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
2010s Italian Post-Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Glass, Mirror
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
“Paracarro” Coffee Table by Giovanni Offredi for Saporiti, Italy
By Giovanni Offredi
Located in New York, NY
Modern “Paracarro” coffee table designed by Giovanni Offredi for Saporiti in the 1970s. The table
Cast Stone, Metal
$1,199Sale Price|20% Off
H 14.18 in W 31.89 in D 31.89 in
MARCUSO model Modernist Design Coffee Table, Italy 1970's
By Zanotta, Marco Zanuso
Located in Oud-Turnhout, VAN
Vintage Modernist Italian Design "MARCUSO" model Coffee Table in the manner of Marco Zanuso for
Metal, Chrome
$2,320Sale Price|20% Off
H 16 in W 39.5 in D 39.5 in
Space Age Polished Chrome and Glass Tubo Coffee Table by Mascheroni for Vecta
By Vecta Group, John Mascheroni
Located in New York, NY
Iconic Post Modern, Space Age, Mid Century chrome and glass coffee table, designed by John
Chrome
Chi Wing Lo ‘Tiche’ Coffee Table for Giorgetti, Italy, 1990s
By Giorgetti S.p.A., Chi Wing Lo
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Elegant and sculptural “Tiche” coffee table designed by Chi Wing Lo for Giorgetti, Italy, circa
Glass, Stained Glass, Fruitwood
Pewter Coffee Table by Gentner Design
By Christopher Gentner
Located in Geneve, CH
Pewter coffee table by Gentner Design Dimensions: D 61 x W 91.5 x H 20.3 cm Materials: pewter on
Steel, Pewter
$2,158Sale Price|60% Off
H 21.26 in W 59.06 in D 31.5 in
Large Italian Coffee Table Style of Memphis Milano, 1990s
By Memphis Milano
Located in Paris, IDF
artsy. This unique coffee table is found in very good vintage condition.
Metal
Postmodern Floating Foax Goatskin & Glass Cocktail Table
By Milo Baughman, J. Wade Beam, Karl Springer
Located in Bensalem, PA
Very unique, floating top coffee table with faux goat skin lacquered finish & 3/4” glass top please
Glass, Fiberglass, Lacquer
$1,600Sale Price|46% Off
H 18 in W 74.5 in D 31.5 in
Elliot Littmann Betsy Cafe Coffee Table for Driade, 1992
By Driade
Located in Miami, FL
Glass top coffee table with 1/2" tempered crystal glass on silver gray painted steel rod designed
Steel
Chouchou Round Rose Coffee Table by Pulpo
Located in Geneve, CH
Chouchou round rose coffee table by Pulpo Dimensions: D 55 x H 45 cm Materials: Ceramic Also
Ceramic
Dischi Coffee Table by Gentner Design
By Christopher Gentner
Located in Geneve, CH
Dischi coffee table by Gentner Design Dimensions: D 90 x W 45.7 x H 35.5 cm Materials: brass
Brass, Stainless Steel
Set of 2 Dryade Coffee Tables by Emilie Lemardeley
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 2 Dryade Coffee Tables by Emilie Lemardeley Dimensions: Table I: Ø 58 x H 42 cm. Table II
Blown Glass
Round Chrome and Glass Coffee Cocktail Table c 1960/70s possibly Paul Tuttle
By Paul Tuttle, Strässle International
Located in New York, NY
Exceptional post modern, space age period coffee table, attributed to Paul Tuttle for Strasse
Chrome
$1,695
H 18.75 in W 29.5 in D 21.5 in
End Table / Coffee Table in Brass w/ Glass Top After Maison Bagues, c. 1970's
By Maison Baguès
Located in Deland, FL
This sophisticated Mid-Century Modern Hollywood Regency end table or coffee table, inspired by the
Brass
Radice Goatskin Coffee Table by Palena Furniture
Located in Geneve, CH
Radice Goatskin Coffee Table by Palena Furniture Dimensions: W 119.38 x D 101.6 x H 36.83 cm
Bronze, Other
Chouchou Round White Coffee Table by Pulpo
Located in Geneve, CH
Chouchou round white coffee table by Pulpo Dimensions: D 55 x H 45 cm Materials: ceramic Also
Ceramic
Chouchou Round Green Coffee Table by Pulpo
