$6,840 / item
Cloud Mirror Side Table by Homa
Located in Geneve, CH
Cloud Mirror Side Table by Homa Dimensions: D 50 x H 0.4 cm Marble Block: 32 x 25 x 47 cm Materials
Mirror
$9,763 / item
Ash Matryoshka Side Table by Homa
Located in Geneve, CH
Ash Matryoshka Side Table by Homa Dimensions: W 60 x D 60 x H 90 cm Materials: Smoke and Silver
Mirror
$1,822 / item
SST005 Side Table by Stone Stackers
Located in Geneve, CH
SST005 side table by Stone Stackers Dimensions: D 31.5 x W 41 x H 72.5 cm Materials: marbles
Marble
$12,497 / item
Mandacaru Side Table by Gabriela Campos
Located in Geneve, CH
Mandacaru side table by Gabriela Campos Dimensions: Ø 45 x H 50 cm. Materials: Marble composition
Marble
$7,810 / item
QTZ Side Table by Alexander Lotersztain
Located in Geneve, CH
QTZ Side Table by Alexander Lotersztain Limited Edition. Dimensions: D 37 x W 40,5 x H 40,2 cm
Metal
$2,248 / item
Ronin 5039 Side Table by Redeco
Located in Geneve, CH
Ronin 5039 Side Table by Redeco Dimensions: W 53 x D 53 x H 50 cm Materials: Solid wood structure
Wood, Beech
$3,301 / item
Ronin 5040 Side Table by Redeco
Located in Geneve, CH
Ronin 5040 Side Table by Redeco Dimensions: W 53 x D 53 x H 50 cm Materials: Solid wood structure
Wood, Beech
$1,029 / item
Altadena Side Table by Ehécatl Moreno
Located in Geneve, CH
Altadena Side Table by Ehécatl Moreno Dimensions: D 46 x W 46 x H 47 cm. Materials: Stainless steel
Stainless Steel
$11,195 / item
Side Table 018 by Jesper Eriksson
Located in Geneve, CH
Side table 018 by Jesper Eriksson Dimensions: D 43.5 x W 47.7 x H 49.2 cm Materials: Anthracite
Other
$1,644 / item
Trasiego Side Table by Sebastián Ángeles
Located in Geneve, CH
Trasiego side table by Arturo Verástegui Dimensions: D 47 x W 47 x H 54 cm Materials: oak wood
Oak
$4,343 / item
Allen Side Table by Arturo Verástegui
By Arturo Verástegui
Located in Geneve, CH
Allen side table by Arturo Verástegui Dimensions: D 35 x H 45 cm Materials: walnut wood. Also
Walnut
$4,343 / item
Allen Side Table by Arturo Verástegui
By Arturo Verástegui
Located in Geneve, CH
Allen side table by Arturo Verástegui Dimensions: D 35 x H 45 cm Materials: walnut wood. Also
Walnut
$1,171 / item
Stak Side Table by Studio Indigene
Located in Geneve, CH
Stak Side Table by Studio Indigene Dimensions: D 30.48 x W 30.48 x H 63.5 cm. Materials: Reclaimed
Bronze
$5,727 / item
Marble Bossa Side Table by DUISTT
Located in Geneve, CH
Marble Bossa Side Table by DUISTT Dimensions: W 40 x D 40 x H 47 cm Materials: Estremoz Marble
Marble
$1,905 / set
Hilu Side Table by Studio Kallang
Located in Geneve, CH
Hilu Side Table by Studio Kallang Dimensions: W 38 x D 38 x H 45 cm Materials: Solid Teak, Solid
Wood, Teak
$396Sale Price|20% Off
Postmodern Charcoal Tessellated Stone Side Table
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Exceptional vintage postmodern tessellated stone side table. Features charcoal polished stone
Stone
Vintage Boho Travertine Cube Side Table
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
side table in a living room, a unique end table anchoring a seating area, or even a commanding pedestal
Travertine
$1,650 / item
Trasiego Side Table by Sebastián Ángeles
Located in Geneve, CH
Trasiego side table by Arturo Verástegui Dimensions: D 47 x W 47 x H 54 cm Materials: oak wood
Oak
$1,644 / item
Trasiego Side Table by Sebastián Ángeles
Located in Geneve, CH
