Malva Green Low Lita Coffee Table by Paola Navone
Located in Geneve, CH
Malva Green Low Lita Coffee Table by Paola Navone Dimensions: D 74 x W 90 x H 35 cm. Materials
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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
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2010s Italian Post-Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
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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
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2010s Italian Post-Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
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Other
Saffron Yellow Low Lita Coffee Table by Paola Navone
Located in Geneve, CH
Saffron Yellow Low Lita Coffee Table by Paola Navone Dimensions: D 74 x W 90 x H 35 cm. Materials
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2010s Italian Post-Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
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Other
Jet Black Low Lita Coffee Table by Paola Navone
Located in Geneve, CH
Jet Black Low Lita Coffee Table by Paola Navone Dimensions: D 74 x W 90 x H 35 cm. Materials
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2010s Italian Post-Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
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Other
Milky White Low Lita Coffee Table by Paola Navone
Located in Geneve, CH
Milky White Low Lita Coffee Table by Paola Navone Dimensions: D 74 x W 90 x H 35 cm. Materials
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2010s Italian Post-Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
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Other
Flame Red Low Lita Coffee Table by Paola Navone
Located in Geneve, CH
Flame Red Low Lita Coffee Table by Paola Navone Dimensions: D 74 x W 90 x H 35 cm. Materials
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2010s Italian Post-Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
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Other
Pumpkin Orange Kami Ni Coffee Table by Marc Sadler
Located in Geneve, CH
Pumpkin Orange Kami Ni Coffee Table by Marc Sadler Dimensions: D 73 x W 73 x H 35 cm. Materials
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2010s Italian Post-Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
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Other
Jet Black Kami Ni Coffee Table by Marc Sadler
Located in Geneve, CH
Jet Black Kami Ni Coffee Table by Marc Sadler Dimensions: D 73 x W 73 x H 35 cm. Materials
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2010s Italian Post-Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
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Other
Saffron Yellow Kami Ni Coffee Table by Marc Sadler
Located in Geneve, CH
Saffron Yellow Kami Ni Coffee Table by Marc Sadler Dimensions: D 73 x W 73 x H 35 cm. Materials
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2010s Italian Post-Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
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Other
Malva Green Kami Ni Coffee Table by Marc Sadler
Located in Geneve, CH
Malva Green Kami Ni Coffee Table by Marc Sadler Dimensions: D 73 x W 73 x H 35 cm. Materials
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2010s Italian Post-Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
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Flame Red Kami Ni Coffee Table by Marc Sadler
Located in Geneve, CH
Flame Red Kami Ni Coffee Table by Marc Sadler Dimensions: D 73 x W 73 x H 35 cm. Materials
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2010s Italian Post-Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
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Metafora Style Marble Occasional Coffee Table Attributed to Massimo Vignelli
$3,530Sale Price|30% Off
H 12.21 in W 23.63 in D 39.38 in
Metafora Style Marble Occasional Coffee Table Attributed to Massimo Vignelli
By Massimo and Lella Vignelli
Located in London, GB
Statement coffee table comprising 3 white marble pieces and a contrasting black glass top. The trio
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Vintage 1970s Italian Post-Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
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Marble
Artedi Onyx Coffee Table Italian 1970s
By Artedi
Located in Lake Worth, FL
Estate Fine Furniture Acquisitions Of A 1970s Artedi Onyx Coffee Table Italian Approximate Measurements
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Vintage 1970s Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
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Onyx, Metal
Alwa One Big Smoky Grey Black Coffee Table by Pulpo
Located in Geneve, CH
Alwa One Big Smoky Grey Black Coffee Table by Pulpo Dimensions: D56 x H35 cm. Materials: Casted
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2010s German Post-Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
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Steel
