$4,904 / item
Large Vanilla Ceramic Vase BonBon by deBlona
Located in Geneve, CH
Large Vanilla Ceramic Vase BonBon by deBlona Dimensions: D 34 x H 42 cm. Materials: Ceramic. Colors: Matt pastel color, 24 kt gold luster. This exquisite large ceramic vase feature...
Ceramic
$2,278 / item
Natalie Du Pasquier Vase Bitossi Ceramic
By Bitossi, Nathalie du Pasquier
Located in San Diego, CA
Capturing the unique post-modernist style of Nathalie du Pasquier, this sculpture is defined by bold geometric elements in different colors stacked in an abstract shape. Turned on a ...
Ceramic
$3,826 / item
Ceramic Petalouda Small Gold Vase by deBlona
Located in Geneve, CH
Ceramic Petalouda Small Gold Vase by deBlona Dimensions: D 34 x H 42 cm. Materials: Ceramic. Colors: 24Kt Gold Luster, black, blue, light blue, green, white. The ‘Petalouda Small G...
Ceramic
$173 / item
Ceramic Bubble Vase by Siup Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Ceramic bubble vase by Siup Studio Dimensions: D10 x H15cm Materials: Ceramics Siup is a small design studio based in Warsaw. The concept is created by three friends – Martyna D...
Ceramic
Large Ceramic and Glass Vial Vase
Located in Fairfield, CA
A large sculptural vintage vase. Features a glass vial in the center of a glossy black ceramic holder. Perfect for displaying floral arrangements or using as a propagation vase.
Ceramic, Glass
American Post-War Di Pasquale White Textured Vase
Located in Queens, NY
American Post-War Design white glazed tapered cylindrical shaped ceramic and heavily textured vase (by GARY DI PASQUALE).
Ceramic, Porcelain
Vintage Italian Bellini Glazed Ceramic Geometric Vase
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Add a bold graphic element to your interior with this striking spherical vase by Bellini Italy. Masterfully crafted in Italy, this ceramic globe vessel features an intricate, hand-ap...
Ceramic
Post-War West Germany Brown and Yellow Vase
Located in Queens, NY
Post-War West Germany brown vase with center banding with geometric white and yellow pumice textured shapes.
Ceramic
Post-War German Incised Orange and Beige Vase
Located in Queens, NY
Post-War West Germany orange shaped cylindrical vase with incised beige ribbed & geometric banded middle section (Original label attached vú KERAMIK).
Ceramic
Vintage Postmodern Ceramic Pique Fleur Vase, 1980s
Located in Hamburg, DE
Vintage Postmodern Ceramic Pique Fleur Vase, 1980s, in Very Good conditions. Designed 1980 to 1989. Additional information: Materials: Ceramic Style: Postmodern Color: Beige Item Ty...
Ceramic
$315Sale Price|30% Off
Postmodern Geometric Ceramic Vase Signed Baldelli
By Baldelli
Located in Miami, FL
Designed and manufactured by the Baldelli Family of Italy, this saucer like vase has a Postmodern design over a blue gray finish, circa 1980s.
Ceramic
Vintage Japanese Studio Ceramic Vase
Located in Oakland, CA
Absolutely stunning Japanese ceramic studio glazed vase with original box. Dreamy purple lavender glaze with hints of greens. Expertly crafted, unknown artist. Fully signed on box an...
Clay
Ceramic Vase by Claudia Frignani, Wunderkammer Studio
By Claudia Frignani, Wunderkammer Studio
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Ceramic Vase by Claudia Frignani for Wunderkammer Studio's limited Lefka collection. Claudia Frignani is a Milan-based designer, ceramic artist, and creator known for her unique scu...
Ceramic
Postmodern German Ceramic Vase from Amano, Germany
Located in Hamburg, DE
Postmodern German Ceramic Vase from Amano, Germany, in Very Good conditions. Designed 1990 to 1999 This piece has an attribution mark. Additional information: Materials: Ceramic Col...
