$1,171 / item
Redemption Side Table 1 by Albert Potgieter Designs
Located in Geneve, CH
Redemption side table 1 by Albert Potgieter Designs. Dimensions: D 40 x H 45 cm. Materials: oak wood Product is customizable. “Look and Feel designs”, this is the Tagline and ...
Oak
$2,272 / item
Side Table 001 'Low' by Archive for Space
By Archive for Space
Located in London, GB
Side table 001 is a made to order design by Archive for Space, a multidisciplinary design practice founded in London in 2019. Side Table 001 was designed to celebrate raw steel throu...
Steel
$14,579 / item
Doris Aluminum Side Table by Fred and Juul
Located in Geneve, CH
Doris Aluminum Side Table by Fred and Juul Dimensions: Ø 36 x H 60 cm. Materials: Aluminum. Available in bronze and aluminum. Also available in different measurements. Custom sizes,...
Aluminum
$698 / item
Object 062 MDF Side Table by NG Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Object 062 MDF side table by NG Design Dimensions: D 40 x H 41 cm Materials: Powder coated steel, MDF Also available: All of objects available in different materials and colors ...
Steel, Other
$875 / item
Object 062 Oak Side Table by NG Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Object 062 Oak Side Table by NG Design Dimensions: D40 x H41 cm Materials: Powder coated steel, Solid Oak Also Available: All of objects available in different materials and col...
Steel
$2,946 / set
Mamun No.2 Side Table by Studio Kallang
Located in Geneve, CH
Mamun No.2 Side Table by Studio Kallang Dimensions: W 45 x D 35 x H 62.5 cm Materials: Solid Teak, Fluted Glass. STUDIO KALLANG IS A SINGAPORE AND SEATTLE BASED PROJECT FOCUSING ON...
Teak, Glass
$1,112 / item
Round Top Bronzed Glass Side Table by Lebanto
Located in Geneve, CH
TC_VB01 Amami Side Table by Lebanto Dimensions: W 45 x D 45 x H 39 cm Materials: Bronzed Glass. Lebanto is an expression of identity, a tapestry of dreams woven from the threads of ...
Bronze
$1,431 / item
Slim Neroterra 3 Side Table by ZPS Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Slim Neroterra 3 Side Table by ZPS Studio Dimensions: D 33 x H 55 cm Materials: Terraccotta, Glass. Handcrafted in a Siena workshop, these terracotta structures feature a unique, fr...
Terracotta, Glass
$1,952 / item
Low Neroterra 2 Side Table by ZPS Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Low Neroterra 2 Side Table by ZPS Studio Dimensions: D 54 x H 42 cm Materials: Terraccotta, Glass. Handcrafted in a Siena workshop, these terracotta structures feature a unique, fre...
Terracotta, Glass
$1,692 / item
High Neroterra 1 Side Table by ZPS Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
High Neroterra 1 Side Table by ZPS Studio Dimensions: D 30 x H 72 cm Materials: Terraccotta, Glass. Handcrafted in a Siena workshop, these terracotta structures feature a unique, fr...
Terracotta, Glass
$9,685 / item
Natural Bolete Side Table by Henry D'ath
Located in Geneve, CH
Natural Bolete Side Table by Henry D'ath Dimensions: D 40 x W 45 x H 45 cm Materials: Hand carved solid wood, granite, coloured ink. Available finishes: Natural, Black ink. Henry...
Granite
$6,768 / item
Leaf 3 Side Table by Mathias De Ferm
Located in Geneve, CH
Leaf 3 side table by Mathias De Ferm. Dimensions: D 60 x W 40 x H 72 cm. Materials: Walnut wood, brass. Also available in different materials. LEAF-shaped walnut/oak tabletop...
Brass
$4,686 / item
Ahadi Walnut Side Table by Albert Potgieter Designs
Located in Geneve, CH
Ahadi walnut side table by Albert Potgieter Designs Dimensions: Ø 40 x H 45 cm. Materials: Walnut. The Ahadi Side table is a functional sculptural design. Made to be bold like a...
