$1,847 / item
Xaloc Cream Coffee Table 80 with Glass Top by Mowee
Located in Geneve, CH
Xaloc cream coffee table 80 with glass top by Mowee. Dimensions: D80 x W80 x H28 cm. Materials: Aluminum, tinted tempered glass top. Also available in different aluminum colors an...
Aluminum
Xaloc Silver Coffee Table 120 with Glass Top by Mowee
Located in Geneve, CH
Xaloc silver coffee table 120 with glass top by Mowee. Dimensions: D120 x W80 x H28 cm. Materials: Aluminum, tinted tempered glass top. Also available in different aluminum colors...
Aluminum
Xaloc Chocolate Coffee Table 120 with Glass Top by Mowee
Located in Geneve, CH
Xaloc chocolate coffee table 120 with glass top by MOWEE Dimensions: D120 x W80 x H28 cm Materials: Aluminum, tinted tempered glass top. Also available in different aluminum color...
Aluminum
$1,940 / item
Xaloc Silver Coffee Table 80 with Glass Top by Mowee
Located in Geneve, CH
Xaloc silver coffee table 80 with glass top by Mowee. Dimensions: D80 x W80 x H28 cm. Materials: Aluminum, tinted tempered glass top. Also available in different aluminum colors a...
Aluminum
$1,324 / item
Xaloc Black Coffee Table 50 with Glass Top by Mowee
Located in Geneve, CH
Xaloc black coffee table 50 with glass top by Mowee. Dimensions: D50 x W50 x H28 cm Materials: Aluminum, tinted tempered glass top. Also available in different aluminum colors and...
Aluminum
Xaloc Burgundy Coffee Table 80 with Glass Top by Mowee
Located in Geneve, CH
Xaloc burgundy coffee table 80 with glass top by Mowee. Dimensions: D80 x W80 x H28 cm. Materials: Aluminum, tinted tempered glass top. Also available in different aluminum colors...
Aluminum
$1,394 / item
Xaloc Silver Coffee Table 50 with Glass Top by Mowee
Located in Geneve, CH
Xaloc Silver coffee table 120 with glass top by MOWEE Dimensions: D50 x W50 x H28 cm Materials: Aluminum, tinted tempered glass top. Also available in different aluminum colors an...
Aluminum
$1,324 / item
Xaloc Salmon Coffee Table 50 with Glass Top by Mowee
Located in Geneve, CH
Xaloc salmon coffee table 50 with glass top by MOWEE Dimensions: D50 x W50 x H28 cm Materials: Aluminum, tinted tempered glass top. Also available in different aluminum colors and...
Aluminum
$1,394 / item
Xaloc Gold Coffee Table 50 with Glass Top by Mowee
Located in Geneve, CH
Xaloc gold coffee Table 50 with Glass Top by Mowee. Dimensions: D50 x W50 x H28 cm. Materials: Aluminum, tinted tempered glass top. Also available in different aluminum colors and...
Aluminum
$1,847 / item
Xaloc Navy Coffee Table 80 with Glass Top by Mowee
Located in Geneve, CH
Xaloc Navy coffee table 80 with Glass top by Mowee Dimensions: D80 x W80 x H28 cm Materials: Aluminum, tinted tempered glass top. Also available in different aluminum colors and f...
Aluminum
$2,195 / item
Xaloc Navy Coffee Table 120 with Glass Top by Mowee
Located in Geneve, CH
Xaloc navy coffee table 120 with glass Top by Mowee. Dimensions: D120 x W80 x H28 cm. Materials: Aluminum, tinted tempered glass top. Also available in different aluminum colors a...
Aluminum
$1,847 / item
Xaloc Grey Coffee Table 80 with Glass Top by Mowee
Located in Geneve, CH
Xaloc grey coffee table 80 with glass top by Mowee. Dimensions: D80 x W80 x H28 cm Materials: Aluminum, tinted tempered glass top. Also available in different aluminum colors and ...
Aluminum
$2,195 / item
Xaloc Grey Coffee Table 120 with Glass Top by Mowee
Located in Geneve, CH
Xaloc grey coffee table 120 with glass top by Mowee. Dimensions: D120 x W80 x H28 cm. Materials: Aluminum, tinted tempered glass top. Also available in different aluminum colors a...
Aluminum
Xaloc Salmon Coffee Table 120 with Glass Top by Mowee
Located in Geneve, CH
Xaloc Salmon coffee table 120 with glass top by MOWEE Dimensions: D120 x W80 x H28 cm Materials: Aluminum, tinted tempered glass top. Also available in different aluminum colors a...
Aluminum
$2,195 / item
Xaloc Cream Coffee Table 120 with Glass Top by Mowee
Located in Geneve, CH
Xaloc cream coffee table 120 with glass Top by Mowee. Dimensions: D120 x W80 x H28 cm. Materials: Aluminum, tinted tempered glass top. Also available in different aluminum colors ...
