Play With Me: Abstract Interactive Ceramic Sculpture by Helena Starcevic
By Helena Starcevic Ceramics
Located in New York, NY
This series was conceived as a way for the Collector to really interact with a work of art. Titled "Play With Me, No Really" it refutes the idea that "Art" must sit alone on a pedes...
Ceramic, Stoneware
1970 Italy Bronze Abstract Sculpture by Urano Palma Omaggio a Giacometti
By Urano Palma
Located in Brescia, IT
This very intense and engaging artwork was created by Urano Palma that he is a well known Italian artist who starts to create his artworks following the philosophy of Lucio Fontana. ...
Bronze
Italy 1980 Black Bronze Abstract Sculpture Walter Valentini Big Tracks Tracce
By Walter Valentini
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
1980 Italy Walter Valentini Bronze Abstract Sculpture City of the Sun
By Walter Valentini
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
1980 Italy Ugo La Pietra Bronze Abstract Sculpture Bellezza Al Bagno
By Ugo La Pietra
Located in Brescia, IT
This is one of the 30 pieces of this engaging artwork realized in bronze by the well known Internationally artist, Ugo La Pietra, in 1985. This artwork well represents the relations...
Bronze
Italy Late 20th Century Bronze Abstract Sculpture Walter Valentini Tracce Tracks
By Walter Valentini
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
1980 Italy Black Laquered Pewter Abstract Sculpture Roberto Vecchione Il Mondo
By Roberto Vecchione 1
Located in Brescia, IT
This interesting piece is an artwork made by the Italian artist Roberto Vecchione.This is a multiple of 1000 specimen, signed by the artist and numbered made in the 80' and stocked ...
Pewter
Vintage Postmodern Abstract Mixed Media Large Scale 3D Collage by Martha Holden
Located in Topeka, KS
Incredible Late 20th Century Postmodern Contemporary Abstract signed Mixed Media large scale 3D collage by artist Martha Holden. Beautiful condition, keeping in mind that this is vin...
Plexiglass, Paint, Paper
1990s Post Modern Colorful Abstract Oval Wood Dining Table
By Memphis Group
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
On offer on this occasion is one of the most stunning and rare, dining table you could hope to find. In its original condition. No restoration. Outstanding design is exhibited throug...
Wood, Paint
Post-Modern Moroccan Abstract Pointillist Boujad Berber Rug
Located in Milan, IT
A very unusual Berber rug from the Boujad region, located on the foothills of the central High Atlas mountains of Morocco, distinguished by an horizontally arranged pointillist patte...
Cotton
1980 Italy Bronze Abstract Sculpture by Lino Tiné Albero Città City Tree
By Lino Tine
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
1980 Italy Bronze Nickel Plated Abstract Sculpture by Edmondo Cirillo Stele
Located in Brescia, IT
This engagind artwork was create in 1980 by the Italian artist Edmondo Cirillo. It was forged in bronze and then nickel plated. The title of this piece is "Stele". Translate in "Stel...
Bronze, Nickel
1988 Italy Black Aluminum Abstract Sculpture by Patrizia Guerresi Title Deji
Located in Brescia, IT
This is an engaging black aluminum sculpture create by the Italian artist Patrizia Guerresi, in the 1988. The piece is a multiple of 1000 specimen on a black wooden base. The title o...
Aluminum
1974 Italy Ugo La Pietra Ad Arte Red Bronze Abstract Sculpture Candleholders
By Ugo La Pietra
Located in Brescia, IT
This artwork is a multiples limited not numbered specimens created by the Italian artist Ugo La Pietra, a well known Internationally artist. This pieces are useful as candleholders....
Bronze
Hank Murta Adams cast glass and wire abstract sculpture " Cake" signed
By Hank Murta Adams
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Beautiful sample of the work " Cake" from the well known artist Hank M Adams , this work is signed and dated 1998. Cast Glass and wire.
