Postmodern Mactan Stone Glass Coffee Table
Located in Baltimore, MD
Superb postmodern sculpted Mactan stone and Glass Coffee Table with modernist design, elegant and
Stone
Minimalist Postmodern Glass Scroll Coffee Table, 1980s
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Sculptural postmodern scroll-form coffee table in thick tempered glass. Minimalist design with
Glass
$1,200Sale Price|57% Off
Postmodern Steel & Glass Coffee Table, c. 1970
Located in Kenilworth, IL
Postmodern coffee table in powder coated forged steel with a glass top and lower glass shelf
Steel
$2,000Sale Price|20% Off
Mid century Postmodern glass waterfall coffee table
By FIAM
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Post modern coffee table with a waterfall top. Glass is very clean no chips or major scratches. May
Glass
$2,280Sale Price|20% Off
Postmodern Glass Lucite & Brass Coffee Table, 1980s
By Karl Springer
Located in Madison, WI
This minimalist, post modern Miami Regency 1980's coffee / cocktail table . This piece would look
Chrome
20th Century French Postmodern Curved Glass Coffee Table
Located in High Point, NC
This 20th Century French postmodern curved glass coffee table showcases a bold, sculptural
Glass
$876Sale Price|20% Off
Postmodern Octagonal Beveled Glass Top Lucite Coffee Table
Located in Delray Beach, FL
The Postmodern Octagonal Beveled Glass Top Lucite Coffee Table is a testament to bold postmodern
Glass
Postmodern Mactan, Glass and Pastor Stone Coffee Table
Located in Franklin Park, IL
Postmodern Mactan, glass and pastor stone coffee table This coffee table measures: 48 wide x 29
Stone
$3,960Sale Price|20% Off
Postmodern Stacked Chrome, Brass & Beveled Glass Coffee Table
By John Mascheroni
Located in Basel, BS
This one is a stunner!! This can be used as a Cocktail or Coffee table and features a Stacked
Chrome
Postmodern Tessellated Stone Glass Top Kidney Coffee Table
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Postmodern Tessellated Stone Kidney Table — sculptural stone and glass coffee table with organic
Stone
Postmodern Scalloped Purple Ceramic Glass Top Coffee Table
Located in Delray Beach, FL
The Postmodern Scalloped Purple Ceramic Coffee Table showcases sculptural form and luxe texture
Ceramic
Postmodern Glass Coffee Table, Marble, Geometric, Unique, Rectangular Top
Located in Rancho Cucamonga, CA
Postmodern Glass Coffee Table, Marble, Geometric, Unique, Rectangular Top Measurements: 52" L x 26
Marble
Lorin Marsh Ltd. Postmodern Mercury Leg Glass Coffee Table
By Lorin Marsh
Located in West Chester, PA
Rare "Mercury Leg Table" designed by George Constant for Lorin Marsh LTD. We found an advertisement
Glass, Acrylic
1990s Postmodern Glass Waterfall Sculptural Black Circular Wood Coffee Table
By Massimo Vignelli
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
Postmodern Glass Waterfall Edge Sculptural Coffee Table. Stunning table features a graceful
Steel
Black Lacquer and Glass Geometric Square Coffee Cocktail Table Postmodern
Located in New York, NY
A very beautiful geometric square coffee/cocktail table in black lacquer with glass top, Postmodern
Glass, Wood
Postmodern italian marble coffee table, 1980s
Located in Leuven, Vlaams Gewest
Postmodern angular white marble coffee table with black metal supporst and a clear bevelde glass
Marble
Large vintage postmodern glass coffee table with lightning bolt base
Located in Hastings, GB
A stunning large postmodern curved glass coffee table, on a black iron base which has lightning
Iron
$607Sale Price|55% Off
Postmodern Mirrored Glass Top Coffee Table with Chrome Accented Base
Located in Freehold, NJ
This postmodern coffee table features chrome accented legs and base with mirrored glass top
Chrome
$1,730Sale Price|20% Off
Postmodern Design Reverse Pyramid Coffee Table
Located in Oud-Turnhout, VAN
Postmodern Design 'Reverse Pyramid' Square Coffee Table. Made in the 1980's. Wood reverse pyramid
Glass, Wood
postmodern design coffee table, 1980's
Located in PARIS, FR
Postmodern Design Coffee Table, 1980s 1.8 centimeter thick glass top with an impressive design
Iron
Vintage Postmodern Biomorphic Wave Coffee Table
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Capture the bold, artistic spirit of the 1980s with this stunning postmodern coffee table. This
Metal
Postmodern Ice Crystal Lucite Base with Beveled Glass Top Coffee Table
Located in Chicago, IL
Postmodern Ice Crystal Lucite Base with Round Beveled Glass Top Coffee Table This piece combines
Glass, Lucite
Postmodern Steel and Brass coffee table
Located in W Allenhurst, NJ
Wonderful post modern glass top coffee table. Smokey polished steel base with brass accent. Nice
Brass, Steel
Vintage Postmodern Geometric Glass Coffee Table, Ettore Sottsass Style, 1980s
By Massimo and Lella Vignelli, Lella & Massimo Vignelli for Casigliani, Ettore Sottsass
Located in Palm Desert, CA
This unique coffee table features a geometric design, with a new glass top. Inspired by Ettore
Wood
Modern to Postmodern Coffee Table Travertine Hexagon Base Glass Rectangle Top
By Artedi
Located in Topeka, KS
Lovely vintage Modern to Postmodern Italian coffee table comprised of a hexagon shaped travertine
Travertine, Metal
Postmodern Glass Coffee Table, Travertine Base, Square, Artedi, Italian c. 1970s
By Artedi
Located in Rancho Cucamonga, CA
A distinctive vintage coffee table, crafted from a square glass top and a travertine pedestal base
Travertine, Metal
Vintage Monumental Postmodern Textured Metal Coffee Table
