$14,186 / 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
$10,352 / 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
$10,352 / 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
$10,352 / 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
$10,352 / 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
$10,352 / 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
$10,352 / 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
$14,186 / 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
$14,186 / 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
$14,186 / 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
$10,352 / 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
$11,386 / 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
$10,352 / 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
$10,352 / 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
$10,352 / 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
$10,352 / 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
Curved Dancer Teracotta Blend Ceramic Sculpture by Stephanie Phillips
Located in Geneve, CH
Curved Dancer Teracotta Blend Ceramic Sculpture by Stephanie Phillips Dimensions: D 9 x W 26 x x H 40 cm Materials: Ceramic, Raku Clay, Terracotta Also available in other colors an...
Ceramic, Clay, Terracotta
Push Me Pull You Goldene Glaze Ceramic Sculpture by Stephanie Phillips
Located in Geneve, CH
Push Me Pull You Goldene Glaze Ceramic Sculpture by Stephanie Phillips Dimensions: D 9 x W 35 x x H 40 cm Materials: Ceramic, Gold Also available in other colors and custom sizes f...
Gold
Ray Teracotta Raku Clay Ceramic Sculpture by Stephanie Phillips
Located in Geneve, CH
Ray Terracotta Raku Clay Ceramic Sculpture by Stephanie Phillips Dimensions: D 8 x W 30 x x H 30 cm Materials: Terracotta, Ceramic, Raku Clay Also available in other colors and cus...
Ceramic, Clay, Terracotta
Um 1930 in Zurich
By Max Bill
Located in New York, NY
Bill, Max. Um 1930 in Zurich, 1977 Offset, 50 1/4 x 35 1/4". Max Bill was an important Swiss artist, designer and architect whose work drew inspiration from Bauhaus, De Stijl, an...
Screen
Natalie Du Pasquier Vase Bitossi Ceramic Date & Numbered 2004 ED.133/299
By Nathalie du Pasquier, Bitossi
Located in San Diego, CA
Vase by Bitossi Ceramiche with elements in white clay casting. Original and elegant, it was conceived by the famous French designer and painter Natalie Du Pasquier. It is finished in...
Ceramic
Brass and Polished Aluminum Figurative Sculpture attributed Jean Arp, 1970
By Jean Arp
Located in Chicago, IL
Large Brass and Polished Aluminum Figurative Sculpture attributed to Jean Arp, 1970's Polished aluminum base with clear lacquer. Brass has some patina.
Aluminum, Brass
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
Scorpion Sculpture, Enrique "Sebastian Carbajal, 1990
By Enrique Sebastian Carbajal
Located in Chicago, IL
Scorpion Sculpture, Enrique "Sebastian Carbajal, 1990's Born Enrique Carbajal Gonzalez, Sebastian adopted his pseudonym after seeing a painting called St. Sebastian by Italian Renais...
Steel
Here My Soul Sculpture in Glazed Ceramic by Lucile Gracile
Located in Geneve, CH
Here My Soul Sculpture in Glazed Ceramic by Lucile Gracile Dimensions: D 25 x W 25 x H 40 cm. Materials: Glazed ceramic. Born in 1988, lives and works in Paris. Ceramic artist usi...
Ceramic
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
$1,998 / item
Tig Sculptural Object by Rampinelli Edizioni
Located in Geneve, CH
Tig Sculptural Object by Rampinelli Edizioni Designed by Studio Pari Dimensions: D 28 x H 7 cm. Materials: Metal. STUDIO PARI Tig expresses the robustness of metallurgical processes...
Metal
$848 / item
Diapason by Rampinelli Edizioni
Located in Geneve, CH
Diapason by Rampinelli Edizioni Designed by Sovrappensiero Design Dimensions: D 6 x W 20 x H 26.5 cm. Materials: Steel. SOVRAPPENSIERO DESIGN When we embarked on our second project ...
Steel
$534 / item
Primitive Sculpture by Rampinelli Edizioni
Located in Geneve, CH
Primitive Sculpture by Rampinelli Edizioni Designed by Mario Scairato Dimensions: D 12.5 x W 12.5 x H 13 cm. Materials: Metal. MARIO SCAIRATO Primitive is a research project on basi...
Metal
$1,429 / item
Fermo Doorstop by Rampinelli Edizioni
Located in Geneve, CH
Fermo Doorstop by Rampinelli Edizioni Designed by Martinelli Venezia Dimensions: D 11.5 x W 30 x H 25.5 cm, Materials: Metal. MARTINELLI VENEZIA Fermo is a metal doorstop, character...
Metal
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
Nancy Dwyer "S" Sculpture or Table
Located in Greensboro, NC
"S" Sculpture or table on casters by noted NYC artist Nancy Dwyer. This piece is unsigned, but was purchased from an estate where Nancy lived at some point in her career. It was fo...
Wood
Bruce Niemi Bronze Sculpture Signed, 2003
Located in Chicago, IL
Bruce Niemi Bronze Sculpture Signed, 2003. Base is made out of brushed steel.
Bronze
$3,834 / item
Wave Sculpture by Twenty Second Factory
Located in Geneve, CH
Wave Sculpture by Twenty Second Factory Created by Alexander Volosenko Dimensions: D 23 x W 90 x H 42 cm Materials: Wood. Founded in 2017 by Bogdan Kryvosheya, a creative director f...
Wood
$30,673 / item
Atlant Sapiens by Twenty Second Factory
Located in Geneve, CH
Atlant Sapiens by Twenty Second Factory Created by Vladislav Volosenko X Bogdan Kryvosheya Dimensions: D 52 x W 35 x H 60 cm Materials: Bronze. Founded in 2017 by Bogdan Kryvosheya,...
