$16,709 / item
Loop Console by Tuğçe Geyik
Located in Geneve, CH
Loop Console by Tuğçe Geyik Dimensions: D 45 x W 180 x H 80 cm. Materials: Stainless steel and wood. Available in custom sizing and finishes. Please contact us. Tuğçe Geyik is an a...
Stainless Steel
$21,771 / item
Loop Console by Tuğçe Geyik
Located in Geneve, CH
Loop Console by Tuğçe Geyik Dimensions: D 45 x W 180 x H 80 cm. Materials: Stainless steel and wood. Available in custom sizing and finishes. Please contact us. Tuğçe Geyik is an a...
Stainless Steel
JMF Style Blackened Iron Console
By JMF
Located in North Miami, FL
49 inch Long classic JMF style heavy iron console table. Showing Industrial metal signs and spots with matte dark wax finish. Not a perfect consistent finish which is how it was crea...
Iron
$33,100 / item
Bellissimo Console in Travertine by Pietro Franceschini
By Pietro Franceschini
Located in Geneve, CH
Bellissimo Console in Travertine by Pietro Franceschini. Dimensions: W 200 x D 40 x H 80 cm. Materials: Travertine. This listing features the Bellissimo Console in its travertine ve...
Travertine
$12,850 / item
Hope Console by Olexandr Pinchuk
Located in Geneve, CH
Hope Console by Olexandr Pinchuk Dimensions: D 30 x W 87 x H 160 cm. Materials: Glass, wood. Olexandr Pinchuk (Ukraine, 1986) Master of Laws, studied at the International Law Insti...
Glass, Wood
$15,706 / item
Time Console by Olexandr Pinchuk
Located in Geneve, CH
Time Console by Olexandr Pinchuk Dimensions: D 32.5 x W 85 x H 82 cm. Materials: Glass, iron. Olexandr Pinchuk (Ukraine, 1986) Master of Laws, studied at the International Law Inst...
Iron
$7,788 / item
Moored Console by Rosanna Ceravolo
Located in Geneve, CH
Moored console by Rosanna Ceravolo Dimensions: W 180 x D 42 x H 140 cm Materials: Powdercoated metal with brass detailing. Also available in different colors. Rosanna Ceravol...
Metal, Brass
$24,558 / item
Raffaello Console by Studio 2046
Located in Geneve, CH
Raffaello console by Daniele Daminelli (Italy, 2021) Capsule Collection Reinassance. Dimensions: 40 x 40 x 90 cm Materials: carved wood and satin steel structure. Blades and m...
Wood
$29,984 / item
Geode Console by Ginger & Jagger
Located in Geneve, CH
Geode Console by Ginger & Jagger Dimensions: D 50 x W 150 x H 80 cm. Materials: Marble, travertine, wood veneer, and brass. Finish: Wood veneer elements in Amara Ebony in polish...
Travertine, Marble, Brass
$1,970 / item
Bridge Walnut Console by Morica Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Bridge Walnut Console by Morica Design Dimensions: D 45 x W 120 x H 75 cm. Materials: Canaletto walnut, Dark Burnished metal. Available in Canaletto Walnut, Laguna Oak, or Oak wood....
Metal
$5,251 / item
Famed Modular Console by Lagu
Located in Geneve, CH
Famed modular console by Lagu Designed by Ufuk Ceylan Dimensions: W 84 x D 45 x H 90 cm Materials: Brass, marble, oak, wood. Offering the most elegant combination of first grad...
Marble, Brass
$24,662 / item
Handmade Marble Console by Krzywda
Located in Geneve, CH
Handmade marble console by Krzywda. Dimensions: 130 L x 40 D x 76 H cm. Materials: Brass, marble, oak. Individually handmade in France by Krzywda. Each marble base is sculpted b...
Marble, Brass
Bo Boolo console by Philippe Starck
By Philippe Starck
Located in PARIS, FR
Philippe Starck (b. 1949) Console Bo Boolo, Ca. 1995 Mahogany-stained beech structure, birch trunk, brass plaque numbered 00123 screwed onto the trunk. According to our research a...
Brass
$32,911 / item
Pewter Console by Gentner Design
By Christopher Gentner
Located in Geneve, CH
Pewter console by Gentner Design Dimensions: D 137 x W 43 x H 84 cm Materials: pewter on steel. The Pewter Collection is a family of furniture pieces defined by their materiality an...
Steel, Pewter
$6,549 / item
Bridge Console by Twenty Second Factory
Located in Geneve, CH
Bridge Console by Twenty Second Factory Dimensions: D 25 x W 150 x H 88 cm Materials: Ash. The "Bridge" Console is a piece of furniture meticulously crafted from exquisite ash wood....
