$6,061 / item
M Console Table by Goons
Located in Geneve, CH
M console table by Goons. Dimensions: W 122 x D 270 x H 74 cm. Materials: Wood. Dimensions can be adjusted +/- 10 cm. Goons is located in Paris, France. All of their designs...
Wood
$10,137 / item
TC Console Table 1 by Studio ThusThat
Located in Geneve, CH
TC Console table 1 by Studio ThusThat Unique piece. Dimensions: 105cm x 110cm x 47cm Materials: Hand-formed slag geopolymer, hammered copper, brass fitting. Studio ThusThat is ...
Brass, Copper
Postmodern Clear Acrylic Console Table in Karl Springer Style
By Karl Springer
Located in Astoria, NY
Postmodern Clear Acrylic Console Table, in the Karl Springer manner, with horizontally stacked and conjoined block base and associated beveled top. 29.75" H x 26" W x 19" D. Prove...
Acrylic
$2,295 / item
Organic Modern Catus Console Yellow Sand
By Mambo Unlimited Ideas
Located in Lisbon, PT
Catus console is unique in its conception with Organic Modern inspiration. Natural Stone is unrepeatable in its individuality, this way each Catus table is unique featuring the marbl...
Travertine, Marble
$17,545 / item
Gol. 001 Marble Console Table by Chapter Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Gol. 001 Marble console table by Chapter Studio Dimensions: H 86 x W 40 x D 150 Material: marble (beige travertine, rosa levanto) Effortless composition and eccentric design bri...
Marble
Okumé Plywood Isola Console Table by Dainelli Studio Atelier
Located in Geneve, CH
Okumé Plywood Isola Console Table by Dainelli Studio Atelier Dimensions: W 240 x D 45 x H 74 cm Materials: Okumé plywood, natural Elm veneer. Console with an Okumé plywood structure...
Plywood
$17,545 / item
Gol. 001 Marble Table Console by Chapter Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Gol. 001 marble table by Chapter Studio Dimensions: H 86 x W 40 x D 150 Material: marble (beige travertine, noce travertine) Effortless composition and eccentric design bring fo...
Marble
$16,245 / item
Gol. 002 Marble Console Table by Chapter Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Gol. 002 marble table by Chapter Studio Dimensions: H 86 x W 40 x D 160 Material: marble (bianco carrara, black marquina) Effortless composition and eccentric design bring forth...
Marble
$16,245 / item
Gol. 002 Marble Console Table by Chapter Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Gol. 002 marble table by Chapter Studio Dimensions: H 86 x W 40 x D 160 Material: marble (beige travertine, rosa levanto) Effortless composition and eccentric design bring forth...
Marble
$17,545 / item
Gol. 001 Marble Console Table by Chapter Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Gol. 001 marble table by Chapter Studio Dimensions: H 86 x W 40 x D 150 Material: marble (bianco carrara, black marquina) Effortless composition and eccentric design bring forth...
Marble
$17,545 / item
Gol. 001 Marble Console Table by Chapter Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Gol. 001 marble table by Chapter Studio Dimensions: H 86 x W 40 x D 150 Material: marble (beige travertine, dark emperador) Effortless composition and eccentric design bring for...
Marble
$16,245 / item
Gol. 002 Marble Console Table by Chapter Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Gol. 002 marble console table by Chapter Studio Dimensions: H 86 x W 40 x D 160 Material: marble (beige travertine, dark emperador) Effortless composition and eccentric design bring...
Travertine, Marble
Beige Tree Small Console Table by Elisabeth Hertzfeld
Located in Geneve, CH
Beige tree small console table by Elisabeth Hertzfeld. Materials: fenix laminate, metal. Dimensions: D 40 x W 130 x H 81 cm. The founders, Mia and Torben Koed, decided to put th...
Metal
Verde Comodoro Tree Console Table by Elisabeth Hertzfeld
Located in Geneve, CH
Verde Comodoro Tree Console Table by Elisabeth Hertzfeld Materials: Fenix Laminate, Metal Dimensions: D 40 x W 130 x H 96 cm Also available in different sizes. Please contact us...
