$4,077 / item
Xaloc Cream Glass Top Table 140 by Mowee
Located in Geneve, CH
Xaloc cream glass top table 140 by Mowee Dimensions: D 140 x W 140 x H 74 cm Material: Aluminum, tinted tempered glass top. Also available in different aluminum colors and finishe...
Aluminum
$2,999 / item
Xaloc Bronze Glass Top Table 160 by Mowee
Located in Geneve, CH
Xaloc bronze glass top table 160 by Mowee Dimensions: D 160 x W 90 x H 74 cm Material: Aluminum, tinted tempered glass top. Also available in different aluminum colors and finishe...
Aluminum
$4,077 / item
Xaloc Chocolate Glass Top Table 140 by Mowee
Located in Geneve, CH
Xaloc chocolate glass top table 140 by Mowee. Dimensions: D140 x W140 x H74 cm. Material: Aluminum, tinted tempered glass top. Also available in different aluminum colors and fini...
Aluminum
$2,566 / item
Xaloc Burgundy Glass Top Table 90 by Mowee
Located in Geneve, CH
Xaloc Burgundy Glass Top Table 90 by Mowee. Dimensions: D90 x W90 x H74 cm. Material: Aluminum, tinted tempered glass top. Also available in different aluminum colors and finishes...
Aluminum
$2,238 / item
Xaloc Black Glass Top Table 70 by Mowee
Located in Geneve, CH
Xaloc black glass top table 70 by MOWEE Dimensions: D70 x W70 x H74 cm Material: Aluminum, tinted tempered glass top. Also available in different aluminum colors and finishes (HPL...
Aluminum
$4,077 / item
Xaloc Burgundy Glass Top Table 140 by Mowee
Located in Geneve, CH
Xaloc burgundy glass top table 140 by MOWEE Dimensions: D140 x W140 x H74 cm Material: Aluminum, tinted tempered glass top. Also available in different aluminum colors and finishe...
Aluminum
$2,999 / item
Xaloc White Glass Top Table 160 by Mowee
Located in Geneve, CH
Xaloc white glass top table 160 by MOWEE Dimensions: D160 x W90 x H74 cm Material: Aluminum, tinted tempered glass top. Also available in different aluminum colors and finishes (H...
Aluminum
$2,706 / item
Xaloc Silver Glass Top Table 90 by Mowee
Located in Geneve, CH
Xaloc silver glass top table 90 by Mowee. Dimensions: D90 x W90 x H74 cm. Material: Aluminum, tinted tempered glass top. Also available in different aluminum colors and finishes (...
Aluminum
$3,761 / item
Xaloc Bronze Glass Top 200 Table by Mowee
Located in Geneve, CH
Xaloc bronze glass top 200 table by Mowee Dimensions: D 200 x W 90 x H 74 cm Material: Aluminium, tinted tempered glass top. Also available in different aluminum colors and finish...
Aluminum
$2,706 / item
Xaloc Gold Glass Top Table 90 by Mowee
Located in Geneve, CH
Xaloc Gold glass top table 90 by MOWEE Dimensions: D90 x W90 x H74 cm Material: Aluminum, tinted tempered glass top. Also available in different aluminum colors and finishes (HPL ...
Aluminum
$4,077 / item
Xaloc White Glass Top Table 140 by Mowee
Located in Geneve, CH
Xaloc white glass top table 140 by MOWEE Dimensions: D140 x W140 x H74 cm Material: Aluminum, tinted tempered glass top. Also available in different aluminum colors and finishes (...
Aluminum
$2,999 / item
Xaloc Salmon Glass Top Table 160 by Mowee
Located in Geneve, CH
Xaloc Salmon glass top table 160 by Mowee Dimensions: D 160 x W 90 x H 74 cm Material: Aluminum, tinted tempered glass top. Also available in different aluminum colors and finishe...
Aluminum
$3,761 / item
Xaloc White Glass Top Table 200 by Mowee
Located in Geneve, CH
Xaloc white glass top 200 table by MOWEE Dimensions: D200 x W90 x H74 cm Material: Aluminum, tinted tempered glass top. Also available in different aluminum colors and finishes (H...
