$2,400Sale Price|20% Off
Pop art Post modern white Gloss Laminate custom 6 drawer dresser or credenza
By Memphis Milano
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Beautiful post modern custom made White gloss laminate 6 drawer dresser or credenza circa 1980.
Laminate, Plywood
Italian Post-Modern Chest of Drawers in Cherry Wood
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Small sideboard or chest of drawers, cherry wood, Italy, 1980s Elegant Italian chest of drawers or small sideboard from the 1980s, crafted in warm cherry wood with clean, architectu...
Cherry
White Oak Low Sideboard by Says Who, Danish Design, Post-Modern Style
Located in Geneve, CH
White oak array low sideboard 150 by Says Who Materials: oak, metal Dimensions: D 37 x W 150 x H 25 cm Also available in different colours and materials. The founders, Mia and...
Metal
Wall Shelf, Lacquered Wood Ring Form, Post-Modern Design, Panorammma, Mexico
By Panorammma
Located in Ciudad de México, CDMX
Ring Shelf is a free-standing, asymmetric, laquered wood ring. This object’s variations in form along with the dynamic composition of aluminum sheets that the ring encompasses open t...
Marble, Aluminum
Nanook - Post-Modern Credenza Powder Coated Steel and Marble Handmade in BK, NY
By Franco V
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Nanook - Post Modern Credenza Nanook represents a bold intersection of artistic vision and functional design. This hand crafted credenza merges powder coated steel with luxurious N...
Marble, Steel
$10,000Sale Price|20% Off
1980s Karl Springer- Brutalist Post Modern Geometric Goatskin Credenza
By Taller Maria Teresa Mendez, Karl Springer
Located in Chula Vista, CA
For your consideration, a contemporary sculptural credenza or sideboard featuring a goatskin top, a stainless steel brushed metal cabinet body, and an angular, geometric zigzag or c...
Aluminum
Italian post-modern white wood chest of drawers with black plastic handles 1980s
Located in MIlano, IT
Italian post-modern white wood chest of drawers with black plastic handles 1980s Rectangular chest of drawers in white painted wood. On the top there is a second transparent glass to...
Glass, Plastic, Wood
Post Modern Black Wood Modular Shelving Storage Unit
Located in Keego Harbor, MI
A large black shelving unit. This versatile shelving unit is a great addition to any room. Its very dark black coloring makes it usable in a great variety of spaces and styles. It co...
Wood
$2,000Sale Price / set|20% Off
Post Modern Pair of Pencil Reed & Travertine Pagoda Commodes
By Betty Cobonpue
Located in Lake Worth, FL
Vintage post modern pair of pagoda side tables, pencil reed frames with travertine stone top and sides. Unique hammered metal closure. Finished on the back so they can be placed anyw...
Travertine
$2,240Sale Price|20% Off
Luna Sideboard, Post-Modern Design, Metal, Hand-Painted, 2024
Located in İnegöl, TR
The Luna Sideboard is designed as a post-modern furniture. It's designed and made in 2024. Dimensions: Lenght: 82" Widht: 48" Height: 31"
Metal
Post Modern Nine Drawer Dresser Chest of Drawers Granite and White Mica Laminate
By Memphis Group, Memphis Milano, Ettore Sottsass
Located in Miami, FL
Postmodern dresser or chest of drawers rendered in textured granite and white Formica Laminate, with slanted front drawers all on tracks. USA, 1980s
Formica, Laminate, Wood
Post-Modern Italian Executive Desk Piano Black Burl by G&C Italia Art Deco Style
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Made in the 1980s in Italy, this desk features a sleek, post-modern, and angular design. Finished in a gloss piano black complemented by burl drawer-fronts, the large work surface ha...
Burl, Lacquer
Amuneal's Loft 3 Post Back Bar Unit with Pull Out Wine Cabinets
By Amuneal
Located in New York, NY
Amuneal's Loft 3 Post Bar Cabinet and shelving with pull out wine storage is shown here in Cerused Chestnut, Charred Pine, Blackened Steel and Bronze. Our loft posts in blackened gun...