Elements III Coffee Table by Grzegorz Majka
By Grzegorz Majka
Located in Geneve, CH
The elements III coffee table by Grzegorz Majka Edition 1 of 1 Dimensions: D 121 x W 150 x H 33 cm
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2010s Polish Post-Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
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Quartz, Aluminum, Nickel
Alwa One Big Smoky Grey Black Coffee Table by Pulpo
Located in Geneve, CH
Alwa one big smoky grey black coffee table by Pulpo. Dimensions: D56 x H35 cm. Materials: Casted
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2010s German Post-Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
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Steel
Set of 2 Remember Me Round Coffee Table by Claste
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 2 Remember Me Round Coffee Table by Claste Dimensions: D 76.2 x W 137.2 x H 35.5 cm Material
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2010s Canadian Post-Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
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Marble
Roberto Fallani "Planetario" coffee table for Formitalia, Italy, 1998
By Roberto Fallani
Located in Padova, IT
One-off table, work of art, designed by Roberto Fallani in 1992. Roberto Fallani is an Italian
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1990s Italian Post-Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
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Iron
Mid 20th Century Vintage Postmodern Stacked Steps Coffee Table
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Make a bold statement with our Vintage Postmodern Stacked Coffee Table. This eye-catching piece
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Mid-20th Century American Post-Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
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Metal
Timberline Mule Deer Antler Coffee Table by The Peak Antler
$4,640 / item
H 19.01 in W 26.01 in D 52.01 in
Timberline Mule Deer Antler Coffee Table by The Peak Antler
Located in Geneve, CH
Timberline Mule Deer Antler Coffee Table by The Peak Antler Dimensions: W 66.04 x D 132.08 x H
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2010s American Post-Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
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Glass, Reclaimed Wood
Alanda Coffee Table by Paolo Piva for B&B Italia, c.1980
By Paolo Piva, B&B Italia
Located in Surbiton, GB
Alanda coffee table, a modern classic, designed by Paolo Piva and produced by B&B Italia, c.1980
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Vintage 1980s Italian Post-Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
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Steel
1940s Mid-Century Coffee Table Gio Ponti attributed in Walnut , Glass Top
$7,400
H 19.3 in W 27.56 in D 27.56 in
1940s Mid-Century Coffee Table Gio Ponti attributed in Walnut , Glass Top
By Gio Ponti, Figli di Amadeo Cassina
Located in Vigonza, Padua
Iconic elegant Mid-Century Modern coffee table attributed to Gio Ponti possibly made by Casa e
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Vintage 1940s Italian Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
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Crystal, Brass
Philippe Starck "Pepper Young" Coffee Table for Disform, 1983, Spain
$5,888
H 11.82 in W 29.53 in D 43.31 in
Philippe Starck "Pepper Young" Coffee Table for Disform, 1983, Spain
By Philippe Starck, Disform
Located in Hitchin, England
Rare and with a great look, "Pepper Young" coffee table by Philippe Starck. Manufactured in the
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Late 20th Century Spanish Post-Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
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Metal
Feline I Coffee Table by Grzegorz Majka
By Grzegorz Majka
Located in Geneve, CH
The Feline I coffee table by Grzegorz Majka. Limited edition of 8 pieces. Dimensions: D 102 x W
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2010s Polish Post-Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
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Marble, Steel
Beauty of Simplicity Coffee Table by Grzegorz Majka
By Grzegorz Majka
Located in Geneve, CH
The beauty of simplicity coffee table by Grzegorz Majka Dimensions: W 180 x D 80 x H 45 cm
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2010s Polish Post-Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
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Stone
Vintage 1980s small modular rattan coffee tables/side tables -a pair
$700Sale Price|24% Off
H 16 in W 21.5 in D 21.5 in
Vintage 1980s small 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. Made in America in the
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Vintage 1980s North American Post-Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
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Rattan
Mactan Stone Coffee Table by Magnussen Ponte, 1980s
Located in Puglia, Puglia
