Twin Armchair in Black Ash Wood & Elmosoft Leather Upholstery Seat by Leo Aerts
Located in Geneve, CH
Twin Armchair in Black Ash Wood & Elmosoft Leather Upholstery Seat Designed by Leo Aerts
Leather, Ash
$17,712 / item
Serving Bowl Caldafreddo
Located in Geneve, CH
Serving Bowl Caldafreddo Signed by Leo Aerts. Dimensions: D 38 x H 9 cm Material: Silver 925/1000
Silver
Travertino Silver Contemporary Honed Marble Stool by Angelo Alinea
Located in Geneve, CH
35 years after his coffee table design for B&B Italia, Leo Aerts, interior architect and driving
Marble
Grey Saint Laurent Contemporary Honed Marble Stool by Angelo Alinea
Located in Geneve, CH
35 years after his coffee table design for B&B Italia, Leo Aerts, interior architect and driving
Marble
Bianco Statuarietto Contemporary Honed Marble Stool by Angelo Alinea
Located in Geneve, CH
35 years after his coffee table design for B&B Italia, Leo Aerts, interior architect and driving
Marble
Picasso Green Contemporary Honed Marble Stool by Angelo Alinea
Located in Geneve, CH
35 years after his coffee table design for B&B Italia, Leo Aerts, interior architect and driving
Marble
Travertino Rosso Contemporary Honed Marble Stool by Angelo Alinea
Located in Geneve, CH
35 years after his coffee table design for B&B Italia, Leo Aerts, interior architect and driving
Marble
Grafite Contemporary Honed Marble Stool by Angelo Alinea
Located in Geneve, CH
35 years after his coffee table design for B&B Italia, Leo Aerts, interior architect and driving
Marble
Kyknos Contemporary Honed Marble Stool by Angelo Alinea
Located in Geneve, CH
35 years after his coffee table design for B&B Italia, Leo Aerts, interior architect and driving
Marble
Pair of Refined Contemporary Marble 03 Rosso Lepanto Marble Cake Stand
Located in Geneve, CH
Pair of Refined Contemporary Marble 03 Rosso Lepanto Marble Cake Stand Signed by Leo Aerts
Marble
Pair of Refined Contemporary Marble 03 Picasso Green Marble Cake Stands
Located in Geneve, CH
Pair of Refined Contemporary marble 03 Picasso green marble cake stands Signed by Leo Aerts
Marble
Refined Contemporary Marble 02 Grafite Marble Cake Stand
Located in Geneve, CH
Refined Contemporary Marble 02 Grafite Marble Cake Stand Signed by Leo Aerts. Dimensions: Diameter
Marble
Pair of Refined Contemporary Marble 01 Travertino Silver Marble Platter
Located in Geneve, CH
Pair of Refined Contemporary Marble 01 Travertino Silver Marble Platter Signed by Leo Aerts
Travertine, Marble
Refined Contemporary Marble 03 Grafite Marble Cake Stand
Located in Geneve, CH
Refined contemporary marble 03 grafite marble cake stand Signed by Leo Aerts. Dimensions
Marble
Refined Contemporary Marble 02 Bianco Statuarietto Marble Cake Stand
Located in Geneve, CH
Refined Contemporary Marble 02 Bianco Statuarietto Marble Cake Stand Signed by Leo Aerts
Marble, Statuary Marble
Refined Contemporary Marble 03 Grey Saint Laurent Marble Cake Stand
Located in Geneve, CH
Refined Contemporary marble 03 grey Saint Laurent marble cake stand Signed by Leo Aerts
Marble
Refined Contemporary Marble 03 Bianco Statuarietto Marble Cake Stand
Located in Geneve, CH
Refined Contemporary Marble 03 Bianco Statuarietto Marble Cake Stand Signed by Leo Aerts
Marble, Statuary Marble
Refined Contemporary Marble 02 Picasso Green Marble Cake Stand
Located in Geneve, CH
Refined Contemporary Marble 02 Picasso green marble cake stand Signed by Leo Aerts. Dimensions
Marble
Refined Contemporary Marble 03 Travertino Rosso Marble Cake Stand
Located in Geneve, CH
Refined Contemporary Marble 03 Travertino Rosso marble cake stand Signed by Leo Aerts. Dimensions
Travertine, Marble
Refined Contemporary Marble 02 Rosso Lepanto Marble Cake Stand
Located in Geneve, CH
Refined Contemporary Marble 02 Rosso Levanto marble cake stand Signed by Leo Aerts. Dimensions
Marble
Refined Contemporary Marble 03 Kyknos Marble Cake Stand
Located in Geneve, CH
Refined Contemporary marble 03 Kyknos Marble cake stand Signed by Leo Aerts. Dimensions: Diameter
Marble
Refined Contemporary Marble 02 Travertino Silver Marble Cake Stand
Located in Geneve, CH
Refined Contemporary marble 02 Travertino silver Marble cake stand Signed by Leo Aerts
Travertine, Marble
Refined Contemporary Marble 02 Travertino Rosso Marble Cake Stand
Located in Geneve, CH
Refined Contemporary marble 02 Travertino Rosso marble cake stand Signed by Leo Aerts. Dimensions
Travertine, Marble
Refined Contemporary Marble 03 Rosso Lepanto Marble Cake Stand
Located in Geneve, CH
Refined Contemporary Marble 03 Rosso Levanto Marble Cake Stand Signed by Leo Aerts. Dimensions
Marble
Refined Contemporary Marble 03 Picasso Green Marble Cake Stand
Located in Geneve, CH
Refined Contemporary Marble 03 Picasso green marble cake stand Signed by Leo Aerts. Dimensions
Marble
Refined Contemporary Marble 01 Travertino Rosso Marble Platter
Located in Geneve, CH
Refined contemporary marble 01 travertino rosso marble platter Signed by Leo Aerts. Dimensions
Travertine, Marble
Refined Contemporary Marble 01 Travertino Silver Marble Platter
