A 1970s, lacquered wood, mirrored glass and brass, Italian console table
By Memphis Milano
Located in Oxford, GB
This is a unique piece of furniture designed in the late 1970s for a boutique in Milan . Exeptional quality, the legs are turned wood , lacquered in an eau de nil colour and capped ...
Brass
Tessellated Fossil Stone Console or Altar Table in the Manner of Mailtand Smith
By Karl Springer, Maitland Smith
Located in Peabody, MA
A post modern console of tessellated fossil stone with brass accents, in the manner of Karl Springer or Mailtand Smith, ca. 1980s.
Stone, Brass
$18,173 / item
Monolith Console by Atelier Dutré
Located in Geneve, CH
Monolith Console by Atelier Dutré Dimensions: W 150 × D 40 × H 82 cm Materials: Black Smoke Soapstone The Monolith Console is defined by a balance between weight and openness. A car...
Soapstone
Postmodern Wall-Mounted Entryway Mirror and Console Table with Glass Top
Located in Bresso, Lombardy
Made in Italy, 1980s. This mirror features a multi-layered beech back, a varnished metal frame, a crystal top and a multi-color serigraphed mirror. It might show slight traces of use...
Crystal, Metal
Karl Springer Style Grasscloth Console and Pair Side Tables for Ernest C. Masi
By Ernest C. Masi
Located in Chicago, IL
Vintage Postmodern Karl Springer Style Grasscloth Wrapped Waterfall Console with Side Chests for Ernest Massi - 3 Piece Set This exquisite three-piece set features a vintage postmo...
Grasscloth
Postmodern Pale Pink Formica and Brass Console Table with Wall Mirror, Italy
Located in Bresso, Lombardy
Made in Italy, 1970s - 1980s. This set is made in formica and brass. They might show slight traces of use since they are vintage, but they can be considered as in very good original ...
Brass
Ares Console Table in Black Patinated Cast Bronze & Marble by OZA Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Ares Console Table in Black Patinated Cast Bronze & Marble by OZA Design Dimensions: D 43 x W 183 x H 75 cm. Materials: Cast bronze and marble. Available in different marble option...
Marble, Bronze
Jacques Terracotta Red Bird's Eye Maple Console Table by Fred and Juul
Located in Geneve, CH
Jacques Terracotta Red Bird's Eye Maple Console Table by Fred and Juul Dimensions: D 40 x W 160 x H 80 cm. Materials: bird's eye maple veneer on MDF. Available in different color op...
Other
Jacques Apricot Orange Bird's Eye Maple Console Table by Fred and Juul
Located in Geneve, CH
Jacques Apricot Orange Bird's Eye Maple Console Table by Fred and Juul Dimensions: D 40 x W 160 x H 80 cm. Materials: Bird's eye maple veneer on MDF. Available in different color op...
Other
Jacques Pine Green Bird's Eye Maple Console Table by Fred and Juul
Located in Geneve, CH
Jacques Pine Green Bird's Eye Maple Console Table by Fred and Juul Dimensions: D 40 x W 160 x H 80 cm. Materials: Bird's eye maple veneer on MDF. Available in different color option...
Other
$8,213 / item
Geometry Console by DUISTT
Located in Geneve, CH
Geometry Console by DUISTT Dimensions: W 140 x D 40 x H 78 cm Materials: White Ebony Marquetry Top, Black Lacquered and Brass The geometry console uses the traditional marquetry te...
Brass
Mixed Metals and Glass Console Table by Design Institute of America
By Kaizo Oto, Design Institute America
Located in Palm Springs, CA
A beautiful sculptural Memphis style console table designed in the 1980s by Design Institute of America. The table has been newly restored and new 3/4 inch thick glass top. Dimension...
Brass, Steel, Stainless Steel, Chrome
$2,938 / item
Form Console by DAaZ
Located in Geneve, CH
Form Console by DAaZ Dimensions: D 47 x W 220 x H 76 cm. Materials: Ash wood, glass fiber reinforced polymer. DAaZ Furniture honors the spirit of adventure. We embrace the escape o...
Fiberglass, Wood
$11,706 / item
Ipanema Console by DUISTT
Located in Geneve, CH
Ipanema Console by DUISTT Dimensions: W 130 x D 40 x H 87 cm Materials: High Gloss Lacquered Wood with Ombre effect, Light Bronze details Ipanema console is designed for contempora...
Bronze
$25,312 / item
Shān Console by Serafini
Located in Geneve, CH
Shān console by Serafini Designed by Nicolò Corradi Dimensions: D 35 x W 120 x H 82 cm Materials: Rosso Alicante marble. Available in other marbles. Prices may vary according to the ...
