$2,360Sale Price|20% Off
Post Modern Milo Baughman Style Smoked Glass & Bent Chrome Coffee Table
By Milo Baughman
Located in Madison, WI
This minimalist, Post Modern modern table in the manner of Milo Baughman would look great in a Modern or Mid-Century decor. This table is versatile and holds many books or magazines,...
Chrome
Walnut SSU Coffee Table L by Veermakers, Post-Modern Design, Sweden
Located in Geneve, CH
Walnut SSU Coffee Table L by Veermakers Dimensions: W 172 x D 110 x H 30 cm. Materials: Walnut Premium with a satin clear hard wax oil. About: After years of successful collaborati...
Walnut
Cherry SSU Coffee Table L by Veermakers, Post-Modern Design, Sweden
Located in Geneve, CH
Cherry SSU Coffee Table L by Veermakers Dimensions: W 172 x D 110 x H 30 cm. Materials: Cherry Premium with a satin clear hard wax oil. About: After years of successful collaborati...
Cherry
Soleil II Brass Coffee Table by Verena Brausch, Post-Modern Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Soleil II Brass Coffee Table by Verena Brausch Dimensions: D 80 x W 112 x H 40 cm. Materials: Brass. Verena Brausch brings new energy and singularity of purpose. Her primary motivat...
Brass
Custom Post Modern Steel Coffee Table in Gold Finish
By Brueton, Gio Ponti, Adrian Pearsall, Pace Collection, Leon Rosen
Located in Chicago, IL
Welded Steel Form. Gold Paint Finish. Sold without Glass. Photographed using a 39 7/8" Diameter Glass. One available in a Bronze finish and one in a painted Gold finish. Also ava...
Steel
Custom Post Modern Steel Coffee Table in Bronze Finish
By Brueton, Gio Ponti, Adrian Pearsall, Pace Collection, Leon Rosen
Located in Chicago, IL
Welded Steel Form. Bronze Paint Finish. Sold without Glass. Photographed using a 39 7/8" Diameter Glass. We have one in Bronze and one in a painted Gold finish in a different list...
Steel
Post-Modern Metal and Glass Coffee Table, Italy, 1980s
Located in Andrézieux-Bouthéon, FR
Post-Modern Metal and Glass Coffee Table, Italy, 1980s Additional information: Materials: Glass, Metal Color: Clear Design Period: 1980 to 1989 Year: 1980 Country of Manufacture: It...
Metal
Chinoiserie Oriental Maitland-Smith Post Modern Shagreen Coffee Table
By Maitland Smith
Located in Chicago, IL
Maitland-Smith Shagreen coffee table/signed on bottom. a couple spots where the shagreen has chipped off. Should be fairly easy to repair if desired. the dim of the top is about 39...
Wood
Italian Post-Modern Cylindrical Coffee Tables in Grey and Blue Plexiglass, 2000s
Located in MIlano, IT
Italian post-modern Cylindrical coffee tables in grey and blue plexiglass, 2000s Pair of cylindrical coffee tables, in plexiglass.
Plexiglass
1970 Post-Modern Green Patinated Wood and Stainless Steel Coffee Table
By Jean Claude Delagneau
Located in Brescia, IT
This is a stunning coffee table that was designed by the French artist Jean-Claude Delagneau, that was Italy based. Its name is Negative/positive. The space and the heavy material a...
Stainless Steel
Contemporary Brushed Stainless Steel Cone Coffee Table in the Post-Modern Style
By par-avion co.
Located in Norwich, GB
A contemporary cone-shaped coffee table crafted from 3mm-thick stainless steel. Features an inner stainless steel structure for added stability, seamless welded edges and a fine rand...
Metal, Stainless Steel
$960Sale Price|20% Off
Post Modern Formica and Glass Coffee Table After Panton, C 1970's
By Verner Panton
Located in New York, NY
Post Modern coffee, or cocktail, table having dramatic C shaped black formica ends which support the thick ( .50 in. ) plate glass center panel.
Glass, Formica
Post-Modern Style of Karl Springer Gray Goatskin Coffee Table
By Taller Maria Teresa Mendez, Karl Springer
Located in Chula Vista, CA
For your consideration Post-Modern Goatskin Coffee Table. Rectangular shape with angled legs.