Walnut
Umbral Side Table in Black Marble & Travertine by Panorammma
Located in Geneve, CH
Umbral Side Table in Black Marble & Travertine by Panorammma Dimensions: D 29 x W 29 x H 40 cm. Materials: Onyx. Each edition’s patterns and tone will naturally vary. Please follow ...
Travertine, Marble
$3,502 / item
Pina Low Green Black Side Table by Pulpo
Located in Geneve, CH
Pina low green black side table by Pulpo Dimensions: D 44 x H 42 cm Materials: glass; brass and steel Also available in different colours. Sebastian Herkner’s distinctively tall, s...
Brass, Steel
$2,958 / item
Shirudo Pink Gold Finish Side Table by Mingardo
Located in Geneve, CH
Shirudo pink gold finish side table by Mingardo Dimensions: D60 x H40 cm. Materials: stainless steel with pink gold finish Weight: 30 kg Also available in different finishes. ...
Stainless Steel
$3,206 / item
Deepah Side Table in Solid Teak Wood by Pendhapa
Located in Geneve, CH
Deepah Side Table in Solid Teak Wood by Pendhapa. Dimensions: Ø 40 x H 40 cm. Materials: Solid Teak Wood. This listing features our Deepah Side Table in its 40 cm height configurati...
Wood, Hardwood, Teak
Midcentury Postmodern Clear Glass Block End Table or Side Table after Sottsass
By Ettore Sottsass
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A very cool architectural design from the 1980s. It features heavy solid glass block construction with thick clear glass top.
Glass
1970’s Max Sauze 'ISOCELE' side table - Atrow
By Max Sauze, Atrow
Located in Bern, BE
1970’s Max Sauze 'ISOCELE' side table. Glass tabletops with tubular metal frame (rare form). Produced by Atrow, France, 1970 Designer: Max Sauze, 1970 Producer: Atrow, France, 1970 M...
Metal
$556Sale Price|20% Off
Postmodern Beige and Pink Tessellated Stone Side Table
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Add a touch of vintage postmodern charm to your space with this wonderful tessellated stone side table. The table features brass inlays on the feet and bordering the pink and beige s...
Stone, Brass
$1,562 / item
Cosmos Green Mini Side Table by Studio Monsoleil
Located in Geneve, CH
Cosmos Green Mini Side Table by Studio Monsoleil Dimensions: Ø 50 x H 55 cm. Materials: Laminated glass. The Cosmos table series is created by combining glasses with gradient color ...
Glass
$7,029 / item
Coco Stainless Steel Side Table by Tuğçe Geyik
Located in Geneve, CH
Coco Stainless Steel Side Table by Tuğçe Geyik Dimensions: D 50 x W 50 x H 47 cm. Materials: Stainless steel. Tuğçe Geyik is an architect and designer based in Istanbul. She studie...
Stainless Steel
Fanza Sculptural Side Table, 2-Piece Modular Design by Madheke
Located in Geneve, CH
Fanza Sculptural Side Table, 2-Piece Modular Design by Madheke. Dimensions: W 68 x D 23.2 x H 51.5 cm. Materials: Cast-brass construction with deep-textured surface. This listing fe...
Metal, Brass
$3,098 / item
Side Table 001 'Tall' by Archive for Space
By Archive for Space
Located in London, GB
Side table 001 is a made to order design by Archive for Space, a multidisciplinary design practice founded in London in 2019. Side table 001 was designed to celebrate raw steel throu...
Steel
$3,124 / item
Alwa One White Black Side Table by Pulpo
Located in Geneve, CH
Alwa one white black side table by Pulpo. Dimensions: D38 x H44 cm. Materials: Casted glass; powder coated steel. Also available in different finishes. Normally, glass is regarde...
