$1,600 / item
Post Modern Occasional Table Marble Top
By Andreu World
Located in BROOKLYN, NY
Post modern design echoes Saarinen and Sottsass.
Marble, Aluminum
Post Modern Italian Marble Center Table
By Angelo Mangiarotti, Mario Bellini, Up & Up
Located in Houston, TX
Post Modern Italian Marble Center Table. This large Italian Mario Bellini style (51 inch) marble table can be used as a center table or dining table.
Marble
Artedi Post Modern Marble Glass Dining Table
By Artedi
Located in Sheffield, MA
Measures: brass bar: 54" long x 2.5" H x 5/8" Stone pedestals with brass bars: 49" long x 16". pedestals: 6" d x 16" W x 27 3/4" H. glass = 3/8" thick. Modern, modern organic, post m...
Marble, Brass
Post Modern Rectangular Verde Green Marble Dining Table
By Mario Bellini
Located in Las Vegas, NV
Absolutely stunning Post Modern Verde Green marble, rectangular dining table.
Marble
$1,550 / item
Vintage Post-Modern Travertine Marble Pedestal Table
By Stone International
Located in North Palm Beach, FL
A vintage Postmodern travertine marble pedestal table, a versatile piece ideal for various applications such as a side table or a pedestal to showcase sculptures. It's timeless des...
Travertine
Midcentury Italian Post Modern Travertine Marble Rectangular Dining Table
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A simple modern travertine marble dining table circa 1980s. It features solid slab marble construction. Clean ready to use condition.
Marble
1980s Post Modern Solid Marble & Bronze Table Lamp
Located in San Diego, CA
Beautiful 1 1/2" thick polished marble lamp with a patinated bronze base. 22" tall to the top of the socket. Lamp has been rewired and is in great working condition.
Marble, Bronze
Post-Modern Chess Coffee Table by Pilar Zeta, Marble & Aluminum
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 ...
Marble, Aluminum, Metal
Midcentury Italian Post Modern Nero Marquina Marble Cube Side Table or End Table
By Stone International
Located in Philadelphia, PA
An unusual modern geometric design marble cube from Italy, circa 1980s. A super dynamic design accented by extraordinary Nero Marquina marble. You'll love this table in your home. ...
Marble
Post Modern Italian Marble Table Pietra Dura with Floral Inlays Interior Design
Located in Buxton, GB
This Post Modern Italian Pietra Dura Marble Table with a Floral Inlays is a stunning piece of antique furniture from 1990s.
Marble
Minimalist Post-Modern Round White Marble Dining Table + Cylindrical (Italy)
By Mario Bellini, Angelo Mangiarotti, Eero Saarinen, Stone International, Knoll
Located in Round Top, TX
Two quarried solid (approximately 125lbs each) half cylinders abut to each other and form the base of this incredible table. The top is a round 42" Diameter polished marble in a 1" t...
Marble
Great Expectations Dining Table by Claste, Marble, Post-Modern, Canada
Located in Geneve, CH
Great expectations dining table by Claste. Dimensions: D 137.2 x W 289.5 x H 73.7 cm. Material: Marble. Weight: 443 kg. Since 2017 Quinlan Osborne has cultivated an aesthetic i...
Marble
Scandinavian Post Modern Side Table Square Marble Top Bendixen Designs Denmark
By Bendixen Design
Located in Topeka, KS
Marvelous Late 20th Century Scandinavian Modern to Postmodern end or side table comprised of a square shaped gray & black Gneiss or marble top with an eased edge & quarter ro...
Marble
Black Rectangular Marble Post Modern Geometric Dining Table By Kreoo
Located in Geneve, CH
Majesty Dining Table by Kreoo Designed by Christophe Pillet Dimensions: D 100 x W 300 x H 74 cm. Materials: Verde Bamboo marble. Available in different marble and travertine option...
Marble
Post-Modern Italian Travertine Marble Hexagonal Side Table, 1970s
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Italian travertine marble haxagonal side table or pedestal. The polished travertine is beige and cream colored with beautiful variation. Notice in some areas the grain develops a red...
Travertine
Pair of Hexagonal Marble Coffee Tables – 70s Post-Modern Design
Located in LYON, FR
Pair of Hexagonal Marble Coffee Tables – 70s Post-Modern Design Description: Mineral architecture for your living room.
