$223 / item
White Trumpet Table by OK Design
Located in Geneve, CH
White Trumpet Table by OK Design Dimensions: D 45 x W 47 x H 105 cm. Materials: Powder-coated metal. Available in black or white. Please contact us. The Trumpet Table is a minimal ...
Metal
$223 / item
Black Trumpet Table by OK Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Black Trumpet Table by OK Design Dimensions: D 45 x W 47 x H 105 cm. Materials: Powder-coated metal. Available in black or white. Please contact us. The Trumpet Table is a minimal ...
Metal
$15,429 / set
Set of 4 Two Stripe Chairs by Derya Arpac
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 4 two stripe chairs by Derya Arpac. Dimensions: W 38 x D 45 x H 85 cm. Materials: oak & stained Dougles Fir. Also available: other materials available. Derya Arpac i...
Oak, Fir
RELIEF Series 1 Wall Sculpture in Birch Plywood by Kristine Engelbrecht
Located in Geneve, CH
RELIEF Series 1 Wall Sculpture in Birch Plywood by Kristine Engelbrecht Limited Edition of 7 pieces. Signed and Numbered by Kristine Engelbrecht. Dimensions: W 31 x D 5 x H 31 cm. Ma...
Plywood
RELIEF Series 6 Wall Sculpture in Birch Plywood by Kristine Engelbrecht
Located in Geneve, CH
RELIEF Series 6 Wall Sculpture in Birch Plywood by Kristine Engelbrecht Limited Edition of 7 pieces. Signed and Numbered by Kristine Engelbrecht. Dimensions: W 40 x D 6 x H 40 cm. Ma...
Plywood
Tall Circle Cube Series 12 Wall Sculpture in Birch Plywood by Kristine Engelbrec
Located in Geneve, CH
Tall Circle Cube Series 12 Wall Sculpture in Birch Plywood by Kristine Engelbrecht Limited Edition of 7 pieces. Signed and Numbered by Kristine Engelbrecht. Dimensions: W 15 x D 10 x...
Plywood
Tall Wall Series 2 Wall Sculpture in Birch Plywood by Kristine Engelbrecht
Located in Geneve, CH
Tall Wall Series 2 Wall Sculpture in Birch Plywood by Kristine Engelbrecht Limited Edition of 7 pieces. Signed and Numbered by Kristine Engelbrecht. Dimensions: W 15 x D 10.5 x H 25 ...
Plywood
Tall Fluid Cube Series 11 Wall Sculpture in Birch Plywood by Kristine Engelbrech
Located in Geneve, CH
Tall Fluid Cube Series 11 Wall Sculpture in Birch Plywood by Kristine Engelbrecht Limited Edition of 7 pieces. Signed and Numbered by Kristine Engelbrecht. Dimensions: W 15 x D 10 x ...
Plywood
Cube Series 1 Wall Sculpture in Birch Plywood by Kristine Engelbrecht
Located in Geneve, CH
Cube Series 1 Wall Sculpture in Birch Plywood by A Hint of Neon. Limited Edition of 7 pieces. Signed and Numbered by Kristine Engelbrecht. Dimensions: W 15 x D 10.5 x H 15 cm. Materi...
Plywood
Circle Cube Series 10 Wall Sculpture in Birch Plywood by Kristine Engelbrecht
Located in Geneve, CH
Circle Cube Series 10 Wall Sculpture in Birch Plywood by A Hint of Neon. Limited Edition of 7 pieces. Signed and Numbered by Kristine Engelbrecht. Dimensions: W 15 x D 10.5 x H 15 cm...
Plywood
Set of Eighteen Erik Magnussen 'Magnus' Chairs for Paustian Stackable
By Erik Magnussen, Paustian
Located in Boven Leeuwen, NL
Very rare large set of eighteen 'Magnus' chairs designed by the famous Danish designer Erik Magnussen. “To complicate things is simply just foolish” The chair was designed for famous...
