$1,650 / item
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 glass 8mm. Also available in D 100 x H 30, D 120 x H 20, D 120 x H 30 cm. Please c...
Wood, Glass
$1,306 / item
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, Top: Clear glass 10mm. Also available in D 100 x H 30, D 120 x H 20, D 120 x H 30 c...
Glass, Wood
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 38 cm. Materials: Verde Notte marble, metal, and glass. Available in different mat...
Marble, Metal
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 metals, the sinuous base interweaves aluminum and brass in a fluid, architectural gestur...
Metal, Brass
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. The asymmetrical black metal legs design give the feeling that the table is moving. U...
Iron
$3,026 / item
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. The Cosmos table series is created by combining glasses with gradient color transitio...
Glass
$3,026 / item
Stardust Coffee Table by Studio Monsoleil
Located in Geneve, CH
Stardust Coffee Table by Studio Monsoleil Dimensions: D 100 x W 70 x H 55 cm. Materials: Laminated glass. Studio Monsoleil invites you to embrace the beauty and wonder of the univer...
Glass
$2,579 / item
Sospeso Coffee Table by Dale Italia
Located in Geneve, CH
Sospeso Coffee Table by Dale Italia Dimensions: D 100 x W 100 x H 50 cm. Materials: Walnut and glass. Coffee table in solid wood worked with inlay technique. Legs in extra-clear gla...
Glass, Walnut
Philippe Starck “Pepper Young” Coffee Table
By Philippe Starck
Located in Chicago, IL
c. 1980s, France. There is wear consistent with age and use but no notable flaws or chips in the glass. The glass does have minor wear including light scratches and scuffs
Glass, Rubber
$7,187 / item
Hestia Coffee Table by Cuit Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Hestia Coffee Table by Cuit Studio One of a Kind. Dimensions: Ø 80 x H 35 cm. Materials: Textured black stoneware and tempered glass. Sculptural coffee table. Black stoneware volcan...
Stoneware, Glass
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 beautiful lacquered coco wood texture solid frame with metal trims and a removable te...
Metal
$1,627 / item
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 Georgian clay. ‘Piala’ table is made from glass supported by clay jugs and on top of t...
Clay, Glass
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 W 180 x H 42 cm. Materials: Stained black ash wood, fumé glass, and leather. Ava...
Other
Bespoke Shagreen and Brass Coffee Table
Located in Surbiton, GB
A contemporary, bespoke coffee table composed of a shagreen upholstered frame, patinated brass legs and a glass top. Dimensions (cm, approx): Height: 45 Width: 120 Depth: 120 Cond...
Bronze
$722 / item
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 Imperiale glass, metal. Available in Breccia Imperiale, Patagonia, or Trinity White...
Metal
$699 / item
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 glass, metal. Available in Breccia Imperiale, Patagonia, or Trinity White glass. P...
Metal
$779 / item
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 White glass, metal. Available in Breccia Imperiale, Patagonia, or Trinity White glass....
Metal
$15,853 / item
Bossa Square Coffee Table by DUISTT
Located in Geneve, CH
Bossa Square Coffee Table by DUISTT Dimensions: W 100 x D 100 x H 39 cm Materials: High gloss Mahogany wood, Cane and Glass Assembly required The Bossa square coffee table, crafte...
Wood, Cane, Glass
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. Cool coffee table from the 1980s. 1980s - France Good overall condition with nor...
Glass, Wood
$11,382 / item
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. Designed as jewellery for the interior, the Lemardeley’s creations reflect French cr...
Blown Glass
Burl and Smoke Glass Coffee Table in the style of Milo Baughman
By Milo Baughman
Located in Wichita, KS
Burl & Smoke Glass Coffee Table With Chrome Trim in the Style of Milo Baughman Capture the peak of 1970s modernist glamour with this exceptional Burl Wood and Smoked Glass Coffee Ta...
Chrome
$1,719Sale Price|25% Off
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 tempered smoked glass top that swivels to reveal two steel cylinders with a lacquered pla...
Steel
$825 / item
Object 037 Coffee Table by NG Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Object 037 Coffee Table by NG Design Dimensions: D90 x W54 x H34 cm Materials: Powder coated steel,Tempered Glass Also Available: All of objects available in different materials...
Steel
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 circular opaque glass top and black enameled metal legs...
Metal, Enamel
Postmodern Karl Springer Style Sculptural Coffee Table
By Karl Springer
Located in Chicago, IL
Postmodern Karl Springer Style Faux Travertine Waterfall Coffee Table with Glass Top A sophisticated Postmodern coffee table in the style of Karl Springer, featuring a sculptural wa...
