Large hand-painted aluminum wall-mount sculpture, signed by artist, 2018
Located in View Park, CA
« Untitled Ribbon »: a very unique and special painted metal wall-mounted sculpture by Mary Chabre, 2018. Featuring a malleable aluminum ribbon that curls at either end with various ...
Aluminum
1990 Mexican Venetian Mosaic Wall Sculpture
Located in Mexico City, MX
A Venetian style mosaic with a organic abstract composition. Signed on the front "M T" on the upper left corner. Signed and dated MEX 1990 on the lower right back. The mosaic is fram...
Stone, Steel
$434 / item
Puff Sculpture in Ceramic by Liliana Silva
Located in Geneve, CH
Puff Sculpture in Ceramic by Liliana Silva. Signed by Liliana Silva. Dimensions: W 24 x D 24 x H 26 cm. Materials: Ceramic. This piece is available in a wide range of hand-painted f...
Ceramic
Popcorn Jar Up Sculpture in Ceramic by Liliana Silva
Located in Geneve, CH
Popcorn Jar Up Sculpture in Ceramic by Liliana Silva. Signed by Liliana Silva. Dimensions: W 23 x D 23 x H 37 cm. Materials: Ceramic. This piece is available in a wide range of hand...
Ceramic
Popcorn Jar Down Sculpture in Ceramic by Liliana Silva
Located in Geneve, CH
Popcorn Jar Down Sculpture in Ceramic by Liliana Silva. Signed by Liliana Silva. Dimensions: W 26 x D 26 x H 37 cm. Materials: Ceramic. This piece is available in a wide range of ha...
Ceramic
$411 / item
Minty Sculpture in Ceramic by Liliana Silva
Located in Geneve, CH
Minty Sculpture in Ceramic by Liliana Silva. Signed by Liliana Silva. Dimensions: W 24 x D 24 x H 29 cm. Materials: Ceramic. This piece is available in a wide range of hand-painted ...
Ceramic
$411 / item
Sharp Sculpture in Ceramic by Liliana Silva
Located in Geneve, CH
Sharp Sculpture in Ceramic by Liliana Silva. Signed by Liliana Silva. Dimensions: W 22 x D 22 x H 23 cm. Materials: Ceramic. This piece is available in a wide range of hand-painted ...
Ceramic
Fragment Sculpture in Ceramic by Liliana Silva
Located in Geneve, CH
Fragment Sculpture in Ceramic by Liliana Silva. Signed by Liliana Silva. Dimensions: W 24 x D 24 x H 32 cm. Materials: Ceramic. This piece is available in a wide range of hand-paint...
Ceramic
$1,005 / item
Ties Sculpture in Ceramic by Liliana Silva
Located in Geneve, CH
Ties Sculpture in Ceramic by Liliana Silva. Signed by Liliana Silva. Dimensions: W 32 x D 32 x H 55 cm. Materials: Ceramic. “Ties” intertwines forms that suggest bonds and connectio...
Ceramic
Sweet Popcorn Sculpture in Ceramic by Liliana Silva
Located in Geneve, CH
Sweet Popcorn Sculpture in Ceramic by Liliana Silva. Signed by Liliana Silva. Dimensions: W 28 x D 28 x H 28 cm. Materials: Ceramic. “Sweet Popcorn” from the Popcorn series delights...
Ceramic
$1,508 / item
Dug Sculpture in Ceramic by Liliana Silva
Located in Geneve, CH
Dug Sculpture in Ceramic by Liliana Silva. Signed by Liliana Silva. Dimensions: W 45 x D 45 x H 46 cm. Materials: Ceramic. “Dug” evokes the essence of excavated earth, from which cl...
Ceramic
XL Popcorn Sculpture in Ceramic by Liliana Silva
Located in Geneve, CH
XL Popcorn Sculpture in Ceramic by Liliana Silva. Signed by Liliana Silva. Dimensions: W 39 x D 39 x H 44 cm. Materials: Ceramic. “XL Popcorn” amplifies the Popcorn series with a ge...
Ceramic
$1,885 / item
Rupture Sculpture in Ceramic by Liliana Silva
Located in Geneve, CH
Rupture Sculpture in Ceramic by Liliana Silva. Signed by Liliana Silva. Dimensions: W 39 x D 39 x H 50 cm. Materials: Ceramic. “Rupture” explores the beauty of breakage and reinvent...
Ceramic
$1,634 / item
XXL Popcorn Sculpture in Ceramic by Liliana Silva
Located in Geneve, CH
XXL Popcorn Sculpture in Ceramic by Liliana Silva. Signed by Liliana Silva. Dimensions: W 47 x D 47 x H 55 cm. Materials: Ceramic. “XXL Popcorn” takes the series to the monumental, ...
