$12,000
‘Surfboard’ Coffee Table
By Sean Gerstley
Located in LOS ANGELES, CA
‘Surfboard’ Coffee Table By Sean Gerstley America, 2021 Glazed Ceramic and Epoxy Resin 63”W x 21 1/2”D x 15”H
Ceramic, Epoxy Resin
American Modern Coffee Table, Black Glass with Brass Detailing, 2015
Located in Queens, NY
American Modern design rectangular geometric faceted form black glass coffee table with brass detailing and a giltwood base.
Brass
Mid-Century Post Modern Sculptural Faux Plaster Rock Cocktail Table after Sirmos
By Sirmos
Located in Philadelphia, PA
An unusual and contemporary molded faux beige stone coffee table in the manner Sirmos. It features an off-white plaster resin design that looks like natural stone. Heavy & well made ...
Resin, Plaster
Post Modern Satinwood Cocktail Table Pyramid Base Philippe Starck style
By Philippe Starck
Located in Buffalo, NY
Minimalist satinwood Cocktail Table,Very unusual form,, Modern Deco,Contemporary,,Beautiful quilted satinwood top..Pyramid base,Extremely well crafted.
Satinwood
Mid Century Modern Fritz Hansen Style Beveled Glass Top Coffee Table
Located in Chicago, IL
Mid Century ModernFritz Hansen Style Chromed Base Squared Beveled Glass Top Coffee Table Its minimalist design seamlessly blends with various decor styles, while the durable materi...
Chrome
$3,765
Blocks Coffee Table
By Chuch Estudio
Located in Mérida, MX
The blocks coffee table was inspired by the construction context in Mexico, a reinterpretation of an authentic multitask table by Mexican workers: cast blocks and a multi-material to...
Stone
$2,200
Blocks Coffee Table
By Chuch Estudio
Located in Mérida, MX
The Blocks coffee table was inspired by the construction context in Mexico, a reinterpretation of an authentic multitask table by mexican workers: cast blocks and a multi-material to...
Stone
$1,871Sale Price|25% Off
Modern to Postmodern Coffee Table Travertine Hexagon Base Glass Rectangle Top
By Artedi
Located in Topeka, KS
Lovely vintage Modern to Postmodern Italian coffee table comprised of a hexagon shaped travertine pedestal base, rectangular chrome tube details, and a rectangular glass top in the s...
Travertine, Metal
$3,921Sale Price|42% Off
MEC Italy Travertine Marble Coffee Table Brazilian Sandstone Modern Design Spain
By Joaquín Moll, Meddel
Located in VALVERDE DEL MAJANO, CL
MEC Italy Travertine Marble Coffee Table Brazilian Sandstone Modern Design Spain The MEC Coffee Table is a remarkable example of Italian modern design, combining the elegance of trav...
Crystal, Sandstone, Marble, Travertine
Modern Italian matt black wood with decoration low coffee table, 1980s
Located in MIlano, IT
Tavolo da caffè basso, in legno con finitura in nero opaco e motivo decorativo verde su due lati della struttura, con sei zampe a sezione quadrata, dal disegno geometrico. 1980 ca. P...
Wood
Post Modern Hollywood Regency Mechanical Expanding Brass and Glass Disk Table
By Design Institute America, Charles Hollis Jones
Located in New York, NY
Voguish Hollywood Regency adjustable coffee table of brass and glass. The table features three ring form surfaces of various heights, the top center surface is stationary, while the ...
Brass
$2,600 / item
Solid Onyx Coffee Table
Located in New York, US
Introducing the Latte Coffee Table, an uncomplicated piece of solid onyx stone featuring soft elegant veining. Available in two striking variations — a round top or a captivating fou...
Onyx
$25,674 / item
Coffee Table by Serafini
Located in Geneve, CH
Coffee Table by Serafini Designed by Arthur Vallin Dimensions: D 60 x W 120 x H 30 cm Materials: Brass, Marble Range 10 Available in other marbles and metals. Marmi Serafini is locat...
Marble, Brass
Italian modern yellow metal rod structure coffee tables with glass top, 1970s
Located in MIlano, IT
Italian modern yellow metal rod structure coffee tables with glass top, 1970s. Rectangular coffee tables with yellow enamelled metal rod structure and glass shelf. 1970 approx. Good ...
