$2,641 / item
Hidden Black Sideboard by Lagu
Located in Geneve, CH
Hidden black sideboard by Lagu Designed by Ufuk Ceylan Dimensions: W 120 x D 33 x H 90 cm. Materials: marble, metal. The Hidden sideboard is encased in Black marble highlighted...
Marble, Metal
$14,709 / item
Tako Floor Console by De Castelli
Located in Geneve, CH
Tako Floor Console by De Castelli Dimensions: W 220 x D 41 x H 40 cm Materials: DeLabré Brass, Natural Oak Wood Copper and Stainless Steel versions are available. One drawer version ...
Brass
$15,007 / item
Tako Wall Mounted Console by De Castelli
Located in Geneve, CH
Tako Wall Mounted Console by De Castelli Dimensions: W 220 x D 41 x H 35 cm Materials: DeErosion Brass, Natural Oak Wood Copper and Stainless Steel versions are available. One drawer...
Brass
Canneto Wall Mounted Console by De Castelli in Brushed Copper & Walnut
Located in Geneve, CH
Canneto Wall Mounted Console by De Castelli Dimensions: W 234 x D 41 x H 45 cm Materials: Brushed Copper, Canaletto Walnut Wood Brass and Stainless Steel versions available. Smaller ...
Copper
$20,921 / item
Celato Wall Mounted Console by De Castelli
Located in Geneve, CH
Celato Wall Mounted Console by De Castelli Dimensions: W 220 x D 45 x H 43 cm Materials: Striped DeLabré Copper, Natural Oak Wood Brass and Stainless Steel versions are also availabl...
Copper
$20,622 / item
Celato Wall Mounted Console by De Castelli
Located in Geneve, CH
Celato Wall Mounted Console by De Castelli Dimensions: W 220 x D 45 x H 43 cm Materials: Striped DeLabré Brass, Natural Oak Wood Copper and Stainless Steel versions are also availabl...
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)
$7,831 / set
Take Me Home Set by Francesco Profili
Located in Geneve, CH
Take Me Home Set by Francesco Profili Dimensions: W 100 x D 45 x H 38 cm (Chest of Drawers) / W 50 x D 50 x H 230 cm (Doors) Materials: Walnut, Stone Effect A versatile system for t...
Other
Una, Articolo Indeterminativo Buffet by Secondome Edizioni
Located in Geneve, CH
Una, Articolo Indeterminativo Buffet by Secondome Edizioni Limited Edition Of 9 Pieces + 3 A.P. Designer: Stefano Marolla. Dimensions: D 55 x W 200 x H 70 cm. Materials: Santos rosew...
Brass
$7,911 / item
Handmade Nouveau Wood Shelf by Jiří Krejčiřík
By Jiri Krejcirik
Located in Geneve, CH
Handmade Nouveau wood shelf by Jirí Krejcirík Dimensions: 130 x 50 x 220 cm Material: Birch Wood Also available in other materials and dimensions. The furniture is inspired by Cze...
Wood, Birch
$19,107 / item
Elizabeth Console by De Castelli
Located in Geneve, CH
Elizabeth Console Table by De Castelli Dimensions: W 122 x D 37 x H 100 cm Materials: Polished Stainless Steel, Wood Brass and Copper versions are also available. Please contact us f...
Stainless Steel
$6,866 / item
Famed Marble Sideboard by Lagu
Located in Geneve, CH
Famed Marble Detailed Sideboard by Lagu. Designed by Ufuk Ceylan. Dimensions: W 144 x D 45 x H 90 cm. Materials: Marble, Metal, Oak. The famed sideboard is encased in Alexander...
Marble, Metal
$8,876 / item
Tako Floor Console by De Castelli
Located in Geneve, CH
Tako Floor Console by De Castelli Dimensions: W 110 x D 41 x H 40 cm Materials: DeLabré B Stainless Steel, Natural Oak Wood Copper and Brass versions are available. Two drawers versi...
Stainless Steel
$14,020 / item
Tako Floor Console by De Castelli
Located in Geneve, CH
Tako Floor Console by De Castelli Dimensions: W 220 x D 41 x H 40 cm Materials: DeLabré B Stainless Steel, Natural Oak Wood Copper and Brass versions are available. One drawer versio...
