$1,758 / item
H 19.69 in Dm 18.9 in
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
$622 / item
H 11.82 in Dm 11.03 in
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
$1,447 / item
H 15.75 in Dm 7.88 in
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
$1,531 / item
H 18.9 in Dm 9.85 in
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
$4,666
H 13.98 in Dm 18.12 in
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
Ceramic
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
Ceramic
$3,350 / item
H 22.84 in Dm 20.48 in
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
$4,738 / item
H 5.52 in W 11.03 in D 17.33 in
Multipod Structure Intuitive Built Sculpture 1 by Anna Shipulina Ceramics
Located in Geneve, CH
H 14 cm. Materials: Ceramic. A hand-built ceramic sculpture that doubles as a vessel. This piece
Ceramic
$5,264 / item
H 5.52 in W 13.39 in D 16.54 in
Black Semi Matte Glaze Intuitive Built Sculpture 2 by Anna Shipulina Ceramics
Located in Geneve, CH
42 x H 14 cm. Materials: Ceramic. This piece is shaped from stoneware clay and formed into an
Ceramic
Bitossi Ceramiche Vaso Rocchetto by Ettore Sottsass
By Bitossi, Ettore Sottsass
Located in Toronto, ON
Designed by Ettore Sottsass for Bitossi in 1958, this cylindrical vase from his black-and-white
Ceramic
The Journey of an Urn by Davide Ronco
Located in Geneve, CH
: Ceramic (self-foraged clay). A collection of 40 urns made from self-dug high-fired clay, where each urn
Ceramic
Terra Nova by Deetee Home
Located in Geneve, CH
inspiration from ancient Indian design philosophies that balance symmetry, strength, and simplicity. A modern
Ceramic, Stoneware
Scroll Jar By Caspi Ceramics NL
Located in Geneve, CH
early childhood, ceramic artist Uriel Caspi (b. 1994) has been fascinated with clay. Working with clay
Ceramic
Scroll Jar By Caspi Ceramics NL
Located in Geneve, CH
early childhood, ceramic artist Uriel Caspi (b. 1994) has been fascinated with clay. Working with clay
Ceramic
Scroll Jar By Caspi Ceramics NL
Located in Geneve, CH
early childhood, ceramic artist Uriel Caspi (b. 1994) has been fascinated with clay. Working with clay
Ceramic
Scroll Jar By Caspi Ceramics NL
Located in Geneve, CH
early childhood, ceramic artist Uriel Caspi (b. 1994) has been fascinated with clay. Working with clay
Ceramic
Scroll Jar By Caspi Ceramics NL
Located in Geneve, CH
early childhood, ceramic artist Uriel Caspi (b. 1994) has been fascinated with clay. Working with clay
Ceramic
Scroll Jar By Caspi Ceramics NL
Located in Geneve, CH
early childhood, ceramic artist Uriel Caspi (b. 1994) has been fascinated with clay. Working with clay
Ceramic
Scroll Jar By Caspi Ceramics NL
Located in Geneve, CH
early childhood, ceramic artist Uriel Caspi (b. 1994) has been fascinated with clay. Working with clay
Ceramic
Ettore Sottsass Shiva Limited Edition Black 74/100
By Ettore Sottsass, BD Barcelona Design
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Black Shiva ceramic vase designed by Ettore Sottsass circa 1973, edited by BD in Barcelona. This
Ceramic
Monkey Amphora by Deetee Home
Located in Geneve, CH
- world charm and whimsy, or the geometric piece with modern luxury. Earthy textures meet metallic accents
Metal
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
Ceramic
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
Ceramic
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
Ceramic
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
Ceramic
Windy Sculptural Vessel by Karin Amdal
Located in Geneve, CH
: Ceramic/stoneware clay. Pieces are hand-made, one of a kind, and sizes may vary slightly. Can be made to
Ceramic, Clay, Stoneware
Dimple Sculptural Vessel by Karin Amdal
Located in Geneve, CH
: Ceramic/stoneware clay. Pieces are hand-made, one of a kind, and sizes may vary slightly. Can be made to
Ceramic, Clay, Stoneware
Set Of 2 Corner Sculptural Vessels by Karin Amdal
Located in Geneve, CH
. Materials: Ceramic/stoneware clay. Pieces are hand-made, one of a kind, and sizes may vary slightly. Can be
Ceramic, Clay, Stoneware
Set Of 2 Corner Sculptural Vessels by Karin Amdal
Located in Geneve, CH
. Materials: Ceramic/stoneware clay. Pieces are hand-made, one of a kind, and sizes may vary slightly. Can be
Ceramic, Clay, Stoneware
Set Of 2 Sail Sculptural Vessels by Karin Amdal
Located in Geneve, CH
15 cm. Small: D 10 x W 10 x H 12 cm. Materials: Ceramic/stoneware clay. Available in two different
Ceramic, Clay, Stoneware
Divided Sculptural Vessel by Karin Amdal
Located in Geneve, CH
. Materials: Ceramic/stoneware clay. Pieces are hand-made, one of a kind, and sizes may vary slightly. Can be
Ceramic, Clay, Stoneware
Divided Sculptural Vessel by Karin Amdal
Located in Geneve, CH
. Materials: Ceramic/stoneware clay. Pieces are hand-made, one of a kind, and sizes may vary slightly. Can be
Ceramic, Clay, Stoneware
Halo Sculptural Vessel by Karin Amdal
Located in Geneve, CH
. Materials: Ceramic/stoneware clay. Pieces are hand-made, one of a kind, and sizes may vary slightly. Can be
