$4,950
Barraco Buffet Cabinet
By Tri Design
Located in Londrina, Paraná
Inspired in the housings in the "favelas" of São Paulo. The Barraco buffet uses a mix of different laminates to create a unique visual.
Wood
$8,956 / item
Cube Table 02 by Studio Roso
Located in Geneve, CH
Cube table 02 by Studio Roso. Dimensions: D45 x W45 x H45 cm. Material: Laminated glass. Weight: 20 kg Studio Roso is a partnership between Sophie Nielsen and Rolf Knudsen. T...
Glass
$8,956 / item
Cube Table 01 by Studio Roso
Located in Geneve, CH
Cube table 01 by Studio Roso Dimensions: D45 x W45 x H45 cm Material: Laminated glass Weight: 20 kg Studio Roso is a partnership between Sophie Nielsen and Rolf Knudsen. The ...
Glass
Sideboard Beverly by Ettore Sottsass for Memphis
By Ettore Sottsass
Located in PARIS, FR
Ettore Sottsass spent decades as chief design consultant to Olivetti before arriving, in 1981, at something entirely his own. Memphis — the movement he founded and named after a Bob ...
Laminate, Wood
City table by Ettore Sottsass for Memphis Milano
By Memphis Milano, Ettore Sottsass
Located in Ravenna, IT
Table designed by Ettore Sottrass for Zanotta in 1990. The supporting legs are sinuous and rounded, while the top is decorated with floral shapes. Unique piece, discontinued. Underne...
Steel
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
1980s Custom Sculptural Faux Stone Base Glass Top Coffee Table
Located in Doylestown, PA
Unique custom post-modern sculptural faux stone glass top coffee table.
Glass, Resin, Laminate
Robert Venturi Sheraton chair for Knoll Postmodern 80s
By Knoll, Robert Venturi
Located in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
Robert Venturi chair for knoll Model: Sheraton Silkscreen printed pattern on black plywood. Rare model in famous Venturi's chairs in Knoll collection.
Plywood
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
$3,070 / item
Stardust Coffee Table by Studio Monsoleil
Located in Geneve, CH
Stardust Coffee Table by Studio Monsoleil Dimensions: D 100 x W 70 x H 55 cm. Materials: Laminated glass. Studio Monsoleil invites you to embrace the beauty and wonder of the univer...
Glass
$1,535 / item
Cosmos Green Mini Side Table by Studio Monsoleil
Located in Geneve, CH
Cosmos Green Mini Side Table by Studio Monsoleil Dimensions: Ø 50 x H 55 cm. Materials: Laminated glass. The Cosmos table series is created by combining glasses with gradient color ...
Glass
$3,070 / item
Cosmos Coffee Table by Studio Monsoleil
Located in Geneve, CH
Cosmos Coffee Table by Studio Monsoleil Dimensions: Ø 90 x H 45 cm. Materials: Laminated glass. The Cosmos table series is created by combining glasses with gradient color transitio...
Glass
$1,535 / item
Cosmos Mini Side Table by Studio Monsoleil
Located in Geneve, CH
Cosmos Mini Side Table by Studio Monsoleil Dimensions: Ø 50 x H 55 cm. Materials: Laminated glass. The Cosmos table series is created by combining glasses with gradient color transi...
Glass
$3,070 / item
Cosmos Green Coffee Table by Studio Monsoleil
Located in Geneve, CH
Cosmos Green Coffee Table by Studio Monsoleil Dimensions: Ø 90 x H 45 cm. Materials: Laminated glass. The Cosmos table series is created by combining glasses with gradient color tra...
Glass
Pair of 1980s American pink & gold drawer cabinets- use together or separately
Located in Hastings, GB
Pair of 1980s American pale pink laminate drawer cabinets with gold metal trim and lucite handles. These can be used separately or pushed flush together. Really useful if you have a ...
Metal
Ettore Sottsass City Dining Table for Memphis Milano, 1983
By Memphis Milano, Ettore Sottsass
Located in Kansas City, MO
Ettore Sottsass "City" dining table in black and brown spotted laminate with chrome plated steel legs. Very good condition with light scratches seen upon close inspection in raking ...
Steel, Chrome
Memphis Milano Mimosa Table by Ettore Sottsass
By Memphis Milano, Ettore Sottsass
Located in Toronto, ON
With its elementary shapes and delicate pastel colours, Mimosa by Ettore Sottsass seems to have come out of the world of childhood or dreams. This work asks us to free our imaginatio...
