$3,570 / item
Chouchou Round Rose Coffee Table by Pulpo
Located in Geneve, CH
Chouchou round rose coffee table by Pulpo Dimensions: D 55 x H 45 cm Materials: Ceramic Also available in different colours. Chouchou bears the contours of an antique column – whic...
Ceramic
$4,646 / item
Object 091 Coffee Table by NG Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Object 091 Coffee Table by NG Design Dimensions: ⌀ 100 x H 33 cm Materials: Marble All of objects available in different materials and colors on demand. Also available in Diameter 70...
Marble
$1,334 / item
Object 079 Coffee Table by NG Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Object 079 Coffee Table by NG Design Dimensions: W 80 x D 40 x H 30 cm Materials: Powder-Coated Steel Also Available: All of objects available in different materials and colors on d...
Steel
$1,826 / item
Medium Champignon Coffee Table by Morica Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Medium Champignon Coffee Table by Morica Design Dimensions: D 60 x W 60 x H 42 cm. Materials: Canaletto walnut, Cognac leather, Black Marquinia marble. Available in Canaletto Walnut...
Marble
$2,071 / item
Large Champignon Coffee Table by Morica Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Large Champignon Coffee Table by Morica Design Dimensions: D 70 x W 70 x H 36 cm. Materials: Laguna oak, Anthracite leather, White Carrara marble. Available in Canaletto Walnut, Lag...
Marble
$23,691 / item
Rec Goatskin Coffee Table by Palena Furniture
Located in Geneve, CH
Rec Goatskin Coffee Table by Palena Furniture Dimensions: W 129.54 x D 99.06 x H 36.83 cm Materials: Goatskin, Patina Bronze, Matte Black Lacquer Available in custom dimensions and ...
Bronze, Other
$21,116 / item
Pa Coffee Table by Andreu Carulla Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Pa Coffee Table by Andreu Carulla Studio Dimensions: D 80 x H 75 cm. Materials: Glass, Aluminium. Coffee table/Side table with aluminum legs cast from a real loaf of bread, each on...
Aluminum
$6,648 / item
Una Coffee Table by Giacomo Tomazzi Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Una Coffee Table by Giacomo Tomazzi Studio Dimensions: W 110 x D 110 x H 25 cm Materials: Wood. ABOUT Giácomo Tomazzi graduated in architecture and urban planning from the Federal U...
Wood
$20,562 / item
Caixas De Fósforos Coffe Table by Mameluca
Located in Geneve, CH
Caixas de Fósforos coffe table by Mameluca Material: marine plywood Dimensions: D 76 x W 76 x H 76 cm Coffee table inspired by Brazilian neo-concretists two-dimensional geometri...
Plywood
$1,416 / item
Cipputi Burgundy Coffee Table by Mason Editions
By Mason Editions
Located in Geneve, CH
Cipputi Burgundy Coffee Table by Mason Editions Designed by Quaglio Simonelli. Dimensions: Ø 50 cm x H 48 cm. Materials: metal. Available in different colors. Cipputi is a ...
Metal
$1,416 / item
Cipputi Cotto Coffee Table by Mason Editions
By Mason Editions
Located in Geneve, CH
Cipputi cotto coffee table by Mason Editions. Designed by Quaglio Simonelli. Dimensions: Ø 50 cm x H 48 cm. Materials: Metal. Available in different colors. Cipputi is a si...
Metal
$842 / item
Object 053 Coffee Table by NG Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Object 053 coffee table by NG Design. Dimensions: D70 x W70 x H40 cm. Materials: powder coated steel, tempered glass. Also available: All of objects available in different materials...
Steel
$1,439 / item
Stone Bronze Isola 500 Coffee Table by Disain1971
Located in Geneve, CH
Stone Bronze Isola 500 Coffee Table by Disain1971 Dimensions: D 50 x H 45 cm Materials: black, Bronze. Weight: 5 kg. Code: DT1060 Round coffee tables with a light top decorated wi...
Bronze
$2,013 / item
Stone Bronze Isola 800 Coffee Table by Disain1971
Located in Geneve, CH
Stone Bronze Isola 800 Coffee Table by Disain1971 Dimensions: D 80 x H 30 cm Materials: black, Bronze. Weight: 9 kg. Code: DT1062 Round coffee tables with a light top decorated wi...
Bronze
Coccodrillo Bronze Isola 500 Coffee Table by Disain1971
Located in Geneve, CH
Coccodrillo Bronze Isola 500 Coffee Table by Disain1971 Dimensions: D 50 x H 45 cm Materials: black, Bronze. Weight: 5 kg. Code: DT1057 Round coffee tables with a light top decora...