Stainless Steel
$5,936 / item
B.S.P Storage 2 by Atelier SOHN
Located in Geneve, CH
B.S.P Storage 2 by Atelier SOHN Dimensions: D 36 x W 38 x H 84 cm. Materials: Waste plastic dust and recycled plastic. Donghoon,Sohn is a Founder / Designer of Atelier SOHN. He und...
Plastic
$5,683 / item
B.S.P Storage by Atelier SOHN
Located in Geneve, CH
B.S.P Storage by Atelier SOHN Dimensions: D 34 x W 34 x H 85 cm. Materials: Waste plastic dust and recycled plastic. Donghoon,Sohn is a Founder / Designer of Atelier SOHN. He under...
Plastic
Manhattan Wine Cellar in Makassar Ebony Veneer, Brass & Horn by Arcahorn
Located in Geneve, CH
Manhattan Wine Cellar in Makassar Ebony Veneer, Brass & Horn by Arcahorn Dimensions: D 59 x W 142 x H 200 cm. Materials: Ebony veneer, brass, and horn. Wine cellar in matte Makassar...
Brass, Other
$26,100 / item
Black Patinated Monolithic Sideboard by Tino Seubert
Located in Geneve, CH
Black Patinated Monolithic Sideboard by Tino Seubert Dimensions: D 160 x W 45 x H 50 cm. Materials: Walnut carcass, patinated brass cladding, walnut burl veneer. Tino Seubert W...
Brass
$6,315 / item
Cedar Credenza by Nick Sugihara
Located in Geneve, CH
Cedar Credenza by Nick Sugihara Dimensions: D 30,48 x W 177.8 x H 86.36 cm. Materials: Oiled cherry wood and cedar. Available in cherry and Alaskan cedar. Please contact us. Sugih...
Cherry, Cedar
Emerald Sideboard by Nathalie Du Pasquier, Memphis Style, 1985, France
By Nathalie du Pasquier
Located in Tinton Falls, NJ
EMERALD Sideboard by Nathalie Du Pasquier - Memphis Milano This stunning MEMPHIS sideboard is a veritable masterwork of postmodernist art, designed in 1985 by Nathalie Du Pasquier. ...
Mirror, Laminate, Wood
Bo Concepts Copenhagen Wall System Freestanding Bookcase Cupboard
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
We are delighted to offer for sale this stunning Bo Concepts Copenhagen wall unit bookcase RRP £7000 A very well made piece that offers huge amounts of storage, this unit has 14 s...
Wood
1980's Charles Cobb California Studio Chest Figured Acacia Lacquer
By Charles B. Cobb
Located in Camden, ME
A unique handcrafted chest created in the California studio of Charles B. Cobb in 1980. The figured acacia drawer fronts edged in cerulean blue with ebony pulls, the curley maple an...
Fruitwood, Maple
$2,618Sale Price|20% Off
Highboard Bar Chest by Luigi Saccardo for Gasparello, Italy, 1980's
By Luigi Saccardo
Located in Oud-Turnhout, VAN
Vintage Postmodern Italian design highboard dry bar chest drinks & glasses cabinet by Luigi Saccardo for Gasparello, Italy 1980's. From the "Seven" series. Memphis Design Style. Blac...
Glass, Plastic, Wood, Lacquer
$8,290 / item
Yan Walnut Nightstand by Bowen Liu
Located in Geneve, CH
Yan Walnut Nightstand by Bowen Liu Dimensions: D 15.5 x W 20 x H 19 Materials: brass, walnut, cognat leather Based in, produced and shipped from the US. The Yan nightstand provides...
Brass, Other
$34,838 / item
Basilica Hutch by Laylo Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Basilica Hutch by Laylo Studio Limited Edition Dimensions: D 61 x W 101.6 x H 213.3 cm. Materials: Blackened steel, brass, glass, walnut, felt. A hutch built in celebration of the f...
Brass, Steel
$2,847 / item
Moon Large Highboard by Pastform
Located in Geneve, CH
Moon Large Highboard by Pastform Dimensions: D 40 x W 100 x H 125 cm Materials: Stained and varnished wood. Available in different wood color finishes: Whiskey, Rum, BPA, Nobel, Bra...
Wood
$4,868 / item
Moran Highboard by Pastform
Located in Geneve, CH
Moran Highboard by Pastform Dimensions: D 40 x W 165 x H 150 cm Materials: Stained and varnished wood. Available in different wood color finishes: Whiskey, Rum, BPA, Nobel, Brandy, ...