Steel
Sweet Fuchsia Amanda Side Table by Favaretto&Partners
Located in Geneve, CH
Sweet Fuchsia Amanda Side Table by Favaretto&Partners Dimensions: D 36 x W 36 x H 60 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 3,5 kg. A removable wood tray is available on request. Avai...
Other
Plum Purple Ambrogio Side Table by Favaretto&Partners
Located in Geneve, CH
Plum Purple Ambrogio Side Table by Favaretto&Partners Dimensions: D 38,5 x W 42,5 x H 60,5 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 5 kg. A removable wood tray is available on request. ...
Other
Milky White Ambrogio Side Table by Favaretto&Partners
Located in Geneve, CH
Milky White Ambrogio Side Table by Favaretto&Partners Dimensions: D 38,5 x W 42,5 x H 60,5 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 5 kg. A removable wood tray is available on request. ...
Other
Flame Red Ambrogio Side Table by Favaretto&Partners
Located in Geneve, CH
Flame Red Ambrogio Side Table by Favaretto&Partners Dimensions: D 38,5 x W 42,5 x H 60,5 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 5 kg. A removable wood tray is available on request. Av...
Other
Avocado Green Ambrogio Side Table by Favaretto&Partners
Located in Geneve, CH
Avocado Green Ambrogio Side Table by Favaretto&Partners Dimensions: D 38,5 x W 42,5 x H 60,5 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 5 kg. A removable wood tray is available on request...
Other
Powder Blue Ambrogio Side Table by Favaretto&Partners
Located in Geneve, CH
Powder Blue Ambrogio Side Table by Favaretto&Partners Dimensions: D 38,5 x W 42,5 x H 60,5 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 5 kg. A removable wood tray is available on request. ...
Other
Grapes Blue Ambrogio Side Table by Favaretto&Partners
Located in Geneve, CH
Grapes Blue Ambrogio Side Table by Favaretto&Partners Dimensions: D 38,5 x W 42,5 x H 60,5 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 5 kg. A removable wood tray is available on request. ...
Other
Chocolate Brown Ambrogio Side Table by Favaretto&Partners
Located in Geneve, CH
Chocolate Brown Ambrogio Side Table by Favaretto&Partners Dimensions: D 38,5 x W 42,5 x H 60,5 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 5 kg. A removable wood tray is available on reque...
Other
Lime Green Ambrogio Side Table by Favaretto&Partners
Located in Geneve, CH
Lime Green Ambrogio Side Table by Favaretto&Partners Dimensions: D 38,5 x W 42,5 x H 60,5 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 5 kg. A removable wood tray is available on request. A...
Other
Argil Grey Ambrogio Side Table by Favaretto&Partners
Located in Geneve, CH
Argil Grey Ambrogio Side Table by Favaretto&Partners Dimensions: D 38,5 x W 42,5 x H 60,5 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 5 kg. A removable wood tray is available on request. A...
Other
Jet Black Ambrogio Side Table by Favaretto&Partners
Located in Geneve, CH
Jet Black Ambrogio Side Table by Favaretto&Partners Dimensions: D 38,5 x W 42,5 x H 60,5 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 5 kg. A removable wood tray is available on request. Av...
Other
Sweet Fuchsia Ambrogio Side Table by Favaretto&Partners
Located in Geneve, CH
Sweet Fuchsia Ambrogio Side Table by Favaretto&Partners Dimensions: D 38,5 x W 42,5 x H 60,5 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 5 kg. A removable wood tray is available on request...
Other
Elephant Grey Ambrogio Side Table by Favaretto&Partners
Located in Geneve, CH
Elephant Grey Ambrogio Side Table by Favaretto&Partners Dimensions: D 38,5 x W 42,5 x H 60,5 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 5 kg. A removable wood tray is available on request...
Other
Pumpkin Orange Ambrogio Side Table by Favaretto&Partners
Located in Geneve, CH
Pumpkin Orange Ambrogio Side Table by Favaretto&Partners Dimensions: D 38,5 x W 42,5 x H 60,5 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 5 kg. A removable wood tray is available on reques...
