Italian Post Modern Sofa

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1980s Post Modern Italian Leather Sofa

$3,000

1980s Post Modern Italian Leather Sofa

By Chateau d'Ax

Located in Las Vegas, NV

Lovely Italian Post Modern Leather sofa. Literally looks like it was never sat on.

Category

Late 20th Century Post-Modern Sofas

Materials

Leather

Felicerossi Italian Post-Modern Sectional Sofa, 1970s

$18,500 / set

$12,416Sale Price / set|20% Off

Organically Shaped Post-Modern Sectional Sofa in Black Leather

Located in Oirlo, LI

Step into a world where comfort meets artistry with this extraordinary 1980s sectional sofa. Crafted in Europe during the height of post-modern design, this sofa is more than just ...

Category

Vintage 1980s Italian Mid-Century Modern Sectional Sofas

Materials

Leather

Italian modern modular Cannaregio sofa by Gaetano Pesce for Cassina, 1987

$8,425

$2,750

Postmodern 3-Seater Sofa "Newtone" by Massimo Iosa Ghini for Moroso, Italy 1989

By Massimo Iosa Ghini, Moroso

Located in Beograd, RS

In this listing you will find a magnificent postmodern sofa "Newtone" designed by Massimo Iosa Ghini for Moroso. Sofa has beautiful shape with down-dropping backrest which gives it e...

Category

Vintage 1980s Italian Post-Modern Sofas

Materials

Aluminum

Recent Sales

Post-Modern Pink and Red Alcantara Sofas, Italy, 1980s

Unavailable

H 36.23 in W 66.93 in D 35.44 in

Post-Modern Pink and Red Alcantara Sofas, Italy, 1980s

Located in Vienna, AT

Post-modern pink and red Alcantara sofas, Italy 1980s This rare set of pink and red postmodern sofas have a unique look: their brightly coloured cushions can be put together to fo...

Category

Vintage 1980s Italian Post-Modern Sofas

Materials

Textile, Wood

Post Modern Red Leather Sofa by Flep S.P.a. Bitonto, Made in Italy

Unavailable

H 31 in W 77 in D 30 in

Post Modern Red Leather Sofa by Flep S.P.a. Bitonto, Made in Italy

Located in Brooklyn, NY

Beautiful red leather sofa in pristine condition. Height 31” Width 77” Depth 30”.

Category

Vintage 1980s Italian Post-Modern Sofas

Materials

Leather

"Pratone" Sofa-Sculputure by Gufram, 1971, Italy

Unavailable

H 35.44 in W 55.12 in D 55.12 in

"Pratone" Sofa-Sculputure by Gufram, 1971, Italy

By Gufram Furniture

Located in Milan, IT

The Pratone seat it's a cult piece of Italian design, designed in 1971 by the Strum Group (Giorgio Ceretti, Pietro Derossi, Riccardo Rosso). Still produced by Gufram, it is part of t...

Category

Vintage 1970s Italian Post-Modern Sofas

Materials

Foam

Unavailable

H 29.5 in W 55.5 in D 17 in

Stainless and Glass Console/Sofa Table

By Pierre Cardin

Located in Houston, TX

Incredible stainless steel and glass console table that captures a a very curvature illusion, Glass top has a arch on front side and a flat back .

Sold

H 30 in W 72 in D 32 in

Mid Century Post Modern Italian Navy Blue Leather Sofa circa 1990s

Located in BROOKLYN, NY

Fabulous Mid century style post modern two-cushion dark Navy blue Italian sofa - Circa. 1990s.

Category

1990s Italian Post-Modern Sofas

Materials

Leather, Wood

Post-Modern Marzio Cecchi Leather Two-Seater Couch, Italian Design, 1970s

Sold

Sold

H 28.5 in W 83 in D 36 in

Rockstar Moto Glam Black Leather & Python / Snakeskin Sofa Post-Modern

By Maurice Villency

Located in Hudson, NY

Large scale sofa with butter soft yet durable thick black leather- like a moto jacket. Trim is python embossed leather. This piece is so unique and absolutely stunning in person and ...

Category

Late 20th Century Italian Post-Modern Sofas

Materials

Leather

Midcentury Italian Post Modern Curved Sectional Sofa in L-Shape by Weiman

Sold

H 29.5 in W 135 in D 110.5 in

Midcentury Italian Post Modern Curved Sectional Sofa in L-Shape by Weiman

By Weiman

Located in Philadelphia, PA

An awesome vintage sofa with an Italian design aesthetic. This was made in the 1980's by Weiman and has 3 sections. Heavy finely made sofa. Fabric is original and is in great shape e...

Category

Vintage 1980s American Post-Modern Sectional Sofas

Materials

Fabric

H 32 in W 103 in D 35 in

1980s Italian Sofa

Located in Chicago, IL

fully restored in Knoll corduroy - this piece has minor wear from use but there are no notable flaws

Category

Vintage 1980s Italian Post-Modern Sofas

Materials

Materials

Marble

$6,535Sale Price|20% Off

H 33.08 in W 57.88 in D 25.6 in

The chaise longue by Robsjohn-Gibbings crafted by the renowned Widdicomb Edition

By T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings

Located in Auribeau sur Siagne, FR

The chaise longue by Robsjohn-Gibbings, crafted by the renowned Widdicomb Edition, embodies the essence of 1950s vintage design. This elegant and timeless piece is more than just sea...

Category

Vintage 1980s American Mid-Century Modern Lounge Chairs

Materials

Brass

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Italian Post Modern Sofa For Sale on 1stDibs

Choose from an assortment of styles, material and more with respect to the Italian post modern sofa you’re looking for at 1stDibs. Each Italian post modern sofa for sale was constructed with extraordinary care, often using fabric, metal and animal skin. There are 544 variations of the antique or vintage Italian post modern sofa you’re looking for, while we also have 148 modern editions of this piece to choose from as well. There are many kinds of the Italian post modern sofa you’re looking for, from those produced as long ago as the 18th Century to those made as recently as the 21st Century. An Italian post modern sofa is a generally popular piece of furniture, but those created in mid-century modern and modern styles are sought with frequency. Many designers have produced at least one well-made Italian post modern sofa over the years, but those crafted by B&B Italia, Cassina and Mario Bellini are often thought to be among the most beautiful.

How Much is an Italian Post Modern Sofa?

An Italian post modern sofa can differ in price owing to various characteristics — the average selling price 1stDibs is $6,015, while the lowest priced sells for $1 and the highest can go for as much as $90,000.

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

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 Seating for You

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.