$23,515 / 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
$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
$6,221 / 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
$4,388 / 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
Memphis Milano 1980s Gerard Taylor Airport Cabinet
By Gerard Taylor
Located in Roanoke, VA
A rare and highly collectible early Memphis Milano design by Gerard Taylor, the Airport Cabinet exemplifies the movement’s radical approach to color, geometry, and functional furnitu...
Steel
$66,523 / 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
$2,164 / 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
$19,753 / 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
$18,121 / 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
$20,404 / 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
$3,785 / item
Small Cibeles Cabinet by Lola Glamour
Located in Geneve, CH
Small Cibeles Cabinet by Lola Glamour Dimensions: D 41 x W 73 x H 130 cm Materials: Wood. We are Félix and Désirée Ramos, brothers and product designers of our brand, Lola Glamour....
Wood
$4,636 / item
Taupe Toscano Cabinet by Lola Glamour
Located in Geneve, CH
Taupe 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....
Wood
$2,164 / item
Lowbo M Cabinet by Phormy
Located in Geneve, CH
LOWBO M cabinet by Phormy Dimensions: D 40 x W 155 x H 53 cm. Materials: acrylic engraved or flat laminate, oak, powder coated steel base Different materials and sizes available...
Oak
$1,750 / item
Lowbo S Cabinet by Phormy
Located in Geneve, CH
LOWBO S cabinet by Phormy Dimensions: D 40 x W 119 x H 53 cm. Materials: acrylic engraved or flat laminate, oak, powder coated steel base Different materials and sizes available...
Oak
$2,460 / item
UNITY Cabinet S by Phormy
Located in Geneve, CH
UNITY cabinet S by Phormy Dimensions: D 44 x W 125 x H 70 cm. Materials: Lacquered oak / oak veneer / interior made of black MDF dyed in mass / powder coated steel. Different m...
Oak
$2,637 / item
Unity Cabinet M by Phormy
Located in Geneve, CH
UNITY Cabinet M by Phormy Dimensions: D 44 x W 148 x H 70 cm. Materials: Lacquered oak / oak veneer / interior made of black MDF dyed in mass / powder coated steel. Different m...
Oak
$2,696 / item
Lowbo L Cabinet by Phormy
Located in Geneve, CH
LOWBO L cabinet by Phormy Dimensions: D 40 x W 192 x H 53 cm. Materials: acrylic engraved or flat laminate, oak, powder coated steel base Different materials and sizes available...
Oak
$1,892 / item
Vina Medium Cabinet by Pastform
Located in Geneve, CH
Vina Medium Cabinet by Pastform Dimensions: D 45 x W 100 x H 75 cm. Materials: Stained and varnished wood. Available in different wood color finishes: BPA, Nobel, Brandy, Whiskey, R...
Wood
$3,217 / item
LOTV Vinyl Cabinet by Pastform
Located in Geneve, CH
LOTV Vinyl Cabinet by Pastform Dimensions: D 40 x W 175 x H 57 cm Materials: Stained and varnished wood. Available in different wood color finishes: Whiskey, Rum, BPA, Nobel, Brandy...
Wood
$2,696 / item
LOTV Vinyl Cabinet by Pastform
Located in Geneve, CH
LOTV Vinyl Cabinet by Pastform Dimensions: D 40 x W 150 x H 57 cm Materials: Stained and varnished wood. Available in different wood color finishes: Whiskey, Rum, BPA, Nobel, Brandy...
Wood
$2,578 / item
LOTV TV Cabinet by Pastform
Located in Geneve, CH
LOTV TV Cabinet by Pastform Dimensions: D 40 x W 175 x H 57 cm Materials: Stained and varnished wood. Available in different wood color finishes: Whiskey, Rum, BPA, Nobel, Brandy, S...
