Sissi Stackable Totem Seat in Powder-Coated Aluminum by altreforme
Located in Geneve, CH
Sissi Stackable Totem Seat in Powder-Coated Aluminum by altreforme Limited Edition Dimensions: D 45 x W 45 x H 45 cm. Materials: Powder-coated aluminum. Totem or piece of furniture?...
Aluminum
Sissi Stackable Totem Seat in Powder-Coated Aluminum by altreforme
Located in Geneve, CH
Sissi Stackable Totem Seat in Powder-Coated Aluminum by altreforme Limited Edition of 10 Pieces Dimensions: D 45 x W 45 x H 45 cm. Materials: Powder-coated aluminum. Sissi is a made...
Aluminum
Set Of 5 Sissi Stackable Totem Seats in Powder-Coated Aluminum by altreforme
Located in Geneve, CH
Set Of 5 Sissi Stackable Totem Seats in Powder-Coated Aluminum by altreforme Limited Edition of 10 Pieces Dimensions: D 45 x W 45 x H 45 cm. Materials: Powder-coated aluminum. Sissi...
Aluminum
Set Of 5 Mini Sissi Stackable Totems in Powder-Coated Aluminum by altreforme
Located in Geneve, CH
Set Of 5 Mini Sissi Stackable Totems in Powder-Coated Aluminum by altreforme Limited Edition of 10 Pieces Dimensions: D 30 x W 30 x H 35 cm. Materials: Powder-coated aluminum. Mini ...
Aluminum
Mini Sissi Stackable Totem Seat in Powder-Coated Aluminum by altreforme
Located in Geneve, CH
Mini Sissi Stackable Totem Seat in Powder-Coated Aluminum by altreforme Limited Edition of 10 Pieces Dimensions: D 30 x W 30 x H 35 cm. Materials: Powder-coated aluminum. Mini Sissi...
Aluminum
$17,591 / item
Large Bold Sofa by Mohdern
Located in Geneve, CH
Large Bold Sofa by Mohdern Dimensions: W 320 x D 102 x H 76 cm Materials: Fabric, Bouclé Bold is a refined furniture collection designed and produced by the Mohdern brand. The seri...
Fabric, Bouclé, Upholstery
$13,947 / item
Bold Sofa by Mohdern
Located in Geneve, CH
Bold Sofa by Mohdern Dimensions: W 268 x D 102 x H 76 cm Materials: Fabric, Bouclé Bold is a refined furniture collection designed and produced by the Mohdern brand. The series inc...
Fabric, Bouclé, Upholstery
$18,848 / item
Bold Curved Sofa by Mohdern
Located in Geneve, CH
Bold Curved Sofa by Mohdern Dimensions: W 280 x D 127 x H 76 cm Materials: Fabric, Bouclé Bold is a refined furniture collection designed and produced by the Mohdern brand. The ser...
Fabric, Bouclé, Upholstery
$21,052 / item
Large Bold Curved Sofa by Mohdern
Located in Geneve, CH
Large Bold Curved Sofa by Mohdern Dimensions: W 310 x D 133 x H 76 cm Materials: Fabric, Bouclé Bold is a refined furniture collection designed and produced by the Mohdern brand. T...
Fabric, Bouclé, Upholstery
$2,341 / item
White Lighted Ypsilon Modular Seat by SLIDE Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
White Lighted Ypsilon Modular Seat by SLIDE Studio Dimensions: D 117 x W 100 x H 43 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 15 kg. This product is suitable for indoor and outdoor use....
Other
Set Of 2 Soft Snake Modular Seats by SLIDE Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Set Of 2 Soft Snake Modular Seats by SLIDE Studio Dimensions: D 52 x W 119 x H 43 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 12 kg. Available in different color options. This product is ...
Other
White Lighted Snake Modular Seat by Giò Colonna Romano
Located in Geneve, CH
White Lighted Snake Modular Seat by Giò Colonna Romano Dimensions: D 53 x W 123 x H 43 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 11 kg. This product is suitable for indoor and outdoor u...
Other
$3,027 / item
White Soft Snake Modular Seat by SLIDE Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
White Soft Snake Modular Seat by SLIDE Studio Dimensions: D 52 x W 119 x H 43 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 12 kg. Available in different color options. This product is suit...
