$7,191 / 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
$24,689 / 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
$4,134 / item
Shirudo Matt Nickel Plated Coffee Table by Mingardo
Located in Geneve, CH
Shirudo matt nickel plated coffee table by Mingardo. Dimensions: D90 x H28 cm. Materials: matt nickel plated stainless steel. Weight: 45 kg Also available in different finishes...
Stainless Steel, Nickel
$5,851 / item
Aero Round Coffee Table by Giacomo Tomazzi Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Aero Round 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 ele...
Steel
$4,099 / item
Bodem Low Green Coffee Table by Max Lipsey
Located in Geneve, CH
Bodem Low Green Coffee Table by Max Lipsey Dimensions: D 77 x W 58 x H 44 cm. Materials: Recycled ceramic terrazzo and steel. The tables are in 3 standard models. Custom sizes and c...
Steel
$4,740 / item
Bodem Low Round Coffee Table by Max Lipsey
Located in Geneve, CH
Bodem Low Round Coffee Table by Max Lipsey Dimensions: Ø 66 x H 45 cm. Materials: Recycled ceramic terrazzo and steel. The tables are in 3 standard models. Custom sizes and colors a...
Steel
$14,944 / item
Kaïros Ebonized Oak Coffee Table by Atelier Blouberg
Located in Geneve, CH
Kaïros Ebonized Oak Coffee Table by Atelier Blouberg Unique Piece. Dimensions: D 51 x W 185 x H 30 cm. Materials: Ebonized oak. Available in ash and oak. Please contact us. Ruben V...
Oak
$12,321 / item
Nicola Ebonized Oak Coffee Table by Atelier Blouberg
Located in Geneve, CH
Nicola Ebonized Oak Coffee Table by Atelier Blouberg Unique Piece. Dimensions: D 58 x W 76 x H 70 cm. Materials: Ebonized oak. Available in walnut and oak. Please contact us. Ruben...
Oak
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
Lime Green Gear Coffee Table by Anastasia Ivanyuk
Located in Geneve, CH
Lime Green 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. Th...
Other
Pumpkin Orange Gear Coffee Table by Anastasia Ivanyuk
Located in Geneve, CH
Pumpkin Orange 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
Sweet Fuchsia Gear Coffee Table by Anastasia Ivanyuk
Located in Geneve, CH
Sweet Fuchsia 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
Powder Blue Gear Coffee Table by Anastasia Ivanyuk
Located in Geneve, CH
Powder Blue 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
Malva Green Gear Coffee Table by Anastasia Ivanyuk
Located in Geneve, CH
Malva Green 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
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
Elephant Grey Gear Coffee Table by Anastasia Ivanyuk
Located in Geneve, CH
Elephant Grey 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
Flame Red Gear Coffee Table by Anastasia Ivanyuk
Located in Geneve, CH
Flame Red 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
Dove Grey Gear Coffee Table by Anastasia Ivanyuk
Located in Geneve, CH
Dove Grey 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
Argil Grey Gear Coffee Table by Anastasia Ivanyuk
Located in Geneve, CH
Argil Grey 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. Th...
Other
Chocolate Brown Gear Coffee Table by Anastasia Ivanyuk
Located in Geneve, CH
Chocolate Brown 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 var...
Other
$14,864 / item
Stainless Steel Pebble Coffee Table by NITUSH AROOSH
Located in Geneve, CH
Stainless Steel Pebble Coffee Table by NITUSH AROOSH Dimensions: W 150 x D 80 x H 40 cm Materials: Stainless Steel (Grade 304) Finish: Antique & Polished Available in different fini...
Stainless Steel
Ionic Round Emperador Marble Coffee Table by InsidherLand
Located in Geneve, CH
Ionic Round Emperador Marble Coffee Table by InsidherLand Dimensions: D 100 x H 40 cm. Materials: Emperador marble, brushed brass. 68 kg. Other materials available. Ionic is one of ...
Marble, Brass
Jansen Style Faux Tusk and Glass Coffee Table
By Maison Jansen
Located in New York, NY
With a rectangular smoked glass top with rounded corners supported on a pair of two "tusks", each on lacquered wood and brass stepped plinth bases. Very chic and high quality in the ...
