$32,802 / item
Radice Goatskin Coffee Table by Palena Furniture
Located in Geneve, CH
Radice Goatskin Coffee Table by Palena Furniture Dimensions: W 119.38 x D 101.6 x H 36.83 cm Materials: Goatskin, Patina Bronze, Polished Bronze, Black Lacquer Available in custom d...
Bronze, Other
Coffee Table by Roy Klipp
Located in Highland, IN
Created for Chicago interior designer Roy Klipp, this stylish coffee table has a terrific modernist design with three pie-shaped legs supporting a round glass top with a bull-nose ed...
Wood
Lupa Desk by Gisbert Pöppler, High Gloss Black Walnut, Germany
Located in Geneve, CH
Lupa desk by Gisbert Pöppler. Dimensions: D 170 x W 74,5 x H 76 cm. Materials: high gloss lacquered wood, black walnut. Work should not dominate our lives, so Lupa is a dainty d...
Walnut
Springer Style Faux Goatskin Floating Pouf Coffee Table Brass Base
By Karl Springer
Located in Bensalem, PA
Super nice coffee table in the style of Karl Springer with a faux goat skin lacquered finish and brass plinth base any questions feel free to reach out
Brass
Coffee table 'Jarpen' by Niels Gammelgaard for Ikea 1983
By Niels Gammelgaard, IKEA
Located in Herentals, BE
Post Modern white lacquered metal coffee table or side table ' Jarpen' with original transparent glass top.
Metal
$2,025 / item
Small Coffee Table by Tomasz Omachel
Located in Geneve, CH
Small Coffee Table by Tomasz Omachel Dimensions: D 49 x W 72 x H 45 cm. Materials: Oak, Brass. Finely crafted side table that blends elegance with simplicity.This piece features th...
Brass
$3,280 / item
High Three Rocks Black Side Table by InsidherLand
Located in Geneve, CH
High Three Rocks Black Side Table by InsidherLand Dimensions: D 40 x W 51 x H 48 cm. Materials: Black lacquered. 7 kg. Other materials available. From The Special Tree, Fallen Leave...
Lacquer
Medium Three Rocks Black Coffee Table by InsidherLand
Located in Geneve, CH
Medium Three Rocks Black Coffee Table by InsidherLand Dimensions: D 75 x W 85 x H 45 cm. Materials: Black lacquered. 15 kg. Other materials available. From The Special Tree, Fallen ...
Lacquer
Willy Rizzo 'TRG' Circular Yellow Coffee Table
By Willy Rizzo
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Willy Rizzo, TRG (Tavolo Rotondo Girevole) coffee table, lacquered wood, stainless steel, design 1969 The TRG (Tavolo Rotondo Girevole), designed by Willy Rizzo in 1969, is a master...
Stainless Steel
$4,532 / item
10497 Table Lamp by Disderot
Located in Geneve, CH
10497 Table Lamp by Disderot Limited Edition. Designed by Michel Mortier. Dimensions: Ø 35,3 x H 58 cm. Materials: Lacquered aluminum and opaline. Delivered with authentication cer...
Aluminum
$4,496 / item
10576 Table Lamp by Disderot
Located in Geneve, CH
10576 Table Lamp by Disderot Limited Edition. Designed by Michel Mortier Dimensions: Ø 35,3 x H 35,3 cm. Materials: Lacquered aluminum and opaline. Delivered with authentication ce...
Aluminum
$4,532 / item
10497 Table Lamp by Disderot
Located in Geneve, CH
10497 Table Lamp by Disderot Limited Edition. Designed by Michel Mortier. Dimensions: Ø 35,3 x H 58 cm. Materials: Lacquered aluminum and opaline. Delivered with authentication cer...
Aluminum
$4,532 / item
10497 Table Lamp by Disderot
Located in Geneve, CH
10497 Table Lamp by Disderot Limited Edition. Designed by Michel Mortier. Dimensions: Ø 35,3 x H 58 cm. Materials: Lacquered aluminum and opaline. Delivered with authentication cer...
Aluminum
$4,496 / item
10576 Table Lamp by Disderot
Located in Geneve, CH
10576 Table Lamp by Disderot Limited Edition. Designed by Michel Mortier Dimensions: Ø 35,3 x H 35,3 cm. Materials: Lacquered aluminum and opaline. Delivered with authentication ce...
Aluminum
$4,496 / item
10576 Table Lamp by Disderot
Located in Geneve, CH
10576 Table Lamp by Disderot Limited Edition. Designed by Michel Mortier Dimensions: Ø 35,3 x H 35,3 cm. Materials: Lacquered aluminum and opaline. Delivered with authentication ce...
Aluminum
$2,695 / item
J13 Table Lamp by Disderot
Located in Geneve, CH
J13 Table Lamp by Disderot Limited Edition. Designed by Joseph-André Motte. Dimensions: Ø 30 x H 45 cm. Materials: Lacquered metal and opaline glass. Delivered with authentication ...
