Pair of Chapman 1970s Faux Horn and Brass Table Lamps, Wired for the USA
By Chapman Manufacturing Company
Located in Atlanta, GA
A pair of Chapman 1970s faux horn table lamps with brass bases. This exquisite pair of Chapman 1970s table lamps exudes a sense of timeless luxury and eclectic charm. Crafted with me...
Brass
$5,582 / item
Giglio Coat Stand by Arcahorn
Located in Geneve, CH
Giglio Coat Stand by Arcahorn Dimensions: D 30 x W 30 x H 185 cm Materials: Horn, brass. Coat stand. Structure in wood with lacquered ivory gloss finish and horn inlays. Base and ho...
Brass
$4,329 / item
Macari Side Table by Arcahorn
Located in Geneve, CH
Macari Side Table by Arcahorn Dimensions: D 50 x H 65 cm Materials: Horn, glass, stainless steel. Small table in horn and stainless steel. Top in extra clear glass. Colors and shad...
Stainless Steel
$1,717 / item
Capricia Box I by Arcahorn
Located in Geneve, CH
Capricia Box I by Arcahorn Dimensions: D 13 x W 13 x H 15 cm Materials: Leather, wood, horn. Box in Aida pebbled leather, Ice-cream color with handmade dark brown stitching. Lid in ...
Horn, Leather, Wood
$2,135 / item
Capricia Box IV by Arcahorn
Located in Geneve, CH
Capricia Box IV by Arcahorn Dimensions: D 20 x W 28 x H 14 cm Materials: Leather, wood, horn. Box in Aida pebbled leather, Onyx color with handmade ivory stitching. Lid in matte Ama...
Horn, Leather, Wood
$1,908 / item
Capricia Box III by Arcahorn
Located in Geneve, CH
Capricia Box III by Arcahorn Dimensions: D 13 x W 22 x H 12 cm Materials: Leather, wood, horn. Box in Aida pebbled leather, Onyx color with handmade ivory stitching. Lid in matte Am...
Horn, Leather, Wood
$1,908 / item
Capricia Box III by Arcahorn
Located in Geneve, CH
Capricia Box III by Arcahorn Dimensions: D 13 x W 22 x H 12 cm Materials: Leather, wood, horn. Box in Aida pebbled leather, Ice-cream color with handmade dark brown stitching. Lid i...
Horn, Leather, Wood
$2,135 / item
Capricia Box IV by Arcahorn
Located in Geneve, CH
Capricia Box IV by Arcahorn Dimensions: D 20 x W 28 x H 14 cm Materials: Leather, wood, horn. Box in Aida pebbled leather, Ice-cream color with handmade dark brown stitching. Lid in...
Horn, Leather, Wood
$1,920 / item
Capricia Box II by Arcahorn
Located in Geneve, CH
Capricia Box II by Arcahorn Dimensions: D 18 x W 18 x H 13 cm Materials: Leather, wood, horn. Box in Aida pebbled leather, Ice-cream color with handmade dark brown stitching. Lid in...
Horn, Leather, Wood
$1,920 / item
Capricia Box II by Arcahorn
Located in Geneve, CH
Capricia Box II by Arcahorn Dimensions: D 18 x W 18 x H 13 cm Materials: Leather, wood, horn. Box in Aida pebbled leather, Onyx color with handmade ivory stitching. Lid in matte Ama...
Horn, Leather, Wood
$1,717 / item
Capricia Box I by Arcahorn
Located in Geneve, CH
Capricia Box I by Arcahorn Dimensions: D 13 x W 13 x H 15 cm Materials: Leather, wood, horn. Box in Aida pebbled leather, Onyx color with handmade ivory stitching. Lid in matte Amar...
Horn, Leather, Wood
Pair of Vintage Leather Parsons Side Tables, Vintage Design, USA
By Harrison Van Horn, Maitland Smith, Karl Springer, Pierre Cardin, (after) Jean Michel Frank
Located in Round Top, TX
Postmodern Leather Parsons Side Tables A pair of genuine leather wrapped side tables with protective glass tops. Whimsical yet neutral tables in peach-hued tones. Original glass top...
Leather, Glass, Wood
$3,781 / item
Pluvio Umbrella Stand by Arcahorn
Located in Geneve, CH
Pluvio Umbrella Stand by Arcahorn Dimensions: D 20 x W 20 x H 70 cm Materials: Horn, stainless steel, glass. Umbrella stand. Structure in stainless steel. Base in wood with lacquere...
Stainless Steel
$2,302 / item
Fedora Box II by Arcahorn
Located in Geneve, CH
Fedora Box II by Arcahorn Dimensions: D 13 x W 13 x H 8 cm Materials: Wood, horn, brass, gold. Box in glossy ebony. Lid in hand engraved 24K gold plated brass with raised rounded ho...
Gold, Brass
$3,220 / item
Fedora Box I by Arcahorn
Located in Geneve, CH
Fedora Box I by Arcahorn Dimensions: D 13 x W 21 x H 8 cm Materials: Wood, horn, brass, gold. Box in glossy ebony. Lid in hand engraved 24K gold plated brass with raised rounded hor...
Brass, Gold
$1,419 / item
Selene Box by Arcahorn
Located in Geneve, CH
Selene Box by Arcahorn Dimensions: D 20 x W 28 x H 6 cm Materials: Leather, wood, horn, brass. Rectangular box in horn and wood with lacquered ivory gloss finish. Lid in wood with l...
Brass
$1,419 / item
Selene Box by Arcahorn
Located in Geneve, CH
Selene Box by Arcahorn Dimensions: D 20 x W 28 x H 6 cm Materials: Leather, wood, horn, brass. Rectangular box in dark horn and wood with lacquered black gloss finish. Lid in wood w...
