Brown Lazy-O Occasional Table by Somaschini
Located in Geneve, CH
Brown Lazy-O Occasional Table by Somaschini Dimensions: D 45 x H 40 cm Materials: Lightened mdf monolithic structure. Side table in N.151 Copper brown Argilla finish About: Somas...
Lacquer
Brown Lazy-O Occasional Table by Somaschini
Located in Geneve, CH
Brown Lazy-O Occasional Table by Somaschini Dimensions: D 25 x H 48 cm Materials: Lightened mdf monolithic structure. S49-02 Copper brown Argilla finish. Side table in N.151 Copper ...
Lacquer
Mano Side Table by Domkapa
Located in Geneve, CH
Mano side table by Domkapa Dimensions: W 40 x D 40 x H 56 cm. Materials: Black lacquered matte, natural leather (Albany Coimbra). Also available in different materials. An out...
Leather, Lacquer
Brown Red Maryland Occasional Side Table by Somaschini
Located in Geneve, CH
Brown Red Maryland Occasional Side Table by Somaschini Dimensions: D 50 x H 37 cm Materials: Lightened mdf monolithic structure with emptying. S 34-02, 118 Brown-red high gloss. Sid...
Lacquer
Vintage Maison Dada “Sonia Et Caetra” Side Table
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
This striking side table from Maison Dada’s "Sonia et Caetra" collection is a masterclass in playful Post-Modernism and artistic expression.
Metal
$60,396 / item
H 29.14 in Dm 78.75 in
Boscolo 200 Mahogany, Marble, Mirror And Light Bronze Metal Table by Casa Casati
Located in Geneve, CH
Boscolo 200 Mahogany, Marble, Mirror And Light Bronze Metal Table by Casa Casati Dimensions: Ø 200 x H 74 cm. Materials: MDF, lacquer, brass, bronze, and mirror. Finish: Glossy Eng...
Marble, Brass, Bronze, Other
$57,270 / item
H 29.14 in W 141.74 in D 59.06 in
Berlino Maxi 360 Matt Grey Oak Top And Bronze Metal Base Table by Casa Casati
Located in Geneve, CH
Berlino Maxi 360 Matt Grey Oak Top And Bronze Metal Base Table by Casa Casati Dimensions: D 150 x W 360 x H 74 cm. Materials: MDF, lacquer, brass, bronze, and iron. Available in di...
Brass, Other, Iron, Bronze
Contemporary Big Vase 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...
Travertine, Marble, Metal
Bondi Side Table by Domkapa
Located in Geneve, CH
Bondi side table by Domkapa. Materials: black texturized steel, grey lacquered. Dimensions: W 56 x D 52 x H 52.5 cm. Also available in different materials. It is time to access...
Stainless Steel
Ebony Center Table by Memoir Essence
Located in Geneve, CH
Ebony Center Table by Memoir Essence Dimensions: D 120 x W 120 x H 27 cm. Materials: Polished brass, lacquer and Royal ebony. An exquisite combination of royal ebony veneer and blac...
Brass
Ionic Round Side Table by InsidherLand
Located in Geneve, CH
Ionic Round Side Table by InsidherLand Dimensions: D 55 x H 55 cm. Materials: White lacquered, brushed brass. 10 kg. Other materials available. Ionic is one of the three orders of c...
Brass
Small Inside Side Table by Domkapa
Located in Geneve, CH
Small inside side table by Domkapa Dimensions: W 70 x D 70 x H 34.5 cm. Materials: Black texturized steel, moka lacquered matte. Also available in different materials. Inside t...
Steel
$2,340
H 15.75 in W 31.5 in D 31.5 in
Carlo Malnati Signed Coffee Table – Sculptural Masterpiece in Wood Inlay
By Carlo Malnati
Located in HAARLEM, NL
Transform your living space with this extraordinary coffee table by Italian designer Carlo Malnati, a masterwork signed by the artist himself. This is not just a table—it’s a collect...
Lacquer
Euphoria Small Center Table by Memoir Essence
Located in Geneve, CH
Euphoria Small Center Table by Memoir Essence Dimensions: D 50 x W 50 x H 50 cm. Materials: Polished brass, lacquer and glass. Available in different sizes. Please contact us. Memo...
