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Set of 4 MZO Chairs by Mazo Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 4 MZO chairs by Mazo Design. Dimensions: W 46 x D 50 x H 75 cm. Materials: beech. This
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White WNG Chairs in Moonlight Sheepskin Upholstery by Mazo Design
Located in Geneve, CH
White WNG Chairs in Moonlight Sheepskin Upholstery by Mazo Design Dimensions: W 60 x D 50 x H 76 cm
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Beechwood MZO Chair with Black Kvadrat Upholstered Seat by Mazo Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Beechwood MZO Chair with Black Kvadrat Upholstered Seat by Mazo Design Dimensions: W 46 x D 50 x H
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The Iconic Royal Blue MZO Chair in Beechwood by Mazo Design
Located in Geneve, CH
The Iconic Royal Blue MZO Chair in Beechwood by Mazo Design Dimensions: W 46 x D 50 x H 75 cm
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The Iconic Black Stained MZO Chairs in Beechwood by Mazo Design
Located in Geneve, CH
The Iconic Black Stained MZO Chairs in Beechwood by Mazo Design Dimensions: W 46 x D 50 x H 75 cm
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ARCH Lounge Chair in Oak and Sheepskin Upholstery by Mazo Design
Located in Geneve, CH
ARCH Lounge Chair in Oak and Sheepskin Upholstery by Mazo Design Dimensions: W 69 x D 79 x H 76 cm
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Gray WNG Chair in BUTE/Storr Fabric Upholstery by Mazo Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Gray WNG Chair in BUTE/Storr Fabric Upholstery by Mazo Design Dimensions: W 60 x D 50 x H 76 cm
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ARCH Lounge Chair in Oak and Kongaline & Seafoam Upholstery by Mazo Design
Located in Geneve, CH
ARCH Lounge Chair in Oak and Kongaline & Seafoam Upholstery by Mazo Design Dimensions: W 69 x D 79
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Warm Beige TMBO Lounge Chair BUTE/Storr Fabric Upholstery by Mazo Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Warm Beige TMBO Lounge Chair BUTE/Storr Fabric Upholstery by Mazo Design Dimensions: W 90 x D 68.5
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Tmbo Lounge Chairs in Oak and Jennifer Shorto Seafoam by Mazo Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Tmbo Lounge Chairs in Oak and Jennifer Shorto Seafoam by Mazo Design Dimensions: W 90 x D 68.5 x H
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Set of 4 Iconic Black Stained MZO Chairs in Beechwood by Mazo Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 4 Iconic Black Stained MZO Chairs in Beechwood by Mazo Design Dimensions: W 46 x D 50 x H 75
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Set of 2 Iconic Royal Blue MZO Chairs in Beechwood by Mazo Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 2 Iconic Royal Blue MZO Chairs in Beechwood by Mazo Design Dimensions: W 46 x D 50 x H 75 cm
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The Iconic Black Stained MZO Chair in Beechwood with Upholstery by Mazo Design
Located in Geneve, CH
The Iconic Black Stained MZO Chair in Beechwood with Upholstery by Mazo Design Dimensions: W 46 x D
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Blue WNG Chair in KVADRAT/Hallingdal & Fiord Fabric and Oak by Mazo Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Blue WNG Chair in KVADRAT/Hallingdal & Fiord Fabric and Oak by Mazo Design Dimensions: W 60 x D 50
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Arch Lounge Chair in Oak & Daw/Mohair & McNutt Handwoven Textile by Mazo Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Arch Lounge Chair in Oak & Daw/Mohair & McNutt Handwoven Textile by Mazo Design Dimensions: W 69 x
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Brown ARCH Lounge Chair in Oak, KVADRAT/Hallingdal & Fiord Fabric by Mazo Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Brown ARCH Lounge Chair in Oak, KVADRAT/Hallingdal & Fiord Fabric by Mazo Design Dimensions: W 69 x
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Soft Cream Arch Lounge Oak Chair Upholstered in Dedar/Artemidor by Mazo Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Soft Cream Arch Lounge Oak Chair Upholstered in Dedar/Artemidor by Mazo Design Dimensions: W 69 x D
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White Tmbo Lounge Chair in Oak and Moonlight Sheepskin Upholstery by Mazo Design
Located in Geneve, CH
White Tmbo Lounge Chair in Oak and Moonlight Sheepskin Upholstery by Mazo Design Dimensions: W 90 x
Sheepskin, Oak
Gray Tmbo Lounge Chair in Oak and Bute/Storr Upholstery by Mazo Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Gray Tmbo Lounge Chair in Oak and Bute/Storr Upholstery by Mazo Design Dimensions: W 90 x D 68.5 x
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Set of 2 White TMBO Lounge Chairs in Moonlight Sheepskin by Mazo Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 2 White TMBO Lounge Chairs in Moonlight Sheepskin by Mazo Design Dimensions: W 90 x D 68.5 x
Sheepskin, Oak
Mocha Tmbo Lounge Chair in Oak and Sahara Sheepskin Upholstery by Mazo Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Mocha Tmbo Lounge Chair in Oak and Sahara Sheepskin Upholstery by Mazo Design Dimensions: W 90 x D
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Striped Tmbo Lounge Chair in Oak and Dedar/Linear Upholstery by Mazo Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Striped Tmbo Lounge Chair in Oak and Dedar/Linear Upholstery by Mazo Design Dimensions: W 90 x D