Steel
Blå Himmel Wall Decoration in Bio-Based Resin by Waves.STUDIO
Located in Geneve, CH
Blå Himmel Wall Decoration in Bio-Based Resin by Waves.STUDIO Dimensions: D 1 x W 17,5 x H 20 cm. Materials: Bio-based resin. Blå himmel (Blue sky) captures the open space where whi...
Resin
Bjergtoppe Wall Decoration in Bio-Based Resin by Waves.STUDIO
Located in Geneve, CH
Bjergtoppe Wall Decoration in Bio-Based Resin by Waves.STUDIO Dimensions: D 1,5 x W 59 x H 59 cm. Materials: Bio-based resin. This painting, titled Bjergtoppe (top of mountains), ca...
Resin
Dybet Wall Decoration in Bio-Based Resin by Waves.STUDIO
Located in Geneve, CH
Dybet Wall Decoration in Bio-Based Resin by Waves.STUDIO Dimensions: D 1,5 x W 17,5 x H 20 cm. Materials: Bio-based resin. Dybet (The deep) invites the viewer into the dark, layered...
Resin
Frost Wall Decoration in Bio-Based Resin by Waves.STUDIO
Located in Geneve, CH
Frost Wall Decoration in Bio-Based Resin by Waves.STUDIO Dimensions: D 2 x W 59 x H 59 cm. Materials: Bio-based resin. This piece is titled Frost because it evokes the frozen black ...
Resin
Havgus Sea Mist Wall Decoration in Bio-Based Resin by Waves.STUDIO
Located in Geneve, CH
Havgus Sea Mist Wall Decoration in Bio-Based Resin by Waves.STUDIO Dimensions: D 2 x W 59 x H 59 cm. Materials: Bio-based resin. This piece is titled Sea Mist because it captures th...
Resin
Set of 2 Soma Dining Chairs in Oiled Oak by Kasper Nyman
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 2 Soma Dining Chairs in Oiled Oak by Kasper Nyman. Materials: Solid Oak, Plywood with oak. Dimensions: D 49 x W 47.3 x H 79 cm. This listing features a set of 2 Soma Dining C...
Wood, Hardwood, Oak
$1,087 / item
Black Oak Come Here Side Table by Steffen Juul
Located in Geneve, CH
Black oak come here side table by Steffen Juul Materials: Oak. Dimensions: D 41 x W 41 x H 45 cm. The founders, Mia and Torben Koed, decided to put their 30 years of experience ...
Oak
$1,087 / item
White Oak Come Here Side Table by Steffen Juul
Located in Geneve, CH
White oak come here side table by Steffen Juul Materials: Oak Dimensions: D 41 x W 41 x H 45 cm. The founders, Mia and Torben Koed, decided to put their 30 years of experience i...
Oak
Project Materia 2025 Orbis Table in Botticino Marble by Project Materia
Located in Geneve, CH
Project Materia 2025 Orbis Table in Botticino Marble by Project Materia. Designed by Cathrine Raben Davidsen. Limited Edition of 14. Dimensions: Ø 34 x H 35 cm. Materials: Botticino ...
Marble
Matek Pyrite Side Table in Recycled Composite by Project Materia
Located in Geneve, CH
Matek Pyrite Side Table in Recycled Composite by Project Materia. Designed by Onno Adriaanse. Dimensions: W 83 x D 64 x H 50 cm. Materials: MATEK™ recycled composite. A side table i...
Composite
Matek Rooted Coffee Table in Recycled Composite by Project Materia
Located in Geneve, CH
Matek Rooted Coffee Table in Recycled Composite by Project Materia. Designed by Oliver Thygesen. Dimensions: Ø 60 x H 35,5 cm Materials: MATEK™ recycled composite. A coffee table co...
Composite
Matek Space Invader Side Table in Recycled Composite by Project Materia
Located in Geneve, CH
Matek Space Invader Side Table in Recycled Composite by Project Materia. Designed by Filippo Andrighetto. Dimensions: W 51 x D 30 x H 46 cm. Materials: MATEK™ recycled composite. A ...
