$2,722 / 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 tempered satin glass. Weight: 22 kg. Available in a standard version an...
Other
$4,175 / item
Argil Grey Chubby Coffee Table by Marcel Wanders
Located in Geneve, CH
Argil 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 v...
Other
$2,722 / item
Saffron Yellow Chubby Coffee Table by Marcel Wanders
Located in Geneve, CH
Saffron Yellow Chubby Coffee Table by Marcel Wanders Dimensions: Ø 100 x H 35 cm. Materials: Polyethylene and tempered satin glass. Weight: 22 kg. Available in a standard version a...
Other
$2,722 / 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 tempered satin glass. Weight: 22 kg. Available in a standard version and la...
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 tempered satin glass. Weight: 22 kg. Available in a standard version ...
Other
$2,722 / 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 tempered satin glass. Weight: 22 kg. Available in a standard version and la...
Other
$2,722 / 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 tempered satin glass. Weight: 22 kg. Available in a standard version and la...
Other
$2,722 / 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 tempered satin glass. Weight: 22 kg. Available in a standard version and ...
Other
$2,722 / 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 tempered satin glass. Weight: 22 kg. Available in a standard version a...
Other
$2,722 / item
Argil Grey Chubby Coffee Table by Marcel Wanders
Located in Geneve, CH
Argil Grey Chubby Coffee Table by Marcel Wanders Dimensions: Ø 100 x H 35 cm. Materials: Polyethylene and tempered satin glass. Weight: 22 kg. Available in a standard version and l...
Other
$2,722 / 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 tempered satin glass. Weight: 22 kg. Available in a standard version and ...
Other
$2,722 / 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 tempered satin glass. Weight: 22 kg. Available in a standard version and l...
Other
$2,722 / item
Milky White Chubby Coffee Table by Marcel Wanders
Located in Geneve, CH
Milky White Chubby Coffee Table by Marcel Wanders Dimensions: Ø 100 x H 35 cm. Materials: Polyethylene and tempered satin glass. Weight: 22 kg. Available in a standard version and ...
Other
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
1980s Italian Postmodern Square Travertine Stone Parsons Coffee Table
By Afra & Tobia Scarpa, Gae Aulenti, Angelo Mangiarotti, Up & Up, Massimo and Lella Vignelli
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
Sablier Walnut and Clay Coffee Table by Morica Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Sablier Oak and Clay Coffee Table by Morica Design Dimensions: D 70 x W 70 x H 34 cm. Materials: Canaletto walnut, Muschio Green terracotta. Available in Canaletto Walnut, Laguna Oa...
Clay, Wood
$1,830 / item
Tao Flame Red Coffee Table by Guglielmo Berchicci
Located in Geneve, CH
Tao Flame Red Coffee Table by Guglielmo Berchicci Dimensions: Ø 80 x H 34 cm. Materials: Polyethylene and tempered/satin glass. Weight: 12 kg. Available in different color options. ...
Other
$2,001 / item
Tarta White Low Coffee Table by Roberto Paoli
Located in Geneve, CH
Tarta White Low Coffee Table by Roberto Paoli Dimensions: D 51 x W 72x H 34 cm. Materials: Polyurethane and beech wood. Weight: 5 kg. Available in different color options. Prices ma...
Other
$1,830 / item
Tao Milky White Coffee Table by Guglielmo Berchicci
Located in Geneve, CH
Tao Milky White Coffee Table by Guglielmo Berchicci Dimensions: Ø 80 x H 34 cm. Materials: Polyethylene and tempered/satin glass. Weight: 12 kg. Available in different color options...
Other
$27,683 / item
Layered Steel Coffee Table i by Hyungshin Hwang
Located in Geneve, CH
Layered steel coffee table I by Hyungshin Hwang Dimensions: D 138 x W 138 x H 42 cm Materials: stainless steel Layered Series is the main theme and concept of work of Hwang, who...
Stainless Steel
$10,570 / item
Small Layered Steel Coffee Table by Hyungshin Hwang
Located in Geneve, CH
Small Layered steel coffee table I by Hyungshin Hwang Dimensions: D 120 x W 72 x H 36 cm Materials: stainless steel Layered Series is the main theme and concept of work of Hwang...
