S Side Table by Tellurico
$6,319 / item
S Side Table by Tellurico
Located in Geneve, CH
S Side Table by Tellurico Limited Edition Of 12 + 1 A.P. Pieces. Signed And Numbered. Dimensions
2010s Dutch Post-Modern Side Tables
Other
$6,319 / item
S Side Table by Tellurico
Located in Geneve, CH
S Side Table by Tellurico Limited Edition Of 12 + 1 A.P. Pieces. Signed And Numbered. Dimensions
Other
$4,739 / item
XS Side Table by Tellurico
Located in Geneve, CH
XS Side Table by Tellurico Limited Edition Of 12 + 1 A.P. Pieces. Signed And Numbered. Dimensions
Other
$5,793 / item
XM Side Table by Tellurico
Located in Geneve, CH
XM Side Table by Tellurico Limited Edition Of 12 + 1 A.P. Pieces. Signed And Numbered. Dimensions
Other
$2,477 / item
Travertine Side Table by Petra Madalena
Located in Geneve, CH
Travertine Side Table by Petra Madalena Dimensions: W 20 x D 30 x H 50 cm Materials: travertine
Travertine
$3,291 / item
Bevel Side Table by HADGE
By Hadge
Located in Geneve, CH
Bevel Side Table by HADGE Dimensions: D 36 x W 36 x H 40 cm. Materials: Weathered chrome black
Steel
$5,661 / item
Ipanema Side Table by DUISTT
Located in Geneve, CH
Ipanema Side Table by DUISTT Dimensions: W 53 x D 50 x H 49 cm Materials: Satin Lacquered Wood
Bronze
$3,758 / item
Adana Side Table by Kasanai
Located in Geneve, CH
Adana Side Table by Kasanai Dimensions: D 64 x W 43 x H 42 cm. Materials: Lime plaster. Also
Plaster
$2,896 / item
Bevel Side Table by HADGE
By Hadge
Located in Geneve, CH
Bevel Side Table by HADGE Dimensions: D 36 x W 36 x H 40 cm. Materials: Steel. Finish: Weathered
Steel
$3,004 / item
Mano Side Table by Domkapa
Located in Geneve, CH
Mano side table by Domkapa Dimensions: W 40 x D 40 x H 56 cm. Materials: Black lacquered matte
Leather, Lacquer
$490 / item
Bron Side Table by Pastform
Located in Geneve, CH
Bron Side Table by Pastform Dimensions: D 35 x W 35 x H 42 cm. Materials: Stained and varnished
Wood
$827 / item
Manhattan Side Table by Morica Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Manhattan Side Table by Morica Design Dimensions: D 45 x W 45 x H 46 cm. Materials: Canaletto
Wood
$2,106 / item
Satin Side Table by Mingardo
Located in Geneve, CH
Satin side table by Mingardo Dimensions: D53 x H60 cm. Materials: RAL 9005 black varnished iron
Brass, Iron
$3,483 / item
Arizona Side Table by InsidherLand
Located in Geneve, CH
Arizona Side Table by InsidherLand Dimensions: D 50 x W 50 x H 55 cm. Materials: Walnut and oak
Oak, Walnut
$9,479 / item
Shamalow Side Table by Senimo
Located in Geneve, CH
Shamalow Side Table by Senimo Limited Edition Dimensions: D 50 x W 48 x H 45 cm. Materials: Wood
Wood, Faux Fur
$897 / item
Copacabana Side Table by Domkapa
Located in Geneve, CH
Copacabana side table by Domkapa Materials: black texturized stainless steel, bamboo wood
Stainless Steel
$742 / item
Bondi Side Table by Domkapa
Located in Geneve, CH
Bondi side table by Domkapa. Materials: black texturized steel, grey lacquered. Dimensions: W 56
Stainless Steel
$1,125 / item
Terracotta Side Table by Deetee Home
Located in Geneve, CH
Terracotta Side Table by Deetee Home Dimensions: D 36.83 x H 45.72 cm Materials: Stoneware To
Stoneware
$7,193 / item
Columnar Side Table by Ombia
By Ōmbia Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Columnar side table by Ombia Dimensions: W 42 x D 33 x H 43.5 cm Materials: White raw plaster
Other
$4,344 / item
Macari Side Table by Arcahorn
Located in Geneve, CH