Beautiful coffee table or side table by Magnussen Ponte, 1980s. The beautiful base of the table is
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Vintage 1980s Italian Post-Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
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Stone
Joe Ship Coffee Table by Philippe Starck for Les 3 Suisses and XO
$1,400
H 13.875 in W 31.25 in D 21.25 in
Joe Ship Coffee Table by Philippe Starck for Les 3 Suisses and XO
By Philippe Starck
Located in Saint Paul, MN
Set of 4 legs from Phillipe Starck's Joe Ship collection, paired with a smoked glass table top
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Vintage 1980s Post-Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
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Metal
Iconic Coffee Table by Jay Spectre for Century Furniture c. 1980's
By Century Furniture, Jay Spectre
Located in New York, NY
. This piece displays quintessential late 20th century, Post Modern, Art Deco Revival style, it is
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Late 20th Century American Post-Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
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Chrome
Galaxy Coffee Table – Contemporary Sculptural Brass by Misaya
$6,595 / item
H 16.93 in W 17.72 in D 18.9 in
Galaxy Coffee Table – Contemporary Sculptural Brass by Misaya
By Masaya
Located in Geneve, CH
Galaxy Coffee Table – Contemporary Sculptural Brass by Misaya Dimensions: W48 x D45 x H43 cm
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2010s Thai Post-Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
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Brass
Giotto Stoppino & Lodovico Acerbis for Acerbis Nero Marquina Marble Coffee Table
$4,499 / item
H 19 in W 39 in D 39 in
Giotto Stoppino & Lodovico Acerbis for Acerbis Nero Marquina Marble Coffee Table
By Lodovico Acerbis, Giotto Stoppino, Acerbis
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Giotto Stoppino & Lodovico Acerbis for Acerbis, Glass & Nero Marquina Marble Coffee Table
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Late 20th Century Italian Post-Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
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Marble, Stainless Steel
Jean Claude Dresse Coffee Table with Geometric Sculptural Base in Brass
$69,500
H 12.6 in W 51.19 in D 51.19 in
Jean Claude Dresse Coffee Table with Geometric Sculptural Base in Brass
By Jean Claude Dresse
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Jean Claude Dresse, coffee table, brass, glass, Belgium, 1970s This captivating coffee table by
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Vintage 1970s Belgian Post-Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
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Brass
Set Of 2 Vesuvius Coffee Tables by Atlas Project
Located in Geneve, CH
Set Of 2 Vesuvius Coffee Tables by Atlas Project Dimensions: Big: Ø 85 x H 38 cm. Small:Ø 65 x H
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2010s Italian Post-Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Stone, Copper, Stainless Steel, Iron
Two Sides of Solitude Coffee Table by Claste
Located in Geneve, CH
Two sides of solitude coffee table by Claste Dimensions: D 106.7 x W 106.7 x H 35.5 cm Material
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2010s Canadian Post-Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
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Marble
Metallic Silver Glossy Lacquered Chubby Coffee Table by Marcel Wanders
$5,396 / item
H 13.78 in Dm 39.38 in
Metallic Silver Glossy Lacquered Chubby Coffee Table by Marcel Wanders
Located in Geneve, CH
Metallic Silver Glossy Lacquered Chubby Coffee Table by Marcel Wanders Dimensions: Ø 100 x H 35 cm
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2010s Italian Post-Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
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Other
Metallic Copper Glossy Lacquered Chubby Coffee Table by Marcel Wanders
$5,396 / item
H 13.78 in Dm 39.38 in
Metallic Copper Glossy Lacquered Chubby Coffee Table by Marcel Wanders
Located in Geneve, CH
Metallic Copper Glossy Lacquered Chubby Coffee Table by Marcel Wanders Dimensions: Ø 100 x H 35 cm
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2010s Italian Post-Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
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Other
Supreme Red Matt Lacquered Chubby Coffee Table by Marcel Wanders
Located in Geneve, CH
Supreme Red Matt Lacquered Chubby Coffee Table by Marcel Wanders Dimensions: Ø 100 x H 35 cm
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2010s Italian Post-Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
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Other
A Square RADICAL POSTMODERN COFFEE TABLE, by GIACOMO SINOPOLI, Italy 1970
$4,316
H 15.75 in W 35.83 in D 35.83 in
A Square RADICAL POSTMODERN COFFEE TABLE, by GIACOMO SINOPOLI, Italy 1970
By Giacomo Sinopoli
Located in PARIS, FR
