Italian Post Modern Abstract Art Blue Brown Satin Nickel Finish Mirror Cabinet
By Cosulich Interiors & Antiques
Located in New York, NY
A new innovative sideboard/credenza, entirely hand-crafted in Italy and completely customizable in sizes, finishes, colors and functions, part of a bespoke collection created as a ca...
Metal, Nickel
Italian Post Modern Abstract Art Blue Brown Satin Nickel Finish Mirror Cabinet
By Cosulich Interiors & Antiques
Located in New York, NY
A new innovative sideboard/credenza, entirely hand-crafted in Italy and completely customizable in sizes, finishes, colors and functions, part of a bespoke collection created as a ca...
Metal, Nickel
Italy 1982 Post Modern Abstract Bronze Sculpture Lucky Charm by Concetto Pozzati
By Concetto Pozzati
Located in Brescia, IT
This is a joyful bronze sculpture; this art work has signed by the well known Italian artist Concetto Pozzati. Title Lucky Charm. This is a multiple of a numbered edition of 1.000 p...
Bronze
Large Post Modern Abstract Painting on Hand Cast Paper by Mary Fisher 1990
Located in Troy, MI
40x54 Large Vintage Abstract Painting on Hand Cast Paper by Mary Fisher 1990 Massive abstract textile art by Mary Fisher 1990 Abstract red and black hieroglyphic style design painte...
Paper
1980 Italy Post - Modern Abstract Multiple Print on Paper by Giulio Turcato
By Giulio Turcato
Located in Brescia, IT
This is a very engaging abstract artwork of the well known and well priced Italian artist Giulio Turcato. This is a multiple print on paper numbered 79/100 realized in his period of ...
Paper
Late 20th Century Post Modern Abstract Metal Fan Wall Sculpture by Cutis Jere
By Curtis Jeré
Located in Wheat Ridge, CO
A bold and dynamic post-modern wall sculpture crafted from folded metal panels in striking tones of copper, brass, and chrome. The layered fan-like forms radiate outward in an elegan...
Metal
Post-Modern Framed Abstract Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Post-Modern Framed Abstract Painting. Offered is a stunning large Post-Modern abstract painting in a gilt wood frame.
Canvas, Paint
An ABSTRACT POST-MODERN Relief PAINTING by JEAN-CLAUDE LETHIAIS, France, 1970
Located in PARIS, FR
An abstract relief painting, black center, different shades of orange, pink, red, purple around, with a green surrounding line, post-modern, abstract, forme-libre, oil on wooden pann...
Wood, Paint
Huge Impressive Postmodern Maple Abstract Sculpture, 1980s
Located in Miami, FL
Huge Impressive Postmodern Maple Abstract Sculpture, 1980s Offered for sale is a huge 3.5" tall Post-modern abstract sculpture crafted from a warm-toned maple.
Wood, Maple
Modern Abstract Landscape with Blues, Greens, and Yellows
Located in Houston, TX
Large, soft brush strokes in cool tones form an abstract composition reminiscent of a marine landscape, by artist Barn Post, c.1960. Displayed in a white mat with a gold border and f...
Paint, Paper
Violet Triangle (Post-Modern Geometric Abstract Landscape)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Returning to Philadelphia Koffler began a group of archetypes; semi-abstract figures, mostly female. The figures within and interacting with the space containing them on the page.
Linen, Oil
Post Modern Modern Art Top Tessellated Stone Side Table Black White & Taupe
By Marquis Collection of Beverly Hills 1, Maitland Smith
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Beside the amazing shape of the contrast legs, the top of this table is art piece. Post Modern Abstract pieced by hand (not stamped or printed) in circles, triangles in shades of bla...
Stone
Italy 1980 Post-Modern Bronze Abstract Sculpture Vanni Viviani
By Vanni Viviani
Located in Brescia, IT
This is an interesting multiple artwork signed by the author Vanni Viviani, a 1980’ Italian artist well known internationally. Title Piccolo Universo In terra. Little Universe on Ear...
Brass, Bronze
1986 Italy Post-Modern Mirella Forlivesi Pewter Abstract Sculpture
Located in Brescia, IT
This intense artwork was created by the Italian artist Mirella Forlivesi. Title "Rosone cometa" translated in Comet. Mirella Forlivesi was born in Pisa, Italy. She studied arts in P...
Metal
Pastiche Abstract Photography on Plexiglass, Post-Modern, 21st Century
By Henri Venne
Located in Montreal, Quebec
My work emerges from research on memory and the remembrance of landscape, where vaporous atmospheres of evanescent recollections are illustrated. My work thus, contains ghostly and e...
