Pisces Teracotta Blend Terracotta Clay Sculpture by Stephanie Phillips
Located in Geneve, CH
sculptural. She playfully manipulates negative space in and around each piece, making forms that are abstract
Clay, Terracotta
$7,693 / item
Nacre I Sculptural Blown Glass Object by Homa
Located in Geneve, CH
, spontaneity. Object. HOMA’s pieces are an exploration of organic, abstract, as well as unexpected flowing
Blown Glass, Mirror
$7,693 / item
Nacre IX Sculptural Blown Glass Object by Homa
Located in Geneve, CH
, spontaneity. Object. HOMA’s pieces are an exploration of organic, abstract, as well as unexpected flowing
Blown Glass, Mirror
$7,693 / item
Nacre VIII Sculptural Blown Glass Object by Homa
Located in Geneve, CH
, spontaneity. Object. HOMA’s pieces are an exploration of organic, abstract, as well as unexpected flowing
Blown Glass, Mirror
Small bas-relief sculpture signed by A. Pomodoro
Located in Milano, IT
The work, "Untitled," is a small bronze sculpture from 1995, created through the bas-relief technique and bearing the signature of renowned contemporary artist A. Pomodoro in the low...
Bronze
Carolina Herrera solid lucite sculpture/display/advertisement bottle Vasa style
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Nice display sculpture of the perfume 'Chic" by Carolina Herrera in solid lucite in the shape of a bottle .
Lucite
David Goldhagen Cosmic Vortex Art Glass Pod on Stand
By David Goldhagen
Located in Savannah, GA
A David Goldhagen art glass pod on stand entitled “Cosmic Vortex”. With dimmable backlight. Etched with signature, number and title. glass piece: 25 inches wide by 10 inches d...
Art Glass
Curtis Jere 1980s Brass on Marble Base Ribbon Heart Flame Table Floor Sculpture
By Curtis Jeré
Located in Keego Harbor, MI
A Curtis Jere 1980s ribbon heart flame sculpture. This monumental Jere sculpture features a massive brass sculpture inset inside a round marble stone base. The sculpture features a r...
Brass
Unique Sculptural Ceramic Composition No. 3 by Austin Coudriet
Located in Geneve, CH
Unique Sculptural Ceramic Composition No. 3 by Austin Coudriet. One of a kind. Dimensions: W 66 x D 51 x H 117 cm. Materials: Ceramic (stoneware), underglaze. About Austin Coudriet...
Ceramic, Stoneware
Unique Sculptural Ceramic Trace by Austin Coudriet
Located in Geneve, CH
Unique Sculptural Ceramic Trace by Austin Coudriet. One of a kind. Dimensions: W 46 x D 23 x H 76 cm. Materials: Ceramic (stoneware), glaze. About Austin Coudriet is a ceramic arti...
Ceramic, Stoneware
Unique Sculptural Ceramic Swiggle in Blue by Austin Coudriet
Located in Geneve, CH
Unique Sculptural Ceramic Swiggle in Blue by Austin Coudriet. One of a kind. Dimensions: W 43 x D 30 x H 66 cm. Materials: Ceramic (stoneware), underglaze. About Austin Coudriet is...
Ceramic, Stoneware
Unique Sculptural Ceramic Cones in Orange by Austin Coudriet
Located in Geneve, CH
Unique Sculptural Ceramic Cones in Orange by Austin Coudriet. One of a kind. Dimensions: W 46 x D 41 x H 74 cm. Materials: Ceramic (stoneware), underglaze. About Austin Coudriet is...
Ceramic, Stoneware
Unique Sculptural Ceramic Ears in Purple by Austin Coudriet
Located in Geneve, CH
Unique Sculptural Ceramic Ears in Purple by Austin Coudriet. One of a kind. Dimensions: W 33 x D 30 x H 58 cm. Materials: Ceramic (stoneware), underglaze. About Austin Coudriet is ...
Ceramic, Stoneware
Unique Sculptural Ceramic Composition No.2 in Green by Austin Coudriet
Located in Geneve, CH
Unique Sculptural Ceramic Composition No.2 in Green by Austin Coudriet. One of a kind. Dimensions: W 71 x D 64 x H 79 cm. Materials: Ceramic (stoneware), underglaze. About Austin C...