Brass, Bronze, Steel
$2,000Sale Price|20% Off
Luna Sideboard, Post-Modern Metal Design, Hand-Painted, New, 2024
Located in İnegöl, TR
The Luna Sideboard is designed as a post-modern furniture. It's designed and made in 2024. Dimensions: Lenght: 82" Widht: 48" Height: 21"
Metal
$19,650 / item
Cabinets Of Secret Cabinet by Elis Monsport
Located in Geneve, CH
Cabinets Of Secret Cabinet by Elis Monsport Limited Edition Of 10 Pieces. Dimensions: D 25 x W 30 x H 170 cm. Materials: Hand-engraved glass, plated engraving, engraved polished stee...
Metal, Steel
Post Modern Utensilo II Plastic Wall Shelf by Dorothy Bocker for Ingo Maurer
Located in New York, NY
Rare post modern plastic wall mount storage piece, designed by Dorothy Boker for Ingo Maurer, made in Germany, circa 1970's. Known as the Utensilo II, this example is an original ...
Plastic
Post-Modern Ceramic Shelf in the shape of a half Greek Ionic capital, Italy 70s
Located in Roma, IT
We offer for sale a shelf capable of recalling the ancient glories of Greek art in an informal dimension such as that of your apartment. The "studio 65" among the major exponents of ...
Ceramic
$4,500 / item
Free Cabinet by DAaZ
Located in Geneve, CH
Free Cabinet by DAaZ Dimensions: D 45 x W 87 x H 170 cm. Materials: Albizzia. DAaZ Furniture honors the spirit of adventure. We embrace the escape of the ordinary and revel in the ...
Wood
$2,600Sale Price|20% Off
Ello Post Modern Mid century layered Glass Mirror 6 door Credenza C. 1980
By Milo Baughman, Ello Furniture
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Ello Post Modern Mid century layered Glass Mirror 6 door Credenza or sideboard C. 1980s.
Chrome
$4,134 / item
Form Cabinet by DAaZ
Located in Geneve, CH
Form Cabinet by DAaZ Dimensions: D 45 x W 110 x H 148.5 cm. Materials: Ash wood, glass fiber reinforced polymer. DAaZ Furniture honors the spirit of adventure. We embrace the escap...
Fiberglass, Wood
$16,925 / item
Pilion Dressing Cabinet by Madheke
Located in Geneve, CH
Pilion Dressing Cabinet by Madheke Dimensions: D 150 x W 45 x H 105 cm. Materials: Leather finished cabinet with contrasting leather trims, Brass hardware details. Finish options: Le...
Brass
$8,474 / item
Geometry Cabinet by DUISTT
Located in Geneve, CH
Geometry Cabinet by DUISTT Dimensions: W 110 x D 40 x H 120 cm Materials: High Gloss Ebonized Sikomoro Wood and Ironwood , Brass details The GEOMETRY cabinet uses the traditional m...
Brass
$3,847 / item
Piano Cabinet by Lola Glamour
Located in Geneve, CH
Piano Cabinet by Lola Glamour Dimensions: D 40 x W 70 x H 150 cm Materials: Wood. Inspired by a majestic grand piano, this unique piece was born: our Piano cabinet. We made the keyb...
Wood
$2,691 / item
LOTV + Cabinet by Pastform
Located in Geneve, CH
LOTV + Cabinet by Pastform Dimensions: D 41 x W 175 x H 57 cm Materials: Stained and varnished wood. Available in different wood color finishes: Whiskey, Rum, BPA, Nobel, Brandy, Sc...
Wood
$1,523 / item
Pum Cabinet by Pastform
Located in Geneve, CH
Pum Cabinet by Pastform Dimensions: D 40 x W 84 x H 75 cm. Materials: Stained and varnished wood. Available in different wood color finishes: Whiskey, Rum, BPA, Nobel, Brandy, Schwa...
Wood
$1,694 / item
Wana Cabinet by Pastform
Located in Geneve, CH
Wana Cabinet by Pastform Dimensions: D 35 x W 90 x H 60 cm. Materials: Stained and varnished wood. Available in different wood color finishes: Whiskey, Rum, BPA, Nobel, Brandy, Schw...
