Big Black Bandaska Matte Vase by Dechem Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Big black 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 bla...
Glass
$376 / item
Big Glass Container Vase by Dechem Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Big Glass Container vase by Dechem Studio. Dimensions: D 17.5 x H 25 cm. Materials: glass. Available in 4 sizes: D9.5 x H19/ D13.5 x W21.5/ D17.5 x H25 cm. Available in smoke, bl...
Glass
Tall Black Bandaska Matte Vase by Dechem Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Tall black 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 bla...
Glass
Big Bandaska Postmodern Vase by Dechem Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Big Bandaska Postmodern vase by Dechem Studio. Dimensions: D 15 x H 25 cm. Materials: glass. Available in 2 sizes: D15 x H25, D22 x H33 cm. Another version of the highly succes...
Glass
$284 / item
Small Vase 20 by Dechem Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Small vase20 by Dechem Studio. Dimensions: D 14 x H 20 cm. Materials: glass. Available in 2 sizes: D 14 x W 20/ D 17.5 x H 25 cm. Available in white matte, crystal clear, pine gr...
Glass
$2,291 / item
Red Tetris Vase by Dechem Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Red Tetris vase by Dechem Studio. Dimensions: D 30 x W 23 x H 60 cm. Materials: glass. Available in smoke grey, cobalt blue, red, crystal and alabaster white. Strict geometric ...
Glass
Medium Blue Bandaska Matte Vase by Dechem Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Medium Blue Bandaska Matte vase by Dechem Studio. Dimensions: D 15 x H 25 cm. Materials: glass. Available in 4 sizes: D 15 x H 25/ D 18 x H 24/ D 9 x W 31/ D 22 x H 33 cm. Availa...
Glass
Medium Black Bandaska Matte Vase by Dechem Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Medium black Bandaska matte vase by Dechem Studio. Dimensions: D 15 x H 25 cm. Materials: glass. Available in 4 sizes: D 15 x H 25/ D 18 x H 24/ D 9 x W 31/ D 22 x H 33 cm. Avail...
Glass
$478 / item
Big Vase 20 by Dechem Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Big vase 20 by Dechem Studio. Dimensions: D 17.5 x H 25 cm. Materials: glass. Available in 2 sizes: D 14 x W 20/ D 17.5 x H 25 cm. Available in white matte, crystal clear, pine g...
Glass
$5,015 / item
Trophy Mother of Pearl Sculpture by Henry Baumann
Located in Geneve, CH
Trophy Mother of Pearl Sculpture by Henry Baumann Dimensions: D 30 x W 30 x H 49 cm. Materials: Resin and brass. Satin matt finish. Unique color combinations can be designed to ord...
Brass
$3,316 / item
Charcoal Petal Gourd I by Julie Nelson
Located in Geneve, CH
Charcoal Petal Gourd I by Julie Nelson -One Of A Kind- Dimensions: D 28 x H 22 cm Materials: Ceramic stoneware and porcelain. Artist Julie Nelson uses the materiality of clay as a m...
Ceramic, Porcelain
$946 / item
Glass Mountain by Dechem Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Glass Mountain by Dechem Studio. Dimensions: D 11 x H 15 cm. Materials: glass. Constructed of hand-cut glass and engraved colour components, the Glass Town Collection includes m...
Glass
$3,123 / item
Glass Town by Dechem Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Glass Town by Dechem Studio. Dimensions: D 23 x H 30 cm. Materials: glass. Constructed of hand-cut glass and engraved colour components, the Glass Town Collection includes minia...
Glass
$569 / item
Glass Village by Dechem Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Glass village by Dechem Studio. Dimensions: D 10 x H 12.5 cm. Materials: glass. Constructed of hand-cut glass and engraved colour components, the Glass Town Collection includes ...
Glass
Mendini Watch Tower by Alessandro Mendini for Swatch #1358
By Alessandro Mendini
Located in Miami, FL
Discover an iconic piece of design history with the Mendini Watch Tower, a collaboration between renowned Italian designer Alessandro Mendini and Swatch. Crafted with meticulous atte...
Plastic
Chippensteel 0.5 Chair in Copper 'limited edition' by Zieta
By Zieta
Located in Geneve, CH
Chippensteel 0.5 Chair in Copper 'limited edition' by Zieta Dimensions: D 60 x W 41 x H 78 cm Material: Copper. About A development of the limited edition Chippensteel 0.5 chair a...