Trasiego side table by Arturo Verástegui Dimensions: D 47 x W 47 x H 54 cm Materials: oak wood
Oak
$5,467 / item
Just Contrast Side Table by Hillsideout
Located in Geneve, CH
Just Contrast Side Table by Hillsideout Dimensions: W 40 x D 40 x H 48 cm. Materials: Amazonian
Acrylic, Wood
$1,502 / item
Luminous Side Table by Yugen Lab
Located in Geneve, CH
Luminous Side Table by Yugen Lab Dimensions: D 40 x W 45 x H 46 cm. Materials: 4 mm ribbed glass
Glass
$1,952 / item
Giant Panda Side Table by Timbart
Located in Geneve, CH
Giant Panda side table by Timbart Dimensions: D 30 x W 30 x H 45 cm Material: solid oak wood
Oak
$1,609 / item
N.1 Side Table by Timbart
Located in Geneve, CH
N.1 side table by Timbart Dimensions: D 38 x H 55 cm Material: Solid poplar wood, Timbart
Poplar
$1,928 / item
Polar Bear Side Table by Timbart
Located in Geneve, CH
Polar bear side table by Timbart Dimensions: D 35 x H 75 cm Material: Solid american walnut wood
Walnut
$4,532 / item
Orbit Accent Side Table by DUISTT
Located in Geneve, CH
Orbit Accent Side Table by DUISTT Dimensions: W 50 x D 50 x H 45 cm Materials: Dark Bronze ORBIT
Bronze
$11,278 / item
Metamorphic Side Table by Alexander Lotersztain
Located in Geneve, CH
Metamorphic Side Table by Alexander Lotersztain Limited Edition. Dimensions: D 40 x W 40 x H 50 cm
Marble
$982 / item
Taonga Stone Side Table by DAaZ
Located in Geneve, CH
Taonga Stone Side Table by DAaZ Dimensions: D 49.1 x W 53.2 x H 50 cm. Materials: Albizzia wood
Stone
$2,568 / item
MG204 Side Table by Malte Gormsen
Located in Geneve, CH
MG204 Side Table by Malte Gormsen Dimensions: D 35 x W 35 x H 60 cm. Materials: Dark Nature oak
Metal
$804 / item
Pégasus Side Table by Doimo Brasil
Located in Geneve, CH
Pégasus Side Table by Doimo Brasil Dimensions: D 60 x H 55 cm Materials: Base: Veneer, Top: Clear
Glass, Wood
$1,550 / item
Coklat Side Table by Studio Kallang
Located in Geneve, CH
Coklat Side Table by Studio Kallang Dimensions: W 40 x D 35 x H 55 cm Materials: Solid Teak, Solid
Teak, Wood
$816 / item
Web Side Table by Doimo Brasil
Located in Geneve, CH
Web Side Table by Doimo Brasil Dimensions: W 90 x D 67 x H 50 cm Materials: Base: Veneer, Top
Metal
$3,704 / item
Drop Side Table by Idaaf Architects
Located in Geneve, CH
Drop Side Table by Idaaf Architects Dimensions: Ø 40 x H 50 cm. Materials: Solid walnut. Created
Walnut
$3,633 / item
Pebble Side Table by Studio Gameiro
Located in Geneve, CH
Pebble Side Table by Studio Gameiro Dimensions: D 40 x W 50 x H 48 cm. Materials: Hand-hammered
Stone
$7,810 / item
Metalique Side Table by Millim Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Metalique Side Table by Millim Studio Unique Piece. Dimensions: D 40 x W 40 x H 68 cm. Materials
Aluminum
$1,195 / item
Pro Side Table by Doimo Brasil
Located in Geneve, CH
Pro Side Table by Doimo Brasil Dimensions: D 50 x H 55 cm Materials: Base: Veneer, Top Inferior
Leather, Wood
$1,585 / item
Matty Side Table by Doimo Brasil
Located in Geneve, CH
Matty Side Table by Doimo Brasil Dimensions: D 60 x H 50 cm Materials: Base: veneer, Top
Stone
$899 / item
Pro Side Table by Doimo Brasil
Located in Geneve, CH
Pro Side Table by Doimo Brasil Dimensions: D 50 x H 55 cm Materials: Base: Aged steel, Top
Steel
$970 / item
Pro Side Table by Doimo Brasil
Located in Geneve, CH
Pro Side Table by Doimo Brasil Dimensions: D 50 x H 55 cm Materials: Base: Aged steel, Top
Metal
$627 / item
Zeta Side Table by Doimo Brasil