Glass, Laminate, Wood
$23,300Sale Price / set|27% Off
Robert Venturi 'Queen Anne' Chair for Knoll International, C. 1985, Signed
By Robert Venturi, Knoll, Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This rare and sought after set of four (4) collectors pieces are called the 'Queen Anne' chairs by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown for Knoll International, circa 1985 and featu...
Laminate, Plywood
Ettore Sottsass Memphis 'Casablanca' Cabinet, 1981, Italy
By Ettore Sottsass
Located in Tinton Falls, NJ
This strikingly sculptural cabinet is a superb work of art designed in 1981 by Ettore Sottsass for Memphis. The wood and plastic laminate structure features a base with a column supp...
Laminate, Wood
Earth, Kolho Original Dining Chair, Mdj Kuu by Made by Choice
Located in Geneve, CH
Earth, Kolho original dining chair, MDJ KUU by Made By Choice with Matthew Day Jackson Kolho Collection Dimensions: 54 x 54 x 77 cm Materials: Oak (MDJ KUU Formica laminate in se...
Laminate, Birch, Plywood
Just Rose, Kolho Original Dining Chair, MDJ Kuu by Made By Choice
Located in Geneve, CH
Just Rose, Kolho Original dining chair, MDJ KUU by Made By Choice with Matthew Day Jackson Kolho Collection Dimensions: 54 x 54 x 77 cm Materials: Oak ( MDJ KUU Formica laminate ...
Laminate, Birch, Plywood
Spectrum Green, Kolho Original Dining Chair, MDJ KUU by Made by Choice
Located in Geneve, CH
Spectrum Green, Kolho Original dining chair, MDJ KUU by Made By Choice with Matthew Day Jackson Kolho Collection Dimensions: 54 x 54 x 77 cm Materials: Oak ( MDJ KUU Formica lami...
Laminate, Birch, Plywood
Set of 3, Earth, Kolho Original Dining Chairs & Table by Made by Choice
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 3, Earth, Kolho Original Dining Chairs & Table by Made By Choice Kolho Collection - MDJ Kuu by Made By Choice with Matthew Day Jackson Dimensions: 75 x 120 (table), 54 x 54 ...
Laminate, Birch, Plywood
Set of 3, Spectrum Green, Kolho Original Dining Chairs & Table by Made by Choice
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 3, Spectrum Green, Kolho original dining chairs & table by Made By Choice Kolho Collection - MDJ Kuu by Made By Choice with Matthew Day Jackson Dimensions: 75 x 120 (table),...
Laminate, Birch, Plywood
Lido Sofa by Michele De Lucchi For Memphis Milano, 1982.
By Michele de Lucchi, Memphis Milano
Located in Kansas City, MO
"Lido" sofa / loveseat / settee designed by Michele De Lucchi For Memphis Milano, 1982. This early example retains the original fabric and finish in very good condition. An icon of...
Metal
Emerald Sideboard by Nathalie Du Pasquier, Memphis Style, 1985, France
By Nathalie du Pasquier
Located in Tinton Falls, NJ
EMERALD Sideboard by Nathalie Du Pasquier - Memphis Milano This stunning MEMPHIS sideboard is a veritable masterwork of postmodernist art, designed in 1985 by Nathalie Du Pasquier. ...
Mirror, Laminate, Wood
$1,795Sale Price|25% Off
Sideboard Buffet Dry Bar Cabinet Postmodern Faux Travertine
Located in Lake Worth, FL
For FULL item description click on More Details below. Shipping Quote Information The shipping quote stated in the listing was from 1st Dibs and they normally set all the costs and ...
Laminate
$2,907Sale Price|50% Off
Lanfranco Benvenuti ‘Vescovina’ chair for Meccani Design - Italy, 1986
By Lanfranco Benvenuti
Located in London, GB
Boasting a throne-like silhouette, the ‘Vescovina’ armchair was designed in 1986 by Italian architect Lanfranco Benvenuti (1937-1989) for Meccani Design. The timber construction form...
Wood
$3,850 / set
Postmodern Italian Lounge Chair and Coffee Table
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Sitting element and side table, laminated wood, stainless steel, fabric, Italy, 1980s An Italian postmodern modular sitting element and side table. The design is bulky and shows typ...
Steel
$9,600Sale Price|20% Off
Iconic Trix & Robert Haussmann Amor Stripe 12 “Zebra” Credenza by Wogg
By Trix and Robert Haussmann
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Iconic Trix & Robert Haussmann Amor Stripe 12 credenza by Wogg. Intriguing design, use of materials and refined execution cumulate in the iconic Amor Stripe 12 “Zebra” credenza b...
