$4,191 / item
Gaelle Mirror by Philippe Colette
Located in Geneve, CH
Gaelle mirror by Philippe Colette Dimensions: D 60 x H 90 cm Materials: mineral lime plaster.
Plaster
$4,191 / item
Gaelle Mirror by Philippe Colette
Located in Geneve, CH
Gaelle mirror by Philippe Colette Dimensions: D 60 x H 90 cm Materials: mineral lime plaster.
Plaster
$13,724 / item
Barrel Shape Outdoor Table by Philippe Colette
Located in Geneve, CH
Barrel shape outdoor table by Philippe Colette Dimensions: L 240 x W 110 x H 75 cm.
Organic Material, Plaster
$19,372 / item
Handmade Outdoor Rocc Dining Table by Philippe Colette
Located in Geneve, CH
Handmade Outdoor Rocc Dining Table by Philippe Colette Dimensions: W 280 x D 130 x H 76 cm Materials: Mineral lime plaster.
Organic Material, Plaster
$14,781 / item
Handmade Outdoor Dining Table 160 by Philippe Colette
Located in Geneve, CH
Handmade Outdoor dining table 160 by Philippe Colette Dimensions: Ø 160 / 6 pers. Customized height Materials: Mineral lime plaster.
Organic Material, Plaster
$18,585 / item
Handmade Outdoor Dining Table 200 by Philippe Colette
Located in Geneve, CH
Handmade outdoor dining table 200 by Philippe Colette Dimensions: Ø200 / 10 pers. Customized height Materials: Mineral lime plaster.
Organic Material, Plaster
Handmade Round Outdoor Dining Table 120 by Philippe Colette
Located in Geneve, CH
Handmade round outdoor dining table 120 by Philippe Colette Dimensions: Ø 120 foot diameter: 40 cm Customized height Materials: Mineral lime plaster.
Organic Material, Plaster
Handmade Outdoor Rock-Shaped Natural Plaster Table Set by Philippe Colette
Located in Geneve, CH
Handmade Outdoor Rock-Shaped Natural Plaster Table Set by Philippe Colette Dimensions: 85 x 65 x 50, Foot Ø 30 cm 130 x 110 x 38, Foot Ø 20 cm Materials: Mineral lime plaster.
Organic Material, Plaster
Natural Plaster Hand-Sculpted Outdoor Dining Table 360 by Philippe Colette
Located in Geneve, CH
Natural Plaster Hand-Sculpted Outdoor dining table 360 by Philippe Colette Dimensions: L 360 x W 110 cm Customized height, please contact us. 10/12 pers.
Organic Material, Plaster
Mobilier Louis-Philippe Napoleon III by Colette Lehmann, First Edition
Located in valatie, NY
Mobilier Louis-Philippe Napoleon III by Colette Lehmann. Paris: Èditions Ch.
Paper
LE PARASOL
By Pincas-Moreno
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Selected solo exhibitions of Moreno Pincas: 1960 Dugith Gallery, Tel Aviv 1962 Galerie Saint Placide, Paris 1964 Galerie Katia Granoff, Paris 1967 Hebraica Gallery, ...
Oil
Gaelle Mirror by Philippe Colette
Located in Geneve, CH
Gaelle mirror by Philippe Colette Dimensions: D 60 x H 90 cm Materials: mineral lime plaster.
Plaster
Gaelle Mirror by Philippe Colette
Located in Geneve, CH
Gaelle mirror by Philippe Colette Dimensions: D 60 x H 90 cm Materials: mineral lime plaster.
Plaster
Gaelle Mirror by Philippe Colette
Located in Geneve, CH
Gaelle mirror by Philippe Colette Dimensions: D 60 x H 90 cm Materials: mineral lime plaster.
Plaster
Gaelle Mirror by Philippe Colette
Located in Geneve, CH
Gaelle mirror by Philippe Colette Dimensions: D 60 x H 90 cm Materials: mineral lime plaster.