Composite
$5,306 / item
MG303 Bedside Table by Malte Gormsen
Located in Geneve, CH
MG303 Bedside Table by Malte Gormsen Dimensions: D 40 x W 45 x H 52 cm. Materials: Oak. Available in Nature, Raw Nature, Light Nature, Grey Nature, and Dark Nature finishes. Malte ...
Oak
$572 / item
Big And Low Bam Bam Oak Table by OK Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Big And Low Bam Bam Oak Table by OK Design Dimensions: D 70 x H 36 cm. Materials: Natural oak, powder-coated metal. Available in small and tall or big and low. Available in black as...
Metal
Small And Tall Bam Bam Oak Table by OK Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Small And Tall Bam Bam Oak Table by OK Design Dimensions: D 50 x H 44 cm. Materials: Natural oak, powder-coated metal. Available in small and tall or big and low. Available in black...
Metal
Small And Tall Bam Bam Black Ash Table by OK Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Small And Tall Bam Bam Black Ash Table by OK Design Dimensions: D 50 x H 44 cm. Materials: Black ash, powder-coated metal. Available in small and tall or big and low. Available in b...
Metal
Big And Low Bam Bam Black Ash Table by OK Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Big And Low Bam Bam Black Ash Table by OK Design Dimensions: D 70 x H 36 cm. Materials: Black ash, powder-coated metal. Available in small and tall or big and low. Available in blac...
Metal
$3,156 / item
Bright Helio Floor And Ceiling Lamp by Nordic Tales
Located in Geneve, CH
Bright Helio Floor And Ceiling Lamp by Nordic Tales Designed by Jonas Hoejgaard Dimensions: Ø 25 x H 20 cm. Materials: Glass. Finish: Smoked Grey. The total height can be 2-5 meters...
Glass
Warm Grey Sentrum Side Table by Schmahl + Schnippering
Located in Geneve, CH
Warm Grey Sentrum side table by Schmahl +Schnippering Materials: Metal Dimensions: D 40 x W 40 x H 36 cm Also available in different colours. The founders, Mia and Torben Koed...
Metal
$1,320 / item
Sentrum Side Table by Schmahl + Schnippering
Located in Geneve, CH
Sentrum side table by Schmahl +Schnippering. Materials: Metal Dimensions: D 40 x W 40 x H 36 cm Also available in different colours. The founders, Mia and Torben Koed, decided ...
Metal
$1,447 / item
Mono Black Oak Dining Chair by Kasper Nyman
Located in Geneve, CH
Mono black dining chair by Kasper Nyman Materials: Solid Oak, Oak Venner Dimensions: D 51 x W 45 x H 78 cm Woud The founders, Mia and Torben Koed, decided to put their 30 years...
Oak
Burnt Orange Sentrum Side Table by Schmahl + Schnippering
Located in Geneve, CH
Burnt orange Sentrum side table by Schmahl +Schnippering Materials: Metal Dimensions: D 40 x W 40 x H 36 cm Also available in different colours. The founders, Mia and Torben Ko...
Metal
$1,320 / item
Taupe Sentrum Side Table by Schmahl + Schnippering
Located in Geneve, CH
Taupe Sentrum side table by Schmahl +Schnippering Materials: Metal Dimensions: D 40 x W 40 x H 36 cm Also available in different colours. Please contact us. The founders, Mia a...
Metal
$1,437 / item
Mono White Dining Chair by Kasper Nyman
Located in Geneve, CH
Mono white dining chair by Kasper Nyman. Materials: Solid Oak, Oak Venner. Dimensions: D 51 x W 45 x H 78 cm. WOUD The founders, Mia and Torben Koed, decided to put their 30 ye...
Oak
Set of 3 Postmodern Triangular Trivet Coasters by Jorgen Meldgaard, 1980s
Located in Hamburg, DE
Danish Postmodern Triangular Trivet Coasters by Jorgen Meldgaard for Menu, 1980s, 1980s, Set of 3, in Very Good conditions. Designed 1980 to 1989 This piece has an attribution mark. ...
