Monumental Post-Modern Modular Glass Coffee Table
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Striking and modern, this large glass table features a substantial removable top that rests on two
Glass, Plywood
$16,750
H 18 in W 64.5 in D 64.5 in
Karl Springer, Mid-Century Modern, Large Coffee Table, Chrome, Glass, 1980s
By Karl Springer
Located in Stamford, CT
Mid-Century Modern Karl Springer Signed Chrome Coffee, Cocktail Table, Glass Top Karl Springer
Steel, Chrome
Postmodern Mactan, Glass and Pastor Stone Coffee Table.
Located in Franklin Park, IL
Postmodern Mactan, glass and pastor stone coffee table This coffee table measures: 48 wide x 29
Stone
Marble and Glass Coffee Table by Fratelli Longhi
By Fratelli Longhi
Located in Byron Bay, NSW
Elevate your living space with this exquisite coffee table by Fratelli Longhi, a testament to
Glass, Wood
$876Sale Price|20% Off
H 16 in W 42 in D 42 in
Postmodern Octagonal Beveled Glass Top Lucite Coffee Table
Located in Delray Beach, FL
The Postmodern Octagonal Beveled Glass Top Lucite Coffee Table is a testament to bold postmodern
Glass
Glass Bipolar Coffee Table by OS and OOS
By Oskar Peet and Sophie Mensen
Located in Geneve, CH
Bipolar coffee table by OS and OOS Dimensions: 45 x 45 x 46 cm Materials: glass and flterd
Glass
Green Glass Powder & Walnut Coffee Table by Alexander Knysch
Located in Geneve, CH
Green Glass Powder & Walnut Coffee Table by Alexander Knysch Dimensions: Ø 105 x H 35 cm Materials
Glass, Walnut
Round Top Smoked Glass Coffee Table by Lebanto
Located in Geneve, CH
TC_VF02 Aka Smoked Coffee Table by Lebanto Dimensions: W 60 x D 60 x H 29 cm Materials: Smoked
Smoked Glass
Round Top Bronzed Glass Coffee Table by Lebanto
Located in Geneve, CH
TC_VB02 Aka Bronzed Coffee Table by Lebanto Dimensions: W 60 x D 60 x H 29 cm Materials: Bronzed
Bronze
Jansen Style Faux Tusk and Glass Coffee Table
By Maison Jansen
Located in New York, NY
With a rectangular smoked glass top with rounded corners supported on a pair of two "tusks", each
Brass
French Designer, Coffee Table, Metal, Glass, France 1970s
Located in High Point, NC
A metal and glass coffee or cocktail table, designed and produced in France, 1970s.
Metal
$2,250
H 16 in W 26 in D 52 in
Postmodern Glass Coffee Table, Marble, Geometric, Unique, Rectangular Top
Located in Rancho Cucamonga, CA
Postmodern Glass Coffee Table, Marble, Geometric, Unique, Rectangular Top Measurements: 52" L x 26
Marble
Ovni Uovo Black Marble Glass Sculptural Coffee Table
By Panorammma
Located in Ciudad de México, CDMX
The Ovni Uovo Sculptural Coffee Table presents a retro-futurist fantasy. Performing as a past
Stone, Marble
$1,492 / item
H 13.78 in W 34.65 in D 25.6 in
Rectangular Ebonized Walnut and Glass Coffee Table, Italy
Located in Bresso, Lombardy
Made in Italy, 1950s. These rectangular coffee tables are made in ebonized walnut and glass. They
Glass, Walnut
$691Sale Price|53% Off
H 16.75 in W 37.25 in D 49.5 in
Maitland Smith Wedge Coffee Table, Mactan Stone & Glass, 1980s
By Maitland Smith
Located in Chattanooga, TN
Vintage 1980s, this wedge-shaped tessellated Mactan stone coffee table exudes sculptural grandeur
Stone
$4,760Sale Price / item|30% Off
H 16 in W 75 in D 30 in
Architectural Unfilled Travertine and Glass Coffee Table
