$12,125 / item
Kheper K02 Mix Coffee Table by Monogramma
Located in Geneve, CH
Kheper K02 mix coffee table by Monogramma Dimensions: D 45 x W 45 x H 45 cm Materials: Travertino Romano Classico (honed), Port Saint Laurent (honed and sandblasted). Monogramma...
Marble
$12,320 / item
Round Movimiento Coffee Table by Joel Escalona
By Joel Escalona
Located in Geneve, CH
Round Movimiento coffee table by Joel Escalona Limited Edition of 9 Dimensions: D 100 x H 41 cm Materials: oak wood, metal. Natural white oak with metal table. Joel Escalona...
Metal
$14,295 / item
Beside Myself Square Coffee Table by Claste
Located in Geneve, CH
Beside Myself Square Coffee Table by Claste Dimensions: D 106.7 x W 106.7 x H 35.6 cm Material: Marble, Glass Weight: 145 kg Since 2017 Quinlan Osborne has cultivated an aesth...
Marble
$10,953 / item
Remember Me Round Coffee Table by Claste
Located in Geneve, CH
Remerber me round coffee table by Claste Dimensions: D 100 x W 35.5 x H 35.5 cm Material: Carrara Gioia, Belvedere Black, Mont Blanc, Manhatten Calacatta, Fusion Marble, Temptatio...
Marble
$10,953 / item
Remember Me Rectangular Coffee Table by Claste
Located in Geneve, CH
Remerber Me rectangular coffee table by Claste Dimensions: D 137.2 x W 76.2 x H 35.5 cm Material: Carrara Gioia, Belvedere Black, Mont Blanc, Manhatten Calacatta, Fusion Marble, T...
Marble
Threebù Saffron Yellow Coffee Table by Marcantonio
Located in Geneve, CH
Threebù Saffron Yellow Coffee Table by Marcantonio Dimensions: D 45 x W 45 x H 45 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 4 kg. Available in different color options. Prices may vary. T...
Other
Threebù Savannah Land Coffee Table by Marcantonio
Located in Geneve, CH
Threebù Savannah Land Coffee Table by Marcantonio Dimensions: D 45 x W 45 x H 45 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 4 kg. Available in different color options. Prices may vary. Th...
Other
Threebù Sahara Sand Coffee Table by Marcantonio
Located in Geneve, CH
Threebù Sahara Sand Coffee Table by Marcantonio Dimensions: D 45 x W 45 x H 45 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 4 kg. Available in different color options. Prices may vary. This...
Other
Threebù Namibian Dessert Coffee Table by Marcantonio
Located in Geneve, CH
Threebù Namibian Dessert Coffee Table by Marcantonio Dimensions: D 45 x W 45 x H 45 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 4 kg. Available in different color options. Prices may vary....
Other
Threebù Jet Black Coffee Table by Marcantonio
Located in Geneve, CH
Threebù Jet Black Coffee Table by Marcantonio Dimensions: D 45 x W 45 x H 45 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 4 kg. Available in different color options. Prices may vary. This p...
Other
Threebù Lime Green Coffee Table by Marcantonio
Located in Geneve, CH
Threebù Lime Green Coffee Table by Marcantonio Dimensions: D 45 x W 45 x H 45 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 4 kg. Available in different color options. Prices may vary. This ...
Other
Brutalist Round Coffee Table in Black Stone Look Resin
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Cocktail or coffee table, resin, Northern-Europe, 1970s. A striking example of 1970s design, this deep black coffee or cocktail table embodies a bold yet refined aesthetic. Crafted ...
Resin
$956Sale Price|20% Off
Maitland Smith Tessellated Stone Sculptural Coffee Side Table
By Maitland Smith
Located in Lake Worth, FL
For FULL item description click on More Details below. Shipping Quote Information The shipping quote stated in the listing was from 1st Dibs and they normally set all the costs and ...
Stone
$5,832 / item
Bel Ava Coffee Table by Studio Nosqua
Located in Geneve, CH
Bel Ava Coffee Table by Studio Nosqua Dimensions: D 52 x W 34 x H 79 cm Material: Glass, Lava stone, Brass Between desertic expanses and frozen mountains, Bela Ava offers you to tra...
