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Post-Modern Chess Coffee Table in Marble & Aluminum by Pilar Zeta
Post-Modern Chess Coffee Table in Marble & Aluminum by Pilar Zeta

Post-Modern Chess Coffee Table in Marble & Aluminum by Pilar Zeta

Located in Geneve, CH

Chess Coffee Table 1 by Pilar Zeta Limited Edition of 20 + 2AP pieces. Materials: Marble, aluminum, metal. Dimensions: W 100 x D 100 x H 32 cm. Weight: 150 kg. Marble and aluminium ...

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2010s Mexican Post-Modern Game Tables

Materials

Marble, Aluminum, Metal

Vintage Post Modern Michael Graves Chess Set, Maple Board
Vintage Post Modern Michael Graves Chess Set, Maple Board

Vintage Post Modern Michael Graves Chess Set, Maple Board

By Michael Graves (b.1934)

Located in Miami, FL

Offered is an iconic 1990s Michael Graves chess set featuring a maplewood storage board and abstract, minimalist pieces. Created by the renowned American architect and designer Mic...

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1990s American Post-Modern Games

Materials

Wood

Modern Chess Board with Pieces El Ajedrez by Javier Mariscal
Modern Chess Board with Pieces El Ajedrez by Javier Mariscal

Modern Chess Board with Pieces El Ajedrez by Javier Mariscal

By Javier Mariscal

Located in Doornspijk, NL

Chess figures and board designed by Javier Mariscal on the occasion of the Olympic Games of Barcelona 92. Aluminium parts and metal board. Measures: Height of the king: 6 cm. Paw...

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Late 20th Century Spanish Post-Modern Game Boards

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Metal

Candy Chess Table by Luis Gimeno
Candy Chess Table by Luis Gimeno

Candy Chess Table by Luis Gimeno

Located in Geneve, CH

Candy Chess Table by Luis Gimeno Dimensions: W 40 x D 40 x H 45 cm Materials: Resine. This chess table is a playful and innovative piece, crafted entirely from resin. Its transluce...

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2010s Spanish Post-Modern Tables

Materials

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Candy Translucent Amber Resin Chess Table by Luis Gimeno
Candy Translucent Amber Resin Chess Table by Luis Gimeno

Candy Translucent Amber Resin Chess Table by Luis Gimeno

Located in Geneve, CH

Candy Chess Table by Luis Gimeno Dimensions: D 40 x W 40 x H 45 cm Materials: Resin. Available in Ambar, Green, Red, and Blue. Please contact us. This chess table is a playful and ...

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2010s Spanish Post-Modern Tables

Materials

Resin

Vintage Signed Oversized Ceramic White Pawn Chess Piece Sculpture
Vintage Signed Oversized Ceramic White Pawn Chess Piece Sculpture

Vintage Signed Oversized Ceramic White Pawn Chess Piece Sculpture

Located in West Chester, PA

Vintage Large Signed Ceramic White Pawn Chess Piece Sculpture. The color is white even though some of the pictures look creamy. Signed on underside but we could not decipher.

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Late 20th Century American Post-Modern Figurative Sculptures

Materials

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Michael Graves Postmodern Chess and Checkers Set Game Maple Wood Restored 1999
Michael Graves Postmodern Chess and Checkers Set Game Maple Wood Restored 1999

Michael Graves Postmodern Chess and Checkers Set Game Maple Wood Restored 1999

By Michael Graves (b.1934)

Located in North Miami, FL

This original Postmodern Michael Graves chess set with checkers pieces has been fully restored with the wood which is 2 variants of maple. The wood was redone and new felt was put on...

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1990s American Post-Modern Games

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Velvet, Wood

Set Of 2 Chess Sculptures in Mirror-Polished Stainless Steel by Julian Mayor
Set Of 2 Chess Sculptures in Mirror-Polished Stainless Steel by Julian Mayor

Set Of 2 Chess Sculptures in Mirror-Polished Stainless Steel by Julian Mayor

Located in Geneve, CH

Set Of 2 Chess Sculptures in Mirror-Polished Stainless Steel by Julian Mayor Limited Edition of 8 + 2AP. Dimensions: D 29 x W 29 x H 171 cm. Materials: Mirror-polished stainless ste...

