Brazilian Modern Coffee Table by Sergio Rodrigues in Lacquered Wood
By Sergio Rodrigues
Located in Sao Paulo, SP
Brazilian modern "Augusto" round coffee table by Sergio Rodrigues, 1991 Black lacquered wood and marble top Sergio and Adolpho were already old acquaintances when, in 1991, the entr...
Marble
Duplex Lilac Lacquered Side Table by Mambo Unlimited Ideas
By Mambo Unlimited Ideas
Located in Lisbon, PT
Open since 1997 and based in Lisbon, Portugal, a country with a long crafts tradition, Mambo Unlimited Ideas' design team researches for innovation and creativity developments around...
Travertine
Mid-Century American Aluminum Center Table, Lacquered Wood Top, 1940s
Located in Queens, NY
American 1940s aluminum center table with "U" shaped side supports connected with a tubular stretcher and inset brown lacqued wood top
Aluminum
Toupy Red Lacquered Wood And Black Metal 38 Hanging Table by Mademoiselle Jo
Located in Geneve, CH
Toupy Red Lacquered Wood And Black Metal 38 Hanging Table by Mademoiselle Jo Dimensions: Ø 38 x H 150 cm. Materials: Red lacquered wood and black metal. Available in four colors, ...
Metal
Lacquered Black and Brass Accent End Table Nighstands
By Milo Baughman
Located in Toronto, ON
Gorgeous lacquered black and brass accent tables. Two available, sold/priced indovidually. These beautiful tables that are intended to be nighstands, they can also be used as end tab...
Brass
Harrison Van Horn Lacquered Raffia Belly Console Table
By Harrison Van Horn
Located in Round Top, TX
Harrison Van Horn "belly" console table in lacquered raffia and brass in deep, dark espresso brown with unlacquered brass trim. Uncommon piece and always desirable in size, quality,...
Brass
$20,038 / item
Turn Green Dining Table in Lacquered Wood by Hermhaus
Located in Geneve, CH
Turn Green Dining Table in Lacquered Wood by Hermhaus Dimensions: D 230 x W 100 x H 75 cm Materials: Wooden frame with lacquer finish. The dining table is also a social space. It o...
Wood
$20,038 / item
Turn Blue Dining Table in Lacquered Wood by Hermhaus
Located in Geneve, CH
Turn Blue Dining Table in Lacquered Wood by Hermhaus Dimensions: D 230 x W 100 x H 75 cm Materials: Wooden frame with lacquer finish. The dining table is also a social space. It of...
Wood
Lacquered Wood & Painted Metal Dining Table, 1970s
Located in Montelabbate, PU
Table from the 1970s. Ivory lacquered solid wood legs, black painted iron sheet connecting element, crystal top with cut edges. It shows light wear due to age and use. This piece was...
Metal
Midas 320 Gold Leaf And Ombra Glossy Lacquer Beam Dining Table by Casa Casati
Located in Geneve, CH
Midas 320 Gold Leaf And Ombra Glossy Lacquer Beam Dining Table by Casa Casati Dimensions: D 110 x W 320 x H 74 cm. Materials: Lacquer, MDF, and gold leaf. Available in different m...
Other, Gold Leaf
Circular Game Table in Natural Oak Veneer with Lacquer by Pendhapa
Located in Geneve, CH
Circular Game Table in Natural Oak Veneer with Lacquer by Pendhapa. Dimensions: Ø 100 x H 74 cm. Materials: Natural oak veneer, Lacquer. This listing features our Circular Game Tabl...
Oak, Lacquer
Dodolo 200 China Red Lacquer, Glass And Light Bronze Coffee Table by Casa Casati
Located in Geneve, CH
Dodolo 200 China Red Lacquer, Glass And Light Bronze Coffee Table by Casa Casati Dimensions: D 120 x W 200 x H 40 cm. Materials: Solid wood and MDF finished in glossy lacquer, glas...
Other, Bronze
Zeus Gradient Oval Dining Table with Lacquer Finish by Ultramobili
Located in Geneve, CH
Zeus Gradient Oval Dining Table with Lacquer Finish by Ultramobili. Dimensions: W 250 x D 120 x H 76 cm. Materials: Solid structure, gradient lacquer finish. Zeus is an oval dining...
