Midcentury Original Auböck Bottle Opener in Shape of a Post Horn
By Werkstätte Carl Auböck
Located in Vienna, AT
For sale is a beautiful bottle opener in the shape of a post horn. Both were crafted from brass and
Brass
Original Vintage Postal Services Advertising Poster Brussels London Air Mail
Located in London, GB
logo of a crown over a red lion in a post horn above the information in French and Dutch in bold white
Paper
1990s "Messageries et Diligences" Carré Silk Scarf by Celine Paris
By Celine
Located in Aci Castello, IT
post horn with intricate rope and tassel details. The vibrant red border frames a cream-colored field
Harrison Van Horn Lacquered Raffia Belly Console Table
By Harrison Van Horn
Located in Round Top, TX
Harrison Van Horn "belly" console table in lacquered raffia and brass in deep, dark espresso brown
Brass
Horn Collection Post-Modern Dining Table White Polyurethane Plastic 1970s
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Horn Collection, dining table, lacquered polyurethane plastic, Germany, 1970s Created for the Horn
Plastic
Horn Collection Post-Modern Dining Table Green Polyurethane Plastic 1970s
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Horn Collection, dining table, lacquered polyurethane plastic, Germany, 1970s Created for the Horn
Plastic
Horn Collection Post-Modern Dining Table in Red Polyurethane Plastic 1970s
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Horn Collection, dining table, lacquered polyurethane plastic, Germany, 1970s Created for the Horn
Plastic
'Coastal Mist', Woman Artist, Carnegie Foundation, Rhode Island School of Design
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Horning' for Elizabeth Horning (American, born 1943) and painted circa 1985
Canvas, Oil
Pair of Natural Steer Horns on Lucite Bases
Located in Lambertville, NJ
A chic pair of steer horns each mounted on Lucite bases. These highly decorative horns add a unique
Horn, Lucite
Agneta Box I in Aida Pebbled Leather, Horn, Brass, & Ebony Veneer by Arcahorn
Located in Geneve, CH
Agneta Box I in Aida Pebbled Leather, Horn, Brass, & Ebony Veneer by Arcahorn Dimensions: Ø 13 x H
Brass
Agneta Box II in Aida Pebbled Leather, Horn, Brass, & Ebony Veneer by Arcahorn
Located in Geneve, CH
Agneta Box II in Aida Pebbled Leather, Horn, Brass, & Ebony Veneer by Arcahorn Dimensions: Ø 20 x H
Brass
Agneta Box III in Aida Pebbled Leather, Horn, Brass, & Ebony Veneer by Arcahorn
Located in Geneve, CH
Agneta Box III in Aida Pebbled Leather, Horn, Brass, & Ebony Veneer by Arcahorn Dimensions: Ø 25 x
Brass
Enrique Garcel Postmodern Tessellated Horn Bench
By Enrique Garcel
Located in Bradenton, FL
Enrique Garcel Postmodern Tessellated Horn Bench. Bench features a tessellated coconut palm finish
Wood, Textile
Postmodern Pottery French Horn Steve Smeed 1997
Located in W Allenhurst, NJ
Whimsical pottery French Horn by Steve Smeed 1997. Steve Smeed has made a variety of unusual and
Pottery
Original Signed Karl Springer Large Wall Hanging Mirror in Tessellated Horn
By Karl Springer
Located in North Miami, FL
This rare and signed large Karl Springer mirror in tessellated horn with deco style accents. It is
Horn, Mirror
Gyro Corkscrew in Stainless Steel & Horn by Arcahorn
Located in Geneve, CH
Gyro Corkscrew in Stainless Steel & Horn by Arcahorn Dimensions: Ø 10 x H 10 cm. Materials: Horn
Stainless Steel, Other
Rare Horns chair in aluminium by Ron Arad 1985
By Ron Arad
Located in London, GB
Marked a crucial step for Ron Arad into fabrication from scratch, the Horns chair was based on a
Aluminum
Rea Armchair in Sparks Upholstery, Horn & Wood by Arcahorn
Located in Geneve, CH
Rea Armchair in Sparks Upholstery, Horn & Wood by Arcahorn Dimensions: D 82 x W 92 x H 86 cm
Other
$2,271 / item
Cow Horn Chair Walnut Vanilla by Warm Nordic
Located in Geneve, CH
Cow Horn Chair Walnut Vanilla by Warm Nordic Dimensions: D55 x W48 x H 74 cm Material: Oiled