Macari Side Table by Arcahorn Dimensions: D 50 x H 65 cm Materials: Horn, glass, stainless steel
Stainless Steel
$1,352 / item
Trestle Side Table by Mingardo
Located in Geneve, CH
Trestle side table by Mingardo Dimensions: D 20 x W 10 x H 42.4 cm Materials: Nat. Or wengé oak
Brass, Copper
$3,878 / item
Silos Side Table by Dalmoto
Located in Geneve, CH
Silos Side Table by Dalmoto Dimensions: Ø 54 x H 67 cm. Materials: Nichel Marino nickel and resin
Nickel
$1,903 / item
Pins Round Side Table by Marioni
Located in Geneve, CH
Pins Round Side Table by Marioni Dimensions: D 40 x H 40 cm. Materials: Brass structure and glazed
Brass
$2,046 / item
Pins Round Side Table by Marioni
Located in Geneve, CH
Pins Round Side Table by Marioni Dimensions: D 50 x H 55 cm. Materials: Brass structure and glazed
Brass
$2,621 / item
Pins Round Side Table by Marioni
Located in Geneve, CH
Pins Round Side Table by Marioni Dimensions: D 65 x H 65 cm. Materials: Brass structure and glazed
Brass
$1,950 / item
Panton Side Table by Domkapa
Located in Geneve, CH
Panton side table by Domkapa Dimensions: W 50 x D 50 x H 51 cm. Materials: Grey beige matte
Steel, Stainless Steel
$7,013 / item
Side Table by Michael Gittings
By Michael Gittings
Located in Geneve, CH
Side table by Michael Gittings Dimensions: D 40 x W 40 x H 55 cm. Materials: stainless steel
Stainless Steel
$2,764 / item
Trama Side Table by Rosana Sousa
Located in Geneve, CH
Trama Side Table by Rosana Sousa One Of A Kind Dimensions: D 35,5 x W 35,5 x H 52 cm. Materials
Oak, Walnut
$7,230 / item
Solid Walnut Palodia Side Table by Madheke
Located in Geneve, CH
Solid Walnut Palodia Side Table by Madheke Dimensions: D 61 x W 61 x H 50.8 cm. Materials: Solid
Wood
$2,200 / item
Marco Zanini Zanzibar side table black
By Bieffeplast, Marco Zanini
Located in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
Zanzibar side table designed by Marco Zanini for Bieffeplast. Marco Zanini designed 12 side tables
Steel
$2,200 / item
Marco Zanini Zanzibar side table violet
By Marco Zanini, Bieffeplast
Located in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
Zanzibar side table designed by Marco Zanini for Bieffeplast. Marco Zanini designed 12 side tables
Steel
$2,106 / item
SST023 Side Table by Stone Stackers
Located in Geneve, CH
SST023 side table by Stone Stackers Dimensions: D 34 x W 54 x H 45 cm Materials: Calacatta Oro
Marble
$1,256 / item
Traspade Side Table by Testatonda
By Testatonda
Located in Geneve, CH
Traspade side table by Testatonda Dimensions: D 55 x W 55 x H 42 cm. Materials: stainless steel
Stainless Steel
$5,266 / item
SST025 Side Table by Stone Stackers
Located in Geneve, CH
SST025 side table by Stone Stackers Dimensions: D 70 x W 120 x H 61 cm Materials: Calacatta Vagli
Marble
$2,872 / item
SST021 Side Table by Stone Stackers
Located in Geneve, CH
SST021 side table by Stone Stackers Dimensions: D 56.5 x W 55 x H 69.5 cm Materials: Carrara marble
Marble
$2,549 / item
SST022 Side Table by Stone Stackers
Located in Geneve, CH
SST022 side table by Stone Stackers Dimensions: D 45 x W 50 x H 52 cm Materials: Calacatta Oro
Marble
$10,341 / item
Cuitzeo Side Table by Drusch Design
Located in Geneve, CH
timeless quality, while the 9mm smoked black tempered glass offers a modern touch. This side table
Stone
$2,106 / item
Brass Side Table, Compound I, Misaya
By Misaya
Located in Geneve, CH
Brass side table - compound I by Misaya. Dimensions: 49 x 48 x 44 cm Hand-sculpted brass table.