Marble
$1,121Sale Price|35% Off
1980s Post Modern Green Marble Black Iron Coffee Table
By Memphis Milano
Located in Stafford, TX
Beautiful marble coffee table in great condition as seen! See photos for details and message with questions.
Marble, Iron
Scandinavian Post Modern End Table Rectangle Marble Top Bendixen Designs Denmark
By Bendixen Design
Located in Topeka, KS
Fantastic Late 20th Century Scandinavian Post Modern to Postmodern end or side table comprised of a rectangular shaped gray & black Gneiss or marble top with an eased edge & ...
Marble
Post Modern Norwegian Fauske Marble Two Piece Sculptural Coffee Table
By Roche Bobois, Up & Up
Located in Saint Louis, MO
Really one of a kind Roche Bobois style modern Italian two piece coffee table features an incredible palette of colors of pinks, burgundies, white and grays.
Marble
Midcentury Italian Post Modern Travertine Marble Rectangular Dining Table
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A simple modern travertine marble dining table circa 1980s. It features solid slab Travertine construction with thick apron edge. Gorgeous highly grained Italian travertine. Clean re...
Travertine
Scandinavian Post Modern Sofa Console Table Marble Top Bendixen Designs Denmark
By Bendixen Design
Located in Topeka, KS
This sofa table simply SCREAMS with Scandinavian Post Modern MAGNIFICENCE!!!
Marble
$18,160Sale Price|20% Off
Mangiarotti 'Eros' Square Marble Dining Table, Italy, Post-Modern, 1970's
By Gruppo Skipper, Angelo Mangiarotti
Located in Antwerp, BE
Angelo Mangiarotti; Dining Table; Black Marble; 1970s Design; Post-modern, Skipper; Sculptural; Architectural; Eros; Italy; Italian Design; Square Dining Table; Postmodern Design; ...
Marble
Mid Century Italian Post Modern Marble Side Tables or End Tables on Casters
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Simple, modern & versatile cube tables set from Italy circa 1980's. These feature solid marble slab construction with unseen low profile casters for easy moving. Price includes the p...
Marble
Enigma Marble Dining Table by Alter Ego Studio, Post-Modern Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Enigma Marble Dining Table by Alter Ego Studio Limited Edition Dimensions: D 132 x W 132 x H 80 cm. Materials: Marble. Available in other marbles. The products are made from natura...
Marble
Italian Post-Modern Dining Table Rectangle Top Exotic Cipollino Ondulato Marble
By Midcentury Italian school
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Stunning! Large vintage Cipollino Ondulato marble dining table, designed and manufactured in Italy. This table has a strong formal design with rich veining accentuating the highest q...
Marble
Post Modern Two Part Onyx Marble and Chrome Coffee Table
Located in Saint Louis, MO
Two part Onyx Marble post modern coffee table set atop chrome cylindrical legs.
Onyx, Marble, Chrome
Pienza Console Table by Le Berre Vevaud, Marble, Post-Modern Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Pienza Console Table by Le Berre Vevaud Dimensions: W 100 x D 140 x H 50 cm. Materials: Pienza piètement simple Plateau Arabescato Corchia, laque ivoire RAL.9001, laque noire base. ...
Marble
1980s Post Modern Memphis Milano Style Dining Table, Carrara Marble Top
By Ettore Sottsass
Located in Culver City, CA
This dining table would look incredible in any mid century modern, post modern, mod or Memphis Milano styled home or business.
Carrara Marble, Stainless Steel
$3,600Sale Price / item|20% Off
Post Modern Square Marble Coffee Tables, circa 1970s, Pair Available
Located in New York, NY
Chic Postmodern square coffee table(s) constructed of polished marble. circa 1970s, the tables have their original ball coaster feet, both are in very fine, original condition, clea...
Marble
Marble Yko Low Coffee Table by Kelly Boukobza, Post-Modern Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Marble Yko Low Coffee Table by Kelly Boukobza Dimensions: D 140 x H 120 cm, D 110 x H 130 cm Materials: Marble. Available Finishes : Marble and Stone. Kelly Boukobza is the found...
Marble
Verge Rosa Marble Coffee Table by Phillip Jividen, Post-Modern Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Verge Rosa Marble Table by Phillip Jividen Dimensions: D 277 x W 112 x H 79 cm (dimensions are customizable) Materials: Marble Finish: Rosa, polished / honed Also available in other ...
