$4,917 / item
Spike Sculpture #1 by Henry D'ath
Located in Geneve, CH
Spike sculpture #1 by Henry D'ath. Dimensions: D 30 x W 20 x H 185 cm. Materials: wood, calligraphy ink. Piece is handmade by artist. Henry d’ath is a New Zealand born, hong ...
Wood
$1,891 / item
Handemade Object #1 by Henry D'ath
Located in Geneve, CH
Handemade object #1 by Henry D'ath Dimensions: D 15 x H 60 cm Materials: Wood, Calligraphy Ink Piece is handmade by artist. Henry d’ath is a new zealand born, hong kong based...
Wood
$1,891 / item
Handemade Object #2 by Henry D'ath
Located in Geneve, CH
Handemade Object #2 by Henry D'ath Dimensions:D15 x H60 cm Materials:Wood, Calligraphy Ink Piece is handmade by artist. Henry d’ath is a new zealand born, hong kong based art...
Wood
$5,674 / set
Set of 3 Handemade Objects by Henry D'ath
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 3 handemade objects by Henry D'ath. Dimensions: D 15 x H 60 cm each. Materials: wood, calligraphy ink. Piece is handmade by artist. Henry d’ath is a new zealand born, ...
Wood
$1,134 / item
Incense Object by Henry D'ath
Located in Geneve, CH
Incense object by Henry D'ath Dimensions:D55 x W20 x H6 cm Materials:Wood, Calligraphy Ink Piece is handmade by artist. Henry d’ath is a new zealand born, hong kong based art...
Wood
$1,891 / item
Handemade Object #3 by Henry D'ath
Located in Geneve, CH
Handemade object #3 by Henry D'ath Dimensions: D 15 x H 60 cm Materials: wood, calligraphy Ink Piece is handmade by artist. Henry d’ath is a new zealand born, hong kong based...
Wood
$1,100 / 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
$252 / item
Type Spaghetti Meter by Studio Lievito
Located in Geneve, CH
Type Spaghetti meter by Studio Lievito Dimensions: D10 x W10 x H10 cm Materials: Bianco Carrara marble. Weight: 1.8 kg Turning ordinary into extraordinary. By a simple turn, one blo...
Carrara Marble
$2,269 / item
Tribu M5 Roc by Léontine Furcy
Located in Geneve, CH
Tribu M5 Roc by Léontine Furcy Unique piece Materials: raw chamotte, black sandstone Dimensions: H 38 cm x L 31 cm Léontine Furcy, ceramic artist, tells about herself in shapes, tex...
Sandstone
Nero 52 Decorative Object and Mirror by Studio Lievito
Located in Geneve, CH
Nero 52 decorative object and mirror by Studio Lievito Dimensions: D24 x W24 X H52 cm Materials: Bucchero ceramic, mirror. Weight: 2 kg. Fragments of a distant time, shaped by hands...
Ceramic, Mirror
Nero 15 Decorative Object and Mirror by Studio Lievito
Located in Geneve, CH
Nero 15 decorative object and mirror by Studio Lievito Dimensions: D20 x W20 X H15 cm Materials: Bucchero ceramic, mirror. Weight: 1.5 kg Fragments of a distant time, shaped by hand...
Ceramic, Mirror
$2,774 / item
Abyss No 13 Sculpture by Ceren Gurkan
By Ceren Gurkan
Located in Geneve, CH
Abyss No 13 sculpture by Ceren Gurkan Dimensions: D14 x W18 x H35 cm Materials: Stoneware. All our lamps can be wired according to each country. If sold to the USA it will be wi...
Stoneware
$1,260 / item
Abyss No 5 Sculpture by Ceren Gurkan
By Ceren Gurkan
Located in Geneve, CH
Abyss No 5 sculpture by Ceren Gurkan Dimensions: D9 x W12 x H26 cm Materials: Stoneware. All our lamps can be wired according to each country. If sold to the USA it will be wire...
Stoneware
Jo Yarrington, Orchestration 2016, Paper, Inkjet Prints, A/P, Ed of 30
By Jo Yarrington
Located in Darien, CT
The installation, Orchestrations, explores the vernacular in vintage piano roles. As a response to the exhibition’s name and focus, Heliotrope, the physical perforations in the piano...
Paper, Inkjet
$1,249 / item
Abstraccion De La Piedad Sculpture by Vica Ceramica
Located in Geneve, CH
Abstraccion de la Piedad Sculpture by Vica Ceramica Materials: high temp ceramic Dimensions: D 34.2 x W 24 x H 18 cm VICA CERÁMICA-STUDIO is a design and sculpture studio estab...