Ceramic
Useless Sculpture in Ceramic by Liliana Silva
Located in Geneve, CH
Useless Sculpture in Ceramic by Liliana Silva. Signed by Liliana Silva. Dimensions: W 23 x D 23 x H 44 cm. Materials: Ceramic. “Useless” inspired by the “Dadaism” trend, challenges ...
Ceramic
$1,382 / item
Sun Sculpture in Ceramic by Liliana Silva
Located in Geneve, CH
Sun Sculpture in Ceramic by Liliana Silva. Signed by Liliana Silva. Dimensions: W 48 x D 48 x H 42 cm. Materials: Ceramic. “Sun” is a unique ceramic piece that captures the essence ...
Ceramic
Popcorn Jug Sculpture in Ceramic by Liliana Silva
Located in Geneve, CH
Popcorn Jug Sculpture in Ceramic by Liliana Silva. Signed by Liliana Silva. Dimensions: W 24 x D 24 x H 28 cm. Materials: Ceramic. The “Popcorn Jug” from the Popcorn series captures...
Ceramic
Big Sculptural Vase in Ceramic by Liliana Silva
Located in Geneve, CH
Big Sculptural Vase in Ceramic by Liliana Silva. Signed by Liliana Silva. Dimensions: W 35 x D 35 x H 39 cm. Materials: Ceramic. “Big” is an imposing presence in my collection, a ce...
Ceramic
$1,382 / item
Rhythm Sculpture in Ceramic by Liliana Silva
Located in Geneve, CH
Rhythm Sculpture in Ceramic by Liliana Silva. Signed by Liliana Silva. Dimensions: W 30 x D 30 x H 56 cm. Materials: Ceramic. “Rhythm” pulsates with movement and cadence, a ceramic ...
Ceramic
1950s French Modernist Crucifix in Black Lacquered Metal and Ceramic
By Peter and Denise Orlando, Roger Capron, Georges Jouve
Located in SOTTEVILLE-LÈS-ROUEN, FR
Black Lacquered Metal Cross with Stylized Enameled Ceramic Christ A rare and sculptural French modernist crucifix from the 1950s, reflecting the postwar renewal of sacred art throug...
Iron
Ben Jones Untitled Ladder, from the Ladder Series, c. 2015
By Ben Jones
Located in Chicago, IL
Ben Jones Untitled Ladder from the Ladder Series, c. 2015 Acrylic on wood construction. A sculptural work from Ben Jones's Ladder Series, reflecting the artist's distinctive visual l...
Wood
Kazekage Unique Water Feature in Carved Basalt Stone by Andres Monnier
Located in Geneve, CH
Kazekage Unique Water Feature in Carved Basalt Stone by Andres Monnier Unique Piece Dimensions: D 25 x W 40 x H 25 cm. Materials: Basalt stone. Available in different material optio...
Stone
Project Materia 2025 I Didn't Do Enough II Vessel in Glass by Project Materia
Located in Geneve, CH
Project Materia 2025 I Didn't Do Enough II Vessel in Glass by Project Materia. Designed by Willem Van Hooff. Limited Edition of 14. Dimensions: W 51 x D 27 x H 55.5 cm. Materials: Mo...
Blown Glass
Project Materia 2025 Stack Fishies Sculpture in Glass by Project Materia
Located in Geneve, CH
Project Materia 2025 Stack Fishies Sculpture in Glass by Project Materia. Designed by Laurids Gallée. Limited Edition of 14. Dimensions: W 36 x D 9.6 x H 14 cm. Materials: Mouth-blow...
Blown Glass
Project Materia 2025 Alchemist Vase in Glass by Project Materia
Located in Geneve, CH
Project Materia 2025 Alchemist Vase in Glass by Project Materia. Designed by Cathrine Raben Davidsen. Limited Edition of 14. Dimensions: W 20 x D 20 x H 26 cm. Materials: Mouth-blown...
Blown Glass
Project Materia 2025 Cortado Doble Sculpture in Glass by Project Materia
Located in Geneve, CH
Project Materia 2025 Cortado Doble Sculpture in Glass by Project Materia. Designed by Andrés Reisinger. Limited Edition of 14. Dimensions: W 38 x D 36.5 x H 30.5 cm. Materials: Mouth...
Blown Glass
In Tangier
By Howard Hodgkin
Located in London, GB
Howard Hodgkin In Tangier, 1991 Screenprint in 22 colours on huntsman velvet 300gsm paper Signed with initials HH, numbered (63/72) and dated ('91) in pencil 82 × 86 cm Edition of 7...