Marble
Pair Mid Century Italian Post Modern Marble Side Tables or End Tables on Casters
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Simple, modern & versatile cube tables set from Italy circa 1970's. These feature calacatta marble herringbone construction on wood with low profile casters for easy moving. Price in...
Marble
Pair of Midcentury Post-Modern Italian Black and White Marble End Tables
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A sleek and modern matching pair of modern end tables from Italy, circa 1980s. These feature heavy marble construction with gorgeous veining. Price includes the pair as shown.
Marble
Large Mid Century Italian Post Modern Travertine Marble Cube Table or End Table
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A simple modern cube table from Italy circa 1970's. It features thick cream colored travertine construction. Heavy slab construction.
Travertine
Scandinavian Post Modern Coffee Table Marble Top Bendixen Designs Made Denmark
By Bendixen Design
Located in Topeka, KS
Fabulous Late 20th Century Scandinavian Modern to Postmodern coffee table comprised of a cat eye shaped gray & black Gneiss or marble top with an eased edge & quarter rounded...
Marble
Mid-Century Italian Post Modern Gray Marble Console Table or Sofa Table
By Karl Springer
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A stunning and simple modern console table from Italy circa 1970's. It consists of heavy grey solid marble. Beautiful veining in marble.
Marble
Pair Matching Post-Modern Italian Travertine Marble Hexagonal Side Tables, 1970s
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Pair of Italian travertine marble haxagonal side tables or pedestals. The polished travertine is beige and cream colored with beautiful variation. Notice in some areas the grain deve...
Travertine
Post Modern Italian Oval Top Pedestal Base Crystal Alabaster Marble Dining Table
By Stone International
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A rare marble table made of Alabaster-Crystal, with a thick, very durable and perfectly polished resign coating on the top and base. This large and super cool table easily seats 8 to...
Alabaster, Marble
Post-Modernist Marble Console Table, Circa 1980, Italy
Located in Girona, Spain
DESCRIPTION: Post-Modernist Marble Console Table, Circa 1980, Italy. Carrera Marble Marble base, top and sides CONDITION: Good condition. Wear consistent with age and use. DIMENSIO...
Carrara Marble
Mid Century Italian Post Modern Travertine Marble Cube Side Table or End Table
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A simple modern cube table from Italy circa 1970's. It features thick cream colored travertine construction with clear inset glass top.
Travertine
Post Modern Travertine Marble Pedestal Dining Table Made in Italy c. 1970's
Located in New York, NY
Exceptional Post Modern dining table, made in Italy circa 1970/80's.
Marble
Post-Modern Bagatelle Side Table in Marble by Mavo Atelier, Handmade Portugal
By Mavo Atelier
Located in Trofa, PT
The Bagatelle Side Table is a celebration of craftsmanship, creativity, and distinctive design. Handcrafted in Portugal, it combines architectural form with a rich interplay of noble...
Marble
Italian Post Modern Travertine Triangular Marble 2 Piece Cocktail Table
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This Italian post-modern cocktail table is crafted from luxurious travertine marble, showcasing two pieces that seamlessly fit together.
Travertine
Post-Modern Bagatelle Side Table in Marble by Mavo Atelier, Handmade Portugal
By Mavo Atelier
Located in Trofa, PT
The Bagatelle Side Table is a celebration of craftsmanship, creativity, and distinctive design. Handcrafted in Portugal, it combines architectural form with a rich interplay of noble...
Marble, Travertine
Mid Century Italian Post Modern Travertine Marble Dining Table or Center Table
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A beautiful dining table or center table from Italy circa 1980's. The table features a travertine slab X-base with a thick clear glass top.
Travertine
Post-Modern Italian Travertine Marble Frosted Glass Illuminated Pedestal
By Stone International
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Simple, sleek, elegant and well-made - an illuminated travertine-marble pedestal. This pedestal was made in Italy in the mid to late 1970s and imported into the US thereafter. Featur...
Marble, Travertine
Midcentury Italian Post Modern Travertine Marble 2 Piece Cocktail Table
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Two piece contemporary design circa 1990s from Italy. Solid travertine construction. Each table measures 55 inches from corner to corner. 27.5 inches wide. The taller table is 16 inc...