Other
$3,027 / item
Yellow Soft Snake Modular Seat by SLIDE Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Yellow Soft Snake Modular Seat by SLIDE Studio Dimensions: D 52 x W 119 x H 43 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 12 kg. Available in different color options. This product is sui...
Other
Stool by Afra & Tobia Scarpa for Benetton
By Afra & Tobia Scarpa
Located in Lugo, IT
Steel and leather stool Design by Afra & Tobia Scarpa for Benetton 1980 88 Not perfect condition as pictured Thank you
Steel
$1,507 / item
Traspade Pouf by Testatonda
By Testatonda
Located in Geneve, CH
Traspade pouf by Testatonda Dimensions: D 60 x W 58 x H 38 cm. Materials: stainless steel. The Trespade collection is the repetition of dimensions, the intertwining of materials...
Stainless Steel
Carlo Bimbi and Nilo Gioacchini "Charlie" Barstools for Segis Italia, a Pair
By Carlo Bimbi and Nilo Gioacchini
Located in Miami, FL
Pair of Postmodern Memphis style barstools by Carlo Bimbi and Nilo Gioacchini for Segis Italia, circa 1980s. Chairs are made of white moulded plastic attached to a tubular chrome fra...
Chrome
Contemporary Art Senior Footstool in Velvet and Grezzo Arte Wood by Urano Palma
By Urano Palma, Mirabili
Located in Pistoia, IT
... So many chairs, so many benches, so many big tables, all with the wrinkled skin of old tree trunks or of rusted metal sheet. The chair is probably the central symbol of this univ...
Velvet, Wood
Roberto Bonetto for Magis Italian modernist Scalo fold up three step stool
By Magis
Located in Ferndale, MI
Roberto Bonetto design for Magis Italy . The Scalo step stool . Stylish post modern Italian design step stool .
Steel
Chair Swivel Bar Stool White Plastic Chrome Italian Stefano Giovannoni Magis
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
- This iconic design is rotatable, adjustable in height and is made of high-quality materials. The seat is made of ABS (plastic) and the frame of chromium. - It is striking with a ...
Plastic
2 Postmodern Tubular Steel Bar Stools Rodney Kinsman Style 1980s
Located in Rīga, LV
Pair of vintage bar stools featuring a minimalist black metal frame with curved footrests and sculptural wooden backrests. The chairs are similar to "Tokyo" bar stools designed by Ro...
Metal
Ettore Sottsass Calice Sculptural Side Table or Stool in Black for Kartell
By Ettore Sottsass
Located in Toronto, ON
Ettore Sottsass “Calice” sculptural vase for Kartell, designed in 2015 as part of the Kartell Goes Sottsass collection. Drawing on the Italian designer’s unmistakable Postmodern and ...
Plastic
Ettore Sottsass Calice Sculptural Side Table or Stool in Lime Green for Kartell
By Ettore Sottsass
Located in Toronto, ON
Ettore Sottsass “Calice” sculptural vase for Kartell, designed in 2015 as part of the Kartell Goes Sottsass collection. Drawing on the Italian designer’s unmistakable Postmodern and ...
Plastic
Nissa Travertino Stone Contemporary Stool And Side Table by Ivan Colominas
Located in Geneve, CH
Nissa Travertino Stone Contemporary Stool And Side Table by Ivan Colominas Dimensions: Ø 37 x H 40 cm. Materials: Travertine stone. Available in Nero Marquinia, Travertino and Bian...
Travertine
$2,010 / item
Medium Pouf! Leather Stool by Nestor Perkal
By Nestor Perkal
Located in Geneve, CH
Medium pouf! leather stool by Nestor Perkal Dimensions: W 83 x D 75.5 x H 35 cm Materials: Leather, poplar plywood, suede. Available in other colors and in 3 sizes. The POUF! c...
Leather, Suede, Poplar, Plywood
$1,119 / item
Small Pouf! Leather Stool by Nestor Perkal
By Nestor Perkal
Located in Geneve, CH
Small pouf! leather stool by Nestor Perkal Dimensions: W 45 x D 39 x H 40 cm Materials: Leather, poplar plywood, suede. Available in other colors and in 3 sizes. The POUF! coll...
