$2,910 / item
White Damask Plate by deBlona
Located in Geneve, CH
White Damask Plate by deBlona Dimensions: D 50 x H 1 cm. Materials: Ceramic. Colors: Aquamarine / Pink / Red / White / Black, golden yellow, cerium oxide. The “Black Damask” plate,...
Ceramic
$2,910 / item
Pink Damask Plate by deBlona
Located in Geneve, CH
Pink Damask Plate by deBlona Dimensions: D 50 x H 1 cm. Materials: Ceramic. Colors: Aquamarine / Pink / Red / White / Black, golden yellow, cerium oxide. The “Black Damask” plate, ...
Ceramic
$2,910 / item
Red Damask Plate by deBlona
Located in Geneve, CH
Red Damask Plate by deBlona Dimensions: D 50 x H 1 cm. Materials: Ceramic. Colors: Aquamarine / Pink / Red / White / Black, golden yellow, cerium oxide. The “Black Damask” plate, c...
Ceramic
$4,441 / item
Copper Green Dragons Plate by deBlona
Located in Geneve, CH
Copper Green Dragons Plate by deBlona Dimensions: D 60 x H 1 cm. Materials: Ceramic. Colors: Copper green, Deruta blue, maroon/reddish brown, orange, golden yellow. The “Dragons” p...
Ceramic
$2,597 / item
Blue Dolphins Plate by deBlona
Located in Geneve, CH
Blue Dolphins Plate by deBlona Dimensions: D 52 x H 1 cm. Materials: Ceramic. Colors: Black, golden yellow, linen, vanadium, green, orange, cerium oxide, yellow. The “Blue Dolphins...
Ceramic
Bitossi Ceramiche Blue Sun Figure by Aldo Londi
By Bitossi, Aldo Londi
Located in Toronto, ON
From Aldo Londi’s Rimini Blu series, this radiant sun-faced figure glows with hand-stamped motifs and crystalline glaze, equal parts folk charm and modernist icon. All Bitossi ceram...
Ceramic
Alessandro Mendini, totem "Stoa", Lim. Ed. 10/50, Superego, Milan
By Alessandro Mendini, Superego
Located in Firenze, IT
Alessandro Mendini, totem "Stoa", Ed. Superego, Milan 12 Colonne series Limited Edition 50 signed and numbered pieces. 10/50 Edizioni Superego, Milan, 2008 Measures : H72...
Ceramic
$4,023 / item
Apollo Dining Table by Chinellato Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Apollo Dining Table by Chinellato Design Dimensions: W 250 x D 120 x H 72 cm Materials: Top: Extra Clear Tempered Glass Base: Matte Black Varnished The base, crafted from worked and...
Ceramic
$5,972 / item
Platinum Luster Myra Side Table by deBlona
Located in Geneve, CH
Platinum Luster Myra Side Table by deBlona Dimensions: D 33 x H 49 cm. Materials: Ceramic. Colors: 24 Kt Gold Luster / Platinum Luster, Black Glass top. A sculptural side table han...
Ceramic
$5,995 / item
Ares Dining Table by Chinellato Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Ares Dining Table by Chinellato Design Dimensions: W 250 x D 120 x H 72 cm Materials: Top: Heritage Blue glossy Ceramic top and an Extra Clear Tempered Glass under-top. Base: Large ...
Glass, Ceramic
$5,995 / item
Ares Dining Table by Chinellato Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Ares Dining Table by Chinellato Design Dimensions: W 250 x D 120 x H 72 cm Materials: Top: Capraia glossy Ceramic top and an Extra Clear Tempered Glass under-top. Base: Large Piece C...
Copper
$5,867 / item
Apollo Dining Table by Chinellato Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Apollo Dining Table by Chinellato Design Dimensions: W 250 x D 120 x H 72 cm Materials: Top: Glossy Capraia ceramic top with an extra clear smooth tempered glass under-top. Base: Ch...
Steel
$7,270 / item
Zefiro Dining Table by Chinellato Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Zefiro Dining Table by Chinellato Design Dimensions: D 160 x H 73 cm Materials: Top: Canaletto walnut top with glossy Capraia ceramic. Base: Patinated gold leaf-finished walnut. Ro...
