$12,377 / item
Large Carrara White Bold Coffee Table by Mohdern
Located in Geneve, CH
Large Carrara White 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 table...
Ash
$3,582 / item
Medium Alentejo Acrylic Coffee Table by InsidherLand
Located in Geneve, CH
Medium Alentejo Acrylic Coffee Table by InsidherLand Dimensions: D 74 x W 74 x H 49 cm. Materials: Acrylic, cast brass with patinated effect. 13 kg. Other materials available. Alent...
Brass
$6,315 / item
Crystal Branched Adorned Coffee Table by Dainte
Located in Geneve, CH
Crystal Branched Adorned Coffee Table by Dainte Dimensions: D 76 x W 46 x H 48.5 cm. Materials: Crystal. Available in a circular and elongated oval design. Please contact us. This...
Crystal
$8,071 / item
Down to Earth Coffee Table by Odditi
Located in Geneve, CH
Down to Earth Coffee Table by Odditi Unique and Numbered Dimensions: ⌀ 140 x H 30 cm Materials: Onyx, Sandstone, Granite, Recycled Brick, Recycled Copper 'Down to Earth' was excavat...
Onyx, Granite, Sandstone, Other
$2,043 / item
Egg Laguna Oak Coffee Table by Morica Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Egg Laguna Oak Coffee Table by Morica Design Dimensions: D 100 x W 100 x H 38 cm. Materials: Laguna oak, glass. Available in Canaletto Walnut, Laguna Oak, or natural oak wood. Pleas...
Wood, Glass
Coffee Table in Brass, Smoked Mirror 1980s France.
By Romeo Rega, Maison Jansen, Willy Rizzo, Maison Charles
Located in SOTTEVILLE-LÈS-ROUEN, FR
A striking embodiment of French postmodern elegance, this exceptional coffee table captures the refined architectural language of the 1980s with remarkable presence. The composition...
Brass
$12,285 / item
Big Roll Walnut Coffee Table by Studio TOOJ
Located in Geneve, CH
Big Roll Walnut Coffee Table by Studio TOOJ Designed by Johan Wilén Dimensions: D 75 x W 150 x H 35 cm. Materials: Walnut wood. A true testament to the designer’s signature style, r...
Walnut
$23,653 / item
Levitaar Quartz Sand Coffee Table by Studio TOOJ
Located in Geneve, CH
Levitaar Quartz Sand Coffee Table by Studio TOOJ Designed by Johan Wilén Dimensions: D 120 x W 120 x H 30 cm. Materials: Quartz sand. The Swedish designer's latest striking creation...
Other
$3,984 / item
Perspectiva Coffee Table II by Colección Estudio
By Colección Estudio
Located in Geneve, CH
Perspectiva coffee table II by Colección Estudio. Dimensions: D 56 x W 95 x H 52 cm. Materials: oak wood, grey wool felt. Also available in ebonized oak wood and tzalam wood. C...
Felt, Oak
$2,399 / item
Perspectiva Coffee Table i by Colección Estudio
By Colección Estudio
Located in Geneve, CH
Perspectiva coffee table I by Colección Estudio Dimensions: D 45 x W 54 x H 42 cm Materials: oak wood, grey wool felt Also available in ebonized oak wood and tzalam wood. Colle...
Felt, Oak
$3,536 / item
Isole, Coffee Table, Ruby Red by Atelier Ferraro
Located in Geneve, CH
Isole, coffee table, ruby red by Atelier Ferraro Dimensions: L 101 cm x W 55 cm x H 44,5 cm Materials: MDF/ Wood “Isole” is an elegant coffee table which challenges conventional...
Wood
Postmodern Mactan, Glass and Pastor Stone Coffee Table.
Located in Franklin Park, IL
Postmodern Mactan, glass and pastor stone coffee table This coffee table measures: 48 wide x 29 deep x 16 inches high We take our photos in a controlled lighting studio to show as ...
