$21,080 / set
Set of 2 Dryade Coffee Tables by Emilie Lemardeley
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 2 Dryade Coffee Tables by Emilie Lemardeley Dimensions: Table I: Ø 58 x H 42 cm. Table II: Ø 55 x H 41 cm. Materials: Hand-blown glass. Designed as jewellery for the interio...
Blown Glass
$23,609 / item
D.U.D. Quartz Sand Coffee Table by Studio TOOJ
Located in Geneve, CH
D.U.D. Quartz Sand Coffee Table by Studio TOOJ Designed by Johan Wilén Dimensions: D 80 x W 120 x H 35 cm. Materials: Quartz sand. The Swedish designer's latest creation is brought ...
Other
$3,598 / item
Alwa One Big Amber Black Coffee Table by Pulpo
Located in Geneve, CH
Alwa one big amber black coffee table by Pulpo Dimensions: D56 x H35 cm Materials: casted glass; powder coated steel Also available in different finishes. Normally, glass i...
Steel
$3,598 / item
Alwa One Big Green Black Coffee Table by Pulpo
Located in Geneve, CH
Alwa one big green black coffee table by Pulpo. Dimensions: D56 x H35 cm. Materials: casted glass; powder coated steel Also available in different finishes. Normally, glass ...
Steel
$3,598 / item
Alwa One Big Amber Black Coffee Table by Pulpo
Located in Geneve, CH
Alwa one big amber black coffee table by Pulpo Dimensions: D56 x H35 cm Materials: casted glass; powder coated steel Also available in different finishes. Normally, glass is...
Steel
$3,598 / item
Alwa One Big Green Black Coffee Table by Pulpo
Located in Geneve, CH
Alwa one big green black coffee table by Pulpo. Dimensions: D56 x H35 cm. Materials: casted glass; powder coated steel Also available in different finishes. Normally, glass ...
Steel
Aperta C1 120 Oak Square Coffee Table by Mokko Amsterdam
Located in Geneve, CH
Aperta C1 120 Oak Square Coffee Table by Mokko Amsterdam Dimensions: D 120 x W 120 x H 40 cm. Materials: Oak. Available in different material options and dimensions. Designed by Aa...
Walnut
Elefante Unique Round Coffee Table in Cement by Studio Noon
By Noon Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Elefante Unique Round Coffee Table in Cement by Studio Noon One Of a Kind Dimensions: W 108 x D 108 x H 39,4 cm Material: Cement. Studio Noon is a Philadelphia-based design atelier ...
Cement
Valentine Nero Marquina Marble Coffee Table by WM Metal Design
By William Mulas
Located in Geneve, CH
Valentine Nero Marquina Marble Coffee Table by WM Metal Design Dimensions: D 43 x H 50 cm. Materials: Nero Marquina marble, silver metal. A stupendous complement to a contemporary ...
Marble, Metal
Sablier Laguna Oak and Clay Coffee Table by Morica Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Sablier Laguna Oak and Clay Coffee Table by Morica Design Dimensions: D 70 x W 70 x H 34 cm. Materials: Laguna oak, clay. Available in Canaletto Walnut, Laguna Oak, or Oak wood. Ple...
Clay, Wood
Tall Sablier Oak and Clay Coffee Table by Morica Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Tall Sablier Oak and Clay Coffee Table by Morica Design Dimensions: D 60 x W 60 x H 47 cm. Materials: Oak, Mandarino Orange terracotta. Available in Canaletto Walnut, Laguna Oak, or...
Clay, Wood
Vintage Maitland Smith Architectural Tessellated Stone & Glass Coffee Table
By Maitland Smith, Karl Springer
Located in Chicago, IL
Maitland Smith Tessellated Stone Coffee Table. A strong form in the Manner of Karl Springer. Tinted Black Glass shown is no longer with the item. It showed to much wear. Requires a ...
Stone
Elliot Littmann Betsy Cafe Coffee Table for Driade, 1992
By Driade
Located in Miami, FL
Glass top coffee table with 1/2" tempered crystal glass on silver gray painted steel rod designed by Elliot Littmann and manufactured by Driade, 1992.
Steel
Sculptural Galaxy Oval Coffee Table in Antique Brass by Misaya
By Misaya
Located in Geneve, CH
Sculptural Galaxy Oval Coffee Table in Antique Brass by Misaya Dimensions: W 48 x L 45 x H 43 cm Hand-sculpted brass table. Sold without the Glass top Available in different brass fi...
Brass
$18,290 / item
Metate Stainless Steel Coffee Table by David Del Valle
Located in Geneve, CH
Metate Stainless Steel Coffee Table by David Del Valle Dimensions: D 100 x W 100 x H 30 cm. Materials: Stainless steel. DAVID VALLE We are a place, a space, a woven chair, the dream...
