$6,298 / 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
$6,298 / 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
$10,077 / 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
$14,520 / 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
$15,871 / 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
$15,871 / 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
$1,316 / item
Looking for Equilibrium Sculpture by MCB Ceramics
Located in Geneve, CH
Looking for Equilibrium Sculpture by MCB Ceramics Unique piece. Dimensions: D 20 x H 55 cm. Materials: Ceramic. Numerated and signed by the artist. All measures are indicative as a...
Ceramic
$1,820 / item
Looking for Equilibrium Sculpture by MCB Ceramics
Located in Geneve, CH
Looking for Equilibrium Sculpture by MCB Ceramics Unique piece. Dimensions: D 20 x H 75 cm. Materials: Ceramic. Numerated and signed by the artist. All measures are indicative as a...
Ceramic
$3,458 / item
Looking for Equilibrium Sculpture by MCB Ceramics
Located in Geneve, CH
Looking for Equilibrium Sculpture by MCB Ceramics Unique piece. Dimensions: D 20 x H 125 cm. Materials: Ceramic. Numerated and signed by the artist. All measures are indicative as ...
Ceramic
Pol Quadens 16 Stones Sculpture in Polished Stainless Steel, Belgium
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
Christian Thirion Teapot Sculpture, Studio Art Glass
Located in Clifton Springs, NY
Whimsical blown art glass sculpture in shape of a teapot features Memphis style color palette of bright yellow, red, and blue with black and white accents. Graphic geometric forms o...
Art Glass, Sommerso
Vintage Boho Stacked Stone and Marble Geometric Sphere Sculpture
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Exuding a bold, graphic glamour, this vintage monumental sculpture is a stunning example of 1980s Postmodern design. The piece features a dramatic, large-scale sphere meticulously cr...
Marble
Grow Hand-Crafted Sculpture in Fibre Cement & Plaster by Rachael Heritage
Located in Geneve, CH
Grow Hand-Crafted Sculpture in Fibre Cement & Plaster by Rachael Heritage Unique Piece Dimensions: D 22 x W 23 x H 32 cm Materials: Fibre-cement and burnished plaster. Each piece is...
Cement, Other
$584 / item
An3 Sculpture by Eglė Šimkus
Located in Geneve, CH
An3 Sculpture by Eglė Šimkus Unique Piece. Dimensions: D 13 x H 23 cm. Materials: Clay. My name is Eglė Šimkus, and I was born in Lithuania in 1990 to a Russian mother and a Lithuan...
Clay
Wood Panther Sculpture MDF
Located in DE MEERN, UT
The design of the panther must be meticulously planned, paying close attention to anatomical details. The layers of MDF should be cut and stacked to accurately resemble the curves an...
Plywood
Ulf Nordfjell, Sculpture, Ceramic, Sweden, 1987
Located in High Point, NC
A white-glazed stoneware sculpture designed and produced by Ulf Nordfjell, Sweden, 1987.
Ceramic
$2,519 / item
Bud Decorative Object by Laura Pehkonen
Located in Geneve, CH
Bud Decorative Object by Laura Pehkonen Unique Piece. Dimensions: D 14 x W 14 x H 21 cm. Materials: Hand-built anagama wood-fired ceramic, glaze. Laura Pehkonen (b. 1985) is a ceram...
Ceramic, 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
$1,808Sale Price|20% Off
An early fine art ceramic by Robert Milnes, late 20th century
Located in View Park, CA
« Cenote », an early fine art ceramic by Robert Milnes (b. 1948). Late 20th century. A museum piece in tones of turquoise, brick, blue, and moss, and certainly taking cues from the I...
Ceramic
$39,048 / item
Rainbow Sculpture by Christian Friedl
Located in Geneve, CH
Rainbow Sculpture by Christian Friedl Unique Piece. Dimensions: D 50 x H 82 cm. Materials: Steel, rock crystal. Rainbow tells his story... My rainbow colors shine in every direction...
Rock Crystal, Steel
Robert Lee Morris Hammered Brass Sculpture, Large Double Stack, 1980s
Located in Queens, NY
Robert Lee Morris, "Large Double Stack" 1980s, hammered brass, signed Verso.
