$1,339 / item
Object 057 Console Table by NG Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Object 057 console table by NG Design. Dimensions: D 90x W 20 x H 90 cm. Materials: powder coated steel, marble Nero Marquina Also available: all of objects available in different ...
Marble, Steel
$752 / item
Object 036 Console Table by NG Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Object 036 console table by NG design. Dimensions: D 75 x W 20 x H 80 cm. Materials: powder coated steel. Also available: All of objects available in different materials and col...
Steel
$7,498 / item
Brass Sculptural Galaxy Console Table by Misaya
By Masaya
Located in Geneve, CH
Brass Sculptural Galaxy Console Table by Misaya Dimensions: W40 x D40 x H69 cm Materials: Brass Also available: different colors (gold, polished brass. black, painted brass) and mat...
Brass
$685 / item
Object 008 Console Table by NG Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Object 008 console table by NG Design. Dimensions: D90 x W30 x H50 cm. Materials: powder coated steel. Also available: All of objects available in different materials and colors on ...
Steel
$8,532 / item
Break Free Console Table by PANOPTIKUM COLLECTIONS
Located in Geneve, CH
Break Free Console Table by PANOPTIKUM COLLECTIONS Dimensions: D 45 x W 180 x H 65 cm. Materials: Solid wood, plywood, glass, veneer, and soft-touch painting. When looking at the co...
Wood, Plywood, Paint
$623 / item
Object 015 Console Table by NG Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Object 015 console table by NG Design Dimensions: D75 x W20 x H75 cm Materials: Powder coated steel. Also available: All of objects available in different materials and colors on de...
Steel
$9,896 / item
Obeisance Console Table by Henry D'ath
Located in Geneve, CH
Obeisance Console Table by Henry D'ath Dimensions: D 150 x W 45 x H 85 cm Materials: Wood. Available finishes: Natural, Translucent Gloss. Henry d’ath is a New Zealand-born, Hong ...
Wood
Vintage 1980s Postmodern Console Table Rounded Edge Hallway Table Caramel Grain
By Willy Rizzo
Located in Palm Desert, CA
This vintage 1980s Postmodern console table features a sculptural rounded edge profile and a golden caramel grain finish that enhances its architectural form and sleek linear design....
Wood
$5,559 / item
SSC103-1 Console Table by Stone Stackers
Located in Geneve, CH
SSC103-1 console table by Stone Stackers Limited edition of 5 products. Dimensions: W 92 x D 39 x H 81 cm. Materials: Patagonia and Marquina marbles. Marble Structure: Patagonia ...
Marble
Vintage Boho Postmodern Tessellated Bone Console Table
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Sculptural, sophisticated, and undeniably bold—this vintage postmodern console table is a striking blend of boho luxury and architectural design. Featuring a meticulously crafted tes...
Bone, Wood, Paint
$3,826 / item
Sculptural Bough Brass Console Table by Misaya
By Masaya
Located in Geneve, CH
Sculptural Bough Brass Console Table by Misaya Dimensions: W 45 x D 85 x H 70 cm Materials: Brass Also available: Different colors (gold, polished brass. black, painted brass) and m...
Brass
$685 / item
Object 007 Console Table by NG Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Object 007 Console Table by NG Design Dimensions: D100 x W40 x H40 cm Materials: Powder coated steel. Also Available: All of objects available in different materials and colors ...
Steel
$4,125 / item
Subtle Ecru Puzzle Console Table by Majbele
Located in Geneve, CH
Subtle Ecru Puzzle Console Table by Majbele Dimensions: D 36 x W 122 x H 90 cm. Materials: Stone veneer, oak veneer, MDF. The Puzzle collection is intriguing entertainment with unco...
Stone
$18,746 / item
Trigono Creme Console Table by Studio Anansi
Located in Geneve, CH
Trigono Creme Console Table by Studio Anansi Dimensions: D46 x W153 x H74 cm Materials: limestone Custom stones available.. Please contact us. Studio ANANSI, founded by Evan Jerry i...
Limestone
Postmodern Wood and Tubular Chrome Rectangular Console Table
Located in Keego Harbor, MI
A vintage wood and chrome console table. This simple, chic console features a tubular chrome frame with a rectangular wood table top. The light wood has a soft satin finish which com...
Chrome
$5,594 / item
Venice Mestre Console Table with Drawers by Morici
Located in Geneve, CH
Venice Mestre Console Table with Drawers by Morici Dimensions: W 113 x D 41 x H 73 cm. Drawers : 42×32.5 H6 covered in black alcantara. Materials: Wood, inlay veneer, black Alcantara...