Wood
$4,958 / item
Araña Cabinet by Lola Glamour
Located in Geneve, CH
Araña Cabinet by Lola Glamour Dimensions: D 45 x W 130 x H 165 cm Materials: Wood. An imprecise spider web is spread over this cabinet, emulating Daedalus, the inventor. Intentional...
Wood
$4,901 / item
Punk Cabinet by Lola Glamour
Located in Geneve, CH
Punk Cabinet by Lola Glamour Dimensions: D 35 x W 80 x H 122 cm Materials: Wood. Definitely modern structure in high gloss color that frames a chaos of shapes, colors, textures, mol...
Wood
$4,901 / item
Punk Cabinet by Lola Glamour
Located in Geneve, CH
Punk Cabinet by Lola Glamour Dimensions: D 35 x W 80 x H 122 cm Materials: Wood. Definitely modern structure in high gloss color that frames a chaos of shapes, colors, textures, mol...
Wood
$3,253 / item
Brok Cabinet by Pastform
Located in Geneve, CH
Brok Cabinet by Pastform Dimensions: D 42,5 x W 190 x H 46 cm Materials: Stained and varnished wood. The furniture in the picture is made in Natura. Available in different wood colo...
Wood
$5,943 / item
Otto Cabinet by Lola Glamour
Located in Geneve, CH
Otto Cabinet by Lola Glamour Dimensions: D 45 x W 160 x H 140 cm Materials: Wood. We are Félix and Désirée Ramos, brothers and product designers of our brand, Lola Glamour. We are ...
Wood
$3,893 / item
Cibeles Cabinet by Lola Glamour
Located in Geneve, CH
Cibeles Cabinet by Lola Glamour Dimensions: D 41 x W 73 x H 148 cm Materials: Wood. We are Félix and Désirée Ramos, brothers and product designers of our brand, Lola Glamour. We ar...
Wood
$5,828 / item
Mosaico Cabinet by Lola Glamour
Located in Geneve, CH
Mosaico Cabinet by Lola Glamour Dimensions: D 45 x W 140 x H 200 cm Materials: Wood. We are Félix and Désirée Ramos, brothers and product designers of our brand, Lola Glamour. We ar...
Wood
$4,489 / item
Toscano Cabinet by Lola Glamour
Located in Geneve, CH
Toscano Cabinet by Lola Glamour Dimensions: D 45 x W 80 x H 138 cm Materials: Wood. We are Félix and Désirée Ramos, brothers and product designers of our brand, Lola Glamour. We ar...
Wood
$5,542 / item
Reina Cabinet by Lola Glamour
Located in Geneve, CH
Reina Cabinet by Lola Glamour Dimensions: D 45 x W 120 x H 168 cm Materials: Wood. We are Félix and Désirée Ramos, brothers and product designers of our brand, Lola Glamour. We are...
Wood
$5,576 / item
Reina Cabinet by Lola Glamour
Located in Geneve, CH
Reina Cabinet by Lola Glamour Dimensions: D 42 x W 93 x H 127 cm Materials: Wood. We are Félix and Désirée Ramos, brothers and product designers of our brand, Lola Glamour. We are ...
Wood
$4,981 / item
Dinastía Cabinet by Lola Glamour
Located in Geneve, CH
Dinastía Cabinet by Lola Glamour Dimensions: D 40 x W 140 x H 160 cm Materials: Wood. We are Félix and Désirée Ramos, brothers and product designers of our brand, Lola Glamour. We ...
Wood
$5,382 / item
Gaudi Cabinet by Lola Glamour
Located in Geneve, CH
Gaudi Cabinet by Lola Glamour Dimensions: D 53 x W 125 x H 185 cm Materials: Wood. Or how to print a second skin on a piece of furniture that yearns for a new life. A tattoo that ru...
Wood
$5,450 / item
London Cabinet by Lola Glamour
Located in Geneve, CH
London Cabinet by Lola Glamour Dimensions: D 45 x W 110 x H 205 cm Materials: Wood. Independent modules that look to each other, drawing a structured disorder that is self-satisfied...
Wood
$5,576 / item
Punk Cabinet by Lola Glamour
Located in Geneve, CH
Punk Cabinet by Lola Glamour Dimensions: D 40 x W 120 x H 165 cm Materials: Wood. The natural finish of the wood transmits strength to the panels hand painted by our artisans. Toget...
