Confetti I - Abstract Expressionist Composition in Acrylic on Canvas
By Charles David Francis
Located in Soquel, CA
Confetti I - Abstract Expressionist Composition in Acrylic on Canvas Bold abstract composition by California artist Charles "Dave" Francis (American, 1951-2018). Layers of color hav...
Canvas, Acrylic, Stretcher Bars
Star Formation - Abstract Expressionist Composition in Acrylic on Canvas
By Charles David Francis
Located in Soquel, CA
Star Formation - Abstract Expressionist Composition in Acrylic on Canvas Bold abstract composition by California artist Charles "Dave" Francis (American, 1951-2018). Layers of color...
Canvas, Acrylic, Stretcher Bars
Large Architectural Modern Abstract Black Steel Sculpture by Jay Lefkowitz 1980s
Located in Troy, MI
Abstract post modern sculpture by Jay Lefkowitz USA circa 1980s Bent steel composition of two opposing abstract planes with angular cut outs and circular voids Finished in a low sh...
Steel
Red Angel Italy 1980 Iron Abstract Sculpture by Bruno Chersicla
By Bruno Chersicla
Located in Brescia, IT
This sculpture is a multiple 1 piece of 50 realized in 1980 by the well known artist Bruno Chersicla. All the pieces are numbered and signed by the artist and completed by the Certif...
Metal
1985 Italy Bronze Abstract Sculpture by Edmondo Cirillo Front Opus
By Edmondo Cirillo
Located in Brescia, IT
This engagind and intense artwork was create in 1985 by the Italian artist Edmondo Cirillo. It was forged in bronze and then silver plated. The title of this piece is "Stele frontal...
Bronze
1985 Italy Terracotta Abstract Sculpture by Urano Palma Terracotta Throne
By Urano Palma 1
Located in Brescia, IT
This very intense and engaging artwork was created by Urano Palma that is a well known Italian artist who starts to create his artworks following the philosophy of Lucio Fontana. He ...
Terracotta
1985 Wooden Abstract Sculpture by Urano Palma Sedia The Chairs
By Urano Palma 1
Located in Brescia, IT
This very intense and engaging artwork was created by Urano Palma that is a well known Italian artist who starts to create his artworks following the philosophy of Lucio Fontana. He ...
Wood
$1,147
1980 Italy Abstract Bronze Sculpture by Ottorino Tonelli Giulietta Juliet
By Ottorino Tonelli
Located in Brescia, IT
This artwork was created by the Italian artist Ottorino Tonelli. Ottorino Tonelli was born in 1948 in Carrara, where he lives and works. After having completed his studies at the Flo...
Bronze
1980 Italy Bronze Abstract Sculpture by Pietro Perin Figura Figure
By Piero Perin
Located in Brescia, IT
This artwork was created by the Italian artist Piero Perin. Piero Perin was born in 1924, in Cervarese, near Padua Italy. He lived and worked in Padova where he teached at the School...
Bronze
1980 Italy Bronze Abstract Sculpture by Piero Perin Testa Head
By Piero Perin
Located in Brescia, IT
This artwork was created by the Italian artist Piero Perin. Piero Perin was born in 1924, in Cervarese, near Padua Italy. He lived and worked in Padova where he teached at the School...
Bronze
American Post-War Ceramic Porcelain Sculpture
Located in Queens, NY
American Post-War Design ebonized ceramic porcelain sculpture of a torso form with etched scroll mounted on a white square base.
Ceramic
White Atlantic Surf Mixed Media Modernist Abstract Seascape Painting Ray Kass
By Ray Kass
Located in Surfside, FL
RAY KASS, AMERICAN, B. 1944 WHITE ATLANTIC SURF 2001 Watercolor and beeswax on paper laid on board Verso titled, dated, and hand signed in marker on the backing board: White Atlanti...
Mixed Media, Wax, Watercolor
$1,147
Italy 1980 Bronze Abstract Sculpture by Cristiana Isoleri title Reperto
Located in Brescia, IT
This engaging bronze artwork was created by the Italian artist Cristiana Isoleri. This is a multiple of 1.000 specimens, numbered and signed. The title is "Reperto" translated in "Fr...
Bronze
1980 Star with Apple by Vanni Viviani Italy Bronze Abstract Sculpture
By Vanni Viviani
Located in Brescia, IT
This is an engaging and intense artwork signed by the author Vanni Viviani, a well known Italian artist of years '80. Polished and painted bronze. This artwork was created and made ...