Screen
Italian Post-War Mosaic Wall Plaque, Abstract Design, 20th Century
By Salvador Teran
Located in Queens, NY
Italian Post-War Design rectangular mosaic wall plaque with an abstract design. (att: SALVADOR TERAN)
Stone
$22,581 / item
Extra Large High Clay Bathtub by Studio Loho
Located in Geneve, CH
Extra large high clay bathtub by Studio Loho Dimensions: D 85 x W 178 x H 54 cm Materials: clay Other colors and raw or smooth exterior available. Available in 4 sizes: W 130 (Small ...
Clay
$22,028 / item
Extra Large Clay Bathtub by Studio Loho
Located in Geneve, CH
Large High clay bathtub by Studio Loho Dimensions: D 85 x W 160 x H 54 cm Materials: Clay Other colors and raw or smooth exterior available. Available in 4 sizes: W 130 (Small High),...
Clay
Debra Sachs Split Pyramid III Two-Part Sculpture in Sand and Copper over Wood
Located in Downingtown, PA
Debra Sachs Split Pyramid III Two-Part Sculpture in Sand and Copper over Wood American, 1989 “Split Pyramid III” is a two-part sculpture by the New Jersey sculptor Debra Sachs, made...
Copper
Glazed Ceramic Head Sculpture by Roy Terbeek, The Netherlands 1994
Located in Utrecht, NL
This ceramic sculpture presents an abstract human head formation, made by Roy Terbeek in 1994 in the Netherlands. The piece features a modeling of facial features. There is a sense o...
Ceramic
Aluminum Caduceus Symbol Medical Wall Mounted Sculpture Snakes & Wings
Located in Chula Vista, CA
For your consideration, an aluminum caduceus symbol—featuring a staff intertwined with two snakes and topped with wings—mounted on a textured, earthy wall surface. About the Caduceus...
Aluminum
Galactica Wall Star Decorative Object in Powder-Coated Aluminum by altreforme
Located in Geneve, CH
Galactica Wall Star Decorative Object in Powder-Coated Aluminum by altreforme Dimensions: D 4,2 x W 40 x H 40 cm. Materials: Powder-coated aluminum. A shining and galactic decoratio...
Other
Galactica Lunar Decorative Object in Powder-Coated Aluminum by altreforme
Located in Geneve, CH
Galactica Lunar Decorative Object in Powder-Coated Aluminum by altreforme Dimensions: D 40 x W 40 x H 80 cm. Materials: Powder-coated aluminum. Corner mirror inspired by the dark si...
Other
Galactica Wall Flash Decorative Object in Powder-Coated Aluminum by altreforme
Located in Geneve, CH
Galactica Wall Flash Decorative Object in Powder-Coated Aluminum by altreforme Dimensions: D 4,2 x W 68 x H 100 cm. Materials: Powder-coated aluminum. Wall accessory, tribute to Dav...
Other
Galactica Mappaluna Decorative Object in Powder-Coated Aluminum by altreforme
Located in Geneve, CH
Galactica Mappaluna Decorative Object in Powder-Coated Aluminum by altreforme Dimensions: D 22 x W 31,5 x H 20 cm. Materials: Powder-coated aluminum. Would you like the moon? Today...
Other
$28,359 / item
Itzcali Matla Marble Sculpture by Sebastián Ángeles
Located in Geneve, CH
Itzcali Matla Marble Sculpture by Sebastián Ángeles Dimensions: D 70 x W 27 x H 95 cm Materials: Santo Tomás Marble Conceived as a functional sculpture, MATLA reinterprets the figur...
Marble
$28,354 / item
Itzcali Tlal Marble Sculpture by Sebastián Ángeles
Located in Geneve, CH
Itzcali Tlal Marble Sculpture by Sebastián Ángeles Dimensions: D 123 x W 100 x H 61 cm Materials: Santo Tomás Marble Conceived as a functional sculpture, TLAL reinterprets the prese...
Marble
Cariátide Small Sculpture in exclusive Jurassic Fossil Stone by NERINEA
Located in VALENCIA, ES
Cariatide is a modular stone sculpture series designed by Fran Silvestre Arquitectos, available in multiple heights, proportions and materials as Jurassic Fossil Top or Marble. Insp...
Stone
Cariátide Small Sculpture in Marquina Marble Stone by NERINEA
Located in VALENCIA, ES
Cariatide is a modular stone sculpture series designed by Fran Silvestre Arquitectos, available in multiple heights, proportions and materials as Jurassic Fossil Top or Marble. Insp...
Marble
Pop Art Handmade Oversized Wooden Stapler c. 1970s
Located in Oakland, CA
Hand carved oak Pop Art stapler by woodworker Joseph DeNeff. A finely crafted sculpture with details as would be found in conventional staplers. An interesting and unusual piece.