Lacquer
Lacquered Structure Walnut Oval Side Table with Rounded Edges by Ultramobili
Located in Geneve, CH
Eracle 150 Lacquered in Mat Finish and Walnut Round Side Table by Ultramobili Dimensions: W 150 x D 70 x H 26 cm Materials: Walnut Canaletto, Lacquer. Oval occasional table with s...
Walnut, Lacquer
Boscolo 200 China Red Lacquer, Glass And Light Bronze Metal Table by Casa Casati
Located in Geneve, CH
Boscolo 200 China Red Lacquer, Glass And Light Bronze Metal Table by Casa Casati Dimensions: Ø 200 x H 74 cm. Materials: MDF, lacquer, brass, bronze, and glass. Available in differ...
Brass, Other, Bronze
Okumé Plywood and Glossy lacquered Torii Table by Dainelli Studio Atelier
Located in Geneve, CH
Okumé Plywood and Glossy lacquered Torii Table by Dainelli Studio Atelier Dimensions: W 250 x D 120 x H 74 cm Materials: Okumé plywood, Glossy lacquered. Table with a base and top m...
Plywood
Postmodern Faux Marble Lacquered Console Table Circa 1970s
Located in Peabody, MA
A dazzling 1970s postmodern console in lavender lacquer with hand finished faux marbling.
Wood
Cherry Dining Table by Gisbert Pöppler, Red Lacquered Aluminum
Located in Geneve, CH
Cherry dining table by Gisbert Pöppler Dimensions: D 180 x W 180 x H 74 cm Materials: red lacquered aluminum The refreshing red is not the origin of this dining table’s name, bu...
Aluminum
Lacquered Structure and Walnut Round Side Table with Top Insert by Ultramobili
Located in Geneve, CH
Eracle 60 Lacquered in Mat Finish and Walnut Round Side Table by Ultramobili Dimensions: W 60 x D 60 x H 55 cm Materials: Walnut Canaletto, Lacquer. Round side table with shaped r...
Walnut, Lacquer
Karl Springer Style Black Lacquer Pedestal Side Table with Glass Top
By Karl Springer, Milo Baughman
Located in W Allenhurst, NJ
A striking Postmodern sculptural side table dating from the late 1980s to early 1990s, featuring a dramatic architectural pedestal base finished in high-gloss black lacquer and suppo...
Glass, Lacquer, Composite stone
Postmodern Lacquered Geometric Lucite & Glass Cocktail Table
Located in Houston, TX
1980s postmodern cocktail table with a black lacquered wood base, lucite sphere and a new glass top.
Glass, Lucite, Wood, Lacquer
$4,407 / item
Deep Navy Lacquer Coffee Table by NO AGE STUDIO
Located in Geneve, CH
Deep Navy Lacquer Coffee Table by NO AGE STUDIO Dimensions: D 106 x W 106 x H 38 cm Materials: Lacquer Bold navy blue meets timeless minimalism in this lacquer coffee table. The hig...
Lacquer
Delphine Console Table with Popular Gray Lacquer Finish by Ultramobili
Located in Geneve, CH
Delphine Console Table with Popular Gray Lacquer Finish by Ultramobili. Dimensions: W 160 x D 50 x H 76 cm. Materials: Solid structure, Popular Gray high-gloss lacquer finish, polis...
Steel
Delphine Console Table with Traffic Purple Lacquer Finish by Ultramobili
Located in Geneve, CH
Delphine Console Table with Traffic Purple Lacquer Finish by Ultramobili. Dimensions: W 160 x D 50 x H 76 cm. Materials: Solid structure, Traffic Purple high-gloss lacquer finish, p...
Steel
Pierluigi Molinari Lacquered Wood and Green Felt Game Table for Pozzi 1970
By Pierluigi Molinari, Pozzi
Located in Conversano, IT
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Wood, Lacquer
Stool & Side Table, Concave, Black Lacquered Wood, Post-Modern, Panorammma
By Panorammma
Located in Ciudad de México, CDMX
Two hand-turned wooden pieces with an elegant piano polish lacquer play together as sculptural stools or side table sets.