Ceramic, Clay, Stoneware
Halo Sculptural Vessel by Karin Amdal
Located in Geneve, CH
. Materials: Ceramic/stoneware clay. Pieces are hand-made, one of a kind, and sizes may vary slightly. Can be
Ceramic, Clay, Stoneware
Going Nowhere Sculptural Vessel by Karin Amdal
Located in Geneve, CH
. Materials: Ceramic/stoneware clay. Pieces are hand-made, one of a kind, and sizes may vary slightly. Can be
Ceramic, Clay, Stoneware
Saturn Sculptural Vessel by Karin Amdal
Located in Geneve, CH
: Ceramic/stoneware clay. Pieces are hand-made, one of a kind, and sizes may vary slightly. Can be made to
Ceramic, Clay, Stoneware
Walls Sculptural Vessel by Karin Amdal
Located in Geneve, CH
. Materials: Ceramic/stoneware clay. Pieces are hand-made, one of a kind, and sizes may vary slightly. Can be
Ceramic, Clay, Stoneware
Svalbard Sculptural Vessel by Karin Amdal
Located in Geneve, CH
. Materials: Ceramic/stoneware clay. Pieces are hand-made, one of a kind, and sizes may vary slightly. Can be
Ceramic, Clay, Stoneware
Bunker Sculptural Vessel by Karin Amdal
Located in Geneve, CH
: Ceramic / Grey stoneware clay. Pieces are hand-made, one of a kind, and sizes may vary slightly. Can be
Ceramic, Clay, Stoneware
Closed Sculptural Vessel by Karin Amdal
Located in Geneve, CH
. Materials: Ceramic/stoneware clay. Pieces are hand-made, one of a kind, and sizes may vary slightly. Can be
Ceramic, Clay, Stoneware
Channel Sculptural Vessel by Karin Amdal
Located in Geneve, CH
. Materials: Ceramic / Grey stoneware clay. Pieces are hand-made, one of a kind, and sizes may vary slightly
Ceramic, Clay, Stoneware
Open Sculptural Vessel by Karin Amdal
Located in Geneve, CH
. Materials: Ceramic/stoneware clay. Pieces are hand-made, one of a kind, and sizes may vary slightly. Can be
Ceramic, Clay, Stoneware
Gateway Sculptural Vessel by Karin Amdal
Located in Geneve, CH
. Materials: Ceramic/stoneware clay. Pieces are hand-made, one of a kind, and sizes may vary slightly. Can be
Ceramic, Clay, Stoneware
Emerge Sculptural Vessel by Karin Amdal
Located in Geneve, CH
. Materials: Ceramic / Grey stoneware clay. Pieces are hand-made, one of a kind, and sizes may vary slightly
Ceramic, Clay, Stoneware
Sail Sculptural Small Vessel by Karin Amdal
Located in Geneve, CH
. Materials: Ceramic/stoneware clay. Available in two different sizes. Pieces are hand-made, one of a kind
Ceramic, Clay, Stoneware
Sail Sculptural Vessel by Karin Amdal
Located in Geneve, CH
: Ceramic/stoneware clay. Available in two different sizes. Pieces are hand-made, one of a kind, and sizes
Ceramic, Clay, Stoneware
Sail Sculptural Vessel by Karin Amdal
Located in Geneve, CH
: Ceramic/stoneware clay. Available in two different sizes. Pieces are hand-made, one of a kind, and sizes
Ceramic, Clay, Stoneware
$1,483 / set
H 5.91 in W 5.52 in D 5.12 in
Set Of 2 Positive Negative Sculptural Vessels by Karin Amdal
Located in Geneve, CH
x H 15 cm. Materials: Ceramic/stoneware clay. Pieces are hand-made, one of a kind, and sizes may
Ceramic, Clay, Stoneware
Erm Excuse Me Sculptural Vessel by Karin Amdal
Located in Geneve, CH
. Materials: Ceramic/stoneware clay. Pieces are hand-made, one of a kind, and sizes may vary slightly. Can be
Ceramic, Clay, Stoneware
So Nice To See You Sculptural Vessel by Karin Amdal
Located in Geneve, CH
cm. Materials: Ceramic/stoneware clay. Pieces are hand-made, one of a kind, and sizes may vary
Ceramic, Clay, Stoneware
Postmodern Pink Ceramic Floral Vase
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Exceptional vintage Postmodern ceramic floor vase. Features a glossy pink finish with flowers
Ceramic
Postmodern Studio Ceramic Vase Signed
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Postmodern ceramic vase in a pastel palette with black interior, circa 1980s. Intriguing form
Ceramic
Sira Vessel by Deetee Home
Located in Geneve, CH
Sira Vessel by Deetee Home Dimensions: W 29.21 x D 29.21 x H 113.03 cm Materials: Stoneware Elegant and sculptural, the Sira Vessel draws inspiration from timeless architectural for...
Ceramic, Stoneware
$850
H 7.76 in W 4.3 in D 3.55 in
Signed Tessa Fuchs Vintage British Art Studio Pottery Bowl or Dish, circa 1980s
By Tessa Fuchs
Located in Landau an der Isar, Bayern
British art Studio Pottery by artist and sculptor Tessa Fuchs (1936-2012), produced circa 1982. Tess Fuchs was born in Chesire and studied at the Salford Technical Art School and the...
Ceramic, Clay
Postmodern Light Green Scalloped Ceramic Vase
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Incredible vintage postmodern ceramic vase. Features a gloss might green finish with a scalloped
Ceramic
$1,330Sale Price|20% Off
H 5.52 in Dm 7.88 in
Paul Hoff for Gustavsberg — Limited Edition Stoneware Pumpkin, 1989
By Paul Hoff, Gustavberg
Located in Bochum, NRW
A rare and beautifully crafted stoneware pumpkin by renowned Swedish designer Paul Hoff, produced by Gustavsberg in 1989. This striking piece comes from a limited edition of only 15...
Ceramic, 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.