Italian Postmodern Leather Bench
Located in Palm Springs, CA
A spectacular 1980s Italian Postmodern bench. The bench is constructed of steel that’s powder
Italian Postmodern Leather Bench
Located in Palm Springs, CA
A spectacular 1980s Italian Postmodern bench. The bench is constructed of steel that’s powder
Italian Postmodern Lounge Set Tan Leather Postmodern Armchair Pair and Sofa
By Nicoletti Salotti, Ralph Lauren
Located in Rochester, NY
Postmodern Italian camel leather lounge set in the style of Nicoletti Salotti circa late 1980s
Leather
Comfortable Postmodern Brown Leather Armchair, Italy
Located in Bresso, Lombardy
Made in Italy, 1970s. This armchair features a brown leather upholstery. It is a vintage piece
Leather
Gastone Rinaldi postmodern Dining chairs for Thema italy, 1980s - set of 6
By Thema Italy 1, Gastone Rinaldi
Located in Leuven, Vlaams Gewest
Elegant postmodern dining chairs designed by Italian Designer Gastone Rinaldi and produced by thema
Metal
Italian Postmodern Dining Chair in Cognac Leather
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Dining chair, beech, leather, Italy, 1970s A delicate chair that is well-proportioned and elevates
Leather, Beech
1990 Italy Postmodern Blond Cow Leather Armchair
Located in Brescia, IT
cow leather in blond tun color, is in very good conditions. It is very comfortable and perfect in a
Walnut, Leather
$1,040Sale Price / set|20% Off
Postmodern Design Leather Dining Chairs, Italy 1980's
Located in Oud-Turnhout, VAN
Vintage Postmodern Design Leather Dining Chair set of 4. Made in Italy, 1980's. Grey leather seat
Leather, Wood
1980's Italian Postmodern Leather Modernist Paper Desk Tray
Located in San Diego, CA
Elegant Single letter desk tray , postmodern Italian leather wrapped nice original condition.
Leather
Italian Postmodern Wall Mirror in Steel & Leather Handle
By Jacques Adnet
Located in San Diego, CA
Beautiful rounded Wall mirror with beveled edge stell frame and leather strap, circa 1980's great
Steel
Natuzzi Leather Lounge Chair, Italian, Made in Italy, Postmodern, Light Grey
By Natuzzi
Located in Rancho Cucamonga, CA
Natuzzi Leather Lounge Chair, Italian, Made in Italy, Postmodern, Light Grey, Mid Century, Office
Leather
4 Postmodern Black Leather Armchairs from Cidue, Italy, 1990s
By Cidue
Located in Rīga, LV
Set of 4 black metal chairs with leather seat and rubber back details. Great back support
Metal
$438Sale Price|35% Off
Postmodern Arrben "Ursula" Italian Black Leather and Chrome Chair
By Arrben
Located in Waxahachie, TX
Postmodern. Italian leather chairs, with chromed steel structure and back and seat in curved metal
Chrome
$709Sale Price / set|20% Off
Postmodern Italian Design Leather Dining Chair set by Segis, Italy 1990's
By Segis
Located in Oud-Turnhout, VAN
Vintage Postmodern Modern Italian Design Leather Dining Chair set by Segis, made in Italy 1990's
Metal, Chrome
$2,716Sale Price / set|20% Off
Postmodern Italian Design Leather Dining Chair Set by Segis, Italy, 1990's
By Segis
Located in Oud-Turnhout, VAN
Vintage Postmodern Italian design natural leather dining chair set of 7 chairs by Segis, made in
Metal, Chrome
Tito Agnoli x Calligaris Italian Postmodern Leather Dining Chairs, 1980s, Italy
By Tito Agnoli, Calligaris, Matteo Grassi
Located in Biebergemund, Hessen
in Italy, 1980s. They feature a metal construction covered with thick black leather. The chairs are
Leather
Vintage Postmodern Italian Tufted Leather Queen Bed by Rossetto Italia
Located in Chicago, IL
Vintage Postmodern Italian Tufted Leather Queen Bed by Rossetto Italia A postmodern Italian bed
Leather, Wood
2010's Postmodern Art Deco Italian Leather Sofa by Calia Italia
By Pietro Costantini, Nicoletti Salotti, Calia Italia
Located in Burbank, CA
Post modern couch for sale. Manufactured by Calia Italia, and made in Italy. This is their Hotel