Brass
Euphoria Medium Center Table by Memoir Essence
Located in Geneve, CH
Euphoria Medium Center Table by Memoir Essence Dimensions: D 90 x W 90 x H 37 cm. Materials: Polished brass, lacquer and glass. Available in different sizes. Please contact us. Mem...
Brass
Euphoria Large Center Table by Memoir Essence
Located in Geneve, CH
Euphoria Large Center Table by Memoir Essence Dimensions: D 120 x W 120 x H 27 cm. Materials: Polished brass, lacquer and glass. Available in different sizes. Please contact us. Me...
Brass
$18,723
H 15.75 in W 51.19 in D 31.5 in
Roberto Jodice Postmodern Italian Indian Tortoiseshell Coffee Table, 1975
Located in Conversano, IT
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Tortoise Shell, Wood, Lacquer
$3,218
H 29.5 in W 65 in D 26 in
Triangular Memphis Style Inspired Lacquered 'Boca Desk' by Leon Rosen for Pace
By Pace Collection, Leon Rosen
Located in Aramits, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Triangular, almost sail-shaped desk in high gloss lacquered walnut with three drawers. The desk is mounted on cylindrical black lacquered legs, with one prominent tapered black lacqu...
Walnut
Twin Polished Bronze Side Table by Palena Furniture
Located in Geneve, CH
Twin Polished Bronze Side Table by Palena Furniture Dimensions: W 50.8 x D 48.26 x H 50.8 cm Materials: Polished Bronze, Black Lacquer Available in custom dimensions and materials, ...
Bronze, Other
Bigflow Lamp in Red Lacquered Wood by Kimy Gringoire
Located in Geneve, CH
Bigflow Lamp in Red Lacquered Wood by Kimy Gringoire. Dimensions: W 82 x D 22 x H 76 cm. Materials: Red Lacquered Wood. All our lamps can be wired according to each country. If sold...
Wood
Gero Polished Bronze Side Table by Palena Furniture
Located in Geneve, CH
Gero Polished Bronze Side Table by Palena Furniture Dimensions: W 43.18 x D 50.8 x H 50.8 cm Materials: Polished Bronze, Eucalyptus Available in custom dimensions and materials, ple...
Bronze, Other
1980s Michele De Lucchi Side Table
By Michele de Lucchi
Located in Renens, CH
Michele De Lucchi Side table from the 1980s. This rare “side table” was created in the late 1980s by Michele de Lucchi. Highly architectural, with graphic lines that play with blac...
Metal
Euphoria Tall Side Table by Memoir Essence
Located in Geneve, CH
Euphoria Tall Side Table by Memoir Essence Dimensions: D 37 x W 37 x H 60 cm. Materials: Poplar Root with high gloss lacquer and brushed brass. Available in two different sizes and ...
Brass
Euphoria Small Side Table by Memoir Essence
Located in Geneve, CH
Euphoria Small Side Table by Memoir Essence Dimensions: D 46 x W 46 x H 50 cm. Materials: Poplar Root with high gloss lacquer and brushed brass. Available in two different sizes and...
Brass
"ORGANICA" lacquered wood desk, Roberto Fallani, Italy
By Roberto Fallani
Located in IT
Roberto Fallani, artist of the "bound". Bound like creative exuberance and versatility, of teaching that interact so much that refuse any critic code; bound of the vision in itself t...
Wood
Set Of 3 Euphoria Center Tables by Memoir Essence
Located in Geneve, CH
Set Of 3 Euphoria Center Table by Memoir Essence Dimensions: Large: D 120 x W 120 x H 27 cm. Medium: D 90 x W 90 x H 37 cm. Small: D 50 x W 50 x H 50 cm. Materials: Polished brass, l...
Brass
The Forum Dining Table
By Micah Rosenblatt
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The Forum Dining Table is a meeting place of ideas, of shared experiences and communal gathering. A seven-foot-long 3/8" thick brushed aluminum top sits on massive sliced steel cyli...
Aluminum, Steel
Plinto Console Table by Somaschini
Located in Geneve, CH
Plinto Console Table by Somaschini Dimensions: W 129 x D 34 x H 70 cm Materials: Lightened mdf, Top in lacquered mdf or marble. Double sided. S43 Brown-red high gloss polyester lacqu...