Walnut, Ceramic
$452 / item
Medium Eve Centerpiece by Marioni
Located in Geneve, CH
Medium Eve Centerpiece by Marioni Dimensions: W 35 x D 32 x H 9 cm. Materials: Ceramic. Product code: 02511M Eve medium ceramic centerpiece of smooth shape, available in different ...
Ceramic
$614 / item
Large Eve Centerpiece by Marioni
Located in Geneve, CH
Large Eve Centerpiece by Marioni Dimensions: W 32 x D 40 x H 14 cm. Materials: Ceramic. Product code: 02511G Eve medium ceramic centerpiece of smooth shape, available in different ...
Ceramic
$1,646 / item
Chloe Centerpiece by Marioni
Located in Geneve, CH
Chloe Centerpiece by Marioni Dimensions: W 33 x D 22 x H 39 cm. Materials: Ceramic. Product code: 02510A Chloe ceramic sculpture available in different finishes. Each object of th...
Ceramic
$730 / item
Alburu Centerpiece by Marioni
Located in Geneve, CH
Alburu Centerpiece by Marioni Dimensions: W 30 x D 30 x H 33 cm. Materials: Ceramic. Product code: 02272 From the shape of a stylized tree with branches open and roomy, the centerp...
Ceramic
$6,377 / item
Afrodite Dining Table by Chinellato Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Afrodite Dining Table by Chinellato Design Dimensions: W 250 x D 120 x H 72 cm Materials: Top: Glossy Ceramic Breach White with an extra clear tempered glass under-top. Base: Smoked ...
Ceramic, Wood
Bitossi Ceramiche Alzata Centerpiece, Blue by Ettore Sottsass
By Ettore Sottsass, Bitossi
Located in Toronto, ON
Designed by Ettore Sottsass for Bitossi in 1959, this hand-turned white clay centrepiece balances simplicity and contrast. Its two-tone matte enamel—deep black above and rich blue be...
Ceramic
$7,212 / item
Estia Allungabile Dining Table by Chinellato Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Estia Allungabile Dining Table by Chinellato Design Dimensions: W 200 x D 100 x H 81 cm Extendable: + 40 / + 40 cm Materials: Top: Glossy Ceramic Capraia, Extra Clear Tempered Glass....
Ceramic, Glass
$6,250 / item
Efesto Dining Table by Chinellato Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Efesto Dining Table by Chinellato Design Dimensions: W 250 x D 120 x H 72 cm Materials: Top: Glossy Breach White Ceramic with an Extra Clear Tempered Glass under-top. Base: Large Sil...
Ceramic, Glass
$1,530 / item
Seth Vase by Studiopepe
Located in Geneve, CH
Seth vase by Studiopepe Dimensions: W 12 x D 12 x H 45 cm Materials: Ceramic. Multifaceted design agency Studiopepe was founded in Milan in 2006. Eclectic, voguish, it is the b...
Ceramic
Bitossi Ceramiche Alzata Centerpiece, Black and White Stripes by Ettore Sottsass
By Ettore Sottsass, Bitossi
Located in Toronto, ON
Designed by Ettore Sottsass for Bitossi in 1958, this pedestal bowl from his black-and-white collection pairs clean geometry with graphic contrast, its striped interior and bold base...
Ceramic
$5,102 / item
Afrodite Dining Table by Chinellato Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Afrodite Dining Table by Chinellato Design Dimensions: W 200 / 220 / 250 x D 100 / 120 x H 72.2 cm Materials: Top: Smooth Smoked Tempered Glass Base: Smoked Grey Oak / Silver Chabi...
Ceramic, Wood
$730 / item
Colbula Plate by Marioni
Located in Geneve, CH
Alburu Centerpiece by Marioni Dimensions: D 45 x H 5 cm. Materials: Ceramic. Product code: 02273 A hypnotic spiral is transformed into an elegant tray. Manufactured in ceramic, it ...