Metal
Dark Horse Armchairs by Rud Thygesen and Johnny Sørensen, 1980s
By Rud Thygesen and Johnny Sorensen
Located in Copenhagen, DK
6 of the legendary and very rare Postmodern dark horse armchairs by Danish designers Rud Thygesen and Johnny Sorensen.
Chrome
$6,429 / item
Profile Shelf by Derya Arpac
Located in Geneve, CH
Profile shelf by Derya Arpac Dimensions: W 150 x D 30 x H 150 cm Materials: Dougles Fir Also Available: Other materials available, Wall-Hung Shelf Derya Arpac is a Copenhag...
Fir
Set of 2 Soma Dining Chairs in Oiled Oak with Leather by Kasper Nyman
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 2 Soma Dining Chairs in Oiled Oak with Leather by Kasper Nyman. Materials: Solid Oak, Plywood with oak, Leather. Dimensions: D 49 x W 47.3 x H 79 cm. This listing features a ...
Wood, Hardwood, Oak, Leather
Original BoConcept Amsterdam Sofa Cord Couch Recamiere beige
By BoConcept
Located in Berlin, DE
Wir bieten ein wunderschönes, ca. 5 Jahre altes und sehr gut erhaltenes Sofamodul von BoConcept zum Verkauf an. Das Möbel war unter dem Modellnamen "Amsterdam" im Handel und ist hier...
Fabric
Folded Leaf Table in Laser-Cut, Bent & Folded Stainless Steel by Jacob Egeberg
Located in Geneve, CH
Folded Leaf Table in Laser-Cut, Bent & Folded Stainless Steel by Jacob Egeberg Dimensions: Ø 95 x H 53 cm. Materials: Laser-cut, bent, and folded stainless steel. The folded leaf ta...
Stainless Steel
Black Oak Wallie Wall Drawer by Amalie Skov Rahbæk
Located in Geneve, CH
Black oak Wallie wall drawer by Amalie Skov Rahbæk Materials: Oak, metal. Dimensions: D 22.5 x W 30 x H 10 cm Available in oak, black oak or walnut. Amalie Skov Rahbæk is an up...
Metal
$423 / item
Oak Wallie Wall Drawer by Amalie Skov Rahbæk
Located in Geneve, CH
Oak wallie wall drawer by Amalie Skov Rahbæk. Materials: oak, metal. Dimensions: D 22.5 x W 30 x H 10 cm. Available in oak, black oak or walnut. Amalie Skov Rahbæk is an upcomi...
Metal
Walnut Wallie Wall Drawer by Amalie Skov Rahbæk
Located in Geneve, CH
Walnut Wallie wall drawer by Amalie Skov Rahbæk Materials: Walnut, metal. Dimensions: D 22.5 x W 30 x H 10 cm Available in oak, black oak or walnut. Amalie Skov Rahbæk is an up...
Metal
$2,342 / item
Black Oak Tojbox Large Wardrobe by Michael
Located in Geneve, CH
Black oak tojbox large wardrobe by Michael Materials: Oak Dimensions: D 38 x W 112 x H 200 cm Also available in different colours and materials. The founders, Mia and Torben K...
Oak
$1,765 / item
Black Oak Tojbox Small Wardrobe by Michael
Located in Geneve, CH
Black oak tojbox large wardrobe by Michael Materials: oak Dimensions: D 30 x W 80 x H 200 cm Also available in different colours and materials. The founders, Mia and Torben Ko...
Oak
O & O Clothes Rack Small by Christine Rathmann
Located in Geneve, CH
O & O clothes rack small by Christine Rathmann. Materials: Metal. Dimensions: D 41 x H 117 cm. Also available in different dimensions. The founders, Mia and Torben Koed, decide...
Metal
O & O Clothes Rack Large by Christine Rathmann
Located in Geneve, CH
O & O clothes rack large by Christine Rathmann. Materials: Metal. Dimensions: D 48 x W 81 x H 159 cm. Also available in different dimensions. The founders, Mia and Torben Koed,...
