Italian Post Modern Stools

Italian Postmodern

Sugar Cane

$950

Rodney Kinsman Tokyo Stool for Bieffelplast, Italy 1980s

By Rodney Kinsman, Bieffeplast

Located in Miami, FL

Postmodern Tokyo counter stool made of a satin black steel frame, curved black polyurethane backrest and a red naugahyde cushioned seat. The footrest maintains the plastic tube prote...

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Late 20th Century Italian Post-Modern Stools

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Steel

Three Postmodern Memphis Style Bar Stools, Italy, 1980s

$1,800 / set

$9,508 / item

$964 / item

Saffron Yellow Threebù Stool by Marcantonio

Located in Geneve, CH

Saffron Yellow Threebù Stool by Marcantonio Dimensions: D 45 x W 45 x H 45 cm. Seat Height: 45 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 4 kg. Also available in biobased polyethylene of ...

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2010s Italian Post-Modern Stools

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Other

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Pair of Italian Postmodern Bar Stools

Unavailable

H 31.5 in Dm 13.78 in

Pair of Italian Postmodern Bar Stools

Located in Madrid, ES

Set of two Italian Postmodern bar stools from late 20th century by Plank. Made in chromed stainless steel and orange leather seats. Labeled and numbered by the maker.

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Late 20th Century Italian Post-Modern Stools

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Stainless Steel

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H 37.41 in W 16.93 in D 14.18 in

Set of 2 post modern bar stools, Italy 1980s

Located in ECHT, NL

Set of 2 post modern design bar stools. Made from steel, aluminium and leather. The seat height measures 79cm and the height of the backrest is 95cm. Good vintage condition with user...

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Late 20th Century Italian Post-Modern Stools

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Aluminum, Steel

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H 20 in W 20 in D 20 in

Pair of Italian Postmodern Triangular Upholstered Stools or End Tables

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Postmodern upholstered ottoman stools or end tables with eclectic abstract printed fabric upholstery. Featuring a vase illustrated on the top of the seat, zebra print piping and upho...

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Vintage 1980s Italian Post-Modern Stools

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Fabric

Italian Bar Stools Designed by Giandomenico Belotti , Set of 4

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H 27.96 in W 17.72 in D 11.82 in

Set of 6 bar stools by Arper, 1990s

By Arper

Located in Leuven, Vlaams Gewest

White and cream Post modern bar stools by arper with an aluminum base and foot rest.

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1990s Italian Post-Modern Stools

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Metal

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Italian Post Modern Stools For Sale on 1stDibs

Find a variety of Italian post modern stools available on 1stDibs. The range of distinct Italian post modern stools — often made from metal, plastic and fabric — can elevate any home. Italian post modern stools have long been popular, with older editions for sale from the 20th Century and newer versions made as recently as the 21st Century. There have been many well-made Italian post modern stools over the years, but those made by Bieffeplast, Rodney Kinsman and Philippe Starck are often thought to be among the most beautiful.

How Much are Italian Post Modern Stools?

Italian post modern stools can differ in price owing to various characteristics — the average selling price at 1stDibs is $1,424, while the lowest priced sells for $198 and the highest can go for as much as $15,700.

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 Stools for You

Stools are versatile and a necessary addition to any living room, kitchen area or elsewhere in your home. A sofa or reliable lounge chair might nab all the credit, comfort-wise, but don’t discount the roles that good antique, new and vintage stools can play.

“Stools are jewels and statements in a space, and they can also be investment pieces,” says New York City designer Amy Lau, who adds that these seats provide an excellent choice for setting an interior’s general tone.

Stools, which are among the oldest forms of wooden furnishings, may also serve as decorative pieces, even if we’re talking about a stool that is far less sculptural than the gracefully curving molded plywood shells that make up Sōri Yanagi’s provocative Butterfly stool.

Fawn Galli, a New York interior designer, uses her stools in the same way you would use a throw pillow. “I normally buy several styles and move them around the home where needed,” she says.

Stools are smaller pieces of seating as compared to armchairs or dining chairs and can add depth as well as functionality to a space that you’ve set aside for entertaining. For a splash of color, consider the Stool 60, a pioneering work of bentwood by Finnish architect and furniture maker Alvar Aalto. It’s manufactured by Artek and comes in a variety of colored seats and finishes.

Barstools that date back to the 1970s are now more ubiquitous in kitchens. Vintage barstools have seen renewed interest, be they a meld of chrome and leather or transparent plastic, such as the Lucite and stainless-steel counter stool variety from Indiana-born furniture designer Charles Hollis Jones, who is renowned for his acrylic works. A cluster of barstools — perhaps a set of four brushed-aluminum counter stools by Emeco or Tubby Tube stools by Faye Toogood — can encourage merriment in the kitchen. If you’ve got the room for family and friends to congregate and enjoy cocktails where the cooking is done, consider matching your stools with a tall table.

Whether you need counter stools, drafting stools or another kind, explore an extensive range of antique, new and vintage stools on 1stDibs.