Ash
Washington Console by Jean-Michel Wilmotte
By Jean-Michel Wilmotte
Located in PARIS, FR
Jean-Michel Wilmotte (b. 1948) Washington Console, Ca. 1985 Edition Academy, Paris, France Satin black lacquered steel, original granite top Academy written in pencil under the top (...
Granite, Steel
$12,532 / item
Element Terraonyx Console by Idaaf Architects
Located in Geneve, CH
Element Terraonyx Console by Idaaf Architects Dimensions: W 145 x D 45 x H 100 cm Materials: Terraonyx The console is one of the items from the 'Element' collection, which combines ...
Other
$7,375 / item
Element Limestone Console by Idaaf Architects
Located in Geneve, CH
Element Limestone Console by Idaaf Architects Dimensions: W 145 x D 45 x H 100 cm Materials: Limestone The console is one of the items from the 'Element' collection, which combines ...
Limestone
$43,484 / item
Credenza Console by Studio Boheme
Located in Geneve, CH
Credenza console by Studio Boheme Gardenia collection Dimensions: W 238.7, D 44.9, H 71.4 cm Materials: Birch plywood Knobs: Black powder/brushed brass Standoffs: Black powder/...
Brass
$20,768 / item
Copper Blade Console by Pol Quadens
Located in Geneve, CH
Copper Blade Console by Pol Quadens Limited Edition Of 8+4 Pieces. Dimensions: D 30 x W 210 x H 95 cm. Materials: Polished red copper. Pol Quadens was born in Brussels. His father ...
Copper
1984 Robert Venturi & Denise Scott Brown for Knoll Console Table in Maple
By Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, Knoll
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This is a Post-Modern Rectangular Console Table in Birdseye Maple Plywood, designed by Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi for Knoll in 1984.
Steel
$20,438 / item
Gravity Marble Console by Ginger & Jagger
Located in Geneve, CH
Gravity Marble Console by Ginger & Jagger Dimensions: D 50 x W 150 x H 85 cm. Materials: Carrara marble. Finish: Carrara marble in honed finishing. This product is suitable for...
Marble
$31,353 / item
Geode Metal Console by Ginger & Jagger
Located in Geneve, CH
Geode Metal Console by Ginger & Jagger Dimensions: D 50 x W 150 x H 80 cm. Materials: Nickel. Finish: Nickel. This product is suitable for custom size. This product is made for...
Nickel
$27,707 / item
Geode Marble Console by Ginger & Jagger
Located in Geneve, CH
Geode Marble Console by Ginger & Jagger Dimensions: D 50 x W 150 x H 80 cm. Materials: Romano Travertine. Finish: Romano Travertine in natural finishing. This product is suitab...
Travertine
$31,353 / item
Geode Metal Console by Ginger & Jagger
Located in Geneve, CH
Geode Metal Console by Ginger & Jagger Dimensions: D 50 x W 150 x H 80 cm. Materials: Brushed Brass. Finish: Brushed Brass. This product is suitable for custom size. This produ...
Brass
$20,025 / item
Fossil Metal Console by Ginger & Jagger
Located in Geneve, CH
Fossil Metal Console by Ginger & Jagger Dimensions: D 50 x W 161 x H 81 cm. Materials: Brass. Finish: Brass in brushed finishing. This product is suitable for custom size. This...
Brass
$10,584 / item
Gravity Lacquer Console by Ginger & Jagger
Located in Geneve, CH
Gravity Lacquer Console by Ginger & Jagger Dimensions: D 50 x W 150 x H 85 cm. Materials: Lacquer. Finish: Lacquered in Coral, in matt finishing. This product is suitable for c...
Lacquer
$10,761 / item
Column Lacquer Console by Tuğçe Geyik
Located in Geneve, CH
Column Lacquer Console by Tuğçe Geyik Dimensions: D 45 x W 180 x H 88 cm. Materials: Lacquer. Tuğçe Geyik is an architect and designer based in Istanbul. She studied at Yildiz Tech...
Lacquer
$15,600 / item
Geode Wood Console by Ginger & Jagger
Located in Geneve, CH
Geode Wood Console by Ginger & Jagger Dimensions: D 50 x W 150 x H 80 cm. Materials: American Walnut. Finish: American Walnut wood veneer with matt finishing. This product is s...
Walnut
$7,446 / item
Fossil Lacquer Console by Ginger & Jagger
Located in Geneve, CH
Fossil Lacquer Console by Ginger & Jagger Dimensions: D 50 x W 161 x H 81 cm. Materials: Lacquer. Finish: Lacquered in Green Moss with matt finishing. This product is suitable ...
Lacquer
$15,871 / item
Wood Vanity Console by Amura Lab
Located in Geneve, CH
Wood Vanity Console by Amura Lab Dimensions: W 125 x D 44 x H 75 cm Materials: TOP+BASE: wood HANDLE: metal sheet. Amura Lab: In their gaze, they carry the strong and poignant beaut...