Ceramic
$1,843 / item
Pins Round Side Table by Marioni
Located in Geneve, CH
Pins Round Side Table by Marioni Dimensions: D 40 x H 40 cm. Materials: Brass structure and glazed ceramic base. Back painted glass top. Product code: 02925 Pins round side table i...
Brass
$1,982 / item
Pins Round Side Table by Marioni
Located in Geneve, CH
Pins Round Side Table by Marioni Dimensions: D 50 x H 55 cm. Materials: Brass structure and glazed ceramic base. Back painted glass top. Product code: 02926 Pins round side table i...
Brass
$2,539 / item
Pins Round Side Table by Marioni
Located in Geneve, CH
Pins Round Side Table by Marioni Dimensions: D 65 x H 65 cm. Materials: Brass structure and glazed ceramic base. Back painted glass top. Product code: 02927 Pins round side table i...
Brass
$2,632 / item
Pins Round Side Table with Spheres by Marioni
Located in Geneve, CH
Pins Round Side Table with Spheres by Marioni Dimensions: D 65 x H 65 cm. Materials: Brass details, 4 spheres and glazed ceramic base. Back painted glass top. Product code: 02928 P...
Brass
Afrodite Allungabile Dining Table by Chinellato Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Afrodite Allungabile Dining Table by Chinellato Design Dimensions: W 200 x D 100 x H 81.6 cm Extendable + 40 / + 40 cm Materials: Top: Glossy Ceramic Capraia, under top: Extra Clear...
Ceramic, Glass, Walnut
Afrodite Allungabile Dining Table by Chinellato Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Afrodite Allungabile Dining Table by Chinellato Design Dimensions: W 200 x D 100 x H 81.6 cm Extendable + 40 / + 40 cm Materials: Top: Glossy Ceramic Moutain Peak, under top: Extra...
Ceramic, Glass, Walnut
$11,793 / item
Orbit Table by Imperfettolab
By Imperfettolab
Located in Geneve, CH
Orbit table by Imperfettolab Dimensions: D 139 x H 74 cm Materials: Ceramic Also available in different dimensions. Imperfetto Lab Who we are ? We are a family. Verter Turr...
Ceramic
$11,480 / item
Matte Black Finish Néra Sculpture by deBlona
Located in Geneve, CH
Matte Black Finish Néra Sculpture by deBlona Dimensions: W 78 x D 20 x H 87-97 cm. Materials: Ceramic. Colors: Matte black finish. A sculptural representation of an imposing and en...
Ceramic
$1,356 / item
HYA A Stool by Marioni
Located in Geneve, CH
HYA A Stool by Marioni Dimensions: W 30 x D 30 x H 40 cm. Materials: Ceramic. Product code: 02204A Refined and distinctive glazed ceramic stool to be used as a seat, decorative obj...
Ceramic
$1,356 / item
HYA B Stool by Marioni
Located in Geneve, CH
HYA B Stool by Marioni Dimensions: D 41 x H 40 cm. Materials: Ceramic. Product code: 02204B Refined and distinctive glazed ceramic stool to be used as a seat, decorative object or ...
Ceramic
$313 / item
Abrek White Jug by ZPS Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Abrek White Jug by ZPS Studio Dimensions: W 24 x D 12.5 x H 31.5 cm Materials: Matte Glazed Ceramic. A number of 31 bowls of identical shape, made in limited edition by fine Italian...
Ceramic
$313 / item
Abrek Black Jug by ZPS Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Abrek Black Jug by ZPS Studio Dimensions: W 24 x D 12.5 x H 31.5 cm Materials: Matte Glazed Ceramic. A number of 31 bowls of identical shape, made in limited edition by fine Italian...
Ceramic
$15,005 / item
Gold Luster Oris Large Sculpture by deBlona
Located in Geneve, CH
Gold Luster Oris Large Sculpture by deBlona Dimensions: W 75 x D 20 x H 117-137 cm. Materials: Ceramic. Colors: 24 Kt Gold Luster. A large sculpture crafted from red clay sourced i...