Brass
Gene Summers Bronze F4 Side Table
By Gene Summers
Located in Highland, IN
these sculptural bronze pieces. This important design, the F4 side table is an excellent example of
Bronze
Vintage Boho Arched Rattan Side Table
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Define your living space with the architectural charm of this pair of vintage tortoise rattan side
Rattan, Glass
$2,812 / item
Droplet Side Table II by DAaZ
Located in Geneve, CH
Droplet Side Table II by DAaZ Dimensions: D 30 x W 55 x H 46.5 cm. Materials: Copper. DAaZ
Copper
$5,039 / item
Glee Copper Side Table by DAaZ
Located in Geneve, CH
Glee Copper Side Table by DAaZ Limited Edition Dimensions: D 33 x W 33 x H 51 cm. Materials: Copper
Copper
$6,164 / item
Platinum Luster Myra Side Table by deBlona
Located in Geneve, CH
Platinum Luster Myra Side Table by deBlona Dimensions: D 33 x H 49 cm. Materials: Ceramic. Colors
Ceramic
$778 / item
Mio Side Table by Thorup Copenhagen
Located in Geneve, CH
Mio Side Table by Thorup Copenhagen Dimensions: D 32 x H 44 cm. Materials: Stained oak. Available
Oak
$778 / item
Mio Side Table by Thorup Copenhagen
Located in Geneve, CH
Mio Side Table by Thorup Copenhagen Dimensions: D 32 x H 44 cm. Materials: Oiled oak. Available in
Oak
$8,857 / item
Baby E Side Table by Veermakers
Located in Geneve, CH
Baby E Side Table by Veermakers Dimensions: W 67 x D 45 x H 56 cm. Materials: Mahogany Classic
Mahogany
$5,613 / item
Eight Side Table S by Veermakers
Located in Geneve, CH
Eight Side Table S by Veermakers Dimensions: D 40 x H 60 cm. Materials: Craft Black steel. About
Steel
$3,789 / item
MG211 Side Table by Malte Gormsen
Located in Geneve, CH
MG211 Side Table by Malte Gormsen Dimensions: D 36 x H 58 cm. Materials: Oak. Also available in
Oak
$1,208 / item
Tent Side Table by Studio Kallang
Located in Geneve, CH
Tent Side Table by Studio Kallang Dimensions: W 45 x D 45 x H 55 cm Materials: Solid Sungkai
Wood
$933 / item
Filla Side Table by Doimo Brasil
Located in Geneve, CH
Filla Side Table by Doimo Brasil Dimensions: W 40 x D 35 x H 55 cm Materials: Base: Aged steel
Steel
$2,633 / item
SST010 Side Table by Stone Stackers
Located in Geneve, CH
SST010 side table by Stone Stackers Dimensions: D38.5 x W49.5 x H68.2 cm Materials: Marbles
Marble
$3,423 / item
SST009 Side Table by Stone Stackers
Located in Geneve, CH
SST009 side table by Stone Stackers Dimensions: D 61.2 x W 95 x H 65.5 cm Materials: Marbles
Marble
$742 / item
Ora Side Table by Doimo Brasil
Located in Geneve, CH
Ora Side Table by Doimo Brasil Dimensions: D 60 x H 45 cm Materials: Base: Veneer , Top
Leather
$1,101 / item
Eclipse Side Table by Doimo Brasil
Located in Geneve, CH
Eclipse Side Table by Doimo Brasil Dimensions: W 70 x D 70 x H 55 cm Materials: Veneer. Also
Wood
$969 / item
Tao Side Table by Doimo Brasil
Located in Geneve, CH
Tao Side Table by Doimo Brasil Dimensions: D 60 x H 40 cm Materials: Base: Veneer , Top: Clear
Glass
$1,711 / item
Vanta Side Table by Studio Indigene
Located in Geneve, CH
Vanta Side Table by Studio Indigene Dimensions: D 27.94 x W 27.94 x H 55.88 cm Materials: Reclaimed
Wood
$586 / item
Alca 1 Side Table by Wentz
By Guilherme Wentz
Located in Geneve, CH
Alca 1 Side Table by Wentz Dimensions: D 36 x W 36 x H 71 cm Materials: Steel. Also available in
Steel
$778 / item
Alca 2 Side Table by Wentz
By Guilherme Wentz
Located in Geneve, CH
Alca 2 Side Table by Wentz Dimensions: D 45 x W 45 x H 71 cm Materials: Steel. Also available in
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.
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.