Bronze
1966 Italy Abstract Painting and Paper Collage by Ermete Lancini
By Ermete Lancini
Located in Brescia, IT
This stunning abstract Pop artwork was made in 1966, by the well known Italian artist Ermete Lancini. The artwork is a painting and a collage with newspaper sheet and other glued ele...
Paper, Magazine Paper
Italy 1980 Bronze Abstract Sculpture by Piero Perin Testina Little Head
By Piero Perin
Located in Brescia, IT
This artwork was created by the Italian artist Piero Perin. Piero Perin was born in 1924, in Cervarese , near Padua Italy. He lived and worked in Padova where he teached at the Schoo...
Bronze
$4,000
Turkish LA Artist Modernist Abstract Portrait in Silver Leaf on Paper Painting
By Ali Acerol
Located in Surfside, FL
Ali Acerol, who was born in Bursa, Turkey in 1948 and died in Los Angeles in 2007, became a kind of legend in the Southern California art world for his stunning maps of countries and...
Gold Leaf
"Marble Slab Cowboy" modern square sculpture white stone and wood carved face
By Duff Browne
Located in Austin, TX
Marble and Wood Sculpture 10 x 10 x 2.5 inches unsigned In this unique sculpture Duff Browne achieves a striking synthesis of rugged Western iconography and minimalist, high-materia...
Marble
1980 Italy Bronze Abstract Sculpture by Lino Tiné Albero Città City Tree
Located in Brescia, IT
This intense and engaging abstract sculpture was create in 1980 by the Italian artist Lino Tinè. This is a multiple of 300 specimens, numbered and signed by the artist. The title is ...
Bronze
$15,000
Large Colorful 1980s New York Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting Joan Thorne
By Joan Thorne
Located in Surfside, FL
This is a large colorful, bold, vibrant original oil painting on canvas, hand signed and dated 1989. It is titled Crete. Joan Thorne (1943-) is a New York artist nationally and inte...
Canvas, Acrylic Polymer, Oil
$18,000
Large Colorful 1980s New York Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting Joan Thorne
By Joan Thorne
Located in Surfside, FL
This is a large colorful, bold, vibrant original oil painting on canvas, hand signed and dated 1989. It is titled Tango. Joan Thorne (1943-) is a New York artist nationally and inte...
Canvas, Acrylic Polymer, Oil
1965 Italy Abstract Painting and Paper Collage by Ermete Lancini
By Ermete Lancini
Located in Brescia, IT
This stunning abstract artwork was made in 1966, by the well known Italian artist Ermete Lancini. The artwork is a painting and a collage with newspaper sheet and other glued element...
Paper, Oil, Magazine Paper
Abstract Sculpture Walter Valentini Città Del Sole City of The Sun
By Walter Valentini 1
Located in Brescia, IT
Walter Valentini was born in 1928 in South Italy. A painter and engraver, he lives and works in Milan. He is Holder of the chair for engraving at the Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in...
Bronze
Clouded View: Abstract Photography on Plexiglass in the 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
1962 Italy Abstract Painting and Paper Collage by Ermete Lancini
By Ermete Lancini
Located in Brescia, IT
This stunning abstract artwork was made in 1962, by the well known Italian artist Ermete Lancini. The artwork is a painting and a collage with newspaper sheet and other glued element...
Paper, Oil, Magazine Paper
$2,611Sale Price|20% Off
1960 Abstract Painting and Paper Collage Ermete by Ermete Lancini
By Ermete Lancini
Located in Brescia, IT
This stunning abstract artwork was made in 1960, by the well known Italian artist Ermete Lancini. The artwork is a painting and a collage with newspaper sheet and other glued element...
Paper, Oil, Magazine Paper
1960 Italy Abstract Painting and Paper Collage by Ermete Lancini
By Ermete Lancini
Located in Brescia, IT
This stunning abstract artwork was made in 1960, by the well known Italian artist Ermete Lancini. The artwork is a painting and a collage with fabric and other glued elements on the ...
Fabric, Paper, Oil, Cardboard
1960 Italy Abstract Painting and Paper Collage by Ermete Lancini
By Ermete Lancini
Located in Brescia, IT
This stunning abstract artwork was made in 1960, by the well known Italian artist Ermete Lancini. The artwork is a painting and a collage with newspaper sheet and other glued element...
Oil, Cardboard, Magazine Paper
$2,805
Bronze Abstract Sculpture Walter Valentini Città Del Sole City of The Sun
By Walter Valentini 1
Located in Brescia, IT
Walter Valentini was born in 1928 in South Italy. A painter and engraver, he lives and works in Milan. He is Holder of the chair for engraving at the Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in...
