Set of 4 Medium Geometric Ceramic KYO Star Vases in White by Mazo Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 4 Medium Geometric Ceramic KYO Star Vases in White by Mazo Design Dimensions: D 8 x H 19 cm Materials: Glazed Ceramic. Both functional and sculptural, the new collection fro...
Other
Grenat Foncé Vase VI in Deep Burgundy Glazed Ceramic by Gazar Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Grenat Foncé Vase VI in Deep Burgundy Glazed Ceramic by Gazar Studio Unique Piece Dimensions: Ø 22 x H 46 cm. Materials: Clay with deep burgundy glaze. Dimensions may vary. Please ...
Clay
Grenat Foncé Vase V in Deep Burgundy Glazed Ceramic by Gazar Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Grenat Foncé Vase V in Deep Burgundy Glazed Ceramic by Gazar Studio Unique Piece Dimensions: Ø 22 x H 47 cm. Materials: Clay with deep burgundy glaze. Dimensions may vary. Please c...
Clay
Set of 3 Large Geometric Ceramic KYO Star Vases in Blue by Mazo Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 3 Large Geometric Ceramic KYO Star Vases in Blue by Mazo Design Dimensions: D 12 x H 23.5 cm. Materials: glazed ceramic. Both functional and sculptural, the new collection f...
Other
Set of 2 Large Geometric Ceramic KYO Star Vases in Blue by Mazo Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 2 Large Geometric Ceramic KYO Star Vases in Blue by Mazo Design Dimensions: D 29 x H 26 cm Materials: glazed ceramic. Both functional and sculptural, the new collection from ...
Other
Set of 2 Medium Geometric Ceramic KYO Star Vases in White by Mazo Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 2 Medium Geometric Ceramic KYO Star Vases in White by Mazo Design Dimensions: D 29 x H 26 cm Materials: Glazed Ceramic. Both functional and sculptural, the new collection fro...
Other
Set of 2 Medium Geometric Ceramic KYO Star Vases in Blue by Mazo Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 2 Medium Geometric Ceramic KYO Star Vases in Blue by Mazo Design Dimensions: D 19.5 x H 21.5 cm Materials: Glazed Ceramic. Both functional and sculptural, the new collection ...
Other
Set of 4 Medium Geometric Ceramic KYO Star Vases in Blue by Mazo Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 4 Medium Geometric Ceramic KYO Star Vases in Blue by Mazo Design Dimensions: D 8 x H 19 cm Materials: glazed ceramic. Both functional and sculptural, the new collection from...
Other
Flat Oval Shape, Plain Ruby Red Ceramic Hand-sculpted Vase by Willem Van Hooff
Located in Geneve, CH
Furi Vase by Willem Van Hooff Core Vessel Series Dimensions: W 23 x D 10 x H 41 cm (Dimensions may vary as pieces are hand-made and might present slight variations in sizes) Material...
Ceramic, Earthenware
Vintage Black and Teal Fat Lava Ceramic Vase Multi-Color 484-30 Scheurich WGP
Located in Bresso, Lombardy
Made in Germany. Black and Teal Fat Lava Ceramic Vase Multi-Color 484-30 by Paul Scheurich WGP. This vase is made in hand-modeled and handprinted earthenware. It is a vintage piece,...
Ceramic
Unique Warm Brown Ceramic Big Vase with Body Large Opening by Willem Van Hooff
Located in Geneve, CH
Tuja Big Vase by Willem Van Hooff. Dimensions: W 48 x D 10 x H 50 cm (Dimensions may vary as pieces are hand-made and might present slight variations in sizes) Material: Glazed Ceram...
Ceramic
Organic Form, Warm Brown Ceramic Tall Vase with Body Opening by Willem Van Hooff
Located in Geneve, CH
Taju Large Vase by Willem Van Hooff Dimensions: W 42 x D 10 x H 63 cm (Dimensions may vary as pieces are hand-made and might present slight variations in sizes) Material: Glazed Cera...
Ceramic
Art Deco Black Ceramic Vase by Claude Dumas, Remix Edition, Circa 1980
By Claude Dumas
Located in COLMAR, FR
Art Deco black ceramic vase by French designer Claude Dumas – early 2000s Remix Gallery edition, made from the original mould, sourced in France, in very good vintage condition This...
Clay
Grenat Foncé Vase III in Deep Burgundy Glazed Ceramic by Gazar Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Grenat Foncé Vase III in Deep Burgundy Glazed Ceramic by Gazar Studio Unique Piece Dimensions: Ø 14 x H 34 cm. Materials: Clay with deep burgundy glaze. Dimensions may vary. Please...