Leather, Wood
Italian postmodern armchair Kiu in wood and black leather for Luxoritalia, 2020s
Located in MIlano, IT
Italian postmodern armchair Kiu in wood and black leather for Luxoritalia, 2020s Armchair model Kiu
Leather, Wood
Pair of Postmodern Leather Chairs by Giancarlo Vegni for Fasem, Italy 1984
By Fasem International, Giancarlo Vegni
Located in Beograd, RS
has a manufacturers stamp pressed into the leather underneath the seat. Made in Italy in the 1980s
Steel
Italian Designer Postmodern Black Lacquer Wood and Leather Side Chair
By Calligaris
Located in New York, NY
A very beautiful and chic Italian modern style or Postmodern period black lacquer wood and leather
Leather, Wood
Italian Designer Postmodern Black Lacquer Wood and Leather Side Chair
By Calligaris
Located in New York, NY
Very beautiful and chic Italian Modern style or Postmodern period black lacquer wood and leather
Leather, Wood
Pair of Postmodern Italian Leather and Polished Chrome Accent Sling Chairs
By Giotto Stoppino
Located in Basel, BS
Gorgeous pair of Italian soft leather and polished chrome accent chairs in the style of Giotto
Chrome
Calligaris Postmodern Italian Dining Chair - Wood + Black Leather Set of 4
By Calligaris
Located in toronto, CA
Circa 1980 - Calligaris Post Modern Chairs Beautifully ribbed back , leather chairs, an example of
Leather, Hardwood
Postmodern Black Leather Korium Armchair by Tito Agnoli for Matteo Grassi, Italy
By Tito Agnoli
Located in Weesp, NL
Postmodern Black Leather Korium Armchair by Tito Agnoli for Matteo Grassi, Italy, 1980s Elevate
Leather
I4 Mariani Postmodern Italian Molto + Di Maroon Leather Sofa Ammannati -Vitelli
By i4 Mariani, Titina Ammannati and Giampiero Vitelli
Located in Topeka, KS
Spectacular postmodern Italian Molto + Di maroon leather sofa by Tittina Ammannati & Vitelli
Leather, Foam, Wood
1980's Pair of Leather Italian Postmodern Lounge armchairs by Molteni & Co
By Molteni & C
Located in San Diego, CA
Rare pair of postmodern leather chairs by Molteni & Co. Italy circa 1980s, this company Has made
Leather, Fabric
Postmodern Italian 1980s Sofa, Two-Seat
By Memphis Milano
Located in Antwerp, BE
Vintage 1980s Postmodern two-seat sofa. Sculpted beech frame with aluminum accents. Original warm
Leather, Plywood
$2,097Sale Price / set|20% Off
Postmodern Design Leather Dining Chair Set by Mario Morbidelli for Naos, Italy
By Naos
Located in Oud-Turnhout, VAN
Vintage Postmodern Italian Design Leather covered Dining Chair set of 6 by Mario Morbidelli for
Metal
$3,000Sale Price|20% Off
Italian Black Leather Postmodern Loveseat by i4 Mariani for the Pace Collection
By Pace Collection, i4 Mariani
Located in San Diego, CA
A very nice black leather Postmodern loveseat by I4 Mariani for the Pace Collection, circa late
Leather
Vintage Postmodern Italian Black Lacquer Wide Arm Sofa With White Leather
Located in Chicago, IL
Vintage Postmodern Italian Black Lacquer Wide Arm Sofa with White Leather Your living room needs
Leather
Italian Black Leather Side Dining Desk Chairs Postmodern Pair, circa 1970s
Located in New York, NY
A pair of '70s Italian Postmodern black leather and high-gloss metal chairs, circa 1970s, Italy
Metal
Postmodern Leather and Chrome-Plated Metal Magazine Rack by Salmistraro, Italy
Located in Bresso, Lombardy
Made in Italy, 1980s. This magazine rack is made in chrome-plated metal and leather by Salmistraro
Metal
Postmodern lacquered wood italian dining chairs, 1980s
Located in Leuven, Vlaams Gewest
Postmodern design dining chairs with black lacquered wooden frames and faux leather upholstery
Faux Leather, Lacquer
Pair of Postmodern Swivel Lounge Chairs in White Leather and Chrome, Italy 1970s
Located in Beograd, RS
In this listing you will find absolutely striking Mid Century Modern or early postmodern Swivel
Steel
Postmodern Leather and Steel Chair, c.1980