By Giovanni Offredi, Angelo Mangiarotti
Located in Las Vegas, NV
centerpiece in any living space or gallery. Functional art. The table is comprised of 2 angular
Travertine
$1,400Sale Price|20% Off
H 17 in W 32 in D 54.25 in
Mid-Century Modern Hollywood Regency Sculpted Lucite and Glass Coffee Table
By Lion in Frost
Located in Miami, FL
and glass coffee table will enhance any contemporary or modern setting. Worth noting, many of our
Glass, Lucite
Ovni Uovo White Marble Glass Sculptural Coffee Table
By Panorammma
Located in Ciudad de México, CDMX
The Ovni Uovo Sculptural Coffee Table presents a retro-futurist fantasy. Performing as a past
Stone, Marble
Round Top Extra White Glass Coffee Table by Lebanto
Located in Geneve, CH
TC_VE02 Aka Extra White Glass Coffee Table by Lebanto Dimensions: W 60 x D 60 x H 29 cm Materials
Glass
Ovni Uovo Black Marble Glass Sculptural Coffee Table
By Panorammma
Located in Ciudad de México, CDMX
The Ovni Uovo Sculptural Coffee Table presents a retro-futurist fantasy. Performing as a past
Stone, Marble
$8,668 / item
H 14.57 in W 26.38 in D 53.15 in
Origami Coffee Table in Crystal Glass by Barberini & Gunnell
Located in Geneve, CH
Origami Coffee Table in Crystal Glass by Barberini & Gunnell Limited Edition of 30 + 2 AP + 1 p
Glass
Funky Post Modern Colorful Side Table ca' 1990
Located in St.Petersburg, FL
. Post modern, in the style of Memphis. See the matching coffee table.
Aluminum
Mario Mazzer Glass and Marble Coffee Table for Zanette
By Mario Mazzer
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Oval coffee table designed by Mario Mazzer for Zanette, with transparent glass top, marble base
Marble, Steel
Satin Glass Prisma Tall Coffee Table by Sebastian Scherer
By Sebastian Scherer
Located in Geneve, CH
Satin glass prisma tall 45 coffee table by Sebastian Scherer. Dimensions: D45x H45 cm. Materials
Glass
$108,356 / item
H 13.39 in W 35.04 in D 53.15 in
Sculptural Dichroic Glass Coffee Table by ODA LIK Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Sculptural Dichroic Glass Coffee Table by ODA LIK Studio. Limited Edition. Dimensions: W 89 x D 135
Stainless Steel
Laurel Fyfe Sculptural Handkerchief Art Glass Coffee Table, 1991
By Laurel Fyfe
Located in Hamburg, PA
A Laurel Fyfe Sculptural Handkerchief Art Glass Coffee Table. This cocktail table is signed and
Glass
Sculptural Walnut & Glass Coffee Table, Italy, 1950
By Gio Ponti, Ico Parisi
Located in Dronten, NL
unsigned coffee table embodies that golden era entirely. Executed in rich, book-matched walnut and
Brass
$2,364 / item
H 17.72 in W 47.25 in D 25.6 in
Bolder Coffee Table in Plywood & RVS Glass by Arno Hoogland
Located in Geneve, CH
Bolder Coffee Table in Plywood & RVS Glass by Arno Hoogland Dimensions: D 65 x W 120 x H 45 cm
Plywood, Glass
$3,238
H 16.54 in Dm 31.11 in
MID CENTURY MODERN BRASS & SILVERED GLASS SHELL MOUNTED TWO TiER COFFEE TABLE
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
circa 1950’s Mid-Century Modern Maison Jansen Paris Style coffee table with Shell mounts and silvered
Glass
$4,000
H 16 in W 36 in D 36 in
Uncommon Les Prismatiques Square Lucite & Glass Coffee Table, ca. 1980s
By Les Prismatiques
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Designed and made in the United States, this angular coffee table features a construction of solid
