$20,077 / 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
$14,440 / 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
$880 / item
Capri Sculpture by Carlo Massoud
Located in Geneve, CH
Capri sculpture by Carlo Massoud. Handmade. Dimensions: D 30 x W 10 x H 7 cm. Materials: carrara marble. Carlo Massoud’s work stems from his relentless questioning of social,...
Carrara Marble
$1,006 / item
Sharjah Sculpture by Carlo Massoud
Located in Geneve, CH
Sharjah sculpture by Carlo Massoud Handmade Dimensions: D 15 x H 13.5 cm Materials: Carrara Marble Carlo Massoud’s work stems from his relentless questioning of social, polit...
Carrara Marble
$1,006 / item
Tokyo Sculpture by Carlo Massoud
Located in Geneve, CH
Tokyo sculpture by Carlo Massoud Handmade Dimensions: D 6 x W 35 x H 12 cm Materials: carrara marble Carlo Massoud’s work stems from his relentless questioning of social, pol...
Carrara Marble
$1,508 / item
Berlin Sculpture by Carlo Massoud
Located in Geneve, CH
Berlin sculpture by Carlo Massoud Handmade Dimensions: D 9.5 x W 29.7 x H 10.5 cm Materials: Carrara Marble Carlo Massoud’s work stems from his relentless questioning of soci...
Carrara Marble
$1,508 / item
Paris Sculpture by Carlo Massoud
Located in Geneve, CH
Paris sculpture by Carlo Massoud Handmade Dimensions: D 7.8 x W 28.4 x H 12 cm Materials: Carrara Marble Carlo Massoud’s work stems from his relentless questioning of social,...
Carrara Marble
$1,257 / item
Pisa Sculpture by Carlo Massoud
Located in Geneve, CH
Pisa sculpture by Carlo Massoud. Handmade. Dimensions: D 10 x H 20 cm Materials: Carrara Marble Carlo Massoud’s work stems from his relentless questioning of social, politica...
Carrara Marble
$1,005 / item
Kabul Sculpture by Carlo Massoud
Located in Geneve, CH
Kabul sculpture by Carlo Massoud. Handmade. Dimensions: D 7 x W 15.6 x H 12 cm Materials: Carrara Marble Carlo Massoud’s work stems from his relentless questioning of social,...
Carrara Marble
$1,005 / item
Moscow Sculpture by Carlo Massoud
Located in Geneve, CH
Moscow sculpture by Carlo Massoud. Handmade. Dimensions: D 10 x W 30 x H 10 cm. Materials: Carrara Marble. Carlo Massoud’s work stems from his relentless questioning of socia...
Carrara Marble
$377 / item
Abu Dhabi Sculpture by Carlo Massoud
Located in Geneve, CH
Abu Dhabi sculpture by Carlo Massoud Handmade Dimensions: D 22 x H 15 cm Materials: carrara marble Carlo Massoud’s work stems from his relentless questioning of social, polit...
Carrara Marble
$754 / item
Babylon Sculpture by Carlo Massoud
Located in Geneve, CH
Babylon sculpture by Carlo Massoud. Handmade Dimensions: D 22.6 x H 14 cm Materials: Carrara Marble Carlo Massoud’s work stems from his relentless questioning of social, poli...
Carrara Marble
$1,508 / item
Madrid Sculpture by Carlo Massoud
Located in Geneve, CH
Madrid sculpture by Carlo Massoud Handmade Dimensions: D 9 x W 31 x H 12 cm Materials: Carrara Marble Carlo Massoud’s work stems from his relentless questioning of social, po...
Carrara Marble
$1,509 / item
Beirut Sculpture by Carlo Massoud
Located in Geneve, CH
Beirut sculpture by Carlo Massoud. Handmade. Dimensions: D 8 x W 29 x H 12 cm. Materials: Carrara Marble. Carlo Massoud’s work stems from his relentless questioning of social...
Carrara Marble
$503 / item
Florence Sculpture by Carlo Massoud
Located in Geneve, CH
Florence sculpture by Carlo Massoud Handmade Dimensions: D 15 x W 12 x H 3.5 cm Materials: Carrara Marble Carlo Massoud’s work stems from his relentless questioning of social...
Carrara Marble
$1,509 / item
London Sculpture by Carlo Massoud
Located in Geneve, CH
London sculpture by Carlo Massoud Handmade Dimensions: D 8 x W 28.4 x H 12 cm Materials: Carrara Marble Carlo Massoud’s work stems from his relentless questioning of social, ...