By Mario Botta
Located in Surbiton, GB
An unattributed Postmodern tubular steel chair of unusual form featuring gun metal grey leather
Steel
Postmodern Set of ten leather dining chairs by Antonello Mosca for Ycami. Italy
By Ycami Collection
Located in Catania, CT
Set of ten dining chairs designed by Antonello Mosca for Ycami, produced in Italy in the 1980s
Leather
Pr. Italian Brown Leather and Black Metal Postmodern Arm Chairs by Cidue 1970s
By Cidue
Located in New York, NY
Chic pair of architecturally designed post modern arm chairs made in Italy by Cidue, circa 1970's
Steel
Pair of Postmodern Leather Chairs S-91 by Giancarlo Vegni for Fasem, Italy 1984
By Fasem International, Giancarlo Vegni
Located in Beograd, RS
. Each chair has a manufacturers stamp pressed into the leather underneath the seat. Made in Italy in the
Steel
Pair of Postmodern Chairs in Cream Leather Bottega Side Chair by Frag, Italy
By Mario Bellini, Frag
Located in San Diego, CA
Pair of Bottega chairs great condition in leather made in Italy
Leather
Postmodern Memphis Style Chair with Red Faux Leather Upholstery, 1980s Italy
Located in Zagreb, HR
A unique vintage postmodern Memphis Milano style dining or accent chair, made from metal, with a
Metal
Set of Six Turquoise Leather Postmodern Dining Chairs
Located in Baton Rouge, LA
A very chic set of six postmodern dining chairs, circa 1980, in the manner of designer Pietro
Steel
Set of postmodern "Solaria" chairs by Arrben, Italy 1980s
By Arrben
Located in Antwerpen, VAN
This set of six postmodern”Solaria” dining chairs from the 1980s by Arrben, Italy is a striking
Leather
$3,060Sale Price|20% Off
1980s Postmodern Italian Nicoletti Salotti Plinth Baseleather Lounge Chair
By Nicoletti Salotti
Located in Madison, WI
Seat Height: 15.0 in Place of Origin: Italy Color: Black Condition Notes: The leather is great
Leather
Postmodern Leather "Wave" Chaise by Giovanni Offredi for Saporiti
By Giovanni Offredi, Saporiti
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Fully restored postmodern leather "Onda" or "Wave" Chaise designed in 1974 by Giovanni Offredi for
Steel
PostModern Giorgetti SPRING Desk/Office Chair / Massimo Scolari (Italy)
By Massimo Scolari
Located in Tinton Falls, NJ
seat is in nondeformable polyurethane, with fabric or leather covering. The arms and the back are
Leather, Wood, Beech, Ebony
1980s Pair of Postmodern Ribbon Lounge Chairs in Periwinkle Leather
Located in Philadelphia, PA
in a soft leather upholstery that is periwinkle in color; a soft, pastel blend of blue and purple. We
Leather, Wood
Postmodern Chairs Designed by Emanuelle Zenere for Cattelan, Italy 90s
By Cattelan Italia
Located in Lucija, SI
Pair of unique Italian Postmodern chairs designed by Emanuelle Zenere for Cattelan Italia I must
Leather, Wood, Lacquer
Black postmodern dining chairs by Arper italy, 1980s - set of 4
By Arper
Located in Leuven, Vlaams Gewest
Set of 4 black leather and metal postmodern dining chairs by Arper italy. Timeless post modern
Metal
1980s Postmodern Leather Headboard Nightstands & Lamps King Or Queen Size
By Ligne Roset
Located in San Diego, CA
Majestic Italian postmodern headboard nighstands and lamps very nice and clean condition it all
Aluminum
Vintage Postmodern Pink Pearlised Leather Swivel Lounge Chair, Natuzzi 1980s
By Natuzzi
Located in Hastings, GB
Pale pink pearlised leather swivelling lounge chair by Natuzzi, Italy 1980s. This listing is for
Leather
$1,891Sale Price / set|20% Off
Postmodern Architectural Design Set of 10 Dining Chairs 1980's Italy
Located in Oud-Turnhout, VAN
Vintage Postmodern Modern Architectural design set of 10 dining chairs, made in Italy 1980's. Black
Metal
Set of 6 italian postmodern wicker and metal dining chairs, 1980s
Located in Leuven, Vlaams Gewest