Metal
$13,304 / item
Brut Console by Buket Hoşcan Bazman
By Buket Hoscan Bazman
Located in Geneve, CH
Brut console by Buket Hos¸can Bazman Dimensions: D 135 x W 34 x H 90 cm Material: unfilled travertine & patinated brass Available in custom sizing. Color variations on request. E...
Travertine, Brass
$15,576 / item
White Blade Console by Pol Quadens
Located in Geneve, CH
White Blade Console by Pol Quadens Limited Edition Of 8+4 Pieces. Dimensions: D 30 x W 210 x H 95 cm. Materials: stainless steel lacquered in glossy white. Pol Quadens was born in ...
Stainless Steel
$12,980 / item
Satinated Blade Console by Pol Quadens
Located in Geneve, CH
Satinated Blade Console by Pol Quadens Limited Edition Of 8+4 Pieces. Dimensions: D 30 x W 210 x H 95 cm. Materials: Satinated stainless steel. Pol Quadens was born in Brussels. Hi...
Stainless Steel
$19,801 / item
Cactus 180 Console by Ginger & Jagger
Located in Geneve, CH
Cactus 180 Console by Ginger & Jagger Dimensions: D 50 x W 180 x H 83 cm. Materials: Carrara marble and brass. Finish: Top and base in Carrara marble in polished finishing; stru...
Marble, Brass
$10,384 / item
Fossil Wood Console by Ginger & Jagger
Located in Geneve, CH
Fossil Wood Console by Ginger & Jagger Dimensions: D 50 x W 161 x H 81 cm. Materials: Veneered wood. Finish: Body in Amara Ebony veneer with matt finishing. This product is sui...
Wood
$17,912 / item
Cactus 160 Console by Ginger & Jagger
Located in Geneve, CH
Cactus 160 Console by Ginger & Jagger Dimensions: D 50 x W 160 x H 83 cm. Materials: Romano Travertine stone and brass. Finish: Top and base in Romano Travertine stone in natura...
Travertine, Brass
$17,912 / item
Cactus 160 Console by Ginger & Jagger
Located in Geneve, CH
Cactus 160 Console by Ginger & Jagger Dimensions: D 50 x W 160 x H 83 cm. Materials: Carrara marble and brass. Finish: Top and base in Carrara marble in polished finishing; stru...
Marble, Brass
$14,384 / item
Be-Lieve Console Extra by Mingardo
Located in Geneve, CH
Be-Lieve console extra by Mingardo Dimensions: D153 x W55 x H80 cm Materials: Varnished iron structure and brass Weight: 90 kg Also Available in different finishes and dimensi...
Brass, Iron
$6,490 / item
Praja Tropical Hardwood Console by Mary Verspoor
Located in Geneve, CH
Praja Tropical Hardwood Console by Mary Verspoor Dimensions: D 199 x W 40 x H 40 CM Materials: Hardwood Mary Verspoor, of Indonesian-Dutch descent, is a Bali-based designer and crea...
Other
$18,172 / item
Mistral Console V2 by Studio Bazazo
Located in Geneve, CH
Mistral Console V2 by Studio Bazazo Dimensions: D 45 x W 170 x H 85 cm. Materials: Travertino Silver and stainless steel. Light as a breeze with the force to shape landscapes, the ...
Travertine, Stainless Steel
$10,903 / item
Fig Tree Console by Ginger & Jagger
Located in Geneve, CH
Fig Tree Console by Ginger & Jagger Dimensions: D 48 x W 160 x H 90 cm. Materials: Brass, wood veneer, and lacquer. Finish: Top lacquered in Night Jungle; drawer in purpleheart ...
Brass
$10,903 / item
Fig Tree Console by Ginger & Jagger
Located in Geneve, CH
Fig Tree Console by Ginger & Jagger Dimensions: D 48 x W 160 x H 90 cm. Materials: Brass, wood veneer, and lacquer. Finish: Top lacquered in Ultramarine; drawer in purpleheart w...
Brass
$10,903 / item
Fig Tree Console by Ginger & Jagger
Located in Geneve, CH
Fig Tree Console by Ginger & Jagger Dimensions: D 48 x W 160 x H 90 cm. Materials: Brass, wood veneer, and lacquer. Finish: Top lacquered in Green; drawer in purpleheart wood ve...
Brass
$10,903 / item
Fig Tree Console by Ginger & Jagger
Located in Geneve, CH
Fig Tree Console by Ginger & Jagger Dimensions: D 48 x W 160 x H 90 cm. Materials: Brass, wood veneer, and lacquer. Finish: Top lacquered in Night Jungle; drawer in purpleheart ...
