$6,393 / 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
$18,321 / 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
$9,049 / 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
$26,688 / 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
$13,620 / 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
$2,315 / item
Natural Oak Marius Cabinet by HARTO
Located in Geneve, CH
Natural Oak Marius Cabinet by HARTO Dimensions: W 120.5 x D 45 x H 130 cm. Materials: Solid Wood, MDF wood veneer. Weight: 77.0 kg With its beautiful stature of 120cm wide and 13...
Wood
$2,749 / item
Natural Walnut Marius Cabinet by HARTO
Located in Geneve, CH
Natural Walnut Marius Cabinet by HARTO Dimensions: W 120.5 x D 45 x H 130 cm. Materials: Solid Wood, MDF Wood veneer. Weight: 77.0 kg With its beautiful stature of 120cm wide and ...
Wood
$12,927 / 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
$9,049 / 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
Pair of bedside cabinets by Interluke, 1970s
By Interlübke
Located in Leuven, Vlaams Gewest
Pair of vintage black lacquered bedside cabinets by Interlubke. Each cabinet has 2 drawers. Timeless design 1970s - Germany good condition Dimensions: Height: 43cm Width: 65cm...
Wood, Lacquer
$25,854 / 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
$20,789 / 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
$9,695 / 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
$17,968 / 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
$6,769 / item
Lyn High Grey Black Cabinet by Pulpo
Located in Geneve, CH
Lyn High Grey Black Cabinet by Pulpo Dimensions: D60 x W45 x H185 cm Materials: glass; powder coated steel Also available in different colours. Studio Visser & Meijwaard ...
Steel
$8,790 / item
Lyn High Blue Black Cabinet by Pulpo
Located in Geneve, CH
Lyn high blue black cabinet by Pulpo Dimensions: D60 x W45 x H185 cm Materials: glass; powder coated steel Also available in different colours. Studio Visser & Meijwaard...
Steel
$6,769 / item
Lyn High Green Black Cabinet by Pulpo
Located in Geneve, CH
Lyn high green black cabinet by Pulpo. Dimensions: D60 x W45 x H185 cm. Materials: glass; powder coated steel. Also available in different colours. Studio Visser & Meijw...
Steel
$1,116 / 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
$24,820 / 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
$9,213 / 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
$27,147 / 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
$12,421 / 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
$3,267 / 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
$3,607 / 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
$2,937 / 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
$2,350 / 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
$21,882 / item
Loom Wall Cabinet by Dalmoto
Located in Geneve, CH
Loom Wall Cabinet by Dalmoto Dimensions: D 36 x W 50 x H 150 cm. Materials: Wood, metal and rope. Available in different metal options: Ottone Delabré, Nichel Marino and Materico. A...
Metal
$34,127 / item
Polifemo Cabinet by De Castelli
Located in Geneve, CH
Polifemo Cabinet by De Castelli Dimensions: W 85 x D 31 x H 165 cm Materials: Brushed Copper, Wood, DeLabré Stainless Steel legs, Wood Brass version also available. Please contact us...
Copper, Stainless Steel
$2,667 / item
Object 033 Cabinet by NG Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Object 033 Cabinet by NG Design Dimensions: D65 x W34 x H149 cm Materials: Powder coated steel, Tempered Glass Also Available: All of objects available in different materials and co...
Steel
$1,116 / item
Object 029 Cabinet by NG Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Object 029 Cabinet by NG Design Dimensions: D50 x W27x H80 cm Materials: Powder coated steel, Tempered Glass. Also Available: All of objects available in different materials and...
Steel
$1,139 / item
Object 028 Cabinet by NG Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Object 028 Cabinet by NG Design Dimensions: D50 x W27 x H80 cm Materials: Powder coated steel, Tempered Glass. Also Available: All of objects available in different materials an...
Steel
Shiro Kuramata "Dinah" Cabinet for Cappellini #008 Italy
By Shiro Kuramata, Cappellini
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Versatile piece that would look great with any style of decor/interior design including mid century modern, post modern, vintage, bohemian, contemporary, Italian design, Japandi, wab...
Metal
$4,950
Barraco Buffet Cabinet
By Tri Design
Located in Londrina, Paraná
Inspired in the housings in the "favelas" of São Paulo. The Barraco buffet uses a mix of different laminates to create a unique visual.
Wood
$16,029 / item
Rockhound Cabinet by Laylo Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Rockhound Cabinet by Laylo Studio Limited Edition Dimensions: D 50 x W 106.6 x H 91.4 cm. Materials: Steel, stainless steel, linoleum, oak, limestone. Deposited by prehistoric seas ...
Limestone, Steel, Stainless Steel
$20,307 / item
Moustique Cocktail 5044 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
$2,714 / item
XOXO HUG Cabinet L by Phormy
Located in Geneve, CH
XOXO HUG Cabinet L by Phormy Dimensions: D 47 x W 181 x H 85 cm. Materials: Natural and painted oak veneer / natural or painted oak Different materials and sizes available. X...
Oak
$2,714 / item
Xoxo Kisses Cabinet L by Phormy
Located in Geneve, CH
Xoxo Kisses cabinet L by Phormy Dimensions: D 47 x W 181 x H 85 cm. Materials: Natural and painted oak veneer / natural or painted oak Different materials and sizes available. ...
Oak
$2,714 / item
XOXO Pink Cabinet L by Phormy
Located in Geneve, CH
XOXO Pink Cabinet L by Phormy Dimensions: D 47 x W 181 x H 85 cm. Materials: Natural and painted oak veneer / natural or painted oak Different materials and sizes available. Ple...