Set of 6 wicker and metal postmodern dining chairs. These unique chairs consist of a black metal
Metal
Postmodern Square Black Leather Coffee Table with Mirrored Top, 1970s
Located in Bresso, Lombardy
Made in Italy, 1970s. It features a frame covered in leather and a mirrored top. It is a vintage
Leather, Mirror
Postmodern swivel chair, Cofemo
By Cofemo
Located in Neuss, NW
Rare postmodern swivel chair by Cofemo from the 1980s. High-quality red lacquered steel frame with
Steel
$8,159Sale Price / set|20% Off
Cassina 'Viola d'amore' Armchairs by Piero Martini, Postmodern, Italian design
By Piero De Martini, Cassina
Located in Antwerp, BE
Cassina produced these post-modern luxury lounge chairs by Italian designer Piero de Martini
Leather, Wood, Down
Pair of Postmodern Leather Armchairs "Tentazione" by Mario Bellini for Cassina
By Cassina, Mario Bellini
Located in Beograd, RS
Pair of postmodern leather club chairs "Tentazione" designed by Mario Bellini for Cassina. The club
Steel
Postmodern Sfera Armchair by Oswald Mathias Ungers for Sawaya &Moroni, Italy 80s
By Sawaya & Moroni
Located in Lucija, SI
Rare postmodern armchair model Sfera designed by Oswald Mathias for Sawaya & Moroni. Made in Italy
Leather, Wood, Bentwood
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.
With entire areas of our homes reserved for “sitting rooms,” the value of quality antique and vintage seating cannot be overstated.
Fortunately, the design of side chairs, armchairs and other lounge furniture — since what were, quite literally, the early perches of our ancestors — has evolved considerably.
Among the earliest standard seating furniture were stools. Egyptian stools, for example, designed for one person with no seat back, were x-shaped and typically folded to be tucked away. These rudimentary chairs informed the design of Greek and Roman stools, all of which were a long way from Sori Yanagi's Butterfly stool or Alvar Aalto's Stool 60. In the 18th century and earlier, seats with backs and armrests were largely reserved for high nobility.
The seating of today is more inclusive but the style and placement of chairs can still make a statement. Antique desk chairs and armchairs designed in the style of Louis XV, which eventually included painted furniture and were often made of rare woods, feature prominently curved legs as well as Chinese themes and varied ornaments. Much like the thrones of fairy tales and the regency, elegant lounges crafted in the Louis XV style convey wealth and prestige. In the kitchen, the dining chair placed at the head of the table is typically reserved for the head of the household or a revered guest.
Of course, with luxurious vintage or antique furnishings, every chair can seem like the best seat in the house. Whether your preference is stretching out on a plush sofa, such as the Serpentine, designed by Vladimir Kagan, or cozying up in a vintage wingback chair, there is likely to be a comfy classic or contemporary gem for you on 1stDibs.
With respect to the latest obsessions in design, cane seating has been cropping up everywhere, from sleek armchairs to lounge chairs, while bouclé fabric, a staple of modern furniture design, can be seen in mid-century modern, Scandinavian modern and Hollywood Regency furniture styles.
Admirers of the sophisticated craftsmanship and dark woods frequently associated with mid-century modern seating can find timeless furnishings in our expansive collection of lounge chairs, dining chairs and other items — whether they’re vintage editions or alluring official reproductions of iconic designs from the likes of Hans Wegner or from Charles and Ray Eames. Shop our inventory of Egg chairs, designed in 1958 by Arne Jacobsen, the Florence Knoll lounge chair and more.
No matter your style, the collection of unique chairs, sofas and other seating on 1stDibs is surely worthy of a standing ovation.