Travertine
Lily Table Lamp by Kreoo in Nero Marquina Marble, Post-Modern Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Lily Sculpture by Kreoo Designed by Tobia Berti Dimensions: D 32 x W 38 x H 145 cm. Materials: Nero Marquina marble. Available in different marble options. Dimensions may vary. Ple...
Marble
Midcentury Italian Post Modern Travertine Marble Rectangular Dining Table
Located in DE MEERN, NL
Introducing our stunning rectangular Travertine dining table, a true masterpiece of Italian design from 1980. Crafted with exquisite attention to detail, this table features a luxuri...
Travertine
$1,480Sale Price|20% Off
Post Modern Travertine Side Table With Glass Top
Located in Brooklyn, NY
A post modern travertine side table with a round glass top. The base features a layered, stepped structure creating an architectural silhouette. Raw unfilled travertine exhibits a na...
Travertine, Marble
Italian Post-Modern Polished Beige or Cream Marble Pedestal Dining Table C.I.M
By Stone International
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Made in Italy in the late 1970s or early 1980s, a simple design, but stunning in its large scale, warmth and functionality, a large pedestal base, cream or beige, marble dining table...
Marble
Vintage Italian Post Modern Carrara “Tear Drop” Side Table
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Condition: Original Vintage Condition Materials: Italian Carrara Marble Crafted in Italy in the 1970s, this vintage side table is a striking example of Post Modern design, carved e...
Carrara Marble
Contemporary Modern, Volume Marble Powder-Coated Metal Table
By DAY Studio
Located in İstanbul, İstanbul
Volume is a collection of dining and side tables designed by DAY Studio in their unique simple and playful language. The powder coated metal base is completed with a table top select...
Marble, Metal
Mid Century Italian Post Modern Rectangular Cocktail Table in Glass & Marble
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A large and substantial coffee table from Italy circa 1970's. It features a thick clear glass top with chunky solid marble marble legs in white with grey veining.
Metal, Brass
A Pair of Post Modern Faux Marble Resin Nesting Tables. Circa 1980s
Located in Miami, FL
A Pair of Vintage Post Modern Faux Marble Cast Resin Accent / Nesting Tables.
Resin
Post Modern Black Marble Pedestal Base Coffee Table Made in Italy c 1970’s
Located in New York, NY
Stunning graphic back and white marble coffee table having a square pedestal base ( 16 x 16 x H 15 ) with a square top ( 39 x 39 x 1 ). The table is in excellent original condition ...
Marble
Post-Modern Viotti Side Table in Marble by Mavo Atelier, Handmade Portugal
By Mavo Atelier
Located in Trofa, PT
A sculptural dialogue between wood and stone, the Viotti Side Table is a poetic expression of form, texture, and balance. Every detail tells a story of patience and precision, invit...
Travertine
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.
The right vintage, new or antique tables can help make any space in your home stand out.
Over the years, the variety of tables available to us, as well as our specific needs for said tables, has broadened. Today, with all manner of these must-have furnishings differing in shape, material and style, any dining room table can shine just as brightly as the guests who gather around it.
Remember, when shopping for a dining table, it must fit your dining area, and you need to account for space around the table too — think outside the box, as an oval dining table may work for tighter spaces. Alternatively, if you’ve got the room, a Regency-style dining table can elevate any formal occasion at mealtime.
Innovative furniture makers and designers have also redefined what a table can be. Whether it’s an unconventional Ping-Pong table, a brass side table to display your treasured collectibles or a Louis Vuitton steamer trunk to add an air of nostalgia to your loft, your table can say a lot about you.
The visionary work of French designer Xavier Lavergne, for example, includes tables that draw on the forms of celestial bodies as often as they do aquatic creatures or fossils. Elsewhere, Italian architect Gae Aulenti, who looked to Roman architecture in crafting her stately Jumbo coffee table, created clever glass-topped mobile coffee tables that move on bicycle tires or sculpted wood wheels for Fontana Arte.
Coffee and cocktail tables can serve as a room’s centerpiece with attention-grabbing details and colors. Glass varieties will keep your hardwood flooring and dazzling area rugs on display, while a marble or stone coffee table in a modern interior can showcase your prized art books and decorative objects. A unique vintage desk or writing table can bring sophistication and even a bit of spice to your work life.
No matter your desired form or function, a quality table for your living space is a sound investment. On 1stDibs, browse a collection of vintage, new and antique bedside tables, mid-century end tables and more .