Ceramic
American Post-War Di Pasquale Gray Textured Vase
By Gary Dipasquale
Located in Queens, NY
American Post-War Design grey and white textured bulbous square base vase with a glazed tapered and flared neck (signed: GARY DI PASQUALE)
Ceramic
80s Modern Cream Sphere Vase
Located in Fairfield, CA
A vintage 80s ceramic vase. High gloss cream glaze in a simple modern sphere shape.
Ceramic
$210Sale Price|30% Off
Postmodern Faceted Black Ceramic Bud Vase, 1990s
Located in Miami, FL
Faceted ceramic bud vase circa 1990s. Signed.
Ceramic
$2,318Sale Price / set|20% Off
Set of Three Ceramic Vases White and Real Platinum, Glossy Modern Chic Luxury
By CuoreCarpenito
Located in Reggio Emilia, IT
Il set composto da tre elementi in ceramica è una collezione di cinque dal nome Space P. I cinque elementi che compongono l'intera collezione vengono di volta in volta declinati su u...
Ceramic
WF Fisher, Sizeable Vase, Ceramic, USA, 1979
Located in High Point, NC
A sizeable signed ceramic vase designed and produced by WF Fisher, USA, 1979. Condition: production-related fissures.
Ceramic
$260Sale Price|20% Off
Mid-Century / Postmodern Ikebana Style Ceramic Vase
Located in San Diego, CA
Beautiful ceramic vase with motifs, circa 1980s signed at the bottom no chips or cracks.
Ceramic
Polychrome Ceramic Vase by Carlo Zauli, 1960s
By Carlo Zauli
Located in Puglia, Puglia
Single flower vase in polychrome ceramic, signed on the bottom. Carlo Zauli (Faenza, 19 August 1926 - Faenza, 14 January 2002).
Ceramic
American Post-War Di Pasquale Grey Geometric Textured Vase
Located in Queens, NY
American Post-War Design grey geometric glazed tapered cylindrical shaped ceramic and heavily textured vase (by GARY DI PASQUALE).
Ceramic, Porcelain
American Post-War Di Pasquale Grey Geometric Textured Vase
Located in Queens, NY
American Post-War Design Grey geometric glazed tapered cylindrical shaped ceramic and heavily textured vase (by GARY DI PASQUALE).
Ceramic, Porcelain
American Post-War Di Pasquale Grey Geometric Textured Vase
Located in Queens, NY
American Post-War Design grey geometric glazed tapered cylindrical shaped ceramic and heavily textured vase (by GARY DI PASQUALE).
Ceramic, Porcelain
Postmodern Ceramic Carafe Vase by JS for Mobach
By Mobach
Located in Hamburg, DE
Postmodern Ceramic Carafe Vase by JS for Mobach, in Very Good conditions. Designed 1980 to 1989 Additional information: Materials: Ceramic Color: Black Styles: Postmodern Item Type:...
Ceramic
Postmodern Ceramic Minimalist Vase from Asa Selection, 1980s
Located in Hamburg, DE
Postmodern Ceramic Minimalist Vase from Asa Selection, 1980s, in Very Good conditions. Designed 1980 to 1989 This piece has an attribution mark. Additional information: Materials: C...
Ceramic
Postmodern Orange Yellow Glazed Ceramic Vase, Italy
Located in Bresso, Lombardy
Made in Italy, 1970s. This orange yellow vase is made in glazed ceramic. This is a vintage set, therefore they might show slight traces of use, but they can be considered as in excel...
Ceramic
Vintage Postmodern American Studio Ceramic Vase, Signed 1992
Located in Delray Beach, FL
A sculptural postmodern studio ceramic vessel with a soft, atmospheric palette. Finished in a pastel blue glaze layered with painterly swatches of light grey and white, creating a s...