Aluminum
$2,999 / item
Xaloc Burgundy Glass Top Table 160 by Mowee
Located in Geneve, CH
Xaloc burgundy glass top table 160 by MOWEE Dimensions: D160 x W90 x H74 cm Material: Aluminum, tinted tempered glass top. Also available in different aluminum colors and finishes...
Aluminum
$2,238 / item
Xaloc White Top Glass Table 70 by Mowee
Located in Geneve, CH
Xaloc white glass top table 70 by Mowee Dimensions: D 70 x W 70 x H 74 cm Material: Aluminum, tinted tempered glass top. Also available in different aluminum colors and finishes (...
Aluminum
$3,761 / item
Xaloc Cream Glass Top Table 200 by Mowee
Located in Geneve, CH
Xaloc ream glass top 200 table by MOWEE Dimensions: D200 x W90 x H74 cm Material: Aluminum, tinted tempered glass top. Also available in different aluminum colors and finishes (HP...
Aluminum
$2,566 / item
Xaloc White Glass Top Table 90 by Mowee
Located in Geneve, CH
Xaloc white glass top table 90 by MOWEE Dimensions: D90 x W90 x H74 cm Material: Aluminum, tinted tempered glass top. Also available in different aluminum colors and finishes (HPL...
Aluminum
$2,378 / item
Xaloc Silver Glass Top Table 70 by Mowee
Located in Geneve, CH
Xaloc silver glass top table 70 by Mowee. Dimensions: D70 x W70 x H74 cm. Material: Aluminum, tinted tempered glass top. Also available in different aluminum colors and finishes (...
Aluminum
$2,238 / item
Xaloc Navy Glass Top Table 70 by Mowee
Located in Geneve, CH
Xaloc Navy glass top table 70 by Mowee Dimensions: D 70 x W 70 x H 74 cm Material: Aluminum, tinted tempered glass top. Also available in different aluminum colors and finishes (H...
Aluminum
$3,761 / item
Xaloc Navy Glass Top Table 200 by Mowee
Located in Geneve, CH
Xaloc navy glass top 200 table by MOWEE Dimensions: D200 x W90 x H74 cm Material: Aluminium, tinted tempered glass top. Also available in different aluminum colors and finishes (H...
Aluminum
$3,761 / item
Xaloc Grey Glass Top Table 200 by Mowee
Located in Geneve, CH
Xaloc grey glass top 200 table by Mowee Dimensions: D 200 x W 90 x H 74 cm Material: Aluminum, tinted tempered glass top. Also available in different aluminum colors and finishes ...
Aluminum
$2,566 / item
Xaloc Grey Glass Top Table 90 by Mowee
Located in Geneve, CH
Xaloc grey glass top table 90 by Mowee. Dimensions: D90 x W90 x H74 cm. Material: Aluminum, tinted tempered glass top. Also available in different aluminum colors and finishes (HP...
Aluminum
$2,999 / item
Xaloc Cream Glass Top Table 160 by Mowee
Located in Geneve, CH
Xaloc cream glass top table 160 by Mowee Dimensions: D 160 x W 90 x H 74 cm Material: Aluminum, tinted tempered glass top. Also available in different aluminum colors and finishes...
Aluminum
$4,077 / item
Xaloc Navy Glass Top Table 140 by Mowee
Located in Geneve, CH
Xaloc navy glass top table 140 by MOWEE Dimensions: D140 x W140 x H74 cm Material: Aluminum, tinted tempered glass top. Also available in different aluminum colors and finishes (H...
Aluminum
$3,761 / item
Xaloc Black Glass Top Table 200 by Mowee
Located in Geneve, CH
Xaloc black glass top 200 table by MOWEE Dimensions: D200 x W90 x H74 cm Material: Aluminum, tinted tempered glass top. Also available in different aluminum colors and finishes (H...
Aluminum
$2,999 / item
Xaloc Navy Glass Top Table 160 by Mowee
Located in Geneve, CH
Xaloc navy glass top table 160 by MOWEE Dimensions: D160 x W90 x H74 cm Material: Aluminum, tinted tempered glass top. Also available in different aluminum colors and finishes (HP...