Located in Geneve, CH
Zeta Side Table by Doimo Brasil Dimensions: D 50 x H 40 cm Materials: Base: Veneer, Top: Aged
Wood, Leather
$3,905 / item
Less Side Table by Studio Yolk
Located in Geneve, CH
Less Side Table by Studio Yolk Dimensions: W 24 x D 48 x H 48 cm Materials: Plywood "LESS AND MORE
Plywood
$6,508 / item
S Yellow Side Table by Tellurico
Located in Geneve, CH
S Yellow Side Table by Tellurico Limited Edition Of 12 + 1 A.P. Pieces. Signed And Numbered
Other
$12,627 / item
More Side Table by Studio Yolk
Located in Geneve, CH
More Side Table by Studio Yolk Dimensions: W 24 x D 48 x H 48 cm Materials: Arabescato Carrara
Marble
$3,195 / item
Vidro Side Table G by Wentz
By Guilherme Wentz
Located in Geneve, CH
Vidro Side Table L by Wentz Dimensions: D 60 x W 60 x H 50 cm Materials: Glass, Wood. Weight
Glass, Wood
$2,958 / item
Vidro Side Table M by Wentz
By Guilherme Wentz
Located in Geneve, CH
Vidro Side Table S by Wentz Dimensions: D 60 x W 60 x H 40 cm Materials: Glass, Wood. Weight
Glass, Wood
$2,603 / item
Vidro Side Table S by Wentz
By Guilherme Wentz
Located in Geneve, CH
Vidro Side Table S by Wentz Dimensions: D 45 x W 45 x H 45 cm Materials: Glass, Wood. Weight
Glass, Wood
$1,242 / item
Pupa Side Table by Lørdag & Søndag
Located in Geneve, CH
Pupa Side Table by Lørdag & Søndag Dimensions: D 36 x W 36 x H 50 cm. Materials: Wicker and
Metal
$11,976 / item
Boneca Side Table by Gabriela Campos
Located in Geneve, CH
Boneca side table by Gabriela Campos Dimensions: Ø 35 x H 35 cm. Materials: Marble composition on
Marble
$1,053 / item
Hoop Side Table by Doimo Brasil
Located in Geneve, CH
Hoop Side Table by Doimo Brasil Dimensions: W 60 x D 60 x H 40 cm Materials: Base: Reconstituted
Leather, Glass
$6,508 / item
Adah Side Table by Studio Anansi
Located in Geneve, CH
Adah Side Table by Studio Anansi Dimensions: D41 x W41 x H49 cm Materials: Afircan Sapele, White
Oak
$10,934 / item
Dança Side Table by Gabriela Campos
Located in Geneve, CH
Dança side table by Gabriela Campos Dimensions: Ø 35 x H 50 cm. Materials: Marble composition on
Marble
$2,059 / item
Drop Side Table in Jesmonite by Perler
Located in Geneve, CH
Drop Side Table in Jesmonite by Perler. Dimensions: W 55 x D 34 x H 40 cm. Materials: Jesmonite
Other
$2,343 / item
Sculpted Side Table by Jörg Pietschmann
By Jörg Pietschmann
Located in Geneve, CH
Sculpted side table by Jörg Pietschmann Dimensions: H 93 x W 37 x D 34 cm In Pietschmann’s
Oak
$56,164 / item
Figura Side Table by Christian Friedl
Located in Geneve, CH
Figura Side Table by Christian Friedl Unique Piece. Dimensions: D 73 x W 98 x H 65 cm. Materials
Concrete
$1,519 / item
Grão Wood Side Table by Studio Orth
Located in Geneve, CH
Grão Wood Side Table by Studio Orth Dimensions: W 45 x D 39 x H 42 cm Materials: Solid wood
Wood
$2,272 / item
Sculptural Side Table by Donatas Zukauskas
By Donatas Žukauskas
Located in Geneve, CH
Sculptural Side Table by Donatas Zukauskas Dimensions: Ø 45 x H 54 cm. Materials: Oak, and mixed
Other
$2,568 / item
Grão Stone Side Table by Studio Orth
Located in Geneve, CH
Grão Stone Side Table by Studio Orth Dimensions: W 45 x D 39 x H 42 cm Materials: Stone, Options
Stone
$3,195 / item
Volta Side Table 70 by Wentz
By Guilherme Wentz
Located in Geneve, CH
Volta Side Table 70 by Wentz Dimensions: D 70 x W 70 x H 55 cm Materials: Wood, Plywood, MDF
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.