Wood
$6,878 / item
Classy XL Highboard by Pastform
Located in Geneve, CH
Classy XL Highboard by Pastform Dimensions: D 40 x W 170 x H 200 cm Materials: Stained and varnished wood. Available in different wood color finishes: Whiskey, Rum, BPA, Nobel, Bran...
Wood
$4,294 / item
Classy Large Highboard by Pastform
Located in Geneve, CH
Classy Vintage Large Highboard by Pastform Dimensions: D 50 x W 120 x H 150 cm Materials: Stained and varnished wood. Available in different wood color finishes: Whiskey, Rum, BPA, ...
Wood
$4,294 / item
Tusa Medium Highboard by Pastform
Located in Geneve, CH
Tusa Medium Highboard by Pastform Dimensions: D 35 x W 100 x H 180 cm Materials: Stained and varnished wood. Available in different wood color finishes: Whiskey, Rum, BPA, Nobel, Br...
Wood
$3,513 / item
Kolma Extra Large Lowboard by Pastform
Located in Geneve, CH
Kolma Extra Large Lowboard by Pastform Dimensions: D 42,5 x W 200 x H 46 cm. Materials: Stained and varnished wood. The furniture in the picture is made in Classy/Natura color. Avai...
Wood
Yoma Console by Andy Kerstens, Bleached European Oak & Brass, Belgium
Located in Geneve, CH
Yoma Console by Andy Kerstens. Limited Edition of 20 Dimensions: W 255 x D 70 x H 100 cm Materials: Wood bleached and brushed European oak, solid + veneer Metal solid brass with...
Stone, Metal
Il Moro Cupboard by Valentina Giovando, Wood & Brass, Italy
Located in Geneve, CH
Il Moro Cupboard by Valentina Giovando Dimensions: W 163 x D 48 x H 198 cm. Materials: Wood, Fabric, Fiberglass, Brass, Zinc. Valentina Giovando, Lives and works in Sarzana, in Li...
Brass, Zinc
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
$3,490 / item
Thandi Tall Girl by TheUrbanative
Located in Geneve, CH
Thandi tall girl by TheUrbanative Dimensions: W50 x L50 x H100 cm Material: Kiaat, Ash and Powder coated, Powdercoated MDF TheUrbanative is a contemporary South African furnitur...
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.
Although traditionally used in the bedroom to store garments that would not be hung in a closet, an antique or vintage cabinet can easily find a purpose in rooms throughout your entire house.
The world's first storage cabinets, reportedly constructed in Renaissance-era Europe, were demonstrative of excellence in carpentry and the work of master carvers. These robust bureaus or sophisticated chests of drawers were typically built from common woods, such as oak or walnut. Although they were fairly uniform in structure and lacked the bright colors of modern-day furniture, case pieces and storage cabinets that date from the 18th century and earlier were often found in the homes of nobility.
Their intricate carvings and various embellishments — adornments made from ivory, ornate lacquer work and, later, glass shelvings — reflect the elegance with which these decorative furnishings were associated. Given its valuable purpose and the beauty of the early furnishings' designs, the storage cabinet is an investment that will never go out of style.
The practical design that defines the earliest storage cabinets has inspired the creation of household must-haves, like minimalist drink trolleys and marble wood bookcases. From hiding outdoor gear in the mudroom to decluttering your kitchen with a tall kitchen pantry cabinet, these versatile furnishings have now become available in enough sizes, styles and colors to accommodate any space. After all, these aren't your run-of-the-mill filing cabinets.
A sophisticated storage cabinet — wood storage cabinets with doors and shelves, for example — can serve as a room divider when necessary, while the right vintage wall unit or floor-to-ceiling cabinetry solutions can seamlessly become part of any space without disrupting the energy of the room. And although you may hide items away in its drawers, bookworms might prefer a storage cabinet with open shelving for displaying favorite books or other media.
One-of-a-kind solutions for the modern consumer abound, but enthusiasts of understated, classical beauty may turn to Baroque-style storage cabinets. Elsewhere, admirers of mid-century modernism looking to make a statement with their case pieces will warm to the dark woods and clean lines of vintage storage cabinets by Paul McCobb, Florence Knoll or Edward Wormley.
Sometimes the best renovation is a reorganization. If you're ready to organize and elevate your space, a luxury storage cabinet is the addition you need.
Find a variety of vintage and antique storage cabinets on 1stDibs, including unique Art Deco storage cabinets, chinoiserie cabinets and more.