Wood
$2,720 / item
LOTV TV Cabinet by Pastform
Located in Geneve, CH
LOTV TV Cabinet by Pastform Dimensions: D 40 x W 200 x H 57 cm Materials: Stained and varnished wood. Available in different wood color finishes: Whiskey, Rum, BPA, Nobel, Brandy, S...
Wood
$32,327 / item
Graffio Cabinet by De Castelli
Located in Geneve, CH
Graffio Cabinet by De Castelli Dimensions: W 140 x D 55 x H 145 cm Materials: DeEroston Copper, Natural Oak Wood Brass and Stainless Steel versions also available. Please contact us ...
Copper
$28,199 / item
Sanayi313 Cabinet by Sanayi 313
Located in Geneve, CH
Sanayi313 cabinet by Sanayi 313 Unique Piece Dimensions: W 160 x D 60 x H 90 cm Materials: Ash Veneer This cabinet also has a hidden led light inside. SANAYI313 is an Istanb...
Ash
$20,818 / item
Solomia Cabinet by Ruda Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Solomia Cabinet by Ruda Studio Dimensions: D 45 x W 170 x H 75 cm. Materials: Solid Ash Wood, Rye Straw Inlay, Plywood, Brass handles and legs. Weight: 70 kg. Design brand RUDA Stud...
Brass
$1,573 / item
Mid Medium Cabinet by Pastform
Located in Geneve, CH
Mid Medium Cabinet by Pastform Dimensions: D 40 x W 100 x H 85 cm. Materials: Stained and varnished wood. Available in different wood color finishes: Whiskey, Rum, BPA, Nobel, Brand...
Wood
$5,393 / item
Serie 2020 Cabinet by Lola Glamour
Located in Geneve, CH
Serie 2020 Cabinet by Lola Glamour Dimensions: D 46 x W 120 x H 160 cm Materials: Wood. It fuses styles, trends, eras, materials, graphics, and craftsmanship. The 2020 series is uni...
Wood
$4,222 / item
One Entry Cabinet by Lola Glamour
Located in Geneve, CH
One Entry Cabinet by Lola Glamour Dimensions: D 42 x W 80 x H 125 cm Materials: Wood. Let yourself be surprised and turn the space into an end in itself. Combine different patterns,...
Wood
$3,548 / item
Lego Entry Cabinet by Lola Glamour
Located in Geneve, CH
Lego Entry Cabinet by Lola Glamour Dimensions: D 48 x W 90 x H 130 cm Materials: Wood. The pieces of the famous Lego construction game have given us glorious moments when we were ch...
Wood
$3,643 / item
Dinastía Entry Cabinet by Lola Glamour
Located in Geneve, CH
Dinastía Entry Cabinet by Lola Glamour Dimensions: D 35 x W 88 x H 135 cm Materials: Wood. The smallest of the Dynasty series, but not for that reason renounces its grandeur. Four-d...
Wood
$2,673 / item
Lane Medium Cabinet by Pastform
Located in Geneve, CH
Lane Medium Cabinet by Pastform Dimensions: D 40 x W 100 x H 85 cm. Materials: Stained and varnished wood. Available in different wood color finishes: BPA, Nobel, Brandy, Whiskey, R...
Wood
$2,247 / item
Opan Medium Cabinet by Pastform
Located in Geneve, CH
Opan Medium Cabinet by Pastform Dimensions: D 35 x W 120 x H 65 cm. Materials: Stained and varnished wood. Available in different wood color finishes: Whiskey, Rum, BPA, Nobel, Bran...
Wood
$2,909 / item
Loma Medium Cabinet by Pastform
Located in Geneve, CH
Loma Medium Cabinet by Pastform Dimensions: D 40 x W 120 x H 90 cm. Materials: Stained and varnished wood. Available in different wood color finishes: BPA, Nobel, Brandy, Whiskey, R...
Wood
$2,342 / item
Mid + Medium Cabinet by Pastform
Located in Geneve, CH
Mid + Medium Cabinet by Pastform Dimensions: D 40 x W 120 x H 85 cm. Materials: Stained and varnished wood. Available in different wood color finishes: Whiskey, Rum, BPA, Nobel, Bra...
