Large Jan Van Der Vaart Porcelain Taurus Vase for Rosenthal Studio Line
By Jan van der Vaart, Rosenthal
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
Striking large and colorful porcelain vase designed by influential ceramist Jan Van Der Vaart for Rosenthal and manufactured in Germany. This vase is in the Taurus pattern that has a...
Ceramic, Porcelain
$9,242 / set
Set of 2 Handcrafted Vases #2 by Teppei Ono
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 2 handcrafted vases #2 by Teppei Ono Dimensions: D 35 x H 40 cm Materials: Clay, ceramic. Unique Piece Description A large, wood fired comb jar. Combware is made by car...
Ceramic, Clay
Contemporary Organic Form, Ruby Red Ceramicc Medium Vase by Willem Van Hooff
Located in Geneve, CH
Aloi Medium Vase by Willem Van Hooff Dimensions: W 35 x D 10 x H 35 cm (Dimensions may vary as pieces are hand-made and might present slight variations in sizes) Material: Glazed Cer...
Ceramic
Set of Three Postmodern Blue and Yellow Glazed Vase and Bottles by Parravicini
Located in Bresso, Lombardy
Made in Italy, 1970s. These two blue bottles and yellow vase are made in glazed ceramic by Parravicini. Parravicini is not very known as a company, therefore it's not easy to find in...
Ceramic
Black and Azure Ceramic 1980s Decorative Bottles by L. Boscolo for Forma & Luce
By Luigi Boscolo
Located in Varese, Lombardia
Set of 4 decorative bottles made from blue/violet and black ceramic. Measures: Big bottle: cm 43 H x 21 D Medium bottle: cm 36 H x 18 D Small bottle: cm 20 H x 11 D.
Ceramic
Set of 2 Geometric Glazed Porcelain KYO Star Vases in Royal Blue by Mazo Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 2 Geometric Glazed Porcelain KYO Star Vases in Royal Blue by Mazo Design Dimensions: D 29 x H 26 cm / D 19.5 x H 21.5 cm Materials: Glazed ceramic. Both functional and sculpt...
Other
Contemporary Organic Shape, Rustic Terracotta Ceramic Pot by Willem Van Hooff
Located in Geneve, CH
Medium Luno 3D Pot by Willem Van Hooff Dimensions: Ø 36 x H 25 cm. Materials: Glazed earthenware. This piece is fired twice in the kiln above 1200 degrees to add this glaze glass e...
Earthenware
Contemporary Block Form, Plain Beige Flat Ceramic Vessel by Willem Van Hooff
Located in Geneve, CH
Sasa Flat Vessel by Willem Van Hooff Dimensions: Ø 58 x H 52 cm. Materials: Glazed earthenware. This piece is fired twice in the kiln above 1200 degrees to add this glaze glass eff...
Earthenware
Contemporary Textured Brown with Green Glazed Ceramic Pot by Willem Van Hooff
Located in Geneve, CH
Koni 3D Pot by Willem Van Hooff Dimensions: Ø 38 x H 61 cm. Materials: Glazed earthenware. This piece is fired twice in the kiln above 1200 degrees to add this glaze glass effect o...
Earthenware
Contemporary Organic Shape, Rustic Light Blue Ceramic Pot by Willem Van Hooff
Located in Geneve, CH
Anga 3D Pot by Willem Van Hooff Dimensions: Ø 28 x H 42 cm. Materials: Glazed earthenware. This piece is fired twice in the kiln above 1200 degrees to add this glaze glass effect o...
Earthenware
Monumental Gail Markiewicz Hand Built Sculptural Ceramic Vessel, Signed
By Markiewicz
Located in W Allenhurst, NJ
A monumental hand-built ceramic vessel by noted American ceramic artist Gail Markiewicz. Constructed from individually textured and impressed clay sections joined together in the art...
Ceramic, Pottery
Unique High Neck Flat Plain Bright Orange Ceramic Vessel by Willem Van Hooff
Located in Geneve, CH
Dura Flat Vessel by Willem Van Hooff Dimensions: Ø 32 x H 35 cm. Materials: Glazed earthenware. This piece is fired twice in the kiln above 1200 degrees to add this glaze glass eff...