Lava, Brass
Vintage Faux-Marble Resin "Mushroom" Coffee Table
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Postmodern faux-marble resin mushroom-form coffee table in off-white with grey veining (ca. 1980s, USA). Very fine, vintage condition with one fissure and a scuff to the surface and ...
Resin
$2,055 / item
Atlas 75 Coffee Table by Atlas Project
Located in Geneve, CH
Atlas 75 Coffee Table by Atlas Project Dimensions: Ø 75 x H 35 cm. Materials: Black powder painted iron and stainless inox steel. Available in two different sizes. Please contact u...
Stainless Steel, Iron
$2,388 / item
Atlas 85 Coffee Table by Atlas Project
Located in Geneve, CH
Atlas 85 Coffee Table by Atlas Project Dimensions: Ø 85 x H 35 cm. Materials: Black powder painted iron and stainless inox steel. Available in two different sizes. Please contact u...
Stainless Steel, Iron
$15,753 / item
Aida Walnut Coffee Table by Atelier Blouberg
Located in Geneve, CH
Aida Walnut Coffee Table by Atelier Blouberg Unique Piece. Dimensions: D 60 x W 71 x H 72 cm. Materials: Walnut. Available in walnut and oak. Please contact us. Ruben Van Lerberghe...
Walnut
$14,260 / item
Nicola Walnut Coffee Table by Atelier Blouberg
Located in Geneve, CH
Nicola Walnut Coffee Table by Atelier Blouberg Unique Piece. Dimensions: D 58 x W 76 x H 70 cm. Materials: Walnut. Available in walnut and oak. Please contact us. Ruben Van Lerberg...
Walnut
$920Sale Price|20% Off
Vintage 1980s modular rattan coffee tables/side tables -a pair
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Vintage rattan side or end tables or small coffee table with glass tops. A smaller version of these are also available.
Rattan, Glass
$6,946 / item
Aero Coffee Table by Giacomo Tomazzi Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Aero Coffee Table by Giacomo Tomazzi Studio Dimensions: W 120 x D 120 x H 23 cm Materials: MDF with natural wood laminate, painted carbon steel structure, 10mm bronze glass elements,...
Steel
$19,450 / item
Epang 05 Coffee Table by Sing Chan
Located in Geneve, CH
Epang 05 coffee table by Sing Chan Dimensions: W 90 x D 90 x H 25 cm Materials: Manual sculpture, teak, black paint, waxing. Sing Chan ( Chinese: 陈星宇/Xingyu Chen) , the founder of S...
Teak, Paint
$13,342 / item
Epang 02 Coffee Table by Sing Chan
Located in Geneve, CH
Epang 02 coffee table by Sing Chan Dimensions: W 78.5 x D 78.5 x H 50 cm Materials: Manual sculpture, teak, black paint, waxing. Sing Chan ( Chinese: 陈星宇/Xingyu Chen) , the founder ...
Teak, Paint
$16,672 / item
Epang 04 Coffee Table by Sing Chan
Located in Geneve, CH
Epang 04 coffee table by Sing Chan Dimensions: W 80 x D 80 x H 25 cm Materials: Manual sculpture, teak, black paint, waxing. Sing Chan ( Chinese: 陈星宇/Xingyu Chen) , the founder of S...
Teak, Paint
$13,824 / item
Epang 03 Coffee Table by Sing Chan
Located in Geneve, CH
Epang 03 coffee table by Sing Chan Dimensions: W 80 x D 70 x H 25 cm Materials: Manual sculpture, teak, black paint, waxing. Sing Chan ( Chinese: 陈星宇/Xingyu Chen), the founder of SI...
Teak, Paint
Coffee Table with Marble Top and Chrome Base
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Ideal for a minimalistic Post-modern interior, this coffee table effortlessly blends style and simplicity.
Marble, Chrome
$1,974 / item
Bogdan Medium Coffee Table by Studio Intervallo
Located in Geneve, CH
Bogdan medium coffee table by Studio Intervallo Dimensions: D 45 x H 40 cm Materials: LINDEN solid wood, with colored decoration on the circumference. Other types of wood availa...
Wood
$2,273 / item
Bogdan Large Coffee Table by Studio Intervallo
Located in Geneve, CH
Bogdan large coffee table by Studio Intervallo Dimensions: D 60 x H 30 cm Materials: LINDEN solid wood, with colored decoration on the circumference. Other types of wood available...