Stainless Steel
$25,167 / item
Layered Steel Coffee Table II by Hyungshin Hwang
Located in Geneve, CH
Layered steel coffee table II by Hyungshin Hwang Dimensions: D 160 x W 120 x H 42 cm Materials: stainless steel Layered Series is the main theme and concept of work of Hwang, wh...
Stainless Steel
1980s Postmodern Green Marble Coffee Table with Plinth Base
Located in Rancho Cucamonga, CA
A substantial 1980s postmodern coffee table executed in vivid green marble. The stone displays high-contrast figuring in deep green and cool gray tones, while a softened bullnose edg...
Marble
Joan Crawford Lips Coffee Table by Jay Spectre
By Jay Spectre
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
USA, 1980s Joan Crawford lips coffee table, designed by Jay Spectre for Jay Spectre Inc. This is a smaller size for a cocktail table, yet also a very usable size. It has a glossy re...
Wood, Lacquer
$1,584Sale Price|20% Off
Industrial Steel Postmodern Low Coffee Table on Casters
By Memphis Group
Located in Los Angeles, CA
One of a kind coffee table made in the Germany in the 1990s. Solid steel painted Memphis pastel hues. Table sits very low at 6.5" and glides beautifully on heavy duty grey casters L...
Metal, Steel, Cut Steel, Stainless Steel
Giuseppe Rivadossi for Officina Rivadossi Architectural Square Oak Coffee Table
By Giuseppe Rivadossi, Officina Rivadossi
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Giuseppe Rivadossi for Officina Rivadossi coffee table, oak, Italy, 1980s A beautifully crafted coffee table by Giuseppe Rivadossi for Officina Rivadossi, Italy, 1980s. Executed in ...
Oak
Verneuil Coffee Table in Red Lacquered Wood by Haymann Editions
Located in Geneve, CH
Verneuil Coffee Table by Haymann Editions Dimensions: D 73 x W 97 x H 39 cm. Materials: Lacquered wood. The Verneuil coffee table, named in homage to the famous Parisian street that...
Wood
Flow Sculptural Waterfall Coffee Table in Aluminum by Veliento
Located in Geneve, CH
Flow Sculptural Waterfall Coffee Table in Aluminum by Veliento. Dimensions: W 100 x D 60 x H 35 cm (Size Medium). Materials: Aluminum. All pieces are made to order. Custom finishes ...
Metal, Aluminum
Limited Edition Wood Coffee Table by Bottega Nera Furniture
Located in Geneve, CH
Limited Edition Wood Coffee Table by Bottega Nera Furniture Dimensions: W 130 x D 130 x H 36 cm Materials: Wood. CT1- 10.60. Decorated and painted wood. About: BottegaNera was bo...
Wood
Low Coffee Table or End Table White Laminate & Metal on Casters Style Brian Kane
By Brian Kane
Located in Topeka, KS
We aren’t sure if this beauty is a mass-produced table or custom designed. We’ve not found another like it and it really has a unique post-modern appearance.
Steel
Ondulae Coffee Table in Stainless Steel by Metalmorphosis Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Ondulae Coffee Table in Stainless Steel by Metalmorphosis Studio Dimensions: D 35 x W 75 x H 50 cm. Materials: Stainless steel. An irregular surface shaped like lived muscle. Tensio...
Stainless Steel
Contemporary Handmade Glossy Yellow Ceramic Raft-Inspired Coffee Table
By Streicher Goods, Ethan Streicher
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The Raft Coffee Table is a playful sculptural ceramic piece inspired by the soft geometry and pillowy, rounded edge of a raft. The top is composed of large slab-built ceramic tiles w...
Ceramic, Plywood
$3,020 / item
Wooden Nature MÂY Coffee Table 01 by ONON DETAILS
Located in Geneve, CH
Wooden Nature MÂY Coffee Table 01 by ONON DETAILS Dimensions: W 50 x D 50 x H 45 cm. Materials: Oak, Walnut. ONON Details furnitures are chosen by famous design brand, domestic an...
