Italian Modern Travertine Cocktail Table
By Angelo Mangiarotti, Up & Up, Romeo Rega
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
$15,443 / item
Satin Coffee Table by Guillaume Alan
Located in Geneve, CH
Satin coffee table by Guillaume Alan Dimensions: D 185 x W 85 x H 24 cm Materials: Ash-wood, Brushed finish, Iron. Also available in different colours. French interior desig...
Iron
$5,076 / item
Round Luxury Coffee Table by Dainte
Located in Geneve, CH
Round Luxury Coffee Table by Dainte Dimensions: Ø 110 x H 30.5 cm. Materials: Crystal. This magnificent round coffee table is both functional and elegantly designed. It is a wonder...
Crystal
$6,201 / 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
$35,620 / item
Shell Calacatta Midnight Coffee Table by Etamorph
Located in Geneve, CH
Shell Calacatta Midnight Coffee Table by Etamorph Dimensions: W 150 x D 85 x H 35 cm. Materials: Calacatta Midnight. Carved from a block of natural stone and manually honed. Differe...
Stone
$3,325 / item
Saturn Coffee Table by KV Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Saturn Coffee Table by KV Design One Of A Kind Dimensions: Ø 80 x H 63 cm. Materials: Walnut, metal, and epoxy. Everything is custom-made 1 of 1 edition. Please contact us. KV Desi...
Metal
$24,602 / item
Candy Round Coffee Table by Luis Gimeno
Located in Geneve, CH
Candy Round Coffee Table by Luis Gimeno Dimensions: W 60 x D 60 x H 35 cm Materials: Resine. The “Candy” project seeks to create sculptural coffee tables with bold, organic forms t...
Resin
$25,514 / item
Candy Squared Coffee Table by Luis Gimeno
Located in Geneve, CH
Candy Squared Coffee Table by Luis Gimeno Dimensions: W 60 x D 60 x H 35 cm Materials: Resine. The “Candy” project seeks to create sculptural coffee tables with bold, organic forms...
Resin
$3,065 / item
Naranja Coffee Table by KV Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Naranja Coffee Table by KV Design One Of A Kind Dimensions: D 50 x W 100 x H 44 cm. Materials: Walnut, wood and, and epoxy. Everything is custom-made 1 of 1 edition. Please contact ...
Resin, Walnut, Wood
$38,436 / item
Fold Calacatta Sunrise Coffee Table by Etamorph
Located in Geneve, CH
Fold Calacatta Sunrise Coffee Table by Etamorph Dimensions: W 120 x D 80 x H 40 cm. Materials: Calacatta Sunrise. Carved from a block of natural stone and manually honed. 100% Craft...
Stone
$18,224 / item
Mistral Coffee Table by Studio Bazazo
Located in Geneve, CH
Mistral Coffee Table by Studio Bazazo Dimensions: D 70 x W 160 x H 35 cm. Materials: Travertino Rosso and stainless steel. Light as a breeze with the force to shape landscapes, the...
Travertine, Stainless Steel
Verde Alpi Marble Coffee Table, Italy, 1970s
Located in Winston-Salem, NC
Crafted entirely from richly veined Verde Alpi marble, this vintage coffee table pairs monumental proportions with the natural drama of the stone — a thick, geometric floating top re...
Marble
$11,717 / item
Solid Coffee Table by Ruda Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Solid Coffee Table by Ruda Studio Dimensions: D 100 x W 100 x H 35 cm. Materials: MDF, painted rye straw and wax. Weight: 40 kg. Dimensions and colors are customizable. Please conta...
Other
$15,620 / item
Cross Coffee Table by Ruda Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Cross Coffee Table by Ruda Studio Dimensions: D 120 x W 120 x H 40 cm. Materials: MDF, painted rye straw and wax. Weight: 40 kg. Dimensions and colors are customizable. Please conta...
Other
$11,715 / item
Boss Coffee Table by Ruda Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Boss Coffee Table by Ruda Studio Dimensions: D 100 x W 100 x H 40 cm. Materials: MDF, painted rye straw and wax. Weight: 40 kg. Dimensions and colors are customizable. Please contac...
Other
$2,011 / item
Small Coffee Table by Tomasz Omachel
Located in Geneve, CH
Small Coffee Table by Tomasz Omachel Dimensions: D 49 x W 72 x H 45 cm. Materials: Oak, Brass. Finely crafted side table that blends elegance with simplicity.This piece features th...
