$977 / item
Jet Black Threebù Stool by Marcantonio
Located in Geneve, CH
Jet Black Threebù Stool by Marcantonio Dimensions: D 45 x W 45 x H 45 cm. Seat Height: 45 cm
Other
$977 / item
Lime Green Threebù Stool by Marcantonio
Located in Geneve, CH
Lime Green Threebù Stool by Marcantonio Dimensions: D 45 x W 45 x H 45 cm. Seat Height: 45 cm
Other
$977 / item
Namibian Desert Threebù Stool by Marcantonio
Located in Geneve, CH
Namibian Desert Threebù Stool by Marcantonio Dimensions: D 45 x W 45 x H 45 cm. Seat Height: 45 cm
Other
$977 / item
Sahara Sand Threebù Stool by Marcantonio
Located in Geneve, CH
Sahara Sand Threebù Stool by Marcantonio Dimensions: D 45 x W 45 x H 45 cm. Seat Height: 45 cm
Other
$977 / item
Savannah Land Threebù Stool by Marcantonio
Located in Geneve, CH
Savannah Land Threebù Stool by Marcantonio Dimensions: D 45 x W 45 x H 45 cm. Seat Height: 45 cm
Other
Grafite Contemporary Honed Marble Stool by Angelo Alinea
Located in Geneve, CH
Grafite Contemporary Honed Marble Stool by Angelo Alinea Dimensions: D 35 x H 47 cm Materials
Marble
Kyknos Contemporary Honed Marble Stool by Angelo Alinea
Located in Geneve, CH
Kyknos Contemporary Honed Marble Stool by Angelo Alinea Dimensions: D 35 x H 47 cm Materials
Marble
$1,966 / item
Ducale BZ Stool by GIROTTI ENRICO
Located in Geneve, CH
Ducale BZ Stool by GIROTTI ENRICO Dimensions: W 53 x D 55 x H 110 cm Materials: Solid shaped steel
Steel
$1,350 / set
Matteo Grassi Bar Stools in Grey Leather
By Matteo Grassi
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Matteograssi, bar stools, leather, metal, Italy, 1970s Postmodern set of stools in grey leather
Metal
Pair of foldable stools by Calligaris, 1990s
By Calligaris
Located in Leuven, Vlaams Gewest
Pair of tripod foldable bar stools by Calligaris made from black lacquered wooden bases and blue
Velvet, Wood
$1,501 / item
Flow Hi Aureo Stool by GIROTTI ENRICO
Located in Geneve, CH
Flow Hi Aureo Stool by GIROTTI ENRICO Dimensions: W 44 x D 41 x H 82 cm Materials: Steel
Steel
$1,251 / item
Flow Low Aureo Stool by GIROTTI ENRICO
Located in Geneve, CH
Flow Low Aureo Stool by GIROTTI ENRICO Dimensions: W 41 x D 37 x H 50 cm Materials: Steel
Steel
$1,501 / item
Flow Hi Aureo Stool by GIROTTI ENRICO
Located in Geneve, CH
Flow Hi Aureo Stool by GIROTTI ENRICO Dimensions: W 44 x D 41 x H 82 cm Materials: Steel
Steel
$1,251 / item
Flow Low Aureo Stool by GIROTTI ENRICO
Located in Geneve, CH
Flow Low Aureo Stool by GIROTTI ENRICO Dimensions: W 41 x D 37 x H 50 cm Materials: Steel
Steel
$5,696 / item
Brume Awaiting L Stool by Secondome Edizioni
Located in Geneve, CH
Brume Awaiting L Stool by Secondome Edizioni Designer: Coralla Maiuri + Giorgia Zanellato
Brass
$5,696 / item
Aubergine Awaiting T Stool by Secondome Edizioni
Located in Geneve, CH
Aubergine Awaiting T Stool by Secondome Edizioni Designer: Coralla Maiuri + Giorgia Zanellato
Brass
$5,696 / item
Mirtillo Awaiting T Stool by Secondome Edizioni
Located in Geneve, CH
Mirtillo Awaiting T Stool by Secondome Edizioni Designer: Coralla Maiuri + Giorgia Zanellato
Brass
$5,696 / item
Indigo Awaiting T Stool by Secondome Edizioni
Located in Geneve, CH
Indigo Awaiting T Stool by Secondome Edizioni Designer: Coralla Maiuri + Giorgia Zanellato
Brass
$5,696 / item
Prugna Awaiting T Stool by Secondome Edizioni
Located in Geneve, CH
Prugna Awaiting T Stool by Secondome Edizioni Designer: Coralla Maiuri + Giorgia Zanellato
Brass
$5,696 / item
