$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
Officina Rivadossi Coffee Table in Solid Walnut and Glass, Italy 1970's
By Giuseppe Rivadossi, Officina 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
$2,035 / 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
$6,917 / item
Aero Coffee Table by Giacomo Tomazzi Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Aero Coffee Table by Giacomo Tomazzi Studio Dimensions: W 120 x D 120 x H 23 cm Materials: MDF with natural wood laminate, painted carbon steel structure, 10mm bronze glass elements,...
Steel
Coffee Table by Roy Klipp
Located in Highland, IN
Created for Chicago interior designer Roy Klipp, this stylish coffee table has a terrific modernist design with three pie-shaped legs supporting a round glass top with a bull-nose ed...
Wood
$1,702 / item
Itaca 65 Coffee Table by Atlas Project
Located in Geneve, CH
Itaca 65 Coffee Table by Atlas Project Dimensions: Ø 65 x H 35 cm. Materials: Stainless mirror steel and glass. Available in different sizes. Please contact us. Itaca Coffee Table...
Stainless Steel
Italian Mid-Century Modern Chrome Table Base with Glass Top, 1970s
Located in Queens, NY
Italian Post-War Design chrome plated metal abstract geometric form table base (With 47.25" square glass top)
Metal, Chrome
1960s Modernist Rattan Metal and Smoked Glass Coffee Table with Lower Basket
By Rudolf Wolf, Rohe Noordwolde
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Mid-Century, 1960's, black enameled metal coffee table with lower rattan basket, designed by Dutch post-war design great Rudolf Wolff for Rohe Noordwolde. A handsomely designed squar...
Metal
Mid-Century Italian Round Coffee Table in Aniline-Stained Beech and Glass, 1950s
Located in London, GB
A distinctive Italian coffee table dating from the 1950s, featuring a sculptural frame crafted from aniline-stained beech and wood with a circular glass top. The rich, dark finish en...
Glass, Wood, Beech
$32,224 / item
Kupoli Coffee Table 26 by Cameron Design House
Located in Geneve, CH
Kupoli Coffee Table 26 by Cameron Design House Dimensions: D 130 x W 189.3 x H 40 cm. Materials: Steel, glass. Available in other dimensions. Available in paint or pigmented chrome ...
Steel
$18,408 / item
Kupoli Coffee Table 15 by Cameron Design House
Located in Geneve, CH
Kupoli Coffee Table 15 by Cameron Design House Dimensions: D 112.8 x H 40 cm. Materials: Steel, glass. Available in other dimensions. Available in paint or pigmented chrome finishes...
Steel
$14,863 / item
Kupoli Coffee Table 12 by Cameron Design House
Located in Geneve, CH
Kupoli Coffee Table 12 by Cameron Design House Dimensions: D 98.3 x H 40 cm. Materials: Steel, glass. Available in other dimensions. Available in paint or pigmented chrome finishes....
Steel
$1,600 / item
Bowl Coffee Table by Wentz
By Guilherme Wentz
Located in Geneve, CH
Not only is the shape reduced to the essential minimum, but it suggests an environment with more free space, since the top has the minimum depth necessary to support everyday objects...
Steel, Stainless Steel
$1,463 / item
Teo Extralight 50 Coffee Table by VUUN ITALIA
Located in Geneve, CH
Teo Extralight 50 Coffee Table by VUUN ITALIA Dimensions: D 54 x W 54 x H 39 cm. Materials: Extralight glass. Available in different sizes and finishes. Please contact us. As if s...
Glass
Enrique Garcel Lacquered Goatskin Triangular Coffee Table, 1991
By Enrique Garcel
Located in Chicago, IL
Enrique Garcel Lacquered Goatskin Triangular Coffee Table, 1991. Matching Side/End tables are in separate listing. Measures 17.75” tall 91.5” long 42” deep
Goatskin, Glass
$21,598 / item
Ultracoffee Black and Red Coffee Table by Vetralia
Located in Geneve, CH
Ultracoffee Black and Red Coffee Table by Vetralia Designed by Leo De Carlo Dimensions: W 120 x D 120 x H 27 cm Materials: Engraved mirrored glass, charred wood. VETRALIA Functiona...
Wood, Glass
$4,196 / item
AL-03 Coffee Table by Orlando Pippig
Located in Geneve, CH
AL-03 Coffee Table by Orlando Pippig Dimensions: W 102 x D 51 x H 36 cm (Dimensions may vary slightly) Materials: Aluminum, Smoked Glass The forms presented in AL-03 were heavily in...