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2010s British Post-Modern Figurative Sculptures

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Modernist Boxed Wood Chess Pieces

Modernist Boxed Wood Chess Pieces

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H 3.5 in W 11 in D 7.75 in

Modernist Boxed Wood Chess Pieces

Located in New Windsor, NY

A fine boxed set of carved wood modernist chessmen. The two sets are made of hardwood and sculpturally carved into very stylized forms. One set is in a blonde wood natural finish and...

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Vintage 1970s American Post-Modern Games

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Michael Graves Postmodern Chess and Checkers Set, Signed
Michael Graves Postmodern Chess and Checkers Set, Signed

Michael Graves Postmodern Chess and Checkers Set, Signed

By Michael Graves (b.1934)

Located in Miami, FL

Original Michael Graves chess and checkers set made of two tone maple wood. The chess pieces are composite and it contains both full sets along with plastic holder for travel.

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Vintage 1980s Unknown Post-Modern Games

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Chess Set Designed by Michael Graves Postmodern
Chess Set Designed by Michael Graves Postmodern

Chess Set Designed by Michael Graves Postmodern

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H 2.75 in W 16.5 in D 16.5 in

Chess Set Designed by Michael Graves Postmodern

By Michael Graves (b.1934)

Located in San Diego, CA

A beautiful set designed by Michael Graves, in credible design, with a Memphis Postmodern era look. Signature of his great designs.

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Late 20th Century American Post-Modern Games

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Javier Mariscal El Ajedrez Chess Set for Akaba, Spain, Circa 1992
Javier Mariscal El Ajedrez Chess Set for Akaba, Spain, Circa 1992

Javier Mariscal El Ajedrez Chess Set for Akaba, Spain, Circa 1992

By Javier Mariscal

Located in BARCELONA, ES

An iconic and increasingly rare complete chess set designed by Javier Mariscal and produced by Akaba, Spain, circa 1992. Known as "El Ajedrez", this celebrated design perfectly capt...

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Tessellated Stone Console Game Table Checkers Chess Backgammon, 1970's
Tessellated Stone Console Game Table Checkers Chess Backgammon, 1970's

Tessellated Stone Console Game Table Checkers Chess Backgammon, 1970's

By Maitland Smith

Located in Rochester, NY

Tessellated stone mosaic design console table w/ reversible chess / checkers / backgammon brass inlaid game boards in ivory, light gray and pale rouge stone. Circa 1970's. Look at a...

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Vintage 1970s Philippine Post-Modern Game Tables

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Kiln-Formed Art Glass Chess Set with 24-Karat Gold Game Pieces
Kiln-Formed Art Glass Chess Set with 24-Karat Gold Game Pieces

Kiln-Formed Art Glass Chess Set with 24-Karat Gold Game Pieces

Located in Van Nuys, CA

Cold-worked art glass chess set, circa 1995. This set includes a full size board and all game pieces one side finished in 24-karat white gold and another in 24-karat yellow gold. ...

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Freeform Organic Chess Table One of a Kind Craftsman Sculptural Wood Table
Freeform Organic Chess Table One of a Kind Craftsman Sculptural Wood Table

Freeform Organic Chess Table One of a Kind Craftsman Sculptural Wood Table

By Wendell Castle

Located in San Diego, CA

An incredible piece of art wood sculpted chees table one of a kind piece wood sculpted circa 1990's solid heavy beautiful .

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Chess Stool/ Sculptural Side Table

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H 17.72 in W 11.82 in D 11.82 in

Chess Stool/ Sculptural Side Table

By Panorammma

Located in Ciudad de México, CDMX

Two hand-turned wooden pieces with an elegant piano polish inform an imaginative play as sculptural stools or side table sets. Directly referencing chess pieces, these stools luidica...