Metal
Natural Padouk Wood Sahara Console Table by Dainelli Studio Atelier
Located in Geneve, CH
Natural Padouk Wood Sahara Console Table by Dainelli Studio Atelier Dimensions: W 180 x D 40 x H 75 cm Materials: Okumé plywood, natural Padouk wood. Console with Okumé plywood stru...
Plywood
$2,736 / item
Organic Modern Catus Console in green marble
By Mambo Unlimited Ideas
Located in Lisbon, PT
Catus console is unique in its conception with Organic Modern inspiration. Natural Stone is unrepeatable in its individuality, this way each Catus table is unique featuring the marbl...
Travertine, Marble
$2,491 / item
Organic Modern Catus Console in Terrazzo beige
By Mambo Unlimited Ideas
Located in Lisbon, PT
Catus console is unique in its conception with Organic Modern inspiration. Natural Stone is unrepeatable in its individuality, this way each Catus table is unique featuring the marbl...
Travertine, Marble
$15,595 / item
Calcatta Viola Cut and Fold Console Table by dAM Atelier
By dAM Atelier
Located in Geneve, CH
Calcatta viola cut and fold console table by dAM Atelier Dimensions: W 150 x D 42 x H 80 cm Materials: Calacatta viola marble. dAM atelier is a duo of young Italian architects...
Marble
$2,547 / item
Arte Console Table by Jean-Baptiste Van den Heede
Located in Geneve, CH
Arte console table by Jean-Baptiste Van den Heede Signed and Numbered Unique Piece Dimensions: L 87 x D 20 x H 84 cm Materials: Solid Oak Wood Design tables from the ARTE colle...
Oak
$2,468 / item
Organic Modern Catus Console in Travertine Marble
By Mambo Unlimited Ideas
Located in Lisbon, PT
Catus console is unique in its conception with Organic Modern inspiration. Natural Stone is unrepeatable in its individuality, this way each Catus table is unique featuring the marbl...
Travertine, Marble
$5,718 / item
Console Side Table by Konstantin Achkov
Located in Geneve, CH
Console Side Table by Konstantin Achkov Limited Edition Dimensions: D 45 x W 38 x H 45 cm. Materials: American walnut wood, epoxy resin, and stainless steel. Konstantin Achkov is a ...
Stainless Steel
Calligraphic Sculpted Console Table in Black Painted Brass by Misaya
By Misaya
Located in Geneve, CH
Calligraphic Sculpted Console Table in Black Painted Brass by Misaya Dimensions: W 137 x L 39 x H 75 cm Materials: Brass Hand-sculpted brass console. Available in different brass fi...
Brass
Black Tree Small Console Table with Shelf by Elisabeth Hertzfeld
Located in Geneve, CH
Black tree small console table with shelf by Elisabeth Hertzfeld. Materials: fenix laminate, metal. Dimensions: D 40 x W 130 x H 81 cm. The founders, Mia and Torben Koed, decide...
Metal
Convertible Grassclosth Console/Dining Table, 1970
Located in Chicago, IL
Convertible Grassclosth Console/Dining Table, 1970. Converts to dining table. Restored
Grasscloth
Mariù Console Table in Powder-Coated Aluminum by altreforme
Located in Geneve, CH
Mariù Console Table in Powder-Coated Aluminum by altreforme Dimensions: D 80 x W 298,6 x H 105 cm. Materials: Powder-coated aluminum. Available in different colors options. Please ...
Aluminum
$7,100 / item
Raw Console Table by Atelier V&F
Located in Geneve, CH
Raw Console Table by Atelier V&F Limited Edition Of 10+2AP Pieces. Dimensions: D 45 x W 120 x H 79 cm. Materials: Goatskin offcuts Inspired by the earth goddess Gaia,「Revelation of ...
Goatskin
$7,100 / item
Raw Console Table by Atelier V&F
Located in Geneve, CH
Raw Console Table by Atelier V&F Limited Edition Of 10+2AP Pieces. Dimensions: D 45 x W 120 x H 79 cm. Materials: Goatskin offcuts Inspired by the earth goddess Gaia,「Revelation of ...