Metal
Postmodern Dining Table Geometrical Base Round & Glass Top Style Memphis Group
By Memphis Group
Located in Topeka, KS
Marvelous vintage Postmodern dining table w/geometrical pedestal base & scalloped edge glass top in the style of the Memphis Group. Beautiful condition, keeping in mind that this...
Metal
1970's End Tables by Karl Springer with Faux Goatskin & Brass
By Karl Springer
Located in Southampton, NJ
A pair of faux goatskin end tables with removable glass tops & brass accents attributed to Karl Springer. Striking display in very nice original condition.
Brass
$50,671 / item
Bust Coffee Table by Three One Four Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Bust Coffee Table by Three One Four Studio Unique Piece. Dimensions: D 100 x W 170 x H 40 cm. Materials: Recycled modelboard, liquid metal, and lacquer. Four Bust forms dance below ...
Other, Metal
Model Guéridon PI Side Table by Martin Szekely for Neotu Edition, 1985
By Martin Szekely
Located in Kelkheim (Taunus), HE
Postmodern "PI" Side Table by Martin Szekely for Neotu Edition, 1985. Bibliographie: Martin Szekely “meublier - designer” p. 42 Provenance: Hamburg (Germany) Private Collection.
Metal
"Orrido Canyon" dining table by Mireille Rivier and Paolo Pallucco, Italie 1987
By Pallucco, Paolo Pallucco & Mireille Rivier
Located in Renens, CH
"Orrido Canyon" dining table by Mireille Rivier and Paolo Pallucco, Italie 1987 It features a sculpturally shaped base with three cylindrical angled legs. A top the round tempered g...
Metal
Joan Crawford Lips Coffee Table by Jay Spectre
By Jay Spectre
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
USA, 1980s Joan Crawford lips coffee table, designed by Jay Spectre for Jay Spectre Inc. This is a smaller size for a cocktail table, yet also a very usable size. It has a glossy re...
Wood, Lacquer
Rare “Tovaglia” Coffee Table, 1969 – Attributed to Studio Alchimia
By Studio Alchimia
Located in Wheat Ridge, CO
Rare “Tovaglia” Coffee Table, 1969 – Attributed to Studio Alchimia A striking example of Italian Radical Design, the Tovaglia coffee table (Italian for “tablecloth”) blurs the bound...
Fiberglass
$3,077 / item
Chrome A21 Table Lamp by Disderot
Located in Geneve, CH
Chrome A21 Table Lamp by Disderot Limited Edition. Designed by Alain Richard Dimensions: Ø 40 x H 62 cm. Materials: Lacquered metal and chrome. Delivered with authentication certif...
Metal, Chrome
$3,041 / item
Chrome A22 Table Lamp by Disderot
Located in Geneve, CH
Chrome A22 Table Lamp by Disderot Limited Edition. Designed by Alain Richard Dimensions: Ø 40 x H 19 cm. Materials: Lacquered metal and chrome. Delivered with authentication certif...
Metal, Chrome
$5,749 / item
ÇA-Y-EST Coffee Table by Studio Uwe Gaertner
Located in Geneve, CH
ÇA-Y-EST Coffee Table by Studio Uwe Gaertner Dimensions: Ø 80 x H 32 cm. Materials: Lacquered MDF. DESIGN BY STUDIO UWE GAERTNER The furniture collection from Studio Uwe Gaertner ...
Other
$2,266 / item
Nuit Table Lamp by Memoir Essence
Located in Geneve, CH
Nuit Table Lamp by Memoir Essence Dimensions: D 25 x W 50 x H 70 cm. Materials: Brushed brass, high gloss lacquer and satin fabric. Nuit table lamp is a classic and elegant solution...
Brass
Eero Saarineen Set of Two Black and White Low Tables in Wood and Aluminum 1990s
By Eero Saarinen
Located in Cascina, Pisa
Set of two coffee tables with a black pedestal base in painted die-cast aluminum and an oval-shaped top in white lacquered wood. These two tables were manufactured in the 1990s in t...
Aluminum
Ettore Sottsass "Ashoka" Table Lamp, Postmodern Design, 1981
By Ettore Sottsass
Located in Tinton Falls, NJ
ASHOKA by Ettore Sottsass, which takes its name from the emperor of the Maurya Empire, resembles an unstable stack of playful geometric forms. Though it seems “de-structured,” the la...
Metal
Set Of 5 Corian Steel Dining Table And Seating by Pol Quadens
Located in Geneve, CH
Set Of 5 Corian Steel Dining Table And Seating by Pol Quadens Limited Edition Of 8+4 Pieces. Dimensions: D 76 x W 250 x H 74 cm. Materials: Lacquered steel. Pol Quadens was born in...