Goatskin
Mid Century Italian Post Modern Rectangular Glass Coffee Table in Black & Gray
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Sleek post modern design from Italy circa early 90's. Textured resin over wood with clear glass top.
Glass, Wood
Mid century Post modern square red coffee table on casters made in Italy
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Post modern square red coffee table on casters made in Italy.
Wood, Lacquer
1980s, Post Modern Black Lacquer Coffee Table in the Roger Rougier Style
By Roger Rougier
Located in Miami, FL
Vintage, large scale post modern sculptural Black Lacquer Coffee Table with a Triangular Glass top in the of Roger Rougier's Style.
Glass, Lacquer
Tord Bjorklund Post-modern Side or Coffee Table, Memphis Style, Sweden, 1980s
By IKEA, Tord Bjorklund
Located in Vienna, AT
A round folding Memphis style coffee / side / occasional flip-top table in yolk-yellow. Designed in 1986 by Tord Björklund for Ikea. This collapsible table is made of metal, has love...
Metal
Post Modern Art Deco Inspired Chrome, Brass & Glass Coffee Table by Lorin Marsh
By Lorin Marsh
Located in Pittsburgh, PA
This Post Modern Art Deco Inspired Chrome, Brass & Glass Coffee Table by Lorin Marsh is unique and grand, with high-quality brass and chrome framing.
Brass, Chrome
Mid Century Italian Post Modern Memphis Sottsass Style Coffee Table in Black
By Memphis Milano, Ettore Sottsass
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A super funky cocktail table design from the 1980's and made in Italy. It features all steel construction with thick clear glass top. Very good ready to use condition.
Metal
$2,320Sale Price|20% Off
Post Modern Enamel and Glass Coffee Table Dated '91 Probably Made in Italy
By Ettore Sottsass, Michael Graves (b.1934)
Located in New York, NY
Intriguing Post Modern, Memphis style coffee table having opposing curved bases, of turquoise and white enameled metal, which support the thick ( .75 in ) bevelled glass top.
Metal
Post Modern Style “Apollo” Gilt Metal Coffee Table with Glass Top & Bottom Shelf
By Hastening Designs
Located in Middleburg, VA
Post Modern Style “Apollo” gilt metal coffee table.
Steel
Post Modern Karl Springer Coffee Table in Gunmetal Brass with Smoked Glass Top
By Karl Springer
Located in Lake Worth, FL
This vintage coffee table not signed but looks to be designed by Karl Springer is a stunning piece of postmodern furniture. The gunmetal brass finish and smoked glass top give it a u...
Metal
$1,120Sale Price|20% Off
Post Modern Hollywood Regency Style 1980's Vintage Coffee Table
By Karl Springer
Located in New York, NY
Voguish Hollywood Regency coffee table, having a tinted mirror insert top, which is supported by a gray formica frame, with brushed aluminum trim. The table is in very good, origina...
Aluminum
$1,920Sale Price|20% Off
Mid Century Post Modern Travertine Square Low Coffee table with Brass details
By Willy Rizzo
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Mid Century Post Modern Travertine Square Low Coffee table with Brass details.
Travertine
Post Modern Black Marble Pedestal Base Coffee Table Made in Italy c 1970’s
Located in New York, NY
Stunning graphic back and white marble coffee table having a square pedestal base ( 16 x 16 x H 15 ) with a square top ( 39 x 39 x 1 ). The table is in excellent original condition ...
Marble
$2,850Sale Price|25% Off
Post-Modern Laquered Picasso Art Cocktail Table
By Memphis Milano
Located in Las Vegas, NV
Vintage cocktail table with a lacquered Picasso's "large stiff life with pedestal table" top. Circa 1970's or 80's. Gorgeous statement piece with bold colors and gloss black hourgla...
Brass
$2,070Sale Price|40% Off
Mid Century post Modern Custom Solid Birch Coffee Table Bench Black Lacquer
By Memphis Milano
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Mid-Century Modern custom solid birch coffee table bench black lacquer. Very Heavy solid wood Coffee table or bench. All Black Custom Made. Located in Brooklyn NYC.
Birch
Post Rural Model Coffee Table by Studio Superego, Italy
By Studio Superego
Located in Milan, Italy
Post Rural model coffee table designed by Studio Superego for Superego Editions. Colored plexiglass table revisiting rural design. Biography Superego editions was born in 2006, perf...
