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
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
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
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
Miss Feet 60 Coffee Table in Black Leather & Black Lacquered Glass by Munna
Located in Geneve, CH
Miss Feet 60 Coffee Table in Black Leather & Black Lacquered Glass by Munna Dimensions: D 67 x W 67 x H 49 cm. SH: 49 cm. Materials: Wood, foam, glass, and leather. Finish: Leather, ...
Leather, Glass, Foam, Wood
Miss Feet 40 Coffee Table in Black Leather & Black Lacquered Glass by Munna
Located in Geneve, CH
Miss Feet 40 Coffee Table in Black Leather & Black Lacquered Glass by Munna Dimensions: D 50 x W 50 x H 49 cm. SH: 49 cm. Materials: Wood, foam, glass, and leather. Finish: Leather, ...
Leather, Foam, Wood, Glass
$4,382 / 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
$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
$9,039 / 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
$7,692 / 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
$8,137 / 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
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
Sunburst Mushroom Table in Green and Blue, Louis Durot, 1990's
By Louis Durot
Located in Culver City, CA
This table is absolutely stunning! A mushroom table, hand crafted by pop artist Louis Durot. This post modern piece of art came from the personal collection of Gisele Person who was ...
Lacquer
$4,006 / item
Yellow Maryland Occasional Side Table by Somaschini
Located in Geneve, CH
Yellow Maryland Occasional Side Table by Somaschini Dimensions: D 50 x H 37 cm Materials: Lightened mdf monolithic structure with emptying. S34 Honey yellow polyester lacquered high ...
Lacquer
$3,321 / item
Grey Lazy-O Occasional Table by Somaschini
Located in Geneve, CH
Grey Lazy-O Occasional Table by Somaschini Dimensions: D 45 x H 40 cm Materials: Lightened mdf monolithic structure. S50 Shadow grey high gloss polyester lacquered finish. Side tabl...
Lacquer
$2,351 / item
Black Lazy-O Occasional Table by Somaschini
Located in Geneve, CH
Black Lazy-O Occasional Table by Somaschini Dimensions: D 25 x H 48 cm Materials: Lightened mdf monolithic structure. S49 Black high gloss polyester lacquered finish. Side table in ...
Lacquer
$10,957Sale Price / set|20% Off
Ettore Sottsass Set of two Rocchettone Round Side Table by Poltronova 1960s
By Ettore Sottsass, Poltronova
Located in Cascina, Pisa
Rocchettone side table realized in lacquered walnut wood with bright orange decorations (under the table top and on the base), it was designed by Ettore Sottsass and manufactured by ...
Plastic, Wood, Walnut
Vintage Custom Faux Goatskin Lacquered Light Up Pedestal
By Karl Springer
Located in Westfield, NJ
Vintage circa 1980s faux goatskin lacquered pedestal with lucite transparent disk. Perfect pedestal to highlight sculptures or any item placed on top. Pedestal base is fiberglass tha...
Acrylic, Fiberglass
$5,478Sale Price|20% Off
Ettore Sottsass Rocchettone Round Side Table in Walnut Wood by Poltronova 1960s
By Poltronova, Ettore Sottsass
Located in Cascina, Pisa
Rocchettone side table realized in lacquered walnut wood with bright orange decorations (under the table top and on the base), it was designed by Ettore Sottsass and manufactured by ...
Wood, Plastic, Walnut
$5,471Sale Price|20% Off
Ettore Sottsass Rocchettone Round Side Table in Walnut Wood by Poltronova 1960s
By Poltronova, Ettore Sottsass
Located in Cascina, Pisa
Rocchettone side table realized in lacquered walnut wood with bright orange decorations (under the table top and on the base), it was designed by Ettore Sottsass and manufactured by ...
Plastic, Wood, Walnut
Azure Blue Glossy Lacquer Paint, Stainless Metal, Azuron Desk By OMER OZTURK
Located in Geneve, CH
Azure Blue Glossy Lacquer Paint, Stainless Metal, Azuron Desk By OMER OZTURK Dimensions: W 175 x D 60 x H 75 cm. Materials: Azure Blue Glossy Lacquer Paint, Stainless Metal. About: ...
Metal
Side Table & Stool, Solid Wood & Resin, Sculptural Post-Modern, Panorammma
By Panorammma
Located in Ciudad de México, CDMX
Night Log Formed from a reclaimed tree trunk, Night Log preserves the natural silhouette of the wood its knots, cracks, and irregular contours that trace the memory of growth. After ...
