Studio Superego Horizonte Coffee Table in Agate & Plexiglass, Italy
By Studio Superego
Located in Astoria, NY
Studio Superego "Horizonte" Coffee Table, made in Italy, with circular agate encased in colorless Plexiglass with brass accents, marked. 14.5" H x 23.75" W x 14.75" D. Provenance: ...
Agate, Brass
Pair of 1970's Italian Travertine Coffee/Side Tables
Located in Bern, BE
Pair of identical 1970’s Travertine Coffee / Side Tables. Marked beneath tabletop: 'Made in Italy'. Solid travertine tabletop and base. Perfect use as side tables, bedside tables or...
Travertine
Set of 3 1970’s Italian Calacatta Coffee Tables
Located in Chicago, IL
Set of 3 Italian Calacatta marble tables. Made in 1970’s. Top 20.5” x 20.5” Height 14.5”, 11.75”, 9”
Marble
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 wide x 37.5 deep x 16.5 inches high All pieces of furniture can be had in what we ca...
Brass
1970s Italian Assymetrical Grid Coffee Table in Walnut and Glass
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Coffee table, walnut, lacquered wood, glass, Italy, 1970s This 1970s Italian coffee table is a geometric and highly organized composition, built from walnut, glass, and grey lacque...
Glass, Walnut
Italian Postmodern Black Marble Sculptural Coffee Table with Fluted Pedestals
By Roche Bobois, Mario Bellini, Angelo Mangiarotti
Located in W Allenhurst, NJ
A striking Italian Postmodern coffee table crafted in richly veined black marble, featuring a sculptural bowed or bullnose top raised on boldly fluted pedestal supports. Executed in ...
Marble
$1,168Sale Price|20% Off
MARCUSO model Modernist Design Coffee Table, Italy 1970's
By Marco Zanuso, Zanotta
Located in Oud-Turnhout, VAN
Vintage Modernist Italian Design "MARCUSO" model Coffee Table in the manner of Marco Zanuso for Zanotta. Made in Italy, 1970's / 80's period. Thick glass top with chrome cylindrical ...
Metal, Chrome
Large Italian Coffee Table Style of Memphis Milano, 1990s
By Memphis Milano
Located in Paris, IDF
The delicious, rule-breaking elements of postmodern design are evident in this large Italian coffee table in the style of Peter Shire and Memphis Milano, made in the 1990s. The ample...
Metal
Italian Sculpture "Kamasutra" Coffee Table 20th Century Concrete Molded
Located in Milano, IT
20th century 1990 "kamasutra" coffee table with white base sculpture in molded concrete, oval glass top 1.8 cm thick.
Concrete
Sculptural Walnut & Glass Coffee Table, Italy, 1950
By Ico Parisi, Gio Ponti
Located in Dronten, NL
In a world of homogeneous design, this table offers a specific voice: Italian, post-war, optimistic, and unapologetically elegant.
Brass
Marcuso Coffee Table by Marco Zanuso for Zanotta, Italy 1969
By Marco Zanuso, Zanotta
Located in Beograd, RS
Designed by Marco Zanuso for Zanotta, the Marcuso coffee table is one of the most recognizable icons of Italian post-war design. Originally introduced in the late 1960s, the model is...
Steel, Chrome
“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 features a rectangular, thick glass top with rounded corners, resting on a cross-sha...
Cast Stone, Metal
Italian Marble Coffee Table by Angelo Mangiarotti
By Angelo Mangiarotti
Located in New York, NY
Italian marble coffee table. Solid marble top which sit on four solid marble posts. Style of Angelo Mangiarotti.
Marble
Sunburst Rattan Square Coffee Table, Vivai Del Sud, Italy, 1970s
By Vivai del Sud
Located in Winston-Salem, NC
This vintage coffee table is a study in movement — an extraordinary concentric sunburst top of individually applied reedwork radiates from a textured leather center medallion studded...
Brass
Atlas Coffee Table by Hillsideout: Bronze & Murano Glass, Italy
Located in Geneve, CH
Atlas Coffee Table by Secondome Edizioni Limited Edition Of 8 + 2 A.P. Pieces Designer: Hillsideout. Dimensions: D 65 x W 120 x H 38 cm. Materials: Bronze and Murano glass. Collecti...
Bronze
Coffee Table Future Pyrite Model by Studio Superego, Italy
By Studio Superego
Located in Asti, Piemonte
Coffee table model Future Pyrite designed by Studio Superego for Superego Editions. Low brass sculpture table made up of three modular elements with colored plexiglass base. Biograp...
Brass
Italian Coffee Table with Red, Black & White Marble Spheres, 1990s
By Cattelan Italia
Located in Benalmadena, ES
Italian coffee table composed of three solid marble spheres in white, black, and red. This piece embodies a perfect synthesis of sculpture and functionality, with a strong visual pre...
