handmade to order. John Eric Byers cr...
Brass, Other
$1,124Sale Price|25% Off
Vintage Post Modern Deco Revival Black Lacquer Tall Cabinet / Tallboy, USA 1980s
Located in Hastings, GB
1980s deco revival black lacquer tall cabinet, by Millennium, USA. Looks like chrome edging, but is actually mirror glass. Double doors open onto shelved storage; 2 large drawers bel...
Mirror, Lacquer
Customizable Italian Post Modern Blue Grey White Glass Nickel Cabinet/Sideboard
By Cosulich Interiors & Antiques
Located in New York, NY
Bespoke custom made 4-door credenza/sideboard entirely handcrafted in Italy with elegant post modern decor, the surround decorated with art glass in an enticing striped light blue, s...
Nickel
Italian Post Modern Abstract Art Green Purple Satin Nickel Finish Mirror Cabinet
By Cosulich Interiors & Antiques
Located in New York, NY
A new innovative sideboard/credenza, entirely hand-crafted in Italy and completely customizable in sizes, finishes, colors and functions, part of a bespoke collection created as a ca...
Metal, Nickel
Italian Post Modern Abstract Art Green Purple Satin Nickel Finish Mirror Cabinet
By Cosulich Interiors & Antiques
Located in New York, NY
A new innovative sideboard/credenza, entirely hand-crafted in Italy and completely customizable in sizes, finishes, colors and functions, part of a bespoke collection created as a ca...
Metal, Nickel
Italy Post-Modern Dark Oak Wood Cabinet with Raffia Panels and Bronze Handles
Located in Brescia, IT
This is a very beautiful cabinets, one of a kind, for the slim proportion, the two bronze handles, fully handmade and designed by studio Dimore. The color is wenghè Inside there are...
Oak, Raffia
Trout Studios Grisette Cabinet Birch Wood Aluminum Post Modern Chest of Drawers
By Trout Studios
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Trout Studios Grisette Cabinet Birch Wood Aluminum Chest of Drawers, Post Modern.
Aluminum
Italian Post Modern Abstract Art Blue Brown Satin Nickel Finish Mirror Cabinet
By Cosulich Interiors & Antiques
Located in New York, NY
A new innovative sideboard/credenza, entirely hand-crafted in Italy and completely customizable in sizes, finishes, colors and functions, part of a bespoke collection created as a ca...
Metal, Nickel
Italian Post Modern Abstract Art Blue Brown Satin Nickel Finish Mirror Cabinet
By Cosulich Interiors & Antiques
Located in New York, NY
A new innovative sideboard/credenza, entirely hand-crafted in Italy and completely customizable in sizes, finishes, colors and functions, part of a bespoke collection created as a ca...
Metal, Nickel
Customizable Italian Post Modern Blue Grey White Glass Nickel Cabinet/Sideboard
By Cosulich Interiors & Antiques
Located in New York, NY
Bespoke custom made 4-door credenza/sideboard entirely handcrafted in Italy with elegant post modern decor, the surround decorated with art glass in an enticing striped light blue, s...
Nickel
Italy Pair of Post-Modern Brown Oak Cabinet with Rafia Panels and Bronze Handles
Located in Brescia, IT
This is a very beautiful pair of cabinets, one of a kind, for the slim proportion, the bronze handles, fully handmade and designed by studio Dimore. The color is wenghè Inside there...
Raffia, Oak
Black 80’s Post Modern sideboard
Located in SITTARD, NL
Stylish design sideboard from the 1980’s . Finished in black high-gloss lacquer with burl wood veneer drawers, creating a luxurious and warm contrast, complemented by a unique curve...
Wood, Burl
Jules Leleu French Post-War Rosewood Display Cabinet
Located in Queens, NY
French Post-War Design (1950s) rosewood display cabinet with a Pair of marquetry inlaid doors trimmed with pearl & ebony over a large glass door on Paired bronze legs. (Jules Leleu).
Bronze
Vintage Post Modern Chrome & Glass Etagere Bookshelf
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Condition: Original Vintage Condition Materials: Polished Chrome, Original Glass Shelves This striking Post-Modern étagère features a clean architectural chrome frame paired with i...
Chrome
Italian Post-Modern Sideboard with Geometric Front
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Sideboard, cherry, mahogany, ebonized wood, Italy 1970s This stunning sideboard, made from a luxurious combination of cherry, ebonized wood, and mahogany, is a true statement piece ...
Cherry, Mahogany
Carlton Bookshelf by Ettore Sottsass, Post-Modern Design, Italy, 1981
By Ettore Sottsass
Located in PARIS, FR
Launched at the founding Memphis exhibition in Milan on 18 September 1981, the Carlton is the absolute icon of the group: a room divider, bookcase and chest of drawers reorganised in...
Laminate, Wood
Vintage Post Modern Aluminum & Glass Bookcase Shelf Unit
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Condition: Original Vintage Condition Materials: Aluminum, Glass, Has Key This vintage Post Modern aluminum and glass bookcase shelf unit, c.1980’s, offers a sleek and functional de...