Aluminum
$2,366 / item
Danse 68 Blue Coffee Table by VUUN ITALIA
Located in Geneve, CH
Danse 68 Blue Coffee Table by VUUN ITALIA Dimensions: Ø 68 x H 48 cm. Materials: Bronze glass. Available in different finishes and sizes. Please contact us. VUUN Italia creates in...
Glass
$2,366 / item
Danse 68 Bronze Coffee Table by VUUN ITALIA
Located in Geneve, CH
Danse 68 Bronze Coffee Table by VUUN ITALIA Dimensions: Ø 68 x H 48 cm. Materials: Bronze glass. Available in different finishes and sizes. Please contact us. VUUN Italia creates ...
Glass
$19,997 / item
Specimen Coffee Table by Batten and Kamp
Located in Geneve, CH
Specimen coffee table by Batten and Kamp Dimensions: D110 x H30 cm Materials: Cast aluminium, granite stone, tempered low iron glass. The coffee table ‘Specimen’ features an alumini...
Granite, Aluminum
$11,319 / item
Large Coffee Table, Venice Collection by Alexey Drozhdin
Located in Geneve, CH
Large coffee table, Venice Collection by Alexey Drozhdin. Dimensions: D 55 x W 110 x H 44 cm. Materials: glass, oak shape. A young designer and artist Alexey Drozhdin creates e...
Glass, Oak
$2,366 / item
Danse 68 Bronze Coffee Table by VUUN ITALIA
Located in Geneve, CH
Danse 68 Bronze Coffee Table by VUUN ITALIA Dimensions: Ø 68 x H 48 cm. Materials: Bronze glass. Available in different finishes and sizes. Please contact us. VUUN Italia creates ...
Glass
$4,116 / item
Alwa Three Big Green Coffee Table by Pulpo
Located in Geneve, CH
Alwa three big green coffee table by Pulpo Dimensions: D 56 x H 35 cm Materials: casted and handblown glass Also available in different colours. Normally, glass is regarded a...
Glass
$4,116 / item
Alwa Three Big Transparent Coffee Table by Pulpo
Located in Geneve, CH
Alwa three big transparent coffee table by Pulpo. Dimensions: D56 x H35 cm. Materials: casted and handblown glass. Also available in different colours. Normally, glass is re...
Glass
$4,116 / item
Alwa Three Big Amber Coffee Table by Pulpo
Located in Geneve, CH
Alwa three big amber coffee table by Pulpo Dimensions: D56 x H35 cm Materials: Casted and hand blown glass Also available in different colours. Normally, glass is regarded as...
Glass
$4,116 / item
Alwa Three Big White Coffee Table by Pulpo
Located in Geneve, CH
Alwa three big white coffee table by Pulpo Dimensions: D56 x H35 cm Materials: Casted and hand blown glass Also available in different colours. Normally, glass is regarded a...
Glass
Twiggy Coffee Table – Contemporary Sculptural Brass by Misaya
By Masaya
Located in Geneve, CH
Twiggy Coffee Table – Contemporary Sculptural Brass by Misaya Dimensions: W66 x D77 x H46 cm Materials: Brass Also Available: Twiggy Chair, Different color options (Gold, Polished B...
Brass
$999Sale Price|23% Off
Postmodern Tangent Coffee Table by Jensen-Lewis
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The Tangent Cocktail Table. Graceful, timeless, elegant. A sophisticated statement that is at home in any architectural setting, The Tangent will handsomely complement the finest con...
Steel
Driade Fratello Coffee Table by Enzo Mari, 1980s
Located in Leuven, Vlaams Gewest
Very lucidly, Enzo Mari decided to realize this tables collection with transparent crystal tops in order to valorise the harsh simplicity of steel sections bases. Designed in 1973, u...
Metal
1980s Hank Kwint 'KW-1' Carrara Marble and Glass Coffee Table for Metaform
By Hank Kwint, Metaform Holland
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1980s Hank Kwint 'KW-1' Carrara marble and glass coffee table for renowned manufacturer Metaform. A beautiful combination of complementary materials creating an attractive and useful...
Marble, Chrome
Fleur de Fer coffee table by Maurice Barilone, 1980s
By Roche Bobois, Maurice Barilone
Located in Leuven, Vlaams Gewest
Sculptural bent steel 'Fleur De Fer' Coffee table by Maurice Barilone and produced and sold by Roche Bobois. The timeless design and use of rough and heavy steel makes this piece st...
Steel
Postmodern Black Marble Base Octagonal Coffee Table. Circa 1980s.
