$1,779Sale Price|20% Off
H 15.75 in W 41.34 in D 41.34 in
Fleur de Fer coffee table by Maurice Barilone, 1980s
By Maurice Barilone, Roche Bobois
Located in Leuven, Vlaams Gewest
Sculptural bent steel 'Fleur De Fer' Coffee table by Maurice Barilone and produced and sold by
Steel
Square Fornasetti Coffee Table with Sun Motif, 20th Century
By Fornasetti
Located in New York, NY
Large square coffee table by Fornasetti featuring the iconic sun motif and a subtly wavy perspex
Iron
Sculptural Coffee Table by Maker Magnussen, Mactan Stone Base, 1980s
By Maitland Smith, Magnussen Furniture
Located in Chattanooga, TN
, the table remains just as elegant as it did in the prime of the Nineteen-Laties. Glass coffee tables
Stone
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
Glass
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
Glass
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
Glass
Mid-Century Modern Round Rattan Coffee Table with Walnut Top, 1960s
By Vivai del Sud, Bielecky Brothers, Heywood-Wakefield Co., Ficks Reed, Paul Frankl
Located in Round Top, TX
A stylish and sculptural round pole rattan coffee table with a beautifully clean walnut veneer
Rattan, Walnut
$650
H 14 in W 35.25 in D 35.25 in
Modernist Glass Coffee Table with White Basket and Black frame by Gebr. Jonkers
By Dirk Van Sliedregt
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Dutch Mid-Century, Modernist coffee table with handsome, black enameled metal frame, hand-woven
Metal
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
Other
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
Other
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
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
Other
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
Other
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
Other
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
Other
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
Other
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
Other
Powder Blue Chubby Coffee Table by Marcel Wanders
Located in Geneve, CH
Powder Blue Chubby Coffee Table by Marcel Wanders Dimensions: Ø 100 x H 35 cm. Materials
Other
Lime Green Chubby Coffee Table by Marcel Wanders
Located in Geneve, CH
Lime Green Chubby Coffee Table by Marcel Wanders Dimensions: Ø 100 x H 35 cm. Materials
Other
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
Other
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
Fabric, Resin
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
Fabric, Resin
Vesuvius Big Coffee Table by Atlas Project
Located in Geneve, CH
Vesuvius Big Coffee Table by Atlas Project Dimensions: Ø 85 x H 38 cm. Materials: Black powder
Stone, Copper, Stainless Steel, Iron
Vesuvius Small Coffee Table by Atlas Project
Located in Geneve, CH
Vesuvius Small Coffee Table by Atlas Project Dimensions: Ø 65 x H 38 cm. Materials: Black powder
Stone, Copper, Iron, Stainless Steel
Tao Flame Red Coffee Table by Guglielmo Berchicci
Located in Geneve, CH
Tao Flame Red Coffee Table by Guglielmo Berchicci Dimensions: Ø 80 x H 34 cm. Materials
Other
Tao Milky White Coffee Table by Guglielmo Berchicci
Located in Geneve, CH
Tao Milky White Coffee Table by Guglielmo Berchicci Dimensions: Ø 80 x H 34 cm. Materials
Other
1980's Monumental Sized Karl Springer 'Sculpture' Coffee Table
By Karl Springer
Located in Miami, FL
A monumental coffee table from the “Sculpture” series by Karl Springer. The table features a
Brass, Stainless Steel
Vintage Karl Springer-style postmodern lacquered coffee table
Located in Hastings, GB
A large, striking postmodern coffee table, in the style of Karl Springer. In cream marbled lacquer
Metal
Steel Prisma Tall 45 Coffee Table by Sebastian Scherer
By Sebastian Scherer
Located in Geneve, CH
Steel Prisma tall 45 coffee table by Sebastian Scherer Dimensions: D45x H45 cm Materials: Steel
Glass
Steel Prisma Circle 70 Coffee Table by Sebastian Scherer
By Sebastian Scherer
Located in Geneve, CH
Steel prisma circle 70 coffee table by Sebastian Scherer. Dimensions: D70x H35 cm. Materials: Steel
Glass
Danse 68 Sandblasted Green Coffee Table by VUUN ITALIA
Located in Geneve, CH
Danse 68 Sandblasted Green Coffee Table by VUUN ITALIA Dimensions: Ø 68 x H 48 cm. Materials
Glass
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
Glass
$7,914 / item
H 16.54 in W 17.72 in D 17.72 in
Coffee Table from the Venice Collection by Alexey Drozhdin
Located in Geneve, CH
Coffee table from the Venice Collection by Alexey Drozhdin Dimensions: D 45 x W 45 x H 42 cm
Glass, Oak
Candy Squared Coffee Table by Luis Gimeno
Located in Geneve, CH
Candy Squared Coffee Table by Luis Gimeno Dimensions: W 60 x D 60 x H 35 cm Materials: Resine
Resin
Candy Round Coffee Table by Luis Gimeno
Located in Geneve, CH
Candy Round Coffee Table by Luis Gimeno Dimensions: W 60 x D 60 x H 35 cm Materials: Resine. The
Resin
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
Glass
Peak 50 Lighted Coffee Table by Aksu, Suardi
Located in Geneve, CH
Peak 50 Lighted Coffee Table by Aksu, Suardi Dimensions: Ø 70 x H 50 cm. Materials: Polyethylene
Other
Round Luxury Coffee Table by Dainte
Located in Geneve, CH
Round Luxury Coffee Table by Dainte Dimensions: Ø 110 x H 30.5 cm. Materials: Crystal. This
Crystal
Paola Piva style Coffee Table Italy 1980s
By Paolo Piva
Located in Den Haag, NL
Very nice Paolo Piva style coffee table . Thick Glass top . Black Steel Wire frame . adjustable
Steel
Low Na Pali Walnut Coffee Table by InsidherLand
Located in Geneve, CH
Low Na Pali Walnut Coffee Table by InsidherLand Dimensions: D 90 x W 90 x H 40 cm. Materials: wood
Brass
$2,620
H 14.97 in W 35.44 in D 35.44 in
Philippe Starck "Pepper Young" Coffee Table for Disform, 1983, Spain
By Disform, Philippe Starck
Located in Leuven, Vlaams Gewest
Rare coffee table model 'Pepper Young' designed by Philippe Starck and produced by Disform. The
Metal
Giovanni Offredi for Saporiti Concrete Cantilever Coffee Table
By Giovanni Offredi, Saporiti
Located in Jensen Beach, FL
Rare coffee table designed in the late 1970s by Giovanni Offredi for Saporiti Italia.