Metal
Postmodern Plaster Coffee Table
By John Dickinson
Located in West Chester, PA
Plaster postmodern coffee table circa 1970 with column like round legs and rounded corners. Incised design on the top with blue accent.
Plaster
$14,949 / item
Coffee Table by Studiopepe
Located in Geneve, CH
Coffee table by Studiopepe Dimensions: D 90 x H 23 cm Materials: Onyx Multifaceted design agency Studiopepe was founded in Milan in 2006. Eclectic, voguish, it is the brainchil...
Onyx
$4,350
Peter Shire Coffee Table
By Peter Shire
Located in Chicago, IL
c. 1980s in great vintage condition
Metal
$8,636 / item
Camel Coffee Table by EBUR
Located in Geneve, CH
Camel Coffee Table by EBUR Dimensions: W 90 x D 200 x H 36 cm. Materials: Solid sucupira wood. Weight: 40 Kg. The Camel coffee table in solid sucupira wood, a densely grained wood ...
Wood
$6,827 / item
Atollo Coffee Table by Somaschini
Located in Geneve, CH
Atollo Coffee Table by Somaschini Dimensions: W 140 x D 72 x H 35 cm Materials: Lightened mdf monolithic structure with emptying. Patina green high gloss polyester lacquered finish. ...
Lacquer
Wavy Sculptural Bentwood Coffee Table
Located in Faversham, GB
Low table with a steam-bent laminated wood base in a warm terracotta finish, shaped into a continuous undulating wave. Thick rectangular glass top raised on chrome standoffs. Consist...
Glass, Plywood
Vintage free form coffee tables
Located in Houston, TX
Pair of oak, metal leg vintage coffee tables from the 1950's. These nestle in together to create a lovely organic amoebic shape. The wood is in great condition and is a nice warm oak...
Metal
$13,350 / item
Saturnia Coffee Table by Somaschini
Located in Geneve, CH
Saturnia Coffee Table by Somaschini Dimensions: W 180 x D 92 x H 28 cm Materials: Lightened mdf monolithic structure with emptying base with Pure metal finish in Burnished Copper – B...
Travertine, Copper
$7,702 / item
Raw Coffee Table by DAaZ
Located in Geneve, CH
Raw Coffee Table by DAaZ Dimensions: D 151 x W 154 x H 35 cm. Materials: Albizzia wood. DAaZ Furniture honors the spirit of adventure. We embrace the escape of the ordinary and rev...
Wood
$2,800Sale Price|49% Off
Wendell Castle "Sizzle" Coffee Table
By Wendell Castle
Located in Astoria, NY
Wendell Castle "Sizzle" Coffee Table Fiberglass Coffee Table, manufactured by Dennis Miller Associates, with gray wood veneer top and gray lacquered base. 16.5" H x 34" W x 20" D. Pr...
Fiberglass, Wood
$7,060 / item
Hygge Coffee Table by Shou
Located in Geneve, CH
Hygge coffee table by Shou Dimensions: W 120 x D 120 x H 40 cm Materials: OSB and MDF laquered painting. Hygge Coffee Table was designed with inspiration from the Scandinavian p...
Wood
$12,941 / item
Eight Coffee Table by Veermakers
Located in Geneve, CH
Eight Coffee Table by Veermakers Dimensions: D 90 x H 74 cm. Materials: Craft Black steel. About: After years of successful collaboration on luxury interior design projects, Louise...
Steel
Postmodern Side Coffe Table 1980s
Located in Čelinac, BA
Postmodern Side Coffe table Italy 1980s
Metal
$9,522 / item
Aurora Coffee Table by Mythology
Located in Geneve, CH
Aurora Coffee Table by Mythology Dimensions: D 120 x H 40 cm Materials: Beech. A sculptural centerpiece, the Aurora coffee table is made from solid English beech. The piece features...
Beech
$13,671 / item
Superfícies Coffe Table by Mameluca
Located in Geneve, CH
Superfícies coffe table by Mameluca Material: valchromat Dimensions: D 135 x W 90 x H 30 cm Coffee table inspired by Brazilian neo-concretists two-dimensional geometrical figure...