Ceramic
$10,819 / item
Palm Square Coffee Table by Marioni
Located in Geneve, CH
Palm Square Coffee Table by Marioni Dimensions: W 120 x D 120 x H 50 cm. Materials: Brass structure and glazed decorative ceramic details. Wooden shelf and glass top. Product code: ...
Brass
$8,929 / item
Palm Oval Coffee Table by Marioni
Located in Geneve, CH
Palm Oval Coffee Table by Marioni Dimensions: W 50 x D 50 x H 50 cm. Materials: Brass structure and glazed ceramic details. Wooden shelf and glass top. Product code: 02960 Palm ova...
Brass
Squash Limited Color Edition Gold Ashtray Maria Sanchez for Memphis-Milano
By Memphis Milano, Maria Sanchez
Located in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
Limited color edition Squash gold by Maria Sanchez for Memphis-Milano. Brand new item.
Ceramic
1990s Memphis Milano Style Black and White Coffee Set by Taruschio
By Memphis Group
Located in Aci Castello, IT
This Memphis Milano-style Italian ceramic coffee set characterized by its bold, geometric design and avant-garde aesthetic. The coffee set features conical cups with triangular bases...
Ceramic
16-Piece Coffee/Teapot Set by Riccardo Schweizer Prod. by Pagnossin Ceramica
By Pagnossin Ceramica, Riccardo Schweizer
Located in Bresso, Lombardy
This is a 16- piece coffee / teapot set designed by Riccardo Schweizer and produced by Pagnossin Ceramica, Italy, 1970s. They are made in ceramic and their peculiarity is that the ye...
Ceramic
Floor Lamp Bibip by Achille Castiglioni for Flos, 1976
By Achille Castiglioni, Flos
Located in Morazzone, Varese
Floor Lamp Bibip by Achille Castiglioni for Flos, 1976 Post-Modern Style, minimalist and functional "Bibip" floor lamp designed by Achille Castiglioni for Flos in 1976 featuring a w...
Metal, Aluminum
$1,611 / item
Sculpture Fungui 16 by Zanellazine Ceramics
Located in Geneve, CH
Sculpture Fungui 16 by Zanellazine Ceramics Dimensions: W 23 x D 13 x H 36 cm Materials: Red and white fireclay. About: Giovanna Zighetti, ceramist and set designer, and Lucia Zamb...
Ceramic
Ugo La Pietra, Original Prototype Porcelain "Bagnante" Centerpiece , 1987
By Ugo Lapietra, Ugo La Pietra
Located in Milan, IT
Ugo La Pietra, "Bagnante" handmade glazed porcelain figurative centerpiece prototype, 1987. Produced by Artisan Mangani Signed and dated prototype by Artist and Artisan on bottom. Co...
Ceramic
$2,551 / item
Sculpture Bloomen 13 by Zanellazine Ceramics
Located in Geneve, CH
Sculpture Bloomen 13 by Zanellazine Ceramics Dimensions: W 14 x H 42 cm Materials: Red clay. About: Giovanna Zighetti, ceramist and set designer, and Lucia Zamberletti, fashion cons...
Ceramic
$2,551 / item
Sculpture Bloomen 10 by Zanellazine Ceramics
Located in Geneve, CH
Sculpture Bloomen 10 by Zanellazine Ceramics Dimensions: W 11 x H 60 cm Materials: Red clay, Orange semi-refractories clay. About: Giovanna Zighetti, ceramist and set designer, and ...
Ceramic
$1,101 / item
Sculpture FUNGHI 22 by Zanellazine Ceramics
Located in Geneve, CH
Sculpture FUNGHI 22 by Zanellazine Ceramics Dimensions: W 14 x D 12 x H 37 cm Materials: Red clay. About: Giovanna Zighetti, ceramist and set designer, and Lucia Zamberletti, fashio...
Ceramic
$1,101 / item
Sculpture FUNGHI 21 by Zanellazine Ceramics
Located in Geneve, CH
Sculpture FUNGHI 21 by Zanellazine Ceramics Dimensions: W 14 x H 22 cm Materials: Red clay, Pink semi-refractorie clay. About: Giovanna Zighetti, ceramist and set designer, and Luci...
