$1,253 / 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
$9,779 / 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
Set of Good Bye Life & Good Bye Flowers Objects by Sofia Alvarado
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of Good Bye Life & Good Bye Flowers Objects by Sofia Alvarado Dimensions: D10x H30 cm/ D25 x H5 cm Materials: Guayacán wood / lacquered solid metal One of a Kind. FI is an ornam...
Metal
$7,021 / item
Cycle of Life TOTEM by Sofia Alvarado
Located in Geneve, CH
Cycle of Life TOTEM by Sofia Alvarado Dimensions: D30x H175 cm Materials: Guayacán wood / lacquered solid metal. One of a kind. FI is an ornamental artist who embodies the crea...
Metal
White Craquel Skin 22 Sculpture by Vica Ceramica
Located in Geneve, CH
White Craquel skin 22 sculpture by Vica Ceramica Materials: high temp. ceramic Dimensions: D 4 x W 21 x H 25 cm VICA CERÁMICA-STUDIO is a design and sculpture studio establishe...
Brass
$3,898 / item
Clay Sink by Studio Loho
Located in Geneve, CH
Clay sink by Studio Loho Dimensions: D 40 x H 15 cm Materials: clay5 Available in 3 models: round sink, oval sink and sink on structure. Due to the production process every pie...
Clay
$21,976 / item
Large High Clay Bathtub by Studio Loho
Located in Geneve, CH
Large High clay bathtub by Studio Loho Dimensions: D 85 x W 160 x H 54 cm Materials: Clay Other colors and raw or smooth exteriors available. Available in 4 sizes: W 130 (Small High)...
Clay
$1,629 / item
Skulpture Natur by Markus Friedrich Staab
By Markus Friedrich Staab
Located in Geneve, CH
Skulpture Natur by Markus Friedrich Staab One of a Kind Dimensions: D 8 x W 22 x H 47 cm. Materials: Wood, paint, steel. Wood connections from Estonia, steel bars, and wood base pai...
Steel
$3,009 / item
Ropes No. 6 Wall Sculpture by Meg Morrison
Located in Geneve, CH
Ropes No. 6 Wall Sculpture by Meg Morrison Dimensions: W 64 x D 10 x H 102 cm (approximate measurements) Materials: Yarn, other. The yarn used in my ropes is reclaimed from text...
Other
$3,316 / item
Rope Wall Lamp by Meg Morrison
Located in Geneve, CH
Rope Wall Lamp by Meg Morrison Dimensions: W 97 x D 10 x H 79 cm (approximate measurements) Materials: Yarn, other The yarn used in my ropes is reclaimed from textile mill remnants....
Other
$3,009 / item
Ropes No. 5 Wall Sculpture by Meg Morrison
Located in Geneve, CH
Ropes No. 5 Wall Sculpture by Meg Morrison Dimensions: W 81 x D 10 x H 101 cm (approximate measurements) Materials: Yarn, other. The yarn used in my ropes is reclaimed from text...
Other
$12,162 / item
Ropes No. 1 Wall Sculpture by Meg Morrison
Located in Geneve, CH
Ropes No. 1 Wall Sculpture by Meg Morrison Materials: Yarn, other Dimensions: W 367 x D 10 x H 610 cm (approximate measurements) The yarn used in my ropes is reclaimed from text...
Other
$3,109 / item
Sukhasana Sculpture by Marcela Cure
Located in Geneve, CH
Sukhasana sculpture by Marcela Cure Dimensions: W 38 x D 23 x H 15 cm Materials: resin and Stone Composite Our Sukhasana sculpture is inspired by the calming pose commonly used ...
Stone
Comedy and Tragedy of the Animal Marble Sculpture by Tom Von Kaenel
By Tom von Kaenel
Located in Geneve, CH
Comedy and Tragedy of the Animal Marble Sculpture by Tom Von Kaenel Dimensions: D15 x H62 cm Materials: Marble, Wood Two pieces with wood in between Tom von Kaenel, sculptor an...
Marble
Echo on Wood Hand Carved Marble Sculpture by Tom Von Kaenel
By Tom von Kaenel
Located in Geneve, CH
Echo on wood hand carved marble sculpture by Tom Von Kaenel. Dimensions: D 15 x W 15 x H 76 cm. Materials: marble, wood Tom von Kaenel, sculptor and painter, was born in Switzer...
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 19 x W 20 x H 26 cm. Materials: Marble, bronze. Tom von Kaenel, sculptor and painter, was born in Swit...
Marble, Bronze
$1,253 / item
Immature Sculpture by Markus Friedrich Staab
By Markus Friedrich Staab
Located in Geneve, CH
Immature Sculpture by Markus Friedrich Staab One of a Kind Dimensions: D 6 x W 23 x H 55 cm. Materials: Wood, paint, steel. Wood connection from Estonia, steel bar, wood base painte...