Wood
$13,782 / item
Carl Coffee Table by Laurameroni
Located in Geneve, CH
Carl Coffee Table by Laurameroni Dimensions: W 95 x D 45 x H 83 cm Materials: Satin brass structure, matt polished marble base, top in bronzed crystal. Weight: 73 kg. Coffee table...
Marble, Brass
$3,600Sale Price|20% Off
Cressida Bell - 'Platsa' Coffee Table
Located in New York, NY
Hand-painted coffee table with a yellow base color adorned with light blue and red dots. Includes a single drawer and stands on four legs.
Wood, Paint
$3,606 / item
Ronin Coffee Table by Redeco
Located in Geneve, CH
Ronin Coffee Table by Redeco Dimensions: W 123 x D 123 x H 30 cm Materials: Solid wood structure. Available with marble or lacquered top. Base in Dark beech wood matt finish. Top in ...
Wood, Beech
$5,461 / item
Room Coffee Table by Goons
Located in Geneve, CH
Room Coffee Table by Goons Dimensions: D 122 x W 77 x H 38 cm. Materials: Wood. Goons is located in Paris, France. All of their designs are made out of wood.
Wood
$7,305 / item
James Coffee Table by DUISTT
Located in Geneve, CH
James Coffee Table by DUISTT Dimensions: W 130 x D 80 x H 38 cm Materials: Brass and High Gloss Ebony Wood James coffee table crafted with great attention to details, is a bold and ...
Brass
$3,197 / item
Small Coffee Table by Goons
Located in Geneve, CH
Small coffee table by Goons Dimensions: W 65 x D 35 x H 33 cm Materials: Wood Dimensions can be adjusted +/- 10 cm Goons is located in Paris, France. All of their designs are made...
Wood
$6,255 / item
Arion Coffee Table by Mythology
Located in Geneve, CH
Arion Coffee Table by Mythology Dimensions: D 100 x H 40 cm Materials: Walnut. This striking yet pared back design is crafted from solid English walnut. Presenting contrasting textu...
Walnut
$6,161 / item
Sharpened Coffee Table by ORFEO STUDIO
Located in Geneve, CH
Sharpened Coffee Table by ORFEO STUDIO Dimensions: W 82 x D 54 x H 46 cm. Materials: Steel. Finish: Patina finish About ORFEO STUDIO is an Italian design studio dedicated to the tr...
Steel
$6,255 / item
Ray Coffee Table by DUISTT
Located in Geneve, CH
Ray Coffee Table by DUISTT Dimensions: D 80 x H 35 cm Materials: Nero Marquina Marble and Bronze RAY coffee table is a combination of elegance and versatility. Its three delicate ra...
Marble, Bronze
$11,040 / item
Dubaillusion Coffee Table by ORFEO STUDIO
Located in Geneve, CH
Dubaillusion Coffee Table by ORFEO STUDIO Dimensions: W 60 x D 50 x H 40 cm. Material: Brass. Finish: Super mirror finish and optical illusion finish. Weight: 25 kg. About ORFEO ST...
Brass
$8,612 / item
Liana Coffee Table by Laluz
Located in Geneve, CH
Liana Coffee Table by Laluz Dimensions: W 90 x D 130 x H 43 cm Materials: Bronze, Polyurethane, Guarango Wood. Weight: 120 kg. LaLuz Design is a young, dynamic company that speciali...
Bronze
$1,610 / item
Trestle Coffee Table by Mingardo
Located in Geneve, CH
Trestle coffee table by Mingardo Dimensions: D 96 x W 80 x H 32 cm Materials: Ral 9005 black varnished iron structure and rods top Weight: 26 kg Also available in different fi...
Iron
$4,353 / item
Ahiru Coffee Table by Kasanai
Located in Geneve, CH
Ahiru Coffee Table by Kasanai Dimensions: D 78 x W 78 x H 38 cm. Materials: Lime plaster. Also available in different colors. Please contact us. Subtly luxurious, the Ahiru table fe...
Plaster
$2,500 / item
Clover Flower Onyx Coffee Table
Located in New York, US
Introducing the Latte Coffee Table, an uncomplicated piece of solid onyx stone featuring soft elegant veining. Available in two striking variations — a round top or a captivating fou...