Glass, Lucite
$2,561 / item
H 15.75 in W 23.63 in D 47.25 in
Blue Clear Glass Poly Oblong Coffe Table by Sebastian Scherer
By Sebastian Scherer
Located in Geneve, CH
Blue Clear glass poly oblong Coffe table by Sebastian Scherer Dimensions: D120 x W60 x H40 cm
Glass
$1,785 / item
H 15.75 in W 11.82 in D 23.63 in
Blue Clear Glass Poly Square Coffe Table by Sebastian Scherer
By Sebastian Scherer
Located in Geneve, CH
Blue glass poly square coffe table by Sebastian Scherer Dimensions: D60 x W30 x H40 cm Materials
Glass
$3,182 / item
H 15.75 in W 11.82 in D 47.25 in
Blue Satin Glass Poly Oblong Coffe Table by Sebastian Scherer
By Sebastian Scherer
Located in Geneve, CH
Blue satin glass poly oblong coffe table by Sebastian Scherer Dimensions: D120 x W30 x H40 cm
Glass
$1,785 / item
H 15.75 in W 11.82 in D 23.63 in
Green Clear Glass Poly Square Coffe Table by Sebastian Scherer
By Sebastian Scherer
Located in Geneve, CH
Green Glass Poly square coffe table by Sebastian Scherer Dimensions: D60 x W30 x H40 cm Materials
Glass
$2,561 / item
H 15.75 in W 11.82 in D 47.25 in
White Clear Glass Poly Oblong Coffe Table by Sebastian Scherer
By Sebastian Scherer
Located in Geneve, CH
White clear glass poly oblong coffe table by Sebastian Scherer Dimensions: D120 x W30 x H 40 cm
Glass
$2,405 / item
H 15.75 in W 11.82 in D 23.63 in
Blue Satin Glass Poly Square Coffee Table by Sebastian Scherer
By Sebastian Scherer
Located in Geneve, CH
Blue Satin Glass Poly square coffee table by Sebastian Scherer Dimensions: D60 x W30 x H40 cm
Glass
$2,405 / item
H 15.75 in W 11.82 in D 23.63 in
Green Satin Glass Poly Square Coffe Table by Sebastian Scherer
By Sebastian Scherer
Located in Geneve, CH
Green satin glass poly square coffe table by Sebastian Scherer Dimensions: D60 x W30 x H40 cm
Glass
$3,182 / item
H 15.75 in W 11.82 in D 47.25 in
Black Satin Glass Poly Oblong Coffe Table by Sebastian Scherer
By Sebastian Scherer
Located in Geneve, CH
Black Satin Glass poly oblong coffe table by Sebastian Scherer. Dimensions: D120 x W30 x H40 cm
Glass
$2,405 / item
H 15.75 in W 11.82 in D 23.63 in
White Satin Glass Poly Square Coffe Table by Sebastian Scherer
By Sebastian Scherer
Located in Geneve, CH
White Satin Glass Poly Square Coffe Table by Sebastian Scherer Dimensions: D60 x W30 x H40 cm
Glass
$2,561 / item
H 15.75 in W 11.82 in D 47.25 in
Green Clear Glass Poly Oblong Coffe Table by Sebastian Scherer
By Sebastian Scherer
Located in Geneve, CH
Green clear glass poly oblong coffe table by Sebastian Scherer Dimensions: D120 x W30 x H40 cm
Glass
$3,182 / item
H 15.75 in W 11.82 in D 47.25 in
Green Satin Glass Poly Oblong Coffe Table by Sebastian Scherer
By Sebastian Scherer
Located in Geneve, CH
Green Satin glass poly oblong coffe table by Sebastian Scherer Dimensions: D120 x W30 x H40 cm
Glass
$2,561 / item
H 15.75 in W 11.82 in D 47.25 in
Bronze Clear Glass Poly Oblong Coffee Table by Sebastian Scherer
By Sebastian Scherer
Located in Geneve, CH
Bronze clear glass poly oblong coffee table by Sebastian Scherer Dimensions: D120 x W30 x H40 cm
Glass
$3,182 / item
H 15.75 in W 11.82 in D 47.25 in
Bronze Satin Glass Poly Oblong Coffee Table by Sebastian Scherer
By Sebastian Scherer
Located in Geneve, CH
Bronze Satin Glass Poly oblong coffee table by Sebastian Scherer Dimensions: D120 x W30 x H40 cm