Other
Saffron Yellow Ambrogio Side Table by Favaretto&Partners
Located in Geneve, CH
Saffron Yellow Ambrogio Side Table by Favaretto&Partners Dimensions: D 38,5 x W 42,5 x H 60,5 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 5 kg. A removable wood tray is available on reques...
Other
Dove Grey Ambrogio Side Table by Favaretto&Partners
Located in Geneve, CH
Dove Grey Ambrogio Side Table by Favaretto&Partners Dimensions: D 38,5 x W 42,5 x H 60,5 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 5 kg. A removable wood tray is available on request. Av...
Other
Coconut Grey Ambrogio Side Table by Favaretto&Partners
Located in Geneve, CH
Coconut Grey Ambrogio Side Table by Favaretto&Partners Dimensions: D 38,5 x W 42,5 x H 60,5 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 5 kg. A removable wood tray is available on request....
Other
Malva Green Ambrogio Side Table by Favaretto&Partners
Located in Geneve, CH
Malva Green Ambrogio Side Table by Favaretto&Partners Dimensions: D 38,5 x W 42,5 x H 60,5 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 5 kg. A removable wood tray is available on request. ...
Other
Lime Green Amanda Side Table by Favaretto&Partners
Located in Geneve, CH
Lime Green Amanda Side Table by Favaretto&Partners Dimensions: D 36 x W 36 x H 60 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 3,5 kg. A removable wood tray is available on request. Availab...
Other
Jet Black Amanda Side Table by Favaretto&Partners
Located in Geneve, CH
Jet Black Amanda Side Table by Favaretto&Partners Dimensions: D 36 x W 36 x H 60 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 3,5 kg. A removable wood tray is available on request. Availabl...
Other
Malva Green Amanda Side Table by Favaretto&Partners
Located in Geneve, CH
Malva Green Amanda Side Table by Favaretto&Partners Dimensions: D 36 x W 36 x H 60 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 3,5 kg. A removable wood tray is available on request. Availa...
Other
Saffron Yellow Amanda Side Table by Favaretto&Partners
Located in Geneve, CH
Saffron Yellow Amanda Side Table by Favaretto&Partners Dimensions: D 36 x W 36 x H 60 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 3,5 kg. A removable wood tray is available on request. Ava...
Other
Flame Red Amanda Side Table by Favaretto&Partners
Located in Geneve, CH
Flame Red Amanda Side Table by Favaretto&Partners Dimensions: D 36 x W 36 x H 60 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 3,5 kg. A removable wood tray is available on request. Availabl...
Other
Grapes Blue Amanda Side Table by Favaretto&Partners
Located in Geneve, CH
Grapes Blue Amanda Side Table by Favaretto&Partners Dimensions: D 36 x W 36 x H 60 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 3,5 kg. A removable wood tray is available on request. Availa...
Other
Pumpkin Orange Amanda Side Table by Favaretto&Partners
Located in Geneve, CH
Pumpkin Orange Amanda Side Table by Favaretto&Partners Dimensions: D 36 x W 36 x H 60 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 3,5 kg. A removable wood tray is available on request. Ava...
Other
Milky White Amanda Side Table by Favaretto&Partners
Located in Geneve, CH
Milky White Amanda Side Table by Favaretto&Partners Dimensions: D 36 x W 36 x H 60 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 3,5 kg. A removable wood tray is available on request. Availa...
Other
Powder Blue Amanda Side Table by Favaretto&Partners
Located in Geneve, CH
Powder Blue Amanda Side Table by Favaretto&Partners Dimensions: D 36 x W 36 x H 60 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 3,5 kg. A removable wood tray is available on request. Availa...
Other
Plum Purple Amanda Side Table by Favaretto&Partners
Located in Geneve, CH
Plum Purple Amanda Side Table by Favaretto&Partners Dimensions: D 36 x W 36 x H 60 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 3,5 kg. A removable wood tray is available on request. Availa...