Art Glass
Hank Murta Adams cast glass and wire abstract sculpture " Cake" signed
By Hank Murta Adams
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Nice and traditional cast glass sculpture for the well known contemporary artist Hank M Adams .
Art Glass
$1,180Sale Price|20% Off
Postmodern Abstract Scupture by Curtis Jere Signed & Dated Marble & Steel
By Curtis Jeré
Located in San Diego, CA
Nice and rare sculpture by Curtis Jere, circa 1990 signed and dated, solid raw steel with original patina and oxidation, sitting on solid marble cylinder base.
Belgian Black Marble, Steel
2000s Organic Modern Movable Hand-Carved Sicilian Wood Sculpture by Sciacca
Located in Aci Castello, IT
This sculpture is a contemporary, hand-carved wooden artwork from the 2000s. It features a series of intricately shaped wood blocks and organic forms stacked in a vertical arrangemen...
Iron
1978 Italy Bronze Abstract Sculpture by Fanna Roncoroni Forma Ovale Oval Shape
Located in Brescia, IT
This engaging artwork was created in 1978 by the Italian artist Fanna Roncoroni. It is a multiple of 1000 pieces. The title is "Forma ovale", translate in "Oval shape". Maria Pia Fa...
Bronze
Water World Abstract Photograph on Glass, Post-Modern 20th Century
Located in Queens, NY
Contemporary abstract photograph of light reflecting on water reverse printed on glass in a white box frame titled "Water World" (by DEANN ARCE) (Similar piece: DEA001).
Glass
1978 Italy Bronze Abstract Sculpture by Fanna Roncoroni Lui Lei Him Her
Located in Brescia, IT
This engaging artwork was created in 1978 by the Italian artist Fanna Roncoroni. It is a multiple of 1000 pieces numbered and signed by the author. The title is "Lui Lei" translate ...
Bronze
1980 Italy Bronze Abstract Sculpture Urano Palma Tavolo Del Politico E Sedia
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 te...
Bronze
1980 Italy Bronze and Brass Abstract Sculpture by Nevio De Luca
Located in Brescia, IT
This Italian artist follow his soul and imagines the scenes story telling the life. This is the Francesco Petrarca story, one the most important Italian poet of the beginning of Huma...
Brass, Bronze
Two abstract metal floor sculptures by Tony Almén and Peter Gest for Ikea 1990
By IKEA
Located in München, DE
Pair of original limited abstract metal Ikea floor sculptures from 1990. In good condition. Suitable for all living areas and very decorative. Design by Tony Almén and Peter Gest. Ik...
Metal
1976 Italy Bronze Abstract Sculpture by Vanni Viviani Easel with Two Half Apples
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
1985 Italy Cast Iron Abstract Sculpture by Urano Palma Cast Iron Throne
By Urano Palma
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
1985 Italy Bronze Abstract Sculpture by Urano Palma Trono Bronzo Bronze Throne
By Urano Palma
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
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
1985 Italy Wooden Abstract Sculpture by Urano Palma Grande Trono Big Throne
By Urano Palma
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
$3,439Sale Price|20% Off
1975 Italy Abstract Wooden Sculpture by Nato Frascà Il Volume The Book
By Nato Frascà
Located in Brescia, IT
This intense and engaging artwork was created by the Italian artist Nato Frascà. The title is "Il Volume" translated in " The Book". This is a multiple of 50 specimens and this piec...
Wood
"O" Oil Painting on Incised Canvas, Signed, Figurative, 20th Century
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"O" is an oil painting on incised canvas by Contemporary American Artist David Saunders. The light-hued canvas is speckled with pops of yellow, lilac, and blue, a large white circle ...
Canvas, Oil
Italy 1980 Abstract Sculpture Sphere in Brass Natural Wood and Metal Chrome
Located in Brescia, IT
This is a unique piece and prototype of this interesting artwork of Filippo Panseca, an Italian artist that it is considered, together with Laurence Gartel, the father of the Compute...