Carrara Marble
$1,006 / item
Rome Sculpture by Carlo Massoud
Located in Geneve, CH
Rome sculpture by Carlo Massoud Handmade Dimensions: D 16 x H 9 cm Materials: carrara marble Carlo Massoud’s work stems from his relentless questioning of social, political, ...
Carrara Marble
$1,508 / item
Treviso Sculpture by Carlo Massoud
Located in Geneve, CH
Treviso sculpture by Carlo Massoud. Handmade. Dimensions: D 12 x W 15 x H 9 cm Materials: Carrara Marble Carlo Massoud’s work stems from his relentless questioning of social,...
Carrara Marble
$880 / item
Brussels Sculpture by Carlo Massoud
Located in Geneve, CH
Brussels sculpture by Carlo Massoud Handmade Dimensions: D 18 x W 45 x H 7 cm Materials: Carrara Marble Carlo Massoud’s work stems from his relentless questioning of social, ...
Carrara Marble
$11,136 / item
Could i Have Tried Harder? Sculpture by Driaan Claassen
Located in Geneve, CH
Could I have tried harder? Sculpture by Driaan Claassen One of a Kind Dimensions: D33 x W60 x H25 cm Materials: Wood: Kiaat Weight: 7.4 kg Born in Johannesburg in 1991, sculpt...
Wood
$11,136 / item
You Can Lean on Me Sculpture by Driaan Claassen
Located in Geneve, CH
You Can Lean on Me Sculpture by Driaan Claassen Limited Edition Dimensions: D15 x W20 x H85 cm Materials: Wood:Kiaat Weight: 2.9 kg Born in Johannesburg in 1991, sculptor Dria...
Wood
Joy Is Found When Looking Inside Sculpture by Driaan Claassen
Located in Geneve, CH
Joy Is Found When Looking Inside Sculpture by Driaan Claassen Limited Edition Dimensions: D34 x W34 x H34 cm Materials: Wood:Kiaat Weight: 2.5 kg Born in Johannesburg in 1991,...
Wood
$11,129 / item
Did I Do Enough? Sculpture by Driaan Claassen
Located in Geneve, CH
Did I do enough? Sculpture by Driaan Claassen Limited Edition Dimensions: D30 x W40 x H70 cm Materials: Wood: Kiaat Weight: 4.9 kg Born in Johannesburg in 1991, sculptor Driaa...
Wood
$11,136 / item
Was The Love Real? Sculpture by Driaan Claassen
Located in Geneve, CH
Was the love real? sculpture by Driaan Claassen Limited Edition Dimensions: D 32 x W 43 x H 36 cm Materials: Wood: Kiaat Weight: 7.5 kg Born in Johannesburg in 1991, sculptor ...
Wood
$2,458 / item
Do I Know How to Love? Sculpture by Driaan Claassen
Located in Geneve, CH
Do I know how to love? Sculpture by Driaan Claassen Limited Edition Dimensions: D16 x W17 x H18 cm Materials: Wood Weight: 0.5 kg Born in Johannesburg in 1991, sculptor Driaan...
Wood
$3,441 / item
Lets Watch the Sunset Sculpture by Driaan Claassen
Located in Geneve, CH
Lets Watch The Sunset sculpture by Driaan Claassen Limited Edition Dimensions: D30 x 30 cm Materials: Wood: Camphor Weight: 3.3 kg Born in Johannesburg in 1991, sculptor Driaa...
Wood
$1,246 / item
Ring Table Sculpture by Vaust
By VAUST
Located in Geneve, CH
Ring table sculpture by Vaust Open edition Dimensions: D 18.2 x H 6 cm Materials: solid aluminium Also available: Custom material selection can be offered upon request and after ...
Aluminum
$1,908 / item
Ball Floor Sculpture by Vaust
By VAUST
Located in Geneve, CH
Ball Floor Sculpture by Vaust Open Edition Dimensions: 25 cm Materials: solid exposed aggregate concrete Also Available: Custom material selection can be offered upon request and...
Concrete
$1,600 / item
Pendulum Pendant Sculpture by Vaust
By VAUST
Located in Geneve, CH
Pendulum pendant sculpture by Vaust Open edition Dimensions: D 25 x H 18 cm Materials: artificial stone hand carved Also available: Custom material selection can be offered upon ...
Stone
$6,917 / item
Elephante 3, Stool by Studio Noon
By Noon Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Elephante 3, stool by Studio Noon Dimensions: W 68.5 x D 68.5 x H 53 Material: pigmented cement Signed and editioned 1/50 Noon is a Philadelphia based collaboration betwe...
Cement
$6,917 / item
Elephante Stool, Studio Noon
By Noon Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Elephante stool, studio noon Limited Edition of 50 Signed Dimensions: 24” H x 24” W x 24” D Material: pigmented cement Noon is a Philadelphia based collaboration between desig...