Ceramic
Passarinho Sculptural Ceramic Bird Vase by Studio Mano
Located in Geneve, CH
Passarinho Sculptural Ceramic Bird Vase by Studio Mano. Dimensions: W 20 x D 9 x H 17 cm. Materials: Reclaimed clay with butternut scotch glaze. Studio Mano is the work of Bruno Na...
Ceramic
Italian Postmodern Memphis Era Baldelli Ceramic Centerpiece Vase
By Bitossi, Baldelli
Located in San Diego, CA
Majestic classic 1980's postmodern Italian large ceramic vase , in a 2 tone glossy finish with the bottom spreckles , signed Baldelli Italy .
Ceramic
Beige Ceramic Vase, France, Late 20th Century
Located in Rümmingen, BW
"shipping note: If your region or country is not listed under the shipping options please contact us directly" The vase features a distinctively waisted silhouette that flares towar...
Ceramic, Clay
$473Sale Price|20% Off
Memphis Style Ceramic Vase Atzeco by Florio Keramia
By Florio Keramia
Located in Debrecen, HU
Crafted by the esteemed Florio Keramia, this Memphis Style ceramic vase named Atzeco is a true embodiment of postmodern artistry. Its abstract design is complemented by a vibrant yel...
Ceramic
$339Sale Price|34% Off
German Multicolored Ceramic Vase by Walther Zander
Located in Hamburg, DE
This beautiful multicolored glazed vase is one of Walther Zanders very thin-walled turned bowls with foot. Walther Zander was a ceramist from Hamburg who worked together with his...
Ceramic
$445Sale Price|57% Off
Memphis Style Ceramic Vase Shell by Florio Keramia
By Florio Keramia
Located in Debrecen, HU
This beautiful Florio Keramia ceramic vase has an abstract pattern and a glossy finish. Original piece, handmade in the 1990s with a vintage feel. The vase is 11 cm long, 35 cm high ...
Ceramic
Postmodern Sculptural Aubergine Glazed Ceramic Vase by Jenkins Ceramics
Located in W Allenhurst, NJ
A striking Postmodern ceramic vase by Jenkins Ceramics, executed in a rich aubergine glaze. The vessel features a softly rounded rectangular form accented by dramatic diagonal ribbin...
Ceramic
Hand Made Ceramic Yüklü Collection Vase by İpek Afacan
Located in Geneve, CH
Hand Made Ceramic Yüklü Collection Vase by İpek Afacan. Dimensions: W 27 x D 26 x H 18 cm Materials: Hand made ceramic. About: Born in 1995 in Türkiye’s Black Sea region, the artis...
Ceramic
Hand Made Ceramic Yüklü Collection Vase by İpek Afacan
Located in Geneve, CH
Hand Made Ceramic Yüklü Collection Vase by İpek Afacan. Dimensions: W 19 x D 19 x H 15 cm Materials: Hand made ceramic. About: Born in 1995 in Türkiye’s Black Sea region, the artis...
Ceramic
Hand Made Ceramic Yüklü Collection Vase by İpek Afacan
Located in Geneve, CH
Hand Made Ceramic Yüklü Collection Vase by İpek Afacan. Dimensions: W 28 x D 28 x H 21 cm Materials: Hand made ceramic. About: Born in 1995 in Türkiye’s Black Sea region, the artis...
Ceramic
Hand Made Ceramic Yüklü Collection Vase by İpek Afacan
Located in Geneve, CH
Hand Made Ceramic Yüklü Collection Vase by İpek Afacan. Dimensions: W 28 x D 28 x H 21 cm Materials: Hand made ceramic. About: Born in 1995 in Türkiye’s Black Sea region, the artis...
Ceramic
Hand Made Ceramic Yüklü Collection Vase by İpek Afacan
Located in Geneve, CH
Hand Made Ceramic Yüklü Collection Vase by İpek Afacan. Dimensions: W 17 x D 17 x H 24 cm Materials: Hand made ceramic. About: Born in 1995 in Türkiye’s Black Sea region, the artis...
