Modernist Design Bamboo Coffee Table by Axel Vervoordt, 1980's
Located in Oud-Turnhout, VAN
Vintage Postmodern Modernist Design Bamboo Coffee Table by Axel Vervoordt. Made in Belgium, 1980's period. Bamboo top and side topped slender coffee table. This has been refinished. ...
Bamboo
$2,148 / item
Object 060 Oak Coffee Table by Ng Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Object 060 oak coffee table by NG Design. Dimensions: D117 x W70 x H36 cm. Materials:powder coated steel, solid oak. Also available: all of objects available in different materi...
Steel
Large Perianth Natural Oak Coffee Table by Haymann Editions
Located in Geneve, CH
Large Perianth Table by Haymann Editions Dimensions: D 104 x W 125.8 x H 27.5 cm. Materials: Oak. Available in black or natural oak. Also available in different marble tops. Perian...
Oak
$12,821 / item
Memoria Coffee Table in Jurassic Fossil Stone by NERINEA
Located in Geneve, CH
Memoria Coffee Table in Jurassic Fossil Stone by NERINEA. Dimensions: W 75 x D 130 x H 25 cm. Materials: Natural Stone (Jurassic Fossil TOP). Designed by Fran Silvestre Arquitectos. ...
Stone
$12,821 / item
Luca Coffee Table Large by Umberto Bellardi Ricci
Located in Geneve, CH
Luca coffee table large by Umberto Bellardi Ricci Dimensions: D 139.7 x W 86.36 x H 34.29 cm. Materials: Travertine, bronze legs. Umberto Bellardi Ricci is an Italian sculptor and a...
Travertine, Bronze
$1,565 / item
Object 060 MDF Coffee Table by NG Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Object 060 MDF Coffee Table by NG Design Dimensions: D117 x W70 x H36 cm Materials: Powder coated steel, MDF Also Available: All of objects available in different materials and ...
Steel, Other
Shirudo Round Coffee Table/ Side Table, Black Varnished Iron Finish by Mingardo
Located in Geneve, CH
Shirudo Round Coffee Table/ Side Table, Black Varnished Iron Finish by Mingardo Dimensions: D 90 x H 28 cm Materials: RAL 9005 black varnished iron structure Weight: 45 kg Also Ava...
Iron
$17,346 / item
Affinity Coffee Table, Brass and Copper by ORFEO STUDIO
Located in Geneve, CH
Affinity Coffee Table, Brass and Copper by ORFEO STUDIO Dimensions: W 220 x D 80 x H 40 cm. Material: Brass and copper Finish: Patina finish Weight: 80 kg. About ORFEO STUDIO is an...
Brass, Copper
Carved Coffee Table in Solid Australian Eucalyptus by Luke Crouch
Located in Geneve, CH
Carved Coffee Table in Solid Australian Eucalyptus by Luke Crouch Dimensions: W 150 x D 55 x H 40 cm Materials: Solid Australian eucalyptus hardwood. Finishh: Natural; charred by re...
Hardwood
Vintage postmodern American grasscloth triangle coffee table, 1980s
Located in Hastings, GB
Postmodern grasscloth triangular coffee table, USA 1980s. Made from a heavyweight fiberglass material, with a lacquered grasscloth finish Dimensions: width 104cm, depth 55cm, height...
Grasscloth, Fiberglass
Toy Lime Green Coffee Table by Prospero Rasulo
Located in Geneve, CH
Toy Lime Green Coffee Table by Prospero Rasulo Dimensions: D 35 x W 50 x H 42 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 5 kg. Available in different color options. Prices may vary. This ...
Other
Toy Powder Blue Coffee Table by Prospero Rasulo
Located in Geneve, CH
Toy Powder Blue Coffee Table by Prospero Rasulo Dimensions: D 35 x W 50 x H 42 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 5 kg. Available in different color options. Prices may vary. This...