Brass
$11,751 / item
Dryade Coffee Table by Emilie Lemardeley
Located in Geneve, CH
Dryade Coffee Table by Emilie Lemardeley Dimensions: Ø 58 x H 42 cm Materials: Hand-blown glass. Designed as jewellery for the interior, the Lemardeley’s creations reflect French cr...
Blown Glass
Postmodern Karl Springer Style Sculptural Coffee Table
By Karl Springer
Located in Chicago, IL
Postmodern Karl Springer Style Faux Travertine Waterfall Coffee Table with Glass Top A sophisticated Postmodern coffee table in the style of Karl Springer, featuring a sculptural wa...
Travertine
Vintage coffee table by Roche Bobois, 1980s
By Roche Bobois
Located in Leuven, Vlaams Gewest
Vintage wooden and black glass coffee table by Roche Bobois with storage space and bottle holders. Cool coffee table from the 1980s. 1980s - France Good overall condition with nor...
Glass, Wood
$1,692 / item
Grey Coffee Table by Donatas Zukauskas
By Donatas Žukauskas
Located in Geneve, CH
Grey Coffee Table by Kasanai Dimensions: D 45 x W 42 x H 43 cm. Materials: Concrete, wood, recycled paper, glue, paint. 10 kg. Crafted with an eco-friendly mixture of cement, recycl...
Concrete
$1,763 / item
Tripod Coffee Table by Donatas Zukauskas
By Donatas Žukauskas
Located in Geneve, CH
Tripod Coffee Table by Kasanai Dimensions: D 50 x H 52 cm. Materials: Concrete, wood, recycled paper, glue, paint 6 kg. The fusion of sturdiness and elegance, along with the blend o...
Concrete
$22,248 / item
White Onda Coffee Table by Wentz
By Guilherme Wentz
Located in Geneve, CH
White Onda Coffee Table by Wentz Dimensions: D 80 x W 160 x H 28 cm Materials: Granite/Quartzite, Steel/Stainless Steel.
Granite, Steel, Stainless Steel
$14,946 / item
Roe Stainless Steel Coffee Table by Mingardo
Located in Geneve, CH
Roe Stainless Steel Coffee Table by Mingardo Dimensions: D 140 x W 123,5 x H 34,5 cm Materials: Satin stainless-steel with Sangue di Giuda finish. Variations in material and size a...
Stainless Steel
$7,289 / item
Medium Travertine Bold Coffee Table by Mohdern
Located in Geneve, CH
Medium Travertine Bold Coffee Table by Mohdern Dimensions: ⌀ 60 x H 41 cm (Marble Tray Included ⌀ 52 cm) Materials: Solid Ash Bold is a refined collection of coffee tables designed...
Ash
$5,964 / item
Small Travertine Bold Coffee Table by Mohdern
Located in Geneve, CH
Small Travertine Bold Coffee Table by Mohdern Dimensions: ⌀ 50 x H 50 cm (Marble Tray Included ⌀ 42 cm) Materials: Solid Ash Bold is a refined collection of coffee tables designed ...
Ash
Vintage oval beech wood coffee table, 1980s
Located in Leuven, Vlaams Gewest
Vintage beech wood oval shaped two tierr coffee table with inlaid two tone stone and 4 elegant legs. 1980s - Germany Very good condition Signed under the table top with makers ma...
Stone
$11,029 / item
Tronco Coffee Table by NITUSH AROOSH
Located in Geneve, CH
Tronco Coffee Table by NITUSH AROOSH Dimensions: D 83 x W 105 x H 30 cm. Materials: Stainless steel and solid wood. Available in different finishes. All our lamps can be wired acco...
Stainless Steel
$18,224 / item
Pebble Coffee Table by Pol Quadens
Located in Geneve, CH
Pebble Coffee Table by Pol Quadens Limited Edition Of 8+4 Pieces. Dimensions: D 100 x W 100 x H 40 cm. Materials: Polished stainless steel and patinated steel. Pol Quadens was born...
Steel, Stainless Steel
$11,881 / item
Large Travertine Bold Coffee Table by Mohdern
Located in Geneve, CH
Large Travertine Bold Coffee Table by Mohdern Dimensions: W 140 x D 80 x H 30 cm (Marble Tray Included ⌀ 52 cm) Materials: Solid Ash Bold is a refined collection of coffee tables d...
Ash
$745 / item
Medium Pebble Coffee Table by Morica Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Medium Pebble Coffee Table by Morica Design Dimensions: D 48 x W 47 x H 35 cm. Materials: Breccia Imperiale glass, metal. Available in Breccia Imperiale, Patagonia, or Trinity White...