Clay
White, Black and Blue Hand-Painted Ceramic Jug / Vase in the Style of Picasso
By Pablo Picasso
Located in Bresso, Lombardy
Made in France, 1960s - 1970s. It is made in white hand-painted ceramic with blue and black motifs, that recalls Pablo Picasso's style. It is a vintage item, therefore it might show ...
Ceramic
Light Brown Flat & Tall Ceramic Contemporary Vase by Willem Van Hooff
Located in Geneve, CH
Vido Flat Vessel by Willem Van Hooff Dimensions: Ø 38 x H 68 cm. Materials: Glazed earthenware. This piece is fired twice in the kiln above 1200 degrees to add this glaze glass eff...
Earthenware
Set of 6 Unique Ceramic Vases in Warm Tone Plain Colors by Willem Van Hooff
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 6 Core Vases by Willem Van Hooff. Dimensions: D48 x H50 cm D38 x H65 cm D65 x H42 cm D50 x H62 cm D42 x H63 cm D25 x H38 cm (Dimensions may vary as pieces are hand-made and m...
Ceramic
L'Heure Bleue Vase I in Deep Midnight Blue Glazed Ceramic by Gazar Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
L'Heure Bleue Vase I in Deep Midnight Blue Glazed Ceramic by Gazar Studio Unique Piece Dimensions: Ø 15 x H 23,5 cm. Materials: Clay with deep burgundy glaze. Dimensions may vary. ...
Clay
L'Heure Bleue Vase II in Deep Midnight Blue Glazed Ceramic by Gazar Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
L'Heure Bleue Vase II in Deep Midnight Blue Glazed Ceramic by Gazar Studio Unique Piece Dimensions: Ø 15 x H 23,5 cm. Materials: Clay with deep burgundy glaze. Dimensions may vary....
Clay
Unique Organic Shape, Plain Mute Blue Ceramic Large Vase by Willem Van Hooff
Located in Geneve, CH
Kapu Flat Vessel by Willem Van Hooff Dimensions: Ø 38 x H 43 cm. Materials: Glazed earthenware. This piece is fired twice in the kiln above 1200 degrees to add this glaze glass eff...
Earthenware
$697 / item
Liconchi Vase by Marioni
Located in Geneve, CH
Liconchi Vase by Marioni Dimensions: W 49 x D 20 x H 18 cm. Materials: Ceramic. Product code: 02271 As a reminder of the geological shapes of the rock cavity, the Liconchi vase exp...
Ceramic
$2,764 / item
Damask Heritage Vase by deBlona
Located in Geneve, CH
Damask Heritage Vase by deBlona Dimensions: D 26 x H 51 cm. Materials: Ceramic. Colors: Black, golden yellow, cerium oxide. The “Damask” vase, crafted in exquisite majolica, featur...
Ceramic
$2,764 / item
Memories Heritage Vase by deBlona
Located in Geneve, CH
Memories Heritage Vase by deBlona Dimensions: D 34 x H 53 cm. Materials: Ceramic. Colors: Copper green, purple, antique blue, antiqued finishing. The “Memories” vase, crafted in ex...
Ceramic
Unqiue Plain Beige Ceramic Big Vase with Body Round Opening by Willem Van Hooff
Located in Geneve, CH
Tatu Flat Vessel by Willem Van Hooff Dimensions: Ø 38 x H 48 cm. Materials: Glazed earthenware. This piece is fired twice in the kiln above 1200 degrees to add this glaze glass eff...
Earthenware
$4,200
Sergio Asti Vase
By Sergio Asti
Located in Chicago, IL
Sergio Asti Jaipur vase from the Toky collection, Superego Editions This example is number 11 from the edition of 50. Glazed signature and edition to underside: [Jaipur N. 11/50]. Si...
Ceramic
Memphis Milano Cucumber Ceramic by Martine Bedin
By Martine Bedin, Memphis Milano
Located in Toronto, ON
Cucumber is an eccentric ceramic vase designed by Martine Bedin in 1985. The chubby, asymmetrical and dynamic form is enhanced by the lively combination of colors and the original de...
Ceramic, Paint
$2,300 / item
Platinum Luster Elia Vase by deBlona
Located in Geneve, CH
Platinum Luster Elia Vase by deBlona Dimensions: D 25 x H 31 cm. Materials: Ceramic. Colors: 24 Kt Gold Luster / Platinum Luster. A sculptural vase hand-thrown from red clay source...
Ceramic
$4,449 / item
Platinum Luster Niva Vase by deBlona
Located in Geneve, CH
Platinum Luster Celis Vase by deBlona Dimensions: D 32 x H 39 cm. Materials: Ceramic. Colors: 24 Kt Gold Luster / Platinum Luster. A sculptural vase crafted from red clay sourced i...
