$6,780 / 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
$8,805 / 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
$6,780 / 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
$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
$1,118 / 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
$1,141 / 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
$39,319 / 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
$16,057 / 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
$2,719 / 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
$2,719 / 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
$2,719 / 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
$20,342 / 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
$2,413 / 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
$2,046 / 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
$2,013 / 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
$2,354 / 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
$3,625 / 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
$5,827 / 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
$7,769 / 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
$21,225 / 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
$2,378 / 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
$2,083 / 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
$5,603 / 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
$2,837 / 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
$2,625 / 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
$3,531 / 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
$2,625 / 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
$2,448 / 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
$2,625 / 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
$2,860 / item
Norm Large TV Cabinet by Pastform
Located in Geneve, CH
Norm Large TV Cabinet by Pastform Dimensions: D 40 x W 190 x H 56 cm. Materials: Stained and varnished wood. Available in different wood color finishes: Whiskey, Rum, BPA, Nobel, Br...
Wood
$3,449 / item
Lorn Vinyl Medium Cabinet by Pastform
Located in Geneve, CH
Lorn Vinyl Medium Cabinet by Pastform Dimensions: D 38 x W 100 x H 105 cm. Materials: Stained and varnished wood. Available in different wood color finishes: Whiskey, Rum, BPA, Nobe...
Wood
$1,601 / item
Mid Lane Medium Cabinet by Pastform
Located in Geneve, CH
Mid 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, Whiske...
Wood
$12,631 / item
Stuck Cabinet C1 by Studio Pin
Located in Geneve, CH
Stuck cabinet C1 by Studio Pin Dimensions: W 120 x D 44 x H 205 cm Materials: solid oak / MDF matt white finish. Weight: 60 kg “Stuck” by Studio Pin is a collection that goes a...
Oak
$1,624 / item
TV Mini Small Cabinet by Pastform
Located in Geneve, CH
TV Mini Small Cabinet by Pastform Dimensions: D 35 x W 100 x H 55 cm. Materials: Stained and varnished wood. Available in different wood color finishes: Whiskey, Rum, BPA, Nobel, Br...
Wood
$2,601 / item
Classy Vinyl Large Cabinet by Pastform
Located in Geneve, CH
Classy Large Vinyl Cabinet by Pastform Dimensions: D 35 x W 160 x H 57 cm. Materials: Stained and varnished wood. Available in different wood color finishes and combinations. Availa...
Wood
Bespoke Colored Glass and Brass Cabinet
Located in London, London
Bespoke side cabinet Colored glass on wooden frame Brass base and edging Contemporary, Italy.
Brass
$2,330 / item
Brok Extra Small Cabinet by Pastform
Located in Geneve, CH
Brok Extra Small Cabinet by Pastform Dimensions: D 42,5 x W 120 x H 46 cm Materials: Stained and varnished wood. The furniture in the picture is made in Rum. Available in different ...
Wood
Shiro Kuramata "Dinah" Cabinet for Cappellini #008 Italy
By Cappellini, Shiro Kuramata
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
$43,074 / 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
$17,940 / item
Walnut Bar Cabinet by Ginger & Jagger
Located in Geneve, CH
Walnut Bar Cabinet by Ginger & Jagger Dimensions: D 56 x W 100 x H 196 cm. Materials: American walnut, brass, and lacquer. Finish: Doors in American Walnut veneer in matt; drawe...
Brass
$27,876 / item
Scrigno Living S Cabinet by Estro Collezioni
Located in Geneve, CH
Scrigno Living S Cabinet by Estro Collezioni Dimensions: W 120 x D 50 x H 50 cm Materials: Wood, Marble, Metal. Scrigno model is made of solid wood with a marble top. On the front...
Marble, Metal
$31,714 / item
Scrigno Living SF Cabinet by Estro Collezioni
Located in Geneve, CH
Scrigno Living SF Cabinet by Estro Collezioni Dimensions: W 120 x D 50 x H 88 cm Materials: Wood, Marble, Metal. Scrigno model is made of solid wood with a marble top. On the fron...
Marble, Metal
$15,539 / item
Solomia 1 Cabinet by Ruda Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Solomia 1 Cabinet by Ruda Studio Dimensions: D 45 x W 170 x H 75 cm. Materials: Solid wood (ash), rye straw inlay, plywood and brass. Weight: 70 kg. Dimensions are customizable. Ple...
Brass
$15,539 / item
Solomia 4 Cabinet by Ruda Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Solomia 4 Cabinet by Ruda Studio Dimensions: D 45 x W 170 x H 75 cm. Materials: Solid wood (ash), rye straw inlay, plywood, glass and brass. Weight: 70 kg. Dimensions are customizab...
Brass
$15,539 / item
Solomia 3 Cabinet by Ruda Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Solomia 3 Cabinet by Ruda Studio Dimensions: D 45 x W 170 x H 75 cm. Materials: Solid wood (ash), rye straw inlay, plywood and brass. Weight: 70 kg. Dimensions are customizable. Ple...