Steel
$691 / item
Unique Ruff Sculpture by Marthine Spinnangr
Located in Geneve, CH
Unique Ruff sculpture by Marthine Spinnangr One of a Kind Dimensions: D 3 (top) / 10 (bottom) x W 13 x H 20 cm Materials: Clay Different glaze types available RUFF - Form expl...
Clay
$3,119 / item
Le Gambe Sculpture by Marcela Cure
Located in Geneve, CH
Le Gambe Sculpture by Marcela Cure Dimensions: Leg 1 W 47 x D 12 x H 22 cm / Leg 2 W 29 x D 12 x H 29 cm Materials: Resin and Stone Composite Our Le Gambe sculpture is composed ...
Stone
Set of 2 Small Le Gambe Sculptures by Marcela Cure
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 2 small Le Gambe sculptures by Marcela Cure Dimensions: Leg 1 W 35 x D 5 x H 16 cm / Leg 2 W 21 x D 6 x H 21 cm Materials: Resin and Stone Composite Our Le Gambe sculptur...
Stone
$2,219 / item
Small Le Gambe Sculpture by Marcela Cure
Located in Geneve, CH
Small Le Gambe sculpture by Marcela Cure Dimensions: Leg 1 W 35 x D 5 x H 16 cm / Leg 2 W 21 x D 6 x H 21 cm Materials: Resin and Stone Composite Our Le Gambe sculpture is compo...
Stone
Biblichor Sculpture with Candle by Marcela Cure
Located in Geneve, CH
Biblichor sculpture with candle by Marcela Cure Dimensions: W 19 x D 14 x H 6 cm Materials: Resin and Stone Composite Also Available: Sandalwood and Tobacco colours available. No...
Stone
Tobacco Sculpture with Candle by Marcela Cure
Located in Geneve, CH
Tobacco sculpture with candle by Marcela Cure Dimensions: W 19 x D 14 x H 6 cm Materials: Resin and Stone Composite Also Available: Sandalwood and Biblichor colours available. No...
Stone
Sandalwood Sculpture with Candle by Marcela Cure
Located in Geneve, CH
Sandalwood sculpture with candle by Marcela Cure Dimensions: W 19 x D 14 x H 6 cm Materials: Resin and Stone Composite Also Available: Tobacco and Biblichor colours available, ple...
Stone
Prismania Room Divider, Limited Edition, by Elise Luttik
Located in Geneve, CH
Prismania room divider by Elise Luttik Limited Edition Dimensions: D 21 x W 70 x H 165 cm Materials: Acrylic with dichroic film. The screen is topped by arches. To Elise Luttik the ...
Steel
$3,322 / item
Il Corpo Bookends by Marcela Cure
Located in Geneve, CH
Il Corpo Bookends by Marcela Cure Dimensions: Upper W 19 x D 16.5 x H 31 cm / Lower W 22 x D 18 x H 31 cm Materials: Resin and Stone Composite Our Il Corpo sculpture is a set of...
Stone
$2,364 / item
Small Il Corpo Bookends by Marcela Cure
Located in Geneve, CH
Small Il Corpo bookends by Marcela Cure Dimensions: Upper W 23 x D 12 x H 14 cm / Lower W 17 x D 11 x H 21 cm Materials: resin and stone composite Our Il Corpo sculpture is a se...
Stone
$3,322 / item
IL Corpo ii Bookends by Marcela Cure
Located in Geneve, CH
IL Corpo II bookends by Marcela Cure Dimensions: upper W 31 x D 16 x H 24 cm / lower W 21 x D 18 x H 24 cm. Materials: resin and stone composite. Our Il Corpo sculpture is a set...
Stone
$911 / item
Nudos 1 Sculpture by Vica Ceramica
Located in Geneve, CH
Nudos 1 Sculpture by Vica Ceramica Dimensions: D 21 x H 21 cm Materials: High temp. Ceramic, Brass. VICA CERÁMICA-STUDIO is a design and sculpture studio established in Mexi...
Brass
$889 / item
Bronce Skin Sculpture by Vica Ceramica
Located in Geneve, CH
Bronce skin sculpture by Vica Ceramica Materials: High temp. Ceramic Dimensions: D 34 x W 21 x H 5 cm VICA CERÁMICA-STUDIO is a design and sculpture studio established in Mexic...
Enamel
$1,424 / item
Rotten Castle 4 Sculpture by Vica Ceramica
Located in Geneve, CH
Rotten castle 4 sculpture by Vica Ceramica Materials: High temp. Ceramic, Polished Cement base. Dimensions: D 25 x H 25 cm VICA CERÁMICA-STUDIO is a design and sculpture studi...