Brass
$24,941 / item
Per Tei Morirei Coffee Table by Valentina Giovando
Located in Geneve, CH
Per Tei Morirei Coffee Table by Valentina Giovando Dimensions: D 60 x H 74 cm. Materials: Wood, Brass, Fabric, Fiberglass, Zinc, Sequins. Valentina Giovando, Lives and works in Sar...
Brass, Zinc
$12,150 / item
Hugs HU 01 ML B Coffee Table by Laurameroni
Located in Geneve, CH
Hugs HU 01 ML B Coffee Table by Laura Meroni Dimensions: D 48 x W 48 x H 48 cm Materials: Structure finishes: Raptor "Liquid Metal" Bronze. Rounded tall coffee table with hyperwood...
Bronze
Rare Giallo Siena Marble Waterfall Style Coffee Table
Located in North Miami, FL
This is an OUTSTANDING oversized waterfall style marble coffee table. It is solid and in wonderful condition. Ready to place in your home! The Marble Giallo Siena is one of the mo...
Siena Marble
Pianist Nero Marquina Marble Coffee Table by InsidherLand
Located in Geneve, CH
Pianist Nero Marquina Marble Coffee Table by InsidherLand Dimensions: D 75 x W 130 x H 38 cm. Materials: Nero Marquina marble, oxidized brushed brass. 115 kg. Other marbles are avail...
Marble, Brass
$48,646 / item
Bust Coffee Table by Three One Four Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Bust Coffee Table by Three One Four Studio Unique Piece. Dimensions: D 100 x W 170 x H 40 cm. Materials: Recycled modelboard, liquid metal, and lacquer. Four Bust forms dance below ...
Other, Metal
Automa Coffee Table in Black Lacquer Finish by Pietro Franceschini
By Pietro Franceschini
Located in Geneve, CH
Automa Coffee Table in Black Lacquer Finish by Pietro Franceschini. Dimensions: W 140 x L 104 x H 40 cm. Materials: Black lacquer finish. This listing features the Automa Coffee Tab...
Lacquer
Automa Coffee Table in Liquid Metal Finish by Pietro Franceschini
By Pietro Franceschini
Located in Geneve, CH
Automa Coffee Table in Liquid Metal Finish by Pietro Franceschini. Dimensions: W 140 x L 104 x H 40 cm. Materials: Liquid Metal finish. This listing features the Automa Coffee Table...
Metal
$691Sale Price|53% Off
Maitland Smith Wedge Coffee Table, Mactan Stone & Glass, 1980s
By Maitland Smith
Located in Chattanooga, TN
Vintage 1980s, this wedge-shaped tessellated Mactan stone coffee table exudes sculptural grandeur with textured sophistication. The top is triangular glass, clear and generously si...
Stone
$11,589 / item
Across The Universe Coffee Table by Francesco Profili
Located in Geneve, CH
Across The Universe Coffee Table by Francesco Profili Dimensions: W 120 x D 75 x H 27 cm Materials: Solid Wood, Resin. The elegance of a simple form, the natural richness of the wo...
Resin, Wood
$3,753 / item
Long Fire Oak Coffee Table by Daniel Elkayam
Located in Geneve, CH
Long Fire oak coffee table by Daniel Elkayam One of a Kind Dimensions: D 110 x W 40 x H 35 cm Materials: Oak Wood Daniel Elkayam — Designer Jerusalem-born Art-designer and Photogra...
Oak
$10,649 / item
Small Merging Coffee Table by Atelier V&F
Located in Geneve, CH
Small Merging Table by Atelier V&F Limited Edition Of 12+2AP Pieces. Dimensions: D 67.5 x W 153 x H 21 cm. Materials: Cast brass. 「Merging Tables」, a set of two coffee tables, taki...
Brass
Rectangular Ebonized Walnut and Glass Coffee Table, Italy
Located in Bresso, Lombardy
Made in Italy, 1950s. These rectangular coffee tables are made in ebonized walnut and glass. They are both quite solid and sturdy. They are vintage, therefore they might show slight...
