$10,148 / 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
$10,148 / 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
$3,447 / 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
$824 / 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
$1,008 / 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
$698 / 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
David Erevantzi ( 1940-Armenia ) : "Maternity", Original Sculpture C. 1980-85
By David Erevantzi
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
David Erevantzi (1940-): "Maternity" Original bronze sculpture with a bronze patina representing a mother and her child on a stone base from Yerevan (Armenia) Signed: "David Erevan...
Stone, Bronze
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
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 18 x H 13 cm. Materials: Naxian marble. The surfaces of the objects are not sealed, they are not prote...
Marble
$1,214 / item
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 17 x H 25 cm. Materials: Naxian marble. The surfaces of the objects are not sealed, they are not prote...
Marble
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 15 x H 20 cm. Materials: Naxian marble. The surfaces of the objects are not sealed, they are not prote...
Marble
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 12.5 x H 18 cm. Materials: Naxian marble. The surfaces of the objects are not sealed, they are not pro...
Marble
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 12.5 x H 20 cm. Materials: Naxian marble. The surfaces of the objects are not sealed, they are not pro...
Marble
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 12.5 x H 18 cm. Materials: Naxian marble. The surfaces of the objects are not sealed, they are not pro...
Marble
$1,111 / item
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 15.5 x H 22 cm. Materials: Naxian marble. The surfaces of the objects are not sealed, they are not pro...
Marble
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 20.5 cm. Materials: Naxian marble. The surfaces of the objects are not sealed, they are not p...
Marble
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 17.5 x H 12 cm. Materials: Naxian marble. The surfaces of the objects are not sealed, they are not pro...
Marble
$1,168 / item
Sanayi313 V Vase by Sanayi 313
Located in Geneve, CH
Sanayi313 v vase by Sanayi 313 Unique Piece Dimensions: W 15 x D 10 x H 58 cm Materials: Ash Veneered Vase, Metal Leg SANAYI313 is an Istanbul-based interdisciplinary practice ...
Metal
Set Of 3 Sphaerae Decorative Objects by Emanuele Colombi
Located in Geneve, CH
Set Of 3 Sphaerae Decorative Objects by Emanuele Colombi Limited Edition: 1 out of 12 Dimensions: D 8 x H 8cm / D 9 x H 9 cm / D 10 x H 10 cm Materials: Bronze Emanuele Colombi...
Bronze, Other
Set of 2 Primus Small Decorative Objects by Emanuele Colombi
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 2 primus small decorative objects by Emanuele Colombi. Limited Edition: 1 out of 12 Dimensions: W 10 x D 10 x H 31.5 cm Materials: Bronze Emanuele Colombi is an architec...
Bronze, Other
Set of 2 Primus Big Decorative Objects by Emanuele Colombi
Located in Geneve, CH
Set Of 2 Primus Big Decorative Objects by Emanuele Colombi Limited Edition: 1 out of 12 Dimensions: W 10 x D 10 x H 34 cm Materials: Bronze Emanuele Colombi is an architect, in...
Bronze, Other
Set of 3 Sphaerae Decorative Objects by Emanuele Colombi
Located in Geneve, CH
Set Of 3 Sphaerae Decorative Objects by Emanuele Colombi Limited Edition: 1 out of 12 Dimensions: D 8 x H 8cm / D 9 x H 9 cm / D 10 x H 10 cm Materials: Bronze Emanuele Colombi...
Bronze, Other
Miguel Berrocal "Torso Marzotto" Bronze Sculpture Signed
By Miguel Berrocal
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Miguel Berrocal, master of the puzzle sculptures, made this Torso, titled Marzotto signed and number 240/1500, made of parts as shown in pictures.
Bronze
$1,626 / item
Harmfull Ceramics Sculpture by Alina Rotzinger
Located in Geneve, CH
Harmfull ceramics sculpture by Alina Rotzinger Dimensions: H 35 x W 30 x D 20 cm. Materials: high temperature ceramics, oxide pigments and dead flowers. Composed by Alina Rotzin...
