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
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
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
Sfera Stratificata Stratified Sphere 1980 Italy by Franco Zazzeri
Located in Brescia, IT
This engaging abstract bronze sculpture was created by the Italian artist Franco Zazzeri. The title is "Sfera Stratificata" translated in " Stratified Sphere". This is a multiple of ...
Bronze
$4,640Sale Price|20% Off
“Untitled”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original acrylic paint on canvas abstract painting attributed to the hand of the well known American artist, Brett Taylor. Circa 1967. Condition is very good. Presently unframed. Fr...
Canvas, Acrylic
Masterpiece Swiss Contemporary Blown Faceted Cut Glass Sculpture Vase
By Thomas Blank
Located in Surfside, FL
Thomas Blank was born in Berne, Switzerland, in 1973. He is a master of transformation, who has been investigating the nature of glass for 20 years now, without losing his fascinatio...
Blown Glass
$1,950Sale Price|30% Off
“Untitled”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original nickel plated over brass metal abstract sculpture by Oded Halahmy. Untitled. Signed and dated 1976. Condition is excellent. The sculpture is mounted on a thick mahogany bas...
Metal
$2,600
Italian Modernist Pop Art Oil Painting on Cement Mixed Media Paolo Valle, Venice
Located in Surfside, FL
Paolo Valle (born 1948) Venicem Italy, Original mixed media oil painting and cement or plaster on burlap canvas. title: A Sud Di Rio. Depicts abstract forms with a raised text...
Plaster, Oil, Canvas
Italy 1980 Bruno Chersicla White Painted Metal Sculpture Egitto
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
$2,025
"Miro, Miro, On the Wall... Who's the Fairest of Them All?..." Painted Wood
By Kyle Zubatsky
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Miro, Miro, On the Wall... Who's the Fairest of Them All?..." is a painted wood birdhouse homage to Miro signed by Kyle Zubatsky. This piece is surrounded by painting that is after ...
Wood, Paint
$420Sale Price|20% Off
Post Modern Mixed Media Three Dimensional Abstract by Jose Luis Serrano
By José Luis Serrano
Located in San Diego, CA
Post modern mixed media three dimensional abstract by listed Mexican artist Jose Luis Serrano, circa 1982.
Paper
Gente e Dune People and Dunes 1980 Italy by Luciana Matalon
Located in Brescia, IT
This engaging bronze abstract sculpture was created by the Italian artist Luciana Matalon in 1980. This is a mulptiple of 1000 specimens numbered and signed. The title is " Gente e d...
Bronze
Scultura Spezzata Broken Sculpture 1975 Italy by Roberto Vecchione
Located in Brescia, IT
This intense and engaging abstract bronze sculpture was created by the Italian artist Roberto vecchione. The title " Scultura Spezzata" translated in "Broken Sculpture" is a multiple...
Bronze
"Surreal Woman"
By Nahum Tschacbasov
Located in Southampton, NY
Original oil on fiberboard painting by the Russian/American artist, Nahum Tschacbasov. Signed lower left. Circa 1945. Condition is good. Presently unframed. Framing options are av...
Oil, Fiberboard
Gravity by Andreas von Zadora-Gerlof
Located in New Orleans, LA
Gravity Andreas von Zadora-Gerlof Created 2014-15 This monumental, mind-boggling work of stainless steel was crafted by the famed jeweler and sculptor Andreas von Zadora-Gerlof, a m...
Stainless Steel
$1,266Sale Price|24% Off
'Flower Bloom, Shift'. oil paint, encaustic wax on paper. Circa 2021.
Located in Frome, Somerset
A fine recent piece from the artist's output responding to a small scale attention, post Covid / Pandemic. The way nature/cosmos will always triumph on any scale.. Mark Karasick, bor...
Oil
$2,412
1980 Italy Late 20th Century Bronze Multiple Male Nude Bust by Roberto Nanut
By Roberto Nanut
Located in Brescia, IT
This engaging bronze sculpture on black wooden base, well represents a human bust, but for its expressive force, the bust turns into an abstract shape of it. The artist who created t...
Bronze
$2,500
Italy 1980 Bronze Sculpture Cavallo e Cavaliere Mastrorocco Horse and Rider
Located in Brescia, IT
This is an interesting multiple artwork signed by the author Vito Mastrorocco, an Italian talented young artist living in Italy in 1980. It was made in cast lost wax. This is a mult...
Bronze
Whispers of the Club
By Evgeniya Brits
Located in Zofingen, AG
A dark club symbol takes center stage against a cracked, timeworn surface, surrounded by clock faces, golden gears, and roses blooming through the fractures. Chess pieces stand like ...
