$3,288 / item
Element Coffee Table by Idaaf Architects
Located in Geneve, CH
Element Coffee Table by Idaaf Architects Dimensions: W 120 x D 90 x H 35 cm Materials: Century Old Oak Made of solid oak, this coffee table is one of the pieces of the ‘Element’ col...
Oak
$1,407 / item
Miura Coffee Table L by SNOC
Located in Geneve, CH
Miura Coffee Table L by SNOC Dimensions: W 90 x H 31.5 cm. Materials: Concrete. The Miura outdoor collection is an invitation to comfort and elegance. The softly shaped, voluminou...
Concrete
$1,159 / item
Miura Coffee Table M by SNOC
Located in Geneve, CH
Miura Coffee Table M by SNOC Dimensions: W 60 x H 39.5 cm. Materials: Concrete. The Miura outdoor collection is an invitation to comfort and elegance. The softly shaped, voluminou...
Concrete
$2,200 / item
Hub Coffee Table by Doimo Brasil
Located in Geneve, CH
Hub Coffee Table by Doimo Brasil Dimensions: W 120 x D 110 x H 30 cm Materials: Base: Steel, Top inferior: veneer, Upper top: reconstituted stone. With the intention of providing...
Steel
$4,837 / item
Poplar Burl Coffee Table by Petra Madalena
Located in Geneve, CH
Poplar Burl Coffee Table by Petra Madalena Dimensions: W 100 x D 100 x H 42 cm Materials: poplar burl veneer. Weight: 60 kg (± 5 kg for packaging) Elevate the ambiance of your home ...
Burl
$7,854 / item
Solid Birch Coffee Table by Petra Madalena
Located in Geneve, CH
Solid Birch Coffee Table by Petra Madalena Dimensions: W 100 x D 100 x H 40 cm Materials: solid birch in black. Weight: 100 kg (± 5 kg for packaging) This solid birch coffee table i...
Birch
$1,703 / item
Tao Coffee Table by Doimo Brasil
Located in Geneve, CH
Tao Coffee Table by Doimo Brasil Dimensions: D 100 x H 20 cm Materials: Base: Veneer, Top: clear glass 8mm. Also available in D 100 x H 30, D 120 x H 20, D 120 x H 30 cm. Please c...
Wood, Glass
$1,348 / item
Form Coffee Table by Doimo Brasil
Located in Geneve, CH
Form Coffee Table by Doimo Brasil Dimensions: W 100 x D 100 x H 20 cm Materials: Base: Veneer, Top: Clear glass 10mm. Also available in D 100 x H 30, D 120 x H 20, D 120 x H 30 c...
Glass, Wood
$10,148 / item
Haereticus Coffee Table, Aluminium by ORFEO STUDIO
Located in Geneve, CH
Haereticus Coffee Table, Aluminium by ORFEO STUDIO Dimensions: W 62 x D 67 x H 70 cm. Material: Aluminium Finish: Patina finish Weight: 25 kg. About ORFEO STUDIO is an Italian desi...
Aluminum
$6,245 / item
Sharpened Ancora Coffee Table by ORFEO STUDIO
Located in Geneve, CH
Sharpened Ancora Coffee Table by ORFEO STUDIO Dimensions: W 67 x D 67 x H 46 cm. Materials: Steel. Finish: Patina finish Weight: 25 kg. About ORFEO STUDIO is an Italian design stu...
Steel
$2,921 / item
The Knot Coffee Table by Luis Gimeno
Located in Geneve, CH
The Knot Coffee Table by Luis Gimeno Dimensions: W 85 x D 68,5 x H 36 cm Materials: Solid Ash Wood Finishes: "Natural Ash Matte Varnish" and "Dark Tinted Ash Matte Varnish" A handcr...
Ash, Walnut
$4,299 / item
Trasiego Coffee Table by Sebastián Ángeles
Located in Geneve, CH
Trasiego coffee table by Arturo Verástegui Dimensions: D 100 x W 47 x H 27 cm Materials: oak wood. White natural oak table. Sebastián Angeles is an Industrial Designer origin...
Oak
$3,122 / item
Cosmos Coffee Table by Studio Monsoleil
Located in Geneve, CH
Cosmos Coffee Table by Studio Monsoleil Dimensions: Ø 90 x H 45 cm. Materials: Laminated glass. The Cosmos table series is created by combining glasses with gradient color transitio...
Glass
Bronze Impronte Rectangular Coffee Table by Disain1971
Located in Geneve, CH
Bronze Impronte Rectangular Coffee Table by Disain1971 Dimensions: W 120 x D 70 x H 35 cm Materials: Bronze / Bronzo. Weight: 7 kg. Code: DT1016 Rectangular coffee tables decorated...