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African Hand Carved Stone Chess Set 1980
African Hand Carved Stone Chess Set 1980

African Hand Carved Stone Chess Set 1980

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H 5.32 in W 13.39 in D 13.19 in

African Hand Carved Stone Chess Set 1980

Located in Weesp, NL

This unique 1980 stone hand cut chess set was a gift from the government of Kenya to the Italian ambassador to South Africa, the late mister Vincenzo Schioppa. The set is in great co...

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Vintage 1980s Kenyan Post-Modern Games

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Chess Stool/ Sculptural Side Table (Concave)
Chess Stool/ Sculptural Side Table (Concave)

Chess Stool/ Sculptural Side Table (Concave)

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H 17.72 in W 11.82 in D 11.82 in

Chess Stool/ Sculptural Side Table (Concave)

By Panorammma

Located in Ciudad de México, CDMX

Two hand-turned wooden pieces with an elegant piano polish lacquer play together as sculptural stools or side table sets.

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2010s Mexican Post-Modern Stools

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Chess Stool/ Sculptural Side Table (Concave)
Chess Stool/ Sculptural Side Table (Concave)

Chess Stool/ Sculptural Side Table (Concave)

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H 17.72 in W 11.82 in D 11.82 in

Chess Stool/ Sculptural Side Table (Concave)

By Panorammma

Located in Ciudad de México, CDMX

Two hand-turned wooden pieces with an elegant piano polish lacquer play together as sculptural stools or side table sets.

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Michael Graves Postmodern Chess and Checkers Set
Michael Graves Postmodern Chess and Checkers Set

Michael Graves Postmodern Chess and Checkers Set

By Michael Graves (b.1934)

Located in Moreno Valley, CA

Original postmodern Michael Graves chess and checkers set. Maple wood chess and checkers set with board and box by famed architect Michael Graves. Michael Graves was a Memphis Gro...

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Late 20th Century American Post-Modern Games

Materials

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XL Marble Chess Set + Artisan Wood Board
XL Marble Chess Set + Artisan Wood Board

XL Marble Chess Set + Artisan Wood Board

Located in Round Top, TX

Extra large carved pink and black marble pieces with an artisan made oversized 22"W x 22"D chess board in a glossy finish. These are the largest and most stylized chess pieces we hav...

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Late 20th Century Post-Modern Games

Materials

Marble

Michael Graves Postmodern Chess and Checkers Set, Signed
Michael Graves Postmodern Chess and Checkers Set, Signed

Michael Graves Postmodern Chess and Checkers Set, Signed

By Michael Graves (b.1934)

Located in Miami, FL

Postmodern chess and checkers set rendered in two-tone maple, with composite pieces, designed by Michael Graves, Memphis Group designer. Two complete sets of Chess pieces and orig...

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Late 20th Century American Post-Modern Games

Materials

Composition

Postmodern Lucite or Plexiglas Black and White Chess Set
Postmodern Lucite or Plexiglas Black and White Chess Set

Postmodern Lucite or Plexiglas Black and White Chess Set

Located in Doornspijk, NL

Very stylish chess board and game pieces made of Lucite. The board has been elegantly folded on its edges giving it a nice height. The board has a few surface scratches and the pie...

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Vintage 1970s Dutch Post-Modern Games

Materials

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Vintage Italian Marble Chess Board with Hand Carved Pieces
Vintage Italian Marble Chess Board with Hand Carved Pieces

Vintage Italian Marble Chess Board with Hand Carved Pieces

Located in Moreno Valley, CA

Vintage heavy alabaster chess set complete board in beige and black marble with elaborately hand carved soapstone chess pieces. Contains all its pieces that are beautifully carved an...

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Vintage 1980s Italian Post-Modern Games

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Michael Graves Postmodern Chess and Checkers Set, Maple Wood, 1990
Michael Graves Postmodern Chess and Checkers Set, Maple Wood, 1990

Michael Graves Postmodern Chess and Checkers Set, Maple Wood, 1990

By Michael Graves (b.1934)

Located in Moreno Valley, CA

Michael Graves Postmodern Chess and Checkers Set. Original postmodern Michael Graves chess and checkers set. Maple wood chess and checkers set with board and box by famed architect M...