Canvas, Varnish, Acrylic
$1,440Sale Price|20% Off
“Untitled”
By Sid Birnbaum
Located in Southampton, NY
Original raised wood with inset enamel paint artwork by Sid Birnbaum. The painting is done in a abstract cubist style. Condition is very good. Signed and dated verso, 1987. Overal...
Enamel
1980 Italy Late 20th Century Bronze Female Nude Bust Multiple
By Roberto Nanut
Located in Brescia, IT
This engaging bronze sculpture on black wooden base, well represents a human bust, but for its expressive force, the bust turns into an abstract shape of it. The artist who created t...
Bronze
French Brutalist Silvered Cast Bronze Sculpture Lamp Pierre Casenove Fondica Art
Located in Surfside, FL
Pierre Casenove (French) Silver patina bronze table lamp having a column form and various stamped patterns to the body, stamped signed mark to back of base. Approximate dimensions:...
Metal
"Raku Vase with Fireworks, " colorful unique vase design lovers
By Marty Marcus
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Raku Vase with Fireworks" is an original ceramic vase by Marty Marcus. The artist signed the piece on the bottom. It features brightly colored abstract patterns on an earth-toned ba...
Ceramic
$2,186
Italy 1980 Late 20th Century Pop Art Multiple Bronze Jackets by Tino Stefanoni
By Tino Stefanoni
Located in Brescia, IT
This is a multiple bronze with wood base create by the Italian artist Tino Stefanoni in 1980 circa. This artwork is following Pop Art and its philosophy that elevates everyday objetc...
Bronze
Italy 1980 Late 20th Century Pop Art Multiple Bronze Pens
By Tino Stefanoni
Located in Brescia, IT
This is a multiple bronze with wood base create by the Italian artist Tino Stefanoni in 1980 circa. This artwork is following Pop Art and its philosophy that elevates everyday objetc...
Bronze
Italy 1980 Late 20th Century Pop Art Multiple Bronze Bottles
By Tino Stefanoni
Located in Brescia, IT
This is a multiple bronze with wood base create by the Italian artist Tino Stefanoni in 1980 circa. This artwork is following Pop Art and its philosophy that elevates everyday objetc...
Bronze
Italy 1980 Late 20th Century Pop Art Multiple Bronze Dippers
By Tino Stefanoni
Located in Brescia, IT
This is a multiple bronze with wood base create by the Italian artist Tino Stefanoni in 1980 circa. This artwork is following Pop Art and its philosophy that elevates everyday objetc...
Bronze
$675
'Ravello , Italy , Night Sounds'. original mixed media piece . Signed circa 2007
By Andy Gradwell
Located in Frome, Somerset
'Ravello, Italy' . Part of a portfolio of Gradwell's time and experiences in paint. In live studies around the Amalfi Coat.' I found an attempt to marry the beauty of the day witho...
Mixed Media
Omaggio a Giacometti Tribute to Giacometti 1970 Italy Urano Palma
By Urano Palma 1
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
$1,407
Archeologia del Pensiero Archeology of Thought 1980 Italy by Luciana Matalon
Located in Brescia, IT
This engaging bronze abstract sculpture was created by the Italian artist Luciana Matalon in 1980. This is a mulptiple of 1000 specimens numbered and signed. The title is " Archeolog...
Bronze
“Mumbo Jumbo” Neon Pink Biomorphic Painting
By Matthew Reeves
Located in Houston, TX
Abstract textured biomorphic shape painted with bright pink pigment by contemporary Houston, TX artist Matthew Reeves. The work is designed to hang away from the wall and cast a shad...
Wood, Acrylic
$15,600Sale Price|20% Off
“The Greatest Story Ever Told”
By Joseph Conrad-Ferm
Located in Southampton, NY
Original acrylic on canvas painting by the well known American artist, Joseph Conrad Ferm. Condition is excellent. Signed lower right “Ferm”. Titled, signed and dated verso 2012. Un...
Canvas, Acrylic
$2,047Sale Price|20% Off
The case will remain unsolved. Veneer, acrylic, 50x50 cm
By Dzemma Skulme
Located in Riga, LV
The case will remain unsolved. Veneer, acrylic, 50x50 cm Dzemma Skulme worked in oil, acrylic and water-colors. She developed the theme of the caryatid, wherein she endeavored to re...
Acrylic
$4,640Sale Price|20% Off
“Woman with Birds”
By Nahum Tschacbasov
Located in Southampton, NY
Original post modern acrylic on canvas painting of a woman with birds and a large bouquet of flowers by the well known Russian/American artist Nahum Tschacbasov.
