$2,882 / item
The Knot Coffee Table by Luis Gimeno
Located in Geneve, CH
The Knot Coffee Table by Luis Gimeno Dimensions: W 85 x D 68,5 x H 36 cm Materials: Solid Ash Wood Finishes: "Natural Ash Matte Varnish" and "Dark Tinted Ash Matte Varnish" A handcr...
Ash, Walnut
$5,963 / 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
Coffee table 'Jarpen' by Niels Gammelgaard for Ikea 1983
By IKEA, Niels Gammelgaard
Located in Herentals, BE
Post Modern white lacquered metal coffee table or side table ' Jarpen' with original transparent glass top.
Metal
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
$2,532 / 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
$2,765 / 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
$3,069 / 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
Mid-Century Modern Round Rattan Coffee Table with Walnut Top, 1960s
By Paul Frankl, Heywood-Wakefield Co., Ficks Reed, Bielecky Brothers, Vivai del Sud
Located in Round Top, TX
A stylish and sculptural round pole rattan coffee table with a beautifully clean walnut veneer surface that adds warmth and sophistication. The table’s cylindrical base is composed o...
Rattan, Walnut
$2,777 / 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
$2,777 / 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
$2,777 / 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
$2,777 / 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
$2,777 / 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
$2,777 / 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
$2,777 / 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
$2,777 / 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
$2,777 / item
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: Polyethylene and tempered satin glass. Weight: 22 kg. Available in a standard version and ...
Other
$2,777 / 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
$2,777 / item
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: Polyethylene and tempered satin glass. Weight: 22 kg. Available in a standard version and l...
Other
$6,208 / 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
$5,496 / 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
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 white rattan basket and a glass top. Design is attributed to prolific post-war designe...
Metal
Blue Patinated Resin Coffee Table Inspired by Jean Pierre Picheny
Located in Brussel, BE
An astonishing coffee table in blue patinated resin sculpting lying down woman in full denim, supporting a large glass top.
Glass, Resin
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 tabletop set on an iron base. The tabletop bears a facsimile signature.
Iron
$1,867 / item
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: Polyethylene and tempered/satin glass. Weight: 12 kg. Available in different color options. ...
Other
$1,867 / item
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: Polyethylene and tempered/satin glass. Weight: 12 kg. Available in different color options...
Other
$2,637 / item
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 painted iron, stainless steel mirror, lava stone, glass fusion handpainted, and copper...
Stone, Copper, Stainless Steel, Iron
$1,867 / item
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 painted iron, stainless steel mirror, lava stone, glass fusion handpainted, and copp...
Stone, Copper, Iron, Stainless Steel
Sculptural Coffee Table by Maker Magnussen, Mactan Stone Base, 1980s
By Maitland Smith, Magnussen Furniture
Located in Chattanooga, TN
Mora Viñal Sep 4, 2025, 2:25 PM (12 days ago) to me A stunning interplay of organic form and architectural drama, this vintage 1980s coffee table features a gracefully arched ba...
Stone
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. Weight: 13 kg. Also Available: Steel (matt): snow white / light sand / sun yellow...
Glass
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. Weight: 8 kg. Also Available: Steel (matt): snow white / light sand / sun yellow ...
Glass
$4,201 / 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 handblown glass. Also available in different colors. Normally, glass is regarded a...
Glass
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. Materials: glass, oak shape. A young designer and artist Alexey Drozhdin creates e...
Glass, Oak
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: Sandblasted green glass. Available in different finishes and sizes. Please contact us....
Glass
$4,201 / 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 handblown glass. Also available in different colours. Normally, glass is reg...
Glass
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 sculptural base composed of brass and patinated gunmetal brass supporting a large glass ...
Brass, Stainless Steel
$24,262 / item
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 “Candy” project seeks to create sculptural coffee tables with bold, organic forms t...
Resin
$25,161 / item
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. The “Candy” project seeks to create sculptural coffee tables with bold, organic forms...
Resin
Marcuso Coffee Table by Marco Zanuso for Zanotta, Italy 1969
By Zanotta, Marco Zanuso
Located in Beograd, RS
Designed by Marco Zanuso for Zanotta, the Marcuso coffee table is one of the most recognizable icons of Italian post-war design. Originally introduced in the late 1960s, the model is...
Steel, Chrome
$2,159 / item
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 and tempered clear glass. Weight: 10 kg. Table available in different sizes and with...
Other
$5,006 / item
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 magnificent round coffee table is both functional and elegantly designed. It is a wonder...
Crystal
Lingotto Coffee Table in Powder-Coated Aluminum by altreforme
Located in Geneve, CH
Lingotto Coffee Table in Powder-Coated Aluminum by altreforme Dimensions: D 50 x W 85 x H 40 cm. Materials: Powder-coated aluminum. Representation of one of the most precious mater...
Aluminum
$10,620 / item
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 structure finished in walnut veneer in half gloss varnish, oxidized brushed brass, ...
Brass
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
$3,150 / item
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. Materials: Polyethylene and tempered satinated glass. Weight: 10 kg. This product ...
Other
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 cm Material: Marble, glass Weight: 145 kg Since 2017 Quinlan Osborne has cultivate...
Marble
Philippe Starck "Pepper Young" Coffee Table for Disform, 1983, Spain
By Philippe Starck, Disform
Located in Leuven, Vlaams Gewest
Rare coffee table model 'Pepper Young' designed by Philippe Starck and produced by Disform. The feet are metal with a black paint and large rubber sphere-shaped mounts on which the ...
Metal
$2,396Sale Price|20% Off
MCM Lucite Cocktail Table, Glass Top, Mid-Century Modern, 1970s, USA
Located in Lake Worth, FL
For FULL item description click on CONTINUE READING at the bottom of this page. Offering One Of Our Recent Palm Beach Estate Fine Furniture Acquisitions Of A MCM Lucite Cocktail Cof...
Glass, Lucite
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
$3,699 / item
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; powder coated steel Also available in different finishes. Normally, glass is rega...
Steel
$3,687 / item
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; powder coated steel Also available in different finishes. Normally, glass is...
Steel
$3,687 / item
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; powder coated steel Also available in different finishes. Normally, glass is re...
Steel
$1,995 / item
Spiral Coffee Table by Six Dots Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Spiral Coffee Table by Six Dots Design Unique Piece. Dimensions: D 55 x W 90 x H 45 cm Materials: Sanded and oiled aluminum. The Dream/Reality Spiral Coffee Table is a free form des...
Aluminum
$3,687 / item
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; powder coated steel Also available in different finishes. Normally, glass i...
Steel
$3,687 / item
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; powder coated steel Also available in different finishes. Normally, glass ...
Steel
$3,687 / item
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; powder coated steel Also available in different finishes. Normally, glass is...
Steel
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.