Aluminum
$2,999 / item
Xaloc Black Glass Top Table 160 by Mowee
Located in Geneve, CH
Xaloc black glass top table 160 by Mowee Dimensions: D 160 x W 90 x H 74 cm Material: Aluminum, tinted tempered glass top. Also available in different aluminum colors and finishes...
Aluminum
$2,999 / item
Xaloc Grey Glass Top Table 160 by Mowee
Located in Geneve, CH
Xaloc grey glass top table 160 by Mowee. Dimensions: D160 x W90 x H74 cm. Material: Aluminum, tinted tempered glass top. Also available in different aluminum colors and finishes (...
Aluminum
$2,238 / item
Xaloc Salmon Glass Top Table 70 by Mowee
Located in Geneve, CH
Xaloc Salmon glass top table 70 by MOWEE Dimensions: D70 x W70 x H74 cm Material: Aluminum, tinted tempered glass top. Also available in different aluminum colors and finishes (HP...
Aluminum
$2,238 / item
Xaloc Grey Glass Top Table 70 by Mowee
Located in Geneve, CH
Xaloc grey glass top table 70 by MOWEE Dimensions: D70 x W70 x H74 cm Material: Aluminum, tinted tempered glass top. Also available in different aluminum colors and finishes (HPL ...
Aluminum
$2,999 / item
Xaloc Chocolate Glass Top Table 160 by Mowee
Located in Geneve, CH
Xaloc chocolate glass top table 160 by MOWEE Dimensions: D160 x W90 x H74 cm Material: Aluminum, tinted tempered glass top. Also available in different aluminum colors and finishe...
Aluminum
$2,238 / item
Xaloc Burgundy Glass Top Table 70 by Mowee
Located in Geneve, CH
Xaloc Burgundy glass top table 70 by MOWEE Dimensions: D70 x W70 x H74 cm Material: Aluminum, tinted tempered glass top. Also available in different aluminum colors and finishes (...
Aluminum
$3,761 / item
Xaloc Chocolate Glass Top Table 200 by Mowee
Located in Geneve, CH
Xaloc chocolate glass top 200 table by Mowee Dimensions: D 200 x W 90 x H 74 cm Material: Aluminum, tinted tempered glass top. Also available in different aluminum colors and fini...
Aluminum
$3,761 / item
Xaloc Burgundy Glass Top Table 200 by Mowee
Located in Geneve, CH
Xaloc burgundy glass top 200 table by MOWEE Dimensions: D200 x W90 x H74 cm Material: Aluminium, tinted tempered glass top. Also available in different aluminum colors and finishe...
Aluminum
$3,761 / item
Xaloc Salmon Glass Top Table 200 by Mowee
Located in Geneve, CH
Xaloc salmon glass top 200 table by MOWEE Dimensions: D200 x W90 x H74 cm Material: Aluminium, tinted tempered glass top. Also available in different aluminum colors and finishes ...
Aluminum
$10,673 / item
Luca Coffee Table Small by Umberto Bellardi Ricci
Located in Geneve, CH
Luca coffee table small by Umberto Bellardi Ricci Dimensions: W 71.1 x D 109.24 x H 22.9 cm Materials: Travertine, bronze legs. Umberto Bellardi Ricci is an Italian sculptor and...
Travertine, Bronze
Mid-20th Century Kouloufi Coffee Table
By Kouloufi
Located in London, GB
A distinctive example of 1970s Belgian design, combining a sculptural brass base with a simple, refined glass top. Kouloufi is a mid-20th-century Belgian designer best known for scul...
Brass
$4,077 / item
Xaloc Bronze Glass Top Table 140 by Mowee
Located in Geneve, CH
Xaloc bronze glasstop table 140 by Mowee Dimensions: D 140 x W 140 x H 74 cm Material: Aluminum, tinted tempered glass top. Also available in different aluminum colors and finishe...
Aluminum
Design Institute of America Black & Brass Revolving Two Tier Coffee Table
By Design Institute America
Located in Saint Louis, MO
Modern and sleek black and brass two tier revolving coffee table made by Design Institute of America and designed by Richard Berry in the late 1970s. Chic and luxurious. High design ...