Brass
$3,904 / item
Clay Sink by Studio Loho
Located in Geneve, CH
Clay sink by Studio Loho Dimensions: D 40 x H 15 cm Materials: clay. Available in 3 models: round sink, oval sink and sink on structure. Due to the production process every piece is...
Clay
$2,805 / item
Cigno Sculpture by Arcahorn
Located in Geneve, CH
Cigno Sculpture by Arcahorn Dimensions: D 16 x W 38 x H 30 cm Materials: Horn, wood, brass. Horn sculpture. Base in wood with lacquered black gloss finish and 24K gold plated brass....
Brass
$18,138 / item
Laguna Sculpture by Arcahorn
Located in Geneve, CH
Laguna Sculpture by Arcahorn Dimensions: D 19 x W 90 x H 45 cm Materials: Horn, wood, brass. Horn sculpture. Base with sections of Venetian canal wood inside translucent transparent...
Brass
Teardrop-Shaped Pink Transparent Glass, White Brass Table Lamp by Marie Jeunet
Located in Geneve, CH
Sunset table lamp by Marie Jeunet Dimensions: W 26 x D 12 x H 34 cm Materials: brass, glass On a brass base are integrated sheets of colored glass which, by skilful games of lights ...
Brass
$4,191 / item
Peana Model 2 Pink Object by Eter Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Peana Model 2 Pink Object by Eter Design Unique Piece. Dimensions: D 21.8 x W 36.1 x H 36.1 cm. Materials: Clay. Sustainable - Eco-friendly. Handmade. Each piece may vary slightly i...
Clay
Set of 4 Brass Coasters by Gentner Design
By Christopher Gentner
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 4 Brass Coasters by Gentner Design Dimensions: D 12 x W 9.5 cm Materials: dull, tarnished brass. Hand-formed from a sheet of brass, each piece emphasizes the material’s pliab...
Brass
Italy 1980 Annamaria Gelmi Oxidized Rust Metal Sculpture Piccolo Eden
Located in Brescia, IT
This sculpture is a multiple 1 piece of 50 realized in 1980 by the Italian artist Annamaria Gelmi. All the pieces are numbered and signed by the artist and completed by the Certifica...
Iron
$1,580 / item
Amonite 01 Decorative Object by Joana Kieppe
Located in Geneve, CH
Amonite 01 Decorative Object by Joana Kieppe Unique Piece. Dimensions: D 5 x W 14 x H 22 cm. Materials: Lotus high temperature clay with black glaze. Reproduction is entirely manual...
Clay
Italy 1980 Annamaria Gelmi Metal Painted Red Sculpture Piccolo Eden
Located in Brescia, IT
This sculpture is a multiple 1 piece of 50 realized in 1980 by the Italian artist Annamaria Gelmi. All the pieces are numbered and signed by the artist and completed by the Certific...
Metal
$4,786 / item
Unda Form Sculpture by Dust and Form
Located in Geneve, CH
Unda Form sculpture by Dust and Form Dimensions: D 27 x W 25 x H 12 cm Materials: vermont imperial Danby marble In Latin, the word “unda” is used to describe water, specifically...
Marble
$3,275 / item
Large Pleomorph 50A Sculpture by Abid Javed
Located in Geneve, CH
Large Pleomorph 50A sculpture by Abid Javed Dimensions: W 15 x D 10 x 50 cm (Dimensions are variable) Materials: Stoneware Available in multiple clay color and size options. Ha...
Stoneware
$2,015 / item
Shibui 08 Sculpture by WANAS
Located in Geneve, CH
Shibui 08 Sculpture by WANAS Dimensions: D 20 x W 24 x H 26 cm. Materials: Brass, rosewood, teak wood, and wood. The size is customisable on request. Please contact us. Why is it t...
Brass
$1,122 / item
Shibui 16 Sculpture by WANAS
Located in Geneve, CH
Shibui 16 Sculpture by WANAS Dimensions: D 28 x W 28 x H 36 cm. Materials: Brass, rosewood, teak wood, and wood. The size is customisable on request. Please contact us. Why is it t...
Brass
$1,030 / item
Shibui 10 Sculpture by WANAS
Located in Geneve, CH
Shibui 10 Sculpture by WANAS Dimensions: D 28 x W 28 x H 38 cm. Materials: Brass, rosewood, teak wood, and wood. The size is customisable on request. Please contact us. Why is it t...