Earthenware
Unique High Neck Flat Large Ceramic Vessel, Light Brown by Willem Van Hooff
Located in Geneve, CH
Rabu Flat Vessel by Willem Van Hooff Dimensions: Ø 32 x H 35 cm. Materials: Glazed earthenware. This piece is fired twice in the kiln above 1200 degrees to add this glaze glass eff...
Earthenware
Plain Dark Brown Flat Ceramic Vessel, Body Large Opening by Willem Van Hooff
Located in Geneve, CH
Kupi Flat Vessel by Willem Van Hooff Dimensions: Ø 48 x H 50 cm. Materials: Glazed earthenware. This piece is fired twice in the kiln above 1200 degrees to add this glaze glass eff...
Earthenware
Plain Dark Brown Flat Ceramic Vessel, Body Small Opening by Willem Van Hooff
Located in Geneve, CH
Juso Flat Vessel by Willem Van Hooff Dimensions: Ø 28 x H 30 cm. Materials: Glazed earthenware. This piece is fired twice in the kiln above 1200 degrees to add this glaze glass eff...
Earthenware
High Neck, Organic Form Plain Sandy Brown Ceramic Pot by Willem Van Hooff
Located in Geneve, CH
Olik 3D Pot by Willem Van Hooff Dimensions: Ø 20 x H 4 cm. Materials: Glazed earthenware. This piece is fired twice in the kiln above 1200 degrees to add this glaze glass effect on...
Earthenware
Organic Form, Layered Beige and Light Orange Ceramic Pot by Willem Van Hooff
Located in Geneve, CH
Expa 3D Pot by Willem Van Hooff Dimensions: Ø 25 x H 48 cm. Materials: Glazed earthenware. This piece is fired twice in the kiln above 1200 degrees to add this glaze glass effect o...
Earthenware
Gail Markiewicz Hand Built Patchwork Ceramic Vessel, Contemporary Studio Pottery
By Markiewicz
Located in W Allenhurst, NJ
A sculptural hand-built ceramic vessel by American studio ceramic artist Gail Markiewicz. Constructed from individually textured clay sections joined together in the artist's celebra...
Ceramic, Pottery
Angelo Mangiarotti Skipper Italian Black Ceramic Planter Centerpice Italy 1980s
By Angelo Mangiarotti, Skipper
Located in Reggio Emilia, IT
Italian black glossy glazed ceramic planter or large centerpiece “Antera” model designed by Angelo Mangiarotti (Milan 1921 - 2012) and produced by Skipper made up of two elements tha...
Ceramic
Gail Markiewicz Hand Built Sculptural Ceramic Vessel in Pastel and Blush Tones
Located in W Allenhurst, NJ
A sculptural hand-built ceramic vessel by American ceramic artist Gail Markiewicz. Executed in the artist's signature patchwork construction technique, the vessel is composed of indi...
Ceramic, Pottery
1980s Vintage Glossy Glam Rare Navy Large Swan Ceramic Planter
Located in San Gabriel, CA
1980s very rare large glam swan navy planter 19” long x 8” wide x 13” high Planter 7” high Some speckles and grazing to surface but in general great condition.
Ceramic
Sculptural Post Modern Terracotta Art Vase Decorated
Located in London, GB
Sculptural vase is built up from slabs of colored clay formed by layers decorated in Memphis style pattern, Dutch unknown artist, 1980's. The decoration is created by inlay of colore...
Ceramic
Ettore Sottsass Shiva Limited Edition Black Prototype 2/8
By BD Barcelona Design, Ettore Sottsass
Located in Barcelona, ES
Black Shiva ceramic vase designed by Ettore Sottsass circa 1973, edited by BD in Barcelona. This piece has been produced as a limited edition with a total of only 100 units. This is...