Goatskin
$1,240 / item
Metropolis Console by Mati Sipiora
Located in Geneve, CH
Metropolis Console by Mati Sipiora Dimensions: D 42 x W 94 x H 90 cm Materials: Steel. Finish: Glossy Powder Coating Paint. Weight: 16 KG Max Capacity: 9 KG Metropolis ia a steel ...
Steel
$3,255Sale Price|30% Off
Vintage Italian Regency Travertine Stone Brass & Glass Console Hall Sofa Table
Located in Dayton, OH
A stately Italian Regency Console or Sofa Table, circa 1980s. Features a beveled glass top with canted corners supported by a robust frame made from four faceted travertine stone co...
Travertine, Brass
$8,577 / item
Console Coffee Table by Konstantin Achkov
Located in Geneve, CH
Console Coffee Table by Konstantin Achkov Limited Edition Dimensions: D 90 x W 39 x H 38 cm. Materials: Oak wood, epoxy resin, and stainless steel. Konstantin Achkov is a leading Bu...
Stainless Steel
$26,465 / item
Axis Console II by Dovain Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Axis Console II by Dovain Studio Dimensions: H 85 x W 40 cm Materials: Estremoz White Marble, Eco leather Dovain Studio Creative direction by Sergio Prieto, a Spanish artist-de...
Marble
$13,492 / item
Axis Console I by Dovain Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Axis console I by Dovain Studio Dimensions: H 79 x W 40 cm Materials: Estremoz white marble, Eco leather Dovain Studio Creative direction by Sergio Prieto, a Spanish artist-des...
Marble
Italian Modern Table By Skitsch, Milan
Located in Houston, TX
Italian Modern Table By Skitsch, Milan. Offered is a stunning Italian post modern dining table, console table or center table with scrolled ends.
Metal
$12,736 / item
Kupoli Console Table 9 by Cameron Design House
Located in Geneve, CH
Kupoli Console Table 9 by Cameron Design House Dimensions: D 90 x H 70 cm. Materials: Steel, glass. Available in other dimensions. Available in paint or pigmented chrome finishes. P...
Steel
Postmodern Sofa or Console Table with Mirror Top & Black Lacquered Pedestal Base
Located in Topeka, KS
Magnificent vintage Postmodern sofa or console table comprised of a black lacquered pedestal base with beveled edges & gold base trim and a rounded rectangular shaped top with gold t...
Composition
$18,845 / item
Super White Marble Console Table π 03 by Atelier Dutré
Located in Geneve, CH
Super White Marble Console Table π 03 by Atelier Dutré Dimensions: 119.38 L x 39.37 W x 78.74 H cm Materials: Super White Marble Atelier Dutré operates at the intersection of desig...
Marble
Olympia Rectangular Top 100 Muted Beige Travertine Console Table by Beije Avenue
Located in Geneve, CH
Olympia Rectangular Top 100 Muted Beige Travertine Console Table by Beije Avenue Dimensions: D 100 x W 130 x H 75 cm. Materials: Travertine. Available in different size options. Pl...
Travertine
Vintage Pencil Reed Console Entry Table in Style of Karl Springer
By Karl Springer
Located in Elkton, MD
1980s vintage pencil reed entry or sofa table in the style of Karl Springer.
Reed
Stone International Italian Travertine Marble Coffee, Console, Side Tables, Trio
By Stone International
Located in Philadelphia, PA
An amazing set of filled and polished tops, travertine-marble tables, with natural and porous travertine edging. The simplicity of the design and surface treatments is what makes thi...
Travertine, Marble
A RADICAL & POSTMODERN Lucite CONSOLE, France 1970
Located in PARIS, FR
A rigorous rectangular console, Post-Modernist, Space-Age, Seventies, Shabby-Chic, geometric structure solidified by a low shelf both aesthetic and constructive, in very thick strips...
Lucite
$4,253Sale Price / set|20% Off
Govert Heikoop, minimal Art, De Stijl, Coffee/Side tables, vase & console.