Cement
$923 / item
Corvus 4 Sculpture by Vica Ceramica
Located in Geneve, CH
Corvus 4 sculpture by Vica Ceramica Dimensions: D 17 x W 21 x H 33 cm Materials: high temp. ceramic VICA CERÁMICA-STUDIO is a design and sculpture studio established in Mexico ...
Enamel
$946 / item
Face Sculpture by Vica Ceramica
Located in Geneve, CH
Face sculpture by Vica Ceramica Dimensions: D 45 x H 45 cm Materials: High Temp. Ceramic. VICA CERÁMICA-STUDIO is a design and sculpture studio established in Mexico City Vic...
Enamel
$569 / item
Glozy Tripod Sculpture by Vica Ceramica
Located in Geneve, CH
Glozy tripod sculpture by Vica Ceramica Dimensions: D 21 x H 23 cm Materials: High Temp. Ceramic. VICA CERÁMICA-STUDIO is a design and sculpture studio established in Mexico ...
Enamel
$615 / item
Raku Skin Sculpture by Vica Ceramica
Located in Geneve, CH
Raku skin sculpture by Vica Ceramica Dimensions: D 12 x H 17.5 cm Materials: High Temp. Ceramic. VICA CERÁMICA-STUDIO is a design and sculpture studio established in Mexico Cit...
Enamel
$490 / item
Roca Sculpture by Vica Ceramica
Located in Geneve, CH
Roca sculpture by Vica Ceramica Dimensions: D 17 x H 27 cm Materials: High Temp. Ceramic. VICA CERÁMICA-STUDIO is a design and sculpture studio established in Mexico City Vic...
Enamel
$1,470 / item
Coral 2 Sculpture by Vica Ceramica
Located in Geneve, CH
Coral 2 sculpture by Vica Ceramica Dimensions: D 23 x H 49 cm Materials: high temp. ceramic. VICA CERÁMICA-STUDIO is a design and sculpture studio established in Mexico City V...
Enamel
$1,516 / set
Torres Buding 04 Sculpture by Vica Ceramica
Located in Geneve, CH
Torres Buding 04 sculpture by Vica Ceramica Materials: High temp. Ceramic Dimensions: P1: H 48 cm x D 11 cm P2: H 43.5 x D 12 cm VICA CERÁMICA-STUDIO is a design and sculpture s...
Cement
$1,424 / item
Rotten Castle 1 Sculpture by Vica Ceramica
Located in Geneve, CH
Rotten Castle 1 Sculpture by Vica Ceramica Materials: high temp. ceramic, polished cement base. Dimensions: D 32 x H 24 cm VICA CERÁMICA-STUDIO is a design and sculpture studi...
Cement
$2,359 / item
Mask Sculpture by Vica Ceramica
Located in Geneve, CH
Mask Sculpture by Vica Ceramica Materials: High temp. Ceramic, Brass. Dimensions: D 46 x H 32 cm VICA CERÁMICA-STUDIO is a design and sculpture studio established in Mexico Ci...
Brass
$1,390 / item
Melty Sculpture by Vica Ceramica
Located in Geneve, CH
Melty Sculpture by Vica Ceramica Dimensions: D 40 x W 39 x H 28 cm Materials: High temp. Ceramic VICA CERÁMICA-STUDIO is a design and sculpture studio established in Mexico City V...
Enamel
$891 / item
Ola Sculpture by Vica Ceramica
Located in Geneve, CH
Ola sculpture by Vica Ceramica Materials: high temp. ceramic, polished cement base. Dimensions: D 16 x W 25 x H 14 cm VICA CERÁMICA-STUDIO is a design and sculpture studio est...
Cement
$2,359 / item
Coeur Sculpture by Vica Ceramica
Located in Geneve, CH
Coeur Sculpture by Vica Ceramica Materials: High temp. Ceramic, Laton. Dimensions: D 43 x H 43 cm VICA CERÁMICA-STUDIO is a design and sculpture studio established in Mexico City...
Other
$775 / item
Nudos 2 Sculpture by Vica Ceramica
Located in Geneve, CH
Nudos 2 Sculpture by Vica Ceramica Materials: High temp. Ceramic, Brass. Dimensions: D 21 x H 21 cm VICA CERÁMICA-STUDIO is a design and sculpture studio established in Mexico Ci...
Brass
$1,333 / set
Pareja Sculpture by Vica Ceramica
Located in Geneve, CH
Pareja Sculpture by Vica Ceramica Materials: Ceramic, Cement base polished. Dimensions: P1 20 x 12.5 cm, P2 27.5 x 13 cm B-1.5cm x 24.3 cm VICA CERÁMICA-STUDIO is a design and scul...
Cement
$2,291 / item
Rotten Castle 3 Sculpture by Vica Ceramica
Located in Geneve, CH
Rotten castle 3 Sculpture by Vica Ceramica Materials: High temp. Ceramic, Polished Cement base. Dimensions: D 30 x W 30 x H 24 cm VICA CERÁMICA-STUDIO is a design and sculpture s...