Lacquer
Duplex Walnut 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
Walker Whiskey Table by Gisbert Pöppler
Located in Geneve, CH
Walker whiskey table by Gisbert Pöppler Dimensions: D 16 x W 16 x H 59 cm Materials: Laquered wood, steel Available in blue, green, red and yellow. All of their upholstery piec...
Steel
$2,634 / item
H 23.63 in W 14.18 in D 14.18 in
Glossy Vanity Grey Amanda Side Table by Favaretto&Partners
Located in Geneve, CH
Glossy Vanity Grey Amanda Side Table by Favaretto&Partners Dimensions: D 36 x W 36 x H 60 cm. Materials: Glossy lacquered polyethylene. Weight: 3,5 kg. A removable wood tray is avai...
Other
$2,632 / item
H 23.82 in W 16.74 in D 15.16 in
Glossy Metallic Gold Ambrogio Side Table by Favaretto&Partners
Located in Geneve, CH
Glossy Metallic Gold Ambrogio Side Table by Favaretto&Partners Dimensions: D 38,5 x W 42,5 x H 60,5 cm. Materials: Glossy lacquered polyethylene. Weight: 5 kg. A removable wood tray...
Other
$2,632 / item
H 23.82 in W 16.74 in D 15.16 in
Glossy Glamour Black Ambrogio Side Table by Favaretto&Partners
Located in Geneve, CH
Glossy Glamour Black Ambrogio Side Table by Favaretto&Partners Dimensions: D 38,5 x W 42,5 x H 60,5 cm. Materials: Glossy lacquered polyethylene. Weight: 5 kg. A removable wood tray...
Other
Taylor Bedside Table Left / Right by Domkapa
Located in Geneve, CH
Taylor bed side table left / right by Domkapa Dimensions: W 61 x D 50 x H 50 cm. Materials: Moka lacquered matte, microfiber (Tarn 05). Also available in different materials. T...
Metal
Plinto Console Table by Somaschini
Located in Geneve, CH
Plinto Console Table by Somaschini Dimensions: W 129 x D 34 x H 70 cm Materials: Lightened mdf, Top in lacquered mdf or marble. Double sided. S44 Black Ash wooden venner in matt fini...
Marble
Set Of 2 Euphoria Side Tables by Memoir Essence
Located in Geneve, CH
Set Of 2 Euphoria Side Tables by Memoir Essence Dimensions: Tall Side Table: D 37 x W 37 x H 60 cm. Small Side Table: D 46 x W 46 x H 50 cm. Materials: Poplar Root with high gloss la...
Brass
Anthony Redmile Bespoke Octagonal Pedestal Table, London 1970s
By Anthony Redmile London
Located in Houston, TX
1970s Octagonal pedestal table produced by the London workshop of Anthony Redmile. The top is a hand-painted faux-malachite surface and edged with closely set rectangular bone tiles....
Malachite, Metal
$13,901 / item
H 14.18 in W 42.92 in D 63 in
21st Century Sculptural Barok Center Table, Hand Hammered Brass by Mavo Atelier
By Mavo Atelier
Located in Trofa, PT
The Barok Coffee Tables bring a sculptural presence to contemporary interiors. Designed as a pair, their curved, organic lines create a dialogue between strength and softness — a stu...
Brass
$1,552
H 25.4 in W 53.94 in D 20.87 in
Vintage Karl Springer Style Lacquered Grasscloth Console / Tv or Media Stand 80s
By Karl Springer
Located in Hastings, GB
A stylish Karl Springer style lacquered grasscloth console / TV or media stand, USA 1980s. It has 2 drawers, with space below for audio stuff (maybe records?), and a thick glass top ...
Grasscloth, Glass, Wood
Duplex Center 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, Metal
Memphis Kristall Side Table by Michele De Lucchi, Italy, 1981
By Michele de Lucchi
Located in Tinton Falls, NJ
Kristall by Michele De Lucchi is an eccentric service table with its vaguely zoomorphic look, like a head, a body and paws. It takes its cue from the excursion module of the Apollo X...