Bronze
1985 Italy Cast Iron Abstract Sculpture by Urano Palma Cast Iron Throne
By Urano Palma 1
Located in Brescia, IT
This very intense and engaging artwork was created by Urano Palma that is a well known Italian artist who starts to create his artworks following the philosophy of Lucio Fontana. He ...
Iron
$7,536
1985 Italy Bronze Abstract Sculpture by Urano Palma Trono Bronzo Bronze Throne
By Urano Palma 1
Located in Brescia, IT
This very intense and engaging artwork was created by Urano Palma that is a well known Italian artist who starts to create his artworks following the philosophy of Lucio Fontana. He ...
Bronze
1977 Italy Wooden Abstract Sculpture by Urano Palma Non Dialogo No Words
By Urano Palma 1
Located in Brescia, IT
This very intense and engaging artwork was created by Urano Palma that is a well known Italian artist who starts to create his artworks following the philosophy of Lucio Fontana. He ...
Wood
$13,913
1985 Italy Wooden Abstract Sculpture by Urano Palma Grande Trono Big Throne
By Urano Palma 1
Located in Brescia, IT
This very intense and engaging artwork was created by Urano Palma that is a well known Italian artist who starts to create his artworks following the philosophy of Lucio Fontana. He ...
Wood
Post-Modernist Sculpture signed Ernest Trova, Profile Canto #83 in Matt Gray
By Ernest Trova
Located in New York, NY
Trova’s Profile Canto #83 reflects the artist's fascination with form, symmetry, and the human profile, exploring these themes through a modern lens. Its Post-Modernist aesthetic is ...
Metal, Nickel
$2,200
"Machinations of the Mind No. 3" - Abstract Surrealist Landscape in Oil
Located in Soquel, CA
"Machinations of the Mind No. 3" - Abstract Surrealist Landscape in Oil Bold composition by Loreen Hewitt-Hackett (nee Bergman) (American, b. 1971). The artist has created an abstra...
Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
1962 Italy Abstract Painting and Paper Collage by Ermete Lancini
By Ermete Lancini
Located in Brescia, IT
This stunning abstract artwork was made in 1962, by the well known Italian artist Ermete Lancini. The artwork is an oil pastel painting and a collage with newspaper sheet. In effect...
Oil Pastel, Oil, Cardboard, Magazine Paper
$10,667
1976 Italy Bronze Abstract Sculpture by Vanni Viviani Easel with Two Half Apples
By Vanni Viviani
Located in Brescia, IT
This is an interesting one of a kind artwork signed by the author Vanni Viviani, a well known artist of years 80' in Italy. The piece was made in 1976 but it can be considered as n...
Bronze
American Post-War Rust Ceramic Porcelain Sculpture
By Kevin Kelly
Located in Queens, NY
American Post-War Design rust colored ceramic porcelain sculpture of a vertical form with geometric shape on an iron base. (Kevin Kelly).
Iron
$35,000
"Love" by Rehfeld - Ochre and Orange Contemporary Mixed Media Abstract
By Steven H. Rehfeld
Located in Carmel, CA
Steven H. Rehfeld (American, born 1954) "Love" 2019 Oil paint, Paper, Glue, Mixed Media, Canvas, Stretcher bars The artist signed the back of the painting. About the Artist: Introdu...
Canvas, Wax, Oil, Paper, Charcoal, Stretcher Bars
$820
Mid-Century Modern Shapes Painting of Pastel Coloured Curves, Acrylic on Paper
By Ryan Rivadeneyra
Located in Barcelona, ES
This is a hand-painted acrylic painting on high-quality 300g paper by artist Ryan Rivadeneyra. These painting, influenced by modernist artists of the 50's, 60's, and 70's, explore ab...
Acrylic, Handmade Paper
1962 Italy Abstract Pastel Painting and Paper Collage by Ermete Lancini
By Ermete Lancini
Located in Brescia, IT
This stunning abstract artwork was made in 1962, by the well known Italian artist Ermete Lancini. The artwork is a painting and a collage with newspaper sheet and other glued element...
Paper, Magazine Paper, Oil Pastel
$1,280
Strained Glass Minimalism, Bauhaus Modern Diptych, Pastel Tones Mosaic Grid 2026
By Natalia Roman
Located in Barcelona, ES
Details: Title: Strained Glass Minimalism Medium: Acrylic on Watercolor Paper Size: 40x55.2 inches total (100x140 cm). Each panel measures 40x28 inches (100x70 cm) Year: 2026 Artis...
