$926 / item
Lime Green Double U Stool by Kazuko Okamoto
Located in Geneve, CH
Lime Green Double U Stool by Kazuko Okamoto Dimensions: D 43 x W 43 x H 58 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 7 kg. Available in different color options. This product is suitable...
Other
$712 / item
Powder Blue Cubo Pouf Stool by SLIDE Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Powder Blue Cubo Pouf Stool by SLIDE Studio Dimensions: D 43 x W 43 x H 43 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 4 kg. Available in different color options. This product is suitable...
Other
Pumpkin Orange Cubo Pouf Stool by SLIDE Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Pumpkin Orange Cubo Pouf Stool by SLIDE Studio Dimensions: D 43 x W 43 x H 43 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 4 kg. Available in different color options. This product is suita...
Other
$712 / item
Flame Red Cubo Pouf Stool by SLIDE Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Flame Red Cubo Pouf Stool by SLIDE Studio Dimensions: D 43 x W 43 x H 43 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 4 kg. Available in different color options. This product is suitable f...
Other
$712 / item
Jet Black Cubo Pouf Stool by SLIDE Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Jet Black Cubo Pouf Stool by SLIDE Studio Dimensions: D 43 x W 43 x H 43 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 4 kg. Available in different color options. This product is suitable f...
Other
$712 / item
Lime Green Cubo Pouf Stool by SLIDE Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Lime Green Cubo Pouf Stool by SLIDE Studio Dimensions: D 43 x W 43 x H 43 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 4 kg. Available in different color options. This product is suitable ...
Other
$1,306 / item
Sweet Fuchsia Drink High Stool by Jorge Najera
Located in Geneve, CH
Sweet Fuchsia Drink High Stool by Jorge Najera Dimensions: Ø 45 x H 75 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 7 kg. Available in different color options. This product is suitable for...
Other
Grey Saint Laurent Contemporary Honed Marble Stool by Angelo Alinea
Located in Geneve, CH
Grey Saint Laurent Contemporary Honed Marble Stool by Angelo Alinea Dimensions: D 35 x H 47 cm Materials: Marble Available in: GRAFITE / TRAVERTINO ROSSO / GREY SAINT LAURENT / PICA...
Marble
$1,461 / item
Saffron Yellow Koncord High Stool by Karim Rashid
Located in Geneve, CH
Saffron Yellow Koncord High Stool by Karim Rashid Dimensions: D 40 x W 43 x H 76 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 5 kg. Available in different color options. Available in standa...
Other
$1,461 / item
Pumpkin Orange Koncord High Stool by Karim Rashid
Located in Geneve, CH
Pumpkin Orange Koncord High Stool by Karim Rashid Dimensions: D 40 x W 43 x H 76 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 5 kg. Available in different color options. Available in standa...
Other
$1,461 / item
Sweet Fuchsia Koncord High Stool by Karim Rashid
Located in Geneve, CH
Sweet Fuchsia Koncord High Stool by Karim Rashid Dimensions: D 40 x W 43 x H 76 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 5 kg. Available in different color options. Available in standar...
Other
$1,461 / item
Powder Blue Koncord High Stool by Karim Rashid
Located in Geneve, CH
Powder Blue Koncord High Stool by Karim Rashid Dimensions: D 40 x W 43 x H 76 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 5 kg. Available in different color options. Available in standard,...
Other
$1,461 / item
Milky White Koncord High Stool by Karim Rashid
Located in Geneve, CH
Milky White Koncord High Stool by Karim Rashid Dimensions: D 40 x W 43 x H 76 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 5 kg. Available in different color options. Available in standard,...
Other
$1,461 / item
Argil Grey Koncord High Stool by Karim Rashid
Located in Geneve, CH
Argil Grey Koncord High Stool by Karim Rashid Dimensions: D 40 x W 43 x H 76 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 5 kg. Available in different color options. Available in standard, ...
Other
$1,461 / item
Malva Green Koncord High Stool by Karim Rashid
Located in Geneve, CH
Malva Green Koncord High Stool by Karim Rashid Dimensions: D 40 x W 43 x H 76 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 5 kg. Available in different color options. Available in standard,...
Other
$1,461 / item
Jet Black Koncord High Stool by Karim Rashid
Located in Geneve, CH
Jet Black Koncord High Stool by Karim Rashid Dimensions: D 40 x W 43 x H 76 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 5 kg. Available in different color options. Available in standard, g...