Bronze
$11,059 / item
Rocky Montage Coffee Table by Odditi
Located in Geneve, CH
Rocky Montage Coffee Table by Odditi Unique and Numbered Dimensions: W 160 x D 74 x H 45 cm Materials: Petrified Wood Everyone loves a good montage. Our ‘Rocky Montage’ coffee table...
Other
Philippe Starck “Pepper Young” Coffee Table
By Philippe Starck
Located in Chicago, IL
c. 1980s, France. There is wear consistent with age and use but no notable flaws or chips in the glass. The glass does have minor wear including light scratches and scuffs
Glass, Rubber
$15,495 / item
White Maré Coffee Table by Wentz
By Guilherme Wentz
Located in Geneve, CH
White Maré Coffee Table by Wentz Dimensions: D 80 x W 160 x H 25 cm Materials: Granite, Steel.
Granite, Steel
$7,026 / item
Folio Coffee Table by Kutarq Studio
By Kutarq Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Folio Coffee Table by Kutarq Studio Materials: Stainless steel. Dimensions: D 99 x W 22 x H 23 cm The FOLIO coffee table explores the physical properties of steel, taking on the vis...
Stainless Steel
$13,011 / item
Metalique Coffee Table by Millim Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Metalique Coffee Table by Millim Studio Unique Piece. Dimensions: D 50 x W 120 x H 45 cm. Materials: Aluminum. The product is handmade. Any variation in color or detailing results ...
Aluminum
$3,122 / item
Stardust Coffee Table by Studio Monsoleil
Located in Geneve, CH
Stardust Coffee Table by Studio Monsoleil Dimensions: D 100 x W 70 x H 55 cm. Materials: Laminated glass. Studio Monsoleil invites you to embrace the beauty and wonder of the univer...
Glass
$2,661 / item
Sospeso Coffee Table by Dale Italia
Located in Geneve, CH
Sospeso Coffee Table by Dale Italia Dimensions: D 100 x W 100 x H 50 cm. Materials: Walnut and glass. Coffee table in solid wood worked with inlay technique. Legs in extra-clear gla...
Glass, Walnut
postmodern design coffee table, 1980's
Located in PARIS, FR
Postmodern Design Coffee Table, 1980s 1.8 centimeter thick glass top with an impressive design. The asymmetrical black metal legs design give the feeling that the table is moving. U...
Iron
$7,026 / item
Tacua Coffee Table by Óscar Núñez
By Oscar Nuñez
Located in Geneve, CH
Tacua coffee table by Óscar Núñez Dimensions: D 200 x W 110 x H 35 cm Materials: walnut wood, ebony crystal granite. Available in other sizes. Ebony crystal granite and walnut ...
Ebony, Walnut
$10,042 / item
Ronin 5038 Coffee Table by Redeco
Located in Geneve, CH
Ronin 5038 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 Ebony lacquered high gloss fini...
Marble
$13,922 / item
Xilo Coffee Table by De Castelli
Located in Geneve, CH
Xilo Coffee Table by De Castelli Dimensions: W 96 x D 66 x H 45 cm Materials: DeGlyphé Brass Inspired by the refined, sinuous aesthetics of Art Nouveau, the XILO coffee table is a v...
Brass
$1,277 / item
Poma Large Coffee Table by Pastform
Located in Geneve, CH
Poma Large Coffee Table by Pastform Dimensions: D 75 x W 75 x H 42 cm. Materials: Stained and varnished wood. Available in different wood color finishes: Whiskey, Rum, BPA, Nobel, B...
Wood
$7,416 / item
Hestia Coffee Table by Cuit Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Hestia Coffee Table by Cuit Studio One of a Kind. Dimensions: Ø 80 x H 35 cm. Materials: Textured black stoneware and tempered glass. Sculptural coffee table. Black stoneware volcan...
Stoneware, Glass
$6,434 / item
Melancholy Coffee Table by Saturday Yard Work
Located in Geneve, CH
Melancholy Coffee Table by Saturday Yard Work Dimensions: D 60 x W 90 x H 40 cm Materials: Aluminium. SATURDAY YARD WORK by Nathan Martin is a Kaurna/Adelaide-based practice that ai...
Aluminum
Scarce Pucci De Rossi coffee table
By Pucci De Rossi
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Pucci DE ROSSI (1947-2013) Table basse X, le plateau couvert d'un plexiglas blanc à vis apparentes, pieds en métal chromé. Vers 1980 Reproduit dans la monographie.
Aluminum
$19,517 / item
Maymuna Coffee Table by Valentina Giovando
Located in Geneve, CH
Maymuna Coffee Table by Valentina Giovando Dimensions: D 50 x H 67 cm. Materials: Wood, Brass, Zinc, Fabric, Fiberglass. Valentina Giovando, Lives and works in Sarzana, in Liguria...