Other
Toy Argil Grey Coffee Table by Prospero Rasulo
Located in Geneve, CH
Toy Argil Grey Coffee Table by Prospero Rasulo Dimensions: D 35 x W 50 x H 42 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 5 kg. Available in different color options. Prices may vary. This ...
Other
Toy Saffron Yellow Coffee Table by Prospero Rasulo
Located in Geneve, CH
Toy Saffron Yellow Coffee Table by Prospero Rasulo Dimensions: D 35 x W 50 x H 42 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 5 kg. Available in different color options. Prices may vary. T...
Other
Toy Sweet Fuchsia Coffee Table by Prospero Rasulo
Located in Geneve, CH
Toy Sweet Fuchsia Coffee Table by Prospero Rasulo Dimensions: D 35 x W 50 x H 42 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 5 kg. Available in different color options. Prices may vary. Th...
Other
Toy Dove Grey Coffee Table by Prospero Rasulo
Located in Geneve, CH
Toy Dove Grey Coffee Table by Prospero Rasulo Dimensions: D 35 x W 50 x H 42 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 5 kg. Available in different color options. Prices may vary. This p...
Other
Toy Malva Green Coffee Table by Prospero Rasulo
Located in Geneve, CH
Toy Malva Green Coffee Table by Prospero Rasulo Dimensions: D 35 x W 50 x H 42 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 5 kg. Available in different color options. Prices may vary. This...
Other
Toy Pumpkin Orange Coffee Table by Prospero Rasulo
Located in Geneve, CH
Toy Pumpkin Orange Coffee Table by Prospero Rasulo Dimensions: D 35 x W 50 x H 42 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 5 kg. Available in different color options. Prices may vary. T...
Other
Toy Chocolate Brown Coffee Table by Prospero Rasulo
Located in Geneve, CH
Toy Chocolate Brown Coffee Table by Prospero Rasulo Dimensions: D 35 x W 50 x H 42 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 5 kg. Available in different color options. Prices may vary. ...
Other
Toy Milky White Coffee Table by Prospero Rasulo
Located in Geneve, CH
Toy Milky White Coffee Table by Prospero Rasulo Dimensions: D 35 x W 50 x H 42 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 5 kg. Available in different color options. Prices may vary. This...
Other
Toy Elephant Grey Coffee Table by Prospero Rasulo
Located in Geneve, CH
Toy Elephant Grey Coffee Table by Prospero Rasulo Dimensions: D 35 x W 50 x H 42 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 5 kg. Available in different color options. Prices may vary. Th...
Other
Toy Flame Red Coffee Table by Prospero Rasulo
Located in Geneve, CH
Toy Flame Red Coffee Table by Prospero Rasulo Dimensions: D 35 x W 50 x H 42 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 5 kg. Available in different color options. Prices may vary. This p...
Other
Toy Jet Black Coffee Table by Prospero Rasulo
Located in Geneve, CH
Toy Jet Black Coffee Table by Prospero Rasulo Dimensions: D 35 x W 50 x H 42 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 5 kg. Available in different color options. Prices may vary. This p...
Other
$2,342 / item
Tea Time White Coffee Table by Gianni Arnaudo
Located in Geneve, CH
Tea Time White Coffee Table by Gianni Arnaudo Dimensions: D 80 x W 100 x H 33 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 13 kg. Available in different color options. Prices may vary. This...
Other
$2,456 / item
Tac Milky White Coffee Table by Marco Acerbis
Located in Geneve, CH
Tac Milky White Coffee Table by Marco Acerbis Dimensions: D 60 x W 115 x H 33 cm. Materials: Lacquered polyethylene. Weight: 20 kg. Available in different color options. Prices may ...
Other
$2,456 / item
Tac Lime Green Coffee Table by Marco Acerbis
Located in Geneve, CH
Tac Lime Green Coffee Table by Marco Acerbis Dimensions: D 60 x W 115 x H 33 cm. Materials: Lacquered polyethylene. Weight: 20 kg. Available in different color options. Prices may v...