Other
$1,461 / item
Flame Red Koncord High Stool by Karim Rashid
Located in Geneve, CH
Flame Red Koncord High Stool by Karim Rashid Dimensions: D 40 x W 43 x H 76 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 5 kg. Available in different color options. Available in standard, g...
Other
$1,461 / item
Lime Green Koncord High Stool by Karim Rashid
Located in Geneve, CH
Lime Green Koncord High Stool by Karim Rashid Dimensions: D 40 x W 43 x H 76 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 5 kg. Available in different color options. Available in standard, ...
Other
$1,461 / item
Dove Grey Koncord High Stool by Karim Rashid
Located in Geneve, CH
Dove Grey Koncord High Stool by Karim Rashid Dimensions: D 40 x W 43 x H 76 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 5 kg. Available in different color options. Available in standard, g...
Other
$1,461 / item
Elephant Grey Koncord High Stool by Karim Rashid
Located in Geneve, CH
Elephant Grey Koncord High Stool by Karim Rashid Dimensions: D 40 x W 43 x H 76 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 5 kg. Available in different color options. Available in standar...
Other
$1,461 / item
Chocolate Brown Koncord High Stool by Karim Rashid
Located in Geneve, CH
Chocolate Brown Koncord High Stool by Karim Rashid Dimensions: D 40 x W 43 x H 76 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 5 kg. Available in different color options. Available in stand...
Other
$1,306 / item
Dove Grey Voilà High Stool by Marc Sadler
Located in Geneve, CH
Dove Grey Voilà High Stool by Marc Sadler Dimensions: D 38 x W 35 x H 84 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 6 kg. Available in different different color options. This product is s...
Other
$1,306 / item
Pumpkin Orange Voilà High Stool by Marc Sadler
Located in Geneve, CH
Pumpkin Orange Voilà High Stool by Marc Sadler Dimensions: D 38 x W 35 x H 84 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 6 kg. Available in different different color options. This product...
Other
$1,306 / item
Chocolate Brown Voilà High Stool by Marc Sadler
Located in Geneve, CH
Chocolate Brown Voilà High Stool by Marc Sadler Dimensions: D 38 x W 35 x H 84 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 6 kg. Available in different different color options. This produc...
Other
$1,306 / item
Saffron Yellow Voilà High Stool by Marc Sadler
Located in Geneve, CH
Saffron Yellow Voilà High Stool by Marc Sadler Dimensions: D 38 x W 35 x H 84 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 6 kg. Available in different different color options. This product...
Other
$1,306 / item
Sweet Fuchsia Voilà High Stool by Marc Sadler
Located in Geneve, CH
Sweet Fuchsia Voilà High Stool by Marc Sadler Dimensions: D 38 x W 35 x H 84 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 6 kg. Available in different different color options. This product ...
Other
$1,306 / item
Elephant Grey Voilà High Stool by Marc Sadler
Located in Geneve, CH
Elephant Grey Voilà High Stool by Marc Sadler Dimensions: D 38 x W 35 x H 84 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 6 kg. Available in different different color options. This product ...
Other
$1,306 / item
Milky White Voilà High Stool by Marc Sadler
Located in Geneve, CH
Milky White Voilà High Stool by Marc Sadler Dimensions: D 38 x W 35 x H 84 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 6 kg. Available in different different color options. This product is...
Other
$1,306 / item
Lime Green Voilà High Stool by Marc Sadler
Located in Geneve, CH
Lime Green Voilà High Stool by Marc Sadler Dimensions: D 38 x W 35 x H 84 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 6 kg. Available in different different color options. This product is ...
Other
$1,306 / item
Flame Red Voilà High Stool by Marc Sadler
Located in Geneve, CH
Flame Red Voilà High Stool by Marc Sadler Dimensions: D 38 x W 35 x H 84 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 6 kg. Available in different different color options. This product is s...
Other
$1,781 / item
Glossy Metallic Gold Pandoro Stool by Gianni Arnaudo
Located in Geneve, CH
Glossy Metallic Gold Pandoro Stool by Gianni Arnaudo Dimensions: D 47 x W 47 x H 42 cm. Materials: Polyethylene with a glossy lacquered metallic gold finish. Weight: 3 kg. Available...