Onyx
$9,242 / item
Arunga Coffee Table by Kamil Hajji
Located in Geneve, CH
Arunga Coffee Table by Kamil Hajji Dimensions: W 120 × D 95 × H 38 cm Materials: Wood. Kamil Hajji is a Swiss-Moroccan artist, designer, and researcher. Drawing from a deeply cosmop...
Wood
$15,288 / item
Maré Coffee Table by Wentz
By Guilherme Wentz
Located in Geneve, CH
Maré Coffee Table by Wentz Dimensions: D 80 x W 160 x H 25 cm Materials: Granite, Steel.
Granite, Steel
$4,271 / item
Ultraleggera Coffee Table by Zieta
By Zieta
Located in Geneve, CH
Ultraleggera Coffee Table Table by Zieta Dimensions: Ø 80 x H 73 cm. Materials: Anodic black aluminum. The ULTRALEGGERA TABLE is a continuation of the ultralightness narrative. Its ...
Aluminum
Rectangular Vintage Unfilled Travertine Coffee Table
By Giovanni Offredi, Angelo Mangiarotti
Located in Las Vegas, NV
Make a huge statement with this monumental, unfilled travertine coffee table. Table is very modern, with thick proportions. This table is the perfect piece if you need durability, si...
Travertine
$7,515 / item
Atsuko Coffee Table by Kasanai
Located in Geneve, CH
Atsuko Coffee Table by Kasanai Dimensions: D 220 x W 44 x H 19 cm. Materials: Lime plaster. Also available in different colors. Please contact us. This unique design simulates a scu...
Plaster
$12,685 / item
Bevel Coffee Table by HADGE
By Hadge
Located in Geneve, CH
Bevel Coffee Table by HADGE Dimensions: D 39 x W 150 x H 26 cm. Materials: Heated dark stained steel patinated by hand. Also available in different materials. HADGE - an architect...
Steel
$17,820 / item
Bevel Coffee Table by HADGE
By Hadge
Located in Geneve, CH
Bevel Coffee Table by Hadge Limited Edition of 10 Dimensions: D 39 x W 150 x H 26 cm. Materials: Steel polished chrome bronze brass Weathered by hand (unique pieces). HADGE - an ...
Steel
Large 1970’s French coffee table
Located in Chicago, IL
Large Post modern handmade French coffee table. Signed by the artist.
Metal
$14,202 / item
Columnar Coffee Table by Ombia
By Ōmbia Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Columnar coffee table by Ombia Dimensions: W 122 x D 71.5 x H 30.5 cm Materials: White raw plaster finish. Custom colors upon request. Ombia is a ceramic sculpture and desig...
Plaster
$2,952 / item
Oslo Coffee Table by Shou
Located in Geneve, CH
Oslo coffee table by Shou. Dimensions: W 100 x D 60 x H 42 cm. Materials: Tempered smoked glass, leather and wooden stick. The coffee table is produced from the harmony of 8mm t...
Leather, Glass, Wood
$3,851 / item
4D Coffee Table by Kutarq Studio
By Kutarq Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
4D Coffee Table by Kutarq Studio Materials: Stainless steel. Dimensions: D 110 x W 110 x H 32 cm The 4D Coffee Table emerges from several years of dedicated exploration, embodying a...
Other, Stainless Steel
$1,225 / item
Mesa Coffee Table by Pastform
Located in Geneve, CH
Mesa Coffee Table by Pastform Dimensions: D 70 x W 120 x H 42 cm. Materials: Stained and varnished wood. Available in different wood color finishes: Whiskey, Rum, BPA, Nobel, Brandy...
Wood
$16,000 / item
Sand Coffee Table by Ombia
By Ōmbia Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Sand coffee table by Ombia Dimensions: W 122 x D 71.5 x H 38 cm Materials: Mix media, sand limewash finish. Custom sizes and finishes upon request. Ombia is a ceramic sculpt...
Other
$7,865 / item
Toy Coffee Table by Panorammma
Located in Geneve, CH
Toy Coffee Table by Panorammma Dimensions: ⌀ 70 x H 40 cm Materials: Blue Calacite, Pink and Black Monterrey Marble, Caramel and Green Onyx Rounded pillars of blue calcite, pink ma...
Marble, Onyx, 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.