Plexiglass
A BRUTALIST RUSTIC-POST-MODERN SEVENTIES COFFEE TABLE, France 1960-1970
Located in PARIS, FR
An astonishing rectangular coffee or side table, Modernist, Constructivist, Brutalist, Seventies, impressive tubular wrought iron structure, thick top in geometric composition of sla...
Slate, Wrought Iron
1020 Post Modern Square Coffee Table in Solid Oak by No Age Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
1020 Post Modern Square Coffee Table in Solid Oak by No Age Studio Dimensions: D 160 x W 160 x H 40.6 cm.
Oak
Stacked Glass Fan Shape Base Round Coffee Table Italian Post Modern Mid Century
By Pace Collection, Brueton
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Stacked Glass Fan Shape Base Round Coffee Table Italian Post Modern Mid Century MINT!
Glass
1980’s Italian Parsons Travertine Coffee Table
By Angelo Mangiarotti
Located in Chicago, IL
Post modern Italian Parsons travertine coffee table in style of Angelo Mangiarotti.
Travertine
$1,304Sale Price|68% Off
1970s Vintage Tiered Triangle Post Black Granite Coffee Table, 2 Pieces
Located in Asheville, NC
Classic post modern tiered Italian black Granite coffee piece comprised of 2 triangular shape tables of different heights, they can be configured in any manner to form a square or a ...
Granite
Ettore Sottsass Tony Table Post-Modern Italy, circa 1970
By Anthologie Quartett 1, Ettore Sottsass
Located in Vienna, AT
A fine example of the work of Ettore Sottsass, the Tony 3 table was imagined by the famous designer in 1979. This piece was published by Anthology Quartett around 1984. It is charact...
Plastic, Wood
$1,787 / item
Modern Coffee Table by Donatas Zukauskas
By Donatas Žukauskas
Located in Geneve, CH
Modern Coffee Table by Donatas Zukauskas Dimensions: Ø 63 x H 40 cm. Materials: Oak, and mixed material. Donatas Žukauskas Hello, my name is Donatas Žukauskas, I am an interior desi...
Other
Italian Post Modern Travertine Triangular Marble 2 Piece Cocktail Table
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This Italian post-modern cocktail table is crafted from luxurious travertine marble, showcasing two pieces that seamlessly fit together. The timeless design adds a touch of elegance ...
Travertine
$1,787 / item
Modern Coffee Table by Donatas Zukauskas
By Donatas Žukauskas
Located in Geneve, CH
Modern Coffee Table by Kasanai Dimensions: D 63 x H 40 cm. Materials: Oak, cement, recycled paper, glue, paint. 15 kg. The visual inspiration for the coffee table is a combination o...
Concrete
Post Modern Minimalist California Design Brass & Walnut Cocktail End Table
Located in San Diego, CA
A well-constructed modernist cocktail table with walnut walls and a patinated brass top. Made in the 1970s by a San Diego craftsman. In good condition with some hard=to-see light sur...
Brass
Midcentury Italian Post Modern Travertine Marble 2 Piece Cocktail Table
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Two piece contemporary design circa 1990s from Italy. Solid travertine construction. Each table measures 55 inches from corner to corner. 27.5 inches wide. The taller table is 16 inc...
Travertine
Solid Brass Square Posts Legs Glass Top Coffee Table
By Widdicomb Furniture Co., Mastercraft
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Mid-Century Modern 3/4" thick glass top coffee table standing on polished brass legs.
Brass
Italian Coffee Table Macassar and Birch 52" x 36" x 17" Mid Century Post Modern
Located in Atlanta, GA
Clean Lined Italian Coffee Table, Italy, circa 1980s. It is believed to be constructed of birch with macassar inlay and legs.
Wood, Macassar
Bubble Glass Side Table by Panorammma, Hand-Blown Post-Modern Design
By Panorammma
Located in Ciudad de México, CDMX
The Bubble Glass Side Table embodies a retro-futuristic fantasy. Inspired by past visions of the future, it draws from mysterious tales of speculative technologies and flying saucers...
Glass
$795Sale Price|20% Off
Art Deco Style Sculptural Post Modern Arched Tessellated Stone Cocktail Table
By Magnussen Furniture, Maitland Smith
Located in Chattanooga, TN
Crafted in the Philippines during the elegant “Nineteen‑Laties” era of the 1980s, this end table is a refined study in organic geometry and tropical modernism. Its sculptural base, c...