Paper, Acrylic
1967 Italy Abstract Painting and Mixed Media Collage by Ermete Lancini
By Ermete Lancini
Located in Brescia, IT
This stunning abstract artwork was made in 1967, by the well known Italian artist Ermete Lancini. The artwork is a painting and a collage with newspaper sheet and other glued element...
Cardboard, Plastic, Oil, Magazine Paper
$2,678
1960 Italy Abstract Painting on Canvas and Mix Media Collage by Ermete Lancini
By Ermete Lancini
Located in Brescia, IT
This stunning abstract artwork was made in 1960, by the well known Italian artist Ermete Lancini. The artwork is a painting and a collage with newspaper sheet and other glued element...
Paper, Magazine Paper, Resin, Oil
$1,440Sale Price|20% Off
Megaron Abstract Freeform Chrome Sculpture
Located in Astoria, NY
Megaron Abstract Freeform Chrome Sculpture, marked to underside. 13" H x 18.75" W x 8.5" D. Provenance: From a 30 West 63rd Street Collection.
Chrome
Subtle Abstract Oil on Canvas by Listed American Artist Paul Heald (1936-2014)
Located in Baltimore, MD
All is to great effect in creating a Post Modern work that bows to Abstract Expressionism.
Acrylic
Vintage PostModern Abstract Geometric Sculpture
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
This striking postmodern abstract sculpture, dated 1991, is a vibrant celebration of geometric form and constructivist principles. The piece features a prominent, cream-colored trian...
Steel
$950
Post Soviet Nonconformist Avant Garde Russian Israeli Screen Print Lithograph
By Michail Grobman
Located in Surfside, FL
Michail Grobman (Russian: Михаил Гробман, Hebrew: מיכאיל גרובמן, born 1939) is an artist and a poet working in Israel and Russia. He is father to Hollywood producer Lati Grobman an...
Screen
$950
Post Soviet Nonconformist Avant Garde Russian Israeli Screen Print Leviathan
By Michail Grobman
Located in Surfside, FL
Michail Grobman (Russian: Михаил Гробман, Hebrew: מיכאיל גרובמן, born 1939) is an artist and a poet working in Israel and Russia. He is father to Hollywood producer Lati Grobman an...
Screen
Lucite Abstract Art Sculpture 20th Century
Located in San Juan Capistrano, CA
This is a unique lucite art sculpture with a post-modern design. Three yellow circles are trapped within a 1 1/4” thick transparent lucite mold. Unsigned.
Lucite
Vintage Carved Solid Mahogany Decorative Post, Brutalist Style, 1960s
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Handsomely carved solid mahogany decorative post. Vintage, and originally intended as a banister stop. This is a strikingly beautiful piece that can serve as an eye catching art obje...
Mahogany
Vintage Black Abstract Tessellated Stone Sculpture
Located in Houston, TX
Elevate your space with this compelling abstract sculpture, meticulously crafted from high-quality tessellated stone. Featuring a distinctive black hue interspersed with intricate gr...
Stone
Nell Bernard Leauté Abstract Ceramic Sculpture 'Deconstructed Construct'
By Nell Bernard
Located in Esbjerg, DK
However it was made by the abstract post-modern female Danish artist and sculptor Nell Bernard Leauté (1935-99).
Ceramic
Ed Haugevik “UNION” Monumental Abstract Sculpture, 188
Located in Chicago, IL
Ed Haugevik “UNION” Monumental Abstract Steel Sculpture, 1988. Ed Haugevik has established a career as professional sculptor placing his work at numerous private and public sites thr...
Steel
Ferruccio Bortoluzzi Italian 1964 Composizioni #75 Concretism Post War Sculpture
By Ferruccio Bortoluzzi
Located in Miami, FL
Post war sculptural art created by Ferruccio Bortoluzzi. A concretism post war piece of art, created by the Italian artist Ferruccio Bortoluzzi, back in the 1964. This three-dimensi...
Iron
Ferruccio Bortoluzzi Italian 1962 Composizioni 24 Concretism Post War Sculpture
By Ferruccio Bortoluzzi
Located in Miami, FL
Post war sculptural art created by Ferruccio Bortoluzzi (1920-2007). A concretism post war piece of art, created by the Italian artist Ferruccio Bortoluzzi, back in the 1962. This t...
Iron
$1,440Sale Price|20% Off
Delicate Abstract Lithograph with Blue and Orange
By Will Peterson
Located in Soquel, CA
Delicate Abstract Lithograph with Blue and Orange by American Beat artist Will Peterson (1928-1994.) This lithograph blends the linework and movement of abstract impressionism with ...
Handmade Paper, Lithograph
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.