Textile, Upholstery, Walnut
$1,765 / item
Cow Horn Chair Oak Vanilla by Warm Nordic
Located in Geneve, CH
Cow Horn chair oak vanilla by Warm Nordic Dimensions: D 55 x W 48 x H 74 cm Material: White oiled
Textile, Upholstery, Oak
Leonia Cushion in Pebbled Leather with Horn Gems by Arcahorn
Located in Geneve, CH
Leonia Cushion in Pebbled Leather with Horn Gems by Arcahorn Dimensions: D 40 x W 40 x H 40 cm
Other
Manolo Blahnik Aluminum Shoe Horn, 2004 Anniversary Edition
By Manolo Blahnik
Located in Hanover, MA
Manolo Blahnik shoe horn polished cast aluminium 2004, England. Manolo Blahnik`s iconic shoe horn
Aluminum
Vintage Horn Klismos Tessellated Dining Chairs - Set of 6
By Maitland Smith
Located in Clarksboro, NJ
This listing is for a set of six Vintage Horn Kilsmos Tessellated Dining Chairs. Featuring a curved
Stone
Polar Ice Bucket in Horn & Stainless Steel by Arcahorn
Located in Geneve, CH
Polar Ice Bucket in Horn & Stainless Steel by Arcahorn Designed by Filippo Dini Dimensions: D 16 x
Stainless Steel, Other
Leonia Armchair in Aida Pebbled Leather, Upholstery & Horn by Arcahorn
Located in Geneve, CH
Leonia Armchair in Aida Pebbled Leather, Upholstery & Horn by Arcahorn Dimensions: D 83 x W 93 x H
Other
Art Deco Moderne Club Chair With Faux Horn Detail
Located in Chicago, IL
An accent chair that truly accentuates any room it is placed in. Faux horn front legs that curve up
Suede, Beech, Walnut
Lucrezia Chandelier in Hand-Engraved Brass & Horn by Arcahorn
Located in Geneve, CH
Lucrezia Chandelier in Hand-Engraved Brass & Horn by Arcahorn Dimensions: Ø 130 x H 175 cm
Brass, Other
Priora Box in Horn, Chromed Brass & Glossy Ebony by Arcahorn
Located in Geneve, CH
Priora Box in Horn, Chromed Brass & Glossy Ebony by Arcahorn Dimensions: D 18 x W 18 x H 10 cm
Brass, Other
Trafalgar Chessboard in Nabuk Leather, Horn & Burnished Brass by Arcahorn
Located in Geneve, CH
Trafalgar Chessboard in Nabuk Leather, Horn & Burnished Brass by Arcahorn Designed by Filippo Dini
Brass, Other
Sveva Chair in Samsara Fabric, Horn Inlays & Burnished Metal by Arcahorn
Located in Geneve, CH
Sveva Chair in Samsara Fabric, Horn Inlays & Burnished Metal by Arcahorn Dimensions: D 56 x W 54 x
Metal, Other
Egon Armchair in Pebbled Leather, Lamberto Fabric & Horn by Arcahorn
Located in Geneve, CH
Egon Armchair in Pebbled Leather, Lamberto Fabric & Horn by Arcahorn Dimensions: D 82 x W 89 x
Other
Sveva Chair in Lario Velvet, Horn Inlays & Satin Metal by Arcahorn
Located in Geneve, CH
Sveva Chair in Lario Velvet, Horn Inlays & Satin Metal by Arcahorn Dimensions: D 54 x W 61 x H 80
Other, Metal
Cosmopolitan Bar Cabinet in Makassar Ebony Veneer, Horn & Brass by Arcahorn
Located in Geneve, CH
Cosmopolitan Bar Cabinet in Makassar Ebony Veneer, Horn & Brass by Arcahorn Dimensions: D 55 x W
Brass, Other
Helios Cabinet in Makassar Ebony Veneer, Horn & Satin Brass by Arcahorn
Located in Geneve, CH
Helios Cabinet in Makassar Ebony Veneer, Horn & Satin Brass by Arcahorn Dimensions: D 50 x W 230 x
Brass, Other
Penelope Chair in Chromed Brass, Horn & Tosca Blue Leather by Arcahorn
Located in Geneve, CH
Penelope Chair in Chromed Brass, Horn & Tosca Blue Leather by Arcahorn Dimensions: D 59 x W 58 x H
Other, Brass
Circe Chair in Chromed Brass, Horn & White Bouclé Upholstery by Arcahorn
Located in Geneve, CH
Circe Chair in Chromed Brass, Horn & White Bouclé Upholstery by Arcahorn Dimensions: D 61 x W 65 x
Brass, Other
$2,271 / item
Cow Horn Chair Walnut Black Leather by Warm Nordic
Located in Geneve, CH
Cow Horn chair walnut black leather by Warm Nordic Dimensions: D 55 x W 48 x H 74 cm Material
Leather, Upholstery, Walnut
$2,271 / item
Cow Horn Chair Walnut Light Grey by Warm Nordic
Located in Geneve, CH
Cow Horn Chair Walnut Light Grey by Warm Nordic Dimensions: D55 x W48 x H 74 cm Material: Oiled
Leather, Upholstery, Walnut
$2,271 / item
Cow Horn Chair Walnut Nature Leather by Warm Nordic
