Mosaiced Coffee Table by Hillsideout
Located in Geneve, CH
Mosaiced Coffee Table by Hillsideout Dimensions: W 150 x D 150 x H 30 cm. Materials: Handcrafted
Acrylic, Wood, Glass, Resin
Postmodern Steel and Brass coffee table
Located in W Allenhurst, NJ
Wonderful post modern glass top coffee table. Smokey polished steel base with brass accent. Nice
Brass, Steel
Crystals Coffee Table by Zieta
By Zieta
Located in Geneve, CH
Crystals Coffee Table by Zieta Dimensions: D 80 x W 130 x H 45 cm. Materials: Glass and polished
Stainless Steel
Postmodern italian marble coffee table, 1980s
Located in Leuven, Vlaams Gewest
Postmodern angular white marble coffee table with black metal supporst and a clear bevelde glass
Marble
$4,004Sale Price|42% Off
H 15.75 in W 39.38 in D 51.19 in
MEC Italy Travertine Marble Coffee Table Brazilian Sandstone Modern Design Spain
By Meddel, Joaquín Moll
Located in VALVERDE DEL MAJANO, CL
MEC Italy Travertine Marble Coffee Table Brazilian Sandstone Modern Design Spain The MEC Coffee
Crystal, Sandstone, Marble, Travertine
Bubble Glass Side Table
By Panorammma
Located in Ciudad de México, CDMX
installation, the Bubble Glass Coffee Table must be shipped exclusively by the Panorammma team.
Glass
$6,800
H 17.5 in W 50 in D 30 in
Spanish Brass Coffee Table with Oval Glass Top Attributed to David Marshall
By David Marshall
Located in Chicago, IL
A sculptural Spanish coffee table from the 1980s, attributed to David Marshall. Cast in mixed
Metal, Brass
$1,787
H 18.51 in Dm 35.24 in
Sculptural Modernist Vintage Chromed Metal Glass Coffee Table Side Table 1960s
Located in Vienna, AT
work great in a Post Modern, Space Age or Modern environment. This wonderful coffee table could also be
Chrome
$29,924 / item
H 14.97 in Dm 51.19 in
Round Coffee Table with Green Marble Base & Smoky Glass Top by Antonio De Marco
Located in Geneve, CH
Opus Mod 4 Marble, Extrawhite Glass And Metal Low Table by Antonio De Marco Dimensions: Ø 130 x H
Marble, Metal
$1,716Sale Price|20% Off
H 12.8 in W 35.44 in D 35.44 in
Postmodern Design Reverse Pyramid Coffee Table
Located in Oud-Turnhout, VAN
Postmodern Design 'Reverse Pyramid' Square Coffee Table. Made in the 1980's. Wood reverse pyramid
Glass, Wood
Blue Jeans Pop-Art Coffee Table, 1980s
Located in Brussel, BE
An astonishing coffee table in blue patinated resin sculpting lying down woman in full denim
Glass, Resin
Flat Coffee Table by Doimo Brasil
Located in Geneve, CH
Flat Coffee Table by Doimo Brasil Dimensions: W 80 x D 80 x H 25 cm Materials: Base: Veneer, Top
Glass, Wood
Tao Coffee Table by Doimo Brasil
Located in Geneve, CH
Tao Coffee Table by Doimo Brasil Dimensions: D 100 x H 20 cm Materials: Base: Veneer, Top: clear
Wood, Glass
Form Coffee Table by Doimo Brasil
Located in Geneve, CH
Form Coffee Table by Doimo Brasil Dimensions: W 100 x D 100 x H 20 cm Materials: Base: Veneer
Glass, Wood
$1,380
H 36 in W 36 in D 36 in
Postmodern Coco Wood Glass Top Coffee Table by Robb & Stucky. Circa 1990s
Located in Miami, FL
Vintage Postmodern Coco Wood Glass Top Coffee Table by Robb & Stucky. Circa 1990s Features a
Metal
Cosmos Coffee Table by Studio Monsoleil
Located in Geneve, CH
Cosmos Coffee Table by Studio Monsoleil Dimensions: Ø 90 x H 45 cm. Materials: Laminated glass
Glass
Stardust Coffee Table by Studio Monsoleil
Located in Geneve, CH
Coffee Table. Let its gradient purple glass material transport you to distant galaxies and spark your
Glass
$21,487 / item
H 16.54 in W 70.87 in D 51.19 in
Toro 180 Stained Black Ash, Fumé Glass And Leather Coffee Table by Casa Casati
Located in Geneve, CH
Toro 180 Stained Black Ash, Fumé Glass And Leather Coffee Table by Casa Casati Dimensions: D 130 x
Other
postmodern design coffee table, 1980's
Located in PARIS, FR
Postmodern Design Coffee Table, 1980s 1.8 centimeter thick glass top with an impressive design