Wood
$5,594 / item
Venice Sestiere Console Table with Drawers by Morici
Located in Geneve, CH
Venice Sestiere Console Table with Drawers by Morici Dimensions: W 113 x D 41 x H 73 cm. Drawers : 42×32.5 H6 covered in black alcantara. Materials: Wood, inlay veneer, black Alcanta...
Wood
Venice Cannaregio Console Table with Drawers by Morici
Located in Geneve, CH
Venice Cannaregio Console Table with Drawers by Morici Dimensions: W 113 x D 41 x H 73 cm. Drawers : 42×32.5 H6 covered in black alcantara. Materials: Wood, inlay veneer, black Alcan...
Wood
$5,594 / item
Venice Laguna Console Table with Drawers by Morici
Located in Geneve, CH
Venice Laguna Console Table with Drawers by Morici Dimensions: W 113 x D 41 x H 73 cm. Drawers : 42×32.5 H6 covered in black alcantara. Materials: Wood, inlay veneer, black Alcantara...
Wood
$7,756 / item
Jaguarcito Black Console Table by Andres Gutierrez
Located in Geneve, CH
Jaguarcito Black Console Table by Andres Gutierrez Dimensions: D 35 x W 120 x H 75 cm. Materials: Solid white oak with black lacquer finish. Also available in natural finish. Pl...
Oak
$14,996 / item
Stilts Console Table by The GoodMan Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Stilts Console Table by The GoodMan Studio Dimensions: W 36 x D 127 x H 84 cm Materials: Metal, Glass, Steel Kilncast and polished Glass and Steel Table base The Goodman Studio has...
Metal, Steel
$14,773 / item
Carved Stone Mendes Console Table by Studio Orth
Located in Geneve, CH
Carved Stone Mendes Console Table by Studio Orth Dimensions: W 180 x D 50 x H 80 cm Materials: Avalanche marble, Travertine, Soapstone, Branco Paraná marble, All Saints marble. Abou...
Stone
$23,470 / item
Epang 01 Console Table by Sing Chan
Located in Geneve, CH
Epang 01 console table by Sing Chan Dimensions: W 120 x D 39.5 x H 80 cm Materials: Manual sculpture, teak, black paint, waxing. Sing Chan ( Chinese: 陈星宇/Xingyu Chen), the founder ...
Paint, Teak
$8,685 / item
Orta Bridge Console Table by NITUSH AROOSH
Located in Geneve, CH
Orta Bridge Console Table by NITUSH AROOSH Dimensions: D 40 x W 135 x H 100 cm. Materials: Stainless steel and tinted glass. Available in different finishes. All our lamps can be w...
Stainless Steel
$4,266 / item
AL-02 Console Table by Orlando Pippig
Located in Geneve, CH
AL-02 Console Table by Orlando Pippig Dimensions: W 92 x D 31 x H 81 cm (Dimensions may vary slightly) Materials: Aluminum, White Oak AL-02 is the continued study into aluminum’s de...
Aluminum
Luigi Caccia Dominioni elegant console table model T10
By Luigi Caccia Dominioni
Located in Milano, IT
COD-Z20 Luigi Caccia Dominioni (1913-2016) Elegant console table model T10 with glass top and chromed metal band, metal legs. Azucena production, 1957 155x55xh72 cm
Metal
$32,320 / item
Piano Polished Bronze Console Table by Palena Furniture
Located in Geneve, CH
Piano Polished Bronze Console Table by Palena Furniture Dimensions: W 182.88 x D 45.72 x H 86.36 cm Materials: Polished Bronze, Black Lacquer Available in custom dimensions and mate...
Bronze, Other
$3,478 / item
Levia Signa Console Table by Atlas Project
Located in Geneve, CH
Levia Signa Console Table by Atlas Project Dimensions: D 40 x W 150 x H 80 cm. Materials: Black painted iron, Travertino marble, clear tempered glass, and fused bowl crystal. Le v...
Marble, Crystal, Iron
$28,606 / item
Doris Console Table by Fred and Juul
Located in Geneve, CH
Doris Console Table by Fred and Juul Dimensions: D 42 x W 162 x H 74 cm. Materials: Black patinated bronze and gold Calacatta marble. Custom sizes, materials or finishes are availab...
Marble, Bronze
$33,613 / item
Vena Patina Bronze Console Table by Palena Furniture
Located in Geneve, CH
Vena Patina Bronze Console Table by Palena Furniture Dimensions: W 190.5 x D 45.72 x H 86.36 cm Materials: Patina Bronze, American Walnut Available in custom dimensions and material...
Bronze, Other
Console, Table, Painted, Steel, Bronze, Lion, Sculpture
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
A painted steel, console table with a shaped frieze inspired by a 17th century, Flemish cabinet. Standing on turned legs joined by an ‘H’ stretcher with a bronze, sculpted lion on on...