Ceramic
Hand Made Ceramic Yüklü Collection Vase by İpek Afacan
Located in Geneve, CH
Hand Made Ceramic Yüklü Collection Vase by İpek Afacan. Dimensions: W 16 x D 16 x H 23 cm Materials: Hand made ceramic. About: Born in 1995 in Türkiye’s Black Sea region, the artis...
Ceramic
Hand Made Ceramic Yüklü Collection Vase by İpek Afacan
Located in Geneve, CH
Hand Made Ceramic Yüklü Collection Vase by İpek Afacan. Dimensions: W 22 x D 22 x H 22 cm Materials: Hand made ceramic. About: Born in 1995 in Türkiye’s Black Sea region, the artis...
Ceramic
Hand Made Ceramic Yüklü Collection Vase by İpek Afacan
Located in Geneve, CH
Hand Made Ceramic Yüklü Collection Vase by İpek Afacan. Dimensions: W 22 x D 23 x H 13 cm Materials: Hand made ceramic. About: Born in 1995 in Türkiye’s Black Sea region, the artis...
Ceramic
Hand Made Ceramic Yüklü Collection Vase by İpek Afacan
Located in Geneve, CH
Hand Made Ceramic Yüklü Collection Vase by İpek Afacan. Dimensions: W 19 x D 16 x H 24 cm Materials: Hand made ceramic. About: Born in 1995 in Türkiye’s Black Sea region, the artis...
Ceramic
Hand Made Ceramic Yüklü Collection Vase by İpek Afacan
Located in Geneve, CH
Hand Made Ceramic Yüklü Collection Vase by İpek Afacan. Dimensions: W 15 x D 12 x H 22 cm Materials: Hand made ceramic. About: Born in 1995 in Türkiye’s Black Sea region, the artis...
Ceramic
Hand Made Ceramic Yüklü Collection Vase by İpek Afacan
Located in Geneve, CH
Hand Made Ceramic Yüklü Collection Vase by İpek Afacan. Dimensions: W 19 x D 19 x H 20 cm Materials: Hand made ceramic. About: Born in 1995 in Türkiye’s Black Sea region, the artis...
Ceramic
Hand Made Ceramic Yüklü Collection Vase by İpek Afacan
Located in Geneve, CH
Hand Made Ceramic Yüklü Collection Vase by İpek Afacan. Dimensions: W 17 x D 17 x H 17 cm Materials: Hand made ceramic. About: Born in 1995 in Türkiye’s Black Sea region, the artis...
Ceramic
Hand Made Ceramic Yüklü Collection Vase by İpek Afacan
Located in Geneve, CH
Hand Made Ceramic Yüklü Collection Vase by İpek Afacan. Dimensions: W 22 x D 22 x H 20 cm Materials: Hand made ceramic. About: Born in 1995 in Türkiye’s Black Sea region, the artis...
Ceramic
Hand Made Ceramic Yüklü Collection Vase by İpek Afacan
Located in Geneve, CH
Hand Made Ceramic Yüklü Collection Vase by İpek Afacan. Dimensions: W 14 x D 12 x H 25 cm Materials: Hand made ceramic. About: Born in 1995 in Türkiye’s Black Sea region, the artis...
Ceramic
Hand Made Ceramic Yüklü Collection Vase by İpek Afacan
Located in Geneve, CH
Hand Made Ceramic Yüklü Collection Vase by İpek Afacan. Dimensions: W 20 x D 19 x H 32 cm Materials: Hand made ceramic. About: Born in 1995 in Türkiye’s Black Sea region, the artis...
Ceramic
Hand Made Ceramic Yüklü Collection Vase by İpek Afacan
Located in Geneve, CH
Hand Made Ceramic Yüklü Collection Vase by İpek Afacan. Dimensions: W 13 x D 13 x H 22 cm Materials: Hand made ceramic. About: Born in 1995 in Türkiye’s Black Sea region, the artis...
