$876Sale Price|20% Off
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 design. Its unique octagonal shape and transparent lucite frame create a striking, mo...
Glass
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 sculptural abstract rolling supports. The bold, minimalist design highlights the in...
Glass, Plywood
$5,101 / item
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 laminated Another option: Large version coffee table: 110 x 45 x 30 Weight: Coffee ta...
Glass
$1,147 / item
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 Glass. Lebanto is an expression of identity, a tapestry of dreams woven from the threa...
Smoked Glass
$1,147 / item
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 Glass. Lebanto is an expression of identity, a tapestry of dreams woven from the thr...
Bronze
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
Vintage Postmodern Marble Stone and Glass Coffee Table 1980s
By Massimo and Lella Vignelli, Lella & Massimo Vignelli for Casigliani, Angelo Mangiarotti, Gae Aulenti, Mario Bellini
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A vintage 1980s Postmodern marble coffee table with a sculptural form, consisting of two marble base pieces and a new glass top. The marble features a light grey base with strawberr...
Marble
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 on lacquered wood and brass stepped plinth bases. Very chic and high quality in the ...
Brass
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" W x 16" H This unique coffee table features a sleek marble base with a geometric...
Marble
$691Sale Price|53% Off
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 with textured sophistication. The top is triangular glass, clear and generously si...
Stone
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 are both quite solid and sturdy. They are vintage, therefore they might show slight...
Glass, Walnut
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 vision of the future Ovni Uovo constructs over mysterious tales of speculative technolog...
Stone, Marble
$4,760Sale Price / item|30% Off
Architectural Unfilled Travertine and Glass Coffee Table
By Angelo Mangiarotti, Giovanni Offredi
Located in Las Vegas, NV
THERE ARE NO WORDS. This jaw dropping, sculpted piece of ART would make the most incredible centerpiece in any living space or gallery. Functional art. The table is comprised of...
Travertine
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 vision of the future Ovni Uovo constructs over mysterious tales of speculative technolog...
Stone, Marble
$1,400Sale Price|20% Off
Mid-Century Modern Hollywood Regency Sculpted Lucite and Glass Coffee Table
By Lion in Frost
Located in Miami, FL
This stylish Lucite and glass coffee table will enhance any contemporary or modern setting.
Glass, Lucite
$1,147 / item
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: White Glass. Lebanto is an expression of identity, a tapestry of dreams woven from...
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 vision of the future Ovni Uovo constructs over mysterious tales of speculative technolog...
Stone, Marble
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: Solid coloured glass. Weight: 16.4 kg. Also Available: Glass: clear white / clea...
Glass
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. Dimensions: D 135 x W 67 x H 37 cm. Materials: Crystal glass. Limited Edition, sign...
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, lacquered wood extension and chromed metal details. The project reflects the designer...
Marble, 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 dated "L.E.I. 1991 #74" for the company name, Lumen Essence Inc. The glass coffee tabl...
Glass
$105,222 / item
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 x H 34 cm. Materials: Dichroic glass composition with custom chromatic properties,...
Stainless Steel
Sculptural Walnut & Glass Coffee Table, Italy, 1950
By Ico Parisi, Gio Ponti
Located in Dronten, NL
In a world of homogeneous design, this table offers a specific voice: Italian, post-war, optimistic, and unapologetically elegant.
Brass
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. Materials: Plywood and glass. Arno Hoogland is a futurist, artist, and maker who crea...
Plywood, Glass
MID CENTURY MODERN BRASS & SILVERED GLASS SHELL MOUNTED TWO TiER COFFEE TABLE
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this lovely original circa 1950’s Mid-Century Modern Maison Jansen Paris Style coffee table with Shell mount...
Glass
Atlas Coffee Table by Hillsideout: Bronze & Murano Glass, Italy
Located in Geneve, CH
Atlas Coffee Table by Secondome Edizioni Limited Edition Of 8 + 2 A.P. Pieces Designer: Hillsideout. Dimensions: D 65 x W 120 x H 38 cm. Materials: Bronze and Murano glass. Collecti...
Bronze
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 Materials: Solid coloured glass. Weight: 34.4 kg. Also Available: Colours:Clear white (t...
Glass
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: Solid coloured glass. Weight: 12.7 kg. Also Available: Colours:Clear white (tran...
Glass
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. Materials: solid colored glass. Weight: 34.4 kg. Also available: colors:clear whit...
Glass
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 Materials: Solid coloured glass. Weight: 12.7 kg. Also Available: Satin white / sati...
Glass
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 Materials: solid coloured glass. Weight: 12.7 kg. Also available: satin white / ...
Glass
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 Materials: Solid coloured glass. Weight: 34.4 kg. Also Available: Colours:Clear white (...
Glass
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 Materials: Solid coloured glass. Weight: 34.4 kg. Also available: Colours: Clear white...
Glass
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 Materials: Solid coloured glass. Weight: 12.7 kg. Also available: Satin white / ...
Glass
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. Materials: Solid coloured glass. Weight: 34.4 kg. Also Available: Colours:Clear white...
Glass
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 Materials: Solid coloured glass. Weight: 34.4 kg. Also Available: Colours:Clear white...
Glass
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 Materials: Solid coloured glass. Weight: 12.7 kg. Also Available: Satin white / sati...
Glass
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: Solid coloured glass. Weight: 12.7 kg. Also Available: Colours:Clear white (tra...
Glass
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 Materials: Solid coloured glass. Weight: 12.7 kg. Also Available: Satin white / sati...
Glass
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 Materials: Solid coloured glass. Weight: 34.4 kg. Also Available: Colours:Clear white (...
Glass
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 Materials: Solid coloured glass. Weight: 34.4 kg. Also Available: Colours:Clear white (...
Glass
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 Materials: Solid coloured glass. Weight: 34.4 kg. Also Available: Colours:Clear white...
Glass
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 Materials: Solid coloured glass. Weight: 12.7 kg. Also Available: Colours:Clear wh...
Glass
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 Materials: Solid coloured glass. Weight: 12.7 kg. Also available: Colours:Clear white (...
Glass
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 Materials: Solid coloured glass. Weight: 34.4 kg. Also available: Colours:clear white (t...
Glass
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 lucite, topped by a piece of square glass. The theme here is details in transparenc...
Glass, Lucite
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: Solid coloured glass. Weight: 20.5 kg. Also Available: Glass: clear white / clear gree...
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: Solid coloured glass. Weight: 32.6 kg. Also available: Glass: clear white / clear...
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. Materials: solid colored glass. Weight: 32.6 kg. Also available: glass: clear white / clear...
Glass
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: Solid coloured glass. Weight: 20.5 kg. Also available: Glass: clear white / clear gr...
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: Solid coloured glass. Weight: 24.7 kg. Also available: Glass: clear white / clear gr...
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: Solid coloured glass. Weight: 24.7 kg. Also Available: Glass: clear white / clear gr...
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: solid coloured glass. Weight: 16.4 kg. Also available: glass: clear white / clea...
Glass
1980s Custom Sculptural Faux Stone Base Glass Top Coffee Table
Located in Doylestown, PA
Unique custom post-modern sculptural faux stone glass top coffee table.
Glass, Resin, Laminate
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 in Architectural Digest for this item but could not find any further information. ...
Glass, Acrylic
1990s Postmodern Glass Waterfall Sculptural Black Circular Wood Coffee Table
By Massimo Vignelli
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
Postmodern Glass Waterfall Edge Sculptural Coffee Table. Stunning table features a graceful waterfall edge opposite an end gracefully supported by a black pyramid on triangle foot, w...
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.
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.