A rigorous and powerful square coffee table, Post-Modernist, Kinetic, Constructivist, Shabby-Chic
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Vintage 1970s Italian Post-Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Brass, Metal
1980s Maitland Smith Tessellated Travertine Stone Figurative Iron Coffee Table
$2,895
H 16 in W 40 in D 24 in
1980s Maitland Smith Tessellated Travertine Stone Figurative Iron Coffee Table
By Maitland Smith
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
travertine and iron figural coffee table. The ultra rare table exudes an air of luxury and refinement
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Vintage 1980s Philippine Post-Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Stone, Travertine, Iron
Marble Modular Base Contemporary Art Low Coffee Table by Samuele Brianza
$10,552 / item
H 15.16 in Dm 39.38 in
Marble Modular Base Contemporary Art Low Coffee Table by Samuele Brianza
Located in Geneve, CH
Marble low coffee table by Samuele Brianza Dimensions: 100 x 100 x 38.5 cm Materials: Paonazzo
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2010s Italian Post-Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Marble
1970s Geometric Brass Tripodal Coffee Table
Located in Chicago, IL
Wonderfully designed patinated brass post modern coffee table with mitered legs and elongated
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Vintage 1970s American Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Brass
Sculptural Italian Postmodern Marble, Glass Cocktail Table
By Massimo Vignelli
Located in Miami, FL
Sculptural Italian Postmodern Marble, Glass Cocktail Table Offred for sale is an Italian
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Vintage 1980s Italian Post-Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Marble, Metal
'Vignelli' Metafora coffee table in white marble for Casigliani, Italy 1970s
$4,849
H 8.67 in W 35.44 in D 35.44 in
'Vignelli' Metafora coffee table in white marble for Casigliani, Italy 1970s
By Massimo and Lella Vignelli
Located in London, England
Massimo & Lella Vignelli, 'Metafora' coffee table, Casigliani, Italy, 1970s The four forms of the
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Vintage 1970s Italian Post-Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
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Marble
Phaux Brass Coffee Table, Signed by Stefan Leo
By Atelier Stefan Leo
Located in Geneve, CH
Phaux brass coffee table, Signed by Stefan Leo Brass, etched, patinated Measures: D 120 circular
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2010s German Post-Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
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Brass
Sandy Brass Coffee Table, Signed by Stefan Leo
By Atelier Stefan Leo
Located in Geneve, CH
Sandy brass coffee table, signed by Stefan Leo Brass patinated Measures: 170 x 55 cm, H 37-40cm
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2010s German Post-Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Brass
Lutatia Brass Coffee Table, Signed by Stefan Leo
By Atelier Stefan Leo
Located in Geneve, CH
Lutatia brass coffee table, signed by Stefan Leo Brass patinated Measures: 167 x 98cm, H 36 cm
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2010s German Post-Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
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Brass
Luca Coffee Table Large by Umberto Bellardi Ricci
Located in Geneve, CH
Luca coffee table large by Umberto Bellardi Ricci Dimensions: D 55” x W 34” x H 13.5 in Materials
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2010s American Post-Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Travertine, Bronze
Candy Square Translucent Resin Coffee Table by Luis Gimeno
$25,853 / item
H 13.78 in W 23.63 in D 23.63 in
Candy Square Translucent Resin Coffee Table by Luis Gimeno
Located in Geneve, CH
Candy Square Translucent Resin Coffee Table by Luis Gimeno Dimensions: D 60 x W 60 x H 35 cm
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2010s Spanish Post-Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Resin
Candy Round Translucent Resin Coffee Table by Luis Gimeno
$24,931 / item
H 13.78 in W 23.63 in D 23.63 in
Candy Round Translucent Resin Coffee Table by Luis Gimeno
Located in Geneve, CH
Candy Round Translucent Resin Coffee Table by Luis Gimeno Dimensions: D 60 x W 60 x H 35 cm
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2010s Spanish Post-Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Resin
Washington Corona Coffee Table by David Adjaye for Knoll, Signed
By Knoll
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The Washington Corona Coffee Table reflects Sir David Adjaye's architectural and sculptural vision
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2010s American Post-Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Aluminum
Postmodern Lacquered Geometric Lucite & Glass Cocktail Table
Located in Houston, TX
1980s postmodern cocktail table with a black lacquered wood base, lucite sphere and a new glass top.