Concrete, Metal
Low Lita Anniversary Coffee Table by Paola Navone
Located in Geneve, CH
Low Lita Anniversary Coffee Table by Paola Navone Unique Piece. Dimensions: D 74 x W 90 x H 35 cm
Other
$761 / item
H 16.93 in W 21.66 in D 20.48 in
2x USM Haller Couchtisch Fritz Haller coffee table Beistelltisch
By Fritz Haller, Usm Haller
Located in Berlin, DE
Wir bieten einen von insgesamt zwei wunderschönen Couch-/ Beistelltischen vom Schweizer Traditionshersteller USM Haller zum Verkauf an. Die Tische verfügen über eine untere Ablageflä...
Steel, Chrome
$14,929 / item
H 14.02 in W 42.01 in D 42.01 in
Belvedere Black Beside Myself Square Coffee Table by Claste
Located in Geneve, CH
Belvedere Black Beside Myself Square Coffee Table by Claste Dimensions: D 106.7 x W 106.7 x H 35.6
Marble
Vintage Bamboo Rattan Coffee Table
Located in Lake Worth, FL
Estate Fine Furniture Acquisitions Of A Vintage 1980s Bamboo Rattan Coffee Table Approximate
Leather, Bamboo, Glass
Rec Goatskin Coffee Table by Palena Furniture
Located in Geneve, CH
Rec Goatskin Coffee Table by Palena Furniture Dimensions: W 129.54 x D 99.06 x H 36.83 cm Materials
Bronze, Other
$2,396Sale Price|20% Off
H 17 in W 50 in D 50 in
MCM Lucite Cocktail Table, Glass Top, Mid-Century Modern, 1970s, USA
Located in Lake Worth, FL
Our Recent Palm Beach Estate Fine Furniture Acquisitions Of A MCM Lucite Cocktail Coffee Table 1970s
Glass, Lucite
Alwa One Big Green Black Coffee Table by Pulpo
Located in Geneve, CH
Alwa One Big Green Black Coffee Table by Pulpo Dimensions: D56 x H35 cm. Materials: casted glass
Steel
Alwa One Big Amber Black Coffee Table by Pulpo
Located in Geneve, CH
Alwa one big amber black coffee table by Pulpo Dimensions: D56 x H35 cm Materials: casted glass
Steel
Alwa One Big White Black Coffee Table by Pulpo
Located in Geneve, CH
Alwa One Big White Black Coffee Table by Pulpo Dimensions: D 56 x H 35 cm Materials: casted glass
Steel
$3,095 / set
H 16.5 in W 51.25 in D 37.5 in
Tommaso Barbi Postmodern Italian Brass Faux Tusk Coffee Table
By Tommaso Barbi
Located in Franklin Park, IL
Tommaso Barbi Postmodern Italian Brass Faux Tusk Coffee Table This coffee table measures: 51.25
Brass
Alwa One Big Green Black Coffee Table by Pulpo
Located in Geneve, CH
Alwa one big green black coffee table by Pulpo. Dimensions: D56 x H35 cm. Materials: casted glass
Steel
Alwa One Big Amber Black Coffee Table by Pulpo
Located in Geneve, CH
Alwa one big amber black coffee table by Pulpo Dimensions: D56 x H35 cm Materials: casted glass
Steel
Alwa One Big Amber Black Coffee Table by Pulpo
Located in Geneve, CH
Alwa one big amber black coffee table by Pulpo Dimensions: D56 x H35 cm Materials: casted glass
Steel
Alwa One Big Green Black Coffee Table by Pulpo
Located in Geneve, CH
Alwa one big green black coffee table by Pulpo. Dimensions: D56 x H35 cm. Materials: casted glass
Steel
Otto Gold Mirror 90 Coffee Table by VUUN ITALIA
Located in Geneve, CH
Otto Gold Mirror 90 Coffee Table by VUUN ITALIA Dimensions: D 95 x W 100 x H 28 cm. Materials
Glass, Mirror
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.