Stone
$1,676 / item
Bogdan Small Coffee Table by Studio Intervallo
Located in Geneve, CH
Bogdan small coffee table by Studio Intervallo Dimensions: D 30 x H 55 cm Materials: LINDEN solid wood, with colored decoration on the circumference. Other types of wood availab...
Other
Floating Coffee Table in Brushed Aluminum by Veliento
Located in Geneve, CH
Floating Coffee Table in Brushed Aluminum by Veliento. Dimensions: W 110 x D 60 x H 32 cm (Size Medium). Materials: Aluminum. All pieces are made to order. Custom finishes available...
Metal, Aluminum
$2,640 / item
Miss Feet 60 Coffee Table by Munna
Located in Geneve, CH
Miss Feet 60 Coffee Table by Munna Dimensions: D 67 x W 67 x H 49 cm. SH: 49 cm. Materials: Wood, foam, glass, and leather. Finish: Leather, ref. Black, L06 upholstery. Top: Black la...
Leather, Glass, Foam, Wood
$2,170 / item
Miss Feet 40 Coffee Table by Munna
Located in Geneve, CH
Miss Feet 40 Coffee Table by Munna Dimensions: D 50 x W 50 x H 49 cm. SH: 49 cm. Materials: Wood, foam, glass, and leather. Finish: Leather, ref. Black, L06 upholstery. Top: Black la...
Leather, Foam, Wood, Glass
$20,082 / item
Specimen Coffee Table by Batten and Kamp
Located in Geneve, CH
Specimen coffee table by Batten and Kamp Dimensions: D110 x H30 cm Materials: Cast aluminium, granite stone, tempered low iron glass. The coffee table ‘Specimen’ features an alumini...
Granite, Aluminum
$30,312 / item
Beauty of Simplicity Coffee Table by Grzegorz Majka
By Grzegorz Majka
Located in Geneve, CH
The beauty of simplicity coffee table by Grzegorz Majka Dimensions: W 180 x D 80 x H 45 cm Materials: stone Coffee table inspired by the influence of minimalistic style. The massive...
Stone
$9,266 / item
White Ash Hardwood Coffee Table by BNF Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
White Ash Hardwood Coffee Table by BNF Studio Dimensions: W 24 x D 36 x H 18 in Materials: Ash. Finishes and Colors: White, Black, Green, Pink, Purple, Custom, Natural finish. Based ...
Ash
Round 'Upsilon' Coffee Table by Design Frères
By Design Frères
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Round 'Upsilon' marble and blackened steel coffee table by Design Frères. Polished round rain forest green veined marble over a heavy matte black tripod steel base. Great focal...
Marble, Steel
$4,213 / item
AL-03 Coffee Table by Orlando Pippig
Located in Geneve, CH
AL-03 Coffee Table by Orlando Pippig Dimensions: W 102 x D 51 x H 36 cm (Dimensions may vary slightly) Materials: Aluminum, Smoked Glass The forms presented in AL-03 were heavily in...
Aluminum
$5,373 / item
Charcoal MÂY Coffee Table 01 by ONON DETAILS
Located in Geneve, CH
Charcoal MÂY Coffee Table 01 by ONON DETAILS Dimensions: W 100 x D 100 x H 35 cm. Materials: Oak, Walnut. ONON Details furnitures are chosen by famous design brand, domestic and i...
Oak, Walnut
$3,479 / item
Izzy Pure Coffee Table by KV Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Izzy Pure Coffee Table by KV Design One Of A Kind Dimensions: D 54,5 x W 109 x H 43,5 cm. Materials: Walnut, transparent epoxy, and metal. Everything is custom-made 1 of 1 edition. ...
Metal
$3,479 / item
Izzy Rustik Coffee Table by KV Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Izzy Rustik Coffee Table by KV Design One Of A Kind Dimensions: D 64 x W 119 x H 44 cm. Materials: Walnut, transparent epoxy, and metal. Everything is custom-made 1 of 1 edition. Pl...