Glass, Walnut
Partial Presence Aluminium Coffee Table by Bureau of Entropy
Located in Geneve, CH
Partial Presence Aluminium Coffee Table by Bureau of Entropy. Limited edition of 8 pieces + 4 Artist's Proof. Dimensions: W 114 x D 78 x H 40 cm. Materials: Aluminium. PARTIAL PRESE...
Aluminum
$7,040Sale Price|20% Off
Atelier Van Lieshout Black Resin Coffee Table 2004
By Joep van Lieshout
Located in Chicago, IL
Atelier Van Lieshout Tables Resin Top Table Joep van Lieshout, "Bad Little Table" Table is numbered two the edition of ten. Reinforced fiberglass and enameled steel legs Signed with ...
Metal
Matek Rooted Coffee Table in Recycled Composite by Project Materia
Located in Geneve, CH
Matek Rooted Coffee Table in Recycled Composite by Project Materia. Designed by Oliver Thygesen. Dimensions: Ø 60 x H 35,5 cm Materials: MATEK™ recycled composite. A coffee table co...
Composite
$24,563 / item
Between Nature 20 Coffee Table by De Castelli
Located in Geneve, CH
Between Nature 20 Coffee Table by De Castelli Dimensions: W 100 x D 80 x H 20 cm Materials: Brushed Brass, Marble Other versions are available, please contact us for any request. Th...
Marble, Brass
$11,829 / item
Between Nature 40 Coffee Table by De Castelli
Located in Geneve, CH
Between Nature 40 Coffee Table by De Castelli Dimensions: W 40 x D 30 x H 40 cm Materials: Brushed Brass, Marble Other versions are available, please contact us for any request. The...
Marble, Brass
Contemporary Aluminium Coffee Table by Colo Studio, France
Located in London, GB
'Cosmo' by Colo Studio Mirror polished aluminum Dimensions : Ø 120 cm / H 33 cm Limited edition of 8 + 4 AP Signed and numbered Made in France COSMO Series Future Primitive Inspir...
Aluminum
$9,401 / item
Olivia Emperador Neave Coffee Table by Nish Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Olivia Emperador Neave Coffee Table by Nish Studio Dimensions: W 87.4 x D 41.8 x H 34.6 cm. Materials: Olivia Emperador Marble. Prices based on polished finish with no detailing. Oth...
Marble
Opium Bamboo Coffee table by Axel Vervoordt, Belgium 1980's
By Axel Vervoordt
Located in Oud-Turnhout, VAN
Vintage Postmodern Modernism Design "Opium" model Bamboo Low Coffee Table by Axel Vervoordt. Made in Belgium, 1980's period. Hardwood base with beautifully structured bamboo top. Thi...
Bamboo
Joe D'Urso Coffee / Side Table for Knoll
By Joseph D'Urso, Knoll
Located in Chicago, IL
Joe D'Urso Coffee / Side Table for Knoll A practical size that can be used as either a coffee table or side occasional table. Shows age wear mainly to underside. The metal itself i...
Stainless Steel
Fossil Limestone Octagonal Coffee Table, Brass Dividers, France, 1970s
Located in Langemark-Poelkapelle, BE
Octagonal pedestal coffee table executed in fossil limestone, featuring a radially segmented tabletop articulated by fine brass dividers. The stone surface reveals natural inclusions...
Limestone
Giovanni Offredi for Saporiti Concrete Cantilever Coffee Table
By Saporiti, Giovanni Offredi
Located in Jensen Beach, FL
Rare coffee table designed in the late 1970s by Giovanni Offredi for Saporiti Italia.
Concrete, Metal
Medium Alentejo Carrara Marble Coffee Table by InsidherLand
Located in Geneve, CH
Medium Alentejo Carrara Marble Coffee Table by InsidherLand Dimensions: D 74 x W 74 x H 49 cm. Materials: Carrara marble, cast brass with patinated effect. 25 kg. Other materials ava...