Brass
Marble Modular Base & Steel Top Contemporary Art Coffee Table by Samuele Brianza
Located in Geneve, CH
Marble coffee table by Samuele Brianza Dimensions: 100 x 100 x 75 cm Materials: Paonazzo marble 12 blocks Glass round top Primo is a modular system made of load-bearing marbl...
Marble
Charles Hollis Jones Style Lucite & Glass Square Cocktail Table
By Karl Springer, Charles Hollis Jones
Located in Bensalem, PA
Charles Hollis Jones style square cocktail table please look at pictures and video for overall detail. Feel free to reach out with any questions.
Glass, Lucite
The Touch I Handcrafted Grigio Carnico Marble Coffee Table by Grzegorz Majka
By Grzegorz Majka
Located in Geneve, CH
The Touch I Handcrafted Grigio Carnico Marble Coffee Table by Grzegorz Majka Unique Piece. Dimensions: D 80 x W 80 x H 43 cm. Materials: Grigio Carnico marble base, tempered smoky gl...
Marble, Brass
Mirror Prisma Circle 70 Coffee Table by Sebastian Scherer
By Sebastian Scherer
Located in Geneve, CH
Mirror Prisma circle 70 coffee table by Sebastian Scherer Dimensions: D 70 x H 35 cm Materials: Mirror. Weight: 13.9 kg. Also available: mirror silver (stainless steel), mirror g...
Mirror
Mirror Prisma Tall 45 Coffee Table by Sebastian Scherer
By Sebastian Scherer
Located in Geneve, CH
Mirror Prisma tall 45 coffee table by Sebastian Scherer Dimensions: D 45 x H 45 cm Materials: Mirror. Weight: 8.5 kg. Also available: Mirror silver (stainless steel), mirror gold (br...
Mirror
Italian Sculpture "Kamasutra" Coffee Table 20th Century Concrete Molded
Located in Milano, IT
20th century 1990 "kamasutra" coffee table with white base sculpture in molded concrete, oval glass top 1.8 cm thick.
Concrete
Designer Cork Coffee Table Contemporary After Laurie Wiid Van Heerden
Located in Chula Vista, CA
For your consideration, a designer cork coffee table, likely part of a contemporary collection that experiments with natural materials and industrial finishes. Its design—characteriz...
Aluminum
1960s Italian brass and glass coffee tble designed by Angelo Bragalini
Located in Oxford, GB
Great quality coffee table . Tiered and stepped made of solid brass, Incorporating a beautiful glass painted top in green with a gold leaf embossed relief depicting medieval hunting...
Brass
Postmodern Glass, Brass and Wood Side Table, Germany, 1980s
Located in Oud Beijerland, NL
Striking postmodern side table produced in Germany in the 1980s, combining architectural form with refined, luxurious materials. The circular glass tabletop rests on a bold central ...
Brass
1970s–1980s Lucite Coffee Table Gold Accents Attributed to Charles Hollis Jones
By Charles Hollis Jones
Located in Las Vegas, NV
Vintage 1970s–1980s Lucite Coffee Table with Gold Accents Attributed to Charles Hollis Jones This stunning octagonal coffee table, attributed to renowned designer Charles Hollis Jon...
Brass
$30,162 / item
Green Gold Tombos Coffee Table, Signed by Stefan Leo
By Atelier Stefan Leo
Located in Geneve, CH
Green gold tombos coffee table, Signed by Stefan Leo. Brass patinated (Also available in Black version). Measures: 180 x 88cm, H 40 cm. (Other dimensions, materials can be made to or...
Brass
Leshe Unique Coffee Table in White Marble by Andres Monnier
Located in Geneve, CH
Leshe Unique Coffee Table in White Marble by Andres Monnier Unique Piece Dimensions: D 90 x W 140 x H 40 cm. Materials: White marble. Available in different finishes and material op...
Marble
Davido Unique Coffee Table in Travertine Stone by Andres Monnier
Located in Geneve, CH
Davido Unique Coffee Table in Travertine Stone by Andres Monnier Unique Piece Dimensions: D 60 x W 120 x H 40 cm. Materials: Travertine stone. Available in different finishes and ma...
Travertine
Elefante Unique Round Coffee Table in Cement by Studio Noon
By Noon Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Elefante Unique Round Coffee Table in Cement by Studio Noon One Of a Kind Dimensions: W 108 x D 108 x H 39,4 cm Material: Cement. Studio Noon is a Philadelphia-based design atelier ...