Plexiglass, Photographic Paper
$1,159
1980 Italy Post-Modern Rodica Tanasescu Bronze Abstract Sculpture Maratoneta
By Rodica Tanasescu
Located in Brescia, IT
This artwork was created by the Italian artist Rodica Tanasescu. The title " Maratoneta" Marathon runner. Rodica Tanasescu was born in Rumania and now lives in and works in Mestre, (...
Bronze
1980 Italy Post-Modern Rodica Tanasescu Bronze Abstract Sculpture Muse
By Rodica Tanasescu
Located in Brescia, IT
This artwork was created by the Italian artist Rodica Tanasescu. The title " Musa" Muse. Rodica Tanasescu was born in Rumania and now lives in and works in Mestre, (Venezia, Italy). ...
Bronze
$690
1980 Italy Post-Modern Bronze Abstract Sculpture Beppe Bonetti Piccolo Racconto
By Beppe Bonetti
Located in Brescia, IT
This artwork was created by the Italian artist Beppe Bonetti. Title "Piccolo racconto" translate "Little tale"" Beppe Bonetti was born in 1951 in Brescia, Italy, where he lives an...
Bronze
Gold Laugh, Post-Modern Metallic Woven Abstract Textile Sculpture/Embroidery
By Micheline Beauchemin
Located in Wilton, CT
Gold Laugh (1980-85) metallic and acrylic thread, cotton. Gold, Metallic Woven Abstract Textile Sculpture. Textile artist, Micheline Beauchemin (1929-2009) was born in Longqueuil, Qu...
Metal
1963 Post-War Grey Modern Abstract Painting By Ferdinand Spindel
Located in Frederiksberg C, DK
Introducing a captivating post-war modern painting by German artist Ferdinand Spindel.
Oil, Wood Panel, Mixed Media
1980 Italy Post-Modern Bronze Abstract Sculpture Beppe Bonetti with Base
By Beppe Bonetti
Located in Brescia, IT
This artwork was created by the Italian artist Beppe Bonetti. Title "Piccolo racconto" translate "Little tale"" Beppe Bonetti was born in 1951 in Brescia, Italy, where he lives and w...
Bronze
1980 Italy Post-Modern Rodica Tanasescu Bronze Abstract Sculpture Title Incontro
By Rodica Tanasescu
Located in Brescia, IT
This artwork was created by the Italian artist Rodica Tanasescu. The title " Incontro" The meeting Rodica Tanasescu was born in Rumania and now lives in and works in Mestre, (Venezia...
Bronze
$1,159
1980 Italy Post-Modern Bronze Abstract Sculpture by Ottorino Tonelli Eva
By Ottorino Tonelli
Located in Brescia, IT
This artwork was created by the Italian artist Ottorino Tonelli. Title "Eva" Ottorino Tonelli was born in 1948 in Carrara, where he lives and works. After having completed his studie...
Bronze
$1,159
1980 Italy Post-Modern Bronze Abstract Sculpture by Ottorino Tonelli Adamo
By Ottorino Tonelli
Located in Brescia, IT
This artwork was created by the Italian artist Ottorino Tonelli. Title "Adamo" translated "Adam" Ottorino Tonelli was born in 1948 in Carrara, where he lives and works. After having ...
Bronze
1980 Italy Post-Modern Alessandro Guerriero Pair Abstract Sculpture Portabuono
By Alessandro Guerriero
Located in Brescia, IT
This artwork was create by the Italian artist Alessandro Guierriero, it is a multiple of a serie of specimens made in limited edition not numbered. The set is forged in aluminium and...
Metal
1980 Italy Post-Modern Alessandro Guerriero Abstract Sculpture Goodluck White
By Alessandro Guerriero
Located in Brescia, IT
This artwork was created by the Italian artist Alessandro Guierriero, it is a multiple of a serie of specimens made in limited edition not numbered. The set is forged in aluminum and...
Metal
1980 Italy Post-Modern Alessandro Guerriero Abstract Sculpture Goodluck Black
By Alessandro Guerriero
Located in Brescia, IT
This artwork was created by the Italian artist Alessandro Guierriero, it is a multiple of a serie of specimens made in limited edition not numbered. The set is forged in aluminum an...
Metal
$3,850
Abstract Post-Modern Roman Ruins Mixed Media Wall Sculpture, "Classic Series"
By Jack Reilly 1
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful post-modern wall sculpture that is part of artist Jack Reilly (American, b. 1950) "Classics Series" solo exhibition held at the Boritzer-Gray Gallery in October, 1989 at Lo...