Wood
$4,844 / item
Pez Cabinet by Lola Glamour
Located in Geneve, CH
Pez Cabinet by Lola Glamour Dimensions: D 42 x W 140 x H 166 cm Materials: Wood. It is as beautiful on the outside as it is on the inside. The front scales, which can change positio...
Wood
$6,275 / item
Magic Cabinet by Lola Glamour
Located in Geneve, CH
Magic Cabinet by Lola Glamour Dimensions: D 56 x W 145 x H 185 cm Materials: Wood. Are you looking for a piece that will steal everyone's attention in the room? With its elegant des...
Wood
$4,821 / item
Puzle Cabinet by Lola Glamour
Located in Geneve, CH
Puzle Cabinet by Lola Glamour Dimensions: D 40 x W 80 x H 166 cm Materials: Wood. The beginning of the puzzle dates back to 1762, when a Londoner named Spilsbury made one by chance,...
Wood
$4,844 / item
Bosco Cabinet by Lola Glamour
Located in Geneve, CH
Bosco Cabinet by Lola Glamour Dimensions: D 47 x W 115 x H 149 cm Materials: Wood. With each piece in the Bosco series, we aim to bring a piece of the forest into your home, fusing ...
Wood
$38,912 / item
Bukolisch Vanity Cabinet by Vetralia
Located in Geneve, CH
Bukolisch Vanity Cabinet by Vetralia Designed by Lucia Massari Dimensions: W 64 x D 42 x H 112 cm Materials: Wood structure with engraved painted mirror. VETRALIA Functional Art ba...
Wood, Mirror
$3,904 / item
Free Wide Cabinet by DAaZ
Located in Geneve, CH
Free Wide Cabinet by DAaZ Dimensions: D 45 x W 200 x H 65.4 cm. Materials: Albizzia wood. DAaZ Furniture honors the spirit of adventure. We embrace the escape of the ordinary and r...
Wood
Bubble Glass Wall Shelf by Panorammma, Hand-Blown Frosted, Post-Modern Design
By Panorammma
Located in Ciudad de México, CDMX
The Bubble Glass Shelf embodies a retro-futuristic fantasy. Inspired by past visions of the future, it draws from mysterious tales of speculative technologies and flying saucers. Its...
Blown Glass, Cut Glass
$4,660 / item
Enigma Cabinet by Warm Nordic
Located in Geneve, CH
Enigma cabinet by Warm Nordic Dimensions: D 49 x W 49 x H 180 cm Material: Powder coated steel cabinet, Tempered glass Weight: 80 kg An elegant glass display cabinet with a tim...
Steel
$12,596 / item
Grow Cabinet by Marre Moerel
Located in Geneve, CH
Grow Cabinet by Marre Moerel Dimensions: D 61 x W 71 x H 157 cm. Materials: Painted MDF. Semi-gloss finish. Marre Moerel is an internationally acclaimed designer, who has worked fo...
Wood
Italian Secretary Cabinet 1970's
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This tall Italian cabinet features an architectural silhouette, crafted from warm honey-toned wood with a gently curved top reminiscent of a vaulted ceiling. A stepped plinth base gi...
Brass
$24,254 / item
Moustique Cocktail Cabinet by Redeco
Located in Geneve, CH
Moustique Cocktail Cabinet by Redeco Dimensions: W 120 x D 55 x H 150 cm Materials: Lightened mdf and mdf structure. Two outer curved doors with magnetic closing, one central bronze ...
Metal, Bronze
$22,765 / item
Loop Cabinet by Tuğçe Geyik
Located in Geneve, CH
Loop Cabinet by Tuğçe Geyik Dimensions: D 45 x W 120 x H 190 cm. Materials: Stainless steel. Tuğçe Geyik is an architect and designer based in Istanbul. She studied at Yildiz Techni...
Stainless Steel
$64,403 / item
Longing Cabinet by De Castelli
Located in Geneve, CH
Longing Cabinet by De Castelli Dimensions: W 150 x D 47 x H 177 cm Materials: Mix Copper, Wood Brass version also available. Please contact us for any request. Composed by small squ...
