Stanley Landsman "Starry Night" Lightbox Sculpture
Located in Astoria, NY
, Optical Art, Experimental Art, Industrial, Technology, Post-War and Contemporary Art, 20th Century Art
Glass, Mirror, Wood
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
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
Joke Stroes Pair of Luster Glazed Studio Pottery Objects for Mobach 1980s
By Mobach
Located in Meer, VAN
post-modern studio pottery objects by renowned studio pottery master Joke Stroes for Mobach, The
Pottery
Mid-Century Brutalist Studio Pottery Art Sculpture, 1960s
Located in Hamburg, DE
Mid-Century Brutalist Studio Pottery Art Sculpture, 1960s, in Very Good conditions. Designed 1980 to 1989. Additional information: Materials: Ceramic Style: Postmodern Color: Beige ...
Ceramic
Joke Stroes Luster Glazed Studio Pottery Object for Mobach The Netherlands 1980s
By Mobach
Located in Meer, VAN
Joke Stroes Studio Pottery Object for Mobach, Utrecht, The Netherlands, 1980s. Wonderful post
Pottery
“Shore Sentry”
By Syd Solomon
Located in Southampton, NY
his camouflage experience during World War II influenced his ideas about abstract art. At the end of
Handmade Paper, Lithograph
" Omni " Wooden Sculpture Italy 1990
Located in Weesp, NL
monochromatic color amplifies the sculpture’s modern aesthetic, making it a perfect fit for contemporary
Wood
Natalie Du Pasquier Vase Bitossi Ceramic Date & Numbered 2004 ED.133/299
By Bitossi, Nathalie du Pasquier
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
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
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
$4,274Sale Price / set|20% Off
Govert Heikoop, minimal Art, De Stijl, Coffee/Side tables, vase & console.
By Govert Heikoop
Located in CASTENRAY, NL
Furniture set by Artist Govert Heikoop (1951-2007) What shall we call it Post modern, Abstract
Plywood, Paint
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
Postmodern Marble Sculpture Attributed to Renoir, Circa 1980s
By Renoir Designs, Maitland Smith, Marquis Collection of Beverly Hills 1
Located in Round Top, TX
Postmodern pink and black marble sculpture with a twisty, swirly presentation. Attributed to Renoir production, in the Philippines, this tessellated marble treasure seems to be a rar...
Marble
$30,872 / item
Chess Piece Sculpture 1 by Pilar Zeta
Located in Geneve, CH
Chess Piece Sculpture 1 by Pilar Zeta Limited Edition of 10 + 2AP pieces. Materials: Carrara marble, Monterrey black marble and travertine marble. Dimensions: W 36 x D 36 x H 124 ...
Marble, Travertine, Carrara Marble
$30,872 / item
Chess Piece Sculpture 2 by Pilar Zeta
Located in Geneve, CH
Chess Piece Sculpture 2 by Pilar Zeta Limited Edition of 10 + 2AP pieces. Materials: Carrara marble, Monterrey black marble and travertine marble. Dimensions: W 36 x D 36 x H 142 ...
Travertine, Marble, Carrara Marble
$30,872 / item
Chess Piece Sculpture 4 by Pilar Zeta
Located in Geneve, CH
Chess Piece Sculpture 4 by Pilar Zeta Limited Edition of 10 + 2AP pieces. Materials: Carrara marble, Monterrey black marble and travertine marble. Dimensions: W 36 x D 36 x H 120 ...
Travertine, Marble, Carrara Marble
$30,872 / item
Chess Piece Sculpture 3 by Pilar Zeta
Located in Geneve, CH
Chess Piece Sculpture 3 by Pilar Zeta Limited Edition of 10 + 2AP pieces. Materials: Carrara marble, Monterrey black marble and travertine marble. Dimensions: W 36 x D 36 x H 150 ...
Travertine, Marble, Carrara Marble
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
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
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
$2,042 / 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
$866 / 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
$545 / 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
$1,460 / 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
Stabile No. 100, Hand-Blown Glass and Brass Light by Milla Vaahtera
By Milla Vaahtera
Located in Geneve, CH
Stabile no. 100 by Milla Vaahtera Dimensions: D 21 x W 30 x H 90 cm Materials: Hand-blown glass, handcrafted brass. Milla Vaahtera "My method emerged from a desire to bring more int...
Brass
Ray Geary Contemporary \ Resin and Pill Sculpture Titled "White Pill Circle"
Located in Queens, NY
Contemporary abstract resin sculpture titled, "White Pill Portal," a rectangular white resin piece
Resin
One of the Kind White Stoneware and Natural Wood Sculpture by Eglė Šimkus
Located in Geneve, CH
Unique Ramumas/Gyvybes Sklaida by Eglė Šimkus Unique Piece. Dimensions: 60 x 50 x 24 cm. Materials: Stoneware, Aluminum, Wood. Concept and Inspiration This series is an ode to still...