Oak, Walnut
$3,923 / item
Oak and Walnut J Coffee Table by ONON DETAILS
Located in Geneve, CH
Oak and Walnut J Coffee Table by ONON DETAILS Dimensions: W 70 x D 130 x H 40 cm. Materials: Oak, Walnut. ONON Details furnitures are chosen by famous design brand, domestic and i...
Oak, Walnut
$13,235 / item
Oak and Walnut Vuông Coffee Table by ONON DETAILS
Located in Geneve, CH
Oak and Walnut Vuông Coffee Table by ONON DETAILS Dimensions: W 120 x D 120 x H 40 cm. Materials: Oak, Walnut. ONON Details furnitures are chosen by famous design brand, domestic ...
Oak, Walnut
Wagon Coffee Table by Michael Young for Magis
By Magis, Michael Young
Located in Chicago, IL
c. 2002. Three available. Rolling wheels with plastic construction. Made in Italy.
Plastic
$10,419 / item
Luca Coffee Table Small by Umberto Bellardi Ricci
Located in Geneve, CH
Luca coffee table small by Umberto Bellardi Ricci Dimensions: W 71.1 x D 109.24 x H 22.9 cm Materials: Travertine, bronze legs. Umberto Bellardi Ricci is an Italian sculptor and...
Travertine, Bronze
$9,517 / item
Four... For Luck Ebony Coffee Table by InsidherLand
Located in Geneve, CH
Four... For Luck Ebony Coffee Table by InsidherLand Dimensions: D 80 x W 80 x H 48 cm. Materials: marquetry work in ebony veneer, solid polished brass. 24 kg. Also available in rosew...
Brass
Four... For Luck Rosewood Coffee Table by InsidherLand
Located in Geneve, CH
Four... For Luck Rosewood Coffee Table by InsidherLand Dimensions: D 80 x W 80 x H 48 cm. Materials: marquetry work in rosewood veneer, solid polished brass. 24 kg. Also available in...
Brass
Tip Natural Oak, Flamed Copper Coffee Table by DOLOMITISCH
Located in Geneve, CH
Tip Natural Oak, Flamed Copper Coffee Table by DOLOMITISCH Dimensions: D 140 x H 33 cm Materials: Natural Oak, Flamed Copper. "Customization of the topographic furniture begins b...
Copper
$10,950 / item
Paulín Cast Aluminum Coffee Table by OHLA Studio, Mexico
By Ohla Studio
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Striking in form and finish, this sculptural “Paulín” coffee table by OHLA Studio is crafted in cast aluminum, offering a bold reinterpretation of brutalist design. Made in Mexico, t...
Aluminum
Karl Springer Style Faux Stone Coffee Table, Metal & Resin, USA
By Karl Springer
Located in W Allenhurst, NJ
Modernist Rectangular Cream Faux Stone and Metal Leg Coffee Table A handsome architectural coffee table featuring a substantial cream stone top above a gray-toned metal frame. Visib...
Metal
$2,082 / item
Shades Of Lava Coffee Table by KV Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Shades Of Lava 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...
Metal
1980s Sculptural Eye Shaped Coffee Table in Fossil Marble
Located in London, London
A sculptural low table in dark fossil stone or marble, dating to the late 20th century. The organically shaped top is supported by four substantial cylindrical and panel-form legs, ...
Marble
Nissa Travertino Stone Contemporary Coffee Table by Ivan Colominas
Located in Geneve, CH
Nissa Travertino Stone Contemporary Coffee Table by Ivan Colominas Dimensions: W 182.5 x D 72.5 x H 40.5 cm Materials: Travertine stone. Available in Nero Marquinia, Travertino and ...
Stone
Two tier marble pivoting top coffee table by roche Bobois, 1980s
Located in Leuven, Vlaams Gewest
Beautiful post modern design, which is also very handy as you can turn the table tops as desired.
Marble
Brutalist Coffee Table in Stone-Look Resin with Organic Relief Top
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Coffee table, stone-look resin, Europe, 1970s A striking European coffee table from the 1970s, crafted in stone-look resin with a beautifully textured organic relief pattern across ...