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Late 20th Century Post-Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Glass, Lucite, Wood, Lacquer
Magnussen Ponte Mactan Stone or Fossil Stone Coffee Table, 1980s
$2,266
H 16.54 in W 45.28 in D 23.63 in
Magnussen Ponte Mactan Stone or Fossil Stone Coffee Table, 1980s
Located in Oud Beijerland, NL
Very nice coffee or side table by Magnussen Ponte, 1980's. The stunning table base is made of
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Vintage 1980s Unknown Post-Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
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Travertine
Magnussen Ponte Mactan Stone or Fossil Stone Coffee Table, 1980s
$2,386
H 16.15 in W 51.19 in D 27.56 in
Magnussen Ponte Mactan Stone or Fossil Stone Coffee Table, 1980s
Located in Oud Beijerland, NL
Very nice coffee or side table by Magnussen Ponte, 1980's. This stunning table is made of rough
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Vintage 1980s Unknown Post-Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Travertine
bespoke artist - ceramic sculpture Coffee Table, available in custom finishes
$6,858 / item
H 15 in W 31.5 in D 31.5 in
bespoke artist - ceramic sculpture Coffee Table, available in custom finishes
By Toad Gallery
Located in London, GB
thrown ceramic sculptures of grogged stoneware, shown here with circular low iron content glass top. This
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21st Century and Contemporary English Post-Modern Coffee and Cocktail Ta...
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Ceramic, Glass
Joe D'Urso Coffee / Side Table for Knoll
By Joseph D'Urso, Knoll
Located in Chicago, IL
Joe D'Urso Coffee / Side Table for Knoll A practical size that can be used as either a coffee
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Mid-20th Century American Post-Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Stainless Steel
Euclidean Coffee Table by Franco V, Handcrafted Steel & Brass, USA
$4,300 / item
H 14.5 in W 43 in D 26 in
Euclidean Coffee Table by Franco V, Handcrafted Steel & Brass, USA
By Franco V
Located in Brooklyn, NY
pillars that make up the piece. Topped with a 43"x 26" x 1/4" glass surface this coffee table is the
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2010s American Post-Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Brass, Steel
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Glass Coffee Table Post Modern For Sale on 1stDibs
With a vast inventory of beautiful furniture at 1stDibs, we’ve got just the glass coffee table post modern you’re looking for. A glass coffee table post modern — often made from glass, metal and wood — can elevate any home. There are 145 variations of the antique or vintage glass coffee table post modern you’re looking for, while we also have 11 modern editions of this piece to choose from as well. Whether you’re looking for an older or newer glass coffee table post modern, there are earlier versions available from the 20th Century and newer variations made as recently as the 21st Century. A glass coffee table post modern is a generally popular piece of furniture, but those created in Mid-Century Modern and Modern styles are sought with frequency. A well-made glass coffee table post modern has long been a part of the offerings for many furniture designers and manufacturers, but those produced by FIAM, Massimo and Lella Vignelli and Fontana Arte are consistently popular.
How Much is a Glass Coffee Table Post Modern?
Prices for a glass coffee table post modern start at $650 and top out at $35,000 with the average selling for $3,389.
A Close Look at Post-modern Furniture
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
- Emerges during the 1960s; popularity explodes during the ’80s
- A reaction to prevailing conventions of modernism by mainly American architects
- Architect Robert Venturi critiques modern architecture in his Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (1966)
- Theorist Charles Jencks, who championed architecture filled with allusions and cultural references, writes The Language of Post-Modern Architecture (1977)
- Italian design collective the Memphis Group, also known as Memphis Milano, meets for the first time (1980)
- Memphis collective debuts more than 50 objects and furnishings at Salone del Milano (1981)
- Interest in style declines, minimalism gains steam
CHARACTERISTICS OF POSTMODERN FURNITURE DESIGN
- Dizzying graphic patterns and an emphasis on loud, off-the-wall colors
- Use of plastic and laminates, glass, metal and marble; lacquered and painted wood
- Unconventional proportions and abundant ornamentation
- Playful nods to Art Deco and Pop art
POSTMODERN FURNITURE DESIGNERS TO KNOW
- Ettore Sottsass
- Robert Venturi
- Alessandro Mendini
- Michele de Lucchi
- Michael Graves
- Nathalie du Pasquier
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.
Finding the Right Coffee-tables-cocktail-tables for You
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.
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