Contemporary Riviera Rectangle center table in Sage lacquered metal 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...
Travertine, Marble, Metal
Vintage Blumberg Postmodern 1976 Mirrored Skyscraper Bone Lacquered Table Lamp
By Patent, Blumberg & Co.
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Vintage Postmodern 1976 Mirrored Skyscraper Bone Lacquered Table Lamp by Blumberg. Circa Late 20th Century. Measurements: 37.5" H (to finial) x 27.5" H (to light socket) x 8" W x 8" ...
Mirror, Resin
Glow Mini Tavolo Table Lamp by Pallucco, Red Lacquered Metal, Italy
By Pallucco
Located in Byron Bay, NSW
A striking “Glow Mini Tavolo” table lamp by Pallucco, manufactured in Italy. Featuring an explosive sculptural composition of angular lacquered metal elements surrounding a central l...
Metal
Jan de Jong Rare Custom Table in Dark Green Lacquered Wood
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Jan de Jong, custom table and stools, lacquered wood, the Netherlands, 1970s An exceptional dining ensemble by Jan de Jong, comprising a monumental table and six matching stools. De...
Wood
Pamela PM Table Lamp in Solid Beech with Lacquer and AJ Linen by POPUS EDITIONS
By Popus Editions
Located in Geneve, CH
Pamela PM Table Lamp in Solid Beech with Lacquer and AJ Linen by POPUS EDITIONS. Dimensions: Ø 29.5 x H 48.5 cm. Materials: Hand-turned solid beech wood with a high-gloss lacquer fin...
Linen, Wood, Beech, Lacquer
Pamela GM Table Lamp in Solid Beech with Lacquer and AJ Linen by POPUS EDITIONS
By Popus Editions
Located in Geneve, CH
Pamela GM Table Lamp in Solid Beech with Lacquer and AJ Linen by POPUS EDITIONS. Dimensions: Ø 34.5 x H 87 cm. Materials: Hand-turned solid beech wood with a high-gloss lacquer finis...
Linen, Wood, Beech, Lacquer
$13,221 / item
S3 Table by Secondome Edizioni
Located in Geneve, CH
S3 Table by Secondome Edizioni Designer: Claudia Pignatale + Giovanni Casellato. Dimensions: D 90 x W 220 x H 75 cm. Materials: Lacquered iron. Color: RAL 9017. Collection / Product...
Iron
$13,221 / item
S3 Table by Secondome Edizioni
Located in Geneve, CH
S3 Table by Secondome Edizioni Designer: Claudia Pignatale + Giovanni Casellato. Dimensions: D 90 x W 220 x H 75 cm. Materials: Lacquered iron. Color: RAL 5021. Collection / Product...
Iron
$13,221 / item
S3 Table by Secondome Edizioni
Located in Geneve, CH
S3 Table by Secondome Edizioni Designer: Claudia Pignatale + Giovanni Casellato. Dimensions: D 90 x W 220 x H 75 cm. Materials: Lacquered iron. Color: RAL 7038. Collection / Product...
Iron
$13,221 / item
S3 Table by Secondome Edizioni
Located in Geneve, CH
S3 Table by Secondome Edizioni Designer: Claudia Pignatale + Giovanni Casellato. Dimensions: D 90 x W 220 x H 75 cm. Materials: Lacquered iron. Color: RAL 9010. Collection / Product...
Iron
$13,221 / item
S3 Table by Secondome Edizioni
Located in Geneve, CH
S3 Table by Secondome Edizioni Designer: Claudia Pignatale + Giovanni Casellato. Dimensions: D 90 x W 220 x H 75 cm. Materials: Lacquered iron. Color: RAL 5007. Collection / Product...
Iron
$13,221 / item
S3 Table by Secondome Edizioni
Located in Geneve, CH
S3 Table by Secondome Edizioni Designer: Claudia Pignatale + Giovanni Casellato. Dimensions: D 90 x W 220 x H 75 cm. Materials: Lacquered iron. Color: RAL 1004. Collection / Product...
Iron
$13,221 / item
S3 Table by Secondome Edizioni
Located in Geneve, CH
S3 Table by Secondome Edizioni Designer: Claudia Pignatale + Giovanni Casellato. Dimensions: D 90 x W 220 x H 75 cm. Materials: Lacquered iron. Color: RAL 3027. Collection / Product...
Iron
$13,221 / item
S3 Table by Secondome Edizioni
Located in Geneve, CH
S3 Table by Secondome Edizioni Designer: Claudia Pignatale + Giovanni Casellato. Dimensions: D 90 x W 220 x H 75 cm. Materials: Lacquered iron. Color: RAL 1001. Collection / Product...