Metal, Brass
Late 20th Century Italy Bronze Abstract Sculpture by Eli Riva Sole Luna Sun Moon
Located in Brescia, IT
This intense abstract bronze sculpture was created by the Italian artist Eli Riva in the Late 20th Century. The artwork is a multiple numbered and signed of 500 specimens. The title ...
Bronze
Unnumbered Triangle
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
Sacred Flower at Night by Louis Carreon
By Louis Carreon
Located in New Orleans, LA
Louis Carreon b. 1977 American Sacred Flower at Night Signed "Louis Carreon" (lower right) Mixed media on canvas Representing a groundbreaking fusion of environmental art and con...
Mixed Media
Italian Modern Marble 1980s Pop Art/Memphis Style Sculpture by Rose Grant
By Memphis Group, Memphis Milano
Located in Palm Springs, CA
We acquired 3 sculptures from the estate of the late artist Rose Grant. This trailblazing housewife turned artist trained under the Italian masters in Florence and created a series ...
Carrara Marble
Zero gravity. bronze and wood sculpture. One of a kind
By Alex Radionov
Located in Zofingen, AG
Zero Gravity. The idea behind this sculpture is to create a feeling of weightlessness. A woman's torso is suspended within burned wood. The rough texture of the wood highlights the p...
Bronze
$9,100
"Geraniums 1" Oil Painting, Thick Impasto Layers, Signed Verso, 24x22 Inches
By Darius Yektai
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An oil painting by Hamptons-based artist, Darius Yektai. A terracotta pot of red geraniums stands in front of a dark interior. Paint is thickly applied and pokes out from below and a...
Canvas, Resin, Oil
Itineraries
By Giulio Turcato
Located in London, GB
Giulio Turcato Itineraries, ca. 1970 Signed lower right and on verso Oil on Canvas 50.0 x 70.0 cm Giulio Turcato was born in Mantua. He attended the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venez...
Canvas, Oil
Original Acrylic and Pen Abstract Painting, Signed, Post-Modern, 1995
By Peter Keil
Located in Wichita, KS
Original Peter Keil in Acrylic, pen or marker - signed and dated 1995. The artwork was in a series of three and all reframed. Framed Image 32.5 x 39
Acrylic, Wood, Paper
WaveLength
By Richard Smith
Located in London, GB
Richard Smith WaveLength , 1987 Acrylic on canvas 132.1 x 325.1 cm Richard Smith, CBE (27 October 1931 – 15 April 2016) was an English painter and printmaker. He produced work in a ...
Canvas, Acrylic
Art Deco Brick Triptych, Blue Miami Architecture, Unique Monotype Cyanotype
By Kind of Cyan
Located in Barcelona, ES
“Art Deco Crick Triptych” is a unique handmade monotype cyanotype triptych inspired by Miami Art Deco architecture. Repeating geometric forms echo breezeblock facades, while soft cya...
Handmade Paper, Monotype
$4,500
Corten Steel Sculpture Oleg Sohanievich Non Conformist Avant Garde Ukrainian
By Oleg Sohanievich
Located in Surfside, FL
Oleg Sohanievich (Soviet Ukrainian, American 1935-2017) Steel plates and rods Stress Steel Sculpture, 1995, Hand signed and dated Oleg Sohanievich '95, Dimensions: 15" h., 14" w., ...
Steel
$4,500
Corten Steel Sculpture Oleg Sohanievich Non Conformist Avant Garde Ukrainian
By Oleg Sohanievich
Located in Surfside, FL
Oleg Sohanievich (Soviet Ukrainian, American 1935-2017) Steel plates and rods Stress Steel Sculpture, 1997, Hand signed and dated Oleg Sohanievich '97, Dimensions: 18 1/2" h., 21" ...
Steel
$4,500
Corten Steel Sculpture Oleg Sohanievich Non Conformist Avant Garde Ukrainian
By Oleg Sohanievich
Located in Surfside, FL
Oleg Sohanievich (Soviet Ukrainian, American 1935-2017) Corten steel, U-beams and rods Steel Stress Sculpture, 1994, Hand signed in Cyrillic and dated 94, Dimensions: 15" h., 16" w...