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Vintage Marble Chess Board with Hand Carved Turquoise Onyx Pieces
Vintage Marble Chess Board with Hand Carved Turquoise Onyx Pieces

Vintage Marble Chess Board with Hand Carved Turquoise Onyx Pieces

Located in Moreno Valley, CA

Vintage mid 20th century Mexican stone marble chess set complete board in white and brown marble with elaborately hand carved turquoise and white chess pieces The stone chess set gam...

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Japanese "TomoKazu" Inlaid Marquetry Chess of Checkers board, Japan, circa 1980s
Japanese "TomoKazu" Inlaid Marquetry Chess of Checkers board, Japan, circa 1980s

Japanese "TomoKazu" Inlaid Marquetry Chess of Checkers board, Japan, circa 1980s

By Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann

Located in Miami, FL

Post-Modern Japanese chessboard or checkerboard. Rendered in an intricate inlay marquetry of walnut, burl, birch, and maple. By Tomokazu, Japan, circa 1980s.

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Late 20th Century Japanese Post-Modern Games

Materials

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Vintage English Flamed Walnut Chess Table with Marble Inset Board Hidden Drawer
Vintage English Flamed Walnut Chess Table with Marble Inset Board Hidden Drawer

Vintage English Flamed Walnut Chess Table with Marble Inset Board Hidden Drawer

Located in West Sussex, Pulborough

We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely vintage English Walnut occasional table with inset marble chess board A very good looking well made and function piece of furniture,...

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Semi Precious Stone Chess Set in Brown and Cream with Hand Carved Game Pieces
Semi Precious Stone Chess Set in Brown and Cream with Hand Carved Game Pieces

Semi Precious Stone Chess Set in Brown and Cream with Hand Carved Game Pieces

Located in Oklahoma City, OK

A beautiful hand-carved onyx and quartz stone chessboard and game pieces in brown and cream. This chess set is complete and includes each of the original hand-crafted pieces. The squ...

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Massimo Morozzi "Tangram" Chess Table for Cassina
Massimo Morozzi "Tangram" Chess Table for Cassina

Massimo Morozzi "Tangram" Chess Table for Cassina

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H 28.75 in W 23.5 in D 23.5 in

Massimo Morozzi "Tangram" Chess Table for Cassina

By Massimo Morozzi

Located in Chicago, IL

Massimo Morozzi co-founder of the influential design studio Archizoom designed this table as part of the Tangram group for Cassina in 1983. The top comes off revealing a storage com...

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Vintage 1980s Italian Post-Modern Game Tables

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Acrylic

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Large LUhans Indoor Outdoor Sconce
Large LUhans Indoor Outdoor Sconce

Large LUhans Indoor Outdoor Sconce

$1,600 / item

H 8 in W 8 in D 10.5 in

Large LUhans Indoor Outdoor Sconce

By Lumfardo Luminaires

Located in Inglewood, CA

Part of our Lumfardo Luminaries contemporary collection, this larger version LUhans patinated un-lacquered copper indoor outdoor sconce is inspired by Scandinavian mid-century design...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Scandinavian Modern Wall Lights a...

Materials

Copper

LUhans Indoor Outdoor Sconce 'Pat Cop'
LUhans Indoor Outdoor Sconce 'Pat Cop'

LUhans Indoor Outdoor Sconce 'Pat Cop'

$1,400 / item

H 6 in W 6 in D 7.75 in

LUhans Indoor Outdoor Sconce 'Pat Cop'

By Lumfardo Luminaires

Located in Inglewood, CA

Part of our Lumfardo Luminaries contemporary collection, this LUhans patinated un-lacquered copper indoor outdoor sconce is inspired by Scandinavian mid-century design. Wired with a ...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Scandinavian Modern Wall Lights a...

