$20,993 / item
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
$2,516 / item
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
$2,539 / item
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 Toshiyuki Kita, Cassina
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
$28,341 / item
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
$1,491 / item
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
$2,516 / item
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
$2,946 / item
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
$6,978 / item
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
$10,425 / item
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
$29,593 / item
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
$29,904 / item
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
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
$77,414 / item
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
Glossy Glamour Black Ambrogio Side Table With Wooden Tray by Favaretto&Partners
Located in Geneve, CH
Glossy Glamour Black Ambrogio Side Table With Wooden Tray by Favaretto&Partners Dimensions: D 38,5 x W 46 x H 64 cm. Materials: Glossy lacquered polyethylene and wood. Weight: 6 kg. ...
Other
"Orio" Coffee Tables by Pierluigi Cerri for Fontana Arte, 1980s
By Fontana Arte, Pierluigi Cerri
Located in Renens, CH
This pair of "Orio" side tables was designed by Pierluigi Cerri for Fontana Arte in the 1980s. Minimalist and of remarkable quality, the "Orio" side table is timelessly elegant. I...
Metal, Iron
$5,475 / item
Round Mano Dining Table by Domkapa
Located in Geneve, CH
Round Mano dining table by Domkapa Dimensions: W 140 x D 140 x H 75 cm. Materials: Black lacquered matte, natural leather (Albany Black), smoked glass. Also available in different...
Leather, Glass, Lacquer
$3,530 / item
Large Bondi Dining Table by Domkapa
Located in Geneve, CH
Large bondi dining table by Domkapa Materials: black texturized steel, black lacquered. Dimensions: W 220 x D 120 x H 78 cm. Also available in different materials. Gather your...
Stainless Steel
Pair of Postmodern Bedside Tables "Maletik Series" by Borek Šípek
By B. Sipek
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This Postmodern pair of wall-mounted nightstands was designed by Borek Šípek in1995. Crafted from lacquered wood, the floating cabinets feature glass tops supported by chromed tubula...
Brass, Chrome
$32,802 / item
Piano Polished Bronze Console Table by Palena Furniture
Located in Geneve, CH
Piano Polished Bronze Console Table by Palena Furniture Dimensions: W 182.88 x D 45.72 x H 86.36 cm Materials: Polished Bronze, Black Lacquer Available in custom dimensions and mate...
Bronze, Other
Vena Round Polished Bronze Dining Table by Palena Furniture
Located in Geneve, CH
Vena Round Polished Bronze Dining Table by Palena Furniture Dimensions: Small: D 137.16 x H 76.2 cm Large: D 152.4 x H 76.2 cm Materials: Patina Bronze, Black Lacquer Available in ...
Bronze, Other
Claudio Salocchi attr. dining table Sormani - Italy, 1960s
By Claudio Salocchi, Sormani
Located in London, GB
A dining table attributed to Claudio Salocchi (1934-2012). With its distinctive square metal supports, this generous table is effectively the prototype for a now much-mimicked design...
Steel
Dutch Postmodern Red Side Drinks Table w/Shelf by Erik van Buijtenen for Nebu
By Nebu, Erik van Buijtenen
Located in New York, NY
This Post-Modern / '70s Modern table is round, has a 'Coca-Cola' red hue, a smoked glass top with shelf beneath.
Composition
Labirinto Patina Bronze Console Table by Palena Furniture
Located in Geneve, CH
Labirinto Patina Bronze Console Table by Palena Furniture Dimensions: W 165.1 x D 35.56 x H 83.82 cm Materials: Patina Bronze, Black Lacquer Available in custom dimensions and mater...
Bronze, Other
$41,987 / item
Arco Polished Bronze Dining Table by Palena Furniture
Located in Geneve, CH
Arco Polished Bronze Dining Table by Palena Furniture Dimensions: Small: D 137.16 x H 76.2 cm Large: D 152.4 x H 76.2 cm Materials: Polished Bronze, Black Lacquer Available in cust...
Bronze, Other
Postmodern Kaizo Oto For DIA Glass Top Console Table
By Design Institute America
Located in Chicago, IL
Modern Kaizo Oto for Design Institute America Glass Top Console Table Modern, multi-metal architectural console table with glass top by DIA. This "Memphis" inspired piece uses brass...
Brass
$31,180 / item
Ghanem Oval Dining Table by Daniel Poole
Located in Geneve, CH
Ghanem Rectangular Dining Table by Daniel Poole Dimensions: D 120 x W 300 x H 74 cm. Materials: American Back Walnut with 10% gloss lacquer and stone. This table includes a certifi...
Stone
$34,114 / item
Vena Patina Bronze Console Table by Palena Furniture
Located in Geneve, CH
Vena Patina Bronze Console Table by Palena Furniture Dimensions: W 190.5 x D 45.72 x H 86.36 cm Materials: Patina Bronze, American Walnut Available in custom dimensions and material...