Located in Geneve, CH
Chouchou round green coffee table by Pulpo Dimensions: D55 x H45 cm Materials: Ceramic. Also
Ceramic
Chouchou Round Sand Coffee Table by Pulpo
Located in Geneve, CH
Chouchou round sand coffee table by Pulpo Dimensions: D55 x H45 cm Materials: Ceramic Also
Ceramic
Chouchou Round Green Coffee Table by Pulpo
Located in Geneve, CH
Chouchou round green coffee table by Pulpo Dimensions: D55 x H45 cm Materials: ceramic Also
Ceramic
Chouchou Round Green Coffee Table by Pulpo
Located in Geneve, CH
Chouchou round green coffee table by Pulpo Dimensions: D55 x H45 cm Materials: ceramic Also
Ceramic
Chouchou Round Green Coffee Table by Pulpo
Located in Geneve, CH
Chouchou round green coffee table by Pulpo Dimensions: D55 x H45 cm Materials: ceramic Also
Ceramic
Paolo Piva “Alanda” Coffee Table for B&B Italia, Italy 1980s
By B&B Italia, Paolo Piva
Located in SOTTEVILLE-LÈS-ROUEN, FR
An exceptional “Alanda” coffee table by renowned Italian designer Paolo Piva, created for B&B
Steel
Elephant Grey Amore Coffee Table by Giò Colonna Romano
Located in Geneve, CH
Elephant Grey Amore Coffee Table by Giò Colonna Romano Dimensions: D 70 x W 160 x H 46 cm
Other
Argil Grey Amore Coffee Table by Giò Colonna Romano
Located in Geneve, CH
Argil Grey Amore Coffee Table by Giò Colonna Romano Dimensions: D 70 x W 160 x H 46 cm. Materials
Other
Pumpkin Orange Amore Coffee Table by Giò Colonna Romano
Located in Geneve, CH
Pumpkin Orange Amore Coffee Table by Giò Colonna Romano Dimensions: D 70 x W 160 x H 46 cm
Other
Milky White Amore Coffee Table by Giò Colonna Romano
Located in Geneve, CH
Milky White Amore Coffee Table by Giò Colonna Romano Dimensions: D 70 x W 160 x H 46 cm. Materials
Other
Flame Red Amore Coffee Table by Giò Colonna Romano
Located in Geneve, CH
Flame Red Amore Coffee Table by Giò Colonna Romano Dimensions: D 70 x W 160 x H 46 cm. Materials
Other
Dove Grey Amore Coffee Table by Giò Colonna Romano
Located in Geneve, CH
Dove Grey Amore Coffee Table by Giò Colonna Romano Dimensions: D 70 x W 160 x H 46 cm. Materials
Other
Sweet Fuchsia Amore Coffee Table by Giò Colonna Romano
Located in Geneve, CH
Sweet Fuchsia Amore Coffee Table by Giò Colonna Romano Dimensions: D 70 x W 160 x H 46 cm
Other
Chocolate Brown Amore Coffee Table by Giò Colonna Romano
Located in Geneve, CH
Chocolate Brown Amore Coffee Table by Giò Colonna Romano Dimensions: D 70 x W 160 x H 46 cm
Other
Lime Green Amore Coffee Table by Giò Colonna Romano
Located in Geneve, CH
Lime Green Amore Coffee Table by Giò Colonna Romano Dimensions: D 70 x W 160 x H 46 cm. Materials
Other
Powder Blue Amore Coffee Table by Giò Colonna Romano
Located in Geneve, CH
Powder Blue Amore Coffee Table by Giò Colonna Romano Dimensions: D 70 x W 160 x H 46 cm. Materials
Other
Malva Green Amore Coffee Table by Giò Colonna Romano
Located in Geneve, CH
Malva Green Amore Coffee Table by Giò Colonna Romano Dimensions: D 70 x W 160 x H 46 cm. Materials
Other
Jet Black Amore Coffee Table by Giò Colonna Romano
Located in Geneve, CH
Jet Black Amore Coffee Table by Giò Colonna Romano Dimensions: D 70 x W 160 x H 46 cm. Materials
Other
Saffron Yellow Amore Coffee Table by Giò Colonna Romano
Located in Geneve, CH
Saffron Yellow Amore Coffee Table by Giò Colonna Romano Dimensions: D 70 x W 160 x H 46 cm
Other
Collected Memory Coffee Table 3 by Claste
Located in Geneve, CH
Collected Memory Coffee Table 2 by Claste Dimensions: D 43.2 x W 45.7 x H 30.5 cm. Material
Marble
Lean on Me Coffee Table by Claste
Located in Geneve, CH
Two sides of solitude coffee table by Claste Dimensions: D 99 x W 99 x H 30.5 cm Material: Marble