Wood
$1,710 / item
Itaca 65 Coffee Table by Atlas Project
Located in Geneve, CH
Itaca 65 Coffee Table by Atlas Project Dimensions: Ø 65 x H 35 cm. Materials: Stainless mirror steel and glass. Available in different sizes. Please contact us. Itaca Coffee Table...
Stainless Steel
$5,809 / item
Heritage Coffee Table by Lee Jung Hoon
Located in Geneve, CH
Heritage Coffee Table by Lee Jung Hoon Dimensions: D 60 x W 70 x H 37.6 cm Materials: Granite, Walnut, Stainless Steel. The Heritage series, created by designer Lee Jung-hoon is a c...
Granite, Stainless Steel
$11,539 / item
Grand Canyon Coffee Table by NITUSH AROOSH
Located in Geneve, CH
Grand Canyon Coffee Table by NITUSH AROOSH Dimensions: D 80 x W 150 x H 35/40 cm. Materials: Stainless steel. Available in different finishes. All our lamps can be wired according ...
Stainless Steel
$11,539 / item
Grand Canyon Coffee Table by NITUSH AROOSH
Located in Geneve, CH
Grand Canyon Coffee Table by NITUSH AROOSH Dimensions: D 80 x W 150 x H 35/40 cm. Materials: Stainless steel. Available in different finishes. All our lamps can be wired according ...
Stainless Steel
$941 / item
Natural Oak Camille Coffee Table S by HARTO
Located in Geneve, CH
Natural Oak Camille Coffee Table S by HARTO Dimensions: W 62 x D 50 x H 29 cm. Materials: Solid wood, MDF wood veneer. Weight: 5 kg Both massive and light, the Camille coffee tabl...
Wood
$1,148 / item
Natural Oak Camille Coffee Table L38 by HARTO
Located in Geneve, CH
Natural Oak Camille Coffee Table L38 by HARTO Dimensions: W 120 x D 50 x H 38 cm. Materials: Solid wood, MDF wood veneer. Weight: 8.5 kg Both massive and light, the Camille coffee...
Wood
$1,148 / item
Natural Oak Camille Coffee Table L29 by HARTO
Located in Geneve, CH
Natural Oak Camille Coffee Table L29 by HARTO Dimensions: W 120 x D 50 x H 29 cm. Materials: Solid wood, MDF wood veneer. Weight: 8 kg Both massive and light, the Camille coffee t...
Wood
$14,249 / item
Pianist Calacatta Marble Coffee Table by InsidherLand
Located in Geneve, CH
Pianist Calacatta Marble Coffee Table by InsidherLand Dimensions: D 75 x W 130 x H 38 cm. Materials: Calacatta marble, brushed brass. 115 kg. Other marbles are available. The Pianis...
Marble, Brass
$13,192 / item
Pianist Estremoz Marble Coffee Table by InsidherLand
Located in Geneve, CH
Pianist Estremoz Marble Coffee Table by InsidherLand Dimensions: D 75 x W 130 x H 38 cm. Materials: Estremoz marble, oxidized brushed brass. 115 kg. Other marbles are available. The...
Marble, Brass
$12,882 / item
Pianist Carrara Marble Coffee Table by InsidherLand
Located in Geneve, CH
Pianist Carrara Marble Coffee Table by InsidherLand Dimensions: D 75 x W 130 x H 38 cm. Materials: Carrara marble, oxidized brushed brass. 115 kg. Other marbles are available. The P...
Marble, Brass
$9,346 / item
Gold Shark Coffee Table by Giulia Maria Ligresti
Located in Geneve, CH
Gold Shark Coffee Table by Giulia Maria Ligresti Dimensions: D 79 x W 35 x H 38 cm. Materials: Iron. This all-gold iron coffee table exudes elegance and luxury. The entire table, in...
Iron
$17,188 / item
Masso Copper Sculptural Coffee Table by Aura Carpio
Located in Geneve, CH
Masso Copper Sculptural Coffee Table by Aura Carpio. Dimensions: W 100 x D 76 x H 40 cm. Materials: Hammered Copper, Fire-stamped. This piece can be produced in customized sizes and...
