Post Modern Leather Chair

Study Chair

Carved 1 Piece Wood Chair

1980 Italian Leather Chair

Lambing Chair

Chair Carved Wood Leather Seat

Leather And Cane Dining Chair

Materials

Leather

Sculptural Post Modern Chairs, France 1980s

$9,167 / set

Sculptural Post Modern Chairs, France 1980s

Located in Rotterdam, ZH

Sculptural Post Modern chairs, France 1980s. The chairs are constructed out of a black lacquered tubular steel frame and thin shaped metal wires used for the seat and backrest.

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Vintage 1980s French Post-Modern Chairs

Materials

Metal

Located in 足利市, JP

A rare and avant-garde masterpiece of Y2K Japanese minimalism: the Original 2000 "Mapell" Chair by Tsutomu Kurokawa for waazwiz. Designed at the turn of the millennium, this chair pe...

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21st Century and Contemporary Japanese Post-Modern Chairs

Materials

Faux Leather, Polycarbonate

Post Modern Style Ten Leather Burgundy Red Black Silver Dining Chairs 1980

$4,641 / set

Post Modern Style Ten Leather Burgundy Red Black Silver Dining Chairs 1980

Located in Vienna, AT

Post-modern style set of ten vintage dining chairs of chairs from beech, leather and metal in the colors red, black and silver designed and made in Italy, 1980s.

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Late 20th Century Italian Post-Modern Dining Room Chairs

Materials

Metal

Rare Pair of Post-Modern Ebonized Oak and Leather Club Chairs by Brian Kane

$12,000 / set

Rare Pair of Post-Modern Ebonized Oak and Leather Club Chairs by Brian Kane

By Metropolitan, Brian Kane, Philippe Starck

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Rare pair of post-modern ebonized oak and leather club chairs by Brian Kane.

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Vintage 1980s American Post-Modern Club Chairs

Materials

Leather, Upholstery, Oak

$995 / item

Post-Modern Style Aurora Sculpted Chair in Natural Finish No Arms, Solid Seat

By SIMONINI

Located in Vila Cordeiro, São Paulo

The Aurora collection aka Dawn marks a new exiting moment in our design history, in where we dove deep in to the creativity unknown, to create a collection that would be able to hold...

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2010s Brazilian Post-Modern Chairs

Materials

Leather, Textile, Upholstery, Faux Leather, Cane, Hardwood, Walnut

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Post-Modern Danish Leather Lounge Chair

Unavailable

H 40 in W 31 in D 28 in

Post-Modern Danish Leather Lounge Chair

Located in Houston, TX

Post-modern Danish lounge chair with ottoman. Period of manufacturing is 1970/1980. This chair is extremely comfortable and would be a complement to any living or lounge area. The ba...

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Vintage 1970s Danish Post-Modern Lounge Chairs

Materials

Metal

H 43 in W 20 in D 19 in

Postmodern Black Leather Chair, 1980s

Located in Philadelphia, PA

- 43"h, 20"w, 19"d, 17" (seat height), 21" (arm height) - Postmodern sculptural black leather dining chairs circa 1980s - Sold individually - Condition: Excellent

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Vintage 1980s Post-Modern Dining Room Chairs

Materials

Leather

Leolux Netherlands Leather Glove Lounge Chair, 1970s

Unavailable

H 28 in W 39 in D 36 in

Leolux Netherlands Leather Glove Lounge Chair, 1970s

By Leolux

Located in Hudson, NY

The 1970s was a great design era of larger propositions and experimentation beyond the confines of sleek Mid-Century Modernism. The Dutch designers at Leolux in the Netherlands excel...

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Vintage 1970s Dutch Post-Modern Lounge Chairs

Materials

Leather

Unavailable

H 32.68 in W 16.93 in D 19.69 in

Six Italian leather chairs, 1980s

Located in Savona, IT

Set of six 1980s chairs of Italian manufacture. Wooden structure. Padded and leather-lined body. Cylindrical legs. Good general condition, edge of the skin slightly damaged in so...

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Vintage 1980s Italian Post-Modern Dining Room Chairs

Materials

Metal

Transat Chair, Welcome Back, Made in Handmade Metal, Wood and Leather

Unavailable

H 31.5 in W 30.32 in D 35.44 in

Transat Chair, Welcome Back, Made in Handmade Metal, Wood and Leather

By Fi Sofia Alvarado

Located in Gamboa, PA

Welcome back analyzes pieces of classic furniture lost in time, and brings them to modernity, seeking to resurrect their glory, in a contemporary, futuristic and personal version. Th...

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2010s Panamanian Post-Modern Chairs

Materials

Metal

Modern Gray Metallic Fiberglass Swivel Design Bucket Seat with White Leather

Unavailable

H 25.5 in W 34.6 in D 34.6 in

Modern Gray Metallic Fiberglass Swivel Design Bucket Seat with White Leather

Located in Raalte, NL

Modern gray metallic fiberglass swivel design bucket seat with white leather seat, this has very light user marks all around and the leather is also very neat. Originating from the f...

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Late 20th Century European Post-Modern Swivel Chairs

Materials

Leather, Fiberglass

Set Costes Chairs by Philippe Starck with Black Leather Seats

Unavailable

H 31.11 in W 18.51 in D 21.66 in

Set Costes Chairs by Philippe Starck with Black Leather Seats

By Driade, Philippe Starck

Located in Cape Town, WC

The Costes Chair expresses the multiplicity inherent within the every-day object as a goal for the pursuit of form; owing its wooden, shell-like structure to Starck’s keenness for ex...

