Post Modern Plate Glass and Brass Wall Mount Shelf, C. 1970's
By Fontana Arte
Located in New York, NY
Wall mount plate glass shelf, having a thick ( 1" ) top, with brass brackets. Well crafted, sophisticated design, in very good, original condition. Made in the USA in the Italian sty...
Brass
Calacatta Meet Bookcase by Andrea Giomi, Marble, Post-Modern Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Calacatta Meet bookcase by Andrea Giomi Dimensions: D 45 x W 90 x H 200 cm Materials: Calacatta marble. Also available in Carrara marble. Andrea Giomi, was born in Castelfiorentino ...
Marble
Nikol International Tall Post-Modern Sideboard in Walnut and Smoked Glass
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Nikol International, storage unit/sideboard, walnut, smoked glass, Italy, 1970s/early 1980s Presenting an exquisite post-modern sideboard that skillfully balances form and function ...
Smoked Glass, Walnut
$2,560Sale Price / set|20% Off
Pair of Post modern bright white Gloss Laminate waterfall 3 Drawer Dressers
By Memphis Milano, Lane Furniture
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pair of matching beautiful post modern bright white gloss laminate waterfall front 3 drawer short dressers, circa 1980. Very clean inside and out. Look at photos. all drawers have me...
Laminate, Plywood
Black Irregular Stainless Steel Post Modern Sideboard By Michael Gittings
By Michael Gittings
Located in Geneve, CH
Side board by Michael Gittings Dimensions: d 70 x w 200 x h 87 cm. Materials: Stainless steel. Michael Gittings imagines with his hands. Since establishing his studio in 2016, t...
Stainless Steel
Post Modern Lacquered Wall Unit Entertainment Center Chest of Drawers c 1970/80s
By Karl Springer
Located in New York, NY
Massive lacquered sideboard, entertainment center, chest of drawers, in faux marbleized finish, made by Elkins Industries c. 1970/80's. This impressive cabinet features two banks of ...
Lacquer
Nanook - Post-Modern Credenza Brushed Steel and Marble Handmade in BK, NY
By Franco V
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Nanook - Post Modern Credenza The Nanook Credenza represents a bold intersection of artistic vision and functional design. This hand crafted credenza merges powder coated steel wit...
Marble, Steel
$1,920Sale Price|20% Off
Custom Pop art post modern 3 door beige Pill shaped credenza sideboard
By Memphis Milano, Ello Furniture
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pop art post modern 3 door beige colored Pill shaped rounded ends credenza sideboard.
Laminate, Wood
Unique Post Modern Mid century Birch Steel Bar Cart Italy
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Awesome Unique Postmodern mid century Birch and steel Bar Cart. Very cool custom built unit with side lower drawer and shelves on black rubber casters. The top surface extends wider ...
Steel
Italian Post Modern Travertine, Wood and Polished Stainless Steel Bookcase
Located in Weesp, NL
Postmodern Italian Masterpiece: A Fusion of Art and Functionality Elevate your interior with this stunning postmodern Italian bookcase, a true statement piece that blends timeless d...
Travertine, Stainless Steel
$45,127Sale Price|20% Off
1980 Post-Modern Big Wall-Unit in Metall, lacquered Plywood in Blue, White Black
Located in Berlin, DE
This 1980s Post-Modern One of a Kind Big Wall-Unit was made in metal, lacquered plywood, brass and lacquered plastic. It is in blue, white, black and ocher beige. The fantastic mech...
Metal, Brass
$2,400Sale Price|20% Off
Post Modern Floral smoked mirror glass 4 door credenza with mirror brass
By Ello Furniture
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Post Modern Floral smoked mirror glass 4 door credenza with mirror brass by Ello. Great Post Modern mirror sideboard with 4 Doors adjustable shelves and (1) drawer. The front doors h...
Brass
$1,960Sale Price|20% Off
Post modern white Gloss Laminate waterfall 6 Drawer Dresser with round mirror
By Lane Furniture, Memphis Milano
Located in Brooklyn, NY
beautiful post modern white gloss laminate and chrome trim waterfall front 6 drawer dresser with original round mirror, circa 1980. Very clean inside and out. Look at photos. all dra...