Wood
$2,069 / item
Mona Medium Cabinet by Pastform
Located in Geneve, CH
Mona Medium Cabinet by Pastform Dimensions: D 40 x W 100 x H 85 cm. Materials: Stained and varnished wood. Available in different wood color finishes: Whiskey, Rum, BPA, Nobel, Bran...
Wood
$3,938 / item
Tetris Entry Cabinet by Lola Glamour
Located in Geneve, CH
Tetris Entry Cabinet by Lola Glamour Dimensions: D 45 x W 75 x H 160 cm Materials: Wood. Composing a piece of furniture based on modules is a challenge and a game. When the possibil...
Wood
$2,022 / item
Rina Medium Cabinet by Pastform
Located in Geneve, CH
Rina Medium Cabinet by Pastform Dimensions: D 40 x W 100 x H 85 cm. Materials: Stained and varnished wood. Available in different wood color finishes: Whiskey, Rum, BPA, Nobel, Bran...
Wood
$2,436 / item
Vinyl Play Cabinet by Pastform
Located in Geneve, CH
Vinyl Play Cabinet by Pastform Dimensions: D 50 x W 94 x H 79 cm Materials: Stained and varnished wood. Available in different wood color finishes: Whiskey, Rum, BPA, Nobel, Brandy,...
Wood
$1,833 / item
Mido Large Cabinet by Pastform
Located in Geneve, CH
Mido Large Cabinet by Pastform Dimensions: D 40 x W 120 x H 75 cm. Materials: Stained and varnished wood. Available in different wood color finishes: BPA, Nobel, Brandy, Whiskey, Ru...
Wood
$18,440 / 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 and wood. Available in custom sizing and finishes. Please contact us. Tuğçe Geyik is an ...
Stainless Steel
$28,814 / item
Yoroi Cabinet by De Castelli
Located in Geneve, CH
Yoroi Cabinet by De Castelli Dimensions: W 208 x D 46 x H 90 cm Materials: Orbitale DeLabrè Brass, Natural Oak Wood Stainless Steel and Copper version also available. Please contact ...
Brass
$9,107 / item
Sliding Cabinet by Nick Sugihara
Located in Geneve, CH
Sliding Cabinet by Nick Sugihara Dimensions: D 45.72 x W 180.34 x H 78.74 cm. Materials: Oiled cherry wood. Available in cherry and Alaskan cedar. Please contact us. Sugihara Fine...
Cherry
$16,086 / 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 Stainless Steel, Titanium Oak Wood Brass and Copper versions also available. Please contact us for ...
Stainless Steel
$6,434 / item
Walnut Burl Storage Cabinet by Petra Madalena
Located in Geneve, CH
Walnut Burl Storage Cabinet by Petra Madalena Dimensions: W 70 x D 40 x H 100 cm Materials: walnut burl veneer. Weight: 50 kg (± 5 kg for packaging) Indulge in the beauty of exquisi...
Walnut
$13,011 / item
Showcase Cabinet, by Paul Heijnen
Located in Geneve, CH
Showcase Cabinet, 4x2 by Paul Heijnen (2011) Dimensions: H131 x L160 x W50 cm Materials: Steel, Oak, Glass Available in different varieties/stains, Each cabinet is made to or...
Steel
$9,094 / item
Showcase Cabinet, by Paul Heijnen
Located in Geneve, CH
Showcase cabinet, 2x2 by Paul Heijnen (2011) Dimensions: H131 x L80 x W50 cm Materials: Steel, oak, glass. Available in different varieties/stains, Each cabinet is made to or...
Steel
$26,022 / item
Armarium Cabinet by Vilde Hagelund
Located in Geneve, CH
Armarium cabinet by Vilde Hagelund Current Production Dimensions: W 60 x D 30 x H 145 cm Materials: Birch Wood. Armarium is a highly functional storage unit made out of birch w...