Ceramic
Large Torre Buding 05 Sculpture by Vica Ceramica
Located in Geneve, CH
Large Torre buding 05 sculpture by Vica Ceramica Materials: high temp. ceramic Dimensions: D 8 x H 60 cm VICA CERÁMICA-STUDIO is a design and sculpture studio established in Mex...
Ceramic
White Dots Torre Buding 06 Sculpture by Vica Ceramica
Located in Geneve, CH
White Dots Torre Buding 06 Sculpture by Vica Ceramica Materials: High temp. Ceramic Dimensions: D 10 x H 45 cm VICA CERÁMICA-STUDIO is a design and sculpture studio established in ...
Ceramic
$1,524 / set
Torres Buding 07 Sculpture by Vica Ceramica
Located in Geneve, CH
Torres buding 07 sculpture by Vica Ceramica Materials: High temp. Ceramic Dimensions: P1: H 58.5 x D 14 cm P2: H 50 x D 13 cm VICA CERÁMICA-STUDIO is a design and sculpture stu...
Ceramic
$4,413 / item
Sound of Kiln Sculpture by Edie Xu
Located in Geneve, CH
Sound of Kiln Sculpture by Edie Xu Dimensions: W 76 x D 76 x H 89 cm. Materials: Terracotta. Edie Xu, b. in New York and graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago in 2023. Her wo...
Terracotta
$6,556 / item
Sculpture 02 20 by Edie Xu
Located in Geneve, CH
Sculpture 02 20 by Edie Xu Dimensions: W 30 x D 30 x H 69 cm. Materials: Stoneware. Edie Xu, b. in New York and graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago in 2023. Her work spans ...
Stoneware
Set of 2 Memphis Style ceramic sculptures , 1980s
Located in Delft, NL
Set of 2 Memphis Style ceramic sculptures , 1980s Dimensions: 30cm Height , 8cm Width , 8cm Depth Condition: Good Color: Black Material: Ceramic
Ceramic
Nero 30 Decorative Object and Mirror by Studio Lievito
Located in Geneve, CH
Nero 30 decorative object and mirror by Studio Lievito Dimensions: D 23 x W 23 x H 30 cm Materials: Bucchero ceramic, mirror. Weight: 2 kg Fragments of a distant time, shaped by han...
Ceramic, Mirror
Set of 3 Nero 52 Decorative Objects and Mirrors by Studio Lievito
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 3 Nero 52 decorative object and mirror by Studio Lievito Dimensions: D20 x W20 x H15 // D23 x W23 X H30 // D24 x W24 X H52 cm Materials: Bucchero ceramic, mirror. Weight: 5.5 ...
Ceramic, Mirror
Black and Brown Hand-Painted Ceramic Piece by Franco Bucci, Italy
By Ettore Sottsass, Franco Bucci
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
Peak Of A Century Sculpture by Markus Friedrich Staab
By Markus Friedrich Staab
Located in Geneve, CH
Peak Of A Century Sculpture by Markus Friedrich Staab One of a Kind Dimensions: D 16 x W 17 x H 30 cm. Materials: Wood, paint. African hand-carved stool, ca. 1900, painted. Markus ...
Wood, Paint
Continuous Sculpture in Fibre Cement & Plaster by Rachael Heritage
Located in Geneve, CH
Continuous Sculpture in Fibre Cement & Plaster by Rachael Heritage Unique Piece Dimensions: D 37 x W 3 x H 58 cm. Materials: Fibre-cement and burnished plaster. Shapes for Spaces A...
Cement, Other
Signal-Medium, On Base Sculpture in Fibre Cement & Plaster by Rachael Heritage
Located in Geneve, CH
Signal-Medium, On Base Sculpture in Fibre Cement & Plaster by Rachael Heritage Unique Piece Dimensions: D 20 x W 22 x H 33 cm. Materials: Fibre-cement and burnished plaster. Shapes ...
Cement, Other
Signal Warm Beige Sculpture in Fibre Cement & Plaster by Rachael Heritage
Located in Geneve, CH
Signal Warm Beige Sculpture in Fibre Cement & Plaster by Rachael Heritage Unique Piece Dimensions: D 22 x W 21 x H 37 cm. Materials: Fibre-cement and burnished plaster. Shapes for S...
Cement, Other
Signal-Low, On Base Sculpture in Fibre Cement & Plaster by Rachael Heritage
Located in Geneve, CH
Signal-Low, On Base Sculpture in Fibre Cement & Plaster by Rachael Heritage Unique Piece Dimensions: D 20 x W 22 x H 33 cm. Materials: Fibre-cement and burnished plaster. Shapes for...