Copper
Plopp Mini Stool in Polished Copper 'Limited Edition' by Zieta
By Zieta
Located in Geneve, CH
Plopp Mini Stool in Polished Copper 'Limited Edition' by Zieta Dimensions: D 25 x H 38 cm Material: Polished copper. About "Plopp" stool by Zieta, golden version Heat collection. ...
Copper
Postmodern Glazed Ceramic Decorative Item by Giovanni Bertoncello for Schiavon
By Schiavon, Giovanni Bertoncello
Located in Bresso, Lombardy
Made in Italy by Giovanni Bertoncello for Schiavon, 1970s. It is made in brown glazed ceramic. It is a vintage piece, therefore it might show slight traces of use, but it can be cons...
Ceramic
$2,880Sale Price|20% Off
Sergio Asti Sculpture
Located in Chicago, IL
Unique Sergio Asti architectural sculpture. Patinaed reflective glaze over ceramic. Hand signed on underside, Sergio Asti, 1971.
Ceramic
$5,393
Totem 1998
By Rodney Blumenfeld
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
Rodney Alan Blumenfeld B.1953. Totem 63 cm high Earthenware clay, press moulded, with metalic oxides and matt glazes South African B.1953. Rodney Alan Blumenfeld creates d...
Pottery
$8,275 / item
Wood Stack Monument by Hyungjun Lee
Located in Geneve, CH
Wood Stack Monument by Hyungjun Lee Dimensions: D 460 x W 940 x H 1260 cm. Materials: Stainless steel. Hyungjun Lee EDUCATION 2015-2018 ESAD Orléans / Objet & Espace ...
Stainless Steel
$2,758 / item
Pipe Fitting Tree Sculpture by Hyungjun Lee
Located in Geneve, CH
Pipe Fitting Tree Sculpture by Hyungjun Lee Dimensions: D 14 x W 14 x H 110 cm. Materials: Stainless steel. Hyungjun Lee EDUCATION 2015-2018 ESAD Orléans / Objet & Espace ...
Stainless Steel
$3,259 / item
Pipe Fitting Tree Sculpture II by Hyungjun Lee
Located in Geneve, CH
Pipe Fitting Tree Sculpture II by Hyungjun Lee Dimensions: D 14 x W 14 x H 145 cm. Materials: Stainless steel. Hyungjun Lee EDUCATION 2015-2018 ESAD Orléans / Objet & Espace ...
Stainless Steel
$3,567 / 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 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
Postmodern Cubist Face Sculpture
By Joan Miró
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Playful postmodern ceramic glazed sculpture inspired by artist Joan Miro. This piece features a color block face in bright primary colors with a black stem and rectangular base. Dim...
Ceramic
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
$680Sale Price|20% Off
Iridescent Footed Art Glass Vase / Bowl by Bertil Vallien for Boda Abfors
By Bertil Vallien, Bodafors
Located in San Diego, CA
Stunning iridescent footed art glass vase / bowl by Bertil Vallien for Boda Abfors, circa 1980s. The bowl is in very good vintage condition and measures 8"D x 7"H. it has a wonderf...
Art Glass
Jonathan Christie Ruby Red Art Glass Sacred Heart Decanter Bottle Sculpture 35"
Located in Dayton, OH
Rare vintage Jonathan Christie 1990s oversized decanter / bottle. Crafted of thick hand-blown ruby-red art glass featuring a teardrop /heart-shaped bottle and stopper capped with a t...
Art Glass
Contemporary Art Ceramic Totem Chocolate Piece Number 33/99 by Ettore Sottsass
By Mirabili, Ettore Sottsass
Located in Pistoia, IT
The message that Mirabili intends to portay involves well-known artist and designers, selected for their particular gifts and their poetic world, lending an innovative and sensitive ...
Ceramic, Wood
$589Sale Price|25% Off
Postmodern Round Glass Decorative Piece by Renato Anatrà, Signed, Italy
By Renato Anatra
Located in Bresso, Lombardy
Murano, Italy, 1980s. It is made the expert Murano glass maker Renato Anatrà. This piece is signed by him and features its original "vetri Murano" label. It is vintage, therefore it...