Bronze
Coccodrillo Bronze Isola 600 Coffee Table by Disain1971
Located in Geneve, CH
Coccodrillo Bronze Isola 600 Coffee Table by Disain1971 Dimensions: D 60 x H 35 cm Materials: black, Bronze. Weight: 6 kg. Code: DT1058 Round coffee tables with a light top decora...
Bronze
$1,697 / item
Stone Bronze Isola 600 Coffee Table by Disain1971
Located in Geneve, CH
Stone Bronze Isola 600 Coffee Table by Disain1971 Dimensions: D 60 x H 35 cm Materials: black, Bronze. Weight: 6 kg. Code: DT1061 Round coffee tables with a light top decorated wi...
Bronze
Coccodrillo Bronze Isola 800 Coffee Table by Disain1971
Located in Geneve, CH
Coccodrillo Bronze Isola 800 Coffee Table by Disain1971 Dimensions: D 80 x H 30 cm Materials: black, Bronze. Weight: 9 kg. Code: DT1059 Round coffee tables with a light top decora...
Bronze
$2,259 / item
Object 068 Coffee Table by NG Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Object 068 coffee table by NG Design Dimensions: D70 x H35 cm Materials: Travertine Also Available: All of objects available in different materials and colors on demand. Made entir...
Travertine
$2,504 / item
Stone Bronze Fungo 700 Coffee Table by Disain1971
Located in Geneve, CH
Stone Bronze Fungo 700 Coffee Table by Disain1971 Dimensions: D 70 x H 52 cm Materials: bronze, bronze, cast concrete base. Weight: 33 kg. Code: DT1075 Round coffee tables decorat...
Bronze
Bronze Crocodile Fungo 600 Coffee Table by Disain1971
Located in Geneve, CH
Bronze Crocodile Fungo 600 Coffee Table by Disain1971 Dimensions: D 60 x H 32 cm Materials: black, bronze, ceramic base. Weight: 11 kg. Code: DT1072 Round coffee tables decorated ...
Bronze
$1,439 / item
Concentric Gold Isola 500 Coffee Table by Disain1971
Located in Geneve, CH
Concentric Gold Isola 500 Coffee Table by Disain1971 Dimensions: D 50 x H 45 cm Materials: gold, bronze, black / oro, bronzo, nero. Weight: 5 kg. Code: DT1054 Round coffee tables ...
Bronze
$1,697 / item
Concentric Gold Isola 600 Coffee Table by Disain1971
Located in Geneve, CH
Concentric Gold Isola 600 Coffee Table by Disain1971 Dimensions: D 60 x H 35 cm Materials: gold, bronze, black / oro, bronzo, nero. Weight: 6 kg. Code: DT1055 Round coffee tables ...
Bronze
Architectural Unfilled Travertine and Glass Coffee Table
By Angelo Mangiarotti, Giovanni Offredi
Located in Las Vegas, NV
THERE ARE NO WORDS. This jaw dropping, sculpted piece of ART would make the most incredible centerpiece in any living space or gallery. Functional art. The table is comprised of...
Travertine
$2,024 / item
Stone Bronze Roma 600 Coffee Table by Disain1971
Located in Geneve, CH
Stone Bronze Roma 600 Coffee Table by Disain1971 Dimensions: D 60 x H 47 cm Materials: Bronze, black. Weight: 7 kg. Code: DT1063 Round coffee table with a light top decorated with...
Bronze
Stone Bronze Monolite 5050 Coffee Table by Disain1971
Located in Geneve, CH
Stone Bronze Monolite 5050 Coffee Table by Disain1971 Dimensions: W 50 x D 50 x H 38 cm Materials: Bronze / Bronzo. Weight: 9 kg. Code: DT1025 Rectangular coffee tables decorated w...
Bronze
Stone Bronze Monolite 100100 Coffee Table by Disain1971
Located in Geneve, CH
Stone Bronze Monolite 100100 Coffee Table by Disain1971 Dimensions: W 100 x D 100 x H 23 cm Materials: Bronze / Bronzo. Weight: 19 kg. Code: DT1028 Rectangular coffee tables decora...
Bronze
Stone Bronze Monolite 60125 Coffee Table by Disain1971
Located in Geneve, CH
Stone Bronze Monolite 60125 Coffee Table by Disain1971 Dimensions: W 125 x D 60 x H 23 cm Materials: Bronze / Bronzo. Weight: 13 kg. Code: DT1026 Rectangular coffee tables decorate...
Bronze
$43,425 / item
Chunky Cloud Coffee Table L by Veermakers
Located in Geneve, CH
Chunky Cloud Coffee Table L by Veermakers Dimensions: W 160 x D 140 x H 30 cm. Materials: Marquetry in thick Mahogany Classic veneer with a satin clear coat / Mahogany Rich Hi-gloss...