Other
$2,456 / item
Tac Pumpkin Orange Coffee Table by Marco Acerbis
Located in Geneve, CH
Tac Pumpkin Orange Coffee Table by Marco Acerbis Dimensions: D 60 x W 115 x H 33 cm. Materials: Lacquered polyethylene. Weight: 20 kg. Available in different color options. Prices m...
Other
$2,456 / item
Tac Powder Blue Coffee Table by Marco Acerbis
Located in Geneve, CH
Tac Powder Blue Coffee Table by Marco Acerbis Dimensions: D 60 x W 115 x H 33 cm. Materials: Lacquered polyethylene. Weight: 20 kg. Available in different color options. Prices may ...
Other
$2,456 / item
Tac Sweet Fuchsia Coffee Table by Marco Acerbis
Located in Geneve, CH
Tac Sweet Fuchsia Coffee Table by Marco Acerbis Dimensions: D 60 x W 115 x H 33 cm. Materials: Lacquered polyethylene. Weight: 20 kg. Available in different color options. Prices ma...
Other
$2,456 / item
Tac Saffron Yellow Coffee Table by Marco Acerbis
Located in Geneve, CH
Tac Saffron Yellow Coffee Table by Marco Acerbis Dimensions: D 60 x W 115 x H 33 cm. Materials: Lacquered polyethylene. Weight: 20 kg. Available in different color options. Prices m...
Other
$2,456 / item
Tac Malva Green Coffee Table by Marco Acerbis
Located in Geneve, CH
Tac Malva Green Coffee Table by Marco Acerbis Dimensions: D 60 x W 115 x H 33 cm. Materials: Lacquered polyethylene. Weight: 20 kg. Available in different color options. Prices may ...
Other
$2,456 / item
Tac Jet Black Coffee Table by Marco Acerbis
Located in Geneve, CH
Tac Jet Black Coffee Table by Marco Acerbis Dimensions: D 60 x W 115 x H 33 cm. Materials: Lacquered polyethylene. Weight: 20 kg. Available in different color options. Prices may va...
Other
$2,456 / item
Tac Flame Red Coffee Table by Marco Acerbis
Located in Geneve, CH
Tac Flame Red Coffee Table by Marco Acerbis Dimensions: D 60 x W 115 x H 33 cm. Materials: Lacquered polyethylene. Weight: 20 kg. Available in different color options. Prices may va...
Other
$2,456 / item
Tac Argil Grey Coffee Table by Marco Acerbis
Located in Geneve, CH
Tac Argil Grey Coffee Table by Marco Acerbis Dimensions: D 60 x W 115 x H 33 cm. Materials: Lacquered polyethylene. Weight: 20 kg. Available in different color options. Prices may v...
Other
$2,456 / item
Tac Elephant Grey Coffee Table by Marco Acerbis
Located in Geneve, CH
Tac Elephant Grey Coffee Table by Marco Acerbis Dimensions: D 60 x W 115 x H 33 cm. Materials: Lacquered polyethylene. Weight: 20 kg. Available in different color options. Prices ma...
Other
$2,456 / item
Tac Chocolate Brown Coffee Table by Marco Acerbis
Located in Geneve, CH
Tac Chocolate Brown Coffee Table by Marco Acerbis Dimensions: D 60 x W 115 x H 33 cm. Materials: Lacquered polyethylene. Weight: 20 kg. Available in different color options. Prices ...
Other
$2,456 / item
Tac Dove Grey Coffee Table by Marco Acerbis
Located in Geneve, CH
Tac Dove Grey Coffee Table by Marco Acerbis Dimensions: D 60 x W 115 x H 33 cm. Materials: Lacquered polyethylene. Weight: 20 kg. Available in different color options. Prices may va...