Aluminum
$2,288 / item
Xaloc Gold Coffee Table 120 with Glass Top by Mowee
Located in Geneve, CH
Xaloc gold coffee table 120 with glass top by MOWEE Dimensions: D120 x W80 x H28 cm Materials: Aluminum, tinted tempered glass top. Also available in different aluminum colors and...
Aluminum
Xaloc Burgundy Coffee Table 120 with Glass Top by Mowee
Located in Geneve, CH
Xaloc Burgundy coffee table 120 with glass top by MOWEE Dimensions: D120 x W80 x H28 cm Materials: Aluminum, tinted tempered glass top. Also available in different aluminum colors...
Aluminum
$1,847 / item
Xaloc Black Coffee Table 80 with Glass Top by Mowee
Located in Geneve, CH
Xaloc black coffee table 80 with glass top by Mowee. Dimensions: D80 x W80 x H28 cm. Materials: Aluminum, tinted tempered glass top. Also available in different aluminum colors an...
Aluminum
Xaloc Bronze Coffee Table 120 with Glass Top by Mowee
Located in Geneve, CH
Xaloc Bronze coffee table 120 with glass top by MOWEE Dimensions: D120 x W80 x H28 cm Materials: Aluminum, tinted tempered glass top. Also available in different aluminum colors a...
Aluminum
$1,324 / item
Xaloc Bronze Coffee Table 50 with Glass Top by Mowee
Located in Geneve, CH
Xaloc bronze coffee table 50 with glass Top by Mowee Dimensions: D 50 x W 50 x H 28 cm Materials: Aluminum, tinted tempered glass top. Also available in different aluminum colors ...
Aluminum
$1,940 / item
Xaloc Gold Coffee Table 80 with Glass Top by Mowee
Located in Geneve, CH
Xaloc gold coffee table 80 with glass top by Mowee Dimensions: D 80 x W 80 x H 28 cm Materials: Aluminum, tinted tempered glass top. Also available in different aluminum colors an...
Aluminum
Xaloc Burgundy Coffee Table 50 with Glass Top by Mowee
Located in Geneve, CH
Xaloc Burgundy coffee table 50 with glass top by Mowee Dimensions: D 50 x W 50 x H 28 cm Materials: Aluminum, tinted tempered glass top. Also available in different aluminum color...
Aluminum
$2,195 / item
Xaloc Black Coffee Table 120 with Glass Top by Mowee
Located in Geneve, CH
Xaloc black coffee table 120 with glass top by Mowee. Dimensions: D120 x W80 x H28 cm. Materials: Aluminum, tinted tempered glass top. Also available in different aluminum colors ...
Aluminum
Black Lacquer and Glass Geometric Square Coffee Cocktail Table Postmodern
Located in New York, NY
A very beautiful geometric square coffee/cocktail table in black lacquer with glass top, Postmodern period, late-20th century, 1980s. Glass top has beveled edge and is 'inset' into c...
Glass, Wood
Mid Century Brass and Glass Coffee Table, by Jean-Danial Salvat
Located in Godshill, Isle of Wight
Mid Century Brass and Glass Coffee Table, by Jean-Danial Salvat This wonderful piece is signed by Jean-Danial Salvat, the 2 individual brass legs are in the form stylised dragons ...
Art Glass
Large postmodern curved waterfall glass coffee table with ball, USA 1980s
Located in Hastings, GB
Large postmodern curved waterfall glass coffee table with plaster effect fiberglass ball, USA 1980s. Very hard to find this model- I've been looking for a while. There are some scr...
Glass, Fiberglass
Floating Walnut and Glass Coffee/Cocktail Table mannered after Milo Baughman
By Milo Baughman
Located in Medina, OH
Elevate your living space with this post modern designed coffee table or cocktail table, with its floating appearance.
Glass, Walnut
$607Sale Price|55% Off
Postmodern Mirrored Glass Top Coffee Table with Chrome Accented Base
Located in Freehold, NJ
This postmodern coffee table features chrome accented legs and base with mirrored glass top. Matching side table available separately. Dimensions: 54w 24d 15.75h Condition: Chro...
Chrome
Spider Coffee Table in Crystal Glass & Steel by Barberini & Gunnell
Located in Geneve, CH
Spider Coffee Table in Crystal Glass & Steel by Barberini & Gunnell Limited Edition of 30 + 2 AP + 1 p. Dimensions: D 50 x W 135 x H 38 cm. Materials: Tempered extra-clear crystal g...