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Set of 4 White TMBO Lounge Chairs in Moonlight Sheepskin by Mazo Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 4 White TMBO Lounge Chairs in Moonlight Sheepskin by Mazo Design Dimensions: W 90 x D 68.5
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Set of 4 Iconic Royal Blue MZO Dining Chairs in Beechwood by Mazo Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 4 Iconic Royal Blue MZO Dining Chairs in Beechwood by Mazo Design Dimensions: W 46 x D 50 x
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Set of 4 Beechwood MZO Chairs with Black Kvadrat Upholstered Seat by Mazo Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 4 Beechwood MZO Chairs with Black Kvadrat Upholstered Seat by Mazo Design Dimensions: W 46 x
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Set of 2 Beechwood MZO Chairs with Black Kvadrat Upholstered Seat by Mazo Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 2 Beechwood MZO Chairs with Black Kvadrat Upholstered Seat by Mazo Design Dimensions: W 46 x
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Set of 2 Iconic Black Stained MZO Dining Chairs in Beechwood by Mazo Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 2 Iconic Black Stained MZO Chairs in Beechwood by Mazo Design Dimensions: W 46 x D 50 x H 75
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Set of 2 Iconic Black Stained MZO Dining Chairs in Beechwood by Mazo Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 2 Iconic Black Stained MZO Dining Chairs in Beechwood by Mazo Design Dimensions: W 46 x D 50
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Set Of 2 ARCH Lounge Chair in Oak, Kongaline & Seafoam Upholstery by Mazo Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Set Of 2 ARCH Lounge Chair in Oak, Kongaline & Seafoam Upholstery by Mazo Design Dimensions: W 69 x
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Set of 2 Arch Lounge Chairs in Oak and Sheepskin Upholstery by Mazo Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 2 Arch Lounge Chairs in Oak and Sheepskin Upholstery by Mazo Design Dimensions: W 69 x D 79
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Set of 4 Arch Lounge Chairs in Oak and Kongaline & Seafoam by Mazo Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 4 Arch Lounge Chairs in Oak and Kongaline & Seafoam by Mazo Design Dimensions: W 69 x D 79 x
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Set of 4 Arch Lounge Chairs in Oak and Sheepskin Upholstery by Mazo Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 4 Arch Lounge Chairs in Oak and Sheepskin Upholstery by Mazo Design Dimensions: W 69 x D 79
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Set of 2 Tmbo Lounge Chairs in Oak and Kongaline & Seafoam by Mazo Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 2 Tmbo Lounge Chairs in Oak and Kongaline & Seafoam by Mazo Design Dimensions: W 90 x D 68.5
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Set of 4 Dining WNG Chairs in Oak and KVADRAT/Hallingdal & Fiord by Mazo Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 4 Dining WNG Chairs in Oak and KVADRAT/Hallingdal & Fiord by Mazo Design Dimensions: W 60 x
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Set of 2 White Dining WNG Chairs in Oak and Sheepskin Upholstery by Mazo Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 2 White WNG Chairs in Oak and Sheepskin Upholstery by Mazo Design Dimensions: W 60 x D 50 x
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Set of 4 White Dining WNG Chairs in Oak and Sheepskin Upholstery by Mazo Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 4 White WNG Chairs in Oak and Sheepskin Upholstery by Mazo Design Dimensions: W 60 x D 50 x
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Set of 2 Dining WNG Chairs in Oak and KVADRAT/Hallingdal & Fiord by Mazo Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 2 Dining WNG Chairs in Oak and KVADRAT/Hallingdal & Fiord by Mazo Design Dimensions: W 60 x
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Set of 2 ARCH Lounge Chairs in Oak and DEDAR/Artemidor Upholstery by Mazo Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 2 ARCH Lounge Chairs in Oak and DEDAR/Artemidor Upholstery by Mazo Design Dimensions: W 69 x
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Set of 4 Arch Lounge Chairs in Oak and Kvadrat/Hallingdal & Fiord by Mazo Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 4 Arch Lounge Chairs in Oak and Kvadrat/Hallingdal & Fiord by Mazo Design Dimensions: W 69 x
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Set of 4 ARCH Lounge Chairs in Oak and DEDAR/Artemidor Upholstery by Mazo Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 4 ARCH Lounge Chairs in Oak and DEDAR/Artemidor Upholstery by Mazo Design Dimensions: W 69 x
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Set of 2 Arch Lounge Chairs in Oak and Kvadrat/Hallingdal & Fiord by Mazo Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 2 Arch Lounge Chairs in Oak and Kvadrat/Hallingdal & Fiord by Mazo Design Dimensions: W 69 x
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Set of 2 TMBO Lounge Chairs in Oak and DEDAR/Linear Upholstery by Mazo Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 2 TMBO Lounge Chairs in Oak and DEDAR/Linear Upholstery by Mazo Design Dimensions: W 90 x D
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Set of 4 TMBO Lounge Chair in Oak and BUTE/Storr Upholstery by Mazo Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 4 TMBO Lounge Chair in Oak and BUTE/Storr Upholstery by Mazo Design Dimensions: W 90 x D