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A fantastic monumental vintage coffee table. A chic PostModern design with a textured finish over
Metal
J Wade Beam for Brueton Cantilevered Glass and Steel Postmodern Coffee Table
By Brueton
Located in Keego Harbor, MI
A J Wade Beam for Brueton cantilevered coffee table. A wonderful postmodern style coffee table with
Steel
J Wade Beam for Brueton Cantilevered Glass and Steel Postmodern Coffee Table
By Brueton
Located in Keego Harbor, MI
A J Wade Beam for Brueton cantilevered coffee table. A wonderful postmodern style coffee table with
Steel
$11,878Sale Price|20% Off
Laurel Fyfe Sculptural Coffee Table Black Glass Handkerchief Art Postmodern 1990
By Laurel Fyfe
Located in London, GB
A monumental and rare black glass coffee table, with handkerchief-shaped base and irregular organic
Glass
$2,355Sale Price|20% Off
1970s Postmodern Travertine and Brass Artedi Glass Coffee Cocktail Table
By Artedi
Located in Basel, BS
Fabulous and extremely iconic Artedi Travertine and brass coffee/ cocktail table. This sought after
Travertine, 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
Steel
Postmodern Square Brass Coffee Table with Glass Shelf and Mirrored Top, Italy
Located in Bresso, Lombardy
Made in Italy, 1980s. Ascribable to Romeo Rega. This coffee table features a brass frame, a glass
Brass
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
Karl Springer Attr Free Form Postmodern Amoeba Coffee Table Chrome & Black Glass
By Karl Springer
Located in Philadelphia, PA
a sheet of steel shaped into this table and topped with a one-of-a-kind piece of dark smoked glass
Steel, Chrome
Postmodern Floating Foax Goatskin & Glass Cocktail Table
By J. Wade Beam, Milo Baughman, 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
Postmodern Coco Wood Glass Top Coffee Table by Robb & Stucky. Circa 1990s
Located in Miami, FL
Vintage Postmodern Coco Wood Glass Top Coffee Table by Robb & Stucky. Circa 1990s Features a
Metal
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.
Glass, Lucite, Wood, Lacquer
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
Marble, Metal
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
Metal
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
1970's Postmodern Art Deco Sculptural Lucite Coffee Table
By Karl Springer, Charles Hollis Jones
Located in Burbank, CA
Vintage Midcentury Modern coffee table for sale. Manufactured in the 1970's, and has an Art Deco
Chrome
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
Postmodern Glass, Brass and Wood Side Table, Germany, 1980s
Located in Oud Beijerland, NL
Striking postmodern side table produced in Germany in the 1980s, combining architectural form with
Brass
$500Sale Price|60% Off
postmodern vintage BDSM industrial metal table with glass top
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Postmodern industrial BDSM style table.
Metal
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
Brass, Metal
Postmodern Italian Orio Coffee Table by Pierluigi Cerri for Fontana Arte, 1970s
By Pierluigi Cerri, Fontana Arte
Located in Renens, CH
Minimalist designed Orio side table by the architect and designer Pierluigi Cerri for Fontana Arte
Metal
Italian Postmodern Smaller Scale Marble and Glass Square Cocktail Table
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This cocktail table is so architectural and modern, made in Italy, circa 1990s. It’s constructed of
Marble
A Square RADICAL POSTMODERN Side on COFFEE TABLE, by PIERRE VANDEL, France 1970
By Pierre Vandel
Located in PARIS, FR
An elegant and rigorous square coffee table, Post-Modernist, Bauhaus, Shabby-Chic, Space-Age
Brass, Aluminum
Pair of 1970s Postmodern Side Tables
Located in Miami, FL
. Explore the allure of Postmodern design with our tubular chrome and glass end tables. They bring a touch
Chrome
$2,240Sale Price / set|20% Off
Postmodern Smoked Chrome Glass Cocktail Tables by DIA, '90s, Set of 2
By Design Institute America
Located in New York, NY
/coffee tables with cylindrical legs and beveled clear glass tops. Designed by the Design Institute of
Chrome
$2,360Sale Price|20% Off
Maitland Smith Postmodern Tessellated Stone Inlaid Travertine and Marble Coffee
By Maitland Smith
Located in Madison, WI
, marble and glass topped table would look great in a Modern, Mid-Century, Miami Regency or Hollywood
Stone, Travertine
Sculptural Travertine Post-modern Question Mark Coffee Table, Beveled Glass Top
By Massimo and Lella Vignelli, Carlo Scarpa
Located in Miami, FL
is a postmodern travertine and glass coffee table, featuring two distinct sculptural bases. This
Travertine
Marble and Glass Coffee Table in the Style of Massimo Vignelli, 1970's
By Massimo Vignelli
Located in Antwerp, BE
Massimo Vignelli; Post-modern; Italy; Coffee table; Marble; Glass; Italian design; Postmodern
Marble
"Pepper Young" Coffee Table by Philippe Starck for Disform
By Disform, Philippe Starck
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Oversize Postmodern "Pepper Young" glass top coffee table by Philippe Starck for Disform. Made in
Steel
Postmodern Coffee or Side Table, Metal & Smoked Glass, USA, c.1980s
Located in Rancho Cucamonga, CA
A distinctive postmodern coffee or side table in the 1980s design tradition, crafted from smoked
Metal
Postmodern Italian Marcuso Coffee Glass Table by Marco Zanuso for Zanotta
By Zanotta, Marco Zanuso
Located in Hamburg, DE
Heavy glass coffee table from the Italian manufacturer Zanotta based on a design by Marco Zanuso
Stainless 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.