Materials

Copper

Glossy Cream Ceramic Chandelier in Antique Brass 5-Arm 42.5" DIA
Glossy Cream Ceramic Chandelier in Antique Brass 5-Arm 42.5" DIA

Glossy Cream Ceramic Chandelier in Antique Brass 5-Arm 42.5" DIA

By Lostine

Located in Philadelphia, PA

Five antique brass patina arms curve up from a ceramic cluster dish to five tall stoneware ceramic shades in a glossy glaze with a subtle off-white hue. With a fixed black walnut orb...

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2010s American Modern Chandeliers and Pendants

Materials

Brass

Pair of Constant Night Stands in Poplar Burl wood by Master for Lemon
Pair of Constant Night Stands in Poplar Burl wood by Master for Lemon

Pair of Constant Night Stands in Poplar Burl wood by Master for Lemon

$8,248 / set

H 24.01 in W 13.78 in D 13.78 in Dm 13.78 in

Pair of Constant Night Stands in Poplar Burl wood by Master for Lemon

By Lemon

Located in Amsterdam, NL

Envisioned by designer Yaniv Chen, the Constant nightstand exudes an air of refined luxury, celebrating the inherent splendor of Poplar burl wood. Meticulously crafted with impeccabl...

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2010s Portuguese Minimalist Night Stands

Materials

Burl, Poplar

Antique Victorian Staunton Chess Pieces Set + Italian Marble Giltwood Chessboard
Antique Victorian Staunton Chess Pieces Set + Italian Marble Giltwood Chessboard

Antique Victorian Staunton Chess Pieces Set + Italian Marble Giltwood Chessboard

$3,083Sale Price|20% Off

H 3.55 in W 20.67 in D 20.67 in

Antique Victorian Staunton Chess Pieces Set + Italian Marble Giltwood Chessboard

Located in West Sussex, Pulborough

We are delighted to offer for sale this extremely rare original Victorian Staunton chess set with fine Italian marble giltwood chessboard A truly stunning and highly collectable ...

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Antique 19th Century Italian Victorian Games

Materials

Marble

California King Size Bed with Upholstered Frame and a Headboard
California King Size Bed with Upholstered Frame and a Headboard

California King Size Bed with Upholstered Frame and a Headboard

Located in New York, NY

This bed features a generously sized, upholstered headboard and a matching upholstered bed frame, creating a cohesive and comfortable aesthetic. The design emphasizes clean lines and...

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2010s American Modern Beds and Bed Frames

Materials

Fabric, Upholstery, Wood

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Post Modern Chess For Sale on 1stDibs

With a vast inventory of beautiful furniture at 1stDibs, we’ve got just the post modern chess you’re looking for. Each post modern chess for sale was constructed with extraordinary care, often using wood, metal and organic material. There are 7 variations of the antique or vintage post modern chess you’re looking for, while we also have 4 modern editions of this piece to choose from as well. There are many kinds of the post modern chess you’re looking for, from those produced as long ago as the 20th Century to those made as recently as the 21st Century. Many designers have produced at least one well-made post modern chess over the years, but those crafted by Maika Palazuelos, Michael Graves (b.1934) and Novocastrian are often thought to be among the most beautiful.

How Much is a Post Modern Chess?

Prices for a post modern chess start at $860 and top out at $13,213 with the average selling for $1,560.

A Close Look at Post-modern Furniture

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

  • Emerges during the 1960s; popularity explodes during the ’80s
  • A reaction to prevailing conventions of modernism by mainly American architects
  • Architect Robert Venturi critiques modern architecture in his Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (1966)
  • Theorist Charles Jencks, who championed architecture filled with allusions and cultural references, writes The Language of Post-Modern Architecture (1977)
  • Italian design collective the Memphis Group, also known as Memphis Milano, meets for the first time (1980) 
  • Memphis collective debuts more than 50 objects and furnishings at Salone del Milano (1981)
  • Interest in style declines, minimalism gains steam

CHARACTERISTICS OF POSTMODERN FURNITURE DESIGN

  • Dizzying graphic patterns and an emphasis on loud, off-the-wall colors
  • Use of plastic and laminates, glass, metal and marble; lacquered and painted wood 
  • Unconventional proportions and abundant ornamentation
  • Playful nods to Art Deco and Pop art

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.