Other
$2,508 / item
Transworm Three-Piece Worm by Alina Rotzinger
Located in Geneve, CH
Transworm Three-piece Worm by Alina Rotzinger Dimensions: H 80 x W 25 x D 25 cm. Materials: Phenolic birch plywood treated and lacquered with epoxy resin, Steel metal base lacquere...
Metal
$1,408 / item
Pin Table Sculpture by Vaust
By VAUST
Located in Geneve, CH
Pin table sculpture by Vaust Open Edition Dimensions: D 6 x H 21 cm Materials: solid aluminium, carved artificial stone Also Available: Custom material selection can be offered u...
Stone, Aluminum
$3,814 / item
Table Side Table by Vaust
By VAUST
Located in Geneve, CH
Table side table by Vaust. Open edition. Dimensions: D 26 x H 53 cm. Materials: exposed concrete, aluminium. Also available: Custom material selection can be offered upon request...
Concrete, Aluminum
$3,505 / item
Vase Floor Vase by Vaust
By VAUST
Located in Geneve, CH
Vase floor vase by Vaust Open Edition Dimensions: D 22 x H 86 cm Materials: exposed concrete, aluminium Also Available: Custom material selection can be offered upon request and ...
Concrete, Aluminum
$2,645 / item
Nefti Candle Holder by Studiopepe
Located in Geneve, CH
Nefti candle holder by Studiopepe. Dimensions: W 145 x D 15 x H 14 cm Materials: Nero abssoluto marble and copper. Multifaceted design agency Studiopepe was founded in Milan in ...
Marble, Copper
Peter Shire Large Table Top Sculpture in Red, Yellow, Purple and Black, Signed
By Peter Shire
Located in Kansas City, MO
Peter Shire Postmodern abstract table sculpture, 1989. Enameled steel and brushed steel. Signed and dated "Peter Shire 1989 15/24" Very good condition. Light wear throughout in the ...
Steel
$1,351 / item
Dune #9 Sculpture by Margaux Leycuras
Located in Geneve, CH
Dune #9 sculpture by Margaux Leycuras One of a Kind, Signed and numbered Dimensions: D 38 x H 45 cm. Material: Sandy stoneware platter with white glaze and 22 Carat gold leaf. ...
Gold Leaf
$2,783 / item
Alcove #9 Sculpture by Margaux Leycuras
Located in Geneve, CH
Alcove #9 sculpture by Margaux Leycuras One of a Kind, Signed and numbered Dimensions: D 53 x H 51 cm. Material: Sandy stoneware with a porcelain slip finish and white glaze insid...
Ceramic, Porcelain
$1,351 / item
Dune #10 Sculpture by Margaux Leycuras
Located in Geneve, CH
Dune #10 sculpture by Margaux Leycuras One of a Kind, Signed and numbered Dimensions: D 40 x H 50 cm. Material: Sandy stoneware platter with white glaze and 22 Carat gold leaf. The ...
Gold Leaf
$1,351 / item
Dune #7 Sculpture by Margaux Leycuras
Located in Geneve, CH
Dune #7 sculpture by Margaux Leycuras One of a Kind, Signed and numbered Dimensions: D 41 x H 45.5 cm. Material: Sandy stoneware platter with white glaze and 22 Carat gold leaf. ...
Gold Leaf
$2,783 / item
Alcove #7 Sculpture by Margaux Leycuras
Located in Geneve, CH
Alcove #7 sculpture by Margaux Leycuras. One of a kind, signed and numbered. Dimensions: D 46 x H 41 cm. Material: sandy stoneware with a porcelain slip finish and white glaze ins...
Ceramic, Porcelain
$3,631 / item
Ivory Pentacle IX by Julie Nelson
Located in Geneve, CH
Ivory pentacle IX by Julie Nelson One of a Kind Dimensions: W 36 x D 38 x H 26 cm Materials: Ceramic stoneware and porcelain Artist Julie Nelson uses the materiality of clay as...
