Cretian Man Hand Carved Marble Sculpture by Tom Von Kaenel
By Tom von Kaenel
Located in Geneve, CH
Cretian man hand carved marble sculpture by Tom Von Kaenel Dimensions: D24 x H77 cm Materials: Marble Tom von Kaenel, sculptor and painter, was born in Switzerland in 1961. Alre...
Marble
Ritual Hand Carved Marble Sculpture by Tom Von Kaenel
By Tom von Kaenel
Located in Geneve, CH
Ritual hand carved marble sculpture by Tom Von Kaenel Dimensions: D 13 x H 47 cm Materials: Marble Tom von Kaenel, sculptor and painter, was born in Switzerland in 1961. Already...
Marble
$1,201 / item
Hand Carved Marble Vessel by Tom Von Kaenel
By Tom von Kaenel
Located in Geneve, CH
Hand carved marble vessel by Tom Von Kaenel Dimensions: D25 x W26 x H7 cm Materials: Marble Tom von Kaenel, sculptor and painter, was born in Switzerland in 1961. Already in his...
Marble
$2,821 / item
Hand Carved Marble Vessel by Tom Von Kaenel
By Tom von Kaenel
Located in Geneve, CH
Hand carved marble vessel by Tom Von Kaenel Dimensions: D45 x W21 x H13 cm Materials: Marble Tom von Kaenel, sculptor and painter, was born in Switzerland in 1961. Already in hi...
Marble
Aphrodite Hand Carved Marble Sculpture by Tom Von Kaenel
By Tom von Kaenel
Located in Geneve, CH
Aphrodite hand carved marble sculpture by Tom Von Kaenel. Dimensions: D 8 x H 60 cm. Materials: marble. Tom von Kaenel, sculptor and painter, was born in Switzerland in 1961. Al...
Marble
Vanitas Hand Carved Marble Sculpture by Tom Von Kaenel
By Tom von Kaenel
Located in Geneve, CH
Vanitas hand carved marble sculpture by Tom Von Kaenel Dimensions: D15 x W23 x H69 cm Materials: Marble Tom von Kaenel, sculptor and painter, was born in Switzerland in 1961. Al...
Marble
Cloud with Bronze Sticks Marble Sculpture by Tom Von Kaenel
By Tom von Kaenel
Located in Geneve, CH
Cloud with bronze sticks marble sculpture by Tom Von Kaenel Dimensions: D 25 x W 20 x H 30 cm Materials: Marble Tom von Kaenel, sculptor and painter, was born in Switzerland in ...
Marble
Soft Outcome Hand Carved Marble Sculpture by Tom Von Kaenel
By Tom von Kaenel
Located in Geneve, CH
Soft Outcome hand carved marble sculpture by Tom Von Kaenel. Dimensions: D 22 x W 30 x H 38 cm. Materials: marble. Tom von Kaenel, sculptor and painter, was born in Switzerland ...
Marble
Sprout Hand Carved Marble Sculpture by Tom Von Kaenel
By Tom von Kaenel
Located in Geneve, CH
Sprout hand carved marble sculpture by Tom Von Kaenel Dimensions: D13 x H72 cm Materials: Marble Tom von Kaenel, sculptor and painter, was born in Switzerland in 1961. Already i...
Marble
$12,230 / item
NIKE Hand Carved Marble Sculpture by Tom Von Kaenel
By Tom von Kaenel
Located in Geneve, CH
Nike hand carved marble sculpture by Tom Von Kaenel. Dimensions: D 20 x W 22 x H 74 cm. Materials: marble. Tom von Kaenel, sculptor and painter, was born in Switzerland in 1961....
Marble
$10,663 / item
Hera Hand Carved Marble Sculpture by Tom Von Kaenel
By Tom von Kaenel
Located in Geneve, CH
Hera hand carved marble sculpture by Tom Von Kaenel Dimensions: D 14 x H 85 cm Materials: marble Tom von Kaenel, sculptor and painter, was born in Switzerland in 1961. Already i...