Resin, Wood
Cream Lacquered Glass Side Tables Wheels 1970s Hollywood Regency Pair bedside
Located in London, GB
A pair of effortlessly chic side tables, made of lacquered metal and sat atop castor wheels. Each table is composed of a cream lacquered frame, inside which is housed three glass pa...
Metal
$14,279 / item
Burgundy Lacquer Paint Rocky Coffee Table By OMER OZTURK
Located in Geneve, CH
Burgundy Lacquer Paint Rocky Coffee Table By OMER OZTURK Dimensions: W 125 x D 60 x H 40 cm. Materials: Burgundy Lacquer Paint. About: Design, in particular the subtlety of quiet lu...
Lacquer
Javier Mariscal Post-Modern Bar Cart Hilton For Memphis , Italy, 1981
By Javier Mariscal, Memphis Milano
Located in Vienna, AT
Javier Mariscal Post-Modern Bar Cart Hilton For Memphis , Italy, 1981 Rare Memphis bar cart ‚Hilton’, trolley on smoothly running casters offering a lot of space for putting bottles...
Steel
Christopher Guy Lacquered and Gilt Coffee "Harper" Table
By Christopher Guy
Located in Peabody, MA
A coffee table in highly polished lacquer with gilt wood accents from the "Harper" line, by the celebrated British designer Christopher Guy (1960-2020). Displays a fusion of modern m...
Wood, Giltwood, Lacquer
Contemporary Monochromatic Dining Table in Custom Lacquered Wood & Brass Accents
Located in New York, NY
Defined by an elongated, softly rounded top and a pair of substantial cylindrical pedestals, this dining table brings a composed architectural rhythm to a clean, minimal form. The to...
Metal
Large Postmodern Dining Table with Brass Base and Lacquered Pedestal
By The Tailored Home, Jhon Ortiz
Located in Greenwich, CT
This dining table features a polished brass base with a white lacquered pedestal detailed with three circular cutouts, paired with a honey walnut finished wood top. The mix of materi...
Brass
Automa Coffee Table in Black Lacquer Finish by Pietro Franceschini
By Pietro Franceschini
Located in Geneve, CH
Automa Coffee Table in Black Lacquer Finish by Pietro Franceschini. Dimensions: W 140 x L 104 x H 40 cm. Materials: Black lacquer finish. This listing features the Automa Coffee Tab...
Lacquer
Selene 360 cm Dining Table in Lacquer and Lava Stone by Pendhapa
Located in Geneve, CH
Selene 360 cm Dining Table in Lacquer and Lava Stone by Pendhapa. Dimensions: W 360 x D 120 x H 74 cm. Materials: Lava Stone and Lacquer. This listing features our Selene Dining Tab...
Lacquer
Postmodern Glass Top Side Table with Black Sphere Faux Marble Lacquer Base 1980s
Located in Toronto, CA
A sculptural Postmodern pedestal side table in the Memphis style, circa 1980s, featuring a high-gloss black lacquered base with stepped plinth detail and a floating tempered glass to...
Glass, Wood, Lacquer
Pair of Casprini Italian Postmodern Side Tables in Brass, Grey Glass and Lacquer
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A striking pair of Italian postmodern side tables by Casprini, produced in the 1980s and defined by their sculptural, architectural form. Each table features a circular grey glass to...
Brass
Set of Two Faceted Postmodern Low Tables in Hand-Lacquered Custom RAL Colors
By JLC
Located in New York, NY
This collection of lithic low tables explores the tension between primitive, rock-like formations and refined, architectural silhouettes. This set features a low-profile coffee table...
Wood, Lacquer
Minimalist Lacquered Floating Coffee Table, Manner of Donald Judd, 1970
By Donald Judd
Located in New Windsor, NY
Brown lacquer 'L" shaped lacquered minimalist Post Modern coffee table emulating the design of Donald Judd's monumental simple lines and construction.
Lacquer, Medium Density Fibreboard (MDF)
Stool & Side Table, Convex, Black Lacquered Wood, Post-Modern, Panorammma
By Panorammma
Located in Ciudad de México, CDMX
Two hand-turned wooden pieces with an elegant piano polish inform an imaginative play as sculptural stools or side table sets. Directly referencing chess pieces, these stools luidica...