By Govert Heikoop
Located in CASTENRAY, NL
Furniture set by Artist Govert Heikoop (1951-2007) What shall we call it Post modern, Abstract, Minimalist, Memphis Style, De Stijl.
Plywood, Paint
Contemporary Sculpted Stainless Steel Console with Natural Stones by Lee Sisan
Located in Geneve, CH
Proportions of stone console by Lee Sisan Dimensions: : 180 x 50 x 80 cm Materials: stainless steel, natural stone Each piece is made to order and uses natural stones, so please...
Stone, Steel
Pair of Wall-Mounted Brass and Murano Glass Console Tables / Nightstands, Italy
Located in Bresso, Lombardy
Made in Italy, 1980s. These wall-mounted console tables / nightstands feature a brass frame and a yellow polychromed Murano glass top with a marble effect. They might show slight t...
Brass
Mid-Century Post Modern Large Wall Mirror or Console Table Shelf by Jay Spectre
By Jay Spectre
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A large, rare and impressive wall mirror designed by Jay Spectre in the 1980's. It consists of a faux marble finish on wood with a very large round mirror. Frame could easily be pain...
Mirror, Wood
A postmodern matching console vanity and mirror, circa 1980
Located in View Park, CA
A striking and very unique matching set including a Demi-lune console and eye-shaped mirror with colorful postmodern motif, circa 1980. Each piece is lacquered wood, and the mirror i...
Wood, Lacquer
Black Solid Wood And Colored Mineral Lime Plaster Console by Dennis Kaiser
Located in Geneve, CH
Sabbia Nero Solid Wood And Colored Mineral Lime Plaster Console by Dennis Kaiser Dimensions: D 30 x W 200 x H 85 cm. Materials: Solid wood and plaster. Handcrafted in Tuscany, Italy...
Plaster, Wood
Sabbia Solid Wood And Soft Beige Mineral Lime Plaster Console by Dennis Kaiser
Located in Geneve, CH
Sabbia Solid Wood And Colored Mineral Lime Plaster Console by Dennis Kaiser Dimensions: D 30 x W 200 x H 85 cm. Materials: Solid wood and plaster. Handcrafted in Tuscany, Italy. Cus...
Plaster, Wood
Medium Eternal Graphite W(hole) Console Desk by Majbele
Located in Geneve, CH
Medium Eternal Graphite W(hole) Console Desk by Majbele Dimensions: D 60 x W 120 x H 76 cm. Materials: MDF 20 mm. The W(hole) collection is a playful game of forms and openwork, com...
Wood
Small Eternal Graphite W(hole) Console Desk by Majbele
Located in Geneve, CH
Small Eternal Graphite W(hole) Console Desk by Majbele Dimensions: D 50 x W 100 x H 76 cm. Materials: MDF 20 mm. The W(hole) collection is a playful game of forms and openwork, comb...
Wood
Large Eternal Graphite W(hole) Console Desk by Majbele
Located in Geneve, CH
Large Eternal Graphite W(hole) Console Desk by Majbele Dimensions: D 60 x W 160 x H 76 cm. Materials: MDF 20 mm. The W(hole) collection is a playful game of forms and openwork, comb...
Wood
$4,537 / item
Large Subtle Ecru W(hole) Console Desk by Majbele
Located in Geneve, CH
Large Subtle Ecru W(hole) Console Desk by Majbele Dimensions: D 60 x W 160 x H 76 cm. Materials: MDF 20 mm. The W(hole) collection is a playful game of forms and openwork, combining...
Wood
$3,887 / item
Medium Subtle Ecru W(hole) Console Desk by Majbele
Located in Geneve, CH
Medium Subtle Ecru W(hole) Console Desk by Majbele Dimensions: D 60 x W 120 x H 76 cm. Materials: MDF 20 mm. The W(hole) collection is a playful game of forms and openwork, combinin...
Wood
$3,107 / item
Small Subtle Ecru W(hole) Console Desk by Majbele
Located in Geneve, CH
Small Subtle Ecru W(hole) Console Desk by Majbele Dimensions: D 50 x W 100 x H 76 cm. Materials: MDF 20 mm. The W(hole) collection is a playful game of forms and openwork, combining...