Bronze
$30,673 / item
Dazed Sapiens by Twenty Second Factory
Located in Geneve, CH
Dazed Sapiens by Twenty Second Factory Created by Roman Shcherbakov aka Dase X Vladislav Volosenko X Bogdan Kryvosheya Dimensions: D 52 x W 35 x H 60 cm Materials: Bronze. "Sapiens"...
Bronze
$7,668 / item
Note Sculpture by Twenty Second Factory
Located in Geneve, CH
Note Sculpture by Twenty Second Factory Created by Alexander Volosenko Dimensions: D 16 x W 36 x H 122 cm Materials: Wood. Founded in 2017 by Bogdan Kryvosheya, a creative director ...
Wood
Nocturns
Located in Barcelona, CT
Includes a Certificate of Authenticity
Mixed Media, Canvas
S0247 Decorative Object in Fir Wood by Jörg Pietschmann
By Jörg Pietschmann
Located in Geneve, CH
S0247 Decorative Object in Fir Wood by Jörg Pietschmann Dimensions: D 22 x W 42 x H 81 cm. Materials: Fir wood. In Pietschmann’s sculptures, trees that for centuries were part of a...
Fir
S0118 Decorative Object in Lime Tree Wood by Jörg Pietschmann
By Jörg Pietschmann
Located in Geneve, CH
S0118 Decorative Object in Lime Tree Wood by Jörg Pietschmann Dimensions: D 14 x W 23 x H 43 cm. Materials: Lime tree wood. In Pietschmann’s sculptures, trees that for centuries we...
Wood
S1271 Decorative Object in Olive Wood by Jörg Pietschmann
By Jörg Pietschmann
Located in Geneve, CH
S1271 Decorative Object in Olive Wood by Jörg Pietschmann Dimensions: D 23 x W 27 x H 15 cm. Materials: Olive wood. In Pietschmann’s sculptures, trees that for centuries were part ...
Olive
S1090 Decorative Object in Mastix Bush Root Wood by Jörg Pietschmann
By Jörg Pietschmann
Located in Geneve, CH
S1090 Decorative Object in Mastix Bush Root Wood by Jörg Pietschmann Dimensions: D 26 x W 69 x H 23 cm. Materials: Mastix bush root wood. In Pietschmann’s sculptures, trees that fo...
Wood
1990s Postmodern Studio Pottery Ceramic Sculpture Hand Signed by The Artist.
Located in Miami, FL
Vintage 1990s Postmodern Studio Pottery Ceramic Sculpture Hand Signed by The Artist. Signed Lored 1990 Feature a rounded seashell fossil shape with contrasting black glazing and matt...
Pottery, Ceramic
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
$615 / item
Pelican Container by Louis Bressolles
Located in Geneve, CH
Pelican Container by Louis Bressolles Dimensions: W 29 x D 32 x H 60 cm Materials: Sawdust, Metal. Weight: 2 Kg. French artist-designer based in Toulouse. Member of the Zigzag. Coll...
Wood
$25Sale Price / set|84% Off
1990s Metal Sculpture Candelabra with Faux Ruby Gem Style Pieces
Located in San Gabriel, CA
24” high x 13” wide x 10” deep Interesting industrial abstract metal sculpture. Could hold candles. Red faux gem accents.
Stone, Metal
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$3,250Sale Price|29% Off
Stanley Landsman "Starry Night" [Infinity Lit Cabinet] Lightbox Sculpture
Located in Astoria, NY
Stanley Landsman (American, 1930-1984) "Starry Night" [Infinity Lit Cabinet] Electrified Light Box Sculpture, composed of fountain pens, light bulbs, and mirrored glass, mounted on e...
Glass, Mirror, Wood
$4,856 / item
Musti Decorative Object by Laura Pehkonen
Located in Geneve, CH
Musti Decorative Object by Laura Pehkonen Unique Piece. Dimensions: D 41 x W 41 x H 41 cm. Materials: Hand-built ceramic. Laura Pehkonen (b. 1985) is a ceramic and visual artist liv...
Ceramic
$25,000 / item
Anton Smit - "Faith Mask" Resin and Iron Sculpture
Located in New York, NY
Anton Smit is a profoundly influential South African sculptor recognized for his monumental works that evoke deep themes of suffering, reconciliation, glory, and sublimation. He is c...
Iron
Jeff Koons Cracked Egg box/sculpture aluminum .Red 2008
By Jeff Koons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Iconic Cracked Egg in aluminum sculpture / box for the LACMA in 2008 . artist Jeff Koons
Aluminum
Arc Marble Sculpture by Jean-Frédéric Bourdier
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
A marbled sculpture, combining white and 'Rui Vina' marble, hailing from Estremoz, a city and region in Portugal. Signed by the artist. L : 120 cm W : 20 cm H : 60 cm
Marble
Ready-Mades Et Editions De Et Sur Marcel Duchamps Galerie Givaudan
By Marcel Duchamp
Located in New York, NY
Vintage Poster for the exhibition Editions de se sur Marcel Duchamp. One of 400 copies with title and date of exhibition, of a total edition of 500. Unsigned. Schwarz, Ref: Catalog...
Offset
Andrea Casella for Alessi – “Narciso” Sculpture, 1974
By Alessi D'Après
Located in Weesp, NL
Andrea Casella for Alessi – “Narciso” Sculpture, 1974 From the “D’Après” Collection – Alessi Arte Designer: Andrea Casella Title: Narciso Manufacturer: Alessi Series: D’Après, 1...
Stainless Steel
$7,668 / item
Vera Coat Rack, Studio Noon
By Noon Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Vera coat rack, Studio Noon Limited edition 1/50 Signed Dimensions: W 45.7 x D 45.7 x H 179 cm Material: Pigmented cement. Noon is a Philadelphia based collaboration between desig...
Cement
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.