Marble
Small Woman Hand Carved Marble Sculpture by Tom Von Kaenel
By Tom von Kaenel
Located in Geneve, CH
Small Woman hand carved marble sculpture by Tom Von Kaenel Dimensions: D11 x H44 cm Materials: Marble Tom von Kaenel, sculptor and painter, was born in Switzerland in 1961. Alre...
Marble
$4,084 / item
Hand Carved Marble Sculpture by Tom Von Kaenel
By Tom von Kaenel
Located in Geneve, CH
Hand carved marble sculpture by Tom Von Kaenel Dimensions: D 10 x W 12.5 x H 60 cm Materials: marble Tom von Kaenel, sculptor and painter, was born in Switzerland in 1961. Alrea...
Marble
$1,199 / item
Hand Carved Marble Vessel by Tom Von Kaenel
By Tom von Kaenel
Located in Geneve, CH
Hand carved marble vessel by Tom Von Kaenel. Dimensions: D 19 x W 25 x H 10 cm. Materials: Marble Tom von Kaenel, sculptor and painter, was born in Switzerland in 1961. Already ...
Marble
$1,880 / item
Hand Carved Marble Vessel by Tom Von Kaenel
By Tom von Kaenel
Located in Geneve, CH
Hand carved marble vessel by Tom Von Kaenel Dimensions: D 14 x W 15 x H 13 cm Materials: Marble Tom von Kaenel, sculptor and painter, was born in Switzerland in 1961. Already in...
Marble
Part of the Nature Hand Carved Marble Sculpture by Tom Von Kaenel
By Tom von Kaenel
Located in Geneve, CH
Part of the nature hand carved marble sculpture by Tom Von Kaenel. Dimensions: D 52 x H 18 cm. Materials: marble. Tom von Kaenel, sculptor and painter, was born in Switzerland i...
Marble
$5,094 / 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
$1,959 / 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
$1,959 / 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
$5,877 / 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
$1,175 / 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
$1,959 / 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
$261 / item
Type Spaghetti Meter by Studio Lievito
Located in Geneve, CH
to delicately reinvent and redefine modern production techniques using traditional crafting methods
Carrara Marble
$2,968 / item
Iron Sculpture by Aldo Guarnieri
Located in Milano, IT
This modern sculpture by Aldo Guarnieri commands attention with its austerity and visual complexity
Metal, Iron
$2,351 / 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 15 Decorative Object and Mirror by Studio Lievito
Located in Geneve, CH
, Studio Lievito stands out for its ability to delicately reinvent and redefine modern production
Ceramic, Mirror
Nero 52 Decorative Object and Mirror by Studio Lievito
Located in Geneve, CH
, Studio Lievito stands out for its ability to delicately reinvent and redefine modern production
Ceramic, Mirror
$5,343Sale Price|20% Off
Belgian art and design, Michel Martens Postmodern Glass Sculpture
By Michel Martens
Located in Antwerp, BE
Post-war Abstract Modernist movement. Using mirrored glass opened up new perspectives for Martens. He
Glass
$2,873 / 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
$1,306 / 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
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
$1,294 / 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
$1,579 / 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
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
Nero 30 Decorative Object and Mirror by Studio Lievito
Located in Geneve, CH
, Studio Lievito stands out for its ability to delicately reinvent and redefine modern production
Ceramic, Mirror
Set of 3 Nero 52 Decorative Objects and Mirrors by Studio Lievito
Located in Geneve, CH
to delicately reinvent and redefine modern production techniques using traditional crafting methods
Ceramic, Mirror
$7,908 / 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
$7,908 / 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
$7,908 / 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
$7,908 / 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
$7,908 / 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
Helle Lavender Green Cast Glass Sculpture by Bowen Liu
Located in Geneve, CH
Helle Lavender Green Cast Glass Sculpture by Bowen Liu Dimensions: D 2.25 x W 5 x H 7 cm Materials: Cast Glass Based in, produced and shipped from the US. Bowen Liu founded her aw...