Other
Coconut Grey Amanda Side Table by Favaretto&Partners
Located in Geneve, CH
Coconut Grey Amanda Side Table by Favaretto&Partners Dimensions: D 36 x W 36 x H 60 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 3,5 kg. A removable wood tray is available on request. Avail...
Other
Argil Grey Amanda Side Table by Favaretto&Partners
Located in Geneve, CH
Argil Grey Amanda Side Table by Favaretto&Partners Dimensions: D 36 x W 36 x H 60 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 3,5 kg. A removable wood tray is available on request. Availab...
Other
Chocolate Brown Amanda Side Table by Favaretto&Partners
Located in Geneve, CH
Chocolate Brown Amanda Side Table by Favaretto&Partners Dimensions: D 36 x W 36 x H 60 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 3,5 kg. A removable wood tray is available on request. Av...
Other
Dove Grey Amanda Side Table by Favaretto&Partners
Located in Geneve, CH
Dove Grey Amanda Side Table by Favaretto&Partners Dimensions: D 36 x W 36 x H 60 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 3,5 kg. A removable wood tray is available on request. Availabl...
Other
Elephant Grey Amanda Side Table by Favaretto&Partners
Located in Geneve, CH
Elephant Grey Amanda Side Table by Favaretto&Partners Dimensions: D 36 x W 36 x H 60 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 3,5 kg. A removable wood tray is available on request. Avai...
Other
$1,455 / item
Flame Red Together Side Table by Favaretto&Partners
Located in Geneve, CH
Flame Red Together Side Table by Favaretto&Partners Dimensions: D 40 x W 66 x H 68 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 7 kg. Available in a standard version and lacquered version. ...
Other
Milky White Together Side Table by Favaretto&Partners
Located in Geneve, CH
Milky White Together Side Table by Favaretto&Partners Dimensions: D 40 x W 66 x H 68 cm. Materials: Polyethylene. Weight: 7 kg. Available in a standard version and lacquered version...
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.
While the range of styles and variety of materials have broadened over time, the priceless functionality of side tables has held true.
Antique and vintage side tables are an integral accent to our seating and provide additional, necessary storage in our homes. They can be a great foundation for that perfect focal piece of art that you want all your guests to see as you congregate for cocktails in the living room. Side tables are indeed ideal as a stage for your decorative objects or plants in your library or your study, and they are a practical space for the novel or stack of design magazines you keep close to your sofa.
Sure, owning a pair of side tables isn’t as imperative as having a coffee table in the common area, though most of us would struggle without them. Those made of metal, stone or wood are frequently featured in stylish interiors, and if you’re shopping for side tables, there are a couple of things to keep in mind.
With respect to the height of your side tables, a table that is as high as your lounge chair or the arm of your couch is best.
Some folks are understandably fussy about coherence in a living room area, but coherence doesn’t necessarily mean you can’t mix and match. Feel free to introduce minimalist mid-century modern wooden side tables designed by Paul McCobb alongside your contemporary metal coffee table. If you think it isn’t possible to pair a Hollywood Regency–style side table with a contemporary sofa, we’re here to tell you that it is. Even a leggy side table can balance a chunky sofa well. Try to keep a limited color palette in mind if you’re planning on mixing furniture styles and materials, and don’t be afraid to add a piece of abstract art to shake things up.
As far as the objects you’re planning to place on your side tables, if you have heavy items such as stone or sculptures to display, a fragile glass-top table would not be an ideal choice. Think about what material would best support your collectibles and go with that. If it’s a particularly small side table, along with a tall, sleek floor lamp, it can make for a great way to fill a corner of the room you wouldn’t otherwise easily be able to populate.
Whether you are looking for an antique 19th-century carved oak side table or a vintage rattan side table (because rattan never went away!), the collection on 1stDibs has you covered — find Art Deco side tables, bamboo side tables, travertine side tables and more today.