$28,084 / item
T2 Coffee Table by John Eric Byers
By John Eric Byers
Located in Geneve, CH
T2 coffee table by John Eric Byers Dimensions: 35.5 x 155 x 55.9 cm Materials: carved blackened Maple All works are individually handmade to order. John Eric Byers creates ge...
Maple
$12,753 / item
X Décima Coffee Table by Joel Escalona
By Joel Escalona
Located in Geneve, CH
X Décima coffee table by Joel Escalona Dimensions: D 150 x W 95 x H 35 cm Materials: oak wood. Table made of white oak with a burnt finish and wood cover. Joel Escalona He w...
Oak
$9,434 / item
Collected Memory Coffee Table 3 by Claste
Located in Geneve, CH
Collected Memory Coffee Table 2 by Claste Dimensions: D 43.2 x W 45.7 x H 30.5 cm. Material: Marble Weight: 27.3 kg Since 2017 Quinlan Osborne has cultivated an aesthetic in h...
Marble
$20,575 / item
Lean on Me Coffee Table by Claste
Located in Geneve, CH
Two sides of solitude coffee table by Claste Dimensions: D 99 x W 99 x H 30.5 cm Material: Marble Weight: 131 kg Also vailable in two standard sizes. Since 2017 Quinlan Osborn...
Marble
$2,042 / item
Noche Pigalle Coffee Table M by SNOC
Located in Geneve, CH
Noche Pigalle Coffee Table M by SNOC Dimensions: W 90 x D 90 x H 29 cm. Materials: Teak Wood, Ceramic. Pigalle Collection highlights the feeling of lightness and solidity with its...
Ceramic, Teak
$1,311 / item
Noche Pigalle Coffee Table S by SNOC
Located in Geneve, CH
Noche Pigalle Coffee Table S by SNOC Dimensions: W 55 x D 55 x H 37 cm. Materials: Teak Wood, Ceramic. Pigalle Collection highlights the feeling of lightness and solidity with its...
Ceramic, Teak
$1,996 / item
Concentric Gold Isola 800 Coffee Table by Disain1971
Located in Geneve, CH
Concentric Gold Isola 800 Coffee Table by Disain1971 Dimensions: D 80 x H 30 cm Materials: gold, bronze, black / oro, bronzo, nero. Weight: 9 kg. Code: DT1056 Round coffee tables ...
Bronze
Bronze Crocodile Fungo 900 Coffee Table by Disain1971
Located in Geneve, CH
Bronze Crocodile Fungo 900 Coffee Table by Disain1971 Dimensions: D 90 x H 36 cm Materials: black, bronze / nero, bronzo. Weight: 19 kg. Code: DT1074 Round coffee tables decorated...
Bronze
$3,261 / item
Stone Bronze Fungo 900 Coffee Table by Disain1971
Located in Geneve, CH
Stone Bronze Fungo 900 Coffee Table by Disain1971 Dimensions: D 90 x H 64 cm Materials: bronze, bronze, cast concrete base. Weight: 39 kg. Code: DT1076 Round coffee tables decorat...
Bronze
Flowery Black Esagono Hexagonal Coffee Table by Disain1971
Located in Geneve, CH
Flowery Black Esagono Hexagonal Coffee Table by Disain1971 Dimensions: D 48 x H 40 cm Materials: black, black / nero, nero. Weight: 5 kg. Code: DT1032 Hexagonal coffee tables deco...
Other
Gold Leaf Esagono Hexagonal Coffee Table by Disain1971
Located in Geneve, CH
Gold Leaf Esagono Hexagonal Coffee Table by Disain1971 Dimensions: D 48 x H 40 cm Materials: black, gold / nero, oro. Weight: 5 kg. Code: DT1036 Hexagonal coffee tables decorated ...
Gold
$21,190 / item
Surprised by Joy Coffee Table by Claste
Located in Geneve, CH
Surpriced by Joy coffee table by Claste Dimensions: D 137.2 x W 91.5 x H 38 cm Material: Marble Weight: 330 kg Also vailable in two standard sizes. This all marble table offs...
Marble
$42,126 / item
Foliage Bronze Coffee Table by Marsica Fossati
Located in Geneve, CH
Foliage Bronze Coffee Table by Marsica Fossati Dimensions: D 75 x W 75 x H 35 cm. Materials: Bronze. Crafted with exquisite detail and precision, this table is shaped in the form of...
Bronze
$35,534 / item
Metamorphic Square Coffee Table by Alexander Lotersztain
Located in Geneve, CH
Metamorphic Square Coffee Table by Alexander Lotersztain Limited Edition. Dimensions: D 110 x W 110 x H 20 cm. Materials: Grigio Carnico Marble, Red Pilbara Marble, Verdi Alpi Marble...