Brass
$1,157 / item
Small Selene Box by Arcahorn
Located in Geneve, CH
Small Selene Box by Arcahorn Dimensions: D 15 x W 22 x H 4 cm Materials: Leather, wood, horn, brass. Rectangular box in dark horn and wood with lacquered black gloss finish. Lid in ...
Brass
$1,157 / item
Small Selene Box by Arcahorn
Located in Geneve, CH
Small Selene Box by Arcahorn Dimensions: D 15 x W 22 x H 4 cm Materials: Leather, wood, horn, brass. Rectangular box in horn and wood with lacquered ivory gloss finish. Lid in wood ...
Brass
$2,087 / item
Agneta Box III by Arcahorn
Located in Geneve, CH
Agneta Box III by Arcahorn Dimensions: D 25 x H 16 cm Materials: Leather, wood, brass, horn. Round box in Aida pebbled leather, Onyx colour with handmade ivory stitching. Lid in mat...
Brass
$1,741 / item
Agneta Box II by Arcahorn
Located in Geneve, CH
Agneta Box II by Arcahorn Dimensions: D 20 x H 13 cm Materials: Leather, wood, brass, horn. Round box in Aida pebbled leather, Onyx colour with handmade ivory stitching. Lid in matt...
Brass
$1,514 / item
Agneta Box I by Arcahorn
Located in Geneve, CH
Agneta Box I by Arcahorn Dimensions: D 13 x H 17 cm Materials: Leather, wood, brass, horn. Round box in Aida pebbled leather, Onyx colour with handmade ivory stitching. Lid in matte...
Brass
$2,922 / item
Cigno Sculpture by Arcahorn
Located in Geneve, CH
Cigno Sculpture by Arcahorn Dimensions: D 16 x W 38 x H 30 cm Materials: Horn, wood, brass. Horn sculpture. Base in wood with lacquered black gloss finish and 24K gold plated brass....
Brass
$18,894 / item
Laguna Sculpture by Arcahorn
Located in Geneve, CH
Laguna Sculpture by Arcahorn Dimensions: D 19 x W 90 x H 45 cm Materials: Horn, wood, brass. Horn sculpture. Base with sections of Venetian canal wood inside translucent transparent...
Brass
$4,461 / item
Levanzo Wardrobe Valet by Arcahorn
Located in Geneve, CH
Levanzo Wardrobe Valet by Arcahorn Dimensions: D 30 x W 46 x H 142 cm Materials: Horn, leather, stainless steel, wood. Wardrobe valet. Structure in wood with lacquered black gloss f...
Stainless Steel
$6,584 / item
Alma Floor Lamp by Arcahorn
Located in Geneve, CH
Alma Floor Lamp by Arcahorn Dimensions: D 54 x H 188 cm Materials: Horn, leather, brass. Floor lamp in dark horn and Tosca leather (cat. Super), black color. Gunmetal brass detailin...
Brass
$4,031 / item
Elba Butlers Serving Table by Arcahorn
Located in Geneve, CH
Elba Butlers Serving Table by Arcahorn Dimensions: D 46 x W 70 x H 77 cm Materials: Horn, stainless steel, wood. Butlers serving table with a tray in dark horn, wood with lacquered ...
Stainless Steel
$5,677 / item
Saba Table Lamp by Arcahorn
Located in Geneve, CH
Saba Table Lamp by Arcahorn Dimensions: D 24 x W 50 x H 62 cm Materials: Horn, brass. Table lamp. Structure and base in hand engraved 24K gold plated brass. Raised rounded horn inla...
Brass
$5,200 / item
Borgia Table Lamp by Arcahorn
Located in Geneve, CH
Borgia Table Lamp by Arcahorn Dimensions: D 40 x W 40 x H 64 cm Materials: Horn, brass. Table lamp. Structure and base in hand engraved 24K gold plated brass. Raised rounded horn in...
Brass
$4,544 / item
Florian Table Lamp by Arcahorn
Located in Geneve, CH
Florian Table Lamp by Arcahorn Dimensions: D 24 x W 50 x H 64 cm Materials: Horn, stainless steel. Table lamp in horn and stainless steel with exposed screws. Lampshade in ivory sha...
Stainless Steel
$3,316 / item
Alma Table Lamp by Arcahorn
Located in Geneve, CH
Alma Table Lamp by Arcahorn Dimensions: D 40 x H 63 cm Materials: Horn, leather, brass. Table lamp in dark horn and Tosca leather (cat. Super), black colour. Gunmetal brass detailin...
Brass
$2,528 / item
Alma Table Lamp II by Arcahorn
Located in Geneve, CH
Alma Table Lamp II by Arcahorn Dimensions: D 40 x H 63 cm Materials: Horn, leather, brass. Table lamp in matte horn and Tosca leather (cat. D), dark brown color. Burnished brass det...
Brass
Rug & Kilim’s Samarkand Style Rug in Blue with Geometric Patterns
By Rug & Kilim
Located in Long Island City, NY
On the Design: Keen eyes will note the blue field underscoring gold and beige-brown geometric patterns - enfolded by a border of fence posts, crosses and ram’s horn motifs in the s...
Wool
Rug & Kilim’s Samarkand Style Rug in Blue with Geometric Patterns
By Rug & Kilim
Located in Long Island City, NY
On the Design: Keen eyes will note the blue field underscoring gold and beige-brown geometric patterns - enfolded by a border of fence posts, crosses and ram’s horn motifs in the s...
Wool
Rug & Kilim’s Samarkand Style Rug in Blue with Geometric Patterns
By Rug & Kilim
Located in Long Island City, NY
On the Design: Keen eyes will note the blue field underscoring gold and beige-brown geometric patterns - enfolded by a border of fence posts, crosses and ram’s horn motifs in the s...
Wool
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.