Brass
$47,183 / item
L’Aure TB Cabinet by Estro Collezioni
Located in Geneve, CH
L’Aure TB 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 6 cm ...
Marble, Metal
$40,838 / item
L’Aure TB Cabinet by Estro Collezioni
Located in Geneve, CH
L’Aure TB Cabinet by Estro Collezioni Dimensions: W 140/160 x D 50 x H 90 cm Materials: Wood, Marble, Metal. Freestanding cabinet made in solid wood structure. The top is in 6 cm ...
Marble, Metal
$16,504 / item
Chaos Cabinet by Atelier V&F
Located in Geneve, CH
Chaos Cabinet by Atelier V&F Limited Edition Of 8+2AP Pieces. Dimensions: D 37 x W 86 x H 147 cm. Materials: Goatskin offcuts and cast aluminum. 「Chaos Cabinet」 rose and took shape...
Aluminum
$16,575 / item
Tlaloc Wine Cabinet by Andres Gutierrez
Located in Geneve, CH
Tlaloc Wine cabinet by Andres Gutierrez Dimensions: D40 x W80 x H130 cm Materials: Body: solid white oak wood, Legs: white oak plywood. — Inspired by Tlaloc, “The One Who Make...
Oak, Plywood
Angle Cabinet by Francesco Binfare for Cassina, 1980
By Francesco Binfaré, Cassina
Located in Leuven, Vlaams Gewest
Angle cabinet designed by Francesco Binfare for Cassina Very versatile piece of storage with plentiful shelving, with sliding glass door with Binfares signature 80's pattern on the ...
Glass, Wood
$16,834 / item
Forest Natūra Cabinet by Ruda Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Forest Natūra Cabinet by Ruda Studio Dimensions: D 45 x W 130 x H 130 cm. Materials: Solid wood (oak), rye straw inlay, plywood and brass. Weight: 100 kg. Dimensions are customizabl...
Brass
$15,539 / item
Showcase Cabinet, 3x4 by Paul Heijnen
Located in Geneve, CH
Showcase cabinet, 3x4 by Paul Heijnen (2011) Dimensions: H200 x L120 x W50 cm Materials: Steel, Oak, Glass Available in different varieties/stains Each cabinet is made to ord...
Steel
$25,251 / item
Frame Living H Cabinet by Estro Collezioni
Located in Geneve, CH
Frame Living H Cabinet by Estro Collezioni Dimensions: W 115 x D 54 x H 180 cm Materials: Wood, Marble, Metal. Frame is an element that Estro has created to glorify one of the mos...
Marble, Metal
Large Postmodern Geometric Cabinet with Custom Lacquer Available
Located in Rancho Cucamonga, CA
A large-scale architectural postmodern cabinet defined by bold stepped geometry and a strong volumetric composition. Offset cubic forms create an asymmetrical silhouette that functio...
Lacquer, Wood
$3,571Sale Price / item|35% Off
Post Modern John Stuart Chrome Accent Cane Front Gentlemens Dresser Armoire
By Founders Furniture Company, John Stuart Inc., Jack Cartwright
Located in Chattanooga, TN
A striking example of post-modern design by John Stuart, this gentlemen’s chest marries gracious scale with finely considered detail. Crafted in honey-toned oak, the chest features...
Chrome
$25,713 / item
Laulu Cabinet, High by Made By Choice
Located in Geneve, CH
Laulu cabinet, high by Made By Choice with Matti Klenell Dimensions: 100 x 41 x 180 cm Materials: Base in Solid Ash, Frames in Valchromat Also available: Laulu Cabinet - Low, Cu...
Ash
$25,899 / item
Engraved Cabinet by Elis Monsport
Located in Geneve, CH
Engraved Cabinet by Elis Monsport Limited Edition Of 10 Pieces. Dimensions: D 42 x W 105 x H 85 cm. Materials: Engraved semi-permeable mirror plate, milled steel, milled marble slab,...
Marble, Metal, Steel
1970s Stacking Corner Cabinet by Willy Rizzo
By Willy Rizzo
Located in Toronto, CA
This cabinet has the head-turning magnetism of a celebrity, and no wonder: it’s by Willy Rizzo (1928 – 2013), a photographer of the mid-century jet set who turned to furniture design...
Laminate, Wood
Mattaliano "Frank" Walnut & Vellum Clad Sideboard/ Cabinet
By Mattaliano
Located in North Miami, FL
Mattaliano "Frank" Walnut and Vellum Four-Door Sideboard, left side compartment fitted with wine bottle storage (can be removed) and right side to open shelves. "Mattaliano / Chicag...
Walnut, Parchment Paper
$16,575 / item
Solomia 2 Cabinet by Ruda Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Solomia 2 Cabinet by Ruda Studio Dimensions: D 45 x W 170 x H 75 cm. Materials: Solid wood (ash), rye straw inlay, plywood, glass and brass. Weight: 80 kg. Dimensions are customizab...
Brass
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.