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
Ricardo Santamaria, "Hors Cadre", 1974
By Ricardo Santamaria
Located in Catonvielle, FR
Sculpture titled "Hors cadre" dated 1974 by Ricardo Santamaria (1920-2013). Atypical artist, Ricardo Santamaria is a member of the Zaragoya group (Saragossa 1950). Ricardo Santa...
Wood
Klaus Lehmann, Postmodern German Studio Pottery Art Column Vase Sculpture
By Klaus Lehmann
Located in Hamburg, DE
Klaus Lehmann, Postmodern German Studio Pottery Column Art Vase Sculpture, 1981
Pottery
Klaus Lehmann, Postmodern German Studio Pottery Column Art Sculpture No. 247 78
By Klaus Lehmann
Located in Hamburg, DE
Klaus Lehmann, Postmodern Brutalist German Studio Pottery Column Art Sculpture No. 247 78, 1978
Pottery
$1,147 / item
Matra Functional Sculpture by Andrei Clontea
Located in Geneve, CH
Matra Functional Sculpture by Andrei Clontea Dimensions: W 13 x D 29 x H 36 cm Materials: Ceramics It’s important to note that due to the hand-building process, each piece may prese...
Ceramic
$1,274 / item
Athari Functional Sculpture by Andrei Clontea
Located in Geneve, CH
Athari Functional Sculpture by Andrei Clontea Dimensions: W 20 x D 28 x H 29 cm Materials: Ceramics It’s important to note that due to the hand-building process, each piece may pres...
Ceramic
$1,912 / item
Artefacto 02 by Federico Stefanovich
Located in Geneve, CH
Artefacto 02 by Federico Stefanovich Dimensions: D 16 x W 35 x H 33 cm. Material: Brass. Federico Stefanovich presents himself as a designer of furniture, accessories and lighting, ...
Brass
$1,912 / item
Artefacto 01 by Federico Stefanovich
Located in Geneve, CH
Artefacto 01 by Federico Stefanovich Dimensions: D 17 x W 55 x H 30 cm. Material: Brass. Federico Stefanovich presents himself as a designer of furniture, accessories and lighting, ...
Brass
$764 / item
Small Artefacto 03 by Federico Stefanovich
Located in Geneve, CH
Small Artefacto 03 by Federico Stefanovich Dimensions: D 10 x W 26 x H 20 cm. Material: Brass. Available in a larger size: D 19 x W 47 x H 36 cm. Federico Stefanovich presents himse...
Brass
$1,916 / item
Artefacto 03 by Federico Stefanovich
Located in Geneve, CH
Artefacto 03 by Federico Stefanovich Dimensions: D 19 x W 47 x H 36 cm. Material: Brass. Available in a smaller size: D 10 x W 26 x H 20 cm. Federico Stefanovich presents himself as...
Brass
$764 / item
Artefacto 04 by Federico Stefanovich
Located in Geneve, CH
Artefacto 04 by Federico Stefanovich Dimensions: D 15 x W 22 x H 19 cm. Material: Brass. Available in a larger size: D 25 x W 36 x H 32 cm. Federico Stefanovich presents himself as ...
Brass
$5,203 / item
Forest Tabletop Sculpture by Lionel Hamon
Located in Geneve, CH
Forest Tabletop Sculpture by Lionel Hamon Dimensions: D 10 x W 15 x H 38 cm. Materials: Brass. Finish: Light patina. Available in three finishes: black patina, light patina, and go...
Brass
$21,414 / item
Pillar Freestanding Floor Sculpture by Lionel Hamon
Located in Geneve, CH
Pillar Freestanding Floor Sculpture by Lionel Hamon Dimensions: Ø 25 x H 200 cm. Materials: Brass. Finish: Black patina. Available in two finishes: black patina and light patina. P...
Brass
$10,556 / item
Wisdom Tabletop Sculpture by Lionel Hamon
Located in Geneve, CH
Wisdom Tabletop Sculpture by Lionel Hamon Dimensions: D 15 x W 28 x H 70 cm. Materials: Brass. Finish: Light patina. Available in three finishes: black patina, light patina, and go...
Brass
$6,431 / item
Oak Bark Tabletop Sculpture by Lionel Hamon
Located in Geneve, CH
Oak Bark Tabletop Sculpture by Lionel Hamon Dimensions: Ø 35 x H 60 cm. Materials: Brass. Finish: Light patina. Available in three finishes: black patina, light patina, and gold pl...