Murano Glass
$17,052 / item
Blooming Sculpture I by Emilie Lemardeley
Located in Geneve, CH
Blooming Sculpture I by Emilie Lemardeley Unique Piece. Dimensions: D 35 x W 56 x H 90 cm. Materials: Bronze and mixed technique. Designed as jewellery for the interior, the Lemarde...
Bronze, Other
$17,052 / item
Blooming Sculpture II by Emilie Lemardeley
Located in Geneve, CH
Blooming Sculpture II by Emilie Lemardeley Unique Piece. Dimensions: D 43 x W 56 x H 75 cm. Materials: Bronze and mixed technique. Designed as jewellery for the interior, the Lemard...
Bronze, Other
$43,382 / item
Blooming Sculpture III by Emilie Lemardeley
Located in Geneve, CH
Blooming Sculpture III by Emilie Lemardeley Unique Piece. Dimensions: D 60 x W 90 x H 190 cm. Materials: Bronze and mixed technique. Designed as jewellery for the interior, the Lema...
Bronze, Other
$4,889 / item
Crystal and Branch Tabletop Decor by Dainte
Located in Geneve, CH
Crystal and Branch Tabletop Decor by Dainte Dimensions: D 6 x W 71 x H 23 cm. Materials: Crystal. The elegant and sophisticated tabletop decor will bring a touch of nature into you...
Crystal
Stainless Steel Sculpture "Two Forms" By Roy Gussow
By Roy Gussow
Located in Norwood, NJ
Polished stainless steel abstract sculpture, "Two Forms" by Roy Gussow (American, 1918-2011), marked and dated with coin seal inlaid to marble base. Similar to his "Three Forms". New...
Granite, Stainless Steel
1970s Lucio Del Pezzo Trigon Italian Design Neodada Framart Wood Sculpture
By Lucio Del Pezzo
Located in Brescia, IT
Lacquered wood Limited edition of 100 pieces Original wood box Excellent condition.
Wood
1980 Lucio Del Pezzo Metalart Sculpture Italian Neodada Postmodern Design
By Lucio Del Pezzo
Located in Brescia, IT
Metal sculpture Excellent condition.
Metal
$4,171 / item
Peana Model 2 Blue Object by Eter Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Peana Model 2 Blue 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
$4,764 / item
Unique Unda Form by Dust and Form
Located in Geneve, CH
Unique Unda Form by Dust and Form Dimensions: W 24.7 x D 27' x H 12 Materials: black Belgian marble. Special black Belgian marble Unda form. It is one of its kind and has a stun...
Marble
$3,761 / item
Sculptural Piece by Karystios
Located in Geneve, CH
Sculptural Piece by Karystios Dimensions: D 46 x h 15 cm Materials: Concrete (with reinforcing rods), marble and stone debris. The sculptural piece studies debris in a paradoxic...
Stone, Concrete, Marble
$2,701 / item
Peana Model 1 Small Pink Object by Eter Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Peana Model 1 Small Pink Object by Eter Design Unique Piece. Dimensions: D 20.3 x W 25.4 x H 31.8 cm. Materials: Clay. Sustainable - Eco-friendly. Handmade. Each piece may vary sl...
Clay
$3,123 / item
Peana Model 1 Large Pink Object by Eter Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Peana Model 1 Large Pink Object by Eter Design Unique Piece. Dimensions: D 25.4 x W 30.5 x H 36.9 cm. Materials: Clay. Sustainable - Eco-friendly. Handmade. Each piece may vary...
Clay
$3,123 / item
Peana Model 1 Large Green Object by Eter Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Peana Model 1 Large Green Object by Eter Design Unique Piece. Dimensions: D 25.4 x W 30.5 x H 36.9 cm. Materials: Clay. Sustainable - Eco-friendly. Handmade. Each piece may var...
Clay
Set of 6 Hender, Peana and Vano Green Objects by Eter Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 6 Hender, Peana and Vano Green Objects by Eter Design Unique Pieces. Dimensions: Hender Model 2 Large Green Bowl: Ø 30.5 x H 36.9 cm. Hender Model 4 Large Green Object: D 2...
Clay
$3,123 / item
Vano Model 4 Blue Object by Eter Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Vano Model 4 Pink Object by Eter Design Unique Piece. Dimensions: Ø 11.4 x H 53.4 cm. Materials: Clay. Sustainable - Eco-friendly. Handmade. Each piece may vary slightly in col...