Brass, Zinc
Italian Modern Travertine Cocktail Table
By Angelo Mangiarotti, Romeo Rega, Up & Up
Located in Houston, TX
Italian Modern Travertine Cocktail Table. Offered is a stunning cream colored Italian Parsons style square travertine cocktail table in the style of Angleo Mangiarotti. This lovely c...
Travertine
$1,892 / item
Duffy Coffee Table by KV Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Duffy Coffee Table by KV Design One Of A Kind Dimensions: D 54 x W 100 x H 45 cm. Materials: Walnut and metal. Everything is custom-made 1 of 1 edition. Please contact us. KV Desig...
Metal
$1,845 / item
White Coffee Table by Doimo Brasil
Located in Geneve, CH
White Coffee Table by Doimo Brasil Dimensions: W 140 x D 95 x H 34 cm Materials: Base: Aged steel, Seat: Fabric, Top: Veneer. With the intention of providing good taste and perso...
Steel
$8,279 / item
Karl Oak Coffee Table by Dennis Kaiser
Located in Geneve, CH
Karl Oak Coffee Table by Dennis Kaiser Dimensions: D 60 x W 130 x H 30 cm. Materials: Italian oak. Handcrafted in Tuscany, Italy. Customization is available on request. Please conta...
Oak
$2,176 / item
Vintage Large Coffee Table by Pastform
Located in Geneve, CH
Vintage Large Coffee Table by Pastform Dimensions: D 60 x W 160 x H 53 cm. Materials: Stained and varnished wood. Available in different wood color finishes: Whiskey, Rum, BPA, Nobe...
Wood
$2,093 / item
White Coffee Table by Doimo Brasil
Located in Geneve, CH
White Coffee Table by Doimo Brasil Dimensions: W 140 x D 95 x H 34 cm Materials: Base: Aged steel, Seat: Fabric, Top: Ceramic. With the intention of providing good taste and pers...
Steel
$2,282 / item
White Coffee Table by Doimo Brasil
Located in Geneve, CH
White Coffee Table by Doimo Brasil Dimensions: W 140 x D 95 x H 34 cm Materials: Base: Aged steel, Seat: Natural leather, Top: Ceramic. With the intention of providing good taste...
Steel
$6,292 / item
Uma Rectangular Coffee Table by Purho
Located in Geneve, CH
Uma rectangular coffee table by Purho. Dimensions: D90 x W120 x H30 cm. Materials: Resin, fabric upholstered legs. Available in other colors. UMA Rectangular is a table from th...
Fabric, Resin
$5,571 / item
Uma Square Coffee Table by Purho
Located in Geneve, CH
Uma square coffee table by Purho Dimensions: D 90 x W 90 x H 30 cm Materials: Resin, fabric upholstered legs. Available in other colors. UMA Square is a low table from the coll...
Fabric, Resin
Bespoke Shagreen and Brass Coffee Table
Located in Surbiton, GB
A contemporary, bespoke coffee table composed of a shagreen upholstered frame, patinated brass legs and a glass top. Dimensions (cm, approx): Height: 45 Width: 120 Depth: 120 Cond...
Bronze
$12,490 / item
Kheper K03 Coffee Table by Monogramma
Located in Geneve, CH
Kheper K03 coffee table by Monogramma Dimensions: D 35 x W 35 x H 45 cm Materials: Calacatta Viola (honed and sandblasted). Monogramma What really brings together is not so muc...
Marble
$12,490 / item
Kheper K02 Coffee Table by Monogramma
Located in Geneve, CH
Kheper K02 coffee table by Monogramma Dimensions: D 45 x W 45 x H 45 cm Materials: Travertino Silver (honed and sandblasted). Monogramma What really brings together is not so m...
Marble
$4,826 / item
Rectangular Venezia Laguna Coffee Table by Morici
Located in Geneve, CH
Rectangular Venezia Laguna Coffee Table by Morici Dimensions: W 120 x D 65 x H 42 cm Materials: Wood, inlay veneer. Finish : Gloss brushed polyester. Let yourself be captivated by...
Wood
Rectangular Venezia Cannaregio Coffee Table by Morici
Located in Geneve, CH
Rectangular Venezia Cannaregio Coffee Table by Morici Dimensions: W 120 x D 65 x H 42 cm Materials: Wood, inlay veneer. Finish : Gloss brushed polyester. Let yourself be captivate...
Wood
$4,826 / item
Rectangular Venezia Mestre Coffee Table by Morici
Located in Geneve, CH
Rectangular Venezia Mestre Coffee Table by Morici Dimensions: W 120 x D 65 x H 42 cm Materials: Wood, inlay veneer. Finish : Gloss brushed polyester. Let yourself be captivated by...