Steel
Massimo & Lella Vignelli Rare Saratoga Dining / Lounge Set with Table and Chairs
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Massimo and Lella Vignelli for Poltronova, 'Saratoga' dining or lounge set, polyester lacquered wood, glass, leather, Italy, 1964 Designed by Massimo and Lella Vignelli for Poltrono...
Leather, Glass, Wood, Lacquer
Sculptural set of 8 chairs and table in the manner of Totem
By TOTEM
Located in PARIS, FR
Studio Totem (in the manner of) Set of a table and 8 chairs, Ca. 1983 Made for the Saint-Étienne Cultural Center in France Gray lacquered metal and yellow and gray laminated wood H. ...
Laminate, Wood
High Three Rocks Black and Brass Side Table by InsidherLand
Located in Geneve, CH
High Three Rocks Black and Brass Side Table by InsidherLand Dimensions: D 40 x W 51 x H 48 cm. Materials: Black lacquered, brushed brass. 8 kg. Other materials available. From The S...
Brass
Postmodern Wall-Mounted Entryway Mirror and Console Table with Glass Top
Located in Bresso, Lombardy
Made in Italy, 1980s. This mirror features a multi-layered beech back, a varnished metal frame, a crystal top and a multi-color serigraphed mirror. It might show slight traces of use...
Crystal, Metal
Postmodern Oval Wall-Mounted Entryway Mirror and Console Table with Glass Top
Located in Bresso, Lombardy
Made in Italy, 1980s. This mirror features a multi-layered beech back, a varnished metal frame, a crystal top and a multi-color serigraphed mirror. It might show slight traces of use...
Crystal, Metal
$2,850Sale Price|25% Off
Studio Craft Sculptural and Organic Coffee Table Signed Walsh, Dated 1989
By Wendell Castle
Located in Peabody, MA
Studio craft freeform coffee table of carved wood in aquamarine lacquer signed Walsh, 1989 and titled Nui Nalu No. 1 (translates to "big waves" in Hawaiain). It was purchased by the...
Wood
Vintage Karl Springer Style Faux Goatskin Console Table With Mirror Set
By Karl Springer
Located in West Chester, PA
A high quality Karl Springer style console table and mirror set with the original tri color goatskin faux finish. Circa late 20th century and unsigned. Mirror measures 45.25”w x 39....
Mirror, Wood, Lacquer
Axel Chay Sphinx Table Lamp Blue Steel Double Globe Postmodern French Design
Located in Lisboa, PT
The Sphinx table lamp by Axel Chay is a sculptural lighting piece representative of contemporary French collectible design, produced circa 2019 and handcrafted in France. Constructed...
Steel
Giovanni Offredi for Saporiti Italia Postmodern Freeform Coffee Table, 1980s
By Giovanni Offredi, Saporiti
Located in South Bend, IN
An exceptional postmodern free form coffee table By Giovanni Offredi for Saporiti Italia Italy, 1980s Red lacquered tiger maple top, with tubular metal legs. Measures: 53...
Metal
Postmodern Coco Wood Glass Top Coffee Table by Robb & Stucky. Circa 1990s
Located in Miami, FL
Vintage Postmodern Coco Wood Glass Top Coffee Table by Robb & Stucky. Circa 1990s Features a beautiful lacquered coco wood texture solid frame with metal trims and a removable te...
Metal
Winnie Table Lamp in Rattan, Wood and Printed Cotton by POPUS EDITIONS
By Popus Editions
Located in Geneve, CH
Winnie Table Lamp in Rattan, Wood and Printed Cotton by POPUS EDITIONS. Dimensions: Ø 30 x H 57 cm. Materials: Painted natural rattan frame structure completed with a printed cotton ...
Rattan, Lacquer, Wood
Ettore Sottsass TAHITI Table Lamp, Bacterio Pattern, Memphis, 1981
By Ettore Sottsass
Located in Tinton Falls, NJ
Designed by Ettore Sottsass, the TAHITI is a superb table lamp which strikingly resembles the silhouette of a duck. The black and white, bacterio-patterned laminate base supports an ...
Metal
$3,450 / item
Lazy Lighting Coffee Table in Aluminum and Steel
By Micah Rosenblatt
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The Lazy Lightning Coffee Table features a lightweight brushed aluminum top nestled perfectly into black lacquered steel legs. Its striking angularity is visible from every vantage ...
Aluminum, Steel
70s Gae Aulenti Knoll Black Orsay Square Mod 54 Table + 4 Blk Leather Chairs SET
By Knoll, Gae Aulenti
Located in Basel, BS
The listing includes an exceptionally rare complete dining set consisting of a black square table and four matching black leather armchairs designed in 1969 for Knoll International. ...