Brass
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
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
Guilloume Perez (1957 - ), "Heart to Heart" Sculpture
Located in Pasadena, CA
Guilloume Perez (1957 - ) is a Columbian-American Artist who currently resides and has his studio in Santa Fe, New Mexico. This petit abstract sculpture, although small, is quite pow...
Slate, Bronze
David Garcia, Postmodern American Studio Art Glass Sculpture, 1991
Located in Clifton Springs, NY
Vintage hand-crafted art glass sculpture features triangular form with multiple layers of brightly colored, applied fused glass elements on clear glass base. Predominantly green and...
Glass, Art Glass
$44,823 / item
Portal by Pepe Valenti
Located in Geneve, CH
Portal by Pepe Valenti Dimensions: D 110 x H 240 cm. Materials: Chrome-plated stainless steel, acrylic. A door to another dimension invites you on a journey to behold beauty, to wan...
Stainless Steel
Javier Cervantes Hand-Painted High Temperature Ceramic Column Sculpture
Located in Mexico City, MX
A tall hand-painted high temperature ceramic column sculpture by Mexican artist Javier Cervantes. The column is formed by 6 sections that get piled together over a steel bar attached...
Steel
$4,550Sale Price|35% Off
Futurist Cryogenic Freezing Chamber Tube Sculpture Hero Prop, 1997 Austin Powers
Located in Van Nuys, CA
Large 12-foot tall Futurist cryogenic freezing chamber tube sculpture for the 1997 smash comedy "Austin Powers" starring Mike Myers. This large sculpture is made of a wood frame and ...
Resin, Plaster, Wood
$29,990 / item
La Mer Chair by Pepe Valenti
Located in Geneve, CH
La Mer Chair by Pepe Valenti collaboration with Antoine Aimé Dimensions: D 80 x W 65 x H 109 cm. Materials: Chrome-plated stainless steel, acrylic. A chair that embodies the power o...
Stainless Steel
$32,122 / item
En El Fondo Del Mar by Pepe Valenti
Located in Geneve, CH
En El Fondo Del Mar by Pepe Valenti Dimensions: D 100 x H 250 cm. Materials: Chrome-plated stainless steel. Found in the deepest parts of the sea, a space of absorption for the pure...
Stainless Steel
$1,912 / item
Untitled Object #1 by Henry D'ath
Located in Geneve, CH
Untitled Object #1 by Henry D'ath Dimensions: D 15 x W 15 x H 60 cm Materials: Wood. Available finishes: Black ink. Henry d’ath is a New Zealand-born, Hong Kong-based artist and a...
Wood
$14,021 / item
Small Eternel Sans Temps Sculpture by Verena Brausch
Located in Geneve, CH
Small Eternel Sans Temps Sculpture by Verena Brausch Limited Edition of 100 Dimensions: D 18.1 x W 22.6 x H 8 cm. Materials: Stainless steel. Verena Brausch brings new energy and si...
Stainless Steel
$2,624Sale Price|20% Off
Postmodern Marble Sculpture Attributed to Renoir, Circa 1980s
By Renoir Designs, Marquis Collection of Beverly Hills 1, Maitland Smith
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
$2,039 / item
Scilly Rock Sculpture by Riccardo Monte
Located in Geneve, CH
Scilly Rock Sculpture by Riccardo Monte Dimensions: D 43 x W 43 x H 40 cm. Materials: Cedar. Riccardo Monte is a creative studio based in the Italian Alps. With the vision of creati...
Cedar
$22,944 / item
Clutch Sculpture by Laylo Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Clutch Sculpture by Laylo Studio Limited Edition of 10 Dimensions: D 48 x W 48 x H 50 cm. Materials: Walnut. Perpetually unfinished, our wooden vessel is simultaneously closed and p...
Walnut
$6,431 / item
Modus of Interaction by Twenty Second Factory
Located in Geneve, CH
Modus of Interaction by Twenty Second Factory Created by Vladislav Volosenko Dimensions: D 22 x W 24 x H 190 cm Materials: Wood, granite. Founded in 2017 by Bogdan Kryvosheya, a cre...
Granite
C2280 Decorative Object in Tropical Driftwood And Ebony Wood by Jörg Pietschmann
By Jörg Pietschmann
Located in Geneve, CH
C2280 Decorative Object in Tropical Driftwood And Ebony Wood by Jörg Pietschmann Dimensions: D 12 x W 25 x H 17 cm. Materials: Tropical driftwood and ebony wood. In Pietschmann’s s...