Stainless Steel
$35,408 / item
Time Coffee Table by Three One Four Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Three One Four Studio Unique Piece. Dimensions: D 350 x W 350 x H 30 cm. Materials: Modelboard, carbon fiber, brass, and plaster. Rounded plaster form with twelve disk legs segmenti...
Brass, Other
Natural Oak & Carrara White Vivo Coffee Table by Studio Mohs
Located in Geneve, CH
Natural Oak & Carrara White Vivo Coffee Table by Studio Mohs Dimensions: W 100 x D 100 x H 34 cm Materials: Marble, Natural Oak. Studio Mohs is a creative design studio based in...
Marble
The Confluence, Alignment Aluminium Coffee Table by Bureau of Entropy
Located in Geneve, CH
The Confluence, Alignment Aluminium Coffee Table by Bureau of Entropy. Limited edition of 8 pieces + 4 Artist's Proof. Dimensions: W 140 x D 55 x H 63 cm. Materials: Aluminium. THE ...
Aluminum
Stunning Architectural Set of Sectional Coffee or Side Tables 1980s
Located in Meer, VAN
Architectural Set of Sectional Coffee or Side Tables 1980s A spectacular pair of architectural side or coffee tables in solid and veneered maple. Europe, 1980s. These 1980s tables ...
Wood, Maple
$25,613 / item
Piero Rosa Tea Coffee Table by Fred and Juul
Located in Geneve, CH
Piero Rosa Tea Coffee Table by Fred and Juul Dimensions: D 120 x W 120 x H 40 cm. Materials: Rosa Tea marble and bronze. Available in White Carrara, Rosa Tea or Emperador Grey marbl...
Marble, Bronze
$25,613 / item
Piero Emperador Grey Coffee Table by Fred and Juul
Located in Geneve, CH
Piero Emperador Grey Coffee Table by Fred and Juul Dimensions: D 120 x W 120 x H 40 cm. Materials: Emperador Grey marble and aluminum. Available in White Carrara, Rosa Tea or Empera...
Marble, Aluminum
Coffee Table Future Pyrite Model by Studio Superego, Italy
By Studio Superego
Located in Asti, Piemonte
Coffee table model Future Pyrite designed by Studio Superego for Superego Editions. Low brass sculpture table made up of three modular elements with colored plexiglass base. Biograp...
Brass
$16,479 / item
Arkhe Oval No. 4 Travertine Coffee Table by Studio Kali
Located in Geneve, CH
Arkhe Oval No. 4 Travertine Coffee Table by Studio Kali Dimensions: D 92 x W 172 x H 35 cm. Materials: Travertine. Customization is possible in dimensions and materials. Can be prod...
Travertine
$2,996Sale Price|25% Off
Travertine Coffee Table Italian Live Edge 1970s by Stone International
By Stone International
Located in Lake Worth, FL
This incredibly stylish live-edge travertine coffee table is by Stone International S.p.A. and signed with the original label.
Travertine
Bolder Coffee Table in Plywood & RVS Glass by Arno Hoogland
Located in Geneve, CH
Bolder Coffee Table in Plywood & RVS Glass by Arno Hoogland Dimensions: D 65 x W 120 x H 45 cm. Materials: Plywood and glass. Arno Hoogland is a futurist, artist, and maker who crea...
Plywood, Glass
$32,458 / item
Maracá Base Coffee Table in Barauna Wood by Hugo França
Located in Geneve, CH
Maracá Base Coffee Table in Barauna Wood by Hugo França Dimensions: D 141,2 x W 150 x H 25,9 cm. Materials: Barauna wood. Dimensions may vary. Please contact us. Atelier Hugo Fran...
Wood
‘Strada’ Stone Coffee Table by Giulio Lazzotti for Mageia, 1981
By Giulio Lazzotti
Located in Chicago, IL
The ‘Strada’ coffee table was designed by Italian architect Giulio Lazzotti and produced by Mageia in 1981. The square top, carved from solid stone, is hand-chiseled into a rhythmic ...
Stone, Metal
Medium Three Rocks Gold Leaf Coffee Table by InsidherLand
Located in Geneve, CH
Medium Three Rocks Gold Leaf Coffee Table by InsidherLand Dimensions: D 75 x W 85 x H 45 cm. Materials: Gold leaf. 15 kg. Other materials available. From The Special Tree, Fallen Le...
Gold Leaf
Nissa Bianco Gioia Marble Contemporary Coffee Table by Ivan Colominas
Located in Geneve, CH
Nissa Bianco Gioia Marble Contemporary Coffee Table by Ivan Colominas Dimensions: W 182.5 x D 72.5 x H 40.5 cm Materials: Bianco Gioia marble. Available in Nero Marquinia, Travertin...