Ceramic, Stoneware
Unique Sculptural Ceramic Composition No.1 in Blue by Austin Coudriet
Located in Geneve, CH
Unique Sculptural Ceramic Composition No.1 in Blue by Austin Coudriet. One of a kind. Dimensions: W 53 x D 46 x H 58 cm. Materials: Ceramic (stoneware), underglaze. About Austin Co...
Ceramic, Stoneware
"Galerie Maeght, " Graphic Color Lines Lithograph Poster
Located in Milwaukee, WI
rejected the term "abstract" which he considered a denial of the essentially intimate relationships between
Lithograph
Remask Act 005 Gold Art Object Made from Surgical Mask by Enrico Girotti
By Enrico Girotti
Located in Verona, IT
The Remask Project represents a new artistic genesis for surgical masks, regenerated to convey renewed meaning, perception, and memory. Initiated during the first lockdown, when mask...
Gold
$7,693 / item
Nacre II Sculptural Blown Glass Object by Homa
Located in Geneve, CH
an exploration of organic, abstract, as well as unexpected flowing lines and shapes. Our design
Blown Glass, Mirror
"Stabile with Red Sun Galerie Maeght" Lithograph Poster
By Alexander Calder
Located in Milwaukee, WI
abstract constructions and his drawings. In 1931 he joined the ABSTRACTION-CREATION association and in the
Lithograph
Boho Artisan Pigmented Plaster Scagliola Plinth
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Organic Modern, Boho Chic, and Postmodern interiors, offering a softer, more natural take on the bold
Plaster
Miguel Berrocal Opus 294 Bronze Medal La Mecánica Electricidad Gijón 1980s
By Miguel Berrocal, Miguel Ortiz Berrocal
Located in Benalmadena, ES
Very rare and hard-to-find example, the Bronze medal Opus 294 was created by Miguel Berrocal as a commemorative piece for the Higher Technical School of Industrial Engineers in Gijón...
Bronze
Klaus Lehmann, Postmodern Brutalist German Studio Pottery Art Wall Sculpture
By Klaus Lehmann
Located in Hamburg, DE
Klaus Lehmann, Postmodern Brutalist German Studio Pottery Art Wall Sculpture No. 705-91 4/8, 1991
Pottery
$2,607 / set
Unique Sculpture Wine Decanter Set by Karystios
Located in Geneve, CH
Unique Sculpture Wine Decanter Set by Karystios Dimensions: W 28 x D 20 x H 20 cm Materials: Ceramic from High Temperature Oven. The sculptural piece studies debris in a paradoxical...
Ceramic
Oiva Toikka glass bird sculpture for Nuutajarvi Notsjo "Redstart"
By Oiva Toikka, Nuutajärvi Notsjõ
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Beautiful glass work bird, by the well known designer Oiva Toikka title Mountain Redstart , Littala label.
Glass
Memphis Milano Carlton Miniature, Limited Edition by Ettore Sottsass
By Ettore Sottsass, Memphis Milano
Located in Toronto, ON
Perfect 1:4 scale reproduction of the Carlton bookcase in a limited edition of 1000 pieces. About Carlton: An absolute icon of Memphis designed by Ettore Sottsass in 1981, Carlton ...
Laminate, Wood
Ettore Sottsass 'Caravanserraglio' Centerpiece, Studio Alchimia
By Studio Alchimia, Ettore Sottsass
Located in Krefeld, DE
A rare 'Caravanserraglio' centrepiece designed by Ettore Sottsass for Studio Alchimia, Milan, circa 1979. Conceived as part of Alchimia’s experimental Bauhaus series, this sculptural...
Wood
$18,480 / item
Andromeda Bronze Sculpture by Kodai Suga
Located in Geneve, CH
Andromeda Bronze Sculpture by Kodai Suga Dimensions: W 50 x D 30 x H 30 cm Materials: Bronze Kodai Suga’s work features an evocative modernistic silhouette that has been imbued with...
Bronze, Other
$14,568 / item
Regeneration 04 Bronze Sculpture by Kodai Suga
Located in Geneve, CH
Regeneration 04 Bronze Sculpture by Kodai Suga Dimensions: W 50 x D 7.5 x H 30 cm Materials: Bronze Kodai Suga’s work features an evocative modernistic silhouette that has been imbu...