Metal
$721 / item
Small Pebble Coffee Table by Morica Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Small Pebble Coffee Table by Morica Design Dimensions: D 43 x W 43 x H 40 cm. Materials: Patagonia glass, metal. Available in Breccia Imperiale, Patagonia, or Trinity White glass. P...
Metal
$804 / item
Big Pebble Coffee Table by Morica Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Big Pebble Coffee Table by Morica Design Dimensions: D 58 x W 57 x H 30 cm. Materials: Trinity White glass, metal. Available in Breccia Imperiale, Patagonia, or Trinity White glass....
Metal
$4,757 / item
Sadin Coffee Table by KV Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Sadin Coffee Table by KV Design One Of A Kind Dimensions: D 70 x W 130 x H 50 cm. Materials: Walnut, epoxy resin, and wood. Everything is custom-made 1 of 1 edition. Dimensions may ...
Epoxy Resin, Wood, Walnut
$2,934 / item
Brownie Coffee Table by KV Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Brownie Coffee Table by KV Design One Of A Kind Dimensions: D 60 x W 70 x H 44 cm. Materials: Walnut wood, epoxy, and metal. Everything is custom-made 1 of 1 edition. Please contact...
Metal
$5,668 / item
Gochelo Coffee Table by KV Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Gochelo Coffee Table by KV Design One Of A Kind Dimensions: D 50/70 x W 140 x H 45 cm. Materials: Oak, epoxy resin, and metal. Everything is custom-made 1 of 1 edition. Please conta...
Metal
$3,715 / item
Indonesia Coffee Table by KV Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Indonesia Coffee Table by KV Design One Of A Kind Dimensions: D 85 x W 110 x H 45 cm. Materials: Tropical wood, epoxy, and metal. Everything is custom-made 1 of 1 edition. Please co...
Metal
$9,112 / item
Kai Coffee Table by KV Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Kai Coffee Table by KV Design One Of A Kind Dimensions: D 52 x W 100 x H 42 cm. Materials: Walnut, epoxy, and metal. Everything is custom-made 1 of 1 edition. Please contact us. KV...
Metal
$2,934 / item
Esche Coffee Table by KV Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Esche Coffee Table by KV Design One Of A Kind Dimensions: D 56 x W 107 x H 47 cm. Materials: Ash, wood, and epoxy resin. Everything is custom-made 1 of 1 edition. Please contact us....
Wood, Epoxy Resin, Ash
$2,544 / item
Hype Coffee Table by KV Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Hype Coffee Table by KV Design One Of A Kind Dimensions: D 50 x W 100 x H 44 cm. Materials: Walnut, epoxy resin, and metal. Everything is custom-made 1 of 1 edition. Please contact ...
Metal
$3,195 / item
Wave Coffee Table by Donatas Zukauskas
By Donatas Žukauskas
Located in Geneve, CH
Wave Coffee Table by Kasanai Dimensions: D 72 x W 55 x H 46 cm. Materials: Oak, mixed material (cement, recycled paper, glue, and paint). 12 kg The visual inspiration for the coffee...
Concrete
$33,904 / item
Utterö Walnut Coffee Table by Studio TOOJ
Located in Geneve, CH
Utterö Walnut Coffee Table by Studio TOOJ Designed by Johan Wilén Dimensions: D 110 x H 36 cm. Materials: Walnut wood. Also available in mahogany. Please contact us. A true testame...
Walnut
$27,963 / item
Utterö Mahogany Coffee Table by Studio TOOJ
Located in Geneve, CH
Utterö Mahogany Coffee Table by Studio TOOJ Designed by Johan Wilén Dimensions: D 110 x H 36 cm. Materials: Mahogany wood. Also available in walnut. Please contact us. A true testa...
Mahogany
$15,620 / item
Block Coffee Table by Ruda Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Block Coffee Table by Ruda Studio Dimensions: D 100 x W 100 x H 30 cm. Materials: MDF, painted rye straw, brass and wax. Weight: 40 kg. Dimensions and colors are customizable. Pleas...
Other, Brass
Philippe Starck "Joe Ship" Coffee Table, France 1982
By Philippe Starck, Les 3 Suisses
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Please contact us for shipping quote, we ship to Los Angeles and Bay Area weekly. A versatile table that works well with any style of interior design, decor including mid century m...
Metal, Enamel
$5,950 / item
Scrolled Pencil Bamboo Coffee Table, Italy, 1970s
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Sculptural Italian coffee table from the 1970s composed of tightly wrapped pencil bamboo over a curved wood form. The silhouette curls into wide scrolled legs, creating an open base ...