Mahogany
$1,673 / item
Layout Coffee Table by Studio Super Sunday
Located in Geneve, CH
Layout Coffee Table by Studio Super Sunday Dimensions: D 53,3 x W 119,4 x H 35,6 cm. Materials: Ash. Available in six different finishes. Prices may vary. Please contact us. We ar...
Ash
$2,000Sale Price|20% Off
1970s Acrylic and Glass Coffee Table
Located in Waxahachie, TX
Vintage 1970s. Thick crystal clear acrylic legs and body support glass. Great for staging and rooms that need to look bright and open.
Glass, Acrylic
$2,387 / item
Noche Nixie Coffee Table M by SNOC
Located in Geneve, CH
Noche Nixie Coffee Table M by SNOC Dimensions: W 96 x D 71 x H 33 cm. Materials: Sandstone. Snoc Since their foundation in 2004, SNOC’s history has been interwoven with that of in...
Sandstone
$2,387 / item
Natural Nixie Coffee Table M by SNOC
Located in Geneve, CH
Noche Nixie Coffee Table M by SNOC Dimensions: W 96 x D 71 x H 33 cm. Materials: Sandstone. Snoc Since their foundation in 2004, SNOC’s history has been interwoven with that of in...
Sandstone
$1,744 / item
Natural Nixie Coffee Table S by SNOC
Located in Geneve, CH
Natural Nixie Coffee Table S by SNOC Dimensions: W 64 x D 51 x H 41 cm. Materials: Sandstone. Snoc Since their foundation in 2004, SNOC’s history has been interwoven with that of ...
Sandstone
$1,744 / item
Noche Nixie Coffee Table S by SNOC
Located in Geneve, CH
Noche Nixie Coffee Table S by SNOC Dimensions: W 64 x D 51 x H 41 cm. Materials: Sandstone. Snoc Since their foundation in 2004, SNOC’s history has been interwoven with that of in...
Sandstone
1970s Italian Brutalist Travertine Coffee Table, Mangiarotti Style
By Angelo Mangiarotti
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Italian Brutalist coffee table from the 1970s, influenced by the work of Angelo Mangiarotti. Thick glass top rests on two freestanding travertine pedestals, each composed of vertical...
Travertine
$2,657 / item
Object 100 Coffee Table by NG Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Object 100 Coffee Table by NG Design Dimensions: W 115 x D 70 x H 36 cm Materials: Steel, Oak Veneer All of objects available in different materials and colors on demand. Also availa...
Steel
$1,287 / item
Large Rond Coffee Table by Storängen Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Large Rond Coffee Table by Storängen Design Dimensions: D 100 x H 38 cm Materials: oak wood. Available in other colors and 2 sizes: D100cm, D75cm. Rond is a coffee table made of sol...
Oak
$3,570 / item
Chouchou Round White Coffee Table by Pulpo
Located in Geneve, CH
Chouchou round white coffee table by Pulpo Dimensions: D 55 x H 45 cm Materials: ceramic Also available in different Colours. Chouchou bears the contours of an antique column...
Ceramic
$3,570 / item
Chouchou Round Green Coffee Table by Pulpo
Located in Geneve, CH
Chouchou round green coffee table by Pulpo Dimensions: D55 x H45 cm Materials: Ceramic. Also available in different Colours. Chouchou bears the contours of an antique column ...
Ceramic
$3,570 / item
Chouchou Round Sand Coffee Table by Pulpo
Located in Geneve, CH
Chouchou round sand coffee table by Pulpo Dimensions: D55 x H45 cm Materials: Ceramic Also available in different Colours. Chouchou bears the contours of an antique column – ...
Ceramic
$3,570 / item
Chouchou Round Green Coffee Table by Pulpo
Located in Geneve, CH
Chouchou round green coffee table by Pulpo Dimensions: D55 x H45 cm Materials: ceramic Also available in different Colors. Chouchou bears the contours of an antique column – ...
Ceramic
$3,570 / item
Chouchou Round Green Coffee Table by Pulpo
Located in Geneve, CH
Chouchou round green coffee table by Pulpo Dimensions: D55 x H45 cm Materials: ceramic Also available in different Colors. Chouchou bears the contours of an antique column – ...
Ceramic
$5,665 / item
Kanyon Oak Coffee Table by Studio Kali
Located in Geneve, CH
Kanyon Oak Coffee Table by Studio Kali Dimensions: Ø 90 x H 35 cm. Materials: Oak and veneer. Customization is possible in dimensions and materials. Can be produced with different w...
Oak
$1,837 / item
Noche Whale Coffee Table M by SNOC
Located in Geneve, CH
Noche Whale Coffee Table M by SNOC Dimensions: W 72 x D 72 x H 36 cm. Materials: Sandstone. The Whale-ash Collection features an elegant and robust design style inspired by the fo...