Iron
Sospeso Coffee Table by Dale Italia
Located in Geneve, CH
glass. Coffee table in solid wood worked with inlay technique. Legs in extra-clear glass with visible
Glass, Walnut
Atlas coffee table by Cattelan Italy, 1990s
By Cattelan Italia
Located in Leuven, Vlaams Gewest
Model 'Atlas' coffee table designed by Nencini & Brothers and manufactured by Cattelan Italy. it
Metal
Philippe Starck "Joe Ship" Coffee Table, France 1982
By Les 3 Suisses, Philippe Starck
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Philippe Starck for Les 3 Suisse and XO Design France. Joe Ship Coffee Table, 1982, with rare
Metal, Enamel
Hestia Coffee Table by Cuit Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
black stoneware and tempered glass. Sculptural coffee table. Black stoneware volcanic finish with 10mm
Stoneware, Glass
Memphis Geometric Coffee Table, Italy, 1980s
Located in Antwerp, BE
Unique 1980s Memphis coffee table, crafted from pine wood, featuring bold geometric shapes
Glass, Wood, Pine
Vintage stone pyramid coffee table, 1970s
Located in Leuven, Vlaams Gewest
Vintage coffee table consisting of 4 stone pyramid shaped bases with a thick smoked glass top
Stone
Vintage coffee table by Roche Bobois, 1980s
By Roche Bobois
Located in Leuven, Vlaams Gewest
Vintage wooden and black glass coffee table by Roche Bobois with storage space and bottle holders
Glass, Wood
Piala Coffee Table by Idaaf Architects
Located in Geneve, CH
Piala Coffee Table by Idaaf Architects Dimensions: D 70 x W 70 x H 35 cm. Materials: Glass and
Clay, Glass
Small Pebble Coffee Table by Morica Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Small Pebble Coffee Table by Morica Design Dimensions: D 43 x W 43 x H 40 cm. Materials: Patagonia
Metal
Medium Pebble Coffee Table by Morica Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Medium Pebble Coffee Table by Morica Design Dimensions: D 48 x W 47 x H 35 cm. Materials: Breccia
Metal
Big Pebble Coffee Table by Morica Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Big Pebble Coffee Table by Morica Design Dimensions: D 58 x W 57 x H 30 cm. Materials: Trinity
Metal
Bespoke Shagreen and Brass Coffee Table
Located in Surbiton, GB
A contemporary, bespoke coffee table composed of a shagreen upholstered frame, patinated brass legs
Bronze
$2,383
H 15.36 in W 39.38 in D 19.69 in
Rectangular Smoked Glass Coffee Table / Dry Bar in the style of François Monnet
By François Monnet
Located in Bresso, Lombardy
Made in Italy, 1970s. This is an elegant coffee table or bar with a high-quality rectangular
Steel
Bossa Square Coffee Table by DUISTT
Located in Geneve, CH
Mahogany wood, Cane and Glass Assembly required The Bossa square coffee table, crafted with great
Wood, Cane, Glass
"The Hague" Two Tiered Glass and Plexi Coffee Table by BOR Design
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Glass and plexiglass two-tier coffee table designed by Dutch company BOR Design, named 'The Hague
Glass, Plexiglass
1000 Piedi Coffee Table by Tellurico
Located in Geneve, CH
1000 Piedi Coffee Table by Tellurico Limited Edition Of 6 + 1 A.P. Pieces. Signed And Numbered
Other
$1,625
H 16.5 in W 36 in D 36 in
Scandinavian Modern Siesta Coffee Table, Ingmar Relling, Westnofa, Norway, 1970s
By Westnofa Furniture
Located in Deland, FL
This iconic Scandinavian Modern Siesta coffee table by Ingmar Relling for Westnofa captures the
Beech
1970s Vintage in the Manner of Dia Brass and Glass Coffee Table
By Design Institute America
Located in Chicago, IL
-glass coffee tables are some of their most recognizable pieces, featuring polished or brushed brass
Brass
Babà Coffee Table by Alice Crepaldi
Located in Geneve, CH
Babà Coffee Table by Alice Crepaldi Unique Piece. Dimensions: Ø 42 x H 42 cm. Materials: Murano
Metal
Dryade Coffee Table by Emilie Lemardeley
Located in Geneve, CH