Mixed Media, Canvas, Acrylic Polymer, Acrylic
Triangle XXX (Post-modern Geometric Landscape)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Returning to Philadelphia Koffler began a group of archetypes; semi-abstract figures, mostly female. The figures within and interacting with the space containing them on the page.
Linen, Oil
$924
1980 Italy Post-Modern Bronze Abstract Sculpture by Alfredo Cifani Title Eos
Located in Brescia, IT
This artwork was created by the Italian artist Alfredo Cifani. Title "EOS" Alfredo Cifani was born in 1939 in Fermo, the Southern part of Italy, lives and works in Milan. He is a pai...
Bronze
Seule Italy 1985 Post-Modern Bronze Abstract Sculpture by Annie Lambert
Located in Brescia, IT
This is an interesting and deep multiple artwork by Annie Lambert, a talented artist of 1980’ in Italy. This is a multiple of a numbered edition of 1.000 pieces. This engaging artwo...
Bronze
Italy 1980 Post-Modern Bronze Black Abstract Sculpture Graziano Pompili Bookend
By Graziano Pompili
Located in Brescia, IT
This intense and engaging abstract bronze sculpture, it is a multiple in limited edition not numbered, lacquered in black. The title is "Paesaggio con ombra" translated " in " Landsc...
Bronze
1980 Italy Post-Modern Bronze Chromed Abstract Sculpture
By Urano Palma
Located in Brescia, IT
Urano Palma is an Italian artist who starts to create his artworks following the philosophy of Lucio Fontana. He specially worked to the sculptured furniture, inventing a casting tec...
Bronze
Latin American Post War Abstract
Located in Soquel, CA
Double-sided Latin American Post War Geometric Abstract Dynamic abstract pieces by Ernesto Butterlin, aka Linares, (Mexican, German b. 1917 d. 1964.), 1946.The use of shape and lig...
Masonite, Oil
1979 Italy Post-Modern Graziano Pompili Abstract Bronze Sculpture
Located in Brescia, IT
This intense and interesting abstract bronze sculpture, it is one of a kind artwork, made in 1979 circa by the Italian Artist Graziano Pompili The title "Paesaggio con ombra" is tra...
Bronze
1974 Italy Abstract Bronze Sculpture Post-Modern Oval Sphere by Carmelo Cappello
By Carmelo Cappello
Located in Brescia, IT
This is an intense bronze abstract sculpture created by the well known Italian artist Carmelo Cappello. This is a multiple of 250 specimens. It is made in bronze with a wooden black...
Bronze
Italy 1980 Post-Modern Bronze Abstract Sculpture Graziano Pompili
Located in Brescia, IT
This very interesting abstract bronze sculpture, it is a multiple in limited edition not numbered, in white. The title Paesaggio con ombra, translate in Landscape with shadow. These ...
Bronze
1986 Italy Post-Modern Mirella Forlivesi Abstract Pewter Sculpture
Located in Brescia, IT
This intense artwork was created by the Italian artist Mirella Forlivesi. Title "Rosone cometa" translated in Comet. Mirella Forlivesi was born in Pisa, Italy. She studied arts in P...
Pewter
1980 Italy Post-Modern Alessandro Guerriero Abstract Sculpture Portabuono Quo
By Alessandro Guerriero
Located in Brescia, IT
This artwork was created by the Italian artist Alessandro Guierriero, it is a multiple of a serie of specimens made in limited edition not numbered. The set is forged in aluminum and...
Aluminum
1980 Italy Post-Modern Alessandro Guerriero Abstract Sculpture Portabuono Quo
By Alessandro Guerriero
Located in Brescia, IT
This artwork was created by the Italian artist Alessandro Guierriero, it is a multiple of a serie of specimens made in limited edition not numbered. The set is forged in aluminum and...
Aluminum
1980 Italy Post-Modern Alessandro Guerriero Abstract Sculpture Portabuono Quo
By Alessandro Guerriero
Located in Brescia, IT
This artwork was created by the Italian artist Alessandro Guierriero, it is a multiple of a serie of specimens made in limited edition not numbered. The set is forged in aluminum and...
Aluminum
Italy 1980 Post-Modern Bronze Abstract Sculpture by Graziano Pompili
Located in Brescia, IT
This intense abstract bronze sculpture, it is a multiple in limited edition not numbered. The title "Paesaggio con ombra", translated in Landscape with shadow. These bronze sculpture...
Bronze
Post-Modern Bronze Abstract Sculpture by Bertrand Créac'h, Frace
By Bertrand Créac'h
Located in London, GB
« Éclosion » by Bertrand Créac'h Material: Bronze, brown patina Dimensions: H 13 x 20 x 14 cm Year: 2023 While claiming an analogical relationship with nature, Bertrand Créach’s sc...