Marble
Ventura Console Table in Natural Oak Wood & Oak Plywood by Joyful Objects Yes!
Located in Geneve, CH
Ventura Console Table in Natural Oak Wood & Oak Plywood by Joyful Objects Yes! Dimensions: D 40 x W 150 x H 80 cm. Materials: Oak wood and oak plywood. Joyful Objects, Yes! is a Mex...
Oak, Plywood
Minerva Console Table in Satin Dalmata Marble, Horn & Satin Metal in by Arcahorn
Located in Geneve, CH
Minerva Console Table in Satin Dalmata Marble, Horn & Satin Metal by Arcahorn Dimensions: D 45 x W 165 x H 88 cm. Materials: Marble, horn, and satin metal. In 1958, Mario Guerra, a ...
Marble, Metal, Other
$5,617 / item
Anna Console by DUISTT
Located in Geneve, CH
Anna Console by DUISTT Dimensions: W 130 x D 55 x H 77 cm Materials: Black Limed Oak, Satin Black Lacquered Wood and Brass Anna is an elegant console, crafted with great attention ...
Brass
$4,000 / item
Nenzima Console by TheUrbanative
Located in Geneve, CH
Nenzima console by TheUrbanative Dimensions: W 150 x D 65 x H 80 cm Material: Powdercoated steel frame top with solid Ash, Timber inserts & a handwoven telephone wire disc detail. ...
Steel
$19,943 / item
Libellule Console by Studio Caramel
Located in Geneve, CH
Libellule Console by Studio Caramel Dimensions: W 55 x D 160 x H 75 cm. Materials: Natural walnut, steel, hammered steel. Studio Caramel is a contemporary furniture design studio co...
Steel
$2,242 / item
Trestle Console by Mingardo
Located in Geneve, CH
Trestle console by Mingardo Dimensions: D96 x W32 x H80 cm Materials: natural or wengè oak wood structure. Satin natural brass/copper rods top. Weight: 13 kg Also available in...
Brass, Copper
$14,125 / item
Undum Console by HADGE
By Hadge
Located in Geneve, CH
Undum Console by HADGE Dimensions: D 40 x W 150 x H 80 cm. Materials: Chrome deepbrown I red, steel. Also available in different materials. Custom dimensions are possible. A cohes...
Chrome, Steel
$6,289 / item
Elephant Console by Mingardo
Located in Geneve, CH
Elephant console by Mingardo Dimensions: D140 x W40 x H85 cm. Materials: RAL 9005 black varnished iron structure, top in marble (black marquina and pink granite), brass details. W...
Granite, Marble, Brass, Iron
Postmodern Oval Wall-Mounted Entryway Mirror and Console Table with Glass Top
Located in Bresso, Lombardy
Made in Italy, 1980s. This mirror features a multi-layered beech back, a varnished metal frame, a crystal top and a multi-color serigraphed mirror. It might show slight traces of use...
Crystal, Metal
$5,900 / item
Vintage Postmodern Pedestal Burlwood Console 1980s
By Maitland Smith, Paul Evans, Steve Chase, Marge Carson, Karl Springer
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Vintage 1980s Postmodern bullnose console table featuring a warm caramel-toned veneer with richly figured movement reminiscent of burl wood. The sculptural bullnose edges and clean a...
Wood, Burl
$4,750Sale Price|50% Off
Dakota Jackson "Cuba" Console
By Dakota Jackson
Located in Hanover, MA
***SUMMER SALE*** Cuba console table by Dakota Jackson, circa 1989. Four bronze cap mounts on polished mahogany cylindrical legs. Ebonized ashwood super structure. Curved front top ...
Bronze
$15,057 / item
Aya Console by Theurbanative
Located in Geneve, CH
Aya console by TheUrbanative Dimensions: 170 x 50 x H 85 cm Material: The console comprises a steel structure, with a handcrafted ostrich eggshell top by Avoova and brass plate det...
Brass, Steel
Gabetti & Isola Console Table in Black Lacquered Metal and Granite by Arbo 1970s
By Arbo, Roberto Gabetti and Aimaro Isola
Located in Cascina, Pisa
Console table with a base in black lacquered metal and an ovoidal table top in granite, originally designed by Aimaro Oreglia d'Isola and Roberto Gabetti for the residential center T...
Granite, Metal
$3,186 / item
Truss Console S by Goons
Located in Geneve, CH
Truss Console S by Goons Dimensions: W 58 x D 21 x H 70 cm Materials: Birch plywood. Butterscotch finish. Dimensions can be adjusted +/- 10 cm Goons is located in Paris, France. Al...