Cement
$2,263 / item
Jon Tribu 5.23 Sculpture by Léontine Furcy
Located in Geneve, CH
Jon Tribu 5.23 sculpture by Léontine Furcy Unique piece. Materials: Raw black sandstone. Dimensions: L 34 x H 23 cm. Léontine Furcy, ceramic artist, tells about herself in shap...
Sandstone
$2,515 / item
Bonnie Tribu M40.22 Sculpture by Léontine Furcy
Located in Geneve, CH
Bonnie Tribu M40.22 Sculpture by Léontine Furcy. Unique piece. Materials: Raw white sandstone. Dimensions: D 3 x W 40.5 x H 38 cm. Léontine Furcy, ceramic artist, tells about hersel...
Sandstone
$850 / set
Vintage Jaru Geometrical Orbs
By Jaru
Located in W Allenhurst, NJ
Unique geometric orbs by JARU. 2 multifaceted orbs which capture the attention. White glazed ceramic with JARU copyright and date. Larger 8.25 x 7.5 Smaller 5.75 x 5
Ceramic
$2,263 / item
Gaïa Tribu 14.23 Sculpture by Léontine Furcy
Located in Geneve, CH
Gaïa Tribu 14.23 Sculpture by Léontine Furcy unique piece. Materials: Rough chamotte red sandstone. Dimensions: D 10 x W 25 x H 54 cm. Léontine Furcy, ceramic artist, tells about he...
Sandstone
Set of 3 Particules Elémentaires Wall Sculptures by Léontine Furcy
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 3 particules elémentaires wall sculptures by Léontine Furcy. Unique pieces. Materials: Rough chamotte white sandstone, and raw chamotte red oxide back. Dimensions: Red: L...
Sandstone
$2,263 / item
Susan Tribu 33.22 Sculpture by Léontine Furcy
Located in Geneve, CH
Susan Tribu 33.22 sculpture by Léontine Furcy Unique piece. Materials: Raw red sandstone. Dimensions: L 30 x H 35 cm. Léontine Furcy, ceramic artist, tells about herself in sha...
Sandstone
Particules Elémentaires Tribu 85.22 Wall Sculpture by Léontine Furcy
Located in Geneve, CH
Particules Elémentaires Tribu 85.22 Wall Sculpture by Léontine Furcy Unique piece. Materials: Rough chamotte white sandstone, black pencil decor oxide back. Dimensions: L 13 x H 1...
Sandstone
$2,263 / item
Suzanne Tribu 27.22 Sculpture by Léontine Furcy
Located in Geneve, CH
Suzanne Tribu 27.22 Sculpture by Léontine Furcy Unique piece. Materials: Raw white sandstone. Dimensions: L 29 x H 35.5 cm. Léontine Furcy, ceramic artist, tells about herself ...
Sandstone
$1,509 / item
Sekhmet Vase by Studiopepe
Located in Geneve, CH
Sekhmet vase by Studiopepe Dimensions: W 17 x D 18 x H 35 cm Materials: Ceramic Multifaceted design agency Studiopepe was founded in Milan in 2006. Eclectic, voguish, it is the ...
Ceramic
$2,263 / item
Balance Sculpture II by Sofia Tufvasson
Located in Geneve, CH
Balance sculpture II by Sophie Rogers Dimensions: W 17 x H 15 Materials: Ceramic, glaze Other glaze colors available. The inspiration comes from exploration with balance where ...
Ceramic
$2,263 / item
Doodle Sculpture II by Sofia Tufvasson
Located in Geneve, CH
Doodle sculpture II by Sophie Rogers Dimensions: D 14 x W 23 x H 24 cm Materials: Ceramic, glaze Other glaze colors available. Created based on childhood sketching on paper for...
Ceramic
$6,037 / item
Morel Sculpture II by Sofia Tufvasson
Located in Geneve, CH
Morel sculpture II by Sophie Rogers. Dimensions: W 26 x H 32 cm. Materials: Ceramic, glaze Other glaze colors available. Inspired by the forms of nature, the origin comes from ...
Ceramic
$2,389 / item
Doodle Sculpture I by Sofia Tufvasson
Located in Geneve, CH
Doodle sculpture I by Sophie Rogers Dimensions: D 14 x W 23 x H 30 cm Materials: Ceramic, glaze Other glaze colors available. Created based on childhood sketching on paper for ...