Located in Geneve, CH
Cow Horn Chair Walnut Black Leather by Warm Nordic Dimensions: D55 x W48 x H 74 cm Material
Leather, Upholstery, Walnut
$2,271 / item
Cow Horn Chair Walnut Ivory Leather by Warm Nordic
Located in Geneve, CH
Cow horn chair walnut ivory leather by Warm Nordic Dimensions: D55 x W48 x H 74 cm Material
Leather, Upholstery, Walnut
Cow Horn Chair Walnut Anthracite Melange by Warm Nordic
Located in Geneve, CH
Cow Horn chair walnut anthracite melange by Warm Nordic Dimensions: D 55 x W 48 x H 74 cm
Textile, Upholstery, Walnut
$1,765 / item
Cow Horn Chair Oak Anthracite Melange by Warm Nordic
Located in Geneve, CH
Cow horn chair oak anthracite melange by Warm Nordic Dimensions: D55 x W48 x H 74 cm Material
Textile, Upholstery, Oak
$1,765 / item
Cow Horn Chair Oak Black Leather by Warm Nordic
Located in Geneve, CH
Cow horn chair oak black leather by Warm Nordic Dimensions: D55 x W48 x H 74 cm Material: white
Leather, Upholstery, Oak
Nettuno Dining Table in Glossy Ebony, Horn & Satin Brass by Arcahorn
Located in Geneve, CH
Nettuno Dining Table in Glossy Ebony, Horn & Satin Brass by Arcahorn Dimensions: D 138 x W 280 x H
Brass, Other
Alfred Trolley in Glossy Ebony, Horn & Burnished Brass by Arcahorn
Located in Geneve, CH
Alfred Trolley in Glossy Ebony, Horn & Burnished Brass by Arcahorn Designed by Filippo Dini
Brass, Other
$2,200 / item
Cow Horn Chair Walnut Oak Vanilla by Warm Nordic
Located in Geneve, CH
Cow horn chair walnut oak vanilla by Warm Nordic Dimensions: D55 x W48 x H 74 cm Material: White
Textile, Upholstery, Oak, Walnut
Armida Tissue Box Holder in Dark Horn & Lacquered Wood by Arcahorn
Located in Geneve, CH
Armida Tissue Box Holder in Dark Horn & Lacquered Wood by Arcahorn Designed by Filippo Dini
Other
Afrodite Armchair in Belsuede Fabric, Horn & Satin Brass Wood by Arcahorn
Located in Geneve, CH
Afrodite Armchair in Belsuede Fabric, Horn & Satin Brass Wood by Arcahorn Dimensions: D 82 x W 92 x
Other
Afrodite Three-Seater Sofa in Belsuede Fabric, Horn & Wood by Arcahorn
Located in Geneve, CH
Afrodite Three-Seater Sofa in Belsuede Fabric, Horn & Wood by Arcahorn Dimensions: D 95 x W 270 x H
Other
Afrodite Chaise Longue in Belsuede Fabric, Horn & Satin Wood by Arcahorn
Located in Geneve, CH
Afrodite Chaise Longue in Belsuede Fabric, Horn & Satin Wood by Arcahorn Dimensions: D 95 x W 200 x
Other
Paestum Coffee Table in Lacquered Ivory Gloss Wood & Horn by Arcahorn
Located in Geneve, CH
Paestum Coffee Table in Lacquered Ivory Gloss Wood & Horn by Arcahorn Dimensions: Ø 160 x H 31 cm
Other
Paestum Coffee Table in Lacquered Black Wood & Dark Horn by Arcahorn
Located in Geneve, CH
Paestum Coffee Table in Lacquered Black Wood & Dark Horn by Arcahorn Dimensions: Ø 160 x H 31 cm
Other
Apollo Side Table in Dalmata Marble, Horn & Satin Metal by Arcahorn
Located in Geneve, CH
Apollo Side Table in Dalmata Marble, Horn & Satin Metal by Arcahorn Dimensions: Ø 75 x H 60 cm
Marble, Metal, Other
Leuca Sculpture in Horn, Lacquered Wood & Stainless Steel by Arcahorn
Located in Geneve, CH
Leuca Sculpture in Horn, Lacquered Wood & Stainless Steel by Arcahorn Designed by Filippo Dini
Stainless Steel, Other
Rea Chaise Longue in Splendido Velvet Upholstery, Horn & Wood by Arcahorn
Located in Geneve, CH
Rea Chaise Longue in Splendido Velvet Upholstery, Horn & Wood by Arcahorn Dimensions: D 95 x W 200
Other
Tecla Dining Table in Amara Ebony Veneer & Glossy Horn by Arcahorn
Located in Geneve, CH
Tecla Dining Table in Amara Ebony Veneer & Glossy Horn by Arcahorn Dimensions: D 108 x W 280 x H 77
Other
Dorian Side Table in Glossy Horn & Burnished Brass in by Arcahorn
Located in Geneve, CH
Dorian Side Table in Glossy Horn & Burnished Brass in by Arcahorn Dimensions: Ø 40 x H 60 cm
Brass, Other
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.
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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.