Glass
$3,182 / item
H 15.75 in W 11.82 in D 47.25 in
White Satin Glass Poly Oblong Coffe Table by Sebastian Scherer
By Sebastian Scherer
Located in Geneve, CH
White satin glass poly oblong coffe table by Sebastian Scherer. Dimensions: D 120 x W 30 x H 40 cm
Glass
$1,785 / item
H 15.75 in W 11.82 in D 23.63 in
White Clear Glass Poly Square Coffee Table by Sebastian Scherer
By Sebastian Scherer
Located in Geneve, CH
White clear glass poly square coffee table by Sebastian Scherer. Dimensions: D60 x W30 x H40 cm
Glass
$2,405 / item
H 15.75 in W 11.82 in D 23.63 in
Bronze Satin Glass Poly Square Coffe Table by Sebastian Scherer
By Sebastian Scherer
Located in Geneve, CH
Bronze satin glass poly square coffe table by Sebastian Scherer Dimensions: D 60 x W 30 x H 40 cm
Glass
$1,785 / item
H 15.75 in W 11.82 in D 23.63 in
Black Clear Glass Poly Square Coffe Table by Sebastian Scherer
By Sebastian Scherer
Located in Geneve, CH
Black glass poly square coffe table by Sebastian Scherer Dimensions: D 60 x W 30 x H 40 cm
Glass
$2,561 / item
H 15.75 in W 11.82 in D 47.25 in
Black Clear Glass Poly Oblong Coffe Table by Sebastian Scherer
By Sebastian Scherer
Located in Geneve, CH
Black clear glass poly oblong coffe table by Sebastian Scherer Dimensions: D120 x W30 x H40 cm
Glass
$2,405 / item
H 15.75 in W 11.82 in D 23.63 in
Black Satin Glass Poly Square Coffee Table by Sebastian Scherer
By Sebastian Scherer
Located in Geneve, CH
Black Satin glass poly square coffee table by Sebastian Scherer Dimensions: D 60 x W 30 x H 40 cm
Glass
Lorin Marsh Ltd. Postmodern Mercury Leg Glass Coffee Table
By Lorin Marsh
Located in West Chester, PA
Rare "Mercury Leg Table" designed by George Constant for Lorin Marsh LTD. We found an advertisement
Glass, Acrylic
Satin Glass Prisma Tall 50 Coffee Table by Sebastian Scherer
By Sebastian Scherer
Located in Geneve, CH
Satin glass Prisma tall 50 coffee table by Sebastian Scherer Dimensions: D 50x H 50 cm Materials
Glass
Clear Glass Prisma Tall 45 Coffee Table by Sebastian Scherer
By Sebastian Scherer
Located in Geneve, CH
Clear glass prisma tall 45 coffee table by Sebastian Scherer Dimensions: D 45x H 45 cm Materials
Glass
Clear Glass Prisma Tall 50 Coffee Table by Sebastian Scherer
By Sebastian Scherer
Located in Geneve, CH
Clear glass Prisma tall 50 coffee table by Sebastian Scherer Dimensions: D50x H50 cm Materials
Glass
Satin Glass Prisma Circle 80 Coffee Table by Sebastian Scherer
By Sebastian Scherer
Located in Geneve, CH
Satin Glass Prisma circle 80 coffee table by Sebastian Scherer. Dimensions: D80 x H40 cm. Materials
Glass
Clear Glass Prisma Circle 70 Coffee Table by Sebastian Scherer
By Sebastian Scherer
Located in Geneve, CH
Clear glass prisma circle 70 coffee table by Sebastian Scherer Dimensions: D70x H35 cm Materials
Glass
Satin Glass Prisma Circle 70 Coffee Table by Sebastian Scherer
By Sebastian Scherer
Located in Geneve, CH
Satin glass Prisma circle 70 coffee table by Sebastian Scherer Dimensions: D70x H35 cm Materials
Glass
Clear Glass Prisma Circle 80 Coffee Table by Sebastian Scherer
By Sebastian Scherer
Located in Geneve, CH
Clear glass prisma circle 80 coffee table by Sebastian Scherer. Dimensions: D 80x H 40 cm
Glass
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.