Travertine
$825 / item
Object 052 Coffee Table by NG Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Object 052 coffee table by NG Design Dimensions: D70 x W70 x H40 cm Materials: Powder coated steel, Tempered Glass Also Available: All of objects available in different material...
Steel
$8,400Sale Price|20% Off
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' series.
Cement
$824 / item
Object 053 Coffee Table by NG Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Object 053 coffee table by NG Design. Dimensions: D70 x W70 x H40 cm. Materials: powder coated steel, tempered glass. Also available: All of objects available in different materials...
Steel
1970s Vintage in the Manner of Dia Brass and Glass Coffee Table
By Design Institute America
Located in Chicago, IL
Their brass-and-glass coffee tables are some of their most recognizable pieces, featuring polished or brushed brass frames shaped into geometric or curved forms topped with thick bev...
Brass
"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.' Square form features thick transparent plexiglass post legs supporting two levels ...
Glass, Plexiglass
$20,679 / item
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. Coffee table/Side table with aluminum legs cast from a real loaf of bread, each on...
Aluminum
$385Sale Price|20% Off
Mid-Century Bamboo and Glass Coffee Table by Alan Fuchs, Czechoslovakia, 1960s
By Alan Fuchs
Located in Praha, CZ
Vintage designer coffee table by Alan Fuchs manufactured in Czechoslovakia during the 1960s.
Bamboo, Glass
Italian 1950's Blue Glass and Painted Coffee Table with Brass Detail
Located in New York, NY
A highly unique Italian stylized coffee table, the surface with spectacular blue glass, the rectangular frieze with two drawers, also in blue glass with horizontal brass pulls and br...
Brass
$13,113 / item
Saturnia Coffee Table by Somaschini
Located in Geneve, CH
Saturnia Coffee Table by Somaschini Dimensions: W 180 x D 92 x H 28 cm Materials: Lightened mdf monolithic structure with emptying base with Pure metal finish in Burnished Copper – B...
Travertine, Copper
$12,253 / item
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, glass. Plato Collection Inspired by the geometric still life,...
Marble, Onyx, Brass
Polyte Solet Dolphin coffee table and stools, 1990s
Located in Leuven, Vlaams Gewest
Stunning and very rare set by french Artist Polyte Solet (b.1973) featuring two whale tail stools and a beautiful sculpted coffee table depicting a dolphin in mahogany. The wood ha...
Glass, Mahogany
$3,278 / item
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: Extralight glass. Available in different finishes. Please contact us. VUUN Italia crea...
Glass
$39,948 / item
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. Materials: Walnut wood, bronze glass. A true testament to the designer’s signature s...
Walnut, Glass
$825 / item
Object 038 Coffee Table by NG Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Object 038 coffee table by NG Design Dimensions: D90 x W54 x H34 cm Materials: Powder coated steel,Tempered Glass Also Available: All of objects available in different materials...
Steel
Rosso Levanto Marble Coffee Table - Glass Solid Red Marble Center Table
Located in İnegöl, TR
Dimensions: 47" W x 23.5" D x 12" H (120cm x 60cm x 30.5cm) Material: 100% Solid Rosso Levanto Marble Finish: Honed or Polished (available upon request) Origin: Hand-selected and ...
Stone, Marble
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 Dutch modernism. The design is defined by its clear geometric language and restrained...
Steel
1970s Italian Brutalist Travertine Coffee Table, Mangiarotti Style
By Angelo Mangiarotti
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Italian Brutalist coffee table from the 1970s, influenced by the work of Angelo Mangiarotti. Thick glass top rests on two freestanding travertine pedestals, each composed of vertical...
Travertine
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 Italian duo Nerone and Patuzzi, this sculptural coffee table is a true statement p...
Iron
Coffee Table w/ Glass Top, Adrian Pearsall, Craft Associates, USA, c. 1960s
By Adrian Pearsall
Located in Deland, FL
Designed by the incomparable Adrian Pearsall, this sculptural coffee table is the epitome of American Mid-Century Modern Design.
Glass, Walnut
$3,026 / item
Cosmos Green Coffee Table by Studio Monsoleil
Located in Geneve, CH
Cosmos Green Coffee Table by Studio Monsoleil Dimensions: Ø 90 x H 45 cm. Materials: Laminated glass. The Cosmos table series is created by combining glasses with gradient color tra...
Glass
Travertine coffee table by Ballez Willy, 1970s
Located in Brussels, BE
Coffee table with a architectural travertine base designed by the belgian designer Willy Ballez in the 70'. The travertine base is in great condition. The glass top has a chip on t...