Cement, Other
$2,292Sale Price / item|20% Off
Iron Sculpture by Aldo Guarnieri
Located in Milano, IT
This modern sculpture by Aldo Guarnieri commands attention with its austerity and visual complexity. Crafted with a mixed technique, the piece consists of two overlapping square pane...
Metal, Iron
Flight, On Base Sculpture in Fibre Cement & Plaster by Rachael Heritage
Located in Geneve, CH
Flight, On Base Sculpture in Fibre Cement & Plaster by Rachael Heritage Unique Piece Dimensions: D 30 x W 32 x H 49 cm. Materials: Fibre-cement and burnished plaster. Shapes for Spa...
Cement, Other
Signal-Tall, On Base Sculpture in Fibre Cement & Plaster by Rachael Heritage
Located in Geneve, CH
Signal-Tall, On Base Sculpture in Fibre Cement & Plaster by Rachael Heritage Unique Piece Dimensions: D 19 x W 23 x H 45 cm. Materials: Fibre-cement and burnished plaster. Shapes fo...
Cement, Other
Grow-Tall, On Base Sculpture in Fibre Cement & Plaster by Rachael Heritage
Located in Geneve, CH
Grow-Tall, On Base Sculpture in Fibre Cement & Plaster by Rachael Heritage Unique Piece Dimensions: D 24 x W 24 x H 41 cm. Materials: Fibre-cement and burnished plaster. Shapes for ...
Cement, Other
Sideways Hand-Crafted Sculpture in Fibre Cement & Plaster by Rachael Heritage
Located in Geneve, CH
Sideways Hand-Crafted Sculpture in Fibre Cement & Plaster by Rachael Heritage Unique Piece Dimensions: D 25 x W 37 x H 50 cm. Materials: Fibre-cement and burnished plaster. Shapes f...
Cement, Other
$4,539 / item
#1 Sculpture by Evamarie Pappas
Located in Geneve, CH
#1 Sculpture by Evamarie Pappas Dimensions: D 31.75 x W 48.26 x H 44.45 cm Materials: Stoneware. This sculpture is finished with an underglaze and is non-functional. For Evamarie P...
Stoneware
$1,765 / item
#3 Sculpture by Evamarie Pappas
Located in Geneve, CH
#3 Sculpture by Evamarie Pappas Dimensions: D 22.86 x W 17.78 x H 16.51 cm Materials: Stoneware, Underglaze. Non-functional sculpture. For Evamarie Pappas, making art is a family ...
Stoneware
$3,525 / item
#2 Sculpture by Evamarie Pappas
Located in Geneve, CH
#2 Sculpture by Evamarie Pappas Dimensions: D 16.51 x W 16.51 x H 50.16 cm Materials: Stoneware. This sculpture is incomplete. it will be fired once again with an underglaze. For E...
Stoneware
'Love Knot' Murano Sculpture by Renato Anatrà, Signed, Italy, 1980's
By Renato Anatra
Located in Doylestown, PA
Elegant 'Love Knot' abstract sculpture by Renato Anatrà, signed, Italy. Representing eternal love, this graceful sculpture is beautifully hand crafted of clear Murano glass by Ren...
Murano Glass
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
$8,322 / item
Calizas Labyrinth Sculpture by NUDA
Located in Geneve, CH
Calizas Labyrinth Sculpture by NUDA Dimensions: W 145 x D 40 x H 86 cm Materials: Sand, Concrete, Black Soil, Powder Coating. Other colors available, please contact us for any reques...
Concrete, Other
$6,052 / set
Pilares Sculptures by NUDA
Located in Geneve, CH
Pilares Sculptures by NUDA Dimensions: ⌀ 45 x H 170 cm / ⌀ 45 x H 100 cm Materials: Concrete, Rebar, Sand, Soil Other colors available, please contact us for any requests. Born in ...
Concrete, Other
Postmodern Black Decorative Object, Metal, Acrylic and Steel
Located in New York, NY
A black metal and clear acrylic with steel nails decorative object, Postmodern period, circa late-20th century. Piece is rectangular in shape, comprised of three pieces acrylic (blac...
Metal
$400Sale Price|20% Off
Lucite Sculpture Signed Vaham 88
Located in Denton, TX
Sculpted abstract Lucite on stand in the style of Van Teal.
Lucite
$2,200 / item
Big Sculptural Vase by Alexandra Madirazza
Located in Geneve, CH
Big Sculptural Vase by Alexandra Madirazza Dimensions: ⌀ 30 x H 40 cm (These are approximate measurements) Materials: Stoneware Also available in brown, white or gray glaze. Matt or...