Leather, Suede, Poplar, Plywood
$2,455 / item
Large Pouf! Leather Stool by Nestor Perkal
By Nestor Perkal
Located in Geneve, CH
Large Pouf! leather stool by Nestor Perkal Dimensiones: W 101 x D 85 x H 35 cm Materials: leather, poplar plywood, suede. Available in other colors and in 3 sizes. The POUF! co...
Leather, Suede, Poplar, Plywood
Nissa Bianco Gioia Marble Contemporary Stool And Side Table by Ivan Colominas
Located in Geneve, CH
Nissa Bianco Gioia Marble Contemporary Stool And Side Table by Ivan Colominas Dimensions: Ø 37 x H 40 cm. Materials: Bianco Gioia Marble. Available in Nero Marquinia, Travertino and...
Marble
Nissa Nero Marquinia Marble Contemporary Stool And Side Table by Ivan Colominas
Located in Geneve, CH
Nissa Nero Marquinia Marble Contemporary Stool And Side Table by Ivan Colominas Dimensions: Ø 37 x H 40 cm. Materials: Nero Marquinia Marble. Available in Nero Marquinia, Travertino...
Marble
Ensemble of 3 Playful Cha-Cha-Cha' Black Marble Stools by Pietro Franceschini
By Pietro Franceschini
Located in Geneve, CH
Ensemble of 3 Cha-Cha-Cha' stools by Pietro Franceschini Sold exclusively by Galerie Philia Materials: Nero Marquina marble Dimensions: 1. W 30cm, L 30cm, H 45cm 2. W 30cm, L 30...
Marble
Renato Toso & Roberto Pamio for Stilwood Set of Eight Stools in Stained Ash
By Roberto Pamio & Renato Toso, Stilwood
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Roberto Pamio and Renato Toso for Stilwood, 'Iva' stools, black lacquered ash, Italy, 1972 Set of eight Italian stools made of ash wood. The angular shapes in combination with the t...
Lacquer, Ash
Bombo 3 Coffee Table & Stool in Enamelled Stoneware & Leather by Oscar Maschera
Located in Geneve, CH
Bombo 3 Coffee Table & Stool in Enamelled Stoneware & Leather by Oscar Maschera Dimensions: Ø 65 x H 33 cm. Materials: Leather and fabric. Available in different size option...
Leather, Stoneware
Bombo 2 Coffee Table & Stool in Enamelled Stoneware & Leather by Oscar Maschera
Located in Geneve, CH
Bombo 2 Coffee Table & Stool in Enamelled Stoneware & Leather by Oscar Maschera Dimensions: Ø 40 x H 55 cm. Materials: Leather and fabric. Available in different size option...
Leather, Stoneware
Bombo 1 Coffee Table & Stool in Enamelled Stoneware & Leather by Oscar Maschera
Located in Geneve, CH
Bombo 1 Coffee Table & Stool in Enamelled Stoneware & Leather by Oscar Maschera Dimensions: Ø 58 x H 45 cm. Materials: Leather and fabric. Available in different size option...
Leather, Stoneware
Set Of 2 Awaiting Vanity Table and T Stool by Secondome Edizioni
Located in Geneve, CH
Set Of 2 Awaiting Vanity Table and T Stool by Secondome Edizioni Limited Edition Of 9 pieces + 3 A.P. Designer: Coralla Maiuri + Giorgia Zanellato. Dimensions: Vanity Table: D 50 x W...
Brass
$5,585 / set
Set of 3 Pouf! Leather Stools by Nestor Perkal
By Nestor Perkal
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 3 Pouf! leather stools by Nestor Perkal Dimensions: W 45 cm x D 39 cm x H 40 cm (Small) W 83 cm x D 75.5 cm x H 35 cm (Medium) W 101 cm x D 85 cm x H 35 cm (Large) Materia...
Leather, Suede, Poplar, Plywood
EL 01 Side Table & Stool in Metal-Plated Hand-Woven Wicker by CASPAL
Located in Geneve, CH
EL 01 Side Table & Stool in Metal-Plated Hand-Woven Wicker by CASPAL Dimensions: Ø 32 x H 45 cm. Materials: Metal-plated wicker, chromed steel, and mirror stainless steel. This ele...
Metal, Steel, Stainless Steel
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.