Stainless Steel
Italian Blue Glass + Chrome Coffee Table Attributed to Cristal Arte, 1970s
By Cristal Arte
Located in Chicago, IL
An Italian coffee table from the 1970s, attributed to Cristal Arte. The rectangular form stretches just over four feet in width, its chromed steel frame housing two tiers of sapphire...
Chrome
Pere Cosp Singel Model Coffee Table Iron Spain Post War Reconstruction
By Signed P. Cosp
Located in Lège Cap Ferret, FR
PERE COSP (Barcelona, 1907-2007). Coffee table, 1948-1949. wood and iron feet. With marks of use. Provenance: House in Llavaneras (Barcelona) with an interior designed entirely by...
Iron
De Sede DS47 Tan Leather and Smoked Mirror Glass Coffee Table
By De Sede
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The De Sede DS47 coffee table pairs a smoked mirror glass top with a fully leather-wrapped base. Tan leather covers the entire visible structure, including the rectangular apron fram...
Leather, Smoked Glass
Ovni Uovo Black Marble Glass Sculptural Coffee Table, by Panorammma
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
'Balance' inflated metal coffee table, stainless steel and glass
By Stephen Newby
Located in Newcastle Upon Tyne, GB
Inflated metal coffee table. Highly mirror polished stainless steel and 10mm toughened glass with polished edges. Each table is hand made, numbered and signed in the UK with each ta...
Stainless Steel, Metal, Steel
1986 Philip Jackson ‘Scacco’ Marble & Glass Coffee Table for Cattelan Italia
By Cattelan Italia
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A striking example of Late 20th Century design, this 1986 ‘Scacco’ coffee table by Philip Jackson for Cattelan Italia is a testament to sculptural modernity. This square table featur...
Marble
From Above Coffee Table Clear Glass Warm White by Warm Nordic
Located in Geneve, CH
From Above Coffee Table Clear Glass Warm White by Warm Nordic Dimensions: D72 x H37 cm Material: Tempered glass top, Powder coated steel legs. Weight: 10 kg Also available in differe...
Steel
$4,225Sale Price / item|35% Off
Spectre Coffee Table by Franco V, Handcrafted Steel & Glass, USA
By Franco V
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Designed and handcrafted by Brooklyn-based artist Franco V, this post-modern style piece features a 3/4" thick glass top resting upon a striking geometric base.
Steel
Ovni Uovo White Marble Glass Sculptural Coffee Table, by Panorammma
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
Transparent Glass Coffee Table in Cherry Wood & Brass Frame by DOLOMITISCH
Located in Geneve, CH
Mirage Cherry Wood, Brushed Brass, Transparent Glass Coffee Table by DOLOMITISCH Dimensions: D 100 x H 38 cm Materials: Oak, Brass Finish, Transparent Glass. "Customization of the...
Glass, Oak
Giovanni Offredi Onda Glass Coffee Table for Saporiti ca. 1970's
By Giovanni Offredi, Saporiti
Located in New York, NY
Classic Post Modern Italian design glass top coffee table designed by Giovanni Offredi for Saporiti.
Steel
$2,280Sale Price|20% Off
Postmodern Glass Lucite & Brass Coffee Table, 1980s
By Karl Springer
Located in Madison, WI
This minimalist, post modern Miami Regency 1980's coffee / cocktail table .
Chrome
Monolit Coffee Table in Silver Modular Mirror Glass Bricks by Homa
Located in Geneve, CH
Monolit Coffee Table in Silver Modular Mirror Glass Bricks by Homa. Dimensions: W 75 x D 45 x H 30 cm. Unit Size: W 15 x D 15 x 30 cm (each). Materials: Glass Bricks, Silver Mirror. ...
Glass, Mirror
Postmodern Compar Coffee Table, White Lacquer with Genuine Murano Glass Inlay, I
By Vetro Artistico 1
Located in Wommelgem, BE
A postmodern coffee table produced by Compar, an Italian furniture manufacturer based in the Venice region, known for combining lacquered wood with genuine Murano glass. The high-glo...
Murano Glass
Postmodern Compar Coffee Table, White Lacquer with Genuine Murano Glass Inlay, I
By Vetro Artistico 1
Located in Wommelgem, BE
A postmodern coffee table produced by Compar, an Italian furniture manufacturer based in the Venice region, known for combining lacquered wood with genuine Murano glass. The high-glo...
Murano Glass
Laurel Fyfe Sculptural Coffee Table Black Glass Handkerchief Art Postmodern 1990
By Laurel Fyfe
Located in London, GB
A monumental and rare black glass coffee table, with handkerchief-shaped base and irregular organic shape glass top. Imported from the USA to London, originally for an estate in Hyde...
Glass
Bent Straight Coffee Table in Clear Crystal Glass by Barberini & Gunnell
Located in Geneve, CH
Bent Straight Coffee Table in Clear Crystal Glass by Barberini & Gunnell Limited Edition of 30 + 2 AP + 1 p. Dimensions: D 70 x W 140 x H 34 cm. Materials: Marble. Limited Edition, ...