Plaster
Gaelle Mirror by Philippe Colette
Located in Geneve, CH
Gaelle mirror by Philippe Colette Dimensions: D 60 x H 90 cm Materials: mineral lime plaster.
Plaster
Gaelle Mirror by Philippe Colette
Located in Geneve, CH
Gaelle mirror by Philippe Colette Dimensions: D 60 x H 90 cm Materials: mineral lime plaster.
Plaster
Gaelle Mirror by Philippe Colette
Located in Geneve, CH
Gaelle mirror by Philippe Colette Dimensions: D 60 x H 90 cm Materials: mineral lime plaster.
Plaster
Gaelle Mirror by Philippe Colette
Located in Geneve, CH
Gaelle mirror by Philippe Colette Dimensions: D 60 x H 90 cm Materials: mineral lime plaster.
Plaster
Barrel Shape Outdoor Table by Philippe Colette
Located in Geneve, CH
Barrel shape outdoor table by Philippe Colette Dimensions: L 260 cm - 300 / 8/10 pers.
Organic Material, Plaster
Handmade Outdoor Round Dining Table 120 by Philippe Colette
Located in Geneve, CH
Handmade Outdoor round dining table 120 by Philippe Colette Dimensions: Ø 120 foot diameter: 40 cm Customized height Materials: Mineral lime plaster.
Organic Material, Plaster
Sold
H 19.69 in W 51.19 in D 39.38 in
Handmade Rock-Shaped Natural Plaster Table Set by Philippe Colette
Located in Geneve, CH
Handmade rock-shaped natural plaster table set by Philippe Colette Dimensions: 80 x 60 x 50, foot Ø 30 cm 130 x 100 x 38, foot Ø 20 cm Materials: mineral lime plaster.
Organic Material, Plaster
Sold
H 19.69 in W 51.19 in D 39.38 in
Handmade Outdoor Rock-Shaped Natural Plaster Table Set by Philippe Colette
Located in Geneve, CH
Handmade outdoor rock-shaped natural plaster table set by Philippe Colette. Dimensions: 80 x 60 x 50, foot Ø 30 cm 130 x 100 x 38, foot Ø 20 cm Materials: mineral lime plaster....
Organic Material, Plaster
Sold
H 19.69 in W 51.19 in D 43.31 in
Handmade Outdoor Rock-Shaped Natural Plaster Table Set by Philippe Colette
Located in Geneve, CH
Handmade outdoor Rock-Shaped Natural Plaster Table Set by Philippe Colette Dimensions: 80 x 76 x 50, Foot Ø 30 cm 130 x 110 x 38, Foot Ø 20 cm Materials: Mineral lime plaster.
Organic Material, Plaster
$2,259
H 16.54 in W 3.15 in D 1.78 in
Bronze European Contemporary Sculptural Door handle by Margit Wittig
By Margit Wittig
Located in London, GB
Margit Wittig has used her sculptural skills to create beautifully-crafted, well-proportioned door handles, which are compositions of her unique signature pearl-shaped designs. Eac...
Bronze
Panoplie Petite Iron Tripod Lamp
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Petite iron tripod lamp with slender legs and tapered feet. New wiring and new oyster linen shade. Multiple available, sold individually. Takes one E12 base bulb, up to 25 W or highe...
Iron
Chic 'Méandre' Gilt Bronze Side Chair by Design Frères
By Design Frères
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Undulating 'Méandre' gilt bronze finish side chair by Design Frères. Gilt bronze finish over steel frame. Natural linen upholstered cushion with contrasting piping. Chic and unders...
Steel
$1,362 / item
H 13.39 in W 10.63 in D 10.63 in
Set Antique Vintage Acorn Opaline White Milk Glass Ceiling Pendant Light Lamp
Located in Sale, GB
- A fabulous run of church opaline acorn pendant lights with steel galleries, circa 1950. - Wear commensurate with age, all in excellent condition, the steel galleries are aged worn...