Resin, Wood
Postmodern Black Lacquer Console Table with Brass Banding, Attributed to Century
By Century Furniture
Located in W Allenhurst, NJ
A refined Postmodern console table crafted in a lustrous piano black lacquer finish and accented by a polished brass band that elegantly wraps the apron. The streamlined form feature...
Wood, Lacquer
Asthila Circular Dining Table in Solid Oak with Lacquer by Pendhapa
Located in Geneve, CH
Asthila Circular Dining Table in Solid Oak with Lacquer by Pendhapa. Dimensions: W 150 x D 120 x H 74 cm. Materials: Solid oak wood, Lacquer. This listing features our Circular Dini...
Oak, Wood, Hardwood, Lacquer
Ettore Sottsass ‘Harlow’ Dining Table for Poltronova in Dark Blue Lacquer
By Ettore Sottsass, Poltronova
Located in Hellouw, NL
Few designers have had as profound an influence on post-war Italian design as Ettore Sottsass. Created during his prolific years with Poltronova, the ‘Harlow’ TPA 240 dining table em...
Steel
Brik Black Console Table in Stone Textured Lacquered MDF by Hermhaus
Located in Geneve, CH
Brik Black Console Table in Stone Textured Lacquered MDF by Hermhaus Dimensions: D 50 x W 180 x H 90 cm Materials: MDF with stone texture and special lacquer finish. Shaped by the ...
Medium Density Fibreboard (MDF)
Brik Orange Console Table in Stone Textured Lacquered MDF by Hermhaus
Located in Geneve, CH
Brik Orange Console Table in Stone Textured Lacquered MDF by Hermhaus Dimensions: D 50 x W 180 x H 90 cm Materials: MDF with stone texture and special lacquer finish. Shaped by the...
Medium Density Fibreboard (MDF)
Enrique Garcel Lacquered Goatskin Side/End Tables, 1991
By Enrique Garcel
Located in Chicago, IL
Enrique Garcel Lacquered Goatskin Side/End Tables, 1991 Measures 27” deep 22” wide 22” tall
Goatskin
Hold Up Console Table in Natural Oak Veneer and Lacquer by Pendhapa
Located in Geneve, CH
Hold Up Console Table in Natural Oak Veneer and Lacquer by Pendhapa. Dimensions: W 150 x D 37 x H 90 cm. Materials: Natural Oak Veneer, Lacquer. You can customize the finish with a ...
Oak, Lacquer
Contemporary Outdoor Riviera Center table Ivory lacquered metal and Red marble
By Mambo Unlimited Ideas
Located in Lisbon, PT
Our newly unveiled collection is meticulously handcrafted in Portugal. Departing from conventional norms, we embrace a palette of unconventional materials, including different marble...
Metal
Contemporary Outdoor Riviera Side table in lacquered Sage metal and Travertine
By Mambo Unlimited Ideas
Located in Lisbon, PT
Our newly unveiled collection is meticulously handcrafted in Portugal. Departing from conventional norms, we embrace a palette of unconventional materials, including different marble...
Metal
Contemporary Riviera dinner table in lacquered metal and Travertine for Outdoors
By Mambo Unlimited Ideas
Located in Lisbon, PT
Our newly unveiled collection is meticulously handcrafted in Portugal. Departing from conventional norms, we embrace a palette of unconventional materials, including different marble...
Metal
Contemporary Outdoor Riviera Center table in Ivory lacquered metal and marble
By Mambo Unlimited Ideas
Located in Lisbon, PT
Our newly unveiled collection is meticulously handcrafted in Portugal. Departing from conventional norms, we embrace a palette of unconventional materials, including different marble...
Metal
Postmodern Ivory Lacquered Walnut Wall Mirror and Console Table, Italy
Located in Bresso, Lombardy
Made in Italy, 1970s. This set features a walnut frame, with ivory lacquered parts. They might show slight traces of use since they are vintage, such as their original patina, but t...
Mirror, Walnut
Lacquered linen waterfall side or coffee table with gold metal bands, USA 1980s
Located in Hastings, GB
Lacquered off white linen waterfall side or coffee table with gold metal bands, USA 1980s. Karl Springer style. A few little scuffs to the metal bands. Dimensions: width 82cm, dept...