Aluminum
Gio Ponti Italian Post-War Rosewood & Mahogany Cabinet
By Gio Ponti
Located in Queens, NY
Italian Post-War Design (1950s) rosewood and mahogany wall unit bar with 3 lower commodes and upper cabinet decorative tiles on white lacquered doors and a large mirror (att: GIO PON...
Rosewood, Mahogany, Mirror, Lacquer
$2,640Sale Price|20% Off
Jay Spectre Modern White Oak dresser 7 drawer post modern Dresser
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Jay Spectre bleached oak veneer 7 drawer Dresser with ribbed drawer pulls, resting on a chrome plinth, Made by Century Furniture c. 1980s Made in USA. Labeled in Drawer - Has origina...
Steel
Vintage Aldo Tura Post-Modern Lacquered Parchment Desk, Italy
By Aldo Tura
Located in Miami, FL
Vintage Aldo Tura Post-Modern Lacquered Parchment Desk, Italy Offered for sale is a rare Italian Aldo Tura post-modern gloss-lacquered parchment goatskin desk with four pedestal key...
Goatskin, Wood, Lacquer
Italian Post-Modern Wood Totem Mod. Disordinati by Cleto Munari, 2020s
By Cleto Munari
Located in MIlano, IT
Italian Post-modern wood Totem mod. Disordinato by Cleto Munari, 2020s Totem mod.
Wood
Italian Post-Modern Wood Totems Mod. Disordinati by Cleto Munari, 2020s
By Cleto Munari
Located in MIlano, IT
Italian Post-modern wood Totems mod. Disordinati by Cleto Munari, 2020s Pair of totems mod.
Wood
Post-Modern Wall Unit in Glass and Travertine
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Wall unit, travertine, glass, Europe, 1970s Elegant and architectural wall unit crafted during the 1970s, composed of travertine supports and glass shelves. The design is defined by...
Travertine
Post modern minimalist wall shelves , 1980s
Located in Delft, NL
Minimalst cabinet in good condition.
Metal
$3,345Sale Price|30% Off
Post modern industrial freestanding shelving unit, Italy 1970s
By Tomado, Coen de Vries, Pilastro
Located in ECHT, NL
Modular metal shelving unit. Made in Italy in the 1970s. Is has three sections. Made in the style of Pilastro, Artimeta and Tomado. The shelves can be placed on different heights. By...
Metal
Rhomboid Post-Modern Marcello Morandini "Corner" Shelves, Rosenthal, Pair
By Marcello Morandini, Rosenthal
Located in Miami, FL
Rhomboid Post-Modern Marcello Morandini "Corner" Shelves, Pair Offered for sale is a tall companion pair of vintage 1980s Post-modern "Corner" shelves designed by Marcello Morandini...
Ash, Lacquer
Post-Modern Rounded Edge Honey Oak Five Drawer Highboy Dresser
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This striking five-drawer tallboy chest exemplifies the clean, sculptural aesthetic of 1980s Post-Modern design. Crafted from warm honey oak, the piece features a distinctive "waterf...
Oak
$1,680Sale Price|30% Off
Pop art post modern 4 door muave pink credenza sideboard
By Ello Furniture
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pop art post modern 4 door muave pink credenza sideboard.
Laminate, Wood
Gate 01 Table by Sing Chan - Stainless Steel, Post-Modern Design
Located in Geneve, CH
The gate 01 table by Sing Chan Edition Of 20 + 2 AP Dimensions: W 320 x D 100 x H 75 cm Materials: Stainless steel, electroplating. Sing Chan ( Chinese: 陈星宇/Xingyu Chen), the found...
Stainless Steel, Other
A RADICAL POST-MODERN MEMPHIS SHELVING SYSTEM, France, 1980
Located in PARIS, FR
A radical shelving system or bookcase, Post-Modern, Constructivist, Memphis, Bauhaus, geometric asymmetric structure in steel lacquered in anthracite, with 5 shelves in glass suspend...
Brass, Bronze, Steel
$2,000Sale Price|50% Off
post modern oak mirror front dresser wardrobe or armoire
By Ello Furniture
Located in Brooklyn, NY
post modern oak mirror front tall dresser wardrobe or armoire.
Brass
$2,400Sale Price|20% Off
Post modern taupe beige Gloss lacquer 6 Drawer long Dresser Italy
By Memphis Milano
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Beautiful post modern taupe beige gloss lacquer 6 drawer long dresser, circa 1980. Very clean inside and out. Look at photos. all drawers have metal glides with stops. Great for home...
Plywood, Lacquer
Post Modern Italian Brass & Glass Hairpin Etagere
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Sleek and sculptural, this postmodern Italian étagère makes a striking statement with its elegant hairpin-style brass frame and airy glass shelving. The minimalist silhouette highlig...
Brass
$1,960Sale Price|20% Off
Post modern bright white Gloss Laminate waterfall 6 Drawer long Dresser
By Memphis Milano, Lane Furniture
Located in Brooklyn, NY
beautiful post modern bright white gloss laminate waterfall front 6 drawer long dresser, circa 1980. Very clean inside and out. Look at photos. all drawers have metal glides with sto...