Glass
$3,196Sale Price|20% Off
Carved Marble Figure of a Nude Woman Coffee Table Glass Top
Located in Swedesboro, NJ
This carved marble figure of a nude woman coffee table with a glass top is a striking example of functional art that blurs the line between sculpture and furniture. Boldly designed, ...
Marble
American Walnut and Glass Sidewinder I Coffee Table by David Tragen
Located in Geneve, CH
American Walnut and Glass Sidewinder I Coffee Table by David Tragen Dimensions: W 135 x D 75 x H 43.5 cm Materials: American Walnut (solid), 10mm toughened glass. Weight: 40 kg. T...
Cherry, Walnut, Glass
$1,650Sale Price|26% Off
Massimo Vignelli Inspired Bent Glass Coffee Table with Black Marble Support
By Massimo Vignelli
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This truly impressive coffee table, drawing clear inspiration from the design philosophy of Massimo Vignelli, anchors any room with its commanding presence and modern geometric form....
Marble
American Cherry and Glass Sidewinder II Coffee Table by David Tragen
Located in Geneve, CH
American Cherry and Glass Sidewinder II Coffee Table by David Tragen Dimensions: W 135 x D 75 x H 43.5 cm Materials: American Cherry, 10mm toughened glass. Weight: 40 kg. This scul...
Glass, Cherry, Walnut
Two Tier Sculptural Dichroic Glass Coffee Table by ODA LIK Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Two Tier Sculptural Dichroic Glass Coffee Table by ODA LIK Studio. Limited Edition. Dimensions: W 121 x D 189 x H 36 cm. Materials: Dichroic glass composition with custom chromatic p...
Stainless Steel
$2,200
Blocks Coffee Table
By Chuch Estudio
Located in Mérida, MX
The Blocks coffee table was inspired by the construction context in Mexico, a reinterpretation of an authentic multitask table by mexican workers: cast blocks and a multi-material to...
Stone
Vertigo Coffee Table in Marble & Extra-Clear Glass by Barberini & Gunnell
Located in Geneve, CH
Vertigo Coffee Table in Marble & Extra-Clear Glass by Barberini & Gunnell Limited Edition of 15 + 2 AP + 1 p. Dimensions: D 112 x W 152 x H 34 cm. Materials: Marble and extra-clear ...
Marble
Postmodern Glass and leather coffee table in the style of Karl Springer
Located in Las Vegas, NV
Postmodern Sculptural Glass Coffee Table Leather Base, Style of Karl Springer Striking postmodern coffee table featuring a sculptural leather base and a thick freeform glass top. T...
Leather, Glass
Ursula Coffee Table in Stained Rattan and Tempered Glass by POPUS EDITIONS
By Popus Editions
Located in Geneve, CH
Ursula Coffee Table in Stained Rattan and Tempered Glass by POPUS EDITIONS. Dimensions: W 110 x D 110 x H 37 cm. Materials: Stained rattan weave base with a clear tempered glass tabl...
Rattan, Glass
Postmodern Glass Coffee Table, Travertine Base, Square, Artedi, Italian c. 1970s
By Artedi
Located in Rancho Cucamonga, CA
A distinctive vintage coffee table, crafted from a square glass top and a travertine pedestal base with silver-finished metal cross bars. This piece blends minimalist geometry with s...
Travertine, Metal
Vintage Maitland Smith Architectural Tessellated Stone & Glass Coffee Table
By Maitland Smith, Karl Springer
Located in Chicago, IL
Maitland Smith Tessellated Stone Coffee Table. A strong form in the Manner of Karl Springer. Tinted Black Glass shown is no longer with the item. It showed to much wear. Requires a ...
Stone
from above Coffee Table Smoke Grey Glass Ocean Blue by Warm Nordic
Located in Geneve, CH
From Above Coffee Table Smoke Grey Glass Ocean Blue by Warm Nordic Dimensions: D72 x H37 cm Material: Tempered glass top, Powder coated steel legs. Weight: 10 kg Also available i...
Steel
Vintage Edward Nieto "The SoBe" Collection Coffee Table, Glass & Blonde Wood
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Rare and striking vintage coffee table designed by Edward Nieto for Edward Nieto Design Group, Inc., part of the sought-after "The SoBe" Collection, as indicated by the original labe...
Glass, Wood
$3,405Sale Price|20% Off
1070s Coffee Table Marble Brass Birds Glass Vintage Gold Hollywood Regency
Located in London, GB
This gorgeous coffee table consists of two solid black marble spheres, atop which sits an elegant brass albatross figure. The two orbs hold a rectangular piece of bevelled glass. T...
Marble, 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.
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.