Clay
$5,380 / item
Hender Model 6 Pink Object by Eter Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Hender Model 6 Blue Object by Eter Design Unique Piece. Dimensions: D 15.3 x W 18.2 x H 62.3 cm. Materials: Clay. Sustainable - Eco-friendly. Handmade. Each piece may vary slightl...
Clay
$5,380 / item
Hender Model 6 Blue Object by Eter Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Hender Model 6 Blue Object by Eter Design Unique Piece. Dimensions: D 15.3 x W 18.2 x H 62.3 cm. Materials: Clay. Sustainable - Eco-friendly. Handmade. Each piece may vary slightl...
Clay
$3,123 / item
Vano Model 4 Pink Object by Eter Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Vano Model 4 Pink Object by Eter Design Unique Piece. Dimensions: Ø 11.4 x H 53.4 cm. Materials: Clay. Sustainable - Eco-friendly. Handmade. Each piece may vary slightly in color,...
Clay
$2,701 / item
Peana Model 1 Small Green Object by Eter Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Peana Model 1 Small Green Object by Eter Design Unique Piece. Dimensions: D 20.3 x W 25.4 x H 31.8 cm. Materials: Clay. Sustainable - Eco-friendly. Handmade. Each piece may var...
Clay
$9,768 / set
Set of 2 Hender Green Objects by Eter Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 2 Hender Green Objects by Eter Design Unique Pieces. Dimensions: Object Model 4: D 29.2 x W 39.4 x H 57.2 cm. Bowl Model 2: Ø 30.5 x H 30.5 cm. Materials: Clay. Sustain...
Clay
$6,223 / item
Hender Model 4 Large Pink Object by Eter Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Hender Model 4 Large Pink Object by Eter Design Unique Piece. Dimensions: D 29.2 x W 39.4 x H 57.2 cm. Materials: Clay. Sustainable - Eco-friendly. Handmade. Each piece may var...
Clay
$6,223 / item
Hender Model 4 Large Green Object by Eter Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Hender Model 4 Large Green Object by Eter Design Unique Piece. Dimensions: D 29.2 x W 39.4 x H 57.2 cm. Materials: Clay. Sustainable - Eco-friendly. Handmade. Each piece may va...
Clay
$3,430 / item
Large Pleomorph 50B Sculpture by Abid Javed
Located in Geneve, CH
Large Pleomorph 50B sculpture by Abid Javed Dimensions: W 25 x D 10 x 50 cm (Dimensions are variable) Materials: stoneware. Multiple clay color and size options. Handmade stone...
Stoneware
Manolo Blahnik Aluminum Shoe Horn, 2004 Anniversary Edition
By Manolo Blahnik
Located in Hanover, MA
Manolo Blahnik shoe horn polished cast aluminium 2004, England. Manolo Blahnik`s iconic shoe horn was a collaboration with UK based store Habitat, to celebrating its 40th anniversary...
Aluminum
$820 / item
Aro Elevado Sculpture by Algo Studio
By Algo Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Aro Elevado Sculpture by Algo Studio Dimensions: D 24 x W 18 x H 35 cm. Materials: Plywood, foamular, PVA glue, sand, pigments and polyurethane. Weight: 3 kg. Custom colors ava...
Other
$1,003 / item
Arco Triple Sculpture by Algo Studio
By Algo Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Arco Triple Sculpture by Algo Studio Dimensions: D 25 x W 25 x H 29 cm. Materials: Plywood, foamular, PVA glue, sand, pigments and polyurethane. Weight: 3 kg. Custom colors ava...
Other
$695 / item
Arco Uno Sculpture by Algo Studio
By Algo Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Arco Uno Sculpture by Algo Studio Dimensions: D 18 x W 20 x H 21 cm. Materials: Plywood, foamular, PVA glue, sand, pigments and polyurethane. Weight: 1.5 kg. Custom colors avai...
Other
Unique Naxian Marble Vessel by Tom Von Kaenel
By Tom von Kaenel
Located in Geneve, CH
Unique Naxian Marble Vessel by Tom Von Kaenel Unique piece. Dimensions: Ø 14.5 x H 20 cm. Materials: Naxian marble. The surfaces of the objects are not sealed, they are not pro...
Marble
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.