Argent Awaiting H Stool by Secondome Edizioni
Located in Geneve, CH
Argent Awaiting H Stool by Secondome Edizioni Designer: Coralla Maiuri + Giorgia Zanellato
Brass
$5,696 / item
Brume Awaiting H Stool by Secondome Edizioni
Located in Geneve, CH
Brume Awaiting H Stool by Secondome Edizioni Designer: Coralla Maiuri + Giorgia Zanellato
Brass
$5,696 / item
Vino Awaiting H Stool by Secondome Edizioni
Located in Geneve, CH
Vino Awaiting H Stool by Secondome Edizioni Designer: Coralla Maiuri + Giorgia Zanellato
Brass
$5,696 / item
Mirtillo Awaiting H Stool by Secondome Edizioni
Located in Geneve, CH
Mirtillo Awaiting H Stool by Secondome Edizioni Designer: Coralla Maiuri + Giorgia Zanellato
Brass
$5,696 / item
Lago Awaiting H Stool by Secondome Edizioni
Located in Geneve, CH
Lago Awaiting H Stool by Secondome Edizioni Designer: Coralla Maiuri + Giorgia Zanellato
Brass
$5,696 / item
Prugna Awaiting H Stool by Secondome Edizioni
Located in Geneve, CH
Prugna Awaiting H Stool by Secondome Edizioni Designer: Coralla Maiuri + Giorgia Zanellato
Brass
$5,696 / item
Indigo Awaiting H Stool by Secondome Edizioni
Located in Geneve, CH
Indigo Awaiting H Stool by Secondome Edizioni Designer: Coralla Maiuri + Giorgia Zanellato
Brass
$5,696 / item
Aubergine Awaiting H Stool by Secondome Edizioni
Located in Geneve, CH
Aubergine Awaiting H Stool by Secondome Edizioni Designer: Coralla Maiuri + Giorgia Zanellato
Brass
$5,696 / item
Melanzana Awaiting H Stool by Secondome Edizioni
Located in Geneve, CH
Melanzana Awaiting H Stool by Secondome Edizioni Designer: Coralla Maiuri + Giorgia Zanellato
Brass
$5,696 / item
Lago Awaiting L Stool by Secondome Edizioni
Located in Geneve, CH
Lago Awaiting L Stool by Secondome Edizioni Designer: Coralla Maiuri + Giorgia Zanellato
Brass
$5,696 / item
Aubergine Awaiting L Stool by Secondome Edizioni
Located in Geneve, CH
Aubergine Awaiting L Stool by Secondome Edizioni Designer: Coralla Maiuri + Giorgia Zanellato
Brass
$5,696 / item
Mirtillo Awaiting L Stool by Secondome Edizioni
Located in Geneve, CH
Mirtillo Awaiting L Stool by Secondome Edizioni Designer: Coralla Maiuri + Giorgia Zanellato
Brass
$5,696 / item
Melanzana Awaiting T Stool by Secondome Edizioni
Located in Geneve, CH
Melanzana Awaiting T Stool by Secondome Edizioni Designer: Coralla Maiuri + Giorgia Zanellato
Brass
$5,696 / item
Argent Awaiting L Stool by Secondome Edizioni
Located in Geneve, CH
Argent Awaiting L Stool by Secondome Edizioni Designer: Coralla Maiuri + Giorgia Zanellato
Brass
$5,696 / item
Brume Awaiting T Stool by Secondome Edizioni
Located in Geneve, CH
Brume Awaiting T Stool by Secondome Edizioni Designer: Coralla Maiuri + Giorgia Zanellato
Brass
$5,696 / item
Vino Awaiting L Stool by Secondome Edizioni
Located in Geneve, CH
Vino Awaiting L Stool by Secondome Edizioni Designer: Coralla Maiuri + Giorgia Zanellato
Brass
$5,696 / item
Vino Awaiting T Stool by Secondome Edizioni
Located in Geneve, CH
Vino Awaiting T Stool by Secondome Edizioni Designer: Coralla Maiuri + Giorgia Zanellato
Brass
$5,696 / item
Argent Awaiting T Stool by Secondome Edizioni
Located in Geneve, CH
Argent Awaiting T Stool by Secondome Edizioni Designer: Coralla Maiuri + Giorgia Zanellato
Brass
$5,696 / item
Prugna Awaiting L Stool by Secondome Edizioni
Located in Geneve, CH
Prugna Awaiting L Stool by Secondome Edizioni Designer: Coralla Maiuri + Giorgia Zanellato
Brass
$5,696 / item
Melanzana Awaiting L Stool by Secondome Edizioni
Located in Geneve, CH