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Set of 4 Tmbo Lounge Chairs in Oak and Jennifer Shorto Seafoam by Mazo Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 4 Tmbo Lounge Chairs in Oak and Jennifer Shorto Seafoam by Mazo Design Dimensions: W 90 x D
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Set of 2 Mocha TMBO Lounge Chairs in Oak and Sahara Sheepskin by Mazo Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 2 Mocha TMBO Lounge Chairs in Oak and Sahara Sheepskin by Mazo Design Dimensions: W 90 x D
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Set of 4 TMBO Lounge Chairs in Oak and DEDAR/Linear Upholstery by Mazo Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 4 TMBO Lounge Chairs in Oak and DEDAR/Linear Upholstery by Mazo Design Dimensions: W 90 x D
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Set of 4 Mocha TMBO Lounge Chairs in Oak and Sahara Sheepskin by Mazo Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 4 Mocha TMBO Lounge Chairs in Oak and Sahara Sheepskin by Mazo Design Dimensions: W 90 x D
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Set of 2 TMBO Lounge Chair in Oak and BUTE/Storr Upholstery by Mazo Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 2 TMBO Lounge Chair in Oak and BUTE/Storr Upholstery by Mazo Design Dimensions: W 90 x D
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Set of 2 Gray WNG Chair in Oak and BUTE/Storr Fabric Upholstery by Mazo Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 2 Gray WNG Chair in Oak and BUTE/Storr Fabric Upholstery by Mazo Design Dimensions: W 60 x D
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Set of 4 Gray WNG Chair in Oak and BUTE/Storr Fabric Upholstery by Mazo Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 4 Gray WNG Chair in Oak and BUTE/Storr Fabric Upholstery by Mazo Design Dimensions: W 60 x D
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Set of 4 Arch Lounge Chairs in Oak and Daw/Mohair & McNutt Fabric by Mazo Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 4 Arch Lounge Chairs in Oak and Daw/Mohair & McNutt Fabric by Mazo Design Dimensions: W 69 x
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Set of 2 Arch Lounge Chairs in Oak and Daw/Mohair & McNutt Fabric by Mazo Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 2 Arch Lounge Chairs in Oak and Daw/Mohair & McNutt Fabric by Mazo Design Dimensions: W 69 x
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White TMBO Lounge Chair & Pouf Set in Oak and Moonlight Sheepskin by Mazo Design
Located in Geneve, CH
White TMBO Lounge Chair & Pouf Set in Oak and Moonlight Sheepskin by Mazo Design Dimensions: W 90 x
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Mocha TMBO Lounge Chair & Pouf Set in Oak and Sahara Sheepskin by Mazo Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Mocha TMBO Lounge Chair & Pouf Set in Oak and Sahara Sheepskin by Mazo Design Dimensions: W 90 x D
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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.
Chairs are an indispensable component of your home and office. Can you imagine your life without the vintage, new or antique chairs you love?
With the exception of rocking chairs, the majority of the seating in our homes today — Windsor chairs, chaise longues, wingback chairs — originated in either England or France. Art Nouveau chairs, the style of which also originated in those regions, embraced the inherent magnificence of the natural world with decorative flourishes and refined designs that blended both curved and geometric contour lines. While craftsmanship and styles have evolved in the past century, chairs have had a singular significance in our lives, no matter what your favorite chair looks like.
“The chair is the piece of furniture that is closest to human beings,” said Hans Wegner. The revered Danish cabinetmaker and furniture designer was prolific, having designed nearly 500 chairs over the course of his lifetime. His beloved designs include the Wishbone chair, the wingback Papa Bear chair and many more.
Other designers of Scandinavian modernist chairs introduced new dynamics to this staple with sculptural flowing lines, curvaceous shapes and efficient functionality. The Paimio armchair, Swan chair and Panton chair are vintage works of Finnish and Danish seating that left an indelible mark on the history of good furniture design.
“What works good is better than what looks good, because what works good lasts,” said Ray Eames.
Visionary polymaths Ray and Charles Eames experimented with bent plywood and fiberglass with the goal of producing affordable furniture for a mass market. Like other celebrated mid-century modern furniture designers of elegant low-profile furnishings — among them Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Finn Juhl — the Eameses considered ergonomic support, durability and cost, all of which should be top of mind when shopping for the perfect chair. The mid-century years yielded many popular chairs.
The Eameses introduced numerous icons for manufacturer Herman Miller, such as the Eames lounge chair and ottoman, molded plywood dining chairs the DCM and DCW (which can be artfully mismatched around your dining table) and a wealth of other treasured pieces for the home and office.
A good chair anchors us to a place and can become an object of timeless appeal. Take a seat and browse the rich variety of vintage, new and antique chairs on 1stDibs today.