Metal
$3,984 / item
Ocean Reef Coffee Table by KV Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Ocean Reef Coffee Table by KV Design One Of A Kind Dimensions: D 60 x W 60 x H 50 cm. Materials: Poplar wood, epoxy, and metal. Everything is custom-made 1 of 1 edition. Please cont...
Metal
$3,226 / item
Ocean Beach Coffee Table by KV Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Ocean Beach Coffee Table by KV Design One Of A Kind Dimensions: D 50 x W 100 x H 45 cm. Materials: Poplar wood, epoxy, and metal. Everything is custom-made 1 of 1 edition. Please co...
Metal
$2,089 / item
Sea Canyon Coffee Table by KV Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Sea Canyon Coffee Table by KV Design One Of A Kind Dimensions: D 50 x W 50 x H 44 cm. Materials: Walnut, epoxy resin, and metal. Everything is custom-made 1 of 1 edition. Please con...
Metal
$3,226 / item
Brown Ellipse Coffee Table by KV Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Brown Ellipse Coffee Table by KV Design One Of A Kind Dimensions: D 60 x W 120 x H 45 cm. Materials: Walnut, epoxy resin, and wood. Everything is custom-made 1 of 1 edition. Please ...
Epoxy Resin, Walnut, Wood
$5,247 / item
Olive Island Coffee Table by KV Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Olive Island Coffee Table by KV Design One Of A Kind Dimensions: D 70 x W 140 x H 40 cm. Materials: Olive, epoxy resin, and wood. Everything is custom-made 1 of 1 edition. Please co...
Epoxy Resin, Wood, Olive
$2,721 / item
Ocean Blue Coffee Table by KV Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Ocean Blue Coffee Table by KV Design One Of A Kind Dimensions: D 50 x W 70 x H 50 cm. Materials: Walnut, epoxy, and metal. Everything is custom-made 1 of 1 edition. Please contact u...
Metal
$3,479 / item
Izzy Matte Coffee Table by KV Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Izzy Matte Coffee Table by KV Design One Of A Kind Dimensions: D 62,5 x W 114,5 x H 49 cm. Materials: Walnut, transparent epoxy, and metal. Everything is custom-made 1 of 1 edition....
Metal
$3,226 / item
Island W Coffee Table by KV Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Island W Coffee Table by KV Design One Of A Kind Dimensions: Ø 75 x H 50 cm. Materials: Walnut, metal, and epoxy. resin Everything is custom-made 1 of 1 edition. Please contact us. ...
Metal
$2,927 / item
Alchemy 50 Coffee Table by De Castelli
Located in Geneve, CH
Alchemy 50 Coffee Table by De Castelli Dimensions: W 35 x D 35 x H 50 cm Materials: DeLabré Copper, Polished Stainless Steel Other versions are available, please contact us for any r...
Stainless Steel, Copper
$32,379 / item
Kupoli Coffee Table 26 by Cameron Design House
Located in Geneve, CH
Kupoli Coffee Table 26 by Cameron Design House Dimensions: D 130 x W 189.3 x H 40 cm. Materials: Steel, glass. Available in other dimensions. Available in paint or pigmented chrome ...
Steel
$18,486 / item
Kupoli Coffee Table 15 by Cameron Design House
Located in Geneve, CH
Kupoli Coffee Table 15 by Cameron Design House Dimensions: D 112.8 x H 40 cm. Materials: Steel, glass. Available in other dimensions. Available in paint or pigmented chrome finishes...
Steel
$14,926 / item
Kupoli Coffee Table 12 by Cameron Design House
Located in Geneve, CH
Kupoli Coffee Table 12 by Cameron Design House Dimensions: D 98.3 x H 40 cm. Materials: Steel, glass. Available in other dimensions. Available in paint or pigmented chrome finishes....
Steel
$1,435 / item
Itinera 45 Coffee Table by Atlas Project
Located in Geneve, CH
Itinera 45 Coffee Table by Atlas Project Dimensions: Ø 45 x H 47 cm. Materials: Wood, brushed brass, leather, and stainless inox steel. Available in two different sizes. Please con...