Brass
$8,473 / item
Recreational Verb Floor Sculpture by WANAS
Located in Geneve, CH
Recreational Verb Floor Sculpture by WANAS Dimensions: D 92 x W 92 x H 194 cm. Materials: Metal, teak wood, and wood. The size and finish are customisable on request. Please contac...
Metal
$1,042 / item
Bordolese Rolling Pin with Case by Studio Lievito
Located in Geneve, CH
Bordolese rolling pin with case by Studio Lievito Dimensions: D 10 x W 10 x H 38 cm Materials: Bianco Carrara marble, Mahogany wood. Weight: 5.2 kg Evoking the silhouette of a class...
Carrara Marble
Italy 1980 Bruno Chersicla White Painted Metal Sculpture Egitto
Located in Brescia, IT
This sculpture is a multiple 1 piece of 50 realized in 1980 by the well known artist Bruno Chersicla. All the pieces are numbered and signed by the artist and completed by the Certif...
Metal
$1,511 / item
BG 446 Handcrafed Sculpture by Bronwen Grieves
Located in Geneve, CH
BG 446 handcrafed sculpture by Bronwen Grieves Dimensions: D 40 x W 18 x H 18 cm Materials: black stoneware white slip. Other models can be done. Fired to 1180 c Bronwen Gri...
Stoneware
$1,435 / item
BG 442 Handcrafed Sculpture by Bronwen Grieves
Located in Geneve, CH
BG 442 handcrafed sculpture by Bronwen Grieves Dimensions: D 40 x W 22 x H 19 cm Materials: black stoneware white slip. Other models can be done. Fired to 1180 c Bronwen Gri...
Stoneware
$1,360 / item
BG 436 Handcrafed Sculpture by Bronwen Grieves
Located in Geneve, CH
BG 436 handcrafed sculpture by Bronwen Grieves Dimensions: D40 x W16 x H16 cm Materials: black stoneware white slip. Other models can be done. Fired to 1180 c Bronwen Griev...
Stoneware
$1,473 / item
BG 445 Handcrafed Sculpture by Bronwen Grieves
Located in Geneve, CH
BG 445 Handcrafed Sculpture by Bronwen Grieves Dimensions: D40 x W28 x H16 cm Materials: black stoneware white slip. Other models can be done. Fired to 1180 c Bronwen Grieve...
Stoneware
Italy 1980 Bruno Chersicla Black Painted Metal Sculpture Egitto
Located in Brescia, IT
This sculpture is a multiple 1 piece of 50 realized in 1980 by the well known artist Bruno Chersicla. All the pieces are numbered and signed by the artist and completed by the Certif...
Metal
Italy 1980 Bruno Chersicla Black Painted Metal Sculpture Upupa
Located in Brescia, IT
This sculpture is a multiple 1 piece of 50 realized in 1980 by the well known artist Bruno Chersicla. All the pieces are numbered and signed by the artist and completed by the Certif...
Metal
$3,023 / item
Tall Snow Swirls by Art Flower Maker
Located in Geneve, CH
Tall snow swirls by Art Flower Maker Unique piece. Dimensions: Ø 60 x H 50 cm. Materials: powder coated white shiny/matte aluminum. The artistic eye of The Art Flower Maker com...
Aluminum
$3,023 / item
Tall Sunshine Swirls by Art Flower Maker
Located in Geneve, CH
Tall sunshine swirls by Art Flower Maker. Unique piece. Dimensions: Ø 58 x H 43cm. Materials: Powder coated bright yellow shiny / matte aluminium. The artistic eye of The Art F...
Aluminum
$2,015 / item
Ocean Swirls by Art Flower Maker
Located in Geneve, CH
Ocean swirls by Art flower maker. Unique piece. Dimensions: Ø 44 x H 24 cm. Materials: powder coated deep blue matte / shiny auminum. The artistic eye of The Art Flower Maker c...
Aluminum
Italy 1980 Bruno Chersicla White Painted Metal Sculpture Upupa
Located in Brescia, IT
This sculpture is a multiple 1 piece of 50 realized in 1980 by the well known artist Bruno Chersicla. All the pieces are numbered and signed by the artist and completed by the Certif...
