$4,166 / item
Yellow Maryland Occasional Side Table by Somaschini
Located in Geneve, CH
Yellow Maryland Occasional Side Table by Somaschini Dimensions: D 50 x H 37 cm Materials: Lightened
Lacquer
$5,223 / item
Pebble Side Table by Pol Quadens
Located in Geneve, CH
Pebble Side Table by Pol Quadens Limited Edition Of 24+4 Pieces. Dimensions: D 55 x W 55 x H 35 cm
Stainless Steel, Steel
French Modern Polyhedron Lacquered Table
By Karl Springer, R & Y Augousti
Located in Houston, TX
French Modern Polyhedron Lacquered Table. This stunning French post modern octagonal table in the
Acrylic, Wood
$15,666 / item
Autunno Bronze Side Table by Marsica Fossati
Located in Geneve, CH
Autunno Bronze Side Table by Marsica Fossati Dimensions: D 50 x W 50 x H 55 cm. Materials: Bronze
Bronze
$3,454 / item
Frida Side Table by Studio Gaia Paris
Located in Geneve, CH
Frida Side Table by Studio Gaia Paris Dimensions: ⌀ 50 x H 50 cm Materials: Black and White Onyx
Onyx
$5,329 / item
Frida Side Table by Studio Gaia Paris
Located in Geneve, CH
Frida Side Table by Studio Gaia Paris Dimensions: ⌀ 50 x H 50 cm Materials: White, Red, Green and
Onyx
$5,685 / item
Infinity Side Table by Memoir Essence
Located in Geneve, CH
Infinity Side Table by Memoir Essence Dimensions: D 50 x W 50 x H 50 cm. Materials: Polished brass
Marble, Brass
$9,081 / item
Balance Side Table 2 by Pilar Zeta
Located in Geneve, CH
Balance side table 2 by Pilar Zeta. Materials: Marble, onyx and metal. Dimensions: W 50 x D 50 x H
Marble, Onyx, Metal
$9,081 / item
Balance Side Table 1 by Pilar Zeta
Located in Geneve, CH
Balance side table 1 by Pilar Zeta Materials: Marble, onyx and metal. Dimensions: W 50 x D 50 x H
Marble, Onyx, Metal
$5,067 / item
Aro Side Table by Gabriela Campos
Located in Geneve, CH
Aro Side Table by Gabriela Campos Dimensions: D 45 x W 60 x H 60 cm. Materials: Freijó wood with
Fabric, Wood
$5,959 / item
Arco Side Table by Gabriela Campos
Located in Geneve, CH
Arco Side Table by Gabriela Campos Dimensions: D 45 x W 60 x H 60 cm. Materials: Freijó wood with
Fabric, Wood
$1,199 / item
YOUMY Round Shaded Side Table by Mademoiselle Jo
Located in Geneve, CH
YOUMY Round Shaded Side Table by Mademoiselle Jo Dimensions: Ø 36 x H 43 cm. Materials: Shaded
Steel
$2,279 / item
Sculptural Side Table by Donatas Zukauskas
By Donatas Žukauskas
Located in Geneve, CH
Sculptural Side Table by Kasanai Dimensions: D 45 x H 54 cm. Materials: Oak, cement, recycled paper
Concrete
$3,655 / item
Large Ceramic Side Table by Project 213A
Located in Geneve, CH
Large Ceramic Side Table by Project 213A Dimensions: W57 x D57 x H54 cm Materials: Ceramic. The
Ceramic
$2,089 / item
Medium Ceramic Side Table by Project 213A
Located in Geneve, CH
Medium Ceramic Side Table by Project 213A Dimensions: W38 x D38 x H44 cm Materials: Ceramic The
Ceramic
$2,742 / item
Medium Ceramic Side Table by Project 213A
Located in Geneve, CH
Medium Ceramic Side Table by Project 213A Dimensions: W35 x D57 x H38 cm Materials: Ceramic The
Ceramic
$6,266 / item
Tree Branches Side Table by InsidherLand
Located in Geneve, CH
Tree Branches Side Table by InsidherLand Dimensions: D 60 x W 60 x H 60 cm. Materials: wood
Brass
$7,526 / item
Octogon Side Table by Memoir Essence
Located in Geneve, CH
Octogon Side Table by Memoir Essence Dimensions: D 46 x W 46 x H 54,5 cm. Materials: Brushed brass
Marble, Brass
$344 / item
White Ami Side Table by OK Design
Located in Geneve, CH
White Ami Side Table by OK Design Dimensions: D 40 x H 59.5 cm. Materials: Powder-coated metal
Metal
$344 / item
Black Ami Side Table by OK Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Black Ami Side Table by OK Design Dimensions: D 40 x H 59.5 cm. Materials: Powder-coated metal
Metal
$2,932 / item
Chouchou High Tobacco Side Table by Pulpo
Located in Geneve, CH
Chouchou high tobacco side table by Pulpo Dimensions: D39 x H57 cm Materials: ceramic Also
Ceramic
$7,050 / item
Dripotlé Mahogany Side Table by Studio TOOJ
Located in Geneve, CH
Dripotlé Mahogany Side Table by Studio TOOJ Designed by T. Woon Dimensions: D 47 x H 55 cm
Mahogany
$2,741 / item
Sculptural Side Table by Dongwook Choi
Located in Geneve, CH
Sculptural side table by Dongwook Choi Crest and Trough series Dimensions: W 42 x D 40 x H 45 cm
Silver
$2,813 / item
Bent Side Table by Donatas Zukauskas
By Donatas Žukauskas
Located in Geneve, CH
Bent Side Table by Kasanai Dimensions: D 45 x H 62 cm. Materials: Cement, wood, recycled paper