Marble
$16,084 / item
Rose Gea Coffee Table by Martina Guandalini
Located in Geneve, CH
Rose Gea Coffee Table by Martina Guandalini Dimensions: W 60 x D 40 x H 40 cm. Materials: Scagliola and polished pink resin. Custom colors and size available, please contact us. Ma...
Resin, Scagliola
$16,293 / item
Collected Memory Coffee Table 2 by Claste
Located in Geneve, CH
Collected memory coffee table 2 by Claste Dimensions: D 50.8 x W 96.5 x H 30.5 cm. Material: Cararra Gioa (white), Rainbow Mist, Emperador Grey, Emperador Brown, Verdi Alpi, Nero ...
Marble
$19,066 / item
Collected Memory Coffee Table 1 by Claste
Located in Geneve, CH
Collected memory coffee table 1 by Claste Dimensions: D 68.5 x W 111.8 x H 30.5 cm. Material: Cararra Gioa (white), Rainbow Mist, Emperador Grey, Emperador Brown, Verdi Alpi, Nero...
Marble
$8,227 / item
Studio Coffee Table by Studio Uwe Gaertner
Located in Geneve, CH
Studio Coffee Table by Studio Uwe Gaertner Dimensions: Ø 80 x H 30 cm. Materials: Oak. DESIGN BY STUDIO UWE GAERTNER The furniture collection from Studio Uwe Gaertner is a harmonio...
Oak
Stone Bronze Monolite 75150 Coffee Table by Disain1971
Located in Geneve, CH
Stone Bronze Monolite 75150 Coffee Table by Disain1971 Dimensions: W 150 x D 75 x H 23 cm Materials: Bronze / Bronzo. Weight: 19 kg. Code: DT1027 Rectangular coffee tables decorate...
Bronze
Bronze Coccodrillo Cesto 600 Coffee Table by Disain1971
Located in Geneve, CH
Bronze Coccodrillo Cesto 600 Coffee Table by Disain1971 Dimensions: D 60 x H 42 cm Materials: bronze, gold / bronzo, oro. Weight: 13 kg. Code: DT1041 Round coffee tables with a to...
Bronze
Bronze Coccodrillo Cesto 900 Coffee Table by Disain1971
Located in Geneve, CH
Bronze Coccodrillo Cesto 900 Coffee Table by Disain1971 Dimensions: D 90 x H 37 cm Materials: bronze, gold / bronzo, oro. Weight: 19 kg. Code: DT1041 Round coffee tables with a to...
Bronze
1970s Parsons Style Chrome & Solid Travertine Coffee Table
By Willy Rizzo, Karl Springer, Heinz Lilienthal
Located in Bensalem, PA
Amazing designer coffee table in solid travertine over a thick chrome base the top is 1” thick and can be lifted out please look at pictures for overall detail feel free to reach out...
Travertine, Chrome
$1,787 / item
Object 078 Coffee Table by NG Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Object 078 Coffee Table by NG Design Dimensions: W 101 x D 59 x H 36 cm Materials: Powder-Coated Steel, Solid Oak Also Available: All of objects available in different materials and...
Steel
$1,787 / item
Object 078 Coffee Table by NG Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Object 078 Coffee Table by NG Design Dimensions: W 101 x D 59 x H 36 cm Materials: Powder-Coated Steel, Solid Oak Also Available: All of objects available in different materials and...
Steel
1970s French Stone and Wood Coffee Table
Located in Toronto, CA
An interesting coffee table that showcases contrast of material and shape. High polish striped wood legs stand up to a neutral honed stone top. French, 1970s.
Stone
$7,148 / item
Mitosis Coffee Table, Cast brass by ORFEO STUDIO
Located in Geneve, CH
Mitosis Coffee Table, Cast brass by ORFEO STUDIO Dimensions: W 100 x D 45 x H 30 cm. Material: Cast brass Finish: Hellenic finish Weight: 25 kg. About ORFEO STUDIO is an Italian de...
Brass
Sharpened Titanium Edition Coffee Table by ORFEO STUDIO
Located in Geneve, CH
Sharpened Titanium Edition Coffee Table by ORFEO STUDIO Dimensions: W 67 x D 67 x H 46 cm. Material: Natural Grade 2 Titanium. Finish: Natural titanium finish. Weight: 20 kg. About...
Steel
$2,158 / item
Stone Bronze Roma 700 Coffee Table by Disain1971
Located in Geneve, CH
Stone Bronze Roma 700 Coffee Table by Disain1971 Dimensions: D 80 x H 30 cm Materials: black, dark brown / dark brown, nero. Weight: 9 kg. Code: DT1064 Round coffee table with a l...
Bronze
$40,443 / item
Doughnut Walnut Coffee Table by Studio TOOJ
Located in Geneve, CH
Doughnut Walnut Coffee Table by Studio TOOJ Designed by Johan Wilén Dimensions: D 140 x H 35 cm. Materials: Walnut wood, bronze glass. A true testament to the designer’s signature s...