Copper
Enrique Garcel Lacquered Goatskin Triangular Coffee Table, 1991
By Enrique Garcel
Located in Chicago, IL
Enrique Garcel Lacquered Goatskin Triangular Coffee Table, 1991. Matching Side/End tables are in separate listing. Measures 17.75” tall 91.5” long 42” deep
Goatskin, Glass
$5,809 / item
Ahadi Coffee Table by Albert Potgieter Designs
Located in Geneve, CH
Ahadi coffee table by Albert Potgieter Designs. Dimensions: W 120 x D 60 x H 45 cm. Materials: Walnut and Brushed Steel. “Look and Feel designs”, this is the Tagline and the way...
Steel
Dark Green Maryland Occasional Coffee Table by Somaschini
Located in Geneve, CH
Dark Green Maryland Occasional Coffee Table by Somaschini Dimensions: D 120 x H 27 cm Materials: Lightened mdf monolithic structure with emptying. S32 Nuanced dark green polyester la...
Lacquer
$3,031 / item
Alchemy 70 Coffee Table by De Castelli
Located in Geneve, CH
Alchemy 70 Coffee Table by De Castelli Dimensions: W 70 x D 70 x H 35 cm Materials: DeLabré Stainless Steel, Polished Stainless Steel Other versions are available, please contact us ...
Stainless Steel
$6,062 / item
Alpha Modular Coffee Table by De Castelli
Located in Geneve, CH
Alpha Modular Coffee Table by De Castelli Dimensions: W 90 x D 52 x H 35 cm Materials: DeErosion Copper, Wood Other versions are available, please contact us for any request. A smal...
Copper
Brutalist Round Coffee Table in Black Stone Look Resin
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Cocktail or coffee table, resin, Northern-Europe, 1970s. A striking example of 1970s design, this deep black coffee or cocktail table embodies a bold yet refined aesthetic. Crafted ...
Resin
$9,920 / item
Limestone Neave Coffee Table by Nish Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Limestone Neave Coffee Table by Nish Studio Dimensions: W 87.4 x D 41.8 x H 34.6 cm. Materials: Limestone, Price based on Sandblasted - brushed finish. Other finishes available. Als...
Limestone
$7,888 / item
Jura Coffee Table by Ah Um Design Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Jura Coffee Table by Ah Um Design Studio Handmade Dimensions: D 118.1 x W 85 x H 33 cm. Materials: Mahogany wood, oil finish, hand-glazed tiles. Available in other wood and tile opt...
Mahogany
$6,728 / item
Small Alpi Gray Bold Coffee Table by Mohdern
Located in Geneve, CH
Small Alpi Gray Bold Coffee Table by Mohdern Dimensions: ⌀ 50 x H 50 cm (Marble Tray Included ⌀ 42 cm) Materials: Solid Ash Bold is a refined collection of coffee tables designed a...
Ash
$6,510 / item
Medium Crema Marfil Bold Coffee Table by Mohdern
Located in Geneve, CH
Medium Crema Marfil Bold Coffee Table by Mohdern Dimensions: ⌀ 60 x H 41 cm (Marble Tray Included ⌀ 52 cm) Materials: Solid Ash Bold is a refined collection of coffee tables design...
Ash
$7,784 / item
Medium Carrara White Bold Coffee Table by Mohdern
Located in Geneve, CH
Medium Carrara White Bold Coffee Table by Mohdern Dimensions: ⌀ 60 x H 41 cm (Marble Tray Included ⌀ 52 cm) Materials: Solid Ash Bold is a refined collection of coffee tables desig...
Ash
$7,784 / item
Medium Alpi Gray Bold Coffee Table by Mohdern
Located in Geneve, CH
Medium Alpi Gray Bold Coffee Table by Mohdern Dimensions: ⌀ 60 x H 41 cm (Marble Tray Included ⌀ 52 cm) Materials: Solid Ash Bold is a refined collection of coffee tables designed ...
Ash
$7,222 / item
Small Forest Green Bold Coffee Table by Mohdern
Located in Geneve, CH
Small Forest Green Bold Coffee Table by Mohdern Dimensions: ⌀ 50 x H 50 cm (Marble Tray Included ⌀ 42 cm) Materials: Solid Ash Bold is a refined collection of coffee tables designe...