Ceramic
$2,389 / item
Balance Sculpture III by Sofia Tufvasson
Located in Geneve, CH
Balance sculpture III by Sophie Rogers Dimensions: D 25 x W 22 x H 32 Materials: ceramic, glaze Other glaze colors available. The inspiration comes from exploration with balanc...
Ceramic
$4,527 / item
Motion Sculpture II by Sofia Tufvasson
Located in Geneve, CH
Motion sculpture II by Sophie Rogers Dimensions: W 28 x H 24 cm Materials: Ceramic, glaze Other glaze colors available. A play with the material Clay’s heard final conclusion, ...
Ceramic
$6,037 / item
Morel Sculpture I by Sofia Tufvasson
Located in Geneve, CH
Morel sculpture I by Sophie Rogers Dimensions: W 33 x H 31 Materials: Ceramic, glaze Other glaze colors available. Inspired by the forms of nature, the origin comes from the mu...
Ceramic
$2,012 / item
Doodle Sculpture III by Sofia Tufvasson
Located in Geneve, CH
Doodle sculpture III by Sophie Rogers. Dimensions: D 14 x W 18 x H 23 cm. Materials: ceramic, glaze. Other glaze colors available. Created based on childhood sketching on paper...
Ceramic
$5,030 / item
Motion Sculpture IV by Sofia Tufvasson
Located in Geneve, CH
Motion sculpture IV by Sophie Rogers Dimensions: D 17 x W 32 x H 25 cm Materials: Ceramic, glaze Other glaze colors available. A play with the Material Clay’s heard final concl...
Ceramic
$2,641 / item
Balance Sculpture I by Sofia Tufvasson
Located in Geneve, CH
Balance sculpture I by Sophie Rogers Dimensions: D 15x W 19 x H 35 Materials: Ceramic, glaze Other glaze colors available. The inspiration comes from exploration with balance w...
Ceramic
$1,760 / item
Doodle Sculpture IV by Sofia Tufvasson
Located in Geneve, CH
Doodle sculpture IV by Sophie Rogers Dimensions: D 14 x W 14 x H 17 cm Materials: Ceramic, glaze Other glaze colors available. Created based on childhood sketching on paper for...
Ceramic
$2,389 / item
Motion Sculpture I by Sofia Tufvasson
Located in Geneve, CH
Motion sculpture I by Sophie Rogers Dimensions: W 17 x H 21 cm Materials: ceramic, glaze Other glaze colors available. A play with the Material Clay’s heard final conclusion, t...
Ceramic
$1,759 / item
Emboss Wall Sculpture III by Sofia Tufvasson
Located in Geneve, CH
Emboss wall sculpture III by Sophie Rogers. Dimensions: D 9 x W 15 x H 31 cm. Materials: Ceramic, glaze. Other glaze colors available. Wall sculpture with undulating shape like...
Ceramic
$2,138 / item
Emboss Wall Sculpture I by Sofia Tufvasson
Located in Geneve, CH
Emboss wall sculpture I by Sophie Rogers Dimensions: D 8 x W 32 x H 25 cm Materials: Ceramic, glaze Other glaze colors available. Wall sculpture with undulating shape like a dr...
Ceramic
$5,027 / item
Motion Sculpture III by Sofia Tufvasson
Located in Geneve, CH
Motion sculpture III by Sophie Rogers Dimensions: W 18 x H 35 cm. Materials: ceramic, glaze Other glaze colors available. A play with the material Clay’s heard final conclusion...
Ceramic
$6,037 / item
Morel Sculpture III by Sofia Tufvasson
Located in Geneve, CH
Morel sculpture III by Sophie Rogers Dimensions: W 33 x H 31 cm Materials: Ceramic, glaze Other glaze colors available. Inspired by the forms of nature, the origin comes from t...
Ceramic
$1,760 / item
Emboss Wall Sculpture II by Sofia Tufvasson
Located in Geneve, CH
Emboss wall sculpture II by Sophie Rogers Dimensions: D 8 x W 12 x H 32 cm Materials: Ceramic, glaze Other glaze colors available. Wall sculpture with undulating shape like a d...
Ceramic
$9,810 / set
Set of Objects and Leaf Table by Sofia Alvarado
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of Objects and Leaf Table by Sofia Alvarado Objects: Balance in Depression, Licuala Grandis Dimensions: D 150 x W 70 x H 40 cm Materials: Zapatero Wood FI is an ornamental artis...
Metal
$1,257 / item
Good Bye Life Object by Sofia Alvarado
Located in Geneve, CH
Good bye life object by Sofia Alvarado Dimensions: D10x H30 cm Materials: Guayacán wood / Lacquered solid metal One of a Kind. FI is an ornamental artist who embodies the creat...
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.