Marble, Brass
Low Alentejo Estremoz Marble Coffee Table by InsidherLand
Located in Geneve, CH
Low Alentejo Estremoz Marble Coffee Table by InsidherLand Dimensions: D 62 x W 62 x H 42 cm. Materials: Estremoz marble, cast brass with patinated effect. 17 kg. Other materials avai...
Marble, Brass
1980s Italian Postmodern Square Travertine Stone Parsons Coffee Table
By Massimo and Lella Vignelli, Afra & Tobia Scarpa, Up & Up, Gae Aulenti, Angelo Mangiarotti
Located in Palm Desert, CA
This Vintage Square Postmodern Travertine Parsons Coffee Table features a bold, architectural form crafted entirely from solid natural stone. Designed in the Postmodern Parsons style...
Travertine
Square Fornasetti Coffee Table with Sun Motif, 20th Century
By Fornasetti
Located in New York, NY
Large square coffee table by Fornasetti featuring the iconic sun motif and a subtly wavy perspex tabletop set on an iron base. The tabletop bears a facsimile signature.
Iron
$4,179 / item
Sweet Fuchsia Chubby Coffee Table by Marcel Wanders
Located in Geneve, CH
Sweet Fuchsia Chubby Coffee Table by Marcel Wanders Dimensions: Ø 100 x H 35 cm. Materials: Polyethylene and wenge HPL. Weight: 21 kg. Available in a standard version and lacquere...
Other
$4,179 / item
Dove Grey Chubby Coffee Table by Marcel Wanders
Located in Geneve, CH
Dove Grey Chubby Coffee Table by Marcel Wanders Dimensions: Ø 100 x H 35 cm. Materials: Polyethylene and wenge HPL. Weight: 21 kg. Available in a standard version and lacquered ve...
Other
$4,179 / item
Pumpkin Orange Chubby Coffee Table by Marcel Wanders
Located in Geneve, CH
Pumpkin Orange Chubby Coffee Table by Marcel Wanders Dimensions: Ø 100 x H 35 cm. Materials: Polyethylene and wenge HPL. Weight: 21 kg. Available in a standard version and lacquer...
Other
Chocolate Brown Chubby Coffee Table by Marcel Wanders
Located in Geneve, CH
Chocolate Brown Chubby Coffee Table by Marcel Wanders Dimensions: Ø 100 x H 35 cm. Materials: Polyethylene and wenge HPL. Weight: 21 kg. Available in a standard version and lacque...
Other
$4,179 / item
Powder Blue Chubby Coffee Table by Marcel Wanders
Located in Geneve, CH
Powder Blue Chubby Coffee Table by Marcel Wanders Dimensions: Ø 100 x H 35 cm. Materials: Polyethylene and wenge HPL. Weight: 21 kg. Available in a standard version and lacquered ...
Other
$4,179 / item
Malva Green Chubby Coffee Table by Marcel Wanders
Located in Geneve, CH
Malva Green Chubby Coffee Table by Marcel Wanders Dimensions: Ø 100 x H 35 cm. Materials: Polyethylene and wenge HPL. Weight: 21 kg. Available in a standard version and lacquered ...
Other
$4,179 / item
Lime Green Chubby Coffee Table by Marcel Wanders
Located in Geneve, CH
Lime Green Chubby Coffee Table by Marcel Wanders Dimensions: Ø 100 x H 35 cm. Materials: Polyethylene and wenge HPL. Weight: 21 kg. Available in a standard version and lacquered v...
Other
$4,179 / item
Jet Black Chubby Coffee Table by Marcel Wanders
Located in Geneve, CH
Jet Black Chubby Coffee Table by Marcel Wanders Dimensions: Ø 100 x H 35 cm. Materials: Polyethylene and wenge HPL. Weight: 21 kg. Available in a standard version and lacquered ve...
Other
$4,179 / item
Flame Red Chubby Coffee Table by Marcel Wanders
Located in Geneve, CH
Flame Red Chubby Coffee Table by Marcel Wanders Dimensions: Ø 100 x H 35 cm. Materials: Polyethylene and wenge HPL. Weight: 21 kg. Available in a standard version and lacquered ve...
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.