Stone
Trio of Midcentury Italian Post Modern Faux Stone Cocktail Table Set
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A post modern set of three circular cocktail tables from Italy circa 1980's. Each table measure 21 inches in diameter. The heights are graduated from 16.5, 14.5 & 11.5 inches tall. H...
Resin, Plaster
American Modern Design Faux Ivory Coffee Table
By Karl Springer
Located in Queens, NY
American Modern design rectangular coffee table with faux ivory brick design surface. (from the estate of Pamela Harriman)
Vintage Italian Travertine Stone Side Table by Stone International Post-Modern
By Stone International, Angelo Mangiarotti
Located in Miami, FL
Vintage Postmodern Travertine Stone Square Side Table by Stone International. Made in Florence, Italy. Offered for sale is a substantial circa 1970s Italian travertine side, end or ...
Stone, Travertine
Funky Post Modern Colorful Side Table ca' 1990
Located in St.Petersburg, FL
Post modern, in the style of Memphis. See the matching coffee table.
Aluminum
Pair of Post Modern Brutalist Iron Base Glass Top Coffee Tables c. 1980/90's
By Mastercraft
Located in New York, NY
Pair of Brutalist style verdigris finish metal based, tempered glass top coffee tables, in excellent, original, clean and ready to use condition. Circa 1970's reminiscent of the work...
Iron
Mid Century Italian Post Modern Black & White Kidney Shape Cocktail Table
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A large free form coffee table from Italy circa 1980's. It features cast concrete legs with textured wood and clear inlayed glass.
Concrete
Mid Century Italian Post Modern Rectangular Cocktail Table in Glass & Marble
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A large and substantial coffee table from Italy circa 1970's. It features a thick clear glass top with chunky solid marble marble legs in white with grey veining.
Metal, Brass
Italian Modern Karl Springer Style Travertine Biomorphic Coffee Table
By Romeo Rega, Karl Springer, Angelo Mangiarotti, Mario Bellini
Located in Houston, TX
Italian Modern Karl Springer Style Travertine Free Form Coffee Table. Beautifully designed Italian Modern travertine free form or amoeba coffee table or cocktail table. This shapely ...
Travertine
1970s Post-Modern Tessellated Stone Side Table with Glass Top
By Maitland Smith
Located in Chattanooga, TN
A striking synthesis of stone, glass, and metal, this Post-Modern side table is sculptural architecture made furniture—an elegant merging of solidity and light, texture and shine.
Stone, Brass
Pere Cosp Singel Model Coffee Table Iron Spain Post War Reconstruction
By Signed P. Cosp
Located in Lège Cap Ferret, FR
PERE COSP (Barcelona, 1907-2007). Coffee table, 1948-1949. wood and iron feet. With marks of use. Provenance: House in Llavaneras (Barcelona) with an interior designed entirely by...
Iron
$2,800Sale Price|33% Off
Jean Claude Mahey Post-Modern Cocktail Table, 1980s France, Signed
By Jean Claude Mahey
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This cocktail table by Jean Claude Mahey would work great in a Post-Modern, Mid-Century Modern, Space Age Mod, Scandanavian Modern or Danish Modern home or penthouse apartment but co...
Wood, Goatskin
Marc D'Haens Belgian Modern Cast Copper and Quartz Coffee Table
By Marc D'haenens
Located in Queens, NY
Belgian Modern design round sculptural cast copper coffee table with inset quartz stone on a copper and brass base (by MARC D'HAENS)
Quartz, Copper
French Modern Bronze and Limestone Coffee Table "Manner of Alberto Giacometti"
By Carole Gratale
Located in Queens, NY
French Modern Grecian-style textured dark patinated bronze coffee table with double stretcher sides and a limestone top. (manner of ALBERTO GIACOMETTI)
Limestone, Bronze
Brazilian Modern Coffee Table by Sergio Rodrigues in Lacquered Wood
By Sergio Rodrigues
Located in Sao Paulo, SP
Brazilian modern "Augusto" round coffee table by Sergio Rodrigues, 1991 Black lacquered wood and marble top Sergio and Adolpho were already old acquaintances when, in 1991, the entr...
Marble
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.