Bamboo
$2,990Sale Price|20% Off
Playful Pop Art "Footsie" Coffee Table
Located in Van Nuys, CA
This 1980s Pop Art "Footsie" coffee table features four elegantly arched mannequin legs supporting a textured Industrial steel top.
Steel
Giuseppe Rivadossi Hand-Carved Coffee Table in Oak
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Giuseppe Rivadossi for Officina Rivadossi, coffee table, oak, Italy, 1970s A beautifully crafted coffee table in solid oak by Giuseppe Rivadossi. Defined by its bold architectural f...
Oak
$2,402 / item
SST013-1 Coffee Table by Stone Stackers
Located in Geneve, CH
SST013-1 coffee table by Stone Stackers Dimensions: D 36 x W 44.5 x H 55 cm Materials: Eramosa marble, Invisible Grey marble. Marble Structure: Eramosa Marble Base: Invisible Grey We...
Marble
Polyte Solet Dolphin coffee table and stools, 1990s
Located in Leuven, Vlaams Gewest
Stunning and very rare set by french Artist Polyte Solet (b.1973) featuring two whale tail stools and a beautiful sculpted coffee table depicting a dolphin in mahogany. The wood ha...
Glass, Mahogany
$16,875 / item
Pewter Coffee Table by Gentner Design
By Christopher Gentner
Located in Geneve, CH
Pewter coffee table by Gentner Design Dimensions: D 61 x W 91.5 x H 20.3 cm Materials: pewter on steel. The Pewter Collection is a family of furniture pieces defined by their ma...
Steel, Pewter
$6,567 / item
Simone Coffee Table by Studio Gaia Paris
Located in Geneve, CH
Simone Coffee Table by Studio Gaia Paris Dimensions: ⌀ 80 x H 38 cm Materials: White Onyx and Travertine. The Simone coffee table, in onyx and travertine, features two types of nat...
Onyx, Travertine
$546 / item
Object 031 Coffee Table by NG Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Object 031 coffee table by NG Design Dimensions: D60 x W60 x H40 cm Materials: Powder coated steel. Also Available: All of objects available in different materials and colors on...
Steel
$639 / item
Object 012 Coffee Table by NG Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Object 012 Coffee Table by NG Design Dimensions: D70 x W70 x H40 cm Materials: Powder coated steel. Also Available: All of objects available in different materials and colors on dem...
Steel
$9,692 / item
Whirpool Coffee Table by Olexandr Pinchuk
Located in Geneve, CH
Whirpool Coffee Table by Olexandr Pinchuk Dimensions: D 110 x H 35 cm. Materials: Wood, iron, oil, epoxy resin. Olexandr Pinchuk (Ukraine, 1986) Master of Laws, studied at the Inte...
Iron
$1,514 / item
Medium Baguette Coffee Table by Morica Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Medium Baguette Coffee Table by Morica Design Dimensions: D 40 x W 120 x H 34 cm. Materials: Canaletto walnut. Available in Canaletto Walnut, Laguna Oak, or natural oak wood. Please...
Metal
$2,023 / item
Spiral Coffee Table by Six Dots Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Spiral Coffee Table by Six Dots Design Unique Piece. Dimensions: D 55 x W 90 x H 45 cm Materials: Sanded and oiled aluminum. The Dream/Reality Spiral Coffee Table is a free form des...
Aluminum
$12,650 / item
Plato Coffee Table by Yasemin Toygar
Located in Geneve, CH
Plato coffee table by Yasemin Toygar Handmade Dimensions: W 90 x D 90 x H 45 cm Materials: Brass, marble, onyx, glass. Plato Collection Inspired by the geometric still life,...
Marble, Onyx, Brass
$1,218 / item
Object 054 Coffee Table by NG Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Object 054 coffee table by NG Design Dimensions: D80 x W60 x H40 cm Materials: powder coated steel Also available: All of objects available in different materials and colors on ...
Steel
$1,147 / item
Concrete Pigalle Coffee Table M by SNOC
Located in Geneve, CH
Concrete Pigalle Coffee Table M by SNOC Dimensions: W 80 x H 38 cm. Materials: Concrete. Pigalle Collection highlights the feeling of lightness and solidity with its aluminum skel...
Concrete
$698 / item
Concrete Pigalle Coffee Table S by SNOC
Located in Geneve, CH
Concrete Pigalle Coffee Table S by SNOC Dimensions: W 40 x H 50 cm. Materials: Concrete. Pigalle Collection highlights the feeling of lightness and solidity with its aluminum skel...
Concrete
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.