Ceramic
$4,449 / item
Platinum Luster Soreis Vase by deBlona
Located in Geneve, CH
Platinum Luster Soreis Vase by deBlona Dimensions: D 35 x H 40 cm. Materials: Ceramic. Colors: 24 Kt Gold Luster / Platinum Luster. A sculptural vase hand-thrown from red clay sour...
Ceramic
$4,449 / item
Platinum Luster Auri Vase by deBlona
Located in Geneve, CH
Platinum Luster Auri Vase by deBlona Dimensions: D 29 x H 46 cm. Materials: Ceramic. Colors: 24 Kt Gold Luster / Platinum Luster. A sculptural vase crafted from red clay sourced fr...
Ceramic
$4,449 / item
Platinum Luster Astra Vase by deBlona
Located in Geneve, CH
Platinum Luster Astra Vase by deBlona Dimensions: D 36 x H 40 cm. Materials: Ceramic. Colors: 24 Kt Gold Luster / Platinum Luster. A sculptural vase crafted from red clay sourced f...
Ceramic
$2,300 / item
Platinum Luster Viel Vase by deBlona
Located in Geneve, CH
Platinum Luster Viel Vase by deBlona Dimensions: D 22 x H 31 cm. Materials: Ceramic. Colors: 24 Kt Gold Luster / Platinum Luster. A sculptural vase crafted from red clay sourced in...
Ceramic
$3,066 / item
Oriental Flowers Heritage Vase by deBlona
Located in Geneve, CH
Oriental Flowers Heritage Vase by deBlona Dimensions: D 33 x H 54 cm. Materials: Ceramic. Colors: Empire red or aquamarine, black, golden yellow, cerium oxide. The “Oriental Flower...
Ceramic
$2,439 / item
White Lace Heritage Vase by deBlona
Located in Geneve, CH
White Lace Heritage Vase by deBlona Dimensions: D 34 x H 63 cm. Materials: Ceramic. Colors: Cerium oxide on white stone background. The potiche vase presents an essential shape and...
Ceramic
$2,149 / item
Persian Blue Abisso Vase by deBlona
Located in Geneve, CH
Persian Blue Abisso Vase by deBlona Dimensions: D 36 x H 50 cm. Materials: Ceramic. Colors: Persian Blue. The “ABISSO” vase, crafted and painted by hand in Deruta, Italy, draws ins...
Ceramic
Vase en céramique Hilton McConnico
By Hilton McConnico
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Ce vase évasé en céramique illustre à merveille l’univers théâtral de Hilton McConnico. Posée sur un fond noir verni et sombre, la pièce s’anime d’un graphisme audacieux et contrasté...
Ceramic
$2,450 / set
Vintage Pair of Ribbed Tall Vases
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
This striking pair of tall ceramic vases captures the bold energy of Postmodern design with a touch of organic texture. Finished in a rich, glossy oxblood red glaze, these vessels fe...
Ceramic
$4,449 / item
Gold Luster Large Kósmos Vase by deBlona
Located in Geneve, CH
Gold Luster Large Kósmos Vase by deBlona Dimensions: D 39 x H 42 cm. Materials: Ceramic.
Ceramic
$2,997 / item
Floral Dance Heritage Vase by deBlona
Located in Geneve, CH
Floral Dance Heritage Vase by deBlona Dimensions: W 42 x D 30 x H 51 cm. Materials: Ceramic. Colors: Black, golden yellow, orange, light blue, copper green. The “Floral Dance” amph...
Ceramic
$4,147 / item
Gold Luster Small Kósmos Vase by deBlona
Located in Geneve, CH
Gold Luster Small Kósmos Vase by deBlona Dimensions: D 30 x H 44 cm. Materials: Ceramic.
Ceramic
$1,289 / item
Selamawi Ceramic Vessel by TheUrbanative
Located in Geneve, CH
Selamawi ceramic vessel by TheUrbanative Dimensions: W 25 x D 10 x H 24 cm Material: Raw Terracotta & Raffia Dry flowers only. Also available: Selamawi Ceramic Candelebra. T...
Ceramic, Terracotta, Raffia
$1,850
Black Sculpture Vase
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful and substantial Postmodern black charcoal sculpture vase, circa late-20th century. Piece is clay pottery with a black charcoal matte finish and a round, cylindrical, asym...