Located in Miami, FL
Vintage Postmodern Black Marble Base Octagonal Coffee Table. Circa 1980s. Feature a Post modern / Brutalist design, textured Midsection, polished top and foot with beautiful marble v...
Marble
Mid 19th Century Square Brass Coffee Table
Located in Godshill, Isle of Wight
Mid 19th Century Square Brass Coffee Table This is a superb quality Italian design, the frame is made in brushed brass with turned legs and a slatted undertier for magazines, the t...
Brass
$4,424 / item
Elk Antler Coffee Table by The Peak Antler
Located in Geneve, CH
Elk Antler Coffee Table by The Peak Antler Dimensions: W 66.04 x D 132.08 x H 48.26 cm Materials: glass, naturally shed antlers Based in, produced and shipped from the US. This tab...
Glass, Wood
$10,667 / item
Palm Square Coffee Table by Marioni
Located in Geneve, CH
Palm Square Coffee Table by Marioni Dimensions: W 120 x D 120 x H 50 cm. Materials: Brass structure and glazed decorative ceramic details. Wooden shelf and glass top. Product code: ...
Brass
$8,803 / item
Palm Oval Coffee Table by Marioni
Located in Geneve, CH
Palm Oval Coffee Table by Marioni Dimensions: W 50 x D 50 x H 50 cm. Materials: Brass structure and glazed ceramic details. Wooden shelf and glass top. Product code: 02960 Palm ova...
Brass
Coffee Table Midcentury G Plan Astro
By Victor Wilkins
Located in Otley, GB
The G Plan Astro coffee table is one of the most recognisable icons of British post-war design.
Glass, Teak
Hollywood Regency Glass, Lucite and Chrome Coffee Table by Leon Rosen for Pace
By Pace Furniture Company, Leon Rosen
Located in New York, NY
Chic Post Modern, Hollywood Regency style glass, lucite and chrome coffee table, designed by Leon Rosen for The Pace Collection, circa 1970's.
Chrome
$2,399Sale Price|20% Off
Superbly Designed and Crafted Cast Aluminum Coffee Table
By Karl Springer, Knut Hesterberg, Russell Woodard
Located in BROOKLYN, NY
Incredibly engineered and designed Modern coffee table. Individual casted aluminum parts skillfully composed to crafted a flower pedestal base. 3/4 round glass is in excellent condit...
Aluminum
$2,366 / item
Otto Bronze 70 Coffee Table by VUUN ITALIA
Located in Geneve, CH
Otto Bronze 70 Coffee Table by VUUN ITALIA Dimensions: D 75 x W 80 x H 30 cm. Materials: Bronze glass with bronze effect back lacquered base. Available in different sizes and finis...
Glass, Mirror
Nerone & Patuzzi for Gruppo NP2 Sculptural Coffee Table
By Nerone and Patuzzi
Located in London, GB
Designed by Italian duo Nerone and Patuzzi, this sculptural coffee table is truly a work of art. Its asymmetrical wooden base extends beyond the glass top, emphasizing the piece’s th...
Iron
Coffee table 'Jarpen' by Niels Gammelgaard for Ikea 1983
By Niels Gammelgaard, IKEA
Located in Herentals, BE
Post Modern white lacquered metal coffee table or side table ' Jarpen' with original transparent glass top.
Metal
$5,839 / item
Aero Round Coffee Table by Giacomo Tomazzi Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Aero Round Coffee Table by Giacomo Tomazzi Studio Dimensions: W 120 x D 120 x H 23 cm Materials: MDF with natural wood laminate, painted carbon steel structure, 10mm bronze glass ele...
Steel
$3,910 / item
Alwa Three Big Smoky Grey Coffee Table by Pulpo
Located in Geneve, CH
Alwa three big smoky grey coffee table by Pulpo. Dimensions: D56 x H35 cm. Materials: Casted and hand blown glass. Also available in different colours. Normally, glass is regarded...
Glass
1970s Rams Head Rectangular Glass Side Coffee Table Boho Maximalist sofa lamp
Located in London, GB
The feet follow an intricate curved debossing design where at the near top unscrew and the glass top is inserted. Beautiful details and perfect coffee table dimensions with the recta...
Metal, Aluminum
$6,082 / item
Uma Rectangular Coffee Table by Purho
Located in Geneve, CH
Uma rectangular coffee table by Purho. Dimensions: D90 x W120 x H30 cm. Materials: Resin, fabric upholstered legs. Available in other colors. UMA Rectangular is a table from th...
Fabric, Resin
$5,385 / item
Uma Square Coffee Table by Purho
Located in Geneve, CH
Uma square coffee table by Purho Dimensions: D 90 x W 90 x H 30 cm Materials: Resin, fabric upholstered legs. Available in other colors. UMA Square is a low table from the coll...