Brass, Stainless Steel
$2,342 / item
Itinera 80 Coffee Table by Atlas Project
Located in Geneve, CH
Itinera 80 Coffee Table by Atlas Project Dimensions: Ø 80 x H 38 cm. Materials: Wood, brushed brass, leather, and stainless inox steel. Available in two different sizes. Please con...
Stainless Steel, Brass
Aulia coffee table by Henk Vos for Linteloo, 1990s
By Linteloo
Located in Leuven, Vlaams Gewest
Large hand made coffee table designed by Henk Vos and produced by Linteloo. Model Aulia The table consists of inlaid exotic woods in different shades creating a beautiful and playf...
Teak
Christopher Guy Lacquered and Gilt Coffee "Harper" Table
By Christopher Guy
Located in Peabody, MA
A coffee table in highly polished lacquer with gilt wood accents from the "Harper" line, by the celebrated British designer Christopher Guy (1960-2020). Displays a fusion of modern m...
Wood, Giltwood, Lacquer
$21,689 / item
Ultracoffee Black and Red Coffee Table by Vetralia
Located in Geneve, CH
Ultracoffee Black and Red Coffee Table by Vetralia Designed by Leo De Carlo Dimensions: W 120 x D 120 x H 27 cm Materials: Engraved mirrored glass, charred wood. VETRALIA Functiona...
Wood, Glass
Spatolato Foglia Oro Fungo 500 Coffee Table by Disain1971
Located in Geneve, CH
Spatolato Foglia Oro Fungo 500 Coffee Table by Disain1971 Dimensions: D 50 x H 29 cm Materials: black, aged gold, ceramic base. Weight: 9 kg. Code: DT1071 Round coffee tables deco...
Gold
Spatolato Foglia Oro Fungo 700 Coffee Table by Disain1971
Located in Geneve, CH
Spatolato Foglia Oro Fungo 700 Coffee Table by Disain1971 Dimensions: D 70 x H 32 cm Materials: black, aged gold, ceramic base. Weight: 12 kg. Code: DT1073 Round coffee tables dec...
Gold
$2,216 / item
Puzzle Coffee Table in Brushed Brass by Veliento
Located in Geneve, CH
Puzzle Coffee Table in Brushed Brass by Veliento. Dimensions: W 80 x D 80 x H 35 cm. Materials: Brushed brass. All pieces are made to order. Custom finishes available, please contac...
Metal, Brass
$5,760Sale Price|20% Off
Unique Globe Coffee Table with Plexi Base, 1990s
Located in Antwerp, BE
This unique round globe coffee table, crafted in Europe during the 1990s, offers a contemporary reinterpretation of 19th-century English tabletop globes. The table features a sleek P...
Resin, Plexiglass
$5,500 / item
Round 'Upsilon' Coffee Table by Design Frères
By Design Frères
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Round 'Upsilon' marble and blackened steel coffee table by Design Frères. Polished round rain forest green veined marble over a heavy matte black tripod steel base. Great focal...
Marble, Steel
$4,305 / item
Deep Navy Lacquer Coffee Table by NO AGE STUDIO
Located in Geneve, CH
Deep Navy Lacquer Coffee Table by NO AGE STUDIO Dimensions: D 106 x W 106 x H 38 cm Materials: Lacquer Bold navy blue meets timeless minimalism in this lacquer coffee table. The hig...
Lacquer
$6,889Sale Price|33% Off
Contemporary Anodized Aluminium Coffee Table by Fredrik Paulsen
By Fredrik Paulsen
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Fredrik Paulsen’s coffee table, commissioned by Etage Projects for Salon Art and Design New York 2017, turn the spotlight on a brand new and unique technique that combines anodized a...