Other
$20,924 / item
Navajo Canyon Cabinet by InsidherLand
Located in Geneve, CH
Navajo Canyon Cabinet by InsidherLand Dimensions: D 54 x W 100 x H 200 cm. Materials: Wooden structure: walnut and sycamore veneers. Drawers: opening detail and interior lacquered i...
Glass, Sycamore, Walnut
$18,085 / item
Walnut Carlito Cabinet by Atelier Blouberg
Located in Geneve, CH
Walnut Carlito Cabinet by Atelier Blouberg Dimensions: W 44 x D 65 x H 140.5 cm. Materials: Solid Wood, Veneer, Oil. Ruben Van Lerberghe is a furniture designer & maker, born in Ca...
Walnut
$1,123 / item
Object 030 Cabinet by NG Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Object 030 cabinet by NG Design Dimensions: D 50 x W 27x H 80 cm Materials: Powder coated steel. Also Available: All of objects available in different materials and colors on de...
Steel
$26,779 / item
Yoroi Cabinet by De Castelli
Located in Geneve, CH
Yoroi Cabinet by De Castelli Dimensions: W 208 x D 46 x H 90 cm Materials: Orbitale DeLabrè Stainless Steel, Natural Oak Wood Brass and Copper version also available. Please contact ...
Stainless Steel
$9,273 / item
Famed Bar Cabinet by Lagu
Located in Geneve, CH
Famed liquor cabinet by Lagu. Designed by Ufuk Ceylan. Dimensions: W 125 x D 61 x H 90 cm. Materials: brass, marble, oak, walnut. Surrounded in light walnut and marble with age...
Marble, Brass
Danish Designer, Cabinet, Pine, Denmark, 1970s
Located in High Point, NC
A pine cabinet designed and produced in Denmark, 1970s.
Pine
$27,323 / item
Cathedral Cabinet by Paul Heijnen
Located in Geneve, CH
Cathedral cabinet by Paul Heijnen (2013) Dimensions: H 270 x L 240 x W 60 cm Materials: Oak, red cedar, birch Standoffs: Black powder/brushed brass Available in different varie...
Birch, Oak
$12,502 / item
Column Lacquered Cabinet by Tuğçe Geyik
Located in Geneve, CH
Column Lacquered Cabinet by Tuğçe Geyik Dimensions: D 45 x W 180 x H 88 cm. Materials: Lacquered. Tuğçe Geyik is an architect and designer based in Istanbul. She studied at Yildiz ...
Lacquer
$2,365 / item
Object 001 Cabinet by NG Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Object 001 cabinet by NG Design Dimensions: D 115 x W 50 x H 76 cm. Materials: powder coated steel. Also available: All of objects available in different materials and colors on...
Steel
$3,288 / item
Object 090 Cabinet by NG Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Object 090 Cabinet by NG Design Dimensions: W 160 x D 40.5 x H 50 cm Materials: Powder-Coated Steel, Ribbed Glass Also Available: All of objects available in different materials and...
Steel
$3,631 / item
Object 090 Cabinet by NG Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Object 090 Cabinet by NG Design Dimensions: W 180 x D 40.5 x H 50 cm Materials: Powder-Coated Steel, Ribbed Glass Also Available: All of objects available in different materials and...
Steel
$2,957 / item
Object 090 Cabinet by NG Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Object 090 Cabinet by NG Design Dimensions: W 140 x D 40.5 x H 50 cm Materials: Powder-Coated Steel, Ribbed Glass Also Available: All of objects available in different materials and...
Steel
$9,758 / item
Sona Cabinet in Aluminium by Animate Objects
Located in Geneve, CH
Sona Cabinet in Aluminium by Animate Objects. Dimensions: W 48 x D 48 x H 172 cm. Materials: Aluminium. Inspired by Sonia Delaunay’s stage costumes, where geometry became performanc...
Aluminum
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.