Bronze
$2,341Sale Price|20% Off
Post Modern Italian Sculpture
Located in Milano, IT
This 1980s sculpture is a powerful testament to contemporary abstract modern art, an artwork that embodies the essence of industrial design transformed into visual poetry. Created by...
Iron
Italy 1990 Post-Modern Bronze Abstract Sculpture by Beppe Bonetti
By Bonetti
Located in Brescia, IT
This is an interesting bronze sculpture multiple art work signed by the Italian Artist Beppe Bonetti. Title "Racconto del Nord" translated in "Northern Tale". This is a multiple o...
Bronze
Italy 1980 Post-Modern Bronze Abstract Sculpture by Ugo Carà
By Ugo Cara
Located in Brescia, IT
This is a joyful bronze sculpture multiple art work signed by the well known in Italy and abroad, artist Ugo Carà. Title The Dancer This is a multiple of a numbered edition of 1.000...
Bronze
1980 Italy Post-Modern Rodica Tanasescu Bronze Abstract Sculpture Muse
Located in Brescia, IT
This artwork was created by the Italian artist Rodica Tanasescu. The title " Musa" Muse. Rodica Tanasescu was born in Rumania and now lives in and works in Mestre, (Venezia, Italy)....
Bronze
1980 Italy Post-Modern Rodica Tanasescu Bronze Abstract Sculpture Insieme
Located in Brescia, IT
This artwork was created by the Italian artist Rodica Tanasescu. The title "Insieme" Together Rodica Tanasescu was born in Rumania and now lives in and works in Mestre, (Venezia, It...
Bronze
1980, Italy Post-Modern Rodica Tanasescu Bronze Abstract Sculpture Maratoneta
Located in Brescia, IT
This artwork was created by the Italian artist Rodica Tanasescu. The title " Maratoneta" Marathon runner. Rodica Tanasescu was born in Rumania and now lives in and works in Mestre, ...
Bronze
1980 Italy Post-Modern Cristina Roncati Bronze Abstract Sculpture Cavaliere
Located in Brescia, IT
This artwork was created by the Italian artist Cristina Roncati. The title "Cavaliere del mistero" Knight of the mistery Cristina Roncati was born in Modena (Italy) where she lives ...
Bronze
1980 Italy Post-Modern Bronze Abstract Sculpture Ottorino Tonelli Adamo
Located in Brescia, IT
This artwork was created by the Italian artist Ottorino Tonelli. Title "Adamo" translated "Adam" Ottorino Tonelli was born in 1948 in Carrara, where he lives and works. After having ...
Bronze
1980 Italy Post-Modern Bronze Abstract Sculpture Ottorino Tonelli Eva
Located in Brescia, IT
This artwork was created by the Italian artist Ottorino Tonelli. Title "Eva" Ottorino Tonelli was born in 1948 in Carrara, where he lives and works. After having completed his studie...
Bronze
$500Sale Price|20% Off
Post-Modern Glass and Cut Steel Abstract Sculpture by Karen Dugan
Located in San Diego, CA
A very cool post-modern glass and cut steel abstract sculpture by Karen Dugan, circa 2005.
Cut Steel
1980 Italy Post-Modern Bronze Abstract Sculpture Beppe Bonetti with Base
Located in Brescia, IT
This artwork was created by the Italian artist Beppe Bonetti. Title "Piccolo racconto" translate "Little tale"" Beppe Bonetti was born in 1951 in Brescia, Italy, where he lives and ...
Bronze
1980 Italy Post-Modern Bronze Abstract Sculpture Beppe Bonetti Piccolo Racconto
Located in Brescia, IT
This artwork was created by the Italian artist Beppe Bonetti. Title "Piccolo racconto" translate "Little tale"" Beppe Bonetti was born in 1951 in Brescia, Italy, where he lives an...
Bronze
Italy Post Modern Jiro Sugawara Pewter Multiple Abstrac Sculpture
By Jiro Sugawara
Located in Brescia, IT
This artwork was created by the artist Jiro Sugawara, the title is "Circle" Jiro Sugawara is a post-war artist and he was born in Japon in 1941. He studied sculpture at the Tokyo Dep...
Metal
Pair of Post-Modern Tessellated Stone Candlesticks by Marquis of Beverly Hills
By Marquis Collection of Beverly Hills 1
Located in San Diego, CA
The black and white geometric sculptures resemble a post-modern abstract hourglass figure with the taller one measuring 6.25"W x 5.75"D x 23.25"H and the smaller one 6.25"W x 5.75"D;...
Stone
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.