Ceramic
Hand Made Ceramic Yüklü Collection Vase by İpek Afacan
Located in Geneve, CH
Hand Made Ceramic Yüklü Collection Vase by İpek Afacan. Dimensions: W 18 x D 17 x H 30 cm Materials: Hand made ceramic. About: Born in 1995 in Türkiye’s Black Sea region, the artis...
Ceramic
Hand Made Ceramic Yüklü Collection Vase by İpek Afacan
Located in Geneve, CH
Hand Made Ceramic Yüklü Collection Vase by İpek Afacan. Dimensions: W 16.5 x D 15.5 x H 20 cm Materials: Hand made ceramic. About: Born in 1995 in Türkiye’s Black Sea region, the a...
Ceramic
Hand Made Ceramic Yüklü Collection Vase by İpek Afacan
Located in Geneve, CH
Hand Made Ceramic Yüklü Collection Vase by İpek Afacan. Dimensions: W 20 x D 20 x H 24 cm Materials: Hand made ceramic. About: Born in 1995 in Türkiye’s Black Sea region, the artis...
Ceramic
Hand Made Ceramic Yüklü Collection Vase by İpek Afacan
Located in Geneve, CH
Hand Made Ceramic Yüklü Collection Vase by İpek Afacan. Dimensions: W 26 x D 25 x H 11 cm Materials: Hand made ceramic. About: Born in 1995 in Türkiye’s Black Sea region, the artis...
Ceramic
Hand Made Ceramic Yüklü Collection Vase by İpek Afacan
Located in Geneve, CH
Hand Made Ceramic Yüklü Collection Vase by İpek Afacan. Dimensions: W 18 x D 18 x H 19 cm Materials: Hand made ceramic. About: Born in 1995 in Türkiye’s Black Sea region, the artis...
Ceramic
Hand Made Ceramic Yüklü Collection Vase by İpek Afacan
Located in Geneve, CH
Hand Made Ceramic Yüklü Collection Vase by İpek Afacan. Dimensions: W 20 x D 15 x H 19 cm Materials: Hand made ceramic. About: Born in 1995 in Türkiye’s Black Sea region, the artis...
Ceramic
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.
Whether it’s a Chinese Han dynasty glazed ceramic wine vessel, a work of Murano glass or a hand-painted Scandinavian modern stoneware piece, a fine vase brings a piece of history into your space as much as it adds a sophisticated dynamic.
Like sculptures or paintings, antique and vintage vases are considered works of fine art. Once offered as tributes to ancient rulers, vases continue to be gifted to heads of state today. Over time, decorative porcelain vases have become family heirlooms to be displayed prominently in our homes — loved pieces treasured from generation to generation.
The functional value of vases is well known. They were traditionally utilized as vessels for carrying dry goods or liquids, so some have handles and feature an opening at the top (where they flare back out). While artists have explored wildly sculptural alternatives over time, the most conventional vase shape is characterized by a bulbous base and a body with shoulders where the form curves inward.
Owing to their intrinsic functionality, vases are quite possibly versatile in ways few other art forms can match. They’re typically taller than they are wide. Some have a neck that offers height and is ideal for the stems of cut flowers. To pair with your mid-century modern decor, the right vase will be an elegant receptacle for leafy snake plants on your teak dining table, or, in the case of welcoming guests on your doorstep, a large ceramic floor vase for long tree branches or sticks — perhaps one crafted in the Art Nouveau style — works wonders.
Interior designers include vases of every type, size and style in their projects — be the canvas indoors or outdoors — often introducing a splash of color and a range of textures to an entryway or merely calling attention to nature’s asymmetries by bringing more organically shaped decorative objects into a home.
On 1stDibs, you can browse our collection of vases by material, including ceramic, glass, porcelain and more. Sizes range from tiny bud vases to massive statement pieces and every size in between.