Ceramic, Porcelain
$3,195 / item
Star Petal Gourd III by Julie Nelson
Located in Geneve, CH
Star petal gourd III by Julie Nelson One Of A Kind Dimensions: D 22 x H 26.5 cm Materials: Ceramic stoneware and porcelain Artist Julie Nelson uses the materiality of clay as a...
Ceramic, Porcelain
$2,611 / item
Ochre Mid Pentacle III by Julie Nelson
Located in Geneve, CH
Ochre mid pentacle III by Julie Nelson. One of a kind. Dimensions: W 24 x D 30 x H 22 cm. Materials: ceramic stoneware and porcelain. Artist Julie Nelson uses the materiality of cla...
Ceramic, Porcelain
$1,058 / item
Unique Coupelle_Otoma_08 Bowl by Emmanuelle Roule
Located in Geneve, CH
Unique Coupelle_Otoma_08 bowl by Emmanuelle Roule Unique piece Dimensions: Ring 45cm, bowl 27 cm Materials: stoneware, glaze, glass Unique piece modelled in white stoneware, wi...
Stoneware, Glass
Unique Coupelle_Otoma_07 Bowl by Emmanuelle Roule
Located in Geneve, CH
Unique Coupelle_Otoma_07 bowl by Emmanuelle Roule Unique piece Dimensions: D 38 x H 6 cm Materials: stoneware, glass Unique piece modelled in white stoneware, with glazes. Made...
Stoneware, Glass
1980 Italy Bronze Sculpture by Edmondo Cirillo Title Ulisse
Located in Brescia, IT
This engagind and intense artwork was created in 1980 by the Italian artist Edmondo Cirillo. It was forged in bronze and gold plated and then burnished. The title of this piece is "...
Bronze
$1,156 / item
Brass Sweep Dustpan and Brush by Gentner Design
By Christopher Gentner
Located in Geneve, CH
Brass Sweep dustpan and brush by Gentner Design Dimensions: D 20 x W 18 x H 6.3 cm Materials: tarnished brass, horsehair This dust pan and brush bring a whole new dimension to clean...
Brass
Set of 4 Darkened Brass Coasters by Gentner Design
By Christopher Gentner
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 4 darkened brass coasters by Gentner Design Dimensions: D 12 x W 9.5 cm Materials: darkened brass Hand-formed from a sheet of brass, emphasizing the material’s pliable charac...
Brass
$458 / item
Brass Bottle Opener by Gentner Design
By Christopher Gentner
Located in Geneve, CH
Brass bottle opener by Gentner Design. Dimensions: D 14 x W 1.9 x H 1.9 cm. Materials: polished brass. Strong in form and heavy in weight, the bottle openers are elegant in thei...
Brass
$1,282 / item
Brass Bottle Stand by Gentner Design
By Christopher Gentner
Located in Geneve, CH
Brass bottle stand by Gentner Design Dimensions: D 18 x W 25.4 x H 7.6 cm Materials: brass This Brass Bottle Stand can display up to 4 bottles beautifully. Gentner Design Ro...
Brass
$630 / item
Brass Single Bottle Stand by Gentner Design
By Christopher Gentner
Located in Geneve, CH
Brass single bottle stand by Gentner Design Dimensions: D 11.5 x W 10 x H 5 cm Materials: brass Gentner Design Rooted in a language of sculpture, character defining details, and wor...
Brass
$11,225 / item
Salon Sketch 1 by Gentner Design
By Christopher Gentner
Located in Geneve, CH
Salon sketch 1 by Gentner Design Dimensions: D 56 x W 51 x H 79 cm. Materials: steel. Gentner Design Rooted in a language of sculpture, character defining details, and world re...