Cement
Vacío Unique Coffee Table in Black Marble by Andres Monnier
Located in Geneve, CH
Vacío Unique Coffee Table in Black Marble by Andres Monnier Unique Piece Dimensions: D 90 x W 140 x H 40 cm. Materials: Black marble. Available in different finishes and material op...
Marble
Settemila 17 Coffee Table by Ponti & Mariani Italy 1966
Located in Byron Bay, NSW
This rare example of 1960s Italian design combines smoked glass, transparent methacrylate and sculptural illumination in a striking Space Age coffee table.
Murano Glass, Smoked Glass, Plexiglass
$45,232 / set
Set of 3 Collected Memory Coffee Tables by Claste
Located in Geneve, CH
Collected memory coffee table 1 by Claste Dimensions: D 122 x W 160 x H 30.5 cm. Material: Cararra Gioa (white), Rainbow Mist, Emperador Grey, Emperador Brown, Verdi Alpi, Nero Ma...
Marble
Sculptural Galaxy Oval Coffee Table in Antique Brass by Misaya
By Misaya
Located in Geneve, CH
Sculptural Galaxy Oval Coffee Table in Antique Brass by Misaya Dimensions: W 48 x L 45 x H 43 cm Hand-sculpted brass table. Sold without the Glass top Available in different brass fi...
Brass
A Square RADICAL POSTMODERN Side on COFFEE TABLE, by PIERRE VANDEL, France 1970
By Pierre Vandel
Located in PARIS, FR
An elegant and rigorous square coffee table, Post-Modernist, Bauhaus, Shabby-Chic, Space-Age, structure in square section aluminum slats with a matt metal gray appearance with a ligh...
Brass, Aluminum
Italian Coffee Table with Red, Black & White Marble Spheres, 1990s
By Cattelan Italia
Located in Benalmadena, ES
Italian coffee table composed of three solid marble spheres in white, black, and red. This piece embodies a perfect synthesis of sculpture and functionality, with a strong visual pre...
Marble
$500Sale Price|60% Off
postmodern vintage BDSM industrial metal table with glass top
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Postmodern industrial BDSM style table.
Metal
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.
As a practical focal point in your living area, antique and vintage coffee tables and cocktail tables are an invaluable addition to any interior.
Low tables that were initially used as tea tables or coffee tables have been around since at least the mid- to late-1800s. Early coffee tables surfaced in Victorian-era England, likely influenced by the use of tea tables in Japanese tea gardens. In the United States, furniture makers worked to introduce low, long tables into their offerings as the popularity of coffee and “coffee breaks” took hold during the late 19th century and early 20th century.
It didn’t take long for coffee tables and cocktail tables to become a design staple and for consumers to recognize their role in entertaining no matter what beverages were being served. Originally, these tables were as simple as they are practical — as high as your sofa and made primarily of wood. In recent years, however, metal, glass and plastics have become popular in coffee tables and cocktail tables, and design hasn’t been restricted to the conventional low profile, either.
Visionary craftspeople such as Paul Evans introduced bold, geometric designs that challenge the traditional idea of what a coffee table can be. The elongated rectangles and wide boxy forms of Evans’s desirable Cityscape coffee table, for example, will meet your needs but undoubtedly prove imposing in your living space.
If you’re shopping for an older coffee table to bring into your home — be it an antique Georgian-style coffee table made of mahogany or walnut with decorative inlays or a classic square mid-century modern piece comprised of rosewood designed by the likes of Ettore Sottsass — there are a few things you should keep in mind.
Both the table itself and what you put on it should align with the overall design of the room, not just by what you think looks fashionable in isolation. According to interior designer Tamara Eaton, the material of your vintage coffee table is something you need to consider. “With a glass coffee table, you also have to think about the surface underneath, like the rug or floor,” she says. “With wood and stone tables, you think about what’s on top.”
Find the perfect centerpiece for any room, no matter what your personal furniture style on 1stDibs — shop Art Deco coffee tables, travertine coffee tables and other antique and vintage coffee tables and cocktail tables today.