Oak
$3,619 / item
CHAIN MAIL I Cabinet by ZEMNA
Located in Geneve, CH
CHAIN MAIL I Cabinet by ZEMNA Designed by Tetiana Krasutska and Andrew Dobryansky. Dimensions: D 43 x W 47 x H 85 cm. Materials: Wood and ceramic granite. We were inspired by a ch...
Granite
$5,817 / item
CHAIN MAIL II Cabinet by ZEMNA
Located in Geneve, CH
CHAIN MAIL II Cabinet by ZEMNA Designed by Tetiana Krasutska and Andrew Dobryansky. Dimensions: D 43 x W 93 x H 85 cm. Materials: Wood and ceramic granite. We were inspired by a c...
Granite
$7,756 / item
CHAIN MAIL III Cabinet by ZEMNA
Located in Geneve, CH
CHAIN MAIL III Cabinet by ZEMNA Designed by Tetiana Krasutska and Andrew Dobryansky. Dimensions: D 43 x W 140 x H 85 cm. Materials: Wood and ceramic granite. We were inspired by a...
Granite
$2,409 / item
Object 027 Cabinet by NG Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Object 027 cabinet by NG design Dimensions: D115 x W50 x H76 cm Materials: Powder coated steel, Tempered Glass. Also Available: All of objects available in different materials a...
Steel
$2,350 / item
Object 002 Cabinet by NG Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Object 002 cabinet by NG Design Dimensions: D115 x W50 x H76 cm Materials: Powder coated steel. Also Available: All of objects available in different materials and colors on dem...
Steel
$2,042 / item
Object 022 Cabinet by NG Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Object 022 Cabinet by NG Design Dimensions: D66 x W38 x H120 cm Materials: Powder coated steel, Tempered Glass. Also Available: All of objects available in different materials a...
Steel
$2,009 / item
Object 021 Cabinet by Ng Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Object 021 cabinet by NG Design Dimensions: D66 x W38 x H120 cm Materials: Powder coated steel, Tempered Glass. Also Available: All of objects available in different materials a...
Steel
$21,188 / item
Cascada Bar Cabinet by NITUSH AROOSH
Located in Geneve, CH
Cascada Bar Cabinet by NITUSH AROOSH Dimensions: D 50 x W 100 x H 160 cm. Materials: Stainless steel. Available in different finishes. All our lamps can be wired according to each ...
Stainless Steel
$5,593 / item
Oxide Side Cabinet by Laylo Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Oxide Side Cabinet by Laylo Studio Dimensions: D 45.7 x W 61 x H 61 cm. Materials: Blackened steel, ebonized walnut. LAYLO is the practice of Sam and Lydia Link. Founded with the i...
Steel
$2,832 / item
LOTV Vinyl Slide Cabinet by Pastform
Located in Geneve, CH
LOTV Vinyl Slide Cabinet by Pastform Dimensions: D 41 x W 150 x H 57 cm Materials: Stained and varnished wood. Available in different wood color finishes: Whiskey, Rum, BPA, Nobel, ...
Wood
$2,373 / item
ORTO L Full Cabinet by Phormy
Located in Geneve, CH
ORTO L full cabinet by Phormy Dimensions: D 40 x W 185 x H 85 cm. Materials: acrylic engraved or flat laminate oak laquered oaken base Different materials and sizes available. ...
Oak
$2,080 / item
Orto M Full Cabinet by Phormy
Located in Geneve, CH
ORTO M full cabinet by Phormy Dimensions: D 40 x W 153.5 x H 85 cm. Materials: acrylic engraved or flat laminate oak laquered oaken base. Different materials and sizes available...
Oak
$2,620 / item
UMAMI U2 Walnut Cabinet by Phormy
Located in Geneve, CH
UMAMI U2 walnut cabinet by Phormy Dimensions: D 46 x W 162 x H 83 cm. Materials: American walnut, powder coated steel base. Different materials and sizes available. UMAMI, (o...
Walnut
$3,525 / item
Umami U3 Oak Cabinet by Phormy
Located in Geneve, CH
UMAMI U3 Oak Cabinet by Phormy Dimensions: D 46 x W 162 x H 68 cm. Materials: Oak, powder coated steel base. Different materials and sizes available. Please contact us. UMAM...
Oak
$43,000 / item
L’Aure TF Cabinet by Estro Collezioni
Located in Geneve, CH
L’Aure TF Cabinet by Estro Collezioni Dimensions: W 180/220 x D 50 x H 90 cm Materials: Wood, Marble, Metal. Freestanding cabinet made in solid wood structure. The top is in a 6 c...
Marble, Metal
$2,620 / item
Bonam TV Medium Cabinet by Pastform
Located in Geneve, CH
Bonam TV Medium Cabinet by Pastform Dimensions: D 50 x W 120 x H 45 cm. Materials: Stained and varnished wood. Available in different wood color finishes: BPA, Nobel, Brandy, Whiske...
Wood
$2,444 / item
Pota Medium Media Cabinet by Pastform
Located in Geneve, CH
Pota Medium Media Cabinet by Pastform Dimensions: D 40 x W 160 x H 55 cm. Materials: Stained and varnished wood. Available in different wood color finishes: BPA, Nobel, Brandy, Whis...
Wood
$2,620 / item
Moca Bathroom Large Cabinet by Pastform
Located in Geneve, CH
Moca Bathroom Large 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, Nob...
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.