Driftwood, Ebony
S1100 Decorative Object in Tropical Driftwood by Jörg Pietschmann
By Jörg Pietschmann
Located in Geneve, CH
S1100 Decorative Object in Tropical Driftwood by Jörg Pietschmann Dimensions: D 21 x W 63 x H 11 cm. Materials: Tropical driftwood. In Pietschmann’s sculptures, trees that for cent...
Maple, Driftwood
Set Of 2 S1346 Decorative Objects in Tropical Driftwood by Jörg Pietschmann
By Jörg Pietschmann
Located in Geneve, CH
Set Of 2 S1346 Decorative Objects in Tropical Driftwood by Jörg Pietschmann Dimensions: D 33 x W 17 x H 48 cm. D 25 x W 27 x H 26 cm. Materials: Tropical driftwood. In Pietschmann’...
Maple, Driftwood
Stainless steel sculpture "Death trap" by Deon Rubi. Agentina, 2024.
By Deon Rubi
Located in Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires
Stainless steel sculpture "Death trap" by Deon Rubi. Agentina, 2024. Lucila Garcia de Onrubia (b. Buenos Aires, 1986) has worked under the alias Deon Rubi since 2014. She studied Co...
Stainless Steel
$32,829 / item
Horizon Sculpture by The GoodMan Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Horizon Sculpture by The GoodMan Studio Dimensions: W 153 x D 41 x H 153 cm Materials: Glass Made to order. Hanging installatiom Customizable in any colour and configuration. The ...
Glass
$39,604 / item
Together Sculpture by Christian Friedl
Located in Geneve, CH
Together Sculpture by Christian Friedl Unique Piece. Dimensions: D 80 x W 130 x H 122 cm. Materials: Beech, spruce. Together tell his story... More than 100 years of living in the ...
Beech, Spruce
105 Ltr Forms 25 Yellow Blown Glass Unique Decorative Object by Vogel Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
105 Ltr Forms 25 Yellow Blown Glass Unique Decorative Object by Vogel Studio One Of A Kind Dimensions: Ø 20 x H 25 cm. Materials: Hand-blown glass. Every glass object is blown, defo...
Blown Glass
1/2 Ltr Forms Gold Blown Glass Unique Decorative Object by Vogel Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
1/2 Ltr Forms Gold Blown Glass Unique Decorative Object by Vogel Studio One Of A Kind Dimensions: Ø 13 x H 13 cm. Materials: Hand-blown glass. Every glass object is blown, deformed,...
Blown Glass
Sand Shape 1 Fluid Hot Blown Glass Unique Decorative Object by Vogel Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Sand Shape 1 Fluid Hot Blown Glass Unique Decorative Object by Vogel Studio One Of A Kind Dimensions: D 16 x W 25 x H 43 cm. Materials: Hand-blown glass. Available in three differen...
Blown Glass
Sand Shape 2 Fluid Hot Blown Glass Unique Decorative Object by Vogel Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Sand Shape 2 Fluid Hot Blown Glass Unique Decorative Object by Vogel Studio One Of A Kind Dimensions: D 23 x W 26,5 x H 37 cm. Materials: Hand-blown glass. Available in three differ...
Blown Glass
105 Ltr Forms 55 Yellow Blown Glass Unique Decorative Object by Vogel Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
105 Ltr Forms 55 Yellow Blown Glass Unique Decorative Object by Vogel Studio One Of A Kind Dimensions: Ø 25 x H 55 cm. Materials: Hand-blown glass. Dimensions may vary. Every glass ...
Blown Glass
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
$5,098 / item
Arc De Triomphe Decorative Object by Laura Pehkonen
Located in Geneve, CH
Arc De Triomphe Decorative Object by Laura Pehkonen Unique Piece. Dimensions: D 41 x W 41 x H 41 cm. Materials: Glazed, hand-built ceramic. Laura Pehkonen (b. 1985) is a ceramic and...
Ceramic
$2,931 / item
Asparagus Decorative Object by Laura Pehkonen
Located in Geneve, CH
Asparagus Decorative Object by Laura Pehkonen Unique Piece. Dimensions: D 19 x W 19 x H 33 cm. Materials: Hand-built ceramic, engobe and glazes. Laura Pehkonen (b. 1985) is a cerami...
Other
$4,461 / item
Balance 02 Sculpture by Joana Kieppe
Located in Geneve, CH
Balance 02 Sculpture by Joana Kieppe Unique Piece. Dimensions: D 4 x W 25 x H 50 cm. Materials: Ivory and lotus high temperature clay. Reproduction is entirely manual, therefore it ...