Metal
Postmodern Side Table in the Memphis Group Style. Circa 1980s
By Memphis Milano
Located in Miami, FL
Vintage Postmodern Side Table in the Memphis Group Style. Circa 1980s Features a quintessential 1980s postmodern design, with chrome pedestals, pastel colors lacquer and glass insert...
Glass, Lacquer
Philippe Starck "Titos Apostos" Table 1985
By Philippe Starck, Driade
Located in Naples, FL
Philippe Starck "Titos Apostos" Table Italy/France, 1985, Driade Folding table to pair with "Mickville Chairs" Suitable as a functioning table or wall art
Steel
Mahjong Dining Table by Pendhapa
Located in Geneve, CH
Mahjong dining table by Pendhapa Dimensions: D100 x W100 x H74 cm Materials: Solid black javanese teak, black lacquered javanese teak, Kuningan metal (traditionnal indonesian brass)....
Brass
Duplex Copper Center 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
Duplex Oak Center 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
Rare Adjustable Cassina 'Kick' Side Table by Toshiyuki Kita
By Cassina, Toshiyuki Kita
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Rare 1980’s Cassina 'Kick' side table by renowned Japanese designer Toshiyuki Kita. Constructed of powder coated charcoal gray steel with black lacquered with rubber edges. Design w...
Steel
Kingston Dining Table by Daniel Poole
Located in Geneve, CH
Kingston Dining Table by Daniel Poole Dimensions: D 90 x W 240 x H 74 cm. Materials: American Back Walnut with 10% gloss lacquer. This table includes a certificate of authenticity....
Lacquer, Walnut
Duplex Salmon Center 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
Max 4 Table by Doimo Brasil
Located in Geneve, CH
Max 4 Table by Doimo Brasil Dimensions: W 60 x D 60 x H 75 cm Materials: Base: Paint, Top: Lacquer, Reconstituted stone. Also available in W 70 x D 70, W 70 x D 70, W 80 x D 80, W...
Stone, Steel
Atollo Coffee Table by Somaschini
Located in Geneve, CH
Atollo Coffee Table by Somaschini Dimensions: W 140 x D 72 x H 35 cm Materials: Lightened mdf monolithic structure with emptying. Patina green high gloss polyester lacquered finish. ...
Lacquer
Bondi Dining Table by Domkapa
Located in Geneve, CH
Bondi dining table by Domkapa Materials: black texturized steel, black lacquered. Dimensions: W 180 x D 90 x H 78 cm. Also available in different materials. Gather your friend...
Stainless Steel
Oval Mano Dining Table by Domkapa
Located in Geneve, CH
Oval Mano dining table by Domkapa Dimensions: W 220 x D 100 x H 75 cm. Materials: Black lacquered matte, natural leather (Albany Terra), bronze mirror. Also available in different...
Leather, Lacquer
Caldow Dining Table by Daniel Poole
Located in Geneve, CH
Caldow Dining Table by Daniel Poole Dimensions: D 110 x W 300 x H 74 cm. Materials: American White Oak with a Walnut Stain and 3% matte lacquer finish. This one is American White O...
Oak, Lacquer
Mastercraft Console Table Designed By William Doezema
By William Doezema, Mastercraft
Located in Houston, TX
Mastercraft Console Table Designed By William Doezema. Offered is a shapely black lacquer and brass console table desgined by William Doezema for Mastercraft in the 1980's. This time...
Brass
$75,945 / item
H 30.01 in W 108.01 in D 36.01 in
Labirinto Patina Bronze Dining Table by Palena Furniture
Located in Geneve, CH
Labirinto Patina Bronze Dining Table by Palena Furniture Dimensions: Small: W 274.32 x D 91.44-101.6 x H 76.2 cm Large: W 304.8 x D 101.6-111.76 x H 76.2 cm Materials: Patina Bronze...
Other, Bronze
Ghanem Rectangular Dining Table by Daniel Poole
Located in Geneve, CH
Ghanem Rectangular Dining Table by Daniel Poole Dimensions: D 105 x W 250x H 74 cm. Materials: American Black Walnut with 10% matte lacquer. This table includes a certificate of au...
Walnut, Lacquer
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 .