Resin, Wood
$4,300Sale Price|20% Off
Afra & Tobia Scarpa Table with Oval Shaped Top in Wood by Maxalto 1970s
By Maxalto, Afra & Tobia Scarpa
Located in Cascina, Pisa
Oval-shape table from Artona series in wood with brass details, designed by Tobia and Afra Scarpa produced by Maxalto, 1970s. Tobia Scarpa and his wife Afra Bianchin began their lon...
Brass
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 57 cm Materials: Lightened mdf monolithic structure with emptying. S33 Nuanced Brown-red polyester lacquer...
Lacquer
Berlino 300 Matt Grey Oak Top And Matt Black Metal Base Table by Casa Casati
Located in Geneve, CH
Berlino 300 Matt Grey Oak Top And Matt Black Metal Base Table by Casa Casati Dimensions: D 110 x W 300 x H 74 cm. Materials: MDF, lacquer, brass, and iron. Available in different m...
Other, Brass, Iron
$1,796 / item
Duplex 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, Metal
$3,355 / item
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
Elia Trolley in Lacquered Black Wood & Chromed Brass by Arcahorn
Located in Geneve, CH
Elia Trolley in Lacquered Black Wood & Chromed Brass by Arcahorn Designed by Filippo Dini Dimensions: D 54 x W 118 x H 82 cm. Materials: wood with lacquered black gloss finish, dark ...
Brass, Other
$2,876 / item
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
$2,145 / item
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
Vintage Italian Wood and Black Lacquer Console with Glass Top
Located in Chicago, IL
An Italian console from the 1980s, where geometry is treated not as a fixed system, but as something to be shifted, offset, and rebalanced. The composition is asymmetrical, built th...
Glass, Wood
Barcelona 150 White Larch And Verde Ming Marble Low Coffee Table by Casa Casati
Located in Geneve, CH
Barcelona 150 White Larch And Verde Ming Marble Low Coffee Table by Casa Casati Dimensions: D 80 x W 150 x H 38 cm. Materials: Lacquer, MDF, Verde Ming marble, and white larch. Av...
Marble, Other
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
DOG-SHAPED Table An Unusual Modernist Side-Table Accent in Black Plywood
Located in Miami, FL
A side table in the shape of a stylized dog. This is an unusual and very decorative side table designed in the shape of a stylized dog. Crafted in Italy in solid black plywood with ...
Steel
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
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
Vintage Italian Iron + Glass Top Side Table - 2 Available
Located in Chicago, IL
An Italian Postmodern side table from the 1980s, where restraint and gesture meet in a compact form. The structure is composed of black lacquered iron, rising in a single, confident...
Plastic, Lacquer
$1,095 / item
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
$9,724 / item
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
$3,618 / item
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
$1,700 / item
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
$6,574 / item
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
$5,604 / item
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
$7,316 / item
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
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
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
Roberto Jodice Postmodern Italian Indian Tortoiseshell Coffee Table, 1975
Located in Conversano, IT
If you would like to receive additional photos of this item, please feel free to contact us directly through the 1stDibs messaging system. We will be happy to provide you with furthe...
Tortoise Shell, Wood, Lacquer
Grace Green Heller Coffee Table Attributed to Lella and Massimo Vignelli
By Heller
Located in Staten Island, NY
Grace green Heller coffee table attributed to Lella and Massimo Vignelli, custom made in 1970s.
Lacquer
$3,036 / item
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
$3,036 / item
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
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
$12,052 / item
Twin Polished Bronze Side Table by Palena Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Twin Polished Bronze Side Table by Palena Studio Dimensions: W 50.8 x D 48.26 x H 50.8 cm Materials: Polished Bronze, Black Lacquer Available in custom dimensions and materials, ple...
Bronze, Other
$17,554 / set
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
$12,052 / item
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
$15,600
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
$12,052 / item
Gero Polished Bronze Side Table by Palena Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Gero Polished Bronze Side Table by Palena Studio Dimensions: W 43.18 x D 50.8 x H 50.8 cm Materials: Polished Bronze, Eucalyptus Available in custom dimensions and materials, please...
Bronze, Other
$4,896 / item
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
$3,063 / item
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
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 .