Steel
$11,225 / item
Salon Sketch 2 by Gentner Design
By Christopher Gentner
Located in Geneve, CH
Salon Sketch 2 by Gentner Design Dimensions: D 58.5 x W 51 x H 86 cm. Materials: steel. Gentner Design Rooted in a language of sculpture, character defining details, and world ...
Steel
Darkned Brass Bottle Opener by Gentner Design
By Christopher Gentner
Located in Geneve, CH
Darkned brass bottle opener by Gentner Design Dimensions: D 14 x W 1.9 x H 1.9 cm Materials: darkned brass Strong in form and heavy in weight, the bottle openers are elegant in ...
Brass
Impossible Stack of Unlikely Advances Reaching Skyward by Batten and Kamp
Located in Geneve, CH
An Impossible stack of unlikely advances reaching skyward by Batten and Kamp Dimensions: D 20 x W 20 x H 78 cm Materials: Laser sintered titanium, granite stone. “An Impossible ...
Granite, Other
$4,409 / item
Golden Heart by Dechem Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Golden heart by Dechem Studio. Dimensions: H 29 cm. Materials: glass, brass. This glass piece combines the soft shape of a coloured hand blown heart with an angular hand-faceted...
Brass
$1,294 / item
Brutalist Sculpture by Vica Ceramica
Located in Geneve, CH
Brutalist Sculpture by Vica Ceramica Dimensions: D 34 x W 37 x H 27.5 cm Materials: High temp. Ceramic and different handmade clays VICA CERÁMICA-STUDIO is a design and sculpture...
Enamel
$630 / item
Frag-2 Sculpture by Vica Ceramica
Located in Geneve, CH
Frag-2 sculpture by Vica Ceramica Dimensions: D 33 x H 33.5 cm Materials: Ceramic, Framed in wood with glass. Weight: 2177.4 g Vica Cerámica-studio is a design and sculpture ...
Ceramic, Glass, Wood
$1,397 / item
Copa Buding Sculpture by Vica Ceramica
Located in Geneve, CH
Copa buding sculpture by Vica Ceramica Dimensions: D 34 x H 49 cm Materials: high temp. ceramic, wooden base VICA CERÁMICA-STUDIO is a design and sculpture studio established i...
Enamel
Italy 1980 Riccardo Dalisi Black Painted Metal Sculpture Muccacaffè
By Riccardo Dalisi
Located in Brescia, IT
This sculpture is a multiple 1 piece of 50 realized in 1980 by the well known international artist Riccardo Dalisi. All the pieces are numbered and signed by the artist and completed...
Metal
Op Art Acrylic Bubble Sphere
Located in San Diego, CA
Op Art acrylic bubble sphere, circa 1980s. The sphere is in very good vintage condition and measures 5"D #4075
Acrylic
$2,290Sale Price / set|20% Off
Two Glass Objects from Slovak Glass Designer Patrik Illo, 2000
By Patrik Illo
Located in Vienna, Austria
Two large glass objects from the Slovak glass designer Patrik Illo (born 1973). This unique pair of glass objects is from Patricks artistic work.
Blown Glass
Vintage Postmodern Signed Studio Pottery Slab Built Sculptures - Set of 2
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Crafted with the finesse of postmodern American artistry, this captivating set of two signed studio pottery slab-built sculptures offers a nostalgic journey into vintage aesthetics. ...
Pottery
Italy 1980 Riccardo Dalisi Black Metal Painted Sculpture Caffellatte
By Riccardo Dalisi
Located in Brescia, IT
This sculpture is a multiple 1 piece of 50 realized in 1980 by the well known international artist Riccardo Dalisi. All the pieces are numbered and signed by the artist and completed...
Metal
Italy 1980 Riccardo Dalisi White Painted Metal Sculpture Muccacaffè
By Riccardo Dalisi
Located in Brescia, IT
This sculpture is a multiple 1 piece of 50 realized in 1980 by the well known international artist Riccardo Dalisi. All the pieces are numbered and signed by the artist and complete...
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.