Bronze, Steel
Labirinto Patina Bronze Console Table by Palena Furniture
Located in Geneve, CH
Labirinto Patina Bronze Console Table by Palena Furniture Dimensions: W 165.1 x D 35.56 x H 83.82 cm Materials: Patina Bronze, Black Lacquer Available in custom dimensions and mater...
Bronze, Other
$1,680 / item
Black Stained Oak Marius Console Table by HARTO
Located in Geneve, CH
Black Stained Oak Marius Console Table by HARTO Dimensions: W 100 x D 36.5 x H 90 cm. Materials: Solid Wood, MDF wood veneer. Weight: 20.0 kg The Marius console, with its drawer ...
Wood
$32,120 / item
Contourage Quartz Sand Console Table by Studio TOOJ
Located in Geneve, CH
Contourage Quartz Sand Console Table by Studio TOOJ Designed by Johan Wilén Dimensions: D 38 x W 140 x H 76 cm. Materials: Quartz sand. Also available in travertine. Please contact ...
Other
$32,120 / item
Contourage Quartz Sand Console Table by Studio TOOJ
Located in Geneve, CH
Contourage Quartz Sand Console Table by Studio TOOJ Designed by Johan Wilén Dimensions: D 38 x W 140 x H 76 cm. Materials: Quartz sand. Also available in travertine. Please contact ...
Other
$10,119 / item
Mangala Console Table in Natural Oak Veneer by Pendhapa
Located in Geneve, CH
Mangala Console Table in Natural Oak Veneer by Pendhapa. Dimensions: W 80 x D 38 x H 74 cm. Materials: natural oak veneer. This listing features our Mangala Console Table expertly c...
Oak
$36,587 / item
Asthila Console Table in Natural Oak Veneer by Pendhapa
Located in Geneve, CH
Asthila Console Table in Natural Oak Veneer by Pendhapa. Dimensions: W 190 x D 70 x H 90 cm. Materials: Natural Oak Veneer. This listing features our Asthila Console Table in natura...
Oak
$24,352 / item
Kupoli Console Table 16 by Cameron Design House
Located in Geneve, CH
Kupoli Console Table 16 by Cameron Design House Dimensions: D 35 x W 127 x H 75 cm. Materials: Steel, glass. Available in other dimensions. Available in paint or pigmented chrome fi...
Steel
Bernhart Flare Postmodern Parsons Upholstered Console/Sofa Table
By Bernhardt
Located in Charleston, SC
A fantastic fully upholstered waterfall console table that has the original fabric and has been hand cleaned and hand dyed to a really pretty blue… so it still maintains the original...
Upholstery, Wood
Medium Brushed Antique Brass Eran Console Table by Madheke
Located in Geneve, CH
Medium Brushed Antique Brass Eran Console Table by Madheke Dimensions: D 139.5 x W 30 x H 78 cm. Materials: Dual-blade top, Cast Brass with antique brushed finish. Finish options: Me...
Brass
$636Sale Price|20% Off
Postmodern Tempo Designs Extra Long Laminate Console Table
Located in Medina, OH
Postmodern Tempo Designs Extra Long Laminate Console Table. Unfortunately one side of the table has black imperfections due to movers not using a proper blanket.. The top and right s...
Laminate
Bamboo Console Table Red Formica Desk Postmodern, Italy
By Archizoom Associati, Andrea Branzi, Memphis Group
Located in Vienna, AT
Rare Red (oxblood red) Formica bamboo desk, Italy, circa 1985 Dimensions are: 55.12" x 29.92 x 15.74". A Postmodern desk or console table, perfect and stylish, comprised of for...
Bamboo, Formica
$5,947 / item
Sculptural Twin Fork Brass Console Table by Misaya
By Masaya
Located in Geneve, CH
Sculptural Twin Fork Brass Console Table by Misaya Dimensions: W 150 x D 37 x H 70 cm Materials: brass **TABLETOP NOT INCLUDED Also available in different colors (gold, polished bras...
Brass
Puzzle Console Table Travertino Noce by Madina Tsarikaeva
Located in Geneve, CH
Puzzle Console Table Travertino Noce by Madina Tsarikaeva Dimensions: W 130 x D 97 x H 42 cm. Materials: Travertine. Madina Tsarikaeva (1994) From early childhood, Madina began t...
Travertine
$22,883 / item
Puzzle Console Table Nero Marquina by Madina Tsarikaeva
Located in Geneve, CH
Puzzle Console Table Nero Marquina by Madina Tsarikaeva Dimensions: W 130 x D 97 x H 42 cm. Materials: Nero Marquina Marble. Madina Tsarikaeva (1994) From early childhood, Madina...