Wood
$9,558 / item
Vertigo Console Table by Memoir Essence
Located in Geneve, CH
Vertigo Console Table by Memoir Essence Dimensions: D 50 x W 150 x H 90 cm. Materials: Brushed brass and lacquer. Vertigo console presents a combination of a strong and geometric pa...
Brass
$10,940 / item
Vertigo Royal Ebony Console Table by Memoir Essence
Located in Geneve, CH
Vertigo Royal Ebony Console Table by Memoir Essence Dimensions: D 50 x W 150 x H 90 cm. Materials: Brushed brass and Royal ebony. Vertigo royal ebony console presents a combination ...
Brass
Sign Console Table in Stone Textured Lacquered MDF by Hermhaus
Located in Geneve, CH
Sign Console Table in Stone Textured Lacquered MDF by Hermhaus Dimensions: D 215 x W 40 x H 55 cm Materials: MDF product with wood veneer Sign is a low-profile console designed to h...
Medium Density Fibreboard (MDF)
Taylor Console Table with 6 Drawers Left / Right by Domkapa
Located in Geneve, CH
Taylor Console table with 6 drawers left / right by Domkapa. Dimensions: W 150 x D 50 x H 85 cm. Materials: Moka lacquered matte, microfiber (Tarn 05). Also available in different...
Natural Fiber, Lacquer
Wendon Console Table in Gypsum & Fiberglass by Brent Warr Studios
By Brent Warr
Located in Bainbridge, GA
The Wendon Console Table is both functional and decorative, thanks to its solid yet harmonious silhouette and use of natural materials. Perfect for an entryway or dining room, Handcr...
Epoxy Resin, Fiberglass, Plaster, Hardwood, Paint
Ardea Console Table in Makkasar Ebony Veneer, Horn & Burnished Brass by Arcahorn
Located in Geneve, CH
Ardea Console Table in Makkasar Ebony Veneer, Horn & Burnished Brass by Arcahorn Dimensions: D 48 x W 200 x H 80 cm. Materials: Makassar ebony veneer with gloss finish, horn, and bur...
Brass, Other
Italian Plaster Foot With Sandal
Located in Houston, TX
Our beautiful academic plaster foot sculpture would look excellent in a Contemporary, Mid Century, Hollywood Regency, Post Modern or Neoclassical interior. Great console table, coffe...
Plaster
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.
Few pieces of furniture are celebrated for their functionality as much as their decorative attributes in the way that console tables are. While these furnishings are not as common in today’s interiors as their coffee-table and side-table counterparts, console tables are stylish home accents and have become more prevalent over the years.
The popularity of wood console tables took shape during the 17th and 18th centuries in French and Italian culture, and were exclusively featured in the palatial homes of the upper class. The era’s outwardly sculptural examples of these small structures were paired with mirrors or matching stools and had tabletops of marble. They were most often half-moon-shaped and stood on two scrolled giltwood legs, and because they weren’t wholly supported on their two legs rather than the traditional four, their flat-backed supports were intended to hug the wall behind them and were commonly joined by an ornate stretcher. The legs were affixed or bolted to the wall with architectural brackets called console brackets — hence, the name we know them by today — which gave the impression that they were freestanding furnishings. While console tables introduced a dose of drama in the foyer of any given aristocrat — an embodiment of Rococo-style furniture — the table actually occupied minimal floor space (an attractive feature in home furniture). As demand grew and console tables made their way to other countries, they gained recognition as versatile additions to any home.
Contemporary console tables comprise many different materials and are characterized today by varying shapes and design styles. It is typical to find them made of marble, walnut or oak and metal. While modern console tables commonly feature four legs, you can still find the two-legged variety, which is ideal for nestling behind the sofa. A narrow console table is a practical option if you need to save space — having outgrown their origins as purely ornamental, today’s console tables are home to treasured decorative objects, help fill empty foyers and, outfitted with drawers or a shelf, can provide a modest amount of storage as needed.
The rich collection of antique, new and vintage console tables on 1stDibs includes everything from 19th-century gems designed in the Empire style to unique rattan pieces and more.