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Vintage 1980s European Post-Modern Chairs

Materials

Steel

H 88 in W 55 in D 140 in

Post-Modern Italian Chaise Lounge Chair in Faux Black Leather, 1980s

Located in Belmont, MA

Post-modern chaise longue chair Italian design, circa 1980s, curved construction in black lacquered metal and black leather upholstery.

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Vintage 1980s Italian Post-Modern Chaise Longues

Materials

Metal

Stefan Zwicky's Iconic Lounge Chair, Switzerland, 1980s

Unavailable

H 30.71 in W 33.86 in D 46.46 in

Stefan Zwicky's Iconic Lounge Chair, Switzerland, 1980s

By Stefan Zwicky

Located in Bern, CH

Manufactured by RÖ (Röthlisberger) and De Sede Switzerland at the End of the 1980s, this rare and impressive lounge chair was called "Lesestation" (reading station) and is made of ma...

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Vintage 1980s Swiss Post-Modern Lounge Chairs

Materials

Leather, Mahogany

H 31.5 in W 23 in D 19 in

Artelano Black Leather Arm Side Chair, Italy 1980s

Located in Miami, FL

One Artelano Black Leather Arm Side Chair, Italy 1980s. Steel frame with black finish and black leather. We also have a set of eight available.

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Vintage 1980s Italian Post-Modern Armchairs

Materials

Steel

dePostura Dining Chair, Off-White Leather and Iron Frame by Mario Milana

$4,300 / item

H 47.25 in W 14.57 in D 21.26 in

dePostura Dining Chair, Off-White Leather and Iron Frame by Mario Milana

By Mario Milana

Located in Milano, Lombardia

The dePostura dining chair is characterised by its arches. The three ways bent rear frames creates a spring that allows the backrest to give constant support to the lumbar back, main...

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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Dining Room Chairs

Materials

Iron

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H 30.25 in W 49.5 in D 29.5 in

Italian Designer, Sofa, Wood, Fabric, Italy, 1950s

Located in High Point, NC

A wood and floral fabric sofa or settee designed and produced in Italy, c. 1950s. Moderate wear to wood consistent with age and use. Vintage fabric in distressed condition ideally ...

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Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Sofas

Materials

Fabric, Wood

$13,320

H 68.9 in W 15.75 in D 43.31 in

Ventura Cabinet

By Joyful Objects, yes!

Located in Timisoara, RO

Ventura Cabinet Drawing Inspiration From Vibrant Mexican Culture, The Ventura Cabinet Embodies A Spirit Of Fun And Exuberance. Its Design Reflects The Lively Essence Of Mexican Art A...

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21st Century and Contemporary Unknown Modern Cabinets

Materials

Wood, Ash

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Post Modern Leather Chair For Sale on 1stDibs

With a vast inventory of beautiful furniture at 1stDibs, we’ve got just the post modern leather chair you’re looking for. A post modern leather chair — often made from animal skin, leather and metal — can elevate any home. Find 377 options for an antique or vintage post modern leather chair now, or shop our selection of 5 modern versions for a more contemporary example of this long-cherished piece. You’ve searched high and low for the perfect post modern leather chair — we have versions that date back to the 20th Century alongside those produced as recently as the 21st Century are available. A post modern leather chair is a generally popular piece of furniture, but those created in Mid-Century Modern and Modern styles are sought with frequency. Cassina, Mario Bellini and Afra & Tobia Scarpa each produced at least one beautiful post modern leather chair that is worth considering.

How Much is a Post Modern Leather Chair?

Prices for a post modern leather chair can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — at 1stDibs, they begin at $375 and can go as high as $42,837, while the average can fetch as much as $3,695.

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.

Finding the Right Seating for You

With entire areas of our homes reserved for “sitting rooms,” the value of quality antique and vintage seating cannot be overstated.

Fortunately, the design of side chairs, armchairs and other lounge furniture — since what were, quite literally, the early perches of our ancestors — has evolved considerably.

Among the earliest standard seating furniture were stools. Egyptian stools, for example, designed for one person with no seat back, were x-shaped and typically folded to be tucked away. These rudimentary chairs informed the design of Greek and Roman stools, all of which were a long way from Sori Yanagi's Butterfly stool or Alvar Aalto's Stool 60. In the 18th century and earlier, seats with backs and armrests were largely reserved for high nobility.

The seating of today is more inclusive but the style and placement of chairs can still make a statement. Antique desk chairs and armchairs designed in the style of Louis XV, which eventually included painted furniture and were often made of rare woods, feature prominently curved legs as well as Chinese themes and varied ornaments. Much like the thrones of fairy tales and the regency, elegant lounges crafted in the Louis XV style convey wealth and prestige. In the kitchen, the dining chair placed at the head of the table is typically reserved for the head of the household or a revered guest.

Of course, with luxurious vintage or antique furnishings, every chair can seem like the best seat in the house. Whether your preference is stretching out on a plush sofa, such as the Serpentine, designed by Vladimir Kagan, or cozying up in a vintage wingback chair, there is likely to be a comfy classic or contemporary gem for you on 1stDibs.

With respect to the latest obsessions in design, cane seating has been cropping up everywhere, from sleek armchairs to lounge chairs, while bouclé fabric, a staple of modern furniture design, can be seen in mid-century modern, Scandinavian modern and Hollywood Regency furniture styles.

Admirers of the sophisticated craftsmanship and dark woods frequently associated with mid-century modern seating can find timeless furnishings in our expansive collection of lounge chairs, dining chairs and other items — whether they’re vintage editions or alluring official reproductions of iconic designs from the likes of Hans Wegner or from Charles and Ray Eames. Shop our inventory of Egg chairs, designed in 1958 by Arne Jacobsen, the Florence Knoll lounge chair and more.

No matter your style, the collection of unique chairs, sofas and other seating on 1stDibs is surely worthy of a standing ovation.