Metal
A postmodern lacquered console table with gold detail, late 20th century
Located in View Park, CA
An art deco style postmodern lacquered console table with gold edge, circa 1980. Attributed to Karl Springer, this piece borrows heavily from the Art Deco movement whilst holding fir...
Acrylic, Wood, Lacquer
Asthila Dining Table in Solid Oak, Oak Veneer and Lacquer by Pendhapa
Located in Geneve, CH
Asthila Dining Table in Solid Oak, Oak Veneer and Lacquer by Pendhapa. Dimensions: W 245 x D 110 x H 74 cm. Materials: Solid Oak, Oak Veneer and Lacquer. You can customize the fini...
Oak, Wood, Hardwood, Lacquer
Gingko Low Table in Natural Oak Veneer and Lacquer by Pendhapa
Located in Geneve, CH
Gingko Low Table in Natural Oak Veneer and Lacquer by Pendhapa. Dimensions: W 138 x D 48 x H 50 cm Materials: Natural Oak Veneer, Lacquer. You can customize the finish with a choice...
Oak, Lacquer
Stool & Side Table Set, Black Lacquered Wood, Post-Modern Design, Panorammma
By Panorammma
Located in Ciudad de México, CDMX
Two hand-turned wooden pieces with an elegant piano polish lacquer play together as sculptural stools or side table sets.
Resin, Wood
Contemporary Riviera dinner table in lacquered metal and marble for Outdoors
By Mambo Unlimited Ideas
Located in Lisbon, PT
Our newly unveiled collection is meticulously handcrafted in Portugal. Departing from conventional norms, we embrace a palette of unconventional materials, including different marble...
Metal
Contemporary Riviera Side table in lacquered metal and travertine for Outdoors
By Mambo Unlimited Ideas
Located in Lisbon, PT
Our newly unveiled collection is meticulously handcrafted in Portugal. Departing from conventional norms, we embrace a palette of unconventional materials, including different marble...
Metal
Contemporary Riviera Center table in lacquered metal and marble for Outdoors
By Mambo Unlimited Ideas
Located in Lisbon, PT
Our newly unveiled collection is meticulously handcrafted in Portugal. Departing from conventional norms, we embrace a palette of unconventional materials, including different marble...
Metal
Elba Butlers Serving Table in Horn, Lacquered Wood & Stainless Steel by Arcahorn
Located in Geneve, CH
Elba Butlers Serving Table in Horn, Lacquered Wood & Stainless Steel by Arcahorn Designed by Filippo Dini Dimensions: D 46 x W 70 x H 77 cm. Materials: Horn, wood with lacquered ivor...
Stainless Steel, 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.
The right vintage, new or antique tables can help make any space in your home stand out.
Over the years, the variety of tables available to us, as well as our specific needs for said tables, has broadened. Today, with all manner of these must-have furnishings differing in shape, material and style, any dining room table can shine just as brightly as the guests who gather around it.
Remember, when shopping for a dining table, it must fit your dining area, and you need to account for space around the table too — think outside the box, as an oval dining table may work for tighter spaces. Alternatively, if you’ve got the room, a Regency-style dining table can elevate any formal occasion at mealtime.
Innovative furniture makers and designers have also redefined what a table can be. Whether it’s an unconventional Ping-Pong table, a brass side table to display your treasured collectibles or a Louis Vuitton steamer trunk to add an air of nostalgia to your loft, your table can say a lot about you.
The visionary work of French designer Xavier Lavergne, for example, includes tables that draw on the forms of celestial bodies as often as they do aquatic creatures or fossils. Elsewhere, Italian architect Gae Aulenti, who looked to Roman architecture in crafting her stately Jumbo coffee table, created clever glass-topped mobile coffee tables that move on bicycle tires or sculpted wood wheels for Fontana Arte.
Coffee and cocktail tables can serve as a room’s centerpiece with attention-grabbing details and colors. Glass varieties will keep your hardwood flooring and dazzling area rugs on display, while a marble or stone coffee table in a modern interior can showcase your prized art books and decorative objects. A unique vintage desk or writing table can bring sophistication and even a bit of spice to your work life.
No matter your desired form or function, a quality table for your living space is a sound investment. On 1stDibs, browse a collection of vintage, new and antique bedside tables, mid-century end tables and more .