Aluminum
Geometrico Dark Brown Monolite 75150 Coffee Table by Disain1971
Located in Geneve, CH
Geometrico Dark Brown Monolite 75150 Coffee Table by Disain1971 Dimensions: W 150 x D 75 x H 23 cm Materials: Dark Brown. Weight: 19 kg. Code: DT1023 Rectangular coffee tables deco...
Stone
Geometrico Dark Brown Monolite 60125 Coffee Table by Disain1971
Located in Geneve, CH
Geometrico Dark Brown Monolite 60125 Coffee Table by Disain1971 Dimensions: W 125 x D 60 x H 23 cm Materials: Dark Brown. Weight: 13 kg. Code: DT1022 Rectangular coffee tables deco...
Stone
Geometrico Dark Brown Monolite 100100 Coffee Table by Disain1971
Located in Geneve, CH
Geometrico Dark Brown Monolite 100100 Coffee Table by Disain1971 Dimensions: W 100 x D 100 x H 23 cm Materials: Dark Brown. Weight: 19 kg. Code: DT1024 Rectangular coffee tables de...
Stone
Geometrico Dark Brown Monolite 5050 Coffee Table by Disain1971
Located in Geneve, CH
Geometrico Dark Brown Monolite 5050 Coffee Table by Disain1971 Dimensions: W 50 x D 50 x H 38 cm Materials: Dark Brown. Weight: 9 kg. Code: DT1021 Rectangular coffee tables decorat...
Stone
$1,469 / item
Teo Extralight 50 Coffee Table by VUUN ITALIA
Located in Geneve, CH
Teo Extralight 50 Coffee Table by VUUN ITALIA Dimensions: D 54 x W 54 x H 39 cm. Materials: Extralight glass. Available in different sizes and finishes. Please contact us. As if s...
Glass
$5,500 / item
Round 'Upsilon' Coffee Table by Design Frères
By Design Frères
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Round 'Upsilon' marble and blackened steel coffee table by Design Frères. Polished round rain forest green veined marble over a heavy matte black tripod steel base. Great focal...
Marble, Steel
Boucle d'or coffee table by Elizabeth Garouste
By Élizabeth Garouste
Located in PARIS, FR
Elizabeth Garouste Boucle d'or coffee table, 2023 Unique piece created for the gallery Hand-painted sculpted resin, gold cabochons on the tabletop Signed The model is inspired by ill...
Resin
Dark Brown Geometric Isola 500 Coffee Table by Disain1971
Located in Geneve, CH
Dark Brown Geometric Isola 500 Coffee Table by Disain1971 Dimensions: D 50 x H 45 cm Materials: black, dark brown / dark brown, nero. Weight: 5 kg. Code: DT1051 Round coffee table...
Bronze
Dark Brown Geometric Isola 600 Coffee Table by Disain1971
Located in Geneve, CH
Dark Brown Geometric Isola 600 Coffee Table by Disain1971 Dimensions: D 60 x H 35 cm Materials: black, dark brown / dark brown, nero. Weight: 6 kg. Code: DT1052 Round coffee table...
Bronze
1970's Postmodern Hollywood Regency Solid Travertine Coffee Table
By Mario Bellini
Located in Burbank, CA
Vintage 1970's Mid century Modern coffee table for sale. It's made of solid travertine, and is in excellent condition. It's rectangular, and has nice rounded edged and smoothed out l...
Travertine
Jean Claude Dresse Coffee Table in Dark Resin
By Jean Claude Dresse
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Jean Claude Dresse, large coffee table, resin, lacquered steel, Belgium, late 1970s This eccentric coffee table is a masterful creation by Belgian designer Jean Claude Dresse. Every...
Steel
Galaxy Coffee Table – Contemporary Sculptural Brass by Misaya
By Masaya
Located in Geneve, CH
Galaxy Coffee Table – Contemporary Sculptural Brass by Misaya Dimensions: W48 x D45 x H43 cm Materials: Brass Also Available: Different colors (Gold, Polished Brass. Black, Painted ...
Brass
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.