Other
$8,993 / item
Cubic Blocks Coffee Table by Atelier V&F
Located in Geneve, CH
Cubic Blocks Coffee Table by Atelier V&F Limited Edition Of 10+2AP Pieces. Dimensions: D 122 x W 122 x H 34 cm. Materials: Oak. Cubic Pillar, Blocks, and Lines is a continuation of...
Oak
Candy Round Translucent Resin Coffee Table by Luis Gimeno
Located in Geneve, CH
Candy Round Translucent Resin Coffee Table by Luis Gimeno Dimensions: D 60 x W 60 x H 35 cm Materials: Resin. Available in Ambar, Green, Red, and Blue. Please contact us. The “Cand...
Resin
Candy Square Translucent Resin Coffee Table by Luis Gimeno
Located in Geneve, CH
Candy Square Translucent Resin Coffee Table by Luis Gimeno Dimensions: D 60 x W 60 x H 35 cm Materials: Resin. Available in Ambar, Green, Red, and Blue. Please contact us. The “Can...
Resin
Coffee table 'Jarpen' by Niels Gammelgaard for Ikea 1983
By Niels Gammelgaard, IKEA
Located in Herentals, BE
Post Modern white lacquered metal coffee table or side table ' Jarpen' with original transparent glass top.
Metal
Nerone & Patuzzi for Gruppo NP2 Sculptural Coffee Table
By Nerone and Patuzzi
Located in London, GB
Designed by Italian duo Nerone and Patuzzi, this sculptural coffee table is truly a work of art. Its asymmetrical wooden base extends beyond the glass top, emphasizing the piece’s th...
Iron
$2,365 / item
Otto Bronze 70 Coffee Table by VUUN ITALIA
Located in Geneve, CH
Otto Bronze 70 Coffee Table by VUUN ITALIA Dimensions: D 75 x W 80 x H 30 cm. Materials: Bronze glass with bronze effect back lacquered base. Available in different sizes and finis...
Glass, Mirror
$14,706 / item
Large Merging Coffee Table by Atelier V&F
Located in Geneve, CH
Large Merging Coffee Table by Atelier V&F Limited Edition Of 12+2AP Pieces. Dimensions: D 69.5 x W 206 x H 30 cm. Materials: Cast brass. 「Merging Tables」, a set of two coffee table...
Brass
$24,636 / item
Unique Trilithon Marble Coffee Table, by OS and OOS
By Oskar Peet and Sophie Mensen
Located in Geneve, CH
Unique trilithon marble coffee table - by OS And OOS Dimensions: 200 x 110 x 37 cm Materials: Sahara Noir (organic shapes) and Emperador gold (rectangular shapes) Other marbles or...
Marble
$1,965 / item
Small Hoàng Sa Coffee Table 04 by ONON DETAILS
Located in Geneve, CH
Small Hoàng Sa Coffee Table 04 by ONON DETAILS Dimensions: D 39 x H 45 cm. Materials: Hopea pierrei Hance/ Narra Wood. ONON Details furnitures are chosen by famous design brand, do...
Wood
$1,965 / item
Small Hoàng Sa Coffee Table 05 by ONON DETAILS
Located in Geneve, CH
Small Hoàng Sa Coffee Table 05 by ONON DETAILS Dimensions: D 39 x H 45 cm. Materials: Hopea pierrei Hance/ Narra Wood. ONON Details furnitures are chosen by famous design brand, do...
Wood
$3,508 / item
Medium Hoàng Sa Coffee Table 05 by ONON DETAILS
Located in Geneve, CH
Medium Hoàng Sa Coffee Table 05 by ONON DETAILS Dimensions: D 60 x H 35 cm. Materials: Hopea pierrei Hance/ Narra Wood. ONON Details furnitures are chosen by famous design brand, d...