Laminate, Plywood
Marquina Black Marble lacquer Italian Post Modern Sideboard, 1980s
Located in Puglia, Puglia
Postmodern sideboard in fake Marquina marble. High-end luxury item. It would fit well in an eclectic postmodern-inspired interior, Italy, 1980s.
Wood
1980s German Post-Modern Interlübke DUO Writing Desk by Peter Maly
By Interlübke, Peter Maly
Located in St. Louis, MO
A rare find in the states, 1980s Post-Modern Silver Gray & Black DUO Desk by German designer / architect Peter Maly for Interlübke. Asymmetrical heavy wood grain top with storage col...
Metal
Paul McCobb for Directional Black Two Door Cabinet with Brass Leg Posts
By Directional, Paul McCobb
Located in Bainbridge, NY
Paul McCobb for Directional #7026 Black Two door Cabinet with Drawer. Featuring newly restored and re-enameled rectangular black enameled hinged two door swing door Cabinet, top draw...
Brass
Post-Modern Maitland Smith Style Tessellated Mactan Stone Orb Credenza
By Maitland Smith
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
Indulge in the timeless elegance of this exquisite crendenza or sideboard, dating back to the 1990s. Crafted with meticulous attention to detail, this piece showcases a stunning hand...
Stone
$5,212Sale Price|20% Off
Post-Modern Metal Shelving Unit by Orezero, Italian Design, 1980s
By Bieffeplast
Located in Antwerp, BE
Memphis, industrial, post-modern shelving unit, by Orezero, Italy, 1980s Orezero is a palindrome.
Metal
$5,331Sale Price|20% Off
Post-Modern Credenza by Renato Toso and Robertà Pamio, Italy, 1920s
By Roberto Pamio & Renato Toso
Located in Antwerp, BE
Post-modern; Italian design; Roberto Pamio and Renato Toso; sideboard; Credenza; Room divider, Italy, 1970's Post-modern Italian credenza in wood with black-painted wooden pillars...
Wood
$1,050Sale Price|30% Off
Post modern mahogany Gloss faux wood Laminate waterfall 6 Drawer Dresser
By Memphis Milano
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Beautiful post modern faux mahogany wood grain gloss laminate waterfall front 6 drawer dresser, circa 1980. Very clean inside and out. Look at photos. all drawers have metal glides w...
Laminate, Plywood
$1,837Sale Price|25% Off
Post modern white off Gloss Laminate waterfall 6 Drawer long Dresser
By Lane Furniture, Memphis Milano
Located in Brooklyn, NY
beautiful post modern off white gloss laminate and chrome trim waterfall front 6 drawer long dresser, circa 1980. Very clean inside and out. Look at photos. all drawers have metal gl...
Laminate, Plywood
Namaste Shrine by Christian Friedl: Post-Modern Design in Austria
Located in Geneve, CH
Namaste Shrine by Christian Friedl Unique Piece. Dimensions: D 55 x W 160 x H 182 cm. Materials: Oak, gold leaf. Namaste tells his story... I am a shrine where you can store your mo...
Gold Leaf
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.
Of all the vintage storage cabinets and antique case pieces that have become popular in modern interiors over the years, dressers, credenzas and cabinets have long been home staples, perfect for routine storage or protection of personal items.
In the mid-19th century, cabinetmakers would mimic styles originating in the Louis XIV, Louis XV and Louis XVI eras for their dressers, bookshelves and other structures, and, later, simpler, streamlined wood designs allowed these “case pieces” or “case goods” — any furnishing that is unupholstered and has some semblance of a storage component — to blend into the background of any interior.
Mid-century modern furniture enthusiasts will cite the tall modular wall units crafted in teak and other sought-after woods of the era by the likes of George Nelson, Poul Cadovius and Finn Juhl. For these highly customizable furnishings, designers of the day delivered an alternative to big, heavy bookcases by considering the use of space — and, in particular, walls — in new and innovative ways. Mid-century modern credenzas, which, long and low, evolved from tables that were built as early as the 14th century in Italy, typically have no legs or very short legs and have grown in popularity as an alluring storage option over time.
Although the name immediately invokes images of clothing, dressers were initially created in Europe for a much different purpose. This furnishing was initially a flat-surfaced, low-profile side table equipped with a few drawers — a common fixture used to dress and prepare meats in English kitchens throughout the Tudor period. The drawers served as perfect utensil storage. It wasn’t until the design made its way to North America that it became enlarged and equipped with enough space to hold clothing and cosmetics. The very history of case pieces is a testament to their versatility and well-earned place in any room.
In the spirit of positioning your case goods center stage, decluttering can now be design-minded.
A contemporary case piece with open shelving and painted wood details can prove functional as a storage unit as easily as it can a room divider. Alternatively, apothecary cabinets are charming case goods similar in size to early dressers or commodes but with uniquely sized shelving and (often numerous) drawers.
Whether you’re seeking a playful sideboard that features colored glass and metal details, an antique Italian hand-carved storage cabinet or a glass-door vitrine to store and show off your collectibles, there are options for you on 1stDibs.