Brass
$10,903 / item
Fig Tree Console by Ginger & Jagger
Located in Geneve, CH
Fig Tree Console by Ginger & Jagger Dimensions: D 48 x W 160 x H 90 cm. Materials: Brass, wood veneer, and lacquer. Finish: Top lacquered in Ultramarine; drawer in purpleheart w...
Brass
$10,903 / item
Fig Tree Console by Ginger & Jagger
Located in Geneve, CH
Fig Tree Console by Ginger & Jagger Dimensions: D 48 x W 160 x H 90 cm. Materials: Brass, wood veneer, and lacquer. Finish: Top lacquered in Green; drawer in purpleheart wood ve...
Brass
$10,903 / item
Fig Tree Console by Ginger & Jagger
Located in Geneve, CH
Fig Tree Console by Ginger & Jagger Dimensions: D 48 x W 160 x H 90 cm. Materials: Brass, wood veneer, and lacquer. Finish: Top lacquered in Stone in matt; drawer in purpleheart...
Brass
$13,712 / item
Pianist Carrara Marble Console by InsidherLand
Located in Geneve, CH
Pianist Carrara Marble Console by InsidherLand Dimensions: D 41 x W 130 x H 82 cm. Materials: Carrara marble, brushed bronzed brass. 86 kg. Other marbles are available. The Pianist ...
Marble, Brass
$36,946 / item
VII Séptima Console by Joel Escalona
By Joel Escalona
Located in Geneve, CH
VII Séptima console by Joel Escalona Dimensions: D 120 x W 40 x H 85 cm Materials: oak wood, metal, Negro Monterrey marble. White oak with metal base and Negro Monterrey marble ...
Marble, Metal
$10,124 / item
Cosmic Teak Wood Console by Mary Verspoor
Located in Geneve, CH
Cosmic Teak Wood Console by Mary Verspoor Dimensions: D 214 x W 46 x H 38 CM Materials: Teak wood Mary Verspoor, of Indonesian-Dutch descent, is a Bali-based designer and creator. S...
Other
$12,390 / item
Fig Tree Console by Ginger & Jagger
Located in Geneve, CH
Fig Tree Console by Ginger & Jagger Dimensions: D 48 x W 160 x H 90 cm. Materials: Silver, nickel, wood veneer, and lacquer. Finish: Top lacquered in Night Jungle; drawer in pur...
Nickel, Silver
$8,484 / item
Dark Green Lazy-O Console by Somaschini
Located in Geneve, CH
Dark Green Lazy-O Console by Somaschini Dimensions: W 150 x D 35 x H 75 cm Materials: Lightened mdf monolithic structure. Console in N.115 Dark green lacquered high gloss finish Ab...
Lacquer
$8,484 / item
Brown Red Lazy-O Console by Somaschini
Located in Geneve, CH
Brown Red Lazy-O Console by Somaschini Dimensions: W 150 x D 35 x H 75 cm Materials: Lightened mdf monolithic structure. Console in N.118 Brown-red lacquered high gloss finish Abou...
Lacquer
$25,311 / item
Curl Series Console by hm-LI Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Curl Series Console by hm-LI Studio Dimensions: W 140 x D 50 x H 158 cm Materials: Walnut Wood, Black Lacquered Wood, Blackened Steel Legs, Marble Top Surface. The Curl Series sea...
Steel
$6,620 / item
Curl Series Console by hm-LI Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Curl Series Console by hm-LI Studio Dimensions: W 178.2 x D 50 x H 59.8 cm Materials: Black Lacquer on Solid Wood, Blackened Steel. Available Finishes: Glossy Black Lacquer, Matte B...
Steel
Molars Console - Contemporary Sculptural Brass by Misaya
By Masaya
Located in Geneve, CH
Molars Console - Contemporary Sculptural Brass by Misaya Dimensions: W180 x D45 x H70 cm Materials: Brass Also available: different colors (gold, polished brass. black, painted bras...
Brass
$7,080Sale Price|33% Off
Contemporary Anodized Aluminium Console by Fredrik Paulsen
By Fredrik Paulsen
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Fredrik Paulsen’s console table, commissioned by Etage Projects for Salon Art + Design New York 2017, turns the spotlight on a brand new and unique technique that combines anodized a...
Aluminum
Vintage 1980s Postmodern Memphis Charcoal and Grey Wood Console
By Shiro Kuramata, Ettore Sottsass, Peter Shire, Memphis Group, Gaetano Pesce
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A 1980s Postmodern console defined by its strong architectural form and sculptural presence. Finished in charcoal and soft grey tones, the surface features a dynamic grain pattern th...
Wood
$27,435 / item
Dancing Leaves Sculptural Console by ON.ENTROPY
Located in Geneve, CH
Dancing Leaves Sculptural Console by ON.ENTROPY Dimensions: W 160 x D 40 x H 120 cm Materials: Green Marble. on• entropy is a marble atelier established in 2009 in Athens and London...
Marble
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.