Canvas, Acrylic
1980 Italy Bronze Sculpture by Edmondo Cirillo Title Ulisse
By Edmondo Cirillo
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
Italy 1980 Bruno Chersicla Black Painted Metal Sculpture Upupa
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
Italy 1980 Bruno Chersicla White Painted Metal Sculpture Upupa
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
Abstracted Phantom Figure Painting by Victor Mirabelli
Located in New York, NY
Victor Mirabelli (b. 1949) Untitled, c. 1970s Oil on canvas 63 7/8 x 53 3/4 x 1 in. Mirabelli attributes his style to his art education and execution of his early abstract oil paint...
Canvas, Oil
'City to the Sea' signed original mixed media c2005
By Andy Gradwell
Located in Frome, Somerset
'City to The Sea' signed original mixed media painting . circa 2005. Glazed oak frame 423.5cm x62.5cm Painting 20cmx 28cm Watercolour , pastel , ink pen , inkjet print and varnish. ...
Mixed Media
Wendover.2
By Joseph Ostraff
Located in Salt Lake City, UT
"Wendover 2" by Joseph Ostraff, oil on panel, 36 X 31 inches, $4,800. "For me, paint documents the state of things, how I feel and what is at the forefront in my thinking—maybe it’s...
Oil, Panel
Post Modern Chrome & Abstract Upholstered High Back Dining Chairs - Set of 6
By Milo Baughman
Located in Clarksboro, NJ
Make a bold Post Modern statement with this striking set of six circa 1980s chrome dining chairs.
Chrome
$550Sale Price|43% Off
“Edge”
By Susan Wilmarth
Located in Southampton, NY
Original oil on canvas painting by the American artist, Susan Wilmarth. Signed, titled and dated 1973 verso. Condition is excellent. Unframed. Provenance: A Long Island, New York ...
Canvas, Oil
Masterpiece Swiss Contemporary Blown Matte Glass Sculpture Vase
By Thomas Blank
Located in Surfside, FL
Thomas Blank was born in Berne, Switzerland, in 1973. He is a master of transformation, who has been investigating the nature of glass for 20 years now, without losing his fascinatio...
Blown Glass
$550Sale Price|37% Off
“Open Shell”
By Susan Wilmarth
Located in Southampton, NY
Original oil on canvas painting by the American artist, Susan Wilmarth. Signed, titled and dated 1973 verso. Condition is excellent. Unframed. Provenance: A Long Island, New Yor...
Canvas, Oil
$550Sale Price|37% Off
“Open Shell 2”
By Susan Wilmarth
Located in Southampton, NY
Original oil on canvas painting by the American artist, Susan Wilmarth. Signed, titled and dated 1973 verso. Condition is excellent. Unframed. Provenance: A Long Island, New Yor...
Canvas, Oil
Stupore Astonishment 1980 Italy by Mirella Forlivesi
Located in Brescia, IT
This intense artwork was created by the Italian artist Mirella Forlivesi. Title "Stupore" traslated in "Astonishment". The piece is a multiple of 1,000 specimen numbered and signed...
Bronze
Il volume The Book Italy 1975 by Nato Frascà
By Nato Frascà 1
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
Bronze Sculpture by Patrizia Guerresi Melograno Pomegranate
By Patrizia Guerresi Maïmouna
Located in Brescia, IT
This is an engaging bronze sculpture created by the Italian artist Patrizia Guerresi, in 1986. The piece is a multiple of 1000 specimens on a green-painted wooden base. This artwork ...
Bronze
Walter Valentini Big Tracks Tracce
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
$1,675Sale Price|20% Off
2001. paper, watercolor, 103x73 cm
By Dzemma Skulme
Located in Riga, LV
2001. paper, watercolor, 103x73 cm Dzemma Skulme worked in oil, acrylic and water-colors. She developed the theme of the caryatid, wherein she endeavored to reveal the ethical and s...
Watercolor, Paper
Italy, 1980, Riccardo Dalisi White Painted Metal Sculpture Pulcinino
By Riccardo Dalisi 1
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 Black Metal Painted Sculpture Caffellatte
By Riccardo Dalisi 1
Located in Brescia, IT
This sculpture is a multiple 1 piece of 50 realized in 1980 by the wellknown International artist Riccardo Dalisi. All the pieces are numbered and signed by the artist and completed ...
Metal
Italy 1980 Riccardo Dalisi White Painted Metal Amanti
By Riccardo Dalisi 1
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
Italy 1980 Riccardo Dalisi Black Painted Metal Sculpture Amanti Lovers
By Riccardo Dalisi 1
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 1
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 Black Painted Metal Sculpture Muccacaffè
By Riccardo Dalisi 1
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
Italy 1980 Riccardo Dalisi White Metal Painted Sculpture Nuvolella
By Riccardo Dalisi 1
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
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.