Ash
$6,728 / item
Small Carrara White Bold Coffee Table by Mohdern
Located in Geneve, CH
Small Carrara White Bold Coffee Table by Mohdern Dimensions: ⌀ 50 x H 50 cm (Marble Tray Included ⌀ 42 cm) Materials: Solid Ash Bold is a refined collection of coffee tables design...
Ash
$5,304 / item
Small Crema Marfil Bold Coffee Table by Mohdern
Located in Geneve, CH
Small Crema Marfil Bold Coffee Table by Mohdern Dimensions: ⌀ 50 x H 50 cm (Marble Tray Included ⌀ 42 cm) Materials: Solid Ash Bold is a refined collection of coffee tables designe...
Ash
$8,496 / item
Medium Forest Green Bold Coffee Table by Mohdern
Located in Geneve, CH
Medium Forest Green Bold Coffee Table by Mohdern Dimensions: ⌀ 60 x H 41 cm (Marble Tray Included ⌀ 52 cm) Materials: Solid Ash Bold is a refined collection of coffee tables design...
Ash
Giuseppe Rivadossi 'Blocco Galla' Coffee Table in Swiss Pine
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Giuseppe Rivadossi, 'Blocco Galla' coffee table, Swiss pine, Italy, ca. 1969 This captivating monolithic 'Blocco Galla' coffee table is designed by Giuseppe Rivadossi, dating around...
Pine
Angelo Mangiarotti Carrara Marble Coffee Table for Skipper
By Skipper, Angelo Mangiarotti
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Carrara marble coffee table by Angelo Mangiarotti for Skipper, c.1970's, Italy. This table from the Eros collection features two pieces, a cone shaped pedestal marble base and a roun...
Stone, Marble, Carrara Marble
$13,445 / item
Large Forest Green Bold Coffee Table by Mohdern
Located in Geneve, CH
Large Forest Green Bold Coffee Table by Mohdern Dimensions: W 140 x D 80 x H 30 cm (Marble Tray Included ⌀ 52 cm) Materials: Solid Ash Bold is a refined collection of coffee tables...
Ash
$10,265 / item
Large Crema Marfil Bold Coffee Table by Mohdern
Located in Geneve, CH
Large Crema Marfil Bold Coffee Table by Mohdern Dimensions: W 140 x D 80 x H 30 cm (Marble Tray Included ⌀ 52 cm) Materials: Solid Ash Bold is a refined collection of coffee tables...
Ash
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.
As a practical focal point in your living area, antique and vintage coffee tables and cocktail tables are an invaluable addition to any interior.
Low tables that were initially used as tea tables or coffee tables have been around since at least the mid- to late-1800s. Early coffee tables surfaced in Victorian-era England, likely influenced by the use of tea tables in Japanese tea gardens. In the United States, furniture makers worked to introduce low, long tables into their offerings as the popularity of coffee and “coffee breaks” took hold during the late 19th century and early 20th century.
It didn’t take long for coffee tables and cocktail tables to become a design staple and for consumers to recognize their role in entertaining no matter what beverages were being served. Originally, these tables were as simple as they are practical — as high as your sofa and made primarily of wood. In recent years, however, metal, glass and plastics have become popular in coffee tables and cocktail tables, and design hasn’t been restricted to the conventional low profile, either.
Visionary craftspeople such as Paul Evans introduced bold, geometric designs that challenge the traditional idea of what a coffee table can be. The elongated rectangles and wide boxy forms of Evans’s desirable Cityscape coffee table, for example, will meet your needs but undoubtedly prove imposing in your living space.
If you’re shopping for an older coffee table to bring into your home — be it an antique Georgian-style coffee table made of mahogany or walnut with decorative inlays or a classic square mid-century modern piece comprised of rosewood designed by the likes of Ettore Sottsass — there are a few things you should keep in mind.
Both the table itself and what you put on it should align with the overall design of the room, not just by what you think looks fashionable in isolation. According to interior designer Tamara Eaton, the material of your vintage coffee table is something you need to consider. “With a glass coffee table, you also have to think about the surface underneath, like the rug or floor,” she says. “With wood and stone tables, you think about what’s on top.”
Find the perfect centerpiece for any room, no matter what your personal furniture style on 1stDibs — shop Art Deco coffee tables, travertine coffee tables and other antique and vintage coffee tables and cocktail tables today.