Travertine
$2,877 / item
Big Tripod Coffee Table by Dzovag Kotchian
Located in Geneve, CH
Big Tripod Coffee Table by Dzovag Kotchian Dimensions: W 60 x D 60 x H 38 cm Materials: Stabilized Raw Clay, Metal, Glass. Dzovag Kotchian's work develops through theoretical reflec...
Metal
$2,120 / item
Small Tripod Coffee Table by Dzovag Kotchian
Located in Geneve, CH
Small Tripod Coffee Table by Dzovag Kotchian Dimensions: W 40 x D 40 x H 52 cm Materials: Stabilized Raw Clay, Metal, Glass. Dzovag Kotchian's work develops through theoretical refl...
Metal
$5,823 / item
Bel Ava Coffee Table by Studio Nosqua
Located in Geneve, CH
Bel Ava Coffee Table by Studio Nosqua Dimensions: D 52 x W 34 x H 79 cm Material: Glass, Lava stone, Brass Between desertic expanses and frozen mountains, Bela Ava offers you to tra...
Lava, Brass
$14,271 / item
Beside Myself Square Coffee Table by Claste
Located in Geneve, CH
Beside Myself Square Coffee Table by Claste Dimensions: D 106.7 x W 106.7 x H 35.6 cm Material: Marble, Glass Weight: 145 kg Since 2017 Quinlan Osborne has cultivated an aesth...
Marble
$8,012 / item
Luna Park Coffee Table by Secondome Edizioni
Located in Geneve, CH
Luna Park Coffee Table by Secondome Edizioni Designer: Hillsideout. Dimensions: D 45 x W 90 x H 27 cm. Materials: Murano glass. Collection / Production: Secondome. This piece can be...
Murano Glass
$8,012 / item
Luna Park Coffee Table by Secondome Edizioni
Located in Geneve, CH
Luna Park Coffee Table by Secondome Edizioni Designer: Hillsideout. Dimensions: D 45 x W 90 x H 27 cm. Materials: Murano glass. Collection / Production: Secondome. This piece can be...
Murano Glass
$8,012 / item
Luna Park Coffee Table by Secondome Edizioni
Located in Geneve, CH
Luna Park Coffee Table by Secondome Edizioni Designer: Hillsideout. Dimensions: D 45 x W 90 x H 27 cm. Materials: Murano glass. Collection / Production: Secondome. This piece can be...
Murano Glass
$2,520Sale Price|20% Off
Signed Butterfly Lucite Brass & Glass Coffee Table by Lion in Frost
By Lion in Frost
Located in Lake Worth, FL
Offering One of our recent Palm Beach Estate fine furniture acquisitions of a Vintage signed butterfly Lucite, brass & glass coffee cocktail table by Lion in Frost Lion in Frost was...
Brass
$2,560Sale Price|20% Off
Lion in Frost Travertine Marble & Glass Swivel Top Coffee Cocktail Table
By Lion in Frost
Located in Lake Worth, FL
Offering One Of Our Recent Palm Beach Estate Fine Furniture Acquisitions Of A 1970's Mid-Century Modern Travertine Marble & Glass Coffee Cocktail Table by Lion in Frost Glass top swi...
Travertine, Chrome
$10,935 / item
Remember Me Round Coffee Table by Claste
Located in Geneve, CH
Remerber me round coffee table by Claste Dimensions: D 100 x W 35.5 x H 35.5 cm Material: Carrara Gioia, Belvedere Black, Mont Blanc, Manhatten Calacatta, Fusion Marble, Temptatio...
Marble
$10,935 / item
Remember Me Rectangular Coffee Table by Claste
Located in Geneve, CH
Remerber Me rectangular coffee table by Claste Dimensions: D 137.2 x W 76.2 x H 35.5 cm Material: Carrara Gioia, Belvedere Black, Mont Blanc, Manhatten Calacatta, Fusion Marble, T...
Marble
Officina Rivadossi Coffee Table in Solid Walnut and Glass, Italy 1970's
By Officina Rivadossi, Giuseppe Rivadossi
Located in Hellouw, NL
Design Produced by Officina Rivadossi, this coffee table combines thick solid walnut elements with two substantial smoked glass shelves, creating an elegant interplay between mass an...
Glass, Walnut
$920Sale Price|20% Off
Vintage 1980s modular rattan coffee tables/side tables -a pair
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Vintage rattan side or end tables or small coffee table with glass tops. A smaller version of these are also available.
Rattan, Glass
$2,040 / item
Egg Laguna Oak Coffee Table by Morica Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Egg Laguna Oak Coffee Table by Morica Design Dimensions: D 100 x W 100 x H 38 cm. Materials: Laguna oak, glass. Available in Canaletto Walnut, Laguna Oak, or natural oak wood. Pleas...
Wood, 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.