Bronze, Other
$5,720Sale Price|20% Off
Pia Manu Dining Table in Marble & Steel, 1990s
By Pia Manu
Located in Antwerp, BE
Pia Manu Dining Table in Marble & Steel, 1990s Belgian post-modern marble sculptural dining table created by Pia Manu in the 1990s. A sculptural design featuring six cylindrical ste...
Marble, Steel
Orsaydining table by Gae Aulenti for Knoll International, 1976.
By Gae Aulenti, Knoll
Located in Athens, Attiki
Orsay table by Gae Aulenti for Knoll International, 1976. A notable piece of mid-century modern furniture with a curved metal frame and a laminate top. The table is also known as «Mo...
Metal
$7,872 / item
Jaguarcito Black Console Table by Andres Gutierrez
Located in Geneve, CH
Jaguarcito Black Console Table by Andres Gutierrez Dimensions: D 35 x W 120 x H 75 cm. Materials: Solid white oak with black lacquer finish. Also available in natural finish. Pl...
Oak
Louis Durot Tongue Coffee Table in Jet Black
By Louis Durot
Located in Culver City, CA
This chair would look wonderful in any mid century modern, modern or contemporary post-modern environment.
Lacquer
$13,061 / item
Royal Ebony Dining Table by Memoir Essence
Located in Geneve, CH
Royal Ebony Dining Table by Memoir Essence Dimensions: D 160 x W 160 x H 76 cm. Materials: Polished brass, lacquer and Royal ebony. Also available in brushed brass. Please contact u...
Brass
Dark Green Maryland Occasional Coffee Table by Somaschini
Located in Geneve, CH
Dark Green Maryland Occasional Coffee Table by Somaschini Dimensions: D 120 x H 27 cm Materials: Lightened mdf monolithic structure with emptying. S32 Nuanced dark green polyester la...
Lacquer
Postmodern Console Table in Ivory Faux Marble, Glass Top, 1980s Design
By Karl Springer
Located in W Allenhurst, NJ
An elegant 1980s Postmodern console table featuring a substantial rectangular glass top supported by a pair of sculptural faux marble pedestal bases. The gracefully curved waterfall ...
Lacquer
$3,565Sale Price|40% Off
Bronze Metal Large Freeform Side Table, Karl Springer Style, 1980s US
By Silas Seandel, Karl Springer
Located in Glasgow, GB
This bronze side table, produced in the United States in the 1980s in the style of Karl Springer, is a sculptural example of postmodern design, defined by its organic silhouette and ...
Bronze
L-K2519 Contemporary Sculptural Monolithic Oak Dining Table by Isac Elam Kaid
Located in Geneve, CH
L-K2519 Contemporary Sculptural Monolithic Oak Dining Table by Isac Elam Kaid Dimensions: W 135 x D 450 x H 75,6 cm Materials: Ebonized, sealed and lacquered european oak Object is ...
Wood, Oak
M-K2519 Contemporary Sculptural Monolithic Oak Dining Table by Isac Elam Kaid
Located in Geneve, CH
M-K2519 Contemporary Sculptural Monolithic Oak Dining Table by Isac Elam Kaid Dimensions: W 125 x D 360 x H 75,6 cm Materials: Ebonized, sealed and lacquered european oak Object is ...
Wood, Oak
Postmodern Floating Foax Goatskin & Glass Cocktail Table
By Milo Baughman, J. Wade Beam, Karl Springer
Located in Bensalem, PA
Very unique, floating top coffee table with faux goat skin lacquered finish & 3/4” glass top please look at pictures and video for overall details. Feel free to reach out with any qu...
Glass, Fiberglass, Lacquer
A SHABBY-CHIC NEO-CLASSICAL Octogonal DINING TABLE by ERIC MAVILLE, France, 1970
By Eric Maville
Located in PARIS, FR
A very chic and impressive dining room octogonal table, on an octogonal base in black lacquered wood, with a top in black plexiglass hooped by a bronze or brass golden belt, signed w...
Brass
Contemporary Riviera Dinner table in Sage metal and Green Terrazzo 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
$1,264 / item
Bondi Coffee Table by Domkapa
Located in Geneve, CH
Bondi coffee table by Domkapa. Materials: black texturized steel, grey lacquered. Dimensions: W 95 x D 95 x H 25 cm. Also available in different materials. Bondi coffee table ...
Stainless Steel
1980s Jonson & Marcius Console Table from Lorin Marsh Gallery
By Gene Jonson and Robert Marcius, Lorin Marsh
Located in West Chester, PA
A show stopping console designed by Gene Jonson and Robert Marcius featuring two lacquered pedestals with brass mounts and painted details. Each pedestal retains the original Jonson ...
Brass
Maurizio Salvato Rotating Burlwood Coffee Table for Saporiti Italia, 1980s
Located in Leuven, Vlaams Gewest
Postmodern rotating coffee table with purple and pink lacquered table tops and steel legs. Designed by Maurizio Salvato and produced by Saporiti Italia. The coffee table has the br...