Cement
$2,291 / item
Rotten Castle 2 Sculpture by Vica Ceramica
Located in Geneve, CH
Rotten castle 2 Sculpture by Vica Ceramica Materials: High temp. Ceramic, polished cement base. Dimensions: D 30 x H 24 cm VICA CERÁMICA-STUDIO is a design and sculpture studio e...
Cement
$786 / item
Catrina Sculpture by Vica Ceramica
Located in Geneve, CH
Catrina sculpture by Vica Ceramica Dimensions: D 18 x W 19 x H 34 cm Materials: high temp. ceramic. VICA CERÁMICA-STUDIO is a design and sculpture studio established in Mexic...
Brass
$2,747 / item
Golden Reef Sculpture by Vica Ceramica
Located in Geneve, CH
Golden Reef Sculpture by Vica Ceramica Materials: High temp. Ceramic Dimensions: D 45 x W 39 x H 42cm VICA CERÁMICA-STUDIO is a design and sculpture studio established in Mexic...
Enamel
Velvet Realities Charcoal Wall Sculpture by Sven Jansse
Located in Geneve, CH
Velvet Realities Charcoal Wall Sculpture by Sven Jansse Collaboration with Studio Somé (Robyne Somé) and Sven Jansse. Dimensions: W 54 x D 1 x H 96 cm Materials: Print on CNC’d Acry...
Other
$2,313 / item
L’île Sculpture by Laura Giudice
Located in Geneve, CH
L’île Sculpture by Laura Giudice Materials: stoneware. Dimensions: D 52 x W 40 x H 20 cm. Sandstone colors available: beige, white, or black. "My work is influenced by isla...
Stoneware
Velvet Realities Chocolate Wall Sculpture by Sven Jansse
Located in Geneve, CH
Velvet Realities Chocolate Wall Sculpture by Sven Jansse Collaboration with Studio Somé (Robyne Somé) and Sven Jansse. Dimensions: W 145 x D 1 x H 33 cm Materials: Print on CNC’d Ac...
Other
Velvet Realities Yellow Wall Sculpture by Sven Jansse
Located in Geneve, CH
Velvet Realities Yellow Wall Sculpture by Sven Jansse Collaboration with Studio Somé (Robyne Somé) and Sven Jansse. Dimensions: W 53 x D 1 x H 98 cm Materials: Print on CNC’d Acryll...
Other
$1,379 / item
Velvet Realities Green Wall Sculpture by Sven Jansse
Located in Geneve, CH
Velvet Realities Green Wall Sculpture by Sven Jansse Collaboration with Studio Somé (Robyne Somé) and Sven Jansse. Dimensions: W 44 x D 1 x H 97 cm Materials: Print on CNC’d Acrylli...
Other
$1,383 / item
Velvet Realities Blue Wall Sculpture by Sven Jansse
Located in Geneve, CH
Velvet Realities Blue Wall Sculpture by Sven Jansse Collaboration with Studio Somé (Robyne Somé) and Sven Jansse. Dimensions: W 63 x D 1 x H 90 cm Materials: Print on CNC’d Acryllic...
Other
$1,379 / item
Velvet Realities Pink Wall Sculpture by Sven Jansse
Located in Geneve, CH
Velvet Realities Pink Wall Sculpture by Sven Jansse Collaboration with Studio Somé (Robyne Somé) and Sven Jansse. Dimensions: W 111 x D 1 x H 42 cm Materials: Print on CNC’d Acrylli...
Other
$900 / item
Heat Vase by Dechem Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
The heat vase by Dechem Studio. Dimensions: D 17.5 x H 25 cm. Materials: glass. The Heat Vase belongs to DECHEM’s experimental works, hand processed in a hot shop. Like the Rour...
Glass
$2,519 / item
Antimatter Vase by Dechem Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Antimatter vase by Dechem Studio. Dimensions: D 26 x H 31 cm. Materials: glass. Available in with or without bell. Lightness and heaviness, transparency and darkness. Our Antim...
Glass
Big Blue Bandaska Matte Vase by Dechem Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Big Blue Bandaska Matte vase by Dechem Studio. Dimensions: D 18 x H 24 cm. Materials: glass. Available in 4 sizes: D15 x H25/ D18 x H24/ D9 x W31/ D22 x H33 cm. Available in blac...
Glass
Tall Blue Bandaska Matte Vase by Dechem Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Tall Blue Bandaska Matte vase by Dechem Studio. Dimensions: D 9 x H 31 cm. Materials: glass. Available in 4 sizes: D15 x H25/ D18 x H24/ D9 x W31/ D22 x H33 cm. Available in blac...
Glass
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.