$721 / 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
Other
$721 / 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
Other
Chocolate Brown Double U Stool by Kazuko Okamoto
Located in Geneve, CH
Chocolate Brown Double U Stool by Kazuko Okamoto Dimensions: D 43 x W 43 x H 58 cm. Materials
Other
$937 / item
Dove Grey Double U Stool by Kazuko Okamoto
Located in Geneve, CH
Dove Grey Double U Stool by Kazuko Okamoto Dimensions: D 43 x W 43 x H 58 cm. Materials
Other
Elephant Grey Double U Stool by Kazuko Okamoto
Located in Geneve, CH
Elephant Grey Double U Stool by Kazuko Okamoto Dimensions: D 43 x W 43 x H 58 cm. Materials
Other
$1,322 / 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
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
Other
$937 / item
Malva Green Double U Stool by Kazuko Okamoto
Located in Geneve, CH
Malva Green Double U Stool by Kazuko Okamoto Dimensions: D 43 x W 43 x H 58 cm. Materials
Other
$1,478 / 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
Other
$1,478 / 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
Other
$1,478 / 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
Other
$1,478 / 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
Other
$1,478 / 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
Other
$1,478 / 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
Other
$1,478 / 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
Other
$1,478 / 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
Other
$1,478 / 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
Other
$1,478 / 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
Other
$1,478 / 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
Other
$1,478 / 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
Other
$1,478 / 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
Other
$1,322 / 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
Other
$1,322 / 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
Other
$1,322 / 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
Other
$1,322 / 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
Other
$1,322 / 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
Other
$1,322 / 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
Other
$1,322 / 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
Other
$1,322 / 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
Other
$1,322 / 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
Other
$1,803 / 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
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
Other
$1,803 / 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
Other
$817Sale Price / set|20% Off
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
Metal
$541 / 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
Other
$541 / 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
Other
$541 / 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
Other
$541 / 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
Other
$541 / 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
Other
$541 / 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
Other
$541 / 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
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
Other
$541 / 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
Other
$541 / 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
Other
$541 / 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
Other
$541 / 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
Other
$541 / 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
Other
$1,984 / 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
Steel
$3,342 / 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
Brass
Sarapis Stools by Philippe Starck for Driade Set of 2
By Philippe Starck, Driade
Located in Conversano, IT
: Easily fits into modern and post-industrial interiors Current Design Status: Currently out of production
Steel
$2,464 / 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
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
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
Maple
Fasem Italia Set of 3 postmodern bar stools by Nobu Tanigawa, 1990
By Fasem International, Nobu Tanigawa
Located in Ludwigslust, DE
This set of three postmodern bar stools from Fasem Italia combines Italian design artistry of the
Chrome
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
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
Other
Flame Red Ali Baba Stool by Giò Colonna Romano
Located in Geneve, CH
Flame Red Ali Baba Stool by Giò Colonna Romano Dimensions: Ø 43 x H 41 cm. Materials: Polyethylene
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.