Iron
$13,221 / item
S3 Table by Secondome Edizioni
Located in Geneve, CH
S3 Table by Secondome Edizioni Designer: Claudia Pignatale + Giovanni Casellato. Dimensions: D 90 x W 220 x H 75 cm. Materials: Lacquered iron. Color: RAL 3003. Collection / Product...
Iron
$13,221 / item
S3 Table by Secondome Edizioni
Located in Geneve, CH
S3 Table by Secondome Edizioni Designer: Claudia Pignatale + Giovanni Casellato. Dimensions: D 90 x W 220 x H 75 cm. Materials: Lacquered iron. Color: RAL 3015. Collection / Product...
Iron
$13,221 / item
S3 Table by Secondome Edizioni
Located in Geneve, CH
S3 Table by Secondome Edizioni Designer: Claudia Pignatale + Giovanni Casellato. Dimensions: D 90 x W 220 x H 75 cm. Materials: Lacquered iron. Color: RAL 5019. Collection / Product...
Iron
Umberto Asnago for Giorgetti "Galaxy" Console, Black Lacquered Wood & Glass
By Umberto Asnago, Giorgetti S.p.A.
Located in Astoria, NY
Umberto Asnago for Giorgetti "Galaxy" Console Table, 1980s, black lacquered wood and glass. 34.75" H x 72" W x 17" D. Provenance: From a 45 Sutton Place South Estate.
Glass, Wood
Contemporary Riviera Chair in Lacquered Ivory metal 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 Chair in Lacquered Lilac metal 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 Chair in Lacquered Sage metal 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 Armchair in lacquered Sage metal 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 Armchair in lacquered Ivory metal 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 Chair in Lacquered Salmon metal 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 Armchair in lacquered Salmon metal 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 Day Bed in Lilac lacquered metal 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 Day Bed in Ivory lacquered metal 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 Day Bed in Earth lacquered metal 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
Axel Chay Donut Table Lamp Blue Lacquered Steel Opaline Glass Sculptural Art
Located in Lisboa, PT
A sculptural table lamp designed by Axel Chay, this “Donut” model is a striking example of contemporary French collectible design, combining bold geometry with a refined postmodern s...
Brass, Steel
Contemporary Riviera Bar Chair in Lacquered Ivory metal 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 Bar Chair in Lacquered Mint metal 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 Bar Chair in Lacquered Gold metal 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 Bar Chair in Lacquered Ivory metal 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
Klein Blue Silk Matt Lacquer Paint, Klavelle Console By OMER OZTURK
Located in Geneve, CH
Klein Blue Silk Matt Lacquer Paint, Klavelle Console By OMER OZTURK Dimensions: W 150 x D 45 x H 95 cm. Materials: Boucle Fabric Light Brown Natural Oak Wood, Gold Spheres. About: D...
Lacquer
$12,548 / item
Piano Desk in Black Lacquered Wood by Panorammma
Located in Geneve, CH
Piano Desk in Black Lacquered Wood by Panorammma Dimensions: D 90 x W 180 x H 75 cm. Materials: Black lacquered wood. Custom colors & materials available to quote. Dimensions and pr...
Wood
"Vlieger" Kite Table by Loek Straver for Castelijn, 1980s
By Castelijn
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Designed by Loek Straver for Dutch manufacturer Castelijn in the 1980s, the Vlieger — Dutch for "Kite" — takes its name from the wing-like shape. The base combines two distinct suppo...
Enamel, Steel
Vintage Rectangular Lacquered Beach Coffee Table with Colorful Plaster Relief
Located in Bresso, Lombardy
Made in Italy, 1980s This coffee table is made black lacquered beech and features a hand-painted colorful plaster low relief with a crystal top. It is a vintage item, therefore it mi...
Crystal
Contemporary Riviera Bar Chair in Lacquered Salmon metal 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
$2,726 / item
Piezas Extendable Dining Table by Silvia Ceñal
Located in Geneve, CH
Piezas Extendable Dining Table by Silvia Ceñal Materials: Lacquer, oak, metal Dimensions: D 95 x W 200 x H 74 cm Also available in different sizes. Please contact us. The foun...
Metal
$2,667 / item
Piezas Medium Dining Table by Silvia Ceñal
Located in Geneve, CH
Piezas Medium Dining Table by Silvia Ceñal Materials: Lacquer, Oak, Metal Dimensions: D 85 x W 140 x H 74 cm Also available in different sizes. Please contact us. The founders...