Wood
$4,826 / item
Rectangular Venezia Rialto Coffee Table by Morici
Located in Geneve, CH
Rectangular Venezia Rialto Coffee Table by Morici Dimensions: W 120 x D 65 x H 42 cm Materials: Wood, inlay veneer. Finish : Gloss brushed polyester. Let yourself be captivated by...
Wood
Postmodern Laminated Two Tiered Kidney Shaped Coffee Table
Located in Houston, TX
Postmodern laminated two tiered kidney shaped coffee table. This fantastic post modern laminate cocktail table or coffee table was executed in fantastic purple and lavender shades wi...
Laminate
$11,450 / item
Kheper K01 Coffee Table by Monogramma
Located in Geneve, CH
Kheper K01 coffee table by Monogramma Dimensions: D 39 x W 45 x H 45 cm Materials: Port Saint Laurent (honed and sandblasted). Monogramma What really brings together is not so ...
Marble
$9,474 / item
Movimiento Coffee Table by Joel Escalona
By Joel Escalona
Located in Geneve, CH
Movimiento coffee table by Joel Escalona Limited Edition of 9 Dimensions: D 90 x W 58 x H 41 cm Materials: oak wood, metal. Natural white oak, burnt finish with metal table. Joel ...
Metal
$5,795 / item
Sloth Coffee Table by Karim Rashid
Located in Geneve, CH
Sloth Coffee Table by Karim Rashid Dimensions: D 78 x W 120 x H 34 cm. Materials: Lacquered polyethylene. Weight: 12 kg. Available in different color options. Prices may vary. This ...
Other
$1,679 / item
Piala Coffee Table by Idaaf Architects
Located in Geneve, CH
Piala Coffee Table by Idaaf Architects Dimensions: D 70 x W 70 x H 35 cm. Materials: Glass and Georgian clay. ‘Piala’ table is made from glass supported by clay jugs and on top of t...
Clay, Glass
$1,032Sale Price|20% Off
1970's Glass & Travertine Coffee Table
Located in Bern, CH
1970’s glass topped travertine lounge table. Round glass tabletop set on a two part solid natural stone base. The heavy travertine base can be set as required to enable an individual...
Travertine
Vintage Travertine Coffee Table, Postmodern 1970s Design
Located in BERKEL EN RODENRIJS, NL
Beautiful vintage travertine coffee table with sculptural presence and a minimalist aesthetic. Crafted from solid travertine stone, this piece features a thick square top with rounde...
Travertine
$21,504 / set
Roca Nested Coffee Tables by Ombia
By Ōmbia Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Roca nested coffee tables by Ombia. Dimensions: W 122 x D 96.5 x H 30.5 cm / W 84 x D 76.5 x H 36 cm Materials: Mix media, black matte limewash finish. Custom sizes and finishes ...
Other
$18,925 / item
Cromo (I) Coffee Table by Breuer
Located in Geneve, CH
Cromo (I) Coffee Table by Breuer Dimensions: D 98 x W 140 x H 55 cm. Materials: High-gloss lacquered wood, steel. Cromo is inspired by the duality of nature and technology. This col...
Steel
$5,464 / item
Spill Coffee Table in Jesmonite by Perler
Located in Geneve, CH
Spill Coffee Table in Jesmonite by Perler. Dimensions: W 130 x D 70 x H 40 cm. Materials: Jesmonite. Color: A subtle shade of warm white/ivory. Finish: Matte. Texture: The Tabletop ...
Other
$44,818 / item
Rift Coffee Table by Andy Kerstens
Located in Geneve, CH
Rift coffee table by Andy Kerstens Dimensions: 160 x 80 x H 28 cm Materials: bleached oak, patinated bronze Other types of wood and sizes available, Bleached European Oak, dark st...
Metal
$20,818 / item
Pompei Coffee Table by Lisa Franzen
Located in Geneve, CH
Pompei coffee table by Lisa Franzen Dimensions: D 75 x W 75 H 21 cm Material: Stainless Steel Chrome Nickel, Marble Cristallina Pompei is a limited-edition coffee table designed...
Marble, Stainless Steel, Nickel
$2,401 / item
Fantasma Coffee Table by Andres Gutierrez
Located in Geneve, CH
Fantasma coffee table by Andres Gutierrez Dimensions: D 60 x W 60 x H 40 cm Materials: Solid white oak board. Andrés Gutiérrez founded A-G Studio, a residential and commercial...
Oak
$6,198 / item
William Iron & Walnut Coffee Table by Mingardo
Located in Geneve, CH
William Iron & Walnut Coffee Table by Mingardo Dimensions: D 125 x W 98 x H 32.3 cm Materials: Iron top with matte slate finish and walnut leg structure Variations in material and ...
Iron
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.