Clay
$280Sale Price|20% Off
David Garcia, Postmodern American Studio Art Glass Sculpture, 1991
Located in Clifton Springs, NY
, Collected, Post Modern, or Contemporary.
Glass, Art Glass
Bruce Niemi Bronze Sculpture Signed, 2003
Located in Chicago, IL
Bruce Niemi Bronze Sculpture Signed, 2003. Base is made out of brushed steel.
Bronze
$3,918 / 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
$7,823 / 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
$31,347 / 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
$31,347 / 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
Guilloume Perez (1957 - ), "Heart to Heart" Sculpture
Located in Pasadena, CA
in Santa Fe, New Mexico. This petit abstract sculpture, although small, is quite powerful. It depicts
Slate, Bronze
$56,164 / item
Blue Moon Wall Art by Christian Friedl
Located in Geneve, CH
is made of oak posts. They are glued together in their natural form, charred with fire, brushed to
Concrete
Andrea Casella for Alessi – “Narciso” Sculpture, 1974
By Alessi D'Après
Located in Weesp, NL
group of artists and architects to reinterpret classical themes through modern material and production
Stainless Steel
Postmodern small glass sculpture by Impy Pilapil, signed, 20th century
Located in View Park, CA
A small postmodern art glass sculpture by Impy Pilapil, signed, Philippines late 20th century.
Art Glass
$99Sale Price / set|40% 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
Stone, Metal
Amber Glass Sphere on Swirling Marbled Blue-Grey Glass Base by Aina Kari
Located in Geneve, CH
with contemporary poetry. This unique fusion results in pieces that are both timeless and modern
Marble
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
Eclectic Sculptural Coat Rack Memphis Era California Design by Tom McMichael
By Tom McMichael, Ettore Sottsass
Located in San Diego, CA
Eclectic Sculptural Coat Rack Memphis Era California Design by Tom McMichael, circa 1980s. Incredible wood carved sculptural coat rack with black lacquer base and detail scalloped ar...
Oak, Lacquer
$629 / 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
Lacquered wood sculpture by Robert-Jean Chapuis, Splash 1980
By Robert Jean Chapuis
Located in VILLEURBANNE, FR
Composed of basic geometric shapes, circle, triangle, square, this lacquered wood sculpture reflects Robert-Jean Chapuis's formal vocabulary, influenced by Bauhaus and neo-constructi...
Wood
Nocturns
Located in Barcelona, CT
Includes a Certificate of Authenticity
Mixed Media, Canvas
Large Woven Freeform Sculpture by Klaus Titze, 1 of 2
By Klaus Titze
Located in Toronto, CA
Full of character and a little mischief, these oversized wicker figures by Klaus Titze bring a sense of movement and personality to a space. Handcrafted in the early 2000s, they refl...
Rattan
Large Woven Freeform Sculpture by Klaus Titze, 2 of 2
By Klaus Titze
Located in Toronto, CA
Full of character and a little mischief, these oversized wicker figures by Klaus Titze bring a sense of movement and personality to a space. Handcrafted in the early 2000s, they refl...
Rattan
$7,836 / 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
Continuous Sculpture in Fibre Cement & Plaster by Rachael Heritage
Located in Geneve, CH
unique contemporary design and collectible art for the modern interior. Handmade shapes made from
Cement, Other
Signal-Medium, On Base Sculpture in Fibre Cement & Plaster by Rachael Heritage
Located in Geneve, CH
collection of unique contemporary design and collectible art for the modern interior. Handmade shapes made
Cement, Other
Signal Warm Beige Sculpture in Fibre Cement & Plaster by Rachael Heritage
Located in Geneve, CH
collection of unique contemporary design and collectible art for the modern interior. Handmade shapes made
Cement, Other
Signal-Low, On Base Sculpture in Fibre Cement & Plaster by Rachael Heritage
Located in Geneve, CH
collection of unique contemporary design and collectible art for the modern interior. Handmade shapes made
Cement, Other
Flight, On Base Sculpture in Fibre Cement & Plaster by Rachael Heritage
Located in Geneve, CH
of unique contemporary design and collectible art for the modern interior. Handmade shapes made from
Cement, Other
Signal-Tall, On Base Sculpture in Fibre Cement & Plaster by Rachael Heritage
Located in Geneve, CH
collection of unique contemporary design and collectible art for the modern interior. Handmade shapes made
Cement, Other
Grow-Tall, On Base Sculpture in Fibre Cement & Plaster by Rachael Heritage
Located in Geneve, CH
collection of unique contemporary design and collectible art for the modern interior. Handmade shapes made
Cement, Other
Sideways Hand-Crafted Sculpture in Fibre Cement & Plaster by Rachael Heritage
Located in Geneve, CH
collection of unique contemporary design and collectible art for the modern interior. Handmade shapes made
Cement, 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.
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.