Chrome
1970s/80s Postmodern Deco Themed Pierre Cardin 3 Part Credenza in White & Chrome
By Pierre Cardin
Located in Hudson, NY
Stunning and sturdy three part credenza or dresser which consists of a pair of Pierre Cardin designed nightstands with a separate 40" wide chest placed between. Practical yet elegant...
Chrome
1980s Lighted Lucite Acrylic Bed Glowing Headboard
By Neal Small, Roger Rougier, Karl Springer
Located in Bensalem, PA
Extremely awesome queen size arched lighted headboard can easily change to any colored bulb. please look up pictures for overall condition measurements and detail. Feel free to reach...
Laminate, Lucite, Hardwood
$4,385 / item
Space Rainbow, Kolho Dining Chair by Made by Choice
Located in Geneve, CH
Space rainbow, Kolho dining chair by Made By Choice with Matthew Day Jackson Kolho Collection Dimensions: 54 x 54 x 77 cm Materials: Oak "Kolho is a series of tables and chai...
Laminate, Birch, Plywood
$16,779Sale Price / item|20% Off
'Carlton' Room Divider and Bookcase by Ettore Sottsass for Memphis Milano, Italy
By Memphis Milano, Ettore Sottsass
Located in London, GB
Probably the most iconic of all Ettore Sottsass' designs, the colourful Carlton is half room divider, half bookcase and full size sculptural marvel. Designed in 1981, the Carlton for...
Laminate, Wood
Set of 3 Kolho Original Dining Chairs in MDJ KUU Black & Table by Made By Choice
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 3 Kolho Original Dining Chairs in MDJ KUU Black & Table by Made By Choice *Kolho Collection by Made By Choice with Matthew Day Jackson* Table's Dimensions: H75 x diam.120 cm. ...
Laminate, Birch, Plywood
Amazing angular trapezoid-shaped postmodern vintage zig zag sideboard, USA 1980s
Located in Hastings, GB
An amazing angular trapezoid-shaped postmodern zig zag sideboard, USA 1980s. Clad in 3 colours of shiny laminate- pale pink, deeper mauvey pink, maroon. Four push-click doors open o...
Laminate
postmodern bar carbinet, Peter Maly, interlübke
By Peter Maly, Interlübke
Located in Neuss, NW
Exceptional 1980s bar cabinet, captivating with its striking postmodern design. Peter Maly's design deliberately breaks with classic conventions, combining basic geometric shapes int...
Wood
Memphis Milano Carlton Shelf by Ettore Sottsass
By Ettore Sottsass, Memphis Milano
Located in Toronto, ON
An absolute icon of Memphis designed by Ettore Sottsass in 1981, Carlton fully represents the programmatic intention of the group: the desire to transgress with an irreverent, unorth...
Laminate, Wood
Bruno Mathsson & Piet Hein Super-Ellipse Table with Fabiaan Van Severen Chairs
By Fritz Hansen, Piet Hein, Bruno Mathsson
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Conference or dining room set consisting of Fabiaan Van Severen dining chairs with Bruno Mathsson and Piet Hein for Fritz Hansen Super-Ellipse table Fabiaan Van Severen, dining ch...
Aluminum, Steel, Chrome
Willy Daro Illuminated Coffee Table in Brass and Agate
By Willy Daro
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Willy Daro, illuminated coffee table, etched brass, agate, lacquered laminated wood, Belgium, 1970s Mesmerizing coffee table by the Belgian artist Willy Daro from the 1970s. The re...
Agate, Brass
Memphis Writing Desk, Aldo Cibic, Memphis Milano, 1985
By Aldo Cibic, Memphis Milano
Located in Renens, CH
Rare "Sophia" Writing Desk by Aldo Cibic for Memphis Milano, 1985. Aldo Cibic, an associate of Ettore Sottsass, co-founded the Memphis Group in 1981 and produced some fifteen fur...
Laminate, Wood
Postmodern Square Blue End Side Drink Table Memphis Style, Small
By Memphis Group, Marco Zanini
Located in New York, NY
A cool, chic, small royal blue side/end/drinks table, Postmodern period, Memphis style, after designer Marco Zanini, circa late-20th century, 1980s. A monochromatic table in wood and...
Laminate, Wood
$2,768 / item
Roly Midi Lilac Trolley by Studio Monsoleil
Located in Geneve, CH
Roly Midi Lilac Trolley by Studio Monsoleil Dimensions: D 40 x W 70 x H 53 cm. Materials: Laminated glass. Roly trolley is an Art Deco-inspired piece that brings a touch of 1920s op...