Marble
MB Console Table in Reclaimed Natural Stone by NERINEA
Located in Geneve, CH
MB Console Table in Reclaimed Natural Stone by NERINEA. Dimensions: W 150 x D 50 x H 90 cm. Materials: Reclaimed and assembled natural stone fragments (Jurassic Fossil, Marble, and o...
Stone
$1,315Sale Price|54% Off
Sculptural Console Table by Maker Magnussen, 1980s Tessellated Base
By Maitland Smith, Magnussen Furniture
Located in Chattanooga, TN
This vintage 1980s console table is a sculptural marvel—its elegantly curved base is composed of tessellated Mactan stone, a coral-derived material whose natural texture recalls ocea...
Stone
Contemporary Sculpted Matte Brass Console Table by Misaya
By Misaya
Located in Geneve, CH
Hand-sculpted brass console by Misaya Dimensions: 70 x 180 x 45 cm. Material: Hand-sculpted brass Sold without the glass top. Available in different brass finishes
Brass
Postmodern Faux Marble Lacquered Console Table Circa 1970s
Located in Peabody, MA
A dazzling 1970s postmodern console in lavender lacquer with hand finished faux marbling.
Wood
$1,280Sale Price|20% Off
Postmodern Waterfall Console Table, Light Pink & Purple, 1980s
By Karl Springer
Located in Charleston, SC
One of a kind light pink and purple console table. Custom made for original owners in the early 1980’s. Springer style. Formica over solid wood. Please visit my shop for the matc...
Formica, Wood
$16,078 / item
And So I Stand Console Table by Claste
Located in Geneve, CH
And So I stand console table by Claste Dimensions: D 45.7 x W 91.4 x H 76.2 cm Material: Marble Weight: 186 kg Since 2017 Quinlan Osborne has cultivated an aesthetic in his wor...
Marble
$6,722 / item
Twin No. 2 Console Table in Jesmonite by Perler
Located in Geneve, CH
Twin No. 2 Console Table in Jesmonite by Perler. Dimensions: W 130 x D 40 x H 90 cm. Materials: Jesmonite. Color: A subtle shade of warm white/ivory with ceramic inlays in olive gre...
Other
$6,722 / item
Twin No. 1 Console Table in Jesmonite by Perler
Located in Geneve, CH
Twin No. 1 Console Table in Jesmonite by Perler. Dimensions: W 130 x D 40 x H 90 cm. Materials: Jesmonite. Color: A subtle shade of warm white/ivory with ceramic inlays in olive gre...
Other
Okumé Plywood Versilia Console Table by Dainelli Studio Atelier
Located in Geneve, CH
Okumé Plywood Versilia Console Table by Dainelli Studio Atelier Dimensions: W 180 x D 35 x H 65 cm Materials: Okumé plywood, Glossy natural Padouk veneer. Console with a base and t...
Plywood
$18,746 / item
Trigono Dark Grey Console Table by Studio Anansi
Located in Geneve, CH
Trigono Dark Grey Console Table by Studio Anansi Dimensions: D46 x W153 x H74 cm Materials: limestone Custom stones available.. Please contact us. Studio ANANSI, founded by Evan Jer...
Limestone
Postmodern Kaizo Oto For DIA Glass Top Console Table
By Design Institute America
Located in Chicago, IL
Modern Kaizo Oto for Design Institute America Glass Top Console Table Modern, multi-metal architectural console table with glass top by DIA. This "Memphis" inspired piece uses brass...
Brass
Lipsticks Console Table in Powder-Coated Aluminum by altreforme
Located in Geneve, CH
Lipsticks Console Table in Powder-Coated Aluminum by altreforme Dimensions: D 35 x W 131 x H 100 cm. Materials: Powder-coated aluminum. Pop and glamour console that honours the symb...
Aluminum, Other
$19,157 / item
To Float from Grace Console Table by Claste
Located in Geneve, CH
To Float From Grace Console Table by Claste Dimensions: D 40.6 x W 137.2 x H 76.2 cm Material: Marble, Glass Weight: 125 kg Since 2017 Quinlan Osborne has cultivated an aesthet...
Marble
$23,270 / item
Source Console Table No.1 by a Space
Located in Geneve, CH
The Source console table No.1 by A Space Dimensions: D125 x W80 x H25cm Materials: Pink tuff. Weight: 350 kg Inspired by antiquity, material, craftsmanship and architecture of ...
Other
$23,270 / item
Source Console Table No.3 by A Space
Located in Geneve, CH
The source console table No.3 by A Space Dimensions: D 140 x W 80 x H 25cm Materials: Black tuff. Weight: 275 kg Inspired by antiquity, material, craftsmanship and architecture...
Other
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.