Other
Light White Lighted Pandoro Stool by Gianni Arnaudo
Located in Geneve, CH
Light White Lighted Pandoro Stool by Gianni Arnaudo Dimensions: D 47 x W 47 x H 42 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 3 kg. Available in different color options. This product is s...
Other
$1,781 / item
Argil Grey Soft Cubo Stool by SLIDE Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Argil Grey Soft Cubo Stool by SLIDE Studio Dimensions: D 43 x W 43 x H 43 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 5 kg. Available in different color options. This product is suitable ...
Other
Contemporary White Arch Stool in Steel and Plaster by Pietro Franceschini
By Pietro Franceschini
Located in Geneve, CH
Contemporary White Arch Stool in Steel and Plaster by Pietro Franceschini. Dimensions: W 54 x L 31.5 x H 43 cm. Materials: Steel and Plaster. This listing features the White Arch St...
Steel
Contemporary Nabuck Arch Stool in Steel and Leather by Pietro Franceschini
By Pietro Franceschini
Located in Geneve, CH
Contemporary Nabuck Arch Stool in Steel and Leather by Pietro Franceschini. Dimensions: W 54 x L 31.5 x H 43 cm. Materials: Steel and Leather. This listing features the Nabuck Arch ...
Steel
$534 / item
Dove Grey Cin Cin Stool by SLIDE Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Dove Grey Cin Cin Stool by SLIDE Studio Dimensions: Ø 32 x H 49 cm. Seat Height: 49 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 2 kg. Available in different color options. This product is ...
Other
$534 / item
Lime Green Cin Cin Stool by SLIDE Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Lime Green Cin Cin Stool by SLIDE Studio Dimensions: Ø 32 x H 49 cm. Seat Height: 49 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 2 kg. Available in different color options. This product is...
Other
$534 / item
Jet Black Cin Cin Stool by SLIDE Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Jet Black Cin Cin Stool by SLIDE Studio Dimensions: Ø 32 x H 49 cm. Seat Height: 49 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 2 kg. Available in different color options. This product is ...
Other
$534 / item
Elephant Grey Cin Cin Stool by SLIDE Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Elephant Grey Cin Cin Stool by SLIDE Studio Dimensions: Ø 32 x H 49 cm. Seat Height: 49 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 2 kg. Available in different color options. This product...
Other
$534 / item
Saffron Yellow Cin Cin Stool by SLIDE Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Saffron Yellow Cin Cin Stool by SLIDE Studio Dimensions: Ø 32 x H 49 cm. Seat Height: 49 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 2 kg. Available in different color options. This produc...
Other
$534 / item
Milky White Cin Cin Stool by SLIDE Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Milky White Cin Cin Stool by SLIDE Studio Dimensions: Ø 32 x H 49 cm. Seat Height: 49 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 2 kg. Available in different color options. This product i...
Other
$534 / item
Argil Grey Cin Cin Stool by SLIDE Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Argil Grey Cin Cin Stool by SLIDE Studio Dimensions: Ø 32 x H 49 cm. Seat Height: 49 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 2 kg. Available in different color options. This product is...
Other
$534 / item
Powder Blue Cin Cin Stool by SLIDE Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Powder Blue Cin Cin Stool by SLIDE Studio Dimensions: Ø 32 x H 49 cm. Seat Height: 49 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 2 kg. Available in different color options. This product i...
Other
Chocolate Brown Cin Cin Stool by SLIDE Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Chocolate Brown Cin Cin Stool by SLIDE Studio Dimensions: Ø 32 x H 49 cm. Seat Height: 49 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 2 kg. Available in different color options. This produ...
Other
$534 / item
Sweet Fuchsia Cin Cin Stool by SLIDE Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Sweet Fuchsia Cin Cin Stool by SLIDE Studio Dimensions: Ø 32 x H 49 cm. Seat Height: 49 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 2 kg. Available in different color options. This product...
Other
$534 / item
Flame Red Cin Cin Stool by SLIDE Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Flame Red Cin Cin Stool by SLIDE Studio Dimensions: Ø 32 x H 49 cm. Seat Height: 49 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 2 kg. Available in different color options. This product is ...