Ceramic, Clay, Pottery
$1,405 / item
Appuntito Vase by Project 213A
Located in Geneve, CH
Appuntito Vase by Project 213A Dimensions: W17 x D17 x H26 cm Materials: Ceramic Each its own individual, the touch of hand from the ceramists, the blaze from the kiln, the dive in ...
Ceramic
$920Sale Price|20% Off
Large Organic Sculptural Ceramic Pottery Vessel
Located in San Diego, CA
Fantastic Post Modern Studio Pottery Vase Vessel. Acquired vessel from an incredible artist estate in Palm Springs, Vase is in excellent vintage condition and believed to be early 1...
Ceramic, Pottery
$2,602 / item
Antique Blue Peacock Heritage Vase by deBlona
Located in Geneve, CH
Antique Blue Peacock Heritage Vase by deBlona Dimensions: D 34 x H 63 cm. Materials: Ceramic. Colors: Deruta Blue. The “Antique Blue Peacock” potiche vase is a stunning testament t...
Ceramic
$255 / item
Diosa Vase by Camila Apaez
Located in Geneve, CH
Diosa Vase by Camila Apaez. Materials: Ceramic. Dimensions: 13 x H 27 cm Options: White Bone, Chocolate, Charcoal black, Natural, Barro tostado. Additional pictures are just re...
Ceramic
$418 / item
Tulipan Vase by MCB Ceramics
Located in Geneve, CH
Tulipan Vase by MCB Ceramics Unique piece. Dimensions: D 20 x H 22 cm. Materials: Ceramic. Numerated and signed by the artist. All measures are indicative as all pieces are unique,...
Ceramic
$336 / item
Tulipan Vase by MCB Ceramics
Located in Geneve, CH
Tulipan Vase by MCB Ceramics Unique piece. Dimensions: D 20 x H 12 cm. Materials: Ceramic. Numerated and signed by the artist. All measures are indicative as all pieces are unique,...
Ceramic
$1,521 / item
Dripping Vase by Astrid Öhman
Located in Geneve, CH
Dripping Vase by Astrid Öhman Handmade Dimensions: D 24 x H 40 cm Materials: Ceramic, stoneware hand modeled, glazed, and fired at high temperature. Ceramics by Astrid Öhman. E...
Ceramic, Stoneware
$5,982 / item
Scents of Spring Heritage Vase by deBlona
Located in Geneve, CH
Scents of Spring Heritage Vase by deBlona Dimensions: W 38 x D 25 x H 63 cm. Materials: Ceramic. Colors: Deruta blue, copper green, yellow, orange, vanadium, purple, carmine red. T...
Ceramic
$174 / item
Strawberry Vase by Siup Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Strawberry Vase by Siup Studio Dimensions: D11 x H20cm Materials: Ceramics Siup is a small design studio based in Warsaw. The concept is created by three friends – Martyna Dymek...
Ceramic
$174 / item
Cucumber Vase by Siup Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Cucumber vase by Siup Studio Dimensions: D9 x H21cm Materials: Ceramics Siup is a small design studio based in Warsaw. The concept is created by three friends – Martyna Dymek, M...
Ceramic
$108Sale Price / item|63% Off
Postmodern Abstract Triple Column Pillar Vase
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Beautiful postmodern vase with 3 columns and abstract blue & pink design. Additional information: Material: Ceramic Color: Blue, Pink, White Style: Abstract, Postmodern, Vintag...
Ceramic
$702 / item
Cream Morandi Vase by Adèle Clèves
Located in Geneve, CH
Cream Morandi vase by Adèle Clèves Dimensions: D 17 x W 17 x H 31 cm Materials: Ceramic. Adèle Clèves was born in Paris in 1989, after studying in the Beaux Arts and Archeology ...
Ceramic
$638 / item
Big Marble Vase by Veronika Švábeníková
Located in Geneve, CH
Big marble vase by Veronika Švábeníková Dimensions: 17 × 17 × 23.5 cm Materials: Ceramic A truly unique collection of ceramic vases that will enhance any decor. The way she m...
Ceramic
$859 / item
Ivory Horizon Vase by Deetee Home
Located in Geneve, CH
Ivory Horizon Vase by Deetee Home Dimensions: W 26.67 x D 26.67 x H 43.18 cm Materials: Stoneware This handcrafted vase’s flowing black patterns resemble motifs found in Madhubani a...
Ceramic, Stoneware
$1,184 / item
Eternal Lotus Vase by Newblue
Located in Geneve, CH
Eternal Lotus Vase by Newblue Unique Piece Dimensions: D 28 x W 28 x H 30 cm. Materials: Patent-pending Newblue recycled ceramic material, recycled sanitary ware, recycled glass, qua...
Quartz, Other
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.