Dryade Coffee Table by Emilie Lemardeley Dimensions: Ø 58 x H 42 cm Materials: Hand-blown glass
Blown Glass
$9,600Sale Price|26% Off
H 18.25 in W 57.5 in D 40 in
Laddie John Dill 'Cement Glass Oxide' Sculptural Coffee Table, c 1980
By Laddie John Dill
Located in Los Angeles, CA
An intriguing sculptural art coffee table by Laddie John Dill, part of his 'Cement Glass Oxide
Cement
$38,500
H 16.07 in W 41.74 in D 35.83 in
Nerone & Patuzzi for Gruppo NP2 'C10T' Coffee Table in Wood and Crystal Glass
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Nerone & Patuzzi for Gruppo NP2, coffee table, wood, glass, iron, Italy, 1970s Designed by the
Iron
Object 037 Coffee Table by NG Design
Located in Geneve, CH
demand. Coffee table with glass top, supported on three points. Perfect for modern and more classic
Steel
Object 052 Coffee Table by NG Design
Located in Geneve, CH
demand. The object052 coffee table is a modern table with a square shape and a glass top. Elegant and
Steel
N2 Coffee Table by Aaron Scott
By Aaron Scott Design
Located in Geneve, CH
N2 coffee table by Aaron Scott Dimensions: D 122 x W 122 x H 41 cm Materials: bleached cherry
Glass, Cherry
Loch Coffee Table by Aaron Scott
By Aaron Scott Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Loch coffee table by Aaron Scott Dimensions: D 137.5 x W 137.5 x H 36 cm Materials: atlantic
Glass, Cedar
N3 Coffee Table by Aaron Scott
By Aaron Scott Design
Located in Geneve, CH
N3 Coffee Table by Aaron Scott Dimensions: D 122 x W 122 x H 41 cm Materials: Walnut, Glass
Glass, Walnut
$4,159
H 14.77 in W 35.83 in D 35.83 in
Janni Van Pelt "G4A" Coffee Table in Steel and Glass, Netherlands 1958
By Janni Van Pelt, Bas Van Pelt
Located in Oud Beijerland, NL
Coffee table model G4A, designed by Janni van Pelt in 1958, is a distinctive example of post-war
Steel
Atlas Coffee Table by Secondome Edizioni
Located in Geneve, CH
Atlas Coffee Table by Secondome Edizioni Limited Edition Of 8 + 2 A.P. Pieces Designer: Hillsideout
Bronze
$3,900
H 12 in W 47 in D 23.5 in
Rosso Levanto Marble Coffee Table - Glass Solid Red Marble Center Table
Located in İnegöl, TR
expert stonemasons Condition: New, made to order Style: Mid-Century Modern / Post-Modern / Luxury
Stone, Marble
Object 053 Coffee Table by NG Design
Located in Geneve, CH
demand. The object053 coffee table forms a steel frame with a glass top. The fine metal profiles play a
Steel
Pa Coffee Table by Andreu Carulla Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Pa Coffee Table by Andreu Carulla Studio Dimensions: D 80 x H 75 cm. Materials: Glass, Aluminium
Aluminum
Saturnia Coffee Table by Somaschini
Located in Geneve, CH
Travertine element. Transparent glass top. Coffee table in N.131 Bronze-burnished copper pure metal finish
Travertine, Copper
$2,595
H 16.5 in W 34.25 in D 34.25 in
Coffee Table w/ Glass Top, Adrian Pearsall, Craft Associates, USA, c. 1960s
By Adrian Pearsall
Located in Deland, FL
American Mid-Century Modern Design. In excellent original, vintage condition this iconic coffee table, cut
Glass, Walnut
Edmondo Extralight Coffee Table by VUUN ITALIA
Located in Geneve, CH
Edmondo Extralight Coffee Table by VUUN ITALIA Dimensions: D 48 x W 63 x H 41 cm. Materials
Glass
Erode Coffee Table by Aaron Scott
By Aaron Scott Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Erode Coffee Table by Aaron Scott Dimensions: Ø 91.5 x H 30.5 cm Materials: White oak and glass
Glass, Oak
Plato Coffee Table by Yasemin Toygar
Located in Geneve, CH
Plato coffee table by Yasemin Toygar Handmade Dimensions: W 90 x D 90 x H 45 cm Materials: Brass
Marble, Onyx, Brass
Doughnut Walnut Coffee Table by Studio TOOJ
Located in Geneve, CH
Doughnut Walnut Coffee Table by Studio TOOJ Designed by Johan Wilén Dimensions: D 140 x H 35 cm
Walnut, 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.