Sandstone
$2,504 / item
Noche Whale Coffee Table L by SNOC
Located in Geneve, CH
Noche Whale Coffee Table L by SNOC Dimensions: W 100 x D 100 x H 36 cm. Materials: Sandstone. The Whale-ash Collection features an elegant and robust design style inspired by the ...
Sandstone
Vintage 1980s Postmodern Round Coffee Table Memphis Milano
By Shiro Kuramata, Memphis Milano, Ettore Sottsass, Gaetano Pesce, Mario Botta
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Vintage round coffee table featuring the iconic 1985 design by Ettore Sottsass, professionally restored while preserving the integrity and character of the original design. The tabl...
Wood
$16,773 / item
Lena Coffee Table by Le Berre Vevaud
Located in Geneve, CH
Lena Coffee Table by Le Berre Vevaud Dimensions: D 58 x H 29 cm. Materials: Top in Osso travertine; feet in New Ivory RAL 9001 lacquer. For over 15 years, Raphaël Le Berre and Thom...
Travertine
$18,540 / item
Gaia Coffee Table by Le Berre Vevaud
Located in Geneve, CH
Gaia Coffee Table by Le Berre Vevaud Dimensions: D 78 x H 34 cm. Materials: Top in Osso travertine; feet in New Ivory RAL 9001 lacquer. For over 15 years, Raphaël Le Berre and Thom...
Travertine
$22,099 / item
Alba Coffee Table by Le Berre Vevaud
Located in Geneve, CH
Alba Coffee Table by Le Berre Vevaud Dimensions: D 98 x H 39 cm. Materials: Top in Osso travertine; feet in New Ivory RAL 9001 lacquer. For over 15 years, Raphaël Le Berre and Thom...
Travertine
$3,347 / item
Edmondo Extralight Coffee Table by VUUN ITALIA
Located in Geneve, CH
Edmondo Extralight Coffee Table by VUUN ITALIA Dimensions: D 48 x W 63 x H 41 cm. Materials: Extralight glass. Available in different finishes. Please contact us. VUUN Italia crea...
Glass
Postmodern Glass Top and Chrome Geometric Coffee Table
Located in Astoria, NY
Postmodern Circular Glass Top and Chrome-Plated Coffee Table, the geometric base on four cobalt blue glass ball feet. 16" H x 41" Diameter. Provenance: From a Warren, New Jersey Co...
Chrome
Minimalist square ash wood coffee table, 1980s europe.
Located in Landgraaf, NL
Minimalist square ash wood coffee table, 1980s europe. Square coffee table with rounded edges and cylindrical legs. Crafted from a combination of solid and veneered ash wood. The tab...
Ash
$7,982 / item
Moja Coffee Table by Albert Potgieter Designs
Located in Geneve, CH
Moja coffee table by Albert Potgieter Designs Dimensions: L 120 x W 60x H 40 cm Materials: Mahogony wood Product is customizable “Look and Feel designs”, this is the Tagline ...
Wood
$3,090 / item
Redemption Coffee Table by Albert Potgieter Designs
Located in Geneve, CH
Redemption coffee table by Albert Potgieter Designs. Dimensions: L 120 x W 60x H 40 cm. Materials: oak wood. Product is customizable. “Look and Feel designs”, this is the Tag...
Oak
$27,038 / item
Terrific Palmeto Coffee Table by Valentina Giovando
Located in Geneve, CH
Terrific Palmeto Coffee Table by Valentina Giovando Dimensions: D 60 x H 65 cm. Materials: Wood, Brass, Fabric, Fiberglass. Valentina Giovando, Lives and works in Sarzana, in Ligu...
Brass
1980s Postmorden Chrome Mirrored Pyramid Coffee Table
By Massimo and Lella Vignelli
Located in Staten Island, NY
Postmorden Chrome Mirrored Pyramid coffee table, custom made in 1980. The original owner had this coffee table for over 40 years in her living room untouched.
Metal
$1,158 / item
Quarry Zebrano Wood Coffee Table by Andrea Giomi
Located in Geneve, CH
Quarry Zebrano Wood Coffee Table by Andrea Giomi Dimensions: D 37 x W 35 x H 31 cm Materials: Zebrano wood. Andrea Giomi was born in Castelfiorentino in the province of Florence in ...
Wood
$877 / item
Bended Black Glass Coffee Table, 2 Available
By FIAM
Located in Steenwijk, NL
This black glass coffee table is made out of 1 piece of curved glass. It has 4 aluminum ball shaped feet that can be taken of. The aluminum parts make these tables even more stylish ...
Glass
Philippe Starck "Pepper Young" Coffee Table
By Disform, Philippe Starck
Located in Chicago, IL
for Disform c. 1983, Spain. The four black supports feature rubber globes that gently cushion the glass - they can also be adjusted to fit any shape. This piece is in vintage conditi...
Metal
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.