Steel
$4,500
Corten Steel Sculpture Oleg Sohanievich Non Conformist Avant Garde Ukrainian
By Oleg Sohanievich
Located in Surfside, FL
Oleg Sohanievich (Soviet Ukrainian, American 1935-2017) Cor-ten steel Stress Sculpture #5, 1976 Hand signed and dated Oleg Sohanievich '76 Dimensions 9" h., 13" w., 27" d. Very he...
Steel
$4,500
Corten Steel Sculpture Oleg Sohanievich Non Conformist Avant Garde Ukrainian
By Oleg Sohanievich
Located in Surfside, FL
Oleg Sohanievich (Soviet Ukrainian, American 1935-2017) Steel Stress Sculpture #3, 1982, Hand signed and dated Oleg Sohanievich '82 Dimensions: 17" h., 23" w., 16" d. Very heavy Th...
Steel
Seize the moment., Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Iryna Kastsova
Located in Yardley, PA
Certificate of Authenticity. :: Painting :: Post Modern :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: Yes :: Signed: Yes :: ...
Acrylic
Post Modern Metal Abstract Wall Art Sculpture Signed Curtis Jere 1991
By Curtis Jeré
Located in Clarksboro, NJ
Make a bold artistic statement with this original 1991 signed Curtis Jere postmodern metal wall sculpture. Featuring dramatic geometric forms, a richly textured verdigris finish, and...
Metal, Brass
$4,800
“Venerable Truth - Moon” Oil painting on found object, Chinese Character collage
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Venerable Truth - Moon" is a painted sculptural object by David Saunders. For this series of works, he collected imported cans discarded near his studio in Soho, NY and constructed ...
Oil, Other Medium, Mixed Media
Post-Modern Italian Design Steel Chrome Abstract Table Lamp
Located in Brescia, IT
This Italian table lamp is designed by Edmondo Cirillo, an Italian sculptor (born 1931). Italian hand made in steel chrome finished. EU wiring 240V. USA/GB wiring on demand price...
Steel
OBLADI OBLADA, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Pamela Ross
Located in Yardley, PA
For those of my viewers who cannot quite get a viewpoint on this canvas I offer and alternate title: " Sunday in the park, by the aquarium, in the city by the boardwalk.... and more....
Acrylic
1970 Italy Post-Modern Multiple Abstract Multicolor Print by Piero Dorazio
By Piero Dorazio 1
Located in Brescia, IT
This is an engaging abstract multiple print od the Internationally well known Italian artist Piero Dorazio. In this artwork we can see the caracteristical way to express the art with...
Paper
The Vases in Tulsa
By Elliot Gordon
Located in New York, NY
Elliot Gordon (American) , "The Vases in Tulsa", Post Modern Impressionist Acrylic on Canvas, 30 x 24, Early 21st Century, 2004 Colors: Red, Yellow, White, Blue, Black, Brown, Purpl...
Acrylic, Canvas
$870
Modernist Organic Vertical Painting, Oval Translucent Floating Forms, Pastel
By Ryan Rivadeneyra
Located in Barcelona, ES
This abstract painting by Ryan Rivadeneyra explores balance and motion through interlacing, ribbon-like forms that appear to float and descend simultaneously. A restrained yet expres...
Handmade Paper, Acrylic
The Landing by Judith Rothschild
By Judith Rothschild
Located in New Orleans, LA
Rothschild's work is held in prestigious collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Tate Modern, the Art Institute of Chicago and SFMOMA, am...
Canvas, Oil
Golden Raintree 01 - Mixed Media Tree Inspired Sculpture
Located in Boston, MA
Golden Raintree 01 48.0 x 48.0 x 8.0, 40.0 lbs Organic materials Hand signed by artist Artist's Commentary: "This piece is made up of the fallen sticks of the Golden Raintree, (o...
Organic Material
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.