Resin
$89,892 / item
Marble and Wood Yuzu Coffee Table by Kelly Boukobza
Located in Geneve, CH
Marble and Wood Yuzu Coffee Table by Kelly Boukobza Dimensions: W 180 x D 115 x H 40 cm Materials: Marble and solid wood. Available Finishes : Marble, stone and marble. Kelly Bouko...
Marble
$2,116 / item
Peak 50 Lighted Coffee Table by Aksu, Suardi
Located in Geneve, CH
Peak 50 Lighted Coffee Table by Aksu, Suardi Dimensions: Ø 70 x H 50 cm. Materials: Polyethylene and tempered clear glass. Weight: 10 kg. Table available in different sizes and with...
Other
Titanium Travertine Coffee Table with Round Top by Lebanto
Located in Geneve, CH
Titanium Travertine Hashi Coffee Table by Lebanto Dimensions: W 60 x D 60 x H 29 cm Materials: Marble. Lebanto is an expression of identity, a tapestry of dreams woven from the thre...
Marble
$2,253 / item
Natural Oak Coffee Table with Round Top by Lebanto
Located in Geneve, CH
Oak Minami Coffee Table by Lebanto Dimensions: W 60 x D 60 x H 29 cm Materials: Oak solid wood. Lebanto is an expression of identity, a tapestry of dreams woven from the threads of ...
Oak
$1,132 / item
Round Top Extra White Glass Coffee Table by Lebanto
Located in Geneve, CH
TC_VE02 Aka Extra White Glass Coffee Table by Lebanto Dimensions: W 60 x D 60 x H 29 cm Materials: White Glass. Lebanto is an expression of identity, a tapestry of dreams woven from...
Glass
$2,482 / item
Teo Pink Shades 50 Coffee Table by VUUN ITALIA
Located in Geneve, CH
Teo Pink Shades 50 Coffee Table by VUUN ITALIA Dimensions: D 54 x W 54 x H 39 cm. Materials: Extralight glass with gold mirror base. Available in different sizes and finishes. Plea...
Glass
$2,711 / item
Teo Pink Shades 60 Coffee Table by VUUN ITALIA
Located in Geneve, CH
Teo Pink Shades 60 Coffee Table by VUUN ITALIA Dimensions: D 64 x W 64 x H 28 cm. Materials: Extralight glass with gold mirror base. Available in different sizes and finishes. Plea...
Glass
$3,015 / item
Teo Pink Shades 90 Coffee Table by VUUN ITALIA
Located in Geneve, CH
Teo Pink Shades 90 Coffee Table by VUUN ITALIA Dimensions: D 93 x W 93 x H 28 cm. Materials: Extralight glass with gold mirror base. Available in different sizes and finishes. Plea...
Glass
Set of 3 1970’s Italian Calacatta Coffee Tables
Located in Chicago, IL
Set of 3 Italian Calacatta marble tables. Made in 1970’s. Top 20.5” x 20.5” Height 14.5”, 11.75”, 9”
Marble
$2,240Sale Price|20% Off
Modernist Formica and Aluminum Coffee Table after Mayen
By Paul Mayen
Located in New York, NY
Chic architectural coffee table having a rectangular faux marble formica top, on rectangular brushed aluminum base. The table is in very good original condition, the formica has a co...
Aluminum
Gilles Derain pair of metal coffee tables Lumen edition 1986
By Gilles Derain
Located in Paris, IDF
Pair of Agathe coffee tables designed by Gilles Derain for Lumen Center designed and produced in 1986. As the company's artistic director during this period, Derain pushed the bounda...
Metal
$6,737 / item
Sinestesia 60 Coffee Table in Brass by De Castelli
Located in Geneve, CH
Sinestesia 60 Coffee Table in Brass by De Castelli. Dimensions: W 48 x D 30 x H 60 cm. Materials: Brass. Design by TIPSTUDIO. The Sinestesia 60 is part of a sculptural collection al...
Metal, 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.