Wood
$5,511 / item
Truss Console L by Goons
Located in Geneve, CH
Truss Console L by Goons Dimensions: W 91 x D 30 x H 102 cm Materials: Birch plywood. Oak finish. Dimensions can be adjusted +/- 10 cm Goons is located in Paris, France. All of the...
Wood
$8,130 / item
Butterscotch Foundation Console by Goons
Located in Geneve, CH
Foundation console by Goons Dimensions: W 174 x D 35 x H 120 cm Materials: Birch plywood. Butterscotch finish. Dimensions can be adjusted +/- 10 cm Goons is located in Paris, Franc...
Wood
Marble Glass and Brass Artedi Console Table Ca. 1980's Made in Italy
By Artedi
Located in New York, NY
Chic Artedi console table, in very clean, original ready to use condition. The base is a rectangular marble, with two horizontal brass supports and an unusual plate glass oval top. T...
Marble, Brass
Lucite and Horsehide Console Desk
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Absolutely unique post-modern console with a striking horsehide covering, leather & brass accents, and a crystal lucite shelf.
Animal Skin, Hide, Leather, Lucite
$18,232 / item
Sinestesia Console by De Castelli
Located in Geneve, CH
Sinestesia Console by De Castelli Dimensions: W 115 x D 35 x H 92 cm Materials: DeErosion Brass Stainless Steel and Copper versions are also available. Please contact us for any requ...
Brass
$16,592 / item
Convivium Console by De Castelli
Located in Geneve, CH
Convivium Console by De Castelli Dimensions: W 140 x D 43 x H 85 cm Materials: DeErosion Brass Other versions are available. Please contact us for any requests. Inspired by the tabl...
Brass
$6,301 / item
Dolmen Console by Ginger & Jagger
Located in Geneve, CH
Dolmen Console by Ginger & Jagger Dimensions: D 50 x W 160 x H 87 cm. Materials: Lacquer. Finish: Lacquered in Miosotis, in gloss finishing. This product is suitable for custom...
Lacquer
$6,301 / item
Dolmen Console by Ginger & Jagger
Located in Geneve, CH
Dolmen Console by Ginger & Jagger Dimensions: D 50 x W 160 x H 87 cm. Materials: Lacquer. Finish: Lacquered in Stone, in gloss finishing. This product is suitable for custom si...
Lacquer
$6,301 / item
Dolmen Console by Ginger & Jagger
Located in Geneve, CH
Dolmen Console by Ginger & Jagger Dimensions: D 50 x W 160 x H 87 cm. Materials: Lacquer. Finish: Lacquered in Lavender, in gloss finishing. This product is suitable for custom...
Lacquer
$12,414 / item
Dolmen Console by Ginger & Jagger
Located in Geneve, CH
Dolmen Console by Ginger & Jagger Dimensions: D 50 x W 160 x H 87 cm. Materials: Negro Marquina marble. Finish: Negro Marquina marble in honed finishing. This product is suitab...
Marble
$50,885 / item
T-02 Console by Serafini
Located in Geneve, CH
T-02 console by Serafini Designed by Hervé Langlais Dimensions: D 35 x W 90 x H 83 cm Materials: Marble. Available in other marbles. Prices may vary according to the marble selection...
Marble
$10,113 / item
Dolmen Console by Studio Gameiro
Located in Geneve, CH
Dolmen Console by Studio Gameiro Dimensions: D 35 x W 110 x H 90 cm. Materials: Hand-hammered Blue Irish stone. Studio Gameiro is an innovative, multidisciplinary, and design-focuse...
Stone
$2,454 / item
Vintage Medium Console by Pastform
Located in Geneve, CH
Vintage Medium Console by Pastform Dimensions: D 31 x W 120 x H 85 cm. Materials: Stained and varnished wood. Available in different wood color finishes and combinations. Available ...
Wood
$31,154 / item
Twist Console by Pol Quadens
Located in Geneve, CH
Twist Console by Pol Quadens Limited Edition Of 8+4 Pieces. Dimensions: D 40 x W 200 x H 95/130 cm. Materials: Polished stainless steel. Pol Quadens was born in Brussels. His fathe...
Stainless Steel
Postmodern Waterfall Console, 1980s, USA
Located in Las Vegas, NV
Custom postmodern waterfall console table in mauve laminate. Good condition with minor scratches and scuffing.
Laminate, Wood
$19,318 / item
Folio Console by De Castelli
Located in Geneve, CH
Folio Console by De Castelli Dimensions: W 160 x D 45 x H 90 cm Materials: DeMarea Brass Stainless Steel and Copper versions are also available. Please contact us for any request. A...
Brass
$18,598 / item
Fossil Console by Ginger & Jagger
Located in Geneve, CH
Fossil Console by Ginger & Jagger Dimensions: D 50 x W 161 x H 81 cm. Materials: Estremoz Rose stone and brass. Finish: Body in Estremoz Rose stone; metal in Brass in Brushed fi...