Steel
$4,174 / item
Watt Table Lamp by Disderot
Located in Geneve, CH
Watt Table Lamp by Disderot Limited Edition. Designed by Sylvain Dubuisson. Dimensions: Ø 25,7 x H 46,5 cm. Materials: Lacquered metal and chrome. Delivered with authentication cer...
Metal, Chrome
$4,174 / item
Watt Table Lamp by Disderot
Located in Geneve, CH
Watt Table Lamp by Disderot Limited Edition. Designed by Sylvain Dubuisson. Dimensions: Ø 25,7 x H 46,5 cm. Materials: Lacquered metal and chrome. Delivered with authentication cer...
Metal, Chrome
$4,174 / item
Watt Table Lamp by Disderot
Located in Geneve, CH
Watt Table Lamp by Disderot Limited Edition. Designed by Sylvain Dubuisson. Dimensions: Ø 25,7 x H 46,5 cm. Materials: Lacquered metal and chrome. Delivered with authentication cer...
Metal, Chrome
$24,142 / item
Rec Goatskin Coffee Table by Palena Furniture
Located in Geneve, CH
Rec Goatskin Coffee Table by Palena Furniture Dimensions: W 129.54 x D 99.06 x H 36.83 cm Materials: Goatskin, Patina Bronze, Matte Black Lacquer Available in custom dimensions and ...
Bronze, Other
$31,490 / item
Reveal Block Table by John Eric Byers
By John Eric Byers
Located in Geneve, CH
Reveal block table by John Eric Byers Dimensions: W 28 x D 175.5 x H 71.5 cm. Materials: sawn, lacquer, maple. All works are individually handmade to order. John Eric Byers c...
Maple, Lacquer
Norman Foster Black Aluminium and Glass Nomos Round Table for Tecno, 1988
By Tecno, Sir Norman Foster
Located in Vicenza, IT
Nomos round table, designed in 1986 by Sir Norman Foster and produced in 1988 by Tecno. Its gleaming glass tabletop, supported by a black lacquered aluminum structure, offers an unp...
Aluminum
$3,005 / item
A22 Table Lamp by Disderot
Located in Geneve, CH
A22 Table Lamp by Disderot Limited Edition. Designed by Alain Richard Dimensions: Ø 40 x H 19 cm. Materials: Lacquered metal. Delivered with authentication certificate. Made in Fra...
Metal
$3,029 / item
A21 Table Lamp by Disderot
Located in Geneve, CH
A21 Table Lamp by Disderot Limited Edition. Designed by Alain Richard Dimensions: Ø 40 x H 62 cm. Materials: Lacquered metal. Delivered with authentication certificate. Made in Fra...
Metal
$3,005 / item
A22 Table Lamp by Disderot
Located in Geneve, CH
A22 Table Lamp by Disderot Limited Edition. Designed by Alain Richard Dimensions: Ø 40 x H 19 cm. Materials: Lacquered metal. Delivered with authentication certificate. Made in Fra...
Metal
$3,029 / item
A21 Table Lamp by Disderot
Located in Geneve, CH
A21 Table Lamp by Disderot Limited Edition. Designed by Alain Richard Dimensions: Ø 40 x H 62 cm. Materials: Lacquered metal. Delivered with authentication certificate. Made in Fra...
Metal
$3,005 / item
A22 Table Lamp by Disderot
Located in Geneve, CH
A22 Table Lamp by Disderot Limited Edition. Designed by Alain Richard Dimensions: Ø 40 x H 19 cm. Materials: Lacquered metal. Delivered with authentication certificate. Made in Fra...
Metal
$3,029 / item
A21 Table Lamp by Disderot
Located in Geneve, CH
A21 Table Lamp by Disderot Limited Edition. Designed by Alain Richard Dimensions: Ø 40 x H 62 cm. Materials: Lacquered metal. Delivered with authentication certificate. Made in Fra...
Metal
$3,005 / item
A22 Table Lamp by Disderot
Located in Geneve, CH
A22 Table Lamp by Disderot Limited Edition. Designed by Alain Richard Dimensions: Ø 40 x H 19 cm. Materials: Lacquered metal. Delivered with authentication certificate. Made in Fra...
Metal
$3,005 / item
A22 Table Lamp by Disderot
Located in Geneve, CH
A22 Table Lamp by Disderot Limited Edition. Designed by Alain Richard Dimensions: Ø 40 x H 19 cm. Materials: Lacquered metal. Delivered with authentication certificate. Made in Fra...
Metal
$3,029 / item
A21 Table Lamp by Disderot
Located in Geneve, CH
A21 Table Lamp by Disderot Limited Edition. Designed by Alain Richard Dimensions: Ø 40 x H 62 cm. Materials: Lacquered metal. Delivered with authentication certificate. Made in Fra...
Metal
$3,029 / item
A21 Table Lamp by Disderot
Located in Geneve, CH
A21 Table Lamp by Disderot Limited Edition. Designed by Alain Richard Dimensions: Ø 40 x H 62 cm. Materials: Lacquered metal. Delivered with authentication certificate. Made in Fra...
Metal
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 .