Copper
$2,095 / item
Colr Medium Cabinet by Pastform
Located in Geneve, CH
Colr Medium Cabinet by Pastform Dimensions: D 40 x W 120 x H 64 cm. Materials: Stained and varnished wood. Available in different wood color finishes and combinations. Available in ...
Wood
$8,700 / item
1970s Italian Tall Cabinets in Walnut
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Cabinets, walnut, glass, Italy, 1970s These three walnut cabinets from 1970s Italy have a strong and unusual shape that immediately stands out. The most noticeable element is the ro...
Walnut
$19,124 / item
Marea Cabinet by De Castelli
Located in Geneve, CH
Marea Cabinet by De Castelli Dimensions: W 90 x D 45 x H 155 cm Materials: DeMarea Copper, Titanium Oak Wood Brass and Stainless Steel versions also available. Please contact us for ...
Copper
$17,548 / item
Marea Cabinet by De Castelli
Located in Geneve, CH
Marea Cabinet by De Castelli Dimensions: W 90 x D 45 x H 155 cm Materials: DeMarea Brass, Titanium Oak Wood Stainless Steel and Copper versions also available. Please contact us for ...
Brass
$6,023 / item
Oh Lola Cabinet by Lola Glamour
Located in Geneve, CH
Oh Lola Cabinet by Lola Glamour Dimensions: D 45 x W 130 x H 200 cm Materials: Wood. Modular boxes assembled together with flat finishes, without patina or aged. We play with the vo...
Wood
$19,759 / item
Coatlicue Cabinet by Andres Gutierrez
Located in Geneve, CH
Coatlicue cabinet by Andres Gutierrez Dimensions: D40 x W90 x H185 cm Materials: Solid white oak wood. — Inspired by the Aztec goddess of life and death, Coatlicue, ‘The One W...
Oak
$4,248 / item
Dinastía Bar Cabinet by Lola Glamour
Located in Geneve, CH
Dinastía Bar Cabinet by Lola Glamour Dimensions: D 40 x W 120 x H 145 cm Materials: Wood. Piece designed for those who fell in love with the Dynasty series but do not want to give u...
Wood
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.
Of all the vintage storage cabinets and antique case pieces that have become popular in modern interiors over the years, dressers, credenzas and cabinets have long been home staples, perfect for routine storage or protection of personal items.
In the mid-19th century, cabinetmakers would mimic styles originating in the Louis XIV, Louis XV and Louis XVI eras for their dressers, bookshelves and other structures, and, later, simpler, streamlined wood designs allowed these “case pieces” or “case goods” — any furnishing that is unupholstered and has some semblance of a storage component — to blend into the background of any interior.
Mid-century modern furniture enthusiasts will cite the tall modular wall units crafted in teak and other sought-after woods of the era by the likes of George Nelson, Poul Cadovius and Finn Juhl. For these highly customizable furnishings, designers of the day delivered an alternative to big, heavy bookcases by considering the use of space — and, in particular, walls — in new and innovative ways. Mid-century modern credenzas, which, long and low, evolved from tables that were built as early as the 14th century in Italy, typically have no legs or very short legs and have grown in popularity as an alluring storage option over time.
Although the name immediately invokes images of clothing, dressers were initially created in Europe for a much different purpose. This furnishing was initially a flat-surfaced, low-profile side table equipped with a few drawers — a common fixture used to dress and prepare meats in English kitchens throughout the Tudor period. The drawers served as perfect utensil storage. It wasn’t until the design made its way to North America that it became enlarged and equipped with enough space to hold clothing and cosmetics. The very history of case pieces is a testament to their versatility and well-earned place in any room.
In the spirit of positioning your case goods center stage, decluttering can now be design-minded.
A contemporary case piece with open shelving and painted wood details can prove functional as a storage unit as easily as it can a room divider. Alternatively, apothecary cabinets are charming case goods similar in size to early dressers or commodes but with uniquely sized shelving and (often numerous) drawers.
Whether you’re seeking a playful sideboard that features colored glass and metal details, an antique Italian hand-carved storage cabinet or a glass-door vitrine to store and show off your collectibles, there are options for you on 1stDibs.