Marble
Nissa Nero Marquinia Marble Contemporary Coffee Table by Ivan Colominas
Located in Geneve, CH
Nissa Nero Marquinia Marble Contemporary Coffee Table by Ivan Colominas Dimensions: W 182.5 x D 72.5 x H 40.5 cm Materials: Nero Marquinia marble. Available in Nero Marquinia, Trave...
Marble
Bite Beige Coffee Table in Glossy Lacquered MDF by Hermhaus
Located in Geneve, CH
Bite Beige Coffee Table in Glossy Lacquered MDF by Hermhaus Dimensions: D 105 x W 190 x H 40 cm Materials: MDF with glossy lacquer finish The Bite coffee table transforms its charac...
Medium Density Fibreboard (MDF)
Bite Red Coffee Table in Glossy Lacquered MDF by Hermhaus
Located in Geneve, CH
Bite Red Coffee Table in Glossy Lacquered MDF by Hermhaus Dimensions: D 105 x W 190 x H 40 cm Materials: MDF with glossy lacquer finish The Bite coffee table transforms its characte...
Medium Density Fibreboard (MDF)
$18,039 / item
Found i Coffee Table No.2 by a Space
Located in Geneve, CH
Found I coffee table No.2 by A Space Dimensions: D120 x W120 x H38 cm Materials: marble, steel. FOUND I collection centers around the power of the medium to dictate the final fo...
Marble, Steel
$4,270 / item
Argil Grey Amore Coffee Table by Giò Colonna Romano
Located in Geneve, CH
Argil Grey Amore Coffee Table by Giò Colonna Romano Dimensions: D 70 x W 160 x H 46 cm. Materials: Polyethylene and tempered glass. Weight: 50 kg. Available in a standard version an...
Other
$4,270 / item
Lime Green Amore Coffee Table by Giò Colonna Romano
Located in Geneve, CH
Lime Green Amore Coffee Table by Giò Colonna Romano Dimensions: D 70 x W 160 x H 46 cm. Materials: Polyethylene and tempered glass. Weight: 50 kg. Available in a standard version an...
Other
$4,270 / item
Dove Grey Amore Coffee Table by Giò Colonna Romano
Located in Geneve, CH
Dove Grey Amore Coffee Table by Giò Colonna Romano Dimensions: D 70 x W 160 x H 46 cm. Materials: Polyethylene and tempered glass. Weight: 50 kg. Available in a standard version and...
Other
Chocolate Brown Amore Coffee Table by Giò Colonna Romano
Located in Geneve, CH
Chocolate Brown Amore Coffee Table by Giò Colonna Romano Dimensions: D 70 x W 160 x H 46 cm. Materials: Polyethylene and tempered glass. Weight: 50 kg. Available in a standard versi...
Other
Saffron Yellow Amore Coffee Table by Giò Colonna Romano
Located in Geneve, CH
Saffron Yellow Amore Coffee Table by Giò Colonna Romano Dimensions: D 70 x W 160 x H 46 cm. Materials: Polyethylene and tempered glass. Weight: 50 kg. Available in a standard versio...
Other
$4,270 / item
Flame Red Amore Coffee Table by Giò Colonna Romano
Located in Geneve, CH
Flame Red Amore Coffee Table by Giò Colonna Romano Dimensions: D 70 x W 160 x H 46 cm. Materials: Polyethylene and tempered glass. Weight: 50 kg. Available in a standard version and...
Other
Pumpkin Orange Amore Coffee Table by Giò Colonna Romano
Located in Geneve, CH
Pumpkin Orange Amore Coffee Table by Giò Colonna Romano Dimensions: D 70 x W 160 x H 46 cm. Materials: Polyethylene and tempered glass. Weight: 50 kg. Available in a standard versio...
Other
$4,270 / item
Jet Black Amore Coffee Table by Giò Colonna Romano
Located in Geneve, CH
Jet Black Amore Coffee Table by Giò Colonna Romano Dimensions: D 70 x W 160 x H 46 cm. Materials: Polyethylene and tempered glass. Weight: 50 kg. Available in a standard version and...
Other
$4,270 / item
Malva Green Amore Coffee Table by Giò Colonna Romano
Located in Geneve, CH
Malva Green Amore Coffee Table by Giò Colonna Romano Dimensions: D 70 x W 160 x H 46 cm. Materials: Polyethylene and tempered glass. Weight: 50 kg. Available in a standard version a...
Other
Sweet Fuchsia Amore Coffee Table by Giò Colonna Romano
Located in Geneve, CH
Sweet Fuchsia Amore Coffee Table by Giò Colonna Romano Dimensions: D 70 x W 160 x H 46 cm. Materials: Polyethylene and tempered glass. Weight: 50 kg. Available in a standard version...