Mirror, Laminate, Plywood
Gold Rectangular Wood Brass Post Modern Geometric Sideboard By Valentina Giovand
Located in Geneve, CH
Musibah Sideboard by Valentina Giovando Dimensions: W 250 x D 65 x H 95 cm. Materials: Wood, Fabric, Brass, Fiberglass, Bronze, Zinc. Valentina Giovando, Lives and works in Sarzan...
Zinc, Bronze, Brass
1980s Stone International Post-Modern Black Marble Glass Shelving Unit Italian
By Stone International
Located in London, GB
An impressive and monumental shelving unit in black carrara marble with asymmetrical raw edges and clear tempered glass. This piece has been made in late 1980s early 1990s by Stone I...
Marble
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
Italian post modern modular curved edges black and white wooden bookcase, 1980s
Located in MIlano, IT
Italian post modern modular curved edges black and white wooden bookcase, 1980s Modular bookcase in black and white lacquered wood with a matte finish. The modules, which make up bot...
Wood
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
$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 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 Ring Shelf by Panorammma in Marble and Aluminum, Mexico
By Panorammma
Located in Ciudad de México, CDMX
Ring Shelf is a free-standing, asymmetric, stone ring that touches on the of modernist sculptor Isamu Noguchi’s incorporation of varicolored stone segments to form larger structures....
Marble, Aluminum
Post Modern Memphis Salvatore Campos Art Brute Red Cat Metal Letter Desk Holder
By Ettore Sottsass
Located in St.Petersburg, FL
Post Modern Memphis Salvatore Campos Art Brute Red Cat Metal Letter Desk Holder Wonderful, whimsical, bright Red Cat desk file by Brutalist American artist Salvatore Campos. The c...
Sheet Metal
Post Modern Memphis Chest of Drawers by Lam Lee
By Lam Lee Group
Located in Miami, FL
Beautiful Post Modern Memphis Style chest of drawers. Handmade in Italy, this striking piece features silver and gold leaf detail throughout with stripes and shapes giving it the po...
Gold Leaf, Silver Leaf
$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
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
$2,240Sale 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 Milano, Ettore Sottsass, Memphis Group
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
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
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
$20,166 / 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
$3,500
Curvy Wood Cabinet
Located in Toronto, CA
A sculptural take on classic storage. This tallboy twists tradition with its undulating silhouette and rich, honeyed wood grain. Each of the nine narrow drawers is a little offbeat, ...
Wood
$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
Modern Italian Pink Purple Glass Geometric Postmodern Brass Cabinet Sideboard
By Cosulich Interiors & Antiques
Located in New York, NY
Bring your own accent colors to any space with our customizable modern collection, entirely handmade in Italy, with the purpose of anchoring individuality through Art in a functional...
Brass
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
Modern Italian Pink Purple Glass Geometric Postmodern Brass Cabinet Sideboard
By Cosulich Interiors & Antiques
Located in New York, NY
Bring your own accent colors to any space with our customizable modern collection, entirely handmade in Italy, with the purpose of anchoring individuality through Art in a functional...
Brass
$12,151 / item
Catz Drawer Cabinet by Madheke
Located in Geneve, CH
Catz Drawer Cabinet by Madheke Dimensions: D 75 x W 57.5 x H 121.5 cm. Materials: Veneered body in high gloss, Brushed antique base, Travel trunk-styled drawers with leather pull han...
Leather
$4,618 / 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
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
$11,129 / 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
$4,242 / 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
$8,285 / 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
$3,948 / 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
Modern Italian Ivory Gray Teal Blue Geometric Postmodern Brass Cabinet Sideboard
By Cosulich Interiors & Antiques
Located in New York, NY
Bring your own accent colors to any space with our customizable modern collection, entirely handmade in Italy, with the purpose of anchoring individuality through Art in a functional...
Brass
$5,088 / 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
$5,029 / 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
$5,029 / 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
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
$2,761 / 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
$2,973 / item
COMO Cabinet by Phormy
Located in Geneve, CH
COMO cabinet by Phormy Dimensions: D 44 x W 145 x H 80 cm. Materials: bleached solid oak, bleached oak veneer, laquered fronts, powder coated steel base. Different materials and...
Oak
$1,563 / 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
$1,739 / 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
$6,099 / 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
$3,995 / 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
$5,981 / 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
$4,606 / 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
$5,687 / 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
$5,723 / 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
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.