Aluminum
Table Coffee Sofa Willy Rizzo Alveo Black Chrome 1972 Vintage Cidue Italy
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
“It was about creating something new for a traditional setting.” Willy Rizzo, 'ALVEO' black lacquered and chromed coffee table, for Cidue, Italy, 1972-1973 - The recessed base create...
Chrome
Gae Aulenti early edition of the Ruspa table lamp
By Gae Aulenti
Located in Bruxelles, BE
The Ruspa lamp, designed by Gae Aulenti in 1967, is considered a masterpiece due to its sculptural form and the almost industrial character of its components, reminiscent of machiner...
Metal
Vico Magistretti Kuta Table Lamp for Oluce, Italy, 1980s
By Vico Magistretti, Oluce
Located in Milan, IT
Minimalistic Kuta table lamp by Vico Magistretti for Oluce, Italy, 1980s.
Marble, Metal
Black and Gray Low-Profile Glossy Geometric Coffee Table with Textured Accents
By Karl Springer
Located in Kansas City, MO
This large, low-profile, square, glossy black table with stone-like textured legs and accents features a geometric design with mixed textures. Although square, it can be rotated to ...
Concrete
Tripod Beech and Glass Side Table in the Style of Cesare Lacca, Italy, 1980s
By Cesare Lacca
Located in Bresso, Lombardy
Made in Italy, 1980s. This is a reinterpretation of Cesare Lacca's design of a tripod coffee table in the 50s. This coffee table features a lacquered beech frame and a round etched ...
Glass, Beech
Memphis "SUPER" Table Lamp by Martine Bedin, Colorful Design, 1981
By Martine Bedin
Located in Tinton Falls, NJ
The Classic super lamp with rubber wheels by early Memphis inceptor Martine Bedin (France). Understated elegance meets Memphis eye-popping colour all-in-one! The lamps are by Marti...
Fiberglass, Rubber, Lacquer
$2,000Sale Price / set|20% Off
Casual Lamps Brushed Steel Deco Revival Table Lamps, Black Shades, 1998
By Casual Lamps of California
Located in Chicago, IL
Casual Lamps Brushed Steel Deco Revival Table Lamps, Black Shades, 1998
Steel
Memphis Post-Modern Table Top Jewelry Chest in the Style of Ettore Sottsass
By Ettore Sottsass
Located in San Diego, CA
Gorgeous hand-made Memphis post-modern table top jewelry chest with five drawers in the style of Ettore Sottsass, circa 1980s. The box is in very good vintage condition and measures ...
Brass, Metal
Green Soft Nightstand by Studio Christinekalia
Located in Geneve, CH
Green soft beige nightstand by Studio Christinekalia Dimensions: W 24 x D 47 x H 27 cm. Materials: Swedish Pine Solid Wood, Lacquered mdf. Christine Kalia is a design studio ex...
Wood, Pine, Lacquer
Set of 2 Soft Beige Nightstands by Studio Christinekalia
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 2 soft beige nightstands by Studio Christinekalia Dimensions: W 24 x D 47 x H 27 cm. Materials: Swedish Pine Solid Wood, Lacquered mdf. Christine Kalia is a design studi...
Wood, Pine, Lacquer
$28,341 / item
Correspondence Sideboard by Gisbert Pöppler
Located in Geneve, CH
Correspondence Sideboard by Gisbert Pöppler Dimensions: D 250 x W 28 x H 91,5 cm Materials: hand lacquered ash wood Inspired by classic Asian woodwork, this sleek table uses no ...
Ash
Rectangular Smoked Glass Coffee Table / Dry Bar in the style of François Monnet
By François Monnet
Located in Bresso, Lombardy
Made in Italy, 1970s. This is an elegant coffee table or bar with a high-quality rectangular tempered smoked glass top that swivels to reveal two steel cylinders with a lacquered pla...
Steel
Postmodern coffee table, Italian manufacture, lattice base and crystal top
Located in Firenze, IT
A very unusual postmodern-style coffee table, Italian manufacture from the 1980s, it features a lattice steel base lacquered in shades of red and a tempered glass top.
Crystal, Steel
Metamorphic Nightstand by Studio Christinekalia
Located in Geneve, CH
Metamorphic nightstand by Studio Christinekalia Dimensions: W 45 x D 50 x H 36 cm. Materials: Lacquered MDF. This design piece is a versatile companion to various functions. Se...
Wood
Set of 2, Fold Serie Sidetable, Stool by Marianne
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 2, fold serie sidetable, stool by Marianne Materials: Larch veneer and finished with a gray lacquer and a PU lacquer Dimensions: R 35 x H 45cm Also available custom made ...
Wood
A postmodern matching console vanity and mirror, circa 1980
Located in View Park, CA
A striking and very unique matching set including a Demi-lune console and eye-shaped mirror with colorful postmodern motif, circa 1980. Each piece is lacquered wood, and the mirror i...
Wood, 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 .