Ceramic
Contemporary Hand-sculpted Off-White Glazed Ceramic Pot by Willem Van Hooff
Located in Geneve, CH
Nara 3D Pot by Willem Van Hooff Dimensions: Ø 52 x H 58 cm. Materials: Glazed earthenware. This piece is fired twice in the kiln above 1200 degrees to add this glaze glass effect o...
Earthenware
Ettore Sottsass Shiva Limited Edition Black 74/100
By BD Barcelona Design, Ettore Sottsass
Located in Barcelona, ES
Black Shiva ceramic vase designed by Ettore Sottsass circa 1973, edited by BD in Barcelona. This piece has been produced as a limited edition with a total of only 100 units. This is...
Ceramic
Multipod Structure Intuitive Built Sculpture 1 by Anna Shipulina Ceramics
Located in Geneve, CH
Multipod Structure Intuitive Built Sculpture 1 by Anna Shipulina Ceramics Dimensions: W 28 x D 44 x H 14 cm. Materials: Ceramic. A hand-built ceramic sculpture that doubles as a ve...
Ceramic
Black Semi Matte Glaze Intuitive Built Sculpture 2 by Anna Shipulina Ceramics
Located in Geneve, CH
Black Semi Matte Glaze Intuitive Built Sculpture 2 by Anna Shipulina Ceramics Dimensions: W 34 x D 42 x H 14 cm. Materials: Ceramic. This piece is shaped from stoneware clay and fo...
Ceramic
Bitossi Ceramiche Vaso Rocchetto by Ettore Sottsass
By Ettore Sottsass, Bitossi
Located in Toronto, ON
Designed by Ettore Sottsass for Bitossi in 1958, this cylindrical vase from his black-and-white collection wears a façade of squares and grids, a stark geometry that feels equal part...
Ceramic
$863 / item
The Journey of an Urn by Davide Ronco
Located in Geneve, CH
The Journey of an Urn by Davide Ronco Unique Piece Dimensions: D 15 x W 16 x H 24.5 cm. Materials: Ceramic (self-foraged clay). A collection of 40 urns made from self-dug high-fire...
Ceramic
$653 / item
Terra Nova by Deetee Home
Located in Geneve, CH
Terra Nova by Deetee Home Dimensions: W 25.4 x D 25.4 x H 40.64 cm Materials: Stoneware Rooted in traditions of Shilpakala ( शल् पकला), the Sanskrit term for the art of sculpture an...
Ceramic, Stoneware
$6,161 / item
Scroll Jar By Caspi Ceramics NL
Located in Geneve, CH
Scroll Jar By Caspi Ceramics NL Dimensions: W 29 x D 29 x H 71 cm. Materials: Porcelain, glaze, Iron underglaze prints, wheel throwing, 3D modeling, press mold, Anagama wood firing. ...
Ceramic
$6,161 / item
Scroll Jar By Caspi Ceramics NL
Located in Geneve, CH
Scroll Jar By Caspi Ceramics NL Dimensions: W 29 x D 29 x H 71 cm. Materials: Porcelain, glaze, Iron underglaze prints, wheel throwing, 3D modeling, press mold, Anagama wood firing. ...
Ceramic
$6,161 / item
Scroll Jar By Caspi Ceramics NL
Located in Geneve, CH
Scroll Jar By Caspi Ceramics NL Dimensions: W 29 x D 29 x H 71 cm. Materials: Porcelain, glaze, Iron underglaze prints, wheel throwing, 3D modeling, press mold, Anagama wood firing. ...
Ceramic
$6,161 / item
Scroll Jar By Caspi Ceramics NL
Located in Geneve, CH
Scroll Jar By Caspi Ceramics NL Dimensions: W 29 x D 29 x H 71 cm. Materials: Porcelain, glaze, Iron underglaze prints, wheel throwing, 3D modeling, press mold, Anagama wood firing. ...
Ceramic
$6,161 / item
Scroll Jar By Caspi Ceramics NL
Located in Geneve, CH
Scroll Jar By Caspi Ceramics NL Dimensions: W 29 x D 29 x H 71 cm. Materials: Porcelain, glaze, Iron underglaze prints, wheel throwing, 3D modeling, press mold, Anagama wood firing. ...