Other
$4,270 / item
Powder Blue Amore Coffee Table by Giò Colonna Romano
Located in Geneve, CH
Powder Blue Amore Coffee Table by Giò Colonna Romano Dimensions: D 70 x W 160 x H 46 cm. Materials: Polyethylene and tempered glass. Weight: 50 kg. Available in a standard version a...
Other
$4,270 / item
Milky White Amore Coffee Table by Giò Colonna Romano
Located in Geneve, CH
Milky White Amore Coffee Table by Giò Colonna Romano Dimensions: D 70 x W 160 x H 46 cm. Materials: Polyethylene and tempered glass. Weight: 50 kg. Available in a standard version a...
Other
Elephant Grey Amore Coffee Table by Giò Colonna Romano
Located in Geneve, CH
Elephant Grey Amore Coffee Table by Giò Colonna Romano Dimensions: D 70 x W 160 x H 46 cm. Materials: Polyethylene and tempered glass. Weight: 50 kg. Available in a standard version...
Other
Memphis - Milano - Postmodern Gufram Massolo Coffee Table, 1st Edition, 1970s
By Gufram Furniture
Located in Renens, CH
An original first edition of the Massolo coffee table by Gufram, produced in Italy during the 1970s. A key piece from the Radical Design movement, the table is made of sculpted pol...
Foam
Two tier wooden pivoting top coffee table by roche Bobois, 1980s
By Roche Bobois
Located in Leuven, Vlaams Gewest
Beautiful post modern design, which is also very handy as you can turn the table tops as desired.
Oak
Ionic Rectangular Ebony Limed Oak Coffee Table by InsidherLand
Located in Geneve, CH
Ionic Rectangular Ebony Limed Oak Coffee Table by InsidherLand Dimensions: D 80 x W 130 x H 40 cm. Materials: Ebony limed oak, brushed brass. 28 kg. Other materials available. Ionic...
Brass
Italian Coffee Table with Red, Black & White Marble Spheres, 1990s
By Cattelan Italia
Located in Benalmadena, ES
Italian coffee table composed of three solid marble spheres in white, black, and red. This piece embodies a perfect synthesis of sculpture and functionality, with a strong visual pre...
Marble
$12,174 / item
Honey Onyx Hashi Coffee Table with Round Top by Lebanto
Located in Geneve, CH
White Onyx 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 threads of th...
Marble
Dover White Hashi Coffee Table with Round Top by Lebanto
Located in Geneve, CH
Dover White 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 threads of t...
Marble
Calacatta Violet Marble Coffee Table with Round Top by Lebanto
Located in Geneve, CH
Calacatta Violet 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 threads...
Marble
Dark Smoked Oak Coffee Table with Round Top by Lebanto
Located in Geneve, CH
Smoked 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 thre...
Oak
Light Grey Steel Coffee Table with Round Top by Lebanto
Located in Geneve, CH
Floral Grey Fire Coffee Table by Lebanto Dimensions: W 60 x D 60 x H 29 cm Materials: Steel. Lebanto is an expression of identity, a tapestry of dreams woven from the threads of the...
Steel
Chocolate Brown Steel Coffee Table with Round Top by Lebanto
Located in Geneve, CH
Chocolate Brown Fire Coffee Table by Lebanto Dimensions: W 60 x D 60 x H 29 cm Materials: Steel. Lebanto is an expression of identity, a tapestry of dreams woven from the threads of...
Steel
Wood and Stainless Steel Binario I Coffee Table by Saban Furkan
Located in Geneve, CH
Wood and Stainless Steel Binario I Coffee Table by Saban Furkan Dimensions: W 130 x D 60 x H 38 cm Materials: Wood and Stainless Steel. BINARIO I is conceived around the balance of ...
Stainless Steel
$38,021 / set
Set of 2 Caixas De Fósforos Coffe Tables by Mameluca
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 2 Caixas de Fósforos coffe table by Mameluca Material: Marine plywood Dimensions: D76 x W76 x H76 cm Coffee table inspired by Brazilian neo-concretists two-dimensional ge...
Plywood
Uncommon Les Prismatiques Square Lucite & Glass Coffee Table, ca. 1980s
By Les Prismatiques
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Designed and made in the United States, this angular coffee table features a construction of solid lucite, topped by a piece of square glass. The theme here is details in transparenc...
Glass, Lucite
Gabriella Crespi Limited Edition ‘Cubo Magico’ Coffee Table in Brass
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Gabriella Crespi, limited edition 'Cubo Magico' coffee table from the 'Plurimi' series, brass, aluminum, Italy, 1970 The Cubo Magico was designed by Gabriella Crespi as part of her ...
Aluminum, 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.