Clay
$8,413 / set
Tanok Diptych Sculptures by Gorn Ceramics
Located in Geneve, CH
Tanok Diptych sculpture by Gorn Ceramics Dimensions: Height (1): 87 Height (2): 79 Materials: ceramic. "We are a ceramics workshop, specializing in creating unique elements o...
Ceramic
$10,197 / item
Shadows Awakening #1 Sculpture by Gorn Ceramics
Located in Geneve, CH
Shadows Awakening #1 sculpture by Gorn Ceramics Dimensions: D60 x H180 cm Materials: Ceramic. "We are a ceramics workshop, specializing in creating unique elements of decor and ...
Ceramic
1986 Vintage Bronze Sculpture Patrizia Guerresi, Italy, Melograno Pomegranate
Located in Brescia, IT
This is an engaging bronze sculpture created by the Italian artist Patrizia Guerresi, in 1986. The piece is a multiple of 1000 specimens on a green-painted wooden base. This artwork ...
Bronze
$4,461 / item
Balance 01 Sculpture by Joana Kieppe
Located in Geneve, CH
Balance 01 Sculpture by Joana Kieppe Unique Piece. Dimensions: D 19 x W 20 x H 80 cm. Materials: Ivory and lotus high temperature clay. Reproduction is entirely manual, therefore it...
Clay
$956 / item
Element 42 Medium Sculpture by Linda Weimann
Located in Geneve, CH
Element 42 Medium Sculpture by Linda Weimann One of a Kind Dimensions: D39 x W9 x H39 cm Materials: Gypsum with naturel clay pigments surface. Also Available in different colours...
Clay
Big Pale Asparagus Decorative Object by Laura Pehkonen
Located in Geneve, CH
Big Pale Asparagus Decorative Object by Laura Pehkonen Unique Piece. Dimensions: D 19 x W 19 x H 53 cm. Materials: Hand-built ceramic, engobe, underglaze colors, self-developed and r...
Other
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
$173 / item
Furry Doggo Sculpture by Siup Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Furry doggo sculpture by Siup Studio. Dimensions: D5 x W17 x H15 cm. Materials: Ceramics. Siup is a small design studio based in Warsaw. The concept is created by three friends ...
Ceramic
$2,171 / item
Ori 02 Sculpture by Joana Kieppe
Located in Geneve, CH
Ori 02 Sculpture by Joana Kieppe Unique Piece. Dimensions: D 13 x W 10 x H 17 cm. Materials: Black low temperature clay with white grog. Reproduction is entirely manual, therefore i...
Clay
$2,398 / item
Ori 01 Sculpture by Joana Kieppe
Located in Geneve, CH
Ori 01 Sculpture by Joana Kieppe Unique Piece. Dimensions: D 16 x W 11 x H 15 cm. Materials: White high temperature clay. Reproduction is entirely manual, therefore it will be a ver...
Clay
$13,905Sale Price|20% Off
Born Again from Amazonia Disenchanted Forest series by Elvio Becheroni
By Elvio Becheroni
Located in Milano, IT
The work **Being Born Again** by Elvio Becheroni is a unique and extraordinary sculpture, part of the "Amazonia - Disenchanted Forest" series. This piece captures the essence of the ...
Wood
Eclectic Sculptural Coat Rack Memphis Era California Design by Tom McMichael
By Ettore Sottsass, Tom McMichael
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
$18,541Sale Price|20% Off
The tree of seven possibilities from Elvio Becheroni's Amazonia series
By Elvio Becheroni
Located in Milano, IT
**The Tree of Seven Possibilities** by Elvio Becheroni is an extraordinary and unique sculpture, part of the renowned series "Amazonia - Disenchanted Forest" created in 1992. This pi...
Wood
$37,082Sale Price|20% Off
The great Force of Nature in Elvio Becheroni's Amazonia series
By Elvio Becheroni
Located in Milano, IT
"The Great Force of Nature" by Elvio Becheroni is a majestic sculpture, part of the series "Amazonia - Disenchanted Forest," embodying the artist's deep respect for nature and, at th...
Wood
$1,912 / item
Half Life Object by Sofia Alvarado
Located in Geneve, CH
Half life object by Sofia Alvarado Dimensions: D 40x H 25 cm Materials: lacquered solid metal One of a Kind. FI is an ornamental artist who embodies the creative revelation of ...
Metal
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.