Metal
$2,342 / item
White Oak Tojbox Large Wardrobe by Michael
Located in Geneve, CH
White Oak Tojbox large wardrobe by Michael. Materials: Oak Dimensions: D 38 x W 112 x H 200 cm. Also available in different colours and materials. The founders, Mia and Torben ...
Oak
$3,649 / item
Sculptural Chair by Alexandra Madirazza
Located in Geneve, CH
Sculptural Chair by Alexandra Madirazza Dimensions: W 50 x D 18 x H 43 cm (These are approximate measurements) Materials: Stoneware Also available in brown, white or gray glaze. Matt...
Stoneware
Rainer Daumiller Pair of Dining Chairs in Solid Pine
By Rainer Daumiller
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Rainer Daumiller for Hirtshals Sawmill, pair of dining chairs, pine, Denmark, 1970s Beautiful, organic and natural dining chairs in solid pine by Danish Rainer Daumiller in the 1970...
Pine
Black Fenix Laminate Soround Coffee Table 75 by Nur Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Black Fenix laminate soround coffee table 75 by Nur Design Materials: metal, fenix laminate Dimensions: D 75 x W 75 x H 49 cm Also available in different sizes. The founders, ...
Metal
Black Fenix Laminate Soround Coffee Table 60 by Nur Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Black Fenix Laminate Soround coffee table 60 by Nur Design Materials: Metal, Fenix Laminate Dimensions: D 60 x W 60 x H 49 cm Also available in different sizes. The founders, M...
Metal
White Oak Arc Side Table by Ditte Vad and Julie Bertrup
Located in Geneve, CH
White oak arc side table by Ditte Vad and Julie Bertrup. Materials: oak, lacquer. Dimensions: D 42 x W 42 x H 45 cm. The founders, Mia and Torben Koed, decided to put their 30 ...
Oak, Lacquer
Beige Fenix Laminate Soround Coffee Table 75 by Nur Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Beige Fenix Laminate Soround coffee table 75 by Nur Design Materials: Metal, Fenix Laminate Dimensions: D 75 x W 75 x H 49 cm Also available in different dimensions. The found...
Metal
Beige Fenix Laminate Soround Coffee Table 60 by Nur Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Beige Fenix Laminate Soround coffee table 60 by Nur Design Materials: Metal, Fenix Laminate Dimensions: D 60 x W 60 x H 49 cm. Also available in different sizes. The founders, ...
Metal
$1,975 / item
Walnut Arc Side Table by Ditte Vad and Julie Bertrup
Located in Geneve, CH
Walnut Arc side table by Ditte Vad and Julie Bertrup. Materials: Walnut, Nano Laminate. Dimensions: D 42 x W 42 x H 45 cm. The founders, Mia and Torben Koed, decided to put thei...
Laminate, Walnut
Concrete Soround Coffee Table 60 by Nur Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Concrete Soround coffee table 60 by Nur Design Materials: metal, fibre concrete Dimensions: D 60 x W 60 x H 49 cm Also available in different sizes and materials: nano laminate, ...
Concrete, Metal
$1,412 / item
Baenk Bench by Nur Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Baenk Bench by Nur Design. Materials: Solid Oak and Upholstery. Dimensions: D 42.5 x W 110 x H 45 cm. The founders, Mia and Torben Koed, decided to put their 30 years of experie...
Upholstery, Oak
Oiled Oak Arc Coffee Table 66 by Ditte Vad and Julie Bertrup
Located in Geneve, CH
Oiled oak arc side table 66 by Ditte Vad and Julie Bertrup Materials: oak, nano laminate Dimensions: D 66 x W 66 x H 38 cm Also available in different sizes and materials: ash, oa...
Laminate, Oak
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.
It's hard to resist the allure of a beautiful pool. So, go ahead and daydream about whiling away your summer in paradise.
Alessandro Mendini, Michael Graves, Ettore Sottsass and other design luminaries contributed to this unusual collection of porcelain wares representing a time capsule of late-20th-century decorative art.
Aided by photos taken of the maestro in his Milan studio, we honor the influential design talent who died last month at 87.
Adam Charlap Hyman and Andre Herrero, rising young design talents, are debuting a new, eclectic line of textiles.