Melanzana Awaiting L Stool by Secondome Edizioni Designer: Coralla Maiuri + Giorgia Zanellato
Brass
$5,696 / item
Lago Awaiting T Stool by Secondome Edizioni
Located in Geneve, CH
Lago Awaiting T Stool by Secondome Edizioni Designer: Coralla Maiuri + Giorgia Zanellato
Brass
$5,696 / item
Indigo Awaiting L Stool by Secondome Edizioni
Located in Geneve, CH
Indigo Awaiting L Stool by Secondome Edizioni Designer: Coralla Maiuri + Giorgia Zanellato
Brass
Travertino Silver Contemporary Honed Marble Stool by Angelo Alinea
Located in Geneve, CH
Travertino Silver Contemporary Honed Marble Stool by Angelo Alinea Dimensions: D 35 x H 47 cm
Marble
Picasso Green Contemporary Honed Marble Stool by Angelo Alinea
Located in Geneve, CH
Picasso Green Contemporary Honed Marble Stool by Angelo Alinea Dimensions: D 35 x H 47 cm Materials
Marble
Travertino Rosso Contemporary Honed Marble Stool by Angelo Alinea
Located in Geneve, CH
Travertino Rosso Contemporary Honed Marble Stool by Angelo Alinea Dimensions: D 35 x H 47 cm
Marble
Bianco Statuarietto Contemporary Honed Marble Stool by Angelo Alinea
Located in Geneve, CH
Bianco Statuarietto Contemporary Honed Marble Stool by Angelo Alinea Dimensions: D 35 x H 47 cm
Marble
$1,787 / set
Pair of contemporary pink and light blue stools
Located in Milano, IT
Immerse yourself in the elegance of modern design with this refined pair of stools, expertly
Brass
$977 / item
Flame Red Gear Stool by Anastasia Ivanyuk
Located in Geneve, CH
Flame Red Gear Stool by Anastasia Ivanyuk Dimensions: D 55 x W 55 x H 43 cm. Seat Height: 43 cm
Other
$977 / item
Lime Green Gear Stool by Anastasia Ivanyuk
Located in Geneve, CH
Lime Green Gear Stool by Anastasia Ivanyuk Dimensions: D 55 x W 55 x H 43 cm. Seat Height: 43 cm
Other
$977 / item
Powder Blue Gear Stool by Anastasia Ivanyuk
Located in Geneve, CH
Powder Blue Gear Stool by Anastasia Ivanyuk Dimensions: D 55 x W 55 x H 43 cm. Seat Height: 43 cm
Other
Saffron Yellow Gear Stool by Anastasia Ivanyuk
Located in Geneve, CH
Saffron Yellow Gear Stool by Anastasia Ivanyuk Dimensions: D 55 x W 55 x H 43 cm. Seat Height: 43
Other
$977 / item
Jet Black Gear Stool by Anastasia Ivanyuk
Located in Geneve, CH
Jet Black Gear Stool by Anastasia Ivanyuk Dimensions: D 55 x W 55 x H 43 cm. Seat Height: 43 cm
Other
$977 / item
Dove Grey Gear Stool by Anastasia Ivanyuk
Located in Geneve, CH
Dove Grey Gear Stool by Anastasia Ivanyuk Dimensions: D 55 x W 55 x H 43 cm. Seat Height: 43 cm
Other
Elephant Grey Gear Stool by Anastasia Ivanyuk
Located in Geneve, CH
Elephant Grey Gear Stool by Anastasia Ivanyuk Dimensions: D 55 x W 55 x H 43 cm. Seat Height: 43 cm
Other
$977 / item
Malva Green Gear Stool by Anastasia Ivanyuk
Located in Geneve, CH
Malva Green Gear Stool by Anastasia Ivanyuk Dimensions: D 55 x W 55 x H 43 cm. Seat Height: 43 cm
Other
Chocolate Brown Gear Stool by Anastasia Ivanyuk
Located in Geneve, CH
Chocolate Brown Gear Stool by Anastasia Ivanyuk Dimensions: D 55 x W 55 x H 43 cm. Seat Height: 43
Other
Sweet Fuchsia Gear Stool by Anastasia Ivanyuk
Located in Geneve, CH
Sweet Fuchsia Gear Stool by Anastasia Ivanyuk Dimensions: D 55 x W 55 x H 43 cm. Seat Height: 43 cm
Other
$977 / item
Argil Grey Gear Stool by Anastasia Ivanyuk
Located in Geneve, CH
Argil Grey Gear Stool by Anastasia Ivanyuk Dimensions: D 55 x W 55 x H 43 cm. Seat Height: 43 cm
Other
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.
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.