Wood
$7,176 / item
Large Hoàng Sa Coffee Table 05 by ONON DETAILS
Located in Geneve, CH
Large Hoàng Sa Coffee Table 05 by ONON DETAILS Dimensions: D 90 x H 30 cm. Materials: Hopea pierrei Hance/ Narra Wood. ONON Details furnitures are chosen by famous design brand, do...
Wood
$3,508 / item
Medium Hoàng Sa Coffee Table 04 by ONON DETAILS
Located in Geneve, CH
Medium Hoàng Sa Coffee Table 04 by ONON DETAILS Dimensions: D 60 x H 35 cm. Materials: Hopea pierrei Hance/ Narra Wood. ONON Details furnitures are chosen by famous design brand, d...
Wood
$3,508 / item
Medium Hoàng Sa Coffee Table 02 by ONON DETAILS
Located in Geneve, CH
Medium Hoàng Sa Coffee Table 02 by ONON DETAILS Dimensions: D 60 x H 35 cm. Materials: Hopea pierrei Hance/ Narra Wood. ONON Details furnitures are chosen by famous design brand, d...
Wood
$7,176 / item
Large Hoàng Sa Coffee Table 02 by ONON DETAILS
Located in Geneve, CH
Large Hoàng Sa Coffee Table 02 by ONON DETAILS Dimensions: D 90 x H 30 cm. Materials: Hopea pierrei Hance/ Narra Wood. ONON Details furnitures are chosen by famous design brand, do...
Wood
Postmodern Glass Coffee Table, Marble, Geometric, Unique, Rectangular Top
Located in Rancho Cucamonga, CA
Postmodern Glass Coffee Table, Marble, Geometric, Unique, Rectangular Top Measurements: 52" L x 26" W x 16" H This unique coffee table features a sleek marble base with a geometric...
Marble
$8,170 / item
Sandcastle Coffee Table by Atelier Ruben Van Megen
Located in Geneve, CH
Sandcastle Coffee Table by Atelier Ruben Van Megen Dimensions: D 90 x H 47 cm Materials: Sand, Resin, Bronze. Ruben van Megen (1984) graduated from the Design Academy in Eindhoven ...
Sandstone, Bronze
Medium Three Rocks Marquetry Coffee Table by InsidherLand
Located in Geneve, CH
Medium Three Rocks Marquetry Coffee Table by InsidherLand Dimensions: D 75 x W 85 x H 45 cm. Materials: Wood structure with marquetry work in smoky brown bird’s eye, rosewood, ebony ...
Wood
Low Three Rocks Marquetry Coffee Table by InsidherLand
Located in Geneve, CH
Low Three Rocks Marquetry Coffee Table by InsidherLand Dimensions: D 75 x W 112 x H 37 cm. Materials: Wood structure with marquetry work in smoky brown bird’s eye, rosewood, ebony an...
Wood
Medium Three Rocks Black Coffee Table by InsidherLand
Located in Geneve, CH
Medium Three Rocks Black Coffee Table by InsidherLand Dimensions: D 75 x W 85 x H 45 cm. Materials: Black lacquered. 15 kg. Other materials available. From The Special Tree, Fallen ...
Lacquer
Jet Black Gear Coffee Table by Anastasia Ivanyuk
Located in Geneve, CH
Jet Black Gear Coffee Table by Anastasia Ivanyuk Dimensions: D 55 x W 55 x H 43 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 6 kg. Available in different color options. Prices may vary. Thi...
Other
Saffron Yellow Gear Coffee Table by Anastasia Ivanyuk
Located in Geneve, CH
Saffron Yellow Gear Coffee Table by Anastasia Ivanyuk Dimensions: D 55 x W 55 x H 43 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 6 kg. Available in different color options. Prices may vary...
Other
Milky White Gear Coffee Table by Anastasia Ivanyuk
Located in Geneve, CH
Milky White Gear Coffee Table by Anastasia Ivanyuk Dimensions: D 55 x W 55 x H 43 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 6 kg. Available in different color options. Prices may vary. T...
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.
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.