Glass
$2,303 / item
Roly Mini Orange Trolley by Studio Monsoleil
Located in Geneve, CH
Roly Mini Orange Trolley by Studio Monsoleil Dimensions: D 40 x W 40 x H 53 cm. Materials: Laminated glass. Roly trolley is an Art Deco-inspired piece that brings a touch of 1920s o...
Glass
$2,768 / item
Roly Midi Orange Trolley by Studio Monsoleil
Located in Geneve, CH
Roly Midi Orange Trolley by Studio Monsoleil Dimensions: D 40 x W 70 x H 53 cm. Materials: Laminated glass. Roly trolley is an Art Deco-inspired piece that brings a touch of 1920s o...
Glass
$2,303 / item
Roly Mini Lilac Trolley by Studio Monsoleil
Located in Geneve, CH
Roly Mini Lilac Trolley by Studio Monsoleil Dimensions: D 40 x W 40 x H 53 cm. Materials: Laminated glass. Roly trolley is an Art Deco-inspired piece that brings a touch of 1920s op...
Glass
TAWARAYA "Boxing Ring" Seating Pod by Masanori Umed, Memphis Design, Japan, 1983
By Masanori Umeda
Located in Tinton Falls, NJ
The TAWARAYA Ring by Masanori Umeda for MEMPHIS srl is one of that design movements most famous & critically-discussed pieces from the inaugural MEMPHIS exhibition of 1981. The ...
Laminate, Wood
Michele De Lucchi "Polar" Side Table, Lacquered Wood, Memphis
By Michele de Lucchi
Located in Tinton Falls, NJ
Low coffee table made of lacquered wood and covered with decorative laminate. Another quirky anthropomorphic table by Michele De Lucchi, early Memphis trailblazer (looks a little li...
Laminate, Hardwood, Lacquer
Ettore Sottsass Filicudi Dining Table
By Ettore Sottsass
Located in Weesp, NL
Extendable Filicudi Dining Table, a masterpiece of design and functionality from the renowned Italian furniture brand, Zanotta. Designed by the legendary Ettore Sottsass in 1992, t...
Laminate, Wood
Memphis Milano Carlton Miniature, Limited Edition by Ettore Sottsass
By Memphis Milano, Ettore Sottsass
Located in Toronto, ON
Perfect 1:4 scale reproduction of the Carlton bookcase in a limited edition of 1000 pieces. About Carlton: An absolute icon of Memphis designed by Ettore Sottsass in 1981, Carlton ...
Laminate, 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
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
Memphis Table By Shiro Kuramata Sally Glass Chrome Rolling Table, 1987
By Shiro Kuramata, Memphis Group
Located in Vienna, AT
Round rolling table sally by Shiro Kuramata for Memphis, 1987 Dimensions are 30.31" x 23.35" x 23.35" Iconic table 'Sally' by Shiro Kuramata, Japan, 1987 for Memphis. Comprised of ...
Metal, Chrome
$28,000 / set
Marc Held French Dining Set IBM Office
By Marc Held
Located in New York, NY
The great French dining set was designed for the IBM office in Montpellier , France . Marc Held created the interiors and furniture for the building . This table was used in the exe...
Iron
1970s / 1980s Postmodern Deco twist Pierre Cardin Nightsatnds in White & Chrome
By Pierre Cardin
Located in Hudson, NY
Stunning and sturdy pair of Pierre Cardin designed nightstands. Practical yet elegant and streamlined. Plenty of storage in these white and chrome postmodern nightstands that were de...
Chrome
$1,042Sale Price|54% Off
Early 1990s Postmodern Waterfall Marbleized Formica Chest of Drawers / Dresser
Located in Miami, FL
Early 1990s Postmodern waterfall marbleized formica chest of drawers / dresser. Features the perfect sizing to fit in any small room, a six drawers with hidden pulls, a waterfall f...
Brass
Teodora Chair by Ettore Sottsass, 1984, Vitra Editions
By Vitra, Ettore Sottsass
Located in Kansas City, MO
Ettore Sottsass designed the Teodora chair for Vitra Editions shortly after leaving the Memphis Group in 1985. Signed with decal manufacturer's label to underside: [Vitra 09.91]. ...
Acrylic, Laminate
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.
It's hard to resist the allure of a beautiful pool. So, go ahead and daydream about whiling away your summer in paradise.
Alessandro Mendini, Michael Graves, Ettore Sottsass and other design luminaries contributed to this unusual collection of porcelain wares representing a time capsule of late-20th-century decorative art.
Aided by photos taken of the maestro in his Milan studio, we honor the influential design talent who died last month at 87.
Adam Charlap Hyman and Andre Herrero, rising young design talents, are debuting a new, eclectic line of textiles.