Walnut, Glass
$11,233 / item
Element Diabase Coffee Table by Idaaf Architects
Located in Geneve, CH
Element Diabase Coffee Table by Idaaf Architects Dimensions: W 125 x D 85 x H 35 cm Materials: Diabase ‘Element’, which combines furniture of different functions, was created under ...
Other
$13,786 / item
Choppy Waters Coffee Table by Temper Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Choppy Watters Coffee Table by Temper Studio Dimensions: D 120 x W 120 x H 40 cm. Materials: Wood. A beautifully detailed, ebonised, and sumptuously carved coffee table etched with ...
Wood
Louis Durot Tongue Coffee Table in Jet Black
By Louis Durot
Located in Culver City, CA
The coffee table, aptly titled the tongue table, looks just like a tongue.
Lacquer
$4,224 / item
Large Trasiego Coffee Table by Sebastián Ángeles
Located in Geneve, CH
Large Trasiego coffee table by Arturo Verástegui Dimensions: D 150 x W 66 x H 42 cm Materials: oak wood. White oak with burnt finish table. Sebastián Angeles is an Industrial...
Oak
Verde Alpi Marble Pedestal Coffee Table, Italy, 1980s
Located in Winston-Salem, NC
This vintage coffee table is pure drama — cut from Verde Alpi, a marble quarried in Italy's Aosta Valley— prized for its deep, forest-green color and the dramatic white veining that...
Marble
$13,659 / item
Kaïros Ash Coffee Table by Atelier Blouberg
Located in Geneve, CH
Kaïros Ash Coffee Table by Atelier Blouberg Unique Piece. Dimensions: D 51 x W 185 x H 30 cm. Materials: Ash. Available in ash and oak. Please contact us. Ruben Van Lerberghe is a ...
Ash
$3,063 / item
Cosmos Green Coffee Table by Studio Monsoleil
Located in Geneve, CH
Cosmos Green 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 tra...
Glass
$7,914 / item
Into The Inferno Coffee Table by Odditi
Located in Geneve, CH
Into The Inferno Coffee Table by Odditi Unique and Numbered Dimensions: W 145 x D 90 x H 38 cm Materials: Petrified Wood, Volcanic Stone Composite 'Into The Inferno' is a sculptural...
Other
20th Century French Postmodern Curved Glass Coffee Table
Located in High Point, NC
This 20th Century French postmodern curved glass coffee table showcases a bold, sculptural simplicity emblematic of late-century design. Formed from a single sheet of thick, bent gla...
Glass
$835 / item
Object 038 Coffee Table by NG Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Object 038 coffee table by NG Design Dimensions: D90 x W54 x H34 cm Materials: Powder coated steel,Tempered Glass Also Available: All of objects available in different materials...
Steel
$650 / item
Italian Coffee Tables in Granite and Brass
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Coffee tables, granite, brass, black lacquered steel, Italy, 1980s These Italian side tables showcase a rectangular brown granite tabletop with a striking, vivid surface. The granit...
Granite, Brass, Steel
$15,956 / item
Trigono Creme Coffee Table by Studio Anansi
Located in Geneve, CH
Trigono Creme Coffee Table by Studio Anansi Dimensions: D122 x W122 x H38 cm Materials: limestone Custom stones available. Please contact us. Studio ANANSI, founded by Evan Jerry in...
Limestone
$11,233 / item
Onyx Coffee Table by OS and OOS
By Oskar Peet and Sophie Mensen
Located in Geneve, CH
Onyx coffee table by OS and OOS Dimensions: 55 x 47 x 40 cm Materials: Onyx and Verde Patrizia The table might be slightly different from the images as each table is unique and de...
Onyx
$11,442 / item
Onyx Coffee Table by Os and Oos
By Oskar Peet and Sophie Mensen
Located in Geneve, CH
Onyx coffee table by OS And OOS Dimensions: 55 x 45 x 40 cm Materials: onyx and green marble The table might be slightly different from the images as each table is unique and depe...
Onyx
Vintage italian marble and glass coffee table, 1970s
Located in Leuven, Vlaams Gewest
Timeless stepped marble base coffee table supporting a clear glass top. Beautifully veined marble bases. 1970s - Italy Good condition with normal age related wear. Dimensions: He...
Marble
$2,912 / item
Big Tripod Coffee Table by Dzovag Kotchian
Located in Geneve, CH
Big Tripod Coffee Table by Dzovag Kotchian Dimensions: W 60 x D 60 x H 38 cm Materials: Stabilized Raw Clay, Metal, Glass. Dzovag Kotchian's work develops through theoretical reflec...