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 designer who has carved a distinct niche in the world of high-end furniture and decor...
Iron
Travertine Coffee Table Italian Live Edge 1970s by Stone International
By Stone International
Located in Lake Worth, FL
Offering One Of Our Recent Palm Beach Estate Fine Furniture Acquisitions Of A 1970s Italian Live Edge Travertine Polished Coffee Cocktail Table by STONE INTERNATIONAL Both the top a...
Travertine
Universe Coffee Table by Verena Brausch in Marquina Marble, Italy
Located in Geneve, CH
Universe Coffee Table by Verena Brausch Dimensions: D 100 x W 180 x H 35 cm. Materials: Marquina Unito marble. Verena Brausch brings new energy and singularity of purpose. Her prima...
Marble
“Calder” Square Coffee Table by Rodolfo Dordoni for Minotti, Italy
By Minotti, Rodolfo Dordoni
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The “Calder” coffee table, designed in 1999 by Rodolfo Dordoni and manufactured in Italy by Minotti, exemplifies Dordoni’s refined approach to modern design, defined by clean lines, ...
Stainless Steel
Mid-Century Italian Modern Laccio Kiga Coffee Table by Marcel Breuer for Gavina
By Gavina, Marcel Breuer
Located in Warszawa, Mazowieckie
A design icon. The low Kiga coffee table is a post-war interpretation of the iconic Laccio table, designed by Marcel Breuer in 1924 as part of his experiment with bent steel tubing.
Chrome
$1,431Sale Price|30% Off
Postmodern Design Carrara Marble Low Coffee Table, Italy 1970's
Located in Oud-Turnhout, VAN
Vintage Postmodern Italian Design Low Coffee Table in Carrara Marble, made in Italy 1970's. Chrome metal base with carrara marble top. Sleek Minimalist in design. In very good origin...
Carrara Marble, Metal
Sculptural Italian Coffee Table, Grey Green Marble, Eye Shaped Design, 1980s
Located in London, London
A sculptural Italian marble coffee table from the 1980s, formed in a striking biomorphic silhouette with softly curved edges and a deeply architectural presence. Executed in richly v...
Marble
1980s Italian Postmodern Square Travertine Stone Parsons Coffee Table
By Afra & Tobia Scarpa, Gae Aulenti, Angelo Mangiarotti, Up & Up, Massimo and Lella Vignelli
Located in Palm Desert, CA
This Vintage Square Postmodern Travertine Parsons Coffee Table features a bold, architectural form crafted entirely from solid natural stone. Designed in the Postmodern Parsons style...
Travertine
Italian Blue Glass + Chrome Coffee Table Attributed to Cristal Arte, 1970s
By Cristal Arte
Located in Chicago, IL
An Italian coffee table from the 1970s, attributed to Cristal Arte. The rectangular form stretches just over four feet in width, its chromed steel frame housing two tiers of sapphire...
Chrome
Artedi Onyx Coffee Table Italian 1970s
By Artedi
Located in Lake Worth, FL
For FULL item description click on More Details below. Shipping Quote Information The shipping quote stated in the listing was from 1st Dibs and they normally set all the costs and ...
Onyx, Metal
Stone International Italian Travertine Marble Coffee, Console, Side Tables, Trio
By Stone International
Located in Philadelphia, PA
An amazing set of filled and polished tops, travertine-marble tables, with natural and porous travertine edging. The simplicity of the design and surface treatments is what makes thi...
Travertine, Marble
‘Tavolino Com Route" Coffee Table by Gae Aulenti, Italy, 1980’s
By Gae Aulenti
Located in Chicago, IL
‘Tavolino Com Route" coffee table by Gae Aulenti, Italy 1980’s black granite top, black lacquered wood frame, and large industrial wheels.
Granite
Chi Wing Lo ‘Tiche’ Coffee Table for Giorgetti, Italy, 1990s
By Chi Wing Lo, Giorgetti S.p.A.
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Elegant and sculptural “Tiche” coffee table designed by Chi Wing Lo for Giorgetti, Italy, circa 1990s. This sophisticated piece exemplifies Giorgetti’s masterful blend of craftsmansh...
Glass, Stained Glass, Fruitwood
Biricchino Sculpural Coffee Table, designed and assembled in Italy by Dario
Located in Parma, IT
The Biricchino coffee table, designed by Dario Nasuti, is a visual riddle that challenges the observer's perception. Its name (meaning "naughty" or "cheeky" in Italian) reveals the p...
Steel
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, complex constructivist structure with geometric reliefs in wood veneered with bronz...