Other
$534 / item
Malva Green Cin Cin Stool by SLIDE Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Malva Green Cin Cin Stool by SLIDE Studio Dimensions: Ø 32 x H 49 cm. Seat Height: 49 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 2 kg. Available in different color options. This product i...
Other
$534 / item
Pumpkin Orange Cin Cin Stool by SLIDE Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Pumpkin Orange Cin Cin Stool by SLIDE Studio Dimensions: Ø 32 x H 49 cm. Seat Height: 49 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 2 kg. Available in different color options. This produc...
Other
$1,960 / item
Ult Black Ducale BZ Stool by GIROTTI ENRICO
Located in Geneve, CH
Ult Black Ducale BZ Stool by GIROTTI ENRICO Dimensions: W 53 x D 55 x H 110 cm Materials: Solid shaped steel with a chrome finish and eco-leather upholstery. Weight: 8 Kg. Enrico G...
Steel
$3,302 / item
Mike Reclaimed Oak Stool by Fred and Juul
Located in Geneve, CH
Mike Reclaimed Oak Stool by Fred and Juul Dimensions: D 31 x W 36 x H 45 cm. Materials: Reclaimed oak and brass. This stool can also be used as a side table. Custom sizes, materials...
Brass
Vertebrae High Bar Stool in Mild Steel by Metalmorphosis Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Vertebrae High Bar Stool in Mild Steel by Metalmorphosis Studio Unique Piece Dimensions: D 40 x W 45 x H 85 cm. Materials: Mild steel. Vertebrae_ Barstool explores the structural lo...
Steel
$1,009 / set
Vintage chrome wire bar stools, 1980s - set of 4
Located in Leuven, Vlaams Gewest
Vintage postmodern bar stools with a white metal frame and grey skai seats. 1980s - Italy Very good condition Dimensions: Height: 108cm Width x depth: 46cm Seat height: 78cm Ref...
Metal
$2,435 / item
Arabescato Ribs Up High Stool by OTTO Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Arabescato Ribs Up High Stool by OTTO Studio Designed by Paola Navone. Dimensions: D 58 x W 57 x H 117 cm. Seat Height: 73 cm. Materials: Polyethylene and metal. Weight: 13 kg. Ava...
Metal, Other
Jeunesse Green Stool by Secondome Edizioni and Studio F
Located in Geneve, CH
Jeunesse Green Stool by Secondome Edizioni and Studio F Designer: Duccio Maria Gambi. Dimensions: Ø 32 x H 43 cm. Materials: Solid woodworm maple wood. Collection / Production: Seco...
Maple
Jeunesse Orange Stool by Secondome Edizioni and Studio F
Located in Geneve, CH
Jeunesse Orange Stool by Secondome Edizioni and Studio F Designer: Duccio Maria Gambi. Dimensions: D 41,5 x W 32 x H 43 cm. Materials: Solid woodworm maple wood. Collection / Produc...
Maple
Milky White Ali Baba Stool by Giò Colonna Romano
Located in Geneve, CH
Milky White Ali Baba Stool by Giò Colonna Romano Dimensions: Ø 43 x H 41 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 2,5 kg. Available in a standard version and an LED version. Prices may ...
Other
Argil Grey Ali Baba Stool by Giò Colonna Romano
Located in Geneve, CH
Argil Grey Ali Baba Stool by Giò Colonna Romano Dimensions: Ø 43 x H 41 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 2,5 kg. Available in a standard version and an LED version. Prices may v...
Other
Dove Grey Ali Baba Stool by Giò Colonna Romano
Located in Geneve, CH
Dove Grey Ali Baba Stool by Giò Colonna Romano Dimensions: Ø 43 x H 41 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 2,5 kg. Available in a standard version and an LED version. Prices may va...
Other
Sweet Fuschia Ali Baba Stool by Giò Colonna Romano
Located in Geneve, CH
Sweet Fuschia Ali Baba Stool by Giò Colonna Romano Dimensions: Ø 43 x H 41 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 2,5 kg. Available in a standard version and an LED version. Prices ma...
Other
Chocolate Brown Ali Baba Stool by Giò Colonna Romano
Located in Geneve, CH
Chocolate Brown Ali Baba Stool by Giò Colonna Romano Dimensions: Ø 43 x H 41 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 2,5 kg. Available in a standard version and an LED version. Prices ...
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.