Stone, Brass
$18,598 / item
Fossil Console by Ginger & Jagger
Located in Geneve, CH
Fossil Console by Ginger & Jagger Dimensions: D 50 x W 161 x H 81 cm. Materials: Travertine and brass. Finish: Body in Romano Travertine in natural finishing; metal in Brass in ...
Travertine, Brass
$12,756 / item
Halo Console by Ginger & Jagger
Located in Geneve, CH
Halo Console by Ginger & Jagger Dimensions: D 38 x W 140 x H 84 cm. Materials: Acrilyc and brass. Finish: Top in Crystal Acrylic; base in Round Bar Harvest Hammered Brass. This...
Brass
$15,754 / item
Primitive Console by Ginger & Jagger
Located in Geneve, CH
Primitive Console by Ginger & Jagger Dimensions: D 50 x W 180 x H 81 cm. Materials: Romano Travertine stone and brass. Finish: Top and base in Romano Travertine stone in natural...
Travertine, Brass
$15,754 / item
Primitive Console by Ginger & Jagger
Located in Geneve, CH
Primitive Console by Ginger & Jagger Dimensions: D 50 x W 180 x H 81 cm. Materials: Guatemala Green marble and brass. Finish: Top and base in Guatemala Green marble in polished ...
Marble, Brass
$10,981 / item
Console 018 by Jesper Eriksson
Located in Geneve, CH
Console 018 by Jesper Eriksson Dimensions: D 42.9 x W 27.9 x H 76.1 cm Materials: anthracite coal, wood frame Weight: 60 kg Jesper Eriksson (b.1990, Paris) is an artist & desi...
Other
$35,992 / item
Fold Verde Alpi Console by Etamorph
Located in Geneve, CH
Fold Verde Alpi Console by Etamorph Dimensions: W 120 x D 35 x H 80 cm. Materials: Verde Alpi and Tinted artistic glass. Carved from a block of natural stone and manually honed. Di...
Stone
$19,211 / item
Jumbo Rosso Levanto Console by Etamorph
Located in Geneve, CH
Jumbo Rosso Levanto Console by Etamorph Dimensions: W 140 x D 35 x H 80 cm. Materials: Verde Alpi and Tinted artistic glass. Base carved from a block of natural stone and manually h...
Stone
Attila Console by Jean-Michel Wilmotte
By Jean-Michel Wilmotte
Located in PARIS, FR
Jean-Michel Wilmotte Attila Console Table, Ca. 1983 Edition Academy, Paris, France Rusted steel, Balmoral granite Numbered 5/100 With its neoclassical structure inspired by the gat...
Granite, Steel
$10,514 / item
Existence Console by De Castelli
Located in Geneve, CH
Existence Console by De Castelli Dimensions: W 124 x D 37 x H 41 cm Materials: Orbitale DeLabré Brass Stainless Steel and Copper versions are available. Please contact us for any req...
Brass
$23,365 / item
Mistral Console by Studio Bazazo
Located in Geneve, CH
Mistral Console by Studio Bazazo Dimensions: D 65 x W 180 x H 100 cm. Materials: Travertino Rosso and stainless steel. Light as a breeze with the force to shape landscapes, the “Mi...
Travertine, Stainless Steel
Console - ‘Archh’ Model by Charles Tassin
By Charles Tassin
Located in NEUILLY-SUR-SEINE, FR
Charles Tassin (born in 1959) & Maylis Tassin (born in 1970) Console - ‘Archh’ Model Patinated wood May Edition Model created in 2020 H 84 × W 195 × D 40 cm Maylis and Charles Tassi...
Wood
$15,116 / item
Folio Console by De Castelli
Located in Geneve, CH
Folio Console by De Castelli Dimensions: W 160 x D 45 x H 90 cm Materials: DeMarea Stainless Steel Brass and Copper versions are also available. Please contact us for any request. A...
Stainless Steel
$15,754 / item
Primitive Console by Ginger & Jagger
Located in Geneve, CH
Primitive Console by Ginger & Jagger Dimensions: D 50 x W 180 x H 81 cm. Materials: Carrara marble and brass. Finish: Top and base in Carrara marble in polished finishing; struc...
Carrara Marble, Brass
$20,250 / item
Cliff Console by Ginger & Jagger
Located in Geneve, CH
Cliff Console by Ginger & Jagger Dimensions: D 51 x W 183 x H 87 cm. Materials: Stainless steel and lacquer. Finish: Top lacquered in Night Jungle in gloss; base in stainless st...
Stainless Steel
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.