Brass, Metal
Enigma Marble Coffee Table by Alter Ego Studio, Nero Marquina, Italy
Located in Geneve, CH
Enigma Marble Coffee Table / Bench by Alter Ego Studio Dimensions: D 72 x W 120 x H 43 cm. Materials: Nero Marquina. Available in other marbles. The products are made from natural ...
Marble
'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 geometry, the cube, the cylinder, the sphere and the pyramid, made of white marble, ...
Marble
Vintage Italian Stone International Travertine Pedestal Coffee Table
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
This sophisticated coffee table, masterfully crafted by Stone International in Italy, is a sublime representation of late 20th-century minimalist luxury.
Travertine
$3,840Sale Price|20% Off
Mod Travertine Up & Up Coffee Table Made in Italy c. 1970's
By Up & Up
Located in New York, NY
Voguish 1970's marble coffee table made in Italy by Up & Up. The table consists of two opposing triangular elements, which can be placed together to form a square coffee table, or pl...
Travertine
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 with silver-finished metal cross bars. This piece blends minimalist geometry with s...
Travertine, Metal
Postmodern Coffee Table in tubular steel and glass top in Bauhaus style, Italy
Located in Beograd, RS
In this listing you will find a striking Italian coffee table dating from the late 1970s, combining the rational geometry of Bauhaus design with an emerging Postmodern sensibility. ...
Steel
$25,899 / item
Coffee Table by Serafini
Located in Geneve, CH
Coffee Table by Serafini Designed by Arthur Vallin Dimensions: D 60 x W 120 x H 30 cm Materials: Brass, Marble Range 10 Available in other marbles and metals. Marmi Serafini is locat...
Marble, Brass
Italian Travertine Marble & Brass Cocktail Coffee Table
Located in Lake Worth, FL
For FULL item description click on More Details below. Shipping Quote Information The shipping quote stated in the listing was from 1st Dibs and they normally set all the costs and ...
Travertine, Brass
$14,973 / item
Coffee Table by Studiopepe
Located in Geneve, CH
Coffee table by Studiopepe Dimensions: D 90 x H 23 cm Materials: Onyx Multifaceted design agency Studiopepe was founded in Milan in 2006. Eclectic, voguish, it is the brainchil...
Onyx
Italian Postmodern 1980s Eye Shaped Breccio Marble Coffee Table Black-Green-Gold
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This rare Italian marble table is, unlike many others, made of breccio marble. Sitting on two very heavy V-shaped blocks, it stands very stable. The color and graining in the marble ...
Breccia Marble
1980s Nanda Vigo Italian Postmodern design Blue Coffee Table Memphis Style
By Nanda Vigo
Located in Brescia, IT
Nanda Vigo, coffee table. Glass Design Macherio, 1981 Enameled metal frame with wood feet Crystal top. Excellent condiction Available bibliography
Crystal, Metal
Large Travertine Mid Century Italian Modern Trapezoidal Glass Cocktail Table
Located in Philadelphia, PA
An extra long coffee table from Italy circa 1970's. It features 2 triangular travertine pedestals supporting a thick clear glass top.
Travertine
Settemila 17 Coffee Table by Ponti & Mariani Italy 1966
Located in Byron Bay, NSW
Iconic 1960s Italian Space Age Design An exceptional Settemila 17 illuminated coffee table, designed by Giorgio Ponti and Gianfranco Mariani for Rimadesio in Italy in 1966.
Murano Glass, Smoked Glass, Plexiglass
$6,886 / item
Atollo Coffee Table by Somaschini
Located in Geneve, CH
Atollo Coffee Table by Somaschini Dimensions: W 140 x D 72 x H 35 cm Materials: Lightened mdf monolithic structure with emptying. Patina green high gloss polyester lacquered finish. ...
Lacquer
Postmodern Side Coffe Table 1980s
Located in Čelinac, BA
Postmodern Side Coffe table Italy 1980s
Metal
Osvaldo Borsani T113 Steel Glass Coffee or Cocktail Table, Tecno, Italy, 1970s
By Bieffeplast
Located in Miami, FL
Osvaldo Borsani T113 coffee or cocktail table rendered in a simple rolled steel frame with a glass top, for Centro Progretti Tecno, Italy, circa 1970s.
Steel
Mid-Century Italian Coffee Table and Two Chairs, 1960s
Located in Praha, CZ
A mid-century Italian seating ensemble from the 1960s, composed of a coffee table with a sanded wooden top treated with clear bio oil and oak stain, paired with two sculptural lounge...
Metal
Table Coffee Sofa Willy Rizzo Alveo Black Chrome 1972 Vintage Cidue Italy
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
“It was about creating something new for a traditional setting.” Willy Rizzo, 'ALVEO' black lacquered and chromed coffee table, for Cidue, Italy, 1972-1973 - The recessed base create...