Ceramic
$1,101 / item
Sculpture FUNGHI 17 by Zanellazine Ceramics
Located in Geneve, CH
Sculpture FUNGHI 17 by Zanellazine Ceramics Dimensions: W 12 x H 23.5 cm Materials: Red and white clay. About: Giovanna Zighetti, ceramist and set designer, and Lucia Zamberletti, ...
Ceramic
$2,551 / item
Sculpture Bloomen 11 by Zanellazine Ceramics
Located in Geneve, CH
Sculpture Bloomen 11 by Zanellazine Ceramics Dimensions: W 20 x H 58 cm Materials: Red clay, Brown semi-refractorie clay, White fireclay. About: Giovanna Zighetti, ceramist and set ...
Ceramic
$1,611 / item
Sculpture FUNGHI 19 by Zanellazine Ceramics
Located in Geneve, CH
Sculpture FUNGHI 19 by Zanellazine Ceramics Dimensions: W 15 x D 16 x H 33 cm Materials: Red clay, Green semi-refractorie clay, White fireclay. About: Giovanna Zighetti, ceramist an...
Ceramic
$2,551 / item
Sculpture Bloomen 12 by Zanellazine Ceramics
Located in Geneve, CH
Sculpture Bloomen 12 by Zanellazine Ceramics Dimensions: W 11 x H 60 cm Materials: Red clay, Orange and tobacco semi-refractorie clay, White fireclay. About: Giovanna Zighetti, cera...
Ceramic
$1,356 / item
Sculpture FUNGHI 18 by Zanellazine Ceramics
Located in Geneve, CH
Sculpture FUNGHI 18 by Zanellazine Ceramics Dimensions: W 13 x D 6 x H 40 cm Materials: Red clay, Turquoise semi-refractorie clay, White fireclay. About: Giovanna Zighetti, ceramis...
Ceramic
$2,551 / item
Sculpture Bloomen 14 by Zanellazine Ceramics
Located in Geneve, CH
Sculpture Bloomen 14 by Zanellazine Ceramics Dimensions: W 26 x D 23 x H 43 cm Materials: Red and white clay, Green semi-refractorie clay. About: Giovanna Zighetti, ceramist and se...
Ceramic
$1,102 / item
Sculpture FUNGHI 20 by Zanellazine Ceramics
Located in Geneve, CH
Sculpture FUNGHI 20 by Zanellazine Ceramics Dimensions: W 19 x D 14 x H 23 cm Materials: Red clay, Brown semi-refractorie clay. About: Giovanna Zighetti, ceramist and set designer, ...
Ceramic
$2,354 / item
Palm Floor Lamp by Marioni
Located in Geneve, CH
Palm Floor Lamp by Marioni Dimensions: W 28 x D 28 x H 121 cm. Materials: ceramic 7 decorative elements and satin glass globe dia.20 cm Product code: 02966GG The Palm floor lamp pl...
Ceramic, Satin
Phantom 60 Goldsnow Lacquer And Calacatta Oro High Bedside Table by Casa Casati
Located in Geneve, CH
Phantom 60 Goldsnow Lacquer And Calacatta Oro High Bedside Table by Casa Casati Dimensions: D 44 x W 60 x H 62 cm. Materials: Ceramic and MDF finished in glossy lacquer, brass, met...
Marble, Other, Metal, Brass
Ultramarine Blue, Copper Metallic Luster Kósmos Bowl by deBlona
Located in Geneve, CH
Part of the deBlona Kósmos collection, these vases are a study in balance—simple in appearance yet embodying the complexity of ceramic artistry. Despite the technical challenges of t...
Ceramic
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.
It's hard to resist the allure of a beautiful pool. So, go ahead and daydream about whiling away your summer in paradise.
Alessandro Mendini, Michael Graves, Ettore Sottsass and other design luminaries contributed to this unusual collection of porcelain wares representing a time capsule of late-20th-century decorative art.
Aided by photos taken of the maestro in his Milan studio, we honor the influential design talent who died last month at 87.
Adam Charlap Hyman and Andre Herrero, rising young design talents, are debuting a new, eclectic line of textiles.