Ceramic
$6,161 / item
Scroll Jar By Caspi Ceramics NL
Located in Geneve, CH
Scroll Jar By Caspi Ceramics NL Dimensions: W 29 x D 29 x H 71 cm. Materials: Porcelain, glaze, Iron underglaze prints, wheel throwing, 3D modeling, press mold, Anagama wood firing. ...
Ceramic
$6,161 / item
Scroll Jar By Caspi Ceramics NL
Located in Geneve, CH
Scroll Jar By Caspi Ceramics NL Dimensions: W 29 x D 29 x H 71 cm. Materials: Porcelain, glaze, Iron underglaze prints, wheel throwing, 3D modeling, press mold, Anagama wood firing. ...
Ceramic
$4,597 / item
Echo Vessel by Laura Pasquino
Located in Geneve, CH
Echo Vessel by Laura Pasquino One of a Kind Dimensions: D 43 x H 44 cm Material: Ceramic Finishing: Textured, Glazed Inside Artist stamp on the bottom Laura Pasquino Incorporating ...
Ceramic
$3,209 / item
Light Fold Vessel by Laura Pasquino
Located in Geneve, CH
Light Fold Vessel by Laura Pasquino One of a Kind Dimensions: D 42 x H 40 cm Material: Ceramic Finishing: Textured, Glazed Inside Artist stamp on the bottom Laura Pasquino Incorpor...
Ceramic
$3,192 / item
Grain Sculpture by Laura Pasquino
Located in Geneve, CH
Grain Sculpture by Laura Pasquino One of a Kind Dimensions: D 37 cm x H 38 cm Material: Ceramic Finishing: Textured, Unglazed Artist stamp on the bottom Laura Pasquino Incorporatin...
Ceramic
$4,621 / item
Dove Sculpture by Laura Pasquino
Located in Geneve, CH
Dove Sculpture by Laura Pasquino One of a Kind Dimensions: W 46 x D 30 x H 30 cm Material: Ceramic Finishing: Textured, Unglazed Artist stamp on the bottom Laura Pasquino Incorpora...
Ceramic
$595 / item
Monkey Amphora by Deetee Home
Located in Geneve, CH
Monkey Amphora by Deetee Home Dimensions: W 25.4 x D 25.4 x H 30.48 cm Materials: Stoneware and Metal Crafted with timeless elegance each piece transforms a space, like the rounded ...
Metal
$478 / item
Windy Sculptural Vessel by Karin Amdal
Located in Geneve, CH
Windy Sculptural Vessel by Karin Amdal One Of A Kind. Dimensions: D 13 x W 13 x H 16 cm. Materials: Ceramic/stoneware clay. Pieces are hand-made, one of a kind, and sizes may vary s...
Ceramic, Clay, Stoneware
$595 / item
Dimple Sculptural Vessel by Karin Amdal
Located in Geneve, CH
Dimple Sculptural Vessel by Karin Amdal One Of A Kind. Dimensions: D 13 x W 13 x H 16 cm. Materials: Ceramic/stoneware clay. Pieces are hand-made, one of a kind, and sizes may vary ...
Ceramic, Clay, Stoneware
Set Of 2 Corner Sculptural Vessels by Karin Amdal
Located in Geneve, CH
Set Of 2 Corner Sculptural Vessels by Karin Amdal One Of A Kind. Dimensions: D 12 x W 12 x H 15 cm. Materials: Ceramic/stoneware clay. Pieces are hand-made, one of a kind, and sizes...
Ceramic, Clay, Stoneware
Set Of 2 Corner Sculptural Vessels by Karin Amdal
Located in Geneve, CH
Set Of 2 Corner Sculptural Vessels by Karin Amdal One Of A Kind. Dimensions: D 12 x W 12 x H 15 cm. Materials: Ceramic/stoneware clay. Pieces are hand-made, one of a kind, and sizes...