Bronze, Other
$14,568 / item
Regeneration 03-1 Bronze Sculpture by Kodai Suga
Located in Geneve, CH
Regeneration 03-1 Bronze Sculpture by Kodai Suga Dimensions: W 50 x D 9 x H 25 cm Materials: Bronze Kodai Suga’s work features an evocative modernistic silhouette that has been imbu...
Bronze, Other
$14,568 / item
Vanguard 02-2 Bronze Sculpture by Kodai Suga
Located in Geneve, CH
Vanguard 02-2 Bronze Sculpture by Kodai Suga Dimensions: W 50 x D 7.5 x H 40 cm Materials: Bronze Kodai Suga’s work features an evocative modernistic silhouette that has been imbued...
Bronze, Other
$14,568 / item
Regeneration 03-2 Bronze Sculpture by Kodai Suga
Located in Geneve, CH
Regeneration 03-2 Bronze Sculpture by Kodai Suga Dimensions: W 50 x D 9 x H 30 cm Materials: Bronze Kodai Suga’s work features an evocative modernistic silhouette that has been imbu...
Bronze, Other
$15,872 / item
Regeneration 02 Bronze Sculpture by Kodai Suga
Located in Geneve, CH
Regeneration 02 Bronze Sculpture by Kodai Suga Dimensions: W 50 x D 12 x H 55 cm Materials: Bronze Kodai Suga’s work features an evocative modernistic silhouette that has been imbue...
Bronze, Other
$14,568 / item
Regeneration 01 Bronze Sculpture by Kodai Suga
Located in Geneve, CH
Regeneration 01 Bronze Sculpture by Kodai Suga Dimensions: W 50 x D 9 x H 45 cm Materials: Bronze Kodai Suga’s work features an evocative modernistic silhouette that has been imbued...
Bronze, Other
$18,480 / item
Perseus Bronze Sculpture by Kodai Suga
Located in Geneve, CH
Perseus Bronze Sculpture by Kodai Suga Dimensions: W 50 x D 30 x H 30 cm Materials: Bronze Kodai Suga’s work features an evocative modernistic silhouette that has been imbued with d...
Bronze, Other
$18,480 / item
Genesis Bronze Sculpture by Kodai Suga
Located in Geneve, CH
Genesis Bronze Sculpture by Kodai Suga Dimensions: W 50 x D 30 x H 45 cm Materials: Bronze Kodai Suga’s work features an evocative modernistic silhouette that has been imbued with d...
Bronze, Other
$14,568 / item
Element 02 Bronze Sculpture by Kodai Suga
Located in Geneve, CH
Element 02 Bronze Sculpture by Kodai Suga Dimensions: W 50 x D 15 x H 30 cm Materials: Bronze Kodai Suga’s work features an evocative modernistic silhouette that has been imbued wit...
Bronze, Other
$14,568 / item
Astral Bronze Sculpture by Kodai Suga
Located in Geneve, CH
Astral Bronze Sculpture by Kodai Suga Dimensions: W 50 x D 8 x H 32 cm Materials: Bronze Kodai Suga’s work features an evocative modernistic silhouette that has been imbued with dra...
Bronze, Other
$19,132 / item
Element 01 Bronze Sculpture by Kodai Suga
Located in Geneve, CH
Element 01 Bronze Sculpture by Kodai Suga Dimensions: W 60 x D 15 x H 40 cm Materials: Bronze Kodai Suga’s work features an evocative modernistic silhouette that has been imbued wit...
Bronze, Other
$14,568 / item
Vanguard 01 Bronze Sculpture by Kodai Suga
Located in Geneve, CH
Vanguard 01 Bronze Sculpture by Kodai Suga Dimensions: W 50 x D 7.5 x H 27 cm Materials: Bronze Kodai Suga’s work features an evocative modernistic silhouette that has been imbued w...
Bronze, Other
$14,568 / item
Vanguard 02-1 Bronze Sculpture by Kodai Suga
Located in Geneve, CH
Vanguard 02-1 Bronze Sculpture by Kodai Suga Dimensions: W 50 x D 7.5 x H 40 cm Materials: Bronze Kodai Suga’s work features an evocative modernistic silhouette that has been imbued...
Bronze, Other
$14,568 / item
Xenith Bronze Sculpture by Kodai Suga
Located in Geneve, CH
Last Light Bronze Sculpture by Kodai Suga Dimensions: W 50 x D 10 x H 45 cm Materials: Bronze Kodai Suga’s work features an evocative modernistic silhouette that has been imbued wit...