Located in Geneve, CH
Refined Contemporary Marble 01 Travertino Silver Marble Platter Signed by Leo Aerts. Dimensions
Travertine, Marble
$1,077 / item
Refined Contemporary Marble 01 Kyknos Marble Platter
Located in Geneve, CH
Refined Contemporary Marble 01 Kyknos Marble Platter Signed by Leo Aerts. Dimensions: Diameter 32
Marble
Refined Contemporary Marble 01 Grafite Marble Platter
Located in Geneve, CH
Refined Contemporary Marble 01 grafite marble platter Signed by Leo Aerts. Dimensions: diameter 32
Marble
Refined Contemporary Marble 01 Bianco Statuarietto Marble Platter
Located in Geneve, CH
Refined Contemporary Marble 01 Bianco statuarietto marble platter Signed by Leo Aerts. Dimensions
Marble
Refined Contemporary Marble 01 Rosso Lepanto Marble Platter
Located in Geneve, CH
Refined Contemporary marble 01 Rosso Levanto Marble Platter Signed by Leo Aerts. Dimensions
Marble
Pair of Refined Contemporary Marble 01 Rosso Lepanto Marble Platter
Located in Geneve, CH
Pair of Refined Contemporary marble 01 Rosso Lepanto Marble Platter Signed by Leo Aerts. Dimensions
Marble
Pair of Refined Contemporary Marble 01 Picasso Green Marble Platter
Located in Geneve, CH
Refined Contemporary marble 01 Picasso green marble platter Signed by Leo Aerts. Dimensions
Marble
Refined Contemporary Marble 01 Grey Saint Laurent Marble Platter
Located in Geneve, CH
Refined Contemporary Marble 01 grey Saint Laurent marble platter Signed by Leo Aerts. Dimensions
Marble
Set of 3 Refined Contemporary Marble Kynos Cake Stands and Plate
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 3 Refined Contemporary marble Kynos cake stands and plate Signed by Leo Aerts. Dimensions
Marble
Set of 3 Refined Contemporary Marble Travertino Silver Cake Stands and Plate
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 3 Refined Contemporary Marble Travertino Silver Cake Stands and Plate Signed by Leo Aerts
Marble
Refined Contemporary Marble 02 Kyknos Marble Cake Stand
Located in Geneve, CH
Refined Contemporary marble 02 Kyknos marble cake stand Signed by Leo Aerts. Dimensions: diameter
Marble
Refined Contemporary Marble 03 Travertino Silver Marble Cake Stand
Located in Geneve, CH
Refined Contemporary Marble 03 Travertino silver marble cake stand Signed by Leo Aerts
Travertine, Marble
Refined Contemporary Marble 02 Grey Saint Laurent Marble Cake Stand
Located in Geneve, CH
Refined Contemporary marble 02 grey saint laurent marble cake stand Signed by Leo Aerts
Marble
Set of 3 Refined Contemporary Marble Grafitte Cake Stands and Plate
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 3 Refined Contemporary Marble Grafitte Cake Stands and Plate Signed by Leo Aerts. Dimensions
Marble
Set of 3 Refined Contemporary Marble Rosso Lepanto Marble Cake Stands and Plate
Located in Geneve, CH
. Interior architect and designer Leo Aerts has run his own design agency Alinea for more than 30 years. The
Marble
Set of 3 Refined Contemporary Marble Bianco Statuarietto Cake Stands and Plate
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 3 Refined Contemporary Marble Bianco Statuarietto Cake Stands and Plate Signed by Leo Aerts
Marble
Refined Contemporary Marble 01 Picasso Green Marble Platter
Located in Geneve, CH
Refined Contemporary marble 01 Picasso Green marble platter Signed by Leo Aerts. Dimensions
Marble
Glass Visibile G Horizontal Standing Cabinet by Angelo Alinea
Located in Geneve, CH
internationally award-winning Angelo M round table. Interior architect and designer Leo Aerts has run his own
Steel
Glass Visibile G Vertical Standing Cabinet by Angelo Alinea
Located in Geneve, CH
internationally award-winning Angelo M round table. Interior architect and designer Leo Aerts has run his own
Steel
Glass Visibile G Vertical Hanging Cabinet by Angelo Alinea
Located in Geneve, CH
internationally award-winning Angelo M round table. Interior architect and designer Leo Aerts has run his own
Steel
$17,712 / item
Silver Caldafreddo Serving Dish by Angelo Alinea
Located in Geneve, CH
internationally award-winning Angelo M round table. Interior architect and designer Leo Aerts has run his own
Silver
Bianco Statuarietto Visibile M Horizontal Display Cabinet by Angelo Alinea
Located in Geneve, CH
internationally award-winning Angelo M round table. Interior architect and designer Leo Aerts has run his own
Marble, Metal
$13,935 / item
Visibile M Vertical Display Cabinet by Angelo Alinea
Located in Geneve, CH
architect and designer Leo Aerts has run his own design agency Alinea for more than 30 years. The design has
Marble, Metal
$36,139 / item
Ebony Amara Angelo W Dining Table by Angelo Alinea
Located in Geneve, CH
internationally award-winning Angelo M round table. Interior architect and designer Leo Aerts has run his own
Wood
Sold|$320 / item
Steel Vase by Leo Aerts "Ziggy" Signed
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Steel vases by Leo Aerts "Ziggy" signed, available two.
Cut 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.
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.