Ceramic, Clay, Stoneware
Set Of 2 Sail Sculptural Vessels by Karin Amdal
Located in Geneve, CH
Set Of 2 Sail Sculptural Vessels by Karin Amdal One Of A Kind. Dimensions: Large: D 16 x W 13 x H 15 cm. Small: D 10 x W 10 x H 12 cm. Materials: Ceramic/stoneware clay. Available i...
Ceramic, Clay, Stoneware
$615 / item
Divided Sculptural Vessel by Karin Amdal
Located in Geneve, CH
Divided Sculptural Vessel by Karin Amdal One Of A Kind. Dimensions: D 14 x W 12.5 x H 14 cm. Materials: Ceramic/stoneware clay. Pieces are hand-made, one of a kind, and sizes may va...
Ceramic, Clay, Stoneware
$618 / item
Divided Sculptural Vessel by Karin Amdal
Located in Geneve, CH
Divided Sculptural Vessel by Karin Amdal One Of A Kind. Dimensions: D 14 x W 12.5 x H 14 cm. Materials: Ceramic/stoneware clay. Pieces are hand-made, one of a kind, and sizes may va...
Ceramic, Clay, Stoneware
$676 / item
Halo Sculptural Vessel by Karin Amdal
Located in Geneve, CH
Halo Sculptural Vessel by Karin Amdal One Of A Kind. Dimensions: D 19.5 x W 12.5 x H 16 cm. Materials: Ceramic/stoneware clay. Pieces are hand-made, one of a kind, and sizes may var...
Ceramic, Clay, Stoneware
$676 / item
Halo Sculptural Vessel by Karin Amdal
Located in Geneve, CH
Halo Sculptural Vessel by Karin Amdal One Of A Kind. Dimensions: D 19.5 x W 12.5 x H 16 cm. Materials: Ceramic/stoneware clay. Pieces are hand-made, one of a kind, and sizes may var...
Ceramic, Clay, Stoneware
Going Nowhere Sculptural Vessel by Karin Amdal
Located in Geneve, CH
Going Nowhere Sculptural Vessel by Karin Amdal One Of A Kind. Dimensions: D 15 x W 13 x H 16 cm. Materials: Ceramic/stoneware clay. Pieces are hand-made, one of a kind, and sizes ma...
Ceramic, Clay, Stoneware
$618 / item
Saturn Sculptural Vessel by Karin Amdal
Located in Geneve, CH
Saturn Sculptural Vessel by Karin Amdal One Of A Kind. Dimensions: D 17 x W 17 x H 14 cm. Materials: Ceramic/stoneware clay. Pieces are hand-made, one of a kind, and sizes may vary ...
Ceramic, Clay, Stoneware
$676 / item
Walls Sculptural Vessel by Karin Amdal
Located in Geneve, CH
Walls Sculptural Vessel by Karin Amdal One Of A Kind. Dimensions: D 12.5 x W 12.5 x H 14.5 cm. Materials: Ceramic/stoneware clay. Pieces are hand-made, one of a kind, and sizes may ...
Ceramic, Clay, Stoneware
$676 / item
Svalbard Sculptural Vessel by Karin Amdal
Located in Geneve, CH
Svalbard Sculptural Vessel by Karin Amdal One Of A Kind. Dimensions: D 12,5 x W 12,5 x H 14,5 cm. Materials: Ceramic/stoneware clay. Pieces are hand-made, one of a kind, and sizes m...
Ceramic, Clay, Stoneware
$735 / item
Bunker Sculptural Vessel by Karin Amdal
Located in Geneve, CH
Bunker Sculptural Vessel by Karin Amdal One Of A Kind. Dimensions: D 13 x W 14 x H 16 cm. Materials: Ceramic / Grey stoneware clay. Pieces are hand-made, one of a kind, and sizes ma...
Ceramic, Clay, Stoneware
$735 / item
Closed Sculptural Vessel by Karin Amdal
Located in Geneve, CH
Closed Sculptural Vessel by Karin Amdal One Of A Kind. Dimensions: D 12.5 x W 13.5 x H 14 cm. Materials: Ceramic/stoneware clay. Pieces are hand-made, one of a kind, and sizes may v...
Ceramic, Clay, Stoneware
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.