Fabric, Resin
$2,481 / item
Teo Pink Shades 50 Coffee Table by VUUN ITALIA
Located in Geneve, CH
Teo Pink Shades 50 Coffee Table by VUUN ITALIA Dimensions: D 54 x W 54 x H 39 cm. Materials: Extralight glass with gold mirror base. Available in different sizes and finishes. Plea...
Glass
$3,007 / item
Teo Pink Shades 90 Coffee Table by VUUN ITALIA
Located in Geneve, CH
Teo Pink Shades 90 Coffee Table by VUUN ITALIA Dimensions: D 93 x W 93 x H 28 cm. Materials: Extralight glass with gold mirror base. Available in different sizes and finishes. Plea...
Glass
$2,709 / item
Teo Pink Shades 60 Coffee Table by VUUN ITALIA
Located in Geneve, CH
Teo Pink Shades 60 Coffee Table by VUUN ITALIA Dimensions: D 64 x W 64 x H 28 cm. Materials: Extralight glass with gold mirror base. Available in different sizes and finishes. Plea...
Glass
$2,721 / item
Sweet Fuchsia Chubby Coffee Table by Marcel Wanders
Located in Geneve, CH
Sweet Fuchsia Chubby Coffee Table by Marcel Wanders Dimensions: Ø 100 x H 35 cm. Materials: Polyethylene and tempered satin glass. Weight: 22 kg. Available in a standard version an...
Other
$2,721 / item
Saffron Yellow Chubby Coffee Table by Marcel Wanders
Located in Geneve, CH
Saffron Yellow Chubby Coffee Table by Marcel Wanders Dimensions: Ø 100 x H 35 cm. Materials: Polyethylene and tempered satin glass. Weight: 22 kg. Available in a standard version a...
Other
$2,721 / item
Dove Grey Chubby Coffee Table by Marcel Wanders
Located in Geneve, CH
Dove Grey Chubby Coffee Table by Marcel Wanders Dimensions: Ø 100 x H 35 cm. Materials: Polyethylene and tempered satin glass. Weight: 22 kg. Available in a standard version and la...
Other
Chocolate Brown Chubby Coffee Table by Marcel Wanders
Located in Geneve, CH
Chocolate Brown Chubby Coffee Table by Marcel Wanders Dimensions: Ø 100 x H 35 cm. Materials: Polyethylene and tempered satin glass. Weight: 22 kg. Available in a standard version ...
Other
$2,721 / item
Jet Black Chubby Coffee Table by Marcel Wanders
Located in Geneve, CH
Jet Black Chubby Coffee Table by Marcel Wanders Dimensions: Ø 100 x H 35 cm. Materials: Polyethylene and tempered satin glass. Weight: 22 kg. Available in a standard version and la...
Other
$2,721 / item
Flame Red Chubby Coffee Table by Marcel Wanders
Located in Geneve, CH
Flame Red Chubby Coffee Table by Marcel Wanders Dimensions: Ø 100 x H 35 cm. Materials: Polyethylene and tempered satin glass. Weight: 22 kg. Available in a standard version and la...
Other
$2,721 / item
Malva Green Chubby Coffee Table by Marcel Wanders
Located in Geneve, CH
Malva Green Chubby Coffee Table by Marcel Wanders Dimensions: Ø 100 x H 35 cm. Materials: Polyethylene and tempered satin glass. Weight: 22 kg. Available in a standard version and ...
Other
$2,721 / item
Pumpkin Orange Chubby Coffee Table by Marcel Wanders
Located in Geneve, CH
Pumpkin Orange Chubby Coffee Table by Marcel Wanders Dimensions: Ø 100 x H 35 cm. Materials: Polyethylene and tempered satin glass. Weight: 22 kg. Available in a standard version a...
Other
$2,721 / item
Argil Grey Chubby Coffee Table by Marcel Wanders
Located in Geneve, CH
Argil Grey Chubby Coffee Table by Marcel Wanders Dimensions: Ø 100 x H 35 cm. Materials: Polyethylene and tempered satin glass. Weight: 22 kg. Available in a standard version and l...
Other
$2,721 / item
Milky White Chubby Coffee Table by Marcel Wanders
Located in Geneve, CH
Milky White Chubby Coffee Table by Marcel Wanders Dimensions: Ø 100 x H 35 cm. Materials: Polyethylene and tempered satin glass. Weight: 22 kg. Available in a standard version and ...
Other
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.