Metal
$2,146 / item
Small Tripod Coffee Table by Dzovag Kotchian
Located in Geneve, CH
Small Tripod Coffee Table by Dzovag Kotchian Dimensions: W 40 x D 40 x H 52 cm Materials: Stabilized Raw Clay, Metal, Glass. Dzovag Kotchian's work develops through theoretical refl...
Metal
$14,297 / item
Sally Coffee Table by Fred and Juul
Located in Geneve, CH
Sally Coffee Table by Fred and Juul Dimensions: D 122 x W 122 x H 40 cm. Materials: Oak. Fred&Juul, short for Federico Minarelli and Julie Janssen, are two architects who decided to...
Oak
Cipollino Ondulato Marble Oval Coffee Table, Italy, 1980s
Located in Winston-Salem, NC
Carved from a dramatic slab of green Cipollino Ondulato marble, this vintage coffee table is defined by sweeping bands of emerald, blush, and ivory that ripple across the full length...
Marble
$9,133 / item
Limestone Neave Coffee Table by Nish Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Limestone Neave Coffee Table by Nish Studio Dimensions: W 41.8 x D87.4 x H 34.6 cm. Materials: Limestone N I S H is a Cape Town based Fashion and Furniture design studio. N I S H cr...
Limestone
$46,234 / item
Arc Coffee Table by Kris Lamba Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Arc Coffee Table by Kris Lamba Studio Dimensions: W 130 x D 90 x H 50 cm Materials: Polished and weathered copper. Weight: 60 Kg. Kris Lamba was born in London in 1984. He creates l...
Copper
$31,913 / item
Radice Goatskin Coffee Table by Palena Furniture
Located in Geneve, CH
Radice Goatskin Coffee Table by Palena Furniture Dimensions: W 119.38 x D 101.6 x H 36.83 cm Materials: Goatskin, Patina Bronze, Polished Bronze, Black Lacquer Available in custom d...
Bronze, Other
$37,774 / item
Rift Wood Coffee Table by Andy Kerstens
Located in Geneve, CH
Rift wood coffee table by Andy Kerstens Dimensions: 160 x 82 x 28 cm Materials: Walnut Handmade in Belgium Available in Solid Larch, Oak and Walnut and various sizes. The de...
Walnut
$26,041 / item
Giulia Coffee Table by Le Berre Vevaud
Located in Geneve, CH
Giulia Coffee Table by Le Berre Vevaud Dimensions: D 98 x H 39 cm. Materials: Plateau travertin Walnut, piètement laque ivoire RAL 9001. For over 15 years, Raphaël Le Berre and Tho...
Travertine
Travertine coffee table by Ballez Willy, 1970s
Located in Brussels, BE
Coffee table with a architectural travertine base designed by the belgian designer Willy Ballez in the 70'. The travertine base is in great condition. The glass top has a chip on t...
Travertine
Willy Rizzo 'TRG' Circular Yellow Coffee Table
By Willy Rizzo
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Willy Rizzo, TRG (Tavolo Rotondo Girevole) coffee table, lacquered wood, stainless steel, design 1969 The TRG (Tavolo Rotondo Girevole), designed by Willy Rizzo in 1969, is a master...
Stainless Steel
$8,355 / item
Nysa L Marble Coffee Table by Lorenzo Zaccarin
Located in Geneve, CH
Nysa L Marble Coffee Table by Lorenzo Zaccarin Dimensions: W 120 x D 60 x H 23 cm Materials: Bianco Michelangelo and Nero Marquinia marble. Also available in other colors, please co...
Marble
$6,463 / item
Nysa M Marble Coffee Table by Lorenzo Zaccarin
Located in Geneve, CH
Nysa M Marble Coffee Table by Lorenzo Zaccarin Dimensions: D 70 x H 33 cm Materials: Bianco Michelangelo and Nero Marquinia marble. Also available in other colors, please contact us...
Marble
$5,837 / item
Nysa S Marble Coffee Table by Lorenzo Zaccarin
Located in Geneve, CH
Nysa S Marble Coffee Table by Lorenzo Zaccarin Dimensions: D 50 x H 43 cm Materials: Bianco Michelangelo and Nero Marquinia marble. Also available in other colors, please contact us...
Marble
$4,630 / item
Uma Round 90 Coffee Table by Purho
Located in Geneve, CH
Uma round 90 coffee table by Purho Dimensions: D90 x H30 cm Materials: Resin, fabric upholstered legs. Available in other colors. UMA Round 90 is a low table from the collectio...
Fabric, Resin
$3,643 / item
Uma Round 50 Coffee Table by Purho
Located in Geneve, CH
Uma round 50 coffee table by Purho. Dimensions: D50 x H45 cm. Materials: Resin, fabric upholstered legs. Available in other colors. UMA Round 50 is the smallest low table from ...
Fabric, Resin
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.