Glass
$8,177 / item
H 26.78 in W 70.87 in D 36.23 in
Gervasoni Sofa Upholstered Saia 10 by David Lopez Quincoces
By David Lopez Quincoces, Gervasoni
Located in Brooklyn, NY
With balanced lines, the Saia upholstered collection is created from a classic ideal reinterpreted in a contemporary key. The name, meaning "skirt" in Portuguese, illustrates its dis...
Upholstery
$6,880 / set
H 24.01 in W 18.12 in D 14.18 in
Pair of Park Night Stands in Butter Cream Lacquer by Yaniv Chen for Lemon
By Lemon
Located in Amsterdam, NL
The Park nightstand is the epitome of exquisite craftsmanship, featuring meticulously proportioned dimensions and exceptional detailing that make it an ideal bedside companion. Our f...
Lacquer, Glass
$990 / item
H 18.5 in Dm 17.7 in
IDE Travertine Stone Side Table, 17.7Ø"x18.5"H - Accent, End Table, Coffee Table
Located in St Petersburg, US
IDE Table: a stunning piece that embodies the natural elegance of travertine stone. This table is crafted with precision and attention to detail, making it a unique addition to any ...
Travertine, Stone
Frosted Murano Glass Wall Sconces
Located in Saint-Ouen, IDF
Frosted Murano glass wall sconces with brass hardware holding four sources of light.
Brass
$8,688 / item
H 39.38 in Dm 45.01 in
Contemporary Textured Brass Chandelier, Tryst Three by Paul Matter
By Paul Matter
Located in Warsaw, PL
Contemporary Textured Brass Chandelier, Tryst Three by Paul Matter Tryst chandelier explores the relationship between interlocked forms in perfect union and balance. A study of form...
Brass
Mamun Bedside (Dark Brown/Dusty Blue)
Located in Singapore, SG
Mamun, which translates to trustworthy in Arabic, was designed by Studio Kallang in 2021 as a playful take on both midcentury and brutalist forms. Designer Faezah Shaharuddin intende...
Teak
Anden I Opaline Acrylic Table Lamp by Studio Orbeat
Located in Geneve, CH
Anden I Opaline Acrylic Table Lamp by Studio Orbeat Dimensions: W 30 x D 30 x H 12 cm Materials: opaline acrylic, bronze, bulit in dimmer switch and warm LED light. Fittings also av...
Bronze, Other
$14,750 / item
H 13 in W 36 in D 52 in
Circular Coffee/Side Table Organic Black Modern Contemporary Blackened Steel
By J.M. Szymanski
Located in Bronx, NY
TABLE NO. 15 - COFFEE TABLE J.M. Szymanski d. 2019 This Noguchi-inspired coffee table is handcrafted in 3/8” thick steel, with a natural black patina and wax finish, to create an u...
Steel, Iron
$7,866 / set
H 48 in W 69 in D 48 in
Trapezi 5 Sculptural Statement Chandelier by Silvio Mondino Studio, Brass-Glass
By Silvio Mondino Studio
Located in Reggio Emilia, IT
The Trapezi Chandelier Offers a Contemporary Interpretation of the Murano Glass Chandelier, Grounded in Italian Design and Shaped by the Clarity and Lightness of the International St...
Brass
$4,220 / item
H 18 in W 6 in D 3 in
Selene Streamline Moderne Inspired Blown Quartz Glass and Brass Wall Sconce
By Bianco Light & Space
Located in Hawthorne, CA
Inspired by Art Moderne, the Selene sconce is part of Bianco light and space, streamline series. Composed of mold blown faceted glass shown in enamel white and brass hardware with LE...
Blown Glass
Ceiba Table Lamp
By Chuch Estudio
Located in Mérida, MX
The Ceiba Lamp embodies the essence of artisanal craftsmanship, meticulously crafted entirely by hand. Inspired by the sacred Tree of Life in the Yucatan Peninsula, renowned as the C...
Clay, Linen
1950s Pair of Italian Table Lamp with Opaline Glass and Brass
Located in Rome, IT
This striking pair of table lamps embodies classic Italian design from the 1950s, featuring elegantly curved brass bases that exhibit a natural patina from age. Each lamp is topped w...
Metal, Brass
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.