Oak
Unique Rock Large Sculpture in Jurassic Natural Rock by NERINEA
Located in Geneve, CH
Unique Rock Large Sculpture in Jurassic Natural Rock by NERINEA. Dimensions: W 35 x D 25 x H 15 cm. Materials: Natural Stone (Jurassic Fossil Rock). Collectible sculptural object cur...
Stone
Cariátide Small Series, 24cm Sculpture in Jurassic Fossil Stone by NERINEA
Located in Geneve, CH
Cariátide Small Series, 24cm Sculpture in Jurassic Fossil Stone by NERINEA. Dimensions: W 11 x D 12 x H 24 cm. Materials: Natural Stone (Jurassic Fossil TOP). Designed by Fran Silves...
Stone
Eólica Large Sculpture in Jurassic Fossil Stone by NERINEA
Located in Geneve, CH
Eólica Large Sculpture in Jurassic Fossil Stone by NERINEA. Dimensions: W 33 x D 29 x H 178 cm. Materials: Natural Stone (Jurassic Fossil TOP). Designed by Fran Silvestre Arquitectos...
Stone
Afrodita Sculpture Object in Jurassic Fossil Stone by NERINEA
Located in Geneve, CH
Afrodita Sculpture Object in Jurassic Fossil Stone by NERINEA. Dimensions: W 14 x D 14 x H 39 cm. Materials: Natural Stone (Jurassic Fossil TOP). Designed by Fran Silvestre Arquitect...
Stone
Sculpture Centerpiece in Jurassic Fossil Stone by NERINEA
Located in Geneve, CH
Sculpture Centerpiece in Jurassic Fossil Stone by NERINEA. Dimensions: W 50 x D 15 x H 15 cm. Materials: Natural Stone (Jurassic Fossil TOP). Designed by Paco Camús. The Sculpture C...
Stone
$15,085 / item
Silvestrin Amphora in Jurassic Fossil Stone by NERINEA
Located in Geneve, CH
Silvestrin Amphora in Jurassic Fossil Stone by NERINEA. Dimensions: W 40 x D 60 x H 118 cm. Materials: Natural Stone (Jurassic Fossil Classic). Designed by architect Claudio Silvestr...
Stone
Unique Ocean Flower 004 Porcelain Sculpture by Mina Ceramics
Located in Geneve, CH
Unique Ocean Flower 004 Porcelain Sculpture by Mina Ceramics. One of a Kind. Dimensions: W 22 x D 34 x H 34 cm. Materials: Porcelain. About the artist Istanbul based artist, Mina Ka...
Porcelain
Unique Ocean Flower 005 Porcelain Sculpture by Mina Ceramics
Located in Geneve, CH
Unique Ocean Flower 005 Porcelain Sculpture by Mina Ceramics. One of a Kind. Dimensions: W 20 x D 40 x H 42 cm. Materials: Porcelain. About the artist Istanbul based artist, Mina Ka...
Porcelain
Unique Ocean Flower 003 Porcelain Sculpture by Mina Ceramics
Located in Geneve, CH
Unique Ocean Flower 003 Porcelain Sculpture by Mina Ceramics. One of a Kind. Dimensions: W 20 x D 35 x H 34 cm. Materials: Porcelain. About the artist Istanbul based artist, Mina Ka...
Porcelain
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, CT
Includes a Certificate of Authenticity
Engraving
Entrebanc 14
Located in Barcelona, CT
Includes a Certificate of Authenticity
Lithograph
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, CT
Includes a Certificate of Authenticity
Lithograph
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, CT
Includes a Certificate of Authenticity
Engraving
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, CT
Includes a Certificate of Authenticity
Lithograph
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, CT
Includes a Certificate of Authenticity
Lithograph
Entrebanc 7
Located in Barcelona, CT
Includes a Certificate of Authenticity
Lithograph
Unique Ocean Flower 002 Porcelain Sculpture by Mina Ceramics
Located in Geneve, CH
Unique Ocean Flower 002 Porcelain Sculpture by Mina Ceramics. One of a Kind. Dimensions: W 28 x D 37 x H 34 cm. Materials: Porcelain. About the artist Istanbul based artist, Mina Ka...
Porcelain
Unique Ocean Flower 001 Porcelain Sculpture by Mina Ceramics
Located in Geneve, CH
Unique Ocean Flower 001 Porcelain Sculpture by Mina Ceramics. One of a Kind. Dimensions: W 23 x D 38 x H 40 cm. Materials: Porcelain. About the artist Istanbul based artist, Mina Ka...
Porcelain
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.