Metal
$1,888 / item
Piezas Small Dining Table by Silvia Ceñal
Located in Geneve, CH
Piezas Small Dining Table by Silvia Ceñal Materials: Lacquer, Oak, metal. Dimensions: D 85 x W 85 x H 74 cm Also available in different sizes. Please contact us. The founders,...
Metal
Riviera Bench 180cm in Lacquered Gold metal & Stripes fabric 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
Riviera Bench 180cm in Lacquered Ivory metal & Stripes fabric 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 Chair in Lacquered metal and Green fabric 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 2 seat modular coach in lacquered metal 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 3 seat modular coach in lacquered metal 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
Riviera Bench 180cm in Lacquered Nude metal & Stripes fabric 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
1 (of2) ART-DECO NEOCLASSICAL Lacquer TABLE LAMP by PHILIPPE BARBIER France 1970
By Philippe Barbier
Located in PARIS, FR
An elegant and singular table lamp, Pop, Post-Modernist, Psychedelic, Shabby-Chic, in lacquered metal in shades of khaki, with cylindrical lampshade, by Philippe Barbier, France 1970...
Metal
Ettore Sottsass & Michele De Lucchi Table from the 'Icarus' System for Olivetti
By Olivetti, Michele de Lucchi, Ettore Sottsass
Located in Firenze, IT
A significant and rare desk (or dining table) from the 'Icarus' office system, designed by Ettore Sottsass and Michele De Lucchi for Olivetti Synthesis in 1982. The Icarus series rep...
Steel
Italian postmodern vanity mirror in taupe lacquered wood, tilting, 1980s
Located in Weesp, NL
Italian postmodern vanity mirror in taupe lacquered wood, tilting, 1980s A sculptural table mirror that captures the confident, architectural spirit of Italian design in the 1980s. ...
Mirror, Bentwood
White Oak Arc Side Table by Ditte Vad and Julie Bertrup
Located in Geneve, CH
White oak arc side table by Ditte Vad and Julie Bertrup. Materials: oak, lacquer. Dimensions: D 42 x W 42 x H 45 cm. The founders, Mia and Torben Koed, decided to put their 30 ...
Oak, Lacquer
Contemporary Riviera Day Bed in Blaco and Verde lacquered metal 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
Andria Side Table in Blue Lacquered Wood, Horn & Burnished Brass in by Arcahorn
Located in Geneve, CH
Andria Side Table in Blue Lacquered Wood, Horn & Burnished Brass by Arcahorn Dimensions: Ø 60 x H 55 cm. Materials: wood with lacquered water blue gloss finish, horn, and burnished b...
Brass, Other
Original Vintage Karl Springer Executive Black Lacquered Desk
By Karl Springer
Located in North Miami, FL
This large scale executive desk belonged to the late fashion designer, Geoffrey Beene. Sourced from his Estate in Oyster Bay, NY, it is in good vintage condition, 4 invisible drawer...
Wood
$4,533 / item
Mano Center Table by Domkapa
Located in Geneve, CH
Mano center table by Domkapa Dimensions: W 80 x D 80 x H 31 cm. Materials: Black lacquered matte, natural leather (Albany Terra). Also available in different materials. An outs...
Leather, Lacquer
$9,349 / item
Budoir Side Table by Senimo
Located in Geneve, CH
Budoir Side Table by Senimo Limited Edition Dimensions: D 33 x W 48 x H 89 cm. Materials: Glossy lacquered wood. SENIMO is a designer carpenter who creates and manufactures each pie...
Wood
$7,956 / item
Sharpei Side Table by Senimo
Located in Geneve, CH
Sharpei Side Table by Senimo Limited Edition Dimensions: D 40 x W 48 x H 40 cm. Materials: Glossy lacquered wood. SENIMO is a designer carpenter who creates and manufactures each pi...
Wood
$8,416 / item
Ballerina Side Table by Senimo
Located in Geneve, CH
Ballerina Side Table by Senimo Limited Edition Dimensions: D 40 x W 44 x H 50 cm. Materials: Glossy lacquered wood. SENIMO is a designer carpenter who creates and manufactures each ...
Wood
$937 / item
Oculta Side Table
By Tri Design
Located in Londrina, Paraná
Oculta means hidden in Portuguese. This side table plays with the idea of having a table underneath another table. (This product consists of only 1 table).
Wood
WA 380 Matt Elm And Glossy Red Beam Dining Rectangular Table by Casa Casati
Located in Geneve, CH
WA 380 Matt Elm And Glossy Red Beam Dining Rectangular Table by Casa Casati Dimensions: D 120 x W 380 x H 74 cm. Materials: Lacquer, MDF, and elm. Available in different materials...
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 .