Other
$3,716 / set
Helle Fuchsia Cast Glass Sculpture by Bowen Liu
Located in Geneve, CH
Helle Fuchsia Cast Glass Sculpture by Bowen Liu Dimensions: D 2.25 x W 5 x H 7 cm Materials: Cast Glass Based in, produced and shipped from the US. Bowen Liu founded her award-win...
Other
Helle Erbium Pink Cast Glass Sculpture by Bowen Liu
Located in Geneve, CH
Helle Erbium Pink Cast Glass Sculpture by Bowen Liu Dimensions: D 2.25 x W 5 x H 7 cm Materials: Cast Glass Based in, produced and shipped from the US. Bowen Liu founded her award...
Other
Helle Lemon Tint Cast Glass Sculpture by Bowen Liu
Located in Geneve, CH
Helle Lemon Tint Cast Glass Sculpture by Bowen Liu Dimensions: D 2.25 x W 5 x H 7 cm Materials: Cast Glass Based in, produced and shipped from the US. Bowen Liu founded her award-...
Other
$6,530 / 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
$6,530 / 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
$6,530 / 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
$10,449 / item
Side Cubes by Pol Quadens
Located in Geneve, CH
Side Cubes by Pol Quadens Limited Edition Of 24+4 Pieces. Dimensions: D 30 x W 60 x H 60 cm. Materials: Polished stainless steel. Pol Quadens was born in Brussels. His father was a...
Stainless Steel
$15,056 / item
El Mar Wall Piece by Pepe Valenti
Located in Geneve, CH
El Mar Wall Piece by Pepe Valenti Dimensions: D 7 x W 70 x H 190 cm. Materials: Chrome-plated stainless steel. Inspired by the immersive experience of the El Mar Installation, I aim...
Stainless Steel, Chrome
$16,457 / item
Sunset Wall Piece by Pepe Valenti
Located in Geneve, CH
Sunset Wall Piece by Pepe Valenti Dimensions: D 7 x W 70 x H 150 cm. Materials: Copper-plated stainless steel. Inspired by the immersive experience of the El Mar Installation, I aim...
Stainless Steel, Copper
$16,457 / item
Sunrise Wall Piece by Pepe Valenti
Located in Geneve, CH
Sunrise Wall Piece by Pepe Valenti Dimensions: D 7 x W 70 x H 150 cm. Materials: Brass-plated stainless steel. Inspired by the immersive experience of the El Mar Installation, I aim...
Stainless Steel, Brass
$470,216 / item
16 Stones Sculpture by Pol Quadens
Located in Geneve, CH
16 Stones Sculpture by Pol Quadens Unique Piece. Dimensions: D 80 x W 80 x H 450 cm. Materials: Polished stainless steel. The production time for this piece is 10 months. Please co...
Stainless Steel
$156,738 / item
Flint II Sculpture by Pol Quadens
Located in Geneve, CH
Flint II Sculpture by Pol Quadens Unique Piece. Dimensions: D 90 x W 140 x H 450 cm. Materials: Polished stainless steel. Pol Quadens was born in Brussels. His father was active in...
Stainless Steel
$208,985 / item
Flint Sculpture by Pol Quadens
Located in Geneve, CH
Flint Sculpture by Pol Quadens Unique Piece. Dimensions: D 100 x W 140 x H 600 cm. Materials: Polished stainless steel. Pol Quadens was born in Brussels. His father was active in t...
Stainless Steel
$52,246 / item
Flint V Sculpture by Pol Quadens
Located in Geneve, CH
Flint V Sculpture by Pol Quadens Unique Piece. Dimensions: D 55 x W 75 x H 250 cm. Materials: Polished stainless steel. Pol Quadens was born in Brussels. His father was active in t...
Stainless Steel
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
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.