Bronze, Other
$14,568 / item
Last Light Bronze Sculpture by Kodai Suga
Located in Geneve, CH
Last Light Bronze Sculpture by Kodai Suga Dimensions: W 50 x D 7.5 x H 30 cm Materials: Bronze Kodai Suga’s work features an evocative modernistic silhouette that has been imbued wi...
Other, Bronze
$1,303 / item
L’illusion des Sosies Sculpture by Davide Ronco
Located in Geneve, CH
L’illusion des Sosies Sculpture by Davide Ronco One of a Kind Dimensions: D 17 x W 46 x H 62 cm. Materials: Concrete. The exhibition title refers to the Capgras delusion, a psychia...
Concrete
$3,200 / item
Artificial Formations Concrete Plate by Davide Ronco
Located in Geneve, CH
Artificial Formations Concrete Plate by Davide Ronco One of a Kind Dimensions: D 115 x H 15 cm. Materials: Concrete. Concrete, the most widely used material in the world after wate...
Concrete
$5,429 / item
Rosalind Porcelain Sculpture by Stacy Solodkin
Located in Geneve, CH
: porcelain, clay, fiber Based in, produced and shipped from the US. Stacy is an abstract artist currently
Other
$5,085 / item
August Porcelain Sculpture by Stacy Solodkin
Located in Geneve, CH
: porcelain, clay, fiber Based in, produced and shipped from the US. Stacy is an abstract artist currently
Other
$5,097 / item
Charlotte Porcelain Sculpture by Stacy Solodkin
Located in Geneve, CH
: porcelain, clay, fiber Based in, produced and shipped from the US. Stacy is an abstract artist currently
Other
$4,077 / item
Rose Porcelain Sculpture by Stacy Solodkin
Located in Geneve, CH
: porcelain, clay, fiber Based in, produced and shipped from the US. Stacy is an abstract artist currently
Other
Blossom I - Black stoneware sculptural vase
Located in PRADES-LE-LEZ, FR
Blossom I is a hand-built ceramic sculpture by French artist Audrey Vo Van, created in black chamotte stoneware. The form, both grounded and ascending, suggests the quiet emergence o...
Ceramic, Stoneware
Curved Dancer Teracotta Blend Ceramic Sculpture by Stephanie Phillips
Located in Geneve, CH
that are abstract and jaunty while at the same time monumental. Texture is vital and is achieved by
Ceramic, Clay, Terracotta
Push Me Pull You Goldene Glaze Ceramic Sculpture by Stephanie Phillips
Located in Geneve, CH
sculptural. She playfully manipulates negative space in and around each piece, making forms that are abstract
Gold
Ray Teracotta Raku Clay Ceramic Sculpture by Stephanie Phillips
Located in Geneve, CH
that are abstract and jaunty while at the same time monumental. Texture is vital and is achieved by
Ceramic, Clay, Terracotta
Alexander Calder Lithograph, 1975, Derriere le Miroir #221
By Alexander Calder
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Alexander Calder Title: Derriere le Miroir #221 Portfolio: Derriere le Miroir #221 Medium: Lithograph in colors Date: 1975 Edition: Unnumbered Sheet Size: 15" x 22" Image Siz...
Lithograph
Majestic Controlled Bubble Bullicante Cobalt Blue Art Glass Large Paperweight
Located in San Diego, CA
Majestic Controlled Bubble Bullicante Cobalt Blue Art Glass Large Paperweight, beautiful excellent condition rich color nice and heavy art piece sculpture.
Blown Glass
French Modernist Carrara Marble Sculpture by Bertrand Créac’h
By Bertrand Créac'h
Located in Chicago, IL
A modernist sculpture by French artist Bertrand Créac’h, hand-carved in Carrara marble, c. 1990s. Tapered and monumental, its angular planes dissolve into softened curves, revealing ...
Carrara Marble
Boho Artisan Pigmented Plaster Scagliola Plinth
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Add a splash of artistic flair to your vignette with this striking vintage Scagliola plinth. Expertly crafted using the traditional Italian technique of blending plaster and pigments...
Plaster
American Post-War Abstract Oil Painting
Located in Queens, NY
American Post War design abstract art, oil painting of pink, green, orange and beige shapes in a
Silver
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.