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
Stanley Landsman Infinity Mirror Sculpture
By Stanley Landsman
Located in Astoria, NY
Stanley Landsman (American, 1930-1984) Infinity Mirror Sculpture, circular glass mounted on gilt bronze base. 15.25" H x 12.25" W x 3" D. Provenance: From the Estate of American Fa...
Bronze
$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
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
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
$4,200Sale Price|40% 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
Leuca Sculpture in Horn, Lacquered Wood & Stainless Steel by Arcahorn
Located in Geneve, CH
Leuca Sculpture in Horn, Lacquered Wood & Stainless Steel by Arcahorn Designed by Filippo Dini Dimensions: D 16 x W 16 x H 80/90 cm. Materials: Stainless steel, horn, and lacquered w...
Stainless Steel, Other
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
$7,776Sale Price|20% Off
Larry Mohr (American 1921 - 2013) 39” Tall Chrome Over Steel Sculpture
By Larry Mohr
Located in Chicago, IL
Larry Mohr (American / New York 1921-2013), "Marquette" 2005, metal and chrome abstract geometric
Steel, Chrome
$5,331 / 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
$21,943 / 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
$10,817 / 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
$6,590 / 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
$1,698 / item
Sans Titre Sculpture by Markus Friedrich Staab
By Markus Friedrich Staab
Located in Geneve, CH
Rietveld, or a modern architect’s or design aficionado’s cantilever chair. Each object holds layers of
Brass
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
Grow Hand-Crafted Sculpture in Fibre Cement & Plaster by Rachael Heritage
Located in Geneve, CH
commercial manufacture and now focuses on designing and producing her own individual pieces for the modern
Cement, Other
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
Estremoz Marble Sculpture by Jean-Frédéric Bourdier
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Jean-Frédéric Bourdier Estremoz Marble sculpture Signed and dated France 2007 210 cm x 30 cm x 30 cm
Marble
Organic Salvaged Teak Wood Sphere Sculpture
Located in San Diego, CA
Super cool organic salvaged teak wood sphere sculpture, circa 1980s. The rustic sculpture is made of pieces of teak wood nailed together to form a sphere; it is in very good vintage ...
Teak
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
$45,929 / 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
$1,175 / 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
$1,306 / 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
$30,730 / 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
$32,915 / 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
1986 Italy Bronze Sculpture Patrizia Guerresi 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
$1,959 / 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
$1,959 / 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
$783 / 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
$1,955 / 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
$783 / 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
$14,367 / 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
$2,089 / 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
$23,510 / 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
$7,183 / item
Doppio Fondo Sculpture by Tellurico
Located in Geneve, CH
Doppio Fondo Sculpture by Tellurico Unique Piece. Signed And Numbered. Dimensions: D 25 x W 36 x H 30 cm. Materials: Stoneware. After graduating with a Master of Contextual Design a...
Stoneware
$6,590 / 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
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
$40,490 / 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
$1,163 / item
Shibui 12 Sculpture by WANAS
Located in Geneve, CH
Shibui 12 Sculpture by WANAS Dimensions: D 33 x W 33 x H 40 cm. Materials: Brass and wood. The size is customisable on request. Please contact us. Why is it that the simplest of th...
Brass
$1,139 / item
Shibui 03 Sculpture by WANAS
Located in Geneve, CH
Shibui 03 Sculpture by WANAS Dimensions: D 28 x W 28 x H 38 cm. Materials: Brass and wood. The size is customisable on request. Please contact us. Why is it that the simplest of th...
Brass
$1,959 / 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
$33,639 / item
Horizon Sculpture by The GoodMan Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
been internationally recognized for its modern blown glass vessels, and innovative architectural glass
Glass
$692Sale Price|20% Off
Christian Thirion Teapot Sculpture, Studio Art Glass
Located in Clifton Springs, NY
design with strong Post Modern influence will make the sculpture a great gift to a collector or a design
Art Glass, Sommerso
The Throne Sculpture in Glazed Ceramic & Black Epoxy by Lucile Gracile
Located in Geneve, CH
The Throne Sculpture in Glazed Ceramic & Black Epoxy by Lucile Gracile Dimensions: D 35 x W 35 x H 52 cm. Materials: Glazed ceramic and black epoxy. Born in 1988, lives and works ...
Ceramic, Epoxy Resin
$1,234Sale Price|20% Off
Black and Brown Hand-Painted Ceramic Piece by Franco Bucci, Italy
By Franco Bucci, Ettore Sottsass
Located in Bresso, Lombardy
Made in Italy, 1970s. This model is particularly interesting because it is strongly influenced by Sottsass' style. It is even possible that the design is by Sottsass. We are cautio...
Ceramic
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
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
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
Lino Tagliapietra glass egg sculpture/ object, for Effetre International 1983.
By Effetre International Company, Lino Tagliapietra
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Beautiful , larger than normal egg made and designed by The well known Italian artist Lino Tagliapietra , This is a large egg signed and dated .
Murano Glass
$4,563 / item
Balance 02 Sculpture by Joana Kieppe
Located in Geneve, CH
is to continue the ancient work with clay translated into modern pieces that remember they come from
Clay
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.