Chrome
$13,372 / item
Saturnia Coffee Table by Somaschini
Located in Geneve, CH
Saturnia Coffee Table by Somaschini Dimensions: W 180 x D 92 x H 28 cm Materials: Lightened mdf monolithic structure with emptying base with Pure metal finish in Burnished Copper – B...
Travertine, Copper
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 pedestal base, rectangular chrome tube details, and a rectangular glass top in the s...
Travertine, Metal
$3,611 / item
Ronin Coffee Table by Redeco
Located in Geneve, CH
Ronin Coffee Table by Redeco Dimensions: W 123 x D 123 x H 30 cm Materials: Solid wood structure. Available with marble or lacquered top. Base in Dark beech wood matt finish. Top in ...
Wood, Beech
$13,805 / item
Carl Coffee Table by Laurameroni
Located in Geneve, CH
Carl Coffee Table by Laurameroni Dimensions: W 95 x D 45 x H 83 cm Materials: Satin brass structure, matt polished marble base, top in bronzed crystal. Weight: 73 kg. Coffee table...
Marble, Brass
$1,613 / item
Trestle Coffee Table by Mingardo
Located in Geneve, CH
Trestle coffee table by Mingardo Dimensions: D 96 x W 80 x H 32 cm Materials: Ral 9005 black varnished iron structure and rods top Weight: 26 kg Also available in different fi...
Iron
$6,171 / item
Sharpened Coffee Table by ORFEO STUDIO
Located in Geneve, CH
Sharpened Coffee Table by ORFEO STUDIO Dimensions: W 82 x D 54 x H 46 cm. Materials: Steel. Finish: Patina finish About ORFEO STUDIO is an Italian design studio dedicated to the tr...
Steel
$11,058 / item
Dubaillusion Coffee Table by ORFEO STUDIO
Located in Geneve, CH
Dubaillusion Coffee Table by ORFEO STUDIO Dimensions: W 60 x D 50 x H 40 cm. Material: Brass. Finish: Super mirror finish and optical illusion finish. Weight: 25 kg. About ORFEO ST...
Brass
Brass and glass coffee table, 1970s
Located in Leuven, Vlaams Gewest
Elegant 4 legged solid brass coffee table with two tier clear glass tops. Beautiful piece, timeless and will combine in lots of interiors. 1970s - Italy Height: 45cm Width: 130cm ...
Brass
$1,832Sale Price|20% Off
Arches Coffee Table, Contemporary Italian Artist , Made in Milano
By Spinzi
Located in Milano, IT
Round Metal Coffee table modern design Palladium is a collection by Milan-based studio Spinzi that celebrates the timeless elegance of Italian neoclassical architecture.
Metal
$10,559 / item
Large Bold Coffee Table by Mohdern
Located in Geneve, CH
Large Bold Coffee Table by Mohdern Dimensions: W 140 x D 80 x H 30 cm (Marble Tray Included ⌀ 52 cm) Materials: Solid Ash Bold is a refined collection of coffee tables designed and...
Ash
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.
The right vintage, new or antique tables can help make any space in your home stand out.
Over the years, the variety of tables available to us, as well as our specific needs for said tables, has broadened. Today, with all manner of these must-have furnishings differing in shape, material and style, any dining room table can shine just as brightly as the guests who gather around it.
Remember, when shopping for a dining table, it must fit your dining area, and you need to account for space around the table too — think outside the box, as an oval dining table may work for tighter spaces. Alternatively, if you’ve got the room, a Regency-style dining table can elevate any formal occasion at mealtime.
Innovative furniture makers and designers have also redefined what a table can be. Whether it’s an unconventional Ping-Pong table, a brass side table to display your treasured collectibles or a Louis Vuitton steamer trunk to add an air of nostalgia to your loft, your table can say a lot about you.
The visionary work of French designer Xavier Lavergne, for example, includes tables that draw on the forms of celestial bodies as often as they do aquatic creatures or fossils. Elsewhere, Italian architect Gae Aulenti, who looked to Roman architecture in crafting her stately Jumbo coffee table, created clever glass-topped mobile coffee tables that move on bicycle tires or sculpted wood wheels for Fontana Arte.
Coffee and cocktail tables can serve as a room’s centerpiece with attention-grabbing details and colors. Glass varieties will keep your hardwood flooring and dazzling area rugs on display, while a marble or stone coffee table in a modern interior can showcase your prized art books and decorative objects. A unique vintage desk or writing table can bring sophistication and even a bit of spice to your work life.
No matter your desired form or function, a quality table for your living space is a sound investment. On 1stDibs, browse a collection of vintage, new and antique bedside tables, mid-century end tables and more .