Stoneware
$1,696 / item
Sculptural Wall Vase I by Alexandra Madirazza
Located in Geneve, CH
Sculptural Wall Vase I by Alexandra Madirazza Dimensions: W 35 x D 25 x H 35 cm (These are approximate measurements) Materials: Stoneware Also available in brown, white or gray glaze...
Stoneware
$1,352 / item
Sculptural Bow by Alexandra Madirazza
Located in Geneve, CH
Sculptural Bow by Alexandra Madirazza Dimensions: ⌀ 25 x H 25 cm (These are approximate measurements) Materials: Stoneware Also available in brown, white or gray glaze. Matt or glos...
Stoneware
$1,696 / item
Relief Sculpture by Alexandra Madirazza
Located in Geneve, CH
Relief Sculpture by Alexandra Madirazza Dimensions: W 60 x D 3 x H 90 cm (These are approximate measurements) Materials: Concrete Alexandra is an architect, but for the past 5 years...
Concrete
$2,025 / item
Sculptural Wall Vase II by Alexandra Madirazza
Located in Geneve, CH
Sculptural Wall Vase II by Alexandra Madirazza Dimensions: W 40 x D 25 x H 45 cm (These are approximate measurements) Materials: Stoneware Also available in brown, white or gray glaz...
Stoneware
Yvonne Domenge Fiberglass And Gold Leaf Sphere Sculpture From "Monadas" Series
By Yvonne Domenge
Located in Mexico City, MX
A rare fiberglass with gold leaf sphere sculpture from the "Monadas" series by Mexican sculptor Yvonne Domenge. Conceived as an element for an astronomical exhibition, the sphere's s...
Gold Leaf
$2,800Sale Price|35% Off
Stanley Landsman Infinity Mirror Sculpture with Gilt Bronze Base
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
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
$7,634 / item
Ramé Gold Wall Sculpture by NITUSH AROOSH
Located in Geneve, CH
Ramé Gold Wall Sculpture by NITUSH AROOSH Dimensions: Ø 100 cm. Materials: Stainless steel. Available in different finishes. All our lamps can be wired according to each country. I...
Stainless Steel
$7,634 / item
Ramé Copper Wall Sculpture by NITUSH AROOSH
Located in Geneve, CH
Ramé Copper Wall Sculpture by NITUSH AROOSH Dimensions: Ø 100 cm. Materials: Stainless steel. Available in different finishes. All our lamps can be wired according to each country....
Stainless Steel
$7,622 / item
Ramé Sage Green Wall Sculpture by NITUSH AROOSH
Located in Geneve, CH
Ramé Sage Green Wall Sculpture by NITUSH AROOSH Dimensions: Ø 100 cm. Materials: Stainless steel. Available in different finishes. All our lamps can be wired according to each coun...
Stainless Steel
$7,634 / item
Ramé Turquoise Wall Sculpture by NITUSH AROOSH
Located in Geneve, CH
Ramé Turquoise Wall Sculpture by NITUSH AROOSH Dimensions: Ø 100 cm. Materials: Stainless steel. Available in different finishes. All our lamps can be wired according to each count...
Stainless Steel
$7,634 / item
Ramé Blue Wall Sculpture by NITUSH AROOSH
Located in Geneve, CH
Ramé Blue Wall Sculpture by NITUSH AROOSH Dimensions: Ø 100 cm. Materials: Stainless steel. Available in different finishes. All our lamps can be wired according to each country. I...
Stainless Steel
Rare Lucite Table Sculpture in the Style of Vasa Mihich
By Vasa Velizar Mihich
Located in San Diego, CA
Simple table sculpture, solid 4.25" x 3.5" x 18.75" from thick to thin Lucite, in the style of Vasa Mihich, circa 1980s. A geometric translucent sculpture made of Lucite with a taper...
Lucite
$6,304 / item
Flint IX Sculpture by Pol Quadens
Located in Geneve, CH
Flint IX Sculpture by Pol Quadens Unique Piece. Dimensions: Ø 10 x H 40 cm. Materials: Polished stainless steel. Dimensions may vary. Please contact us. Pol Quadens was born in Br...
Stainless Steel
$6,304 / item
Flint VIII Sculpture by Pol Quadens
Located in Geneve, CH
Flint VIII Sculpture by Pol Quadens Unique Piece. Dimensions: Ø 20 x H 40 cm. Materials: Polished stainless steel. Dimensions may vary. Please contact us. Pol Quadens was born in ...
Stainless Steel
$6,304 / item
Flint X Sculpture by Pol Quadens
Located in Geneve, CH
Flint X Sculpture by Pol Quadens Unique Piece. Dimensions: Ø 20 x H 110 cm. Materials: Polished stainless steel. Dimensions may vary. Please contact us. Pol Quadens was born in Br...
Stainless Steel
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.