Metal
$21,871 / item
CF Te19 Terre by Caturegli Formica
Located in Geneve, CH
CF Te19 Terre by Caturegli Formica Dimensions: W 45 x H 56 cm Materials: Ceramic Terres, Dakar, Senegal, 1987-1991 TERRES is a series of symbolic ceramics sculpures produced...
Ceramic
$19,054 / item
Cf Te1.10 Terre by Caturegli Formica
Located in Geneve, CH
CF Te1.10 Terre by Caturegli Formica Dimensions: W 45 x H 52 cm Materials: Ceramic Terres, Dakar, Senegal, 1987-1991 TERRES is a series of symbolic ceramics sculpures produc...
Ceramic
$13,054 / item
Cf Te18 Terre by Caturegli Formica
Located in Geneve, CH
CF Te18 Terre by Caturegli Formica Dimensions: W 45 x H 48 cm Materials: Ceramic Terres, Dakar, Senegal, 1987-1991 TERRES is a series of symbolic ceramics sculpures produced...
Ceramic
$21,516 / item
CF Te16 Terre by Caturegli Formica
Located in Geneve, CH
CF Te16 Terre by Caturegli Formica Dimensions: W 45 x H 36 cm Materials: Ceramic Terres, Dakar, Senegal, 1987-1991 TERRES is a series of symbolic ceramics sculpures produced...
Ceramic
$16,581 / item
CF Te2.6 Terre by Caturegli Formica
Located in Geneve, CH
CF Te2.6 Terre by Caturegli Formica Dimensions: W 45 x H 55 cm Materials: Ceramic Terres, Dakar, Senegal, 1987-1991 TERRES is a series of symbolic ceramics sculpures produce...
Ceramic
$23,463 / item
CF Te17 Terre by Caturegli Formica
Located in Geneve, CH
CF Te17 Terre by Caturegli Formica Dimensions: W 45 x H 50 cm Materials: Ceramic Terres, Dakar, Senegal, 1987-1991 TERRES is a series of symbolic ceramics sculpures produced...
Ceramic
$21,516 / item
CF Te1.12 Terre by Caturegli Formica
Located in Geneve, CH
CF Te1.12 Terre by Caturegli Formica Dimensions: W 45 x H 64 cm Materials: Ceramic Terres, Dakar, Senegal, 1987-1991 TERRES is a series of symbolic ceramics sculpures produc...
Ceramic
$21,516 / item
Cf Te2.1 Terre by Caturegli Formica
Located in Geneve, CH
CF Te2.1 Terre by Caturegli Formica Dimensions: W 45 x H 65 cm Materials: Ceramic Terres, Dakar, Senegal, 1987-1991 TERRES is a series of symbolic ceramics sculpures produce...
Ceramic
$12,882 / item
Cf Te12 Terre by Caturegli Formica
Located in Geneve, CH
CF Te12 Terre by Caturegli Formica Dimensions: W 30 x D 30 H 14 cm Materials: Ceramic Terres, Dakar, Senegal, 1987-1991 TERRES is a series of symbolic ceramics sculpures pro...
Ceramic
$20,108 / item
CF Te1.11 Terre by Caturegli Formica
Located in Geneve, CH
CF Te1.11 Terre by Caturegli Formica Dimensions: W 45 x H 54 cm Materials: Ceramic Terres, Dakar, Senegal, 1987-1991 TERRES is a series of symbolic ceramics sculpures produc...
Ceramic
$14,462 / item
Cf Te13 Terre by Caturegli Formica
Located in Geneve, CH
CF Te13 Terre by Caturegli Formica Dimensions: W 45 x H 49 cm Materials: Ceramic Terres, Dakar, Senegal, 1987-1991 TERRES is a series of symbolic ceramics sculpures produced...
Ceramic
Humo Lineal Incense Diffuser by Algo Studio
By Algo Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 2 Humo Lineal incense diffuser by Algo Studio By Diego Garza Designed by Diego Garza Dimensions: D 7.5 x W 12 x H 11.5 cm Materials: Casted concrete terrazzo. Colors: bla...
Concrete
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.