Marble
Collected Memory Coffee Table 2 by Claste
Located in Geneve, CH
Collected memory coffee table 2 by Claste Dimensions: D 50.8 x W 96.5 x H 30.5 cm. Material
Marble
Collected Memory Coffee Table 1 by Claste
Located in Geneve, CH
Collected memory coffee table 1 by Claste Dimensions: D 68.5 x W 111.8 x H 30.5 cm. Material
Marble
It's All a Load of Waffle Aluminium Coffee Table by Mingardo
Located in Geneve, CH
It's All a Load of Waffle Aluminium Coffee Table by Mingardo Dimensions: D 90,5 x H 27 cm
Aluminum
Surprised by Joy Coffee Table by Claste
Located in Geneve, CH
Surpriced by Joy coffee table by Claste Dimensions: D 137.2 x W 91.5 x H 38 cm Material: Marble
Marble
Uma Round 90 Coffee Table by Purho
Located in Geneve, CH
Uma round 90 coffee table by Purho Dimensions: D90 x H30 cm Materials: Resin, fabric upholstered
Fabric, Resin
Uma Round 70 Coffee Table by Purho
Located in Geneve, CH
Uma round 70 coffee table by Purho Dimensions: D 70 x H 35 cm Materials: Resin, fabric
Fabric, Resin
Uma Round 50 Coffee Table by Purho
Located in Geneve, CH
Uma round 50 coffee table by Purho. Dimensions: D50 x H45 cm. Materials: Resin, fabric
Fabric, Resin
$1,480
H 17 in W 36 in D 30 in
Postmodern Maitland Smith Style Tessellated Mactan Stone Coffee Table. C 1980s
By Maitland Smith
Located in Miami, FL
Postmodern Maitland Smith Style Tessellated Mactan Stone Coffee Table. Circa 1980s Features four
Stone
$4,640 / item
H 19.01 in W 26.01 in D 52.01 in
Mule Deer Log Timberline Coffee Table by The Peak Antler
Located in Geneve, CH
Mule Deer Log Timberline Coffee Table by The Peak Antler Dimensions: W 66.04 x D 132.08 x H 48.26
Glass, Reclaimed Wood
Gold Plated G-Shaped Coffee Table by Belgochrom, 1970s
By belgochrom
Located in Antwerpen, VAN
This piece is called the “G-table”, a quintessential piece of 1970s BelgoChrom. The table features
Brass
Keir Small Oval Coffee Table by Kreoo
Located in Geneve, CH
Keir Small Oval Coffee Table by Kreoo Designed by Enzo Berti Dimensions: D 32,5 x W 60 x H 30 cm
Marble
Keir Big Oval Coffee Table by Kreoo
Located in Geneve, CH
Keir Big Oval Coffee Table by Kreoo Designed by Enzo Berti Dimensions: D 50 x W 80 x H 40 cm
Marble
Keir Small Oval Coffee Table by Kreoo
Located in Geneve, CH
Keir Small Oval Coffee Table by Kreoo Designed by Enzo Berti Dimensions: D 32,5 x W 60 x H 30 cm
Marble
Monolog XL Low Table by Glass Variations
Located in Geneve, CH
Monolog XL Low Table by Glass Variations Dimensions: Ø 130 x H 35 cm. Materials: Tempered glass
Glass
Sweet Fuchsia Low Lita Coffee Table by Paola Navone
Located in Geneve, CH
Sweet Fuchsia Low Lita Coffee Table by Paola Navone Dimensions: D 74 x W 90 x H 35 cm. Materials
Other
Chocolate Brown Low Lita Coffee Table by Paola Navone
Located in Geneve, CH
Chocolate Brown Low Lita Coffee Table by Paola Navone Dimensions: D 74 x W 90 x H 35 cm. Materials
Other
Powder Blue Low Lita Coffee Table by Paola Navone
Located in Geneve, CH
Powder Blue Low Lita Coffee Table by Paola Navone Dimensions: D 74 x W 90 x H 35 cm. Materials
Other
Pumpkin Orange Low Lita Coffee Table by Paola Navone
Located in Geneve, CH
Pumpkin Orange Low Lita Coffee Table by Paola Navone Dimensions: D 74 x W 90 x H 35 cm. Materials
Other
Argil Grey Low Lita Coffee Table by Paola Navone
Located in Geneve, CH
Argil Grey Low Lita Coffee Table by Paola Navone Dimensions: D 74 x W 90 x H 35 cm. Materials
Other
Elephant Grey Low Lita Coffee Table by Paola Navone
Located in Geneve, CH
Elephant Grey Low Lita Coffee Table by Paola Navone Dimensions: D 74 x W 90 x H 35 cm. Materials
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.