Concrete
$11,321 / item
Bliss Side Table by Gentner Design
By Christopher Gentner
Located in Geneve, CH
Bliss side table by Gentner Design Dimensions: D 35.5 x W 35.5 x H 58.5 cm Materials: polished
Stainless Steel
$2,813 / item
Bent Side Table by Donatas Zukauskas
By Donatas Žukauskas
Located in Geneve, CH
Bent Side Table by Donatas Zukauskas Dimensions: Ø 45 x H 62 cm. Materials: Concrete, wood
Concrete, Other
$960 / item
Wood and Glass Side Table, c.1970
Located in Surbiton, GB
Wood and glass coffee / side tables made from warm off-white lacquered wood bases of simple cuboid
Glass, Wood
$2,516 / item
SST013-2 Side Table by Stone Stackers
Located in Geneve, CH
SST013-2 side table by Stone Stackers Dimensions: D 36 x W 44.5 x H 45 cm Materials: Frappuccino
Marble
$26,111 / item
Moon Marble Side Table by Marsica Fossati
Located in Geneve, CH
Moon Marble Side Table by Marsica Fossati Dimensions: D 55 x H 55 cm. Materials: Marble / Onix
Onyx, Marble
Harlequin Side Table by Errebi, Italy, 1980s
Located in DE KWAKEL, NL
A striking and angular composition in sheet steel, this side table by Errebi reflects the graphic
Metal
$7,597 / item
Side Table 01 by Michael Gittings
By Michael Gittings
Located in Geneve, CH
Side table 01 by Michael Gittings Dimensions: D 55 x W 55 x H 60 cm. Materials: Stainless steel
Stainless Steel
$2,564 / item
Big Serena Side Table by Estudio Prosa
Located in Geneve, CH
Big Serena Side Table by Estudio Prosa Dimensions: D 30 x H 45 cm Materials: Wood. Available in
Wood
$2,326 / item
Small Serena Side Table by Estudio Prosa
Located in Geneve, CH
Small Serena Side Table by Estudio Prosa Dimensions: D 20 x H 55 cm Materials: Wood. Available in
Wood
$5,092 / item
Obeisance Side Table by Henry D'ath
Located in Geneve, CH
Obeisance Side Table by Henry D'ath Dimensions: D 50 x H 50 cm Materials: Wood. Available in
Wood
$6,268 / set
Pair of Brass Side Tables, Hourglass, Misaya
By Misaya
Located in Geneve, CH
Pair of brass side tables, hourglass by Misaya Dimensions: H.49 x W.35 x L.35 cm Handsculpted
Brass
$1,887 / item
Object 065 Side Table by NG Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Object 065 Side Table by NG Design Dimensions: D40 x H50 cm Materials: Marble Verde Dorato
Marble
$5,744 / item
Console Side Table by Konstantin Achkov
Located in Geneve, CH
Console Side Table by Konstantin Achkov Limited Edition Dimensions: D 45 x W 38 x H 45 cm
Stainless Steel
$1,887 / item
Object 065 Side Table by NG Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Object 065 Side Table by NG Design Dimensions: D40 x H50 cm Materials: Marble Verde Dorato Also
Marble
$2,611 / item
Jaguar Side Table by Andres Gutierrez
Located in Geneve, CH
Jaguar side table by Andres Gutierrez. Dimensions: D45 x W45 x H60 cm. Materials: Body: Pine
Oak, Pine, Plywood
$7,027 / item
MG406 Marble Side Table by Malte Gormsen
Located in Geneve, CH
MG406 Marble Side Table by Malte Gormsen Dimensions: D 40 x H 42 cm. Materials: Brown Line marble
Marble
$7,026 / item
MG406 Oak Side Table by Malte Gormsen
Located in Geneve, CH
MG406 Oak Side Table by Malte Gormsen Limited Edition Dimensions: D 40 x H 42 cm. Materials: Oak
Oak
$1,531 / item
MG213 Aluminum Side Table by Malte Gormsen
Located in Geneve, CH
MG213 Side Table by Malte Gormsen Dimensions: D 41 x H 40 cm. Materials: Aluminum. Malte Gormsen
Aluminum
$1,887 / item
Tribeca Side Table by Giacomo Tomazzi Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Tribeca Side Table by Giacomo Tomazzi Studio Dimensions: W 60 x D 60 x H 50 cm Materials: Wood
Wood
$4,213 / item
MG211 Walnut Side Table by Malte Gormsen
Located in Geneve, CH
MG211 Side Table by Malte Gormsen Dimensions: D 36 x H 58 cm. Materials: Walnut. Also available in
Walnut
$3,870 / item
MG205 Large Side Table by Malte Gormsen
Located in Geneve, CH
MG205 Large Side Table by Malte Gormsen Dimensions: D 67 x H 50 cm. Materials: Oak. Available in
Oak
$4,214 / item
MG205 Large Side Table by Malte Gormsen
Located in Geneve, CH
MG205 Large Side Table by Malte Gormsen Dimensions: D 67 x H 50 cm. Materials: Grey Nature oak
Oak
$2,113 / item
MG203 Turned Side Table by Malte Gormsen
Located in Geneve, CH
MG203 Turned Side Table by Malte Gormsen Dimensions: D 45 x H 40 cm. Materials: Oak. Available in
Oak
$3,395 / item
MG205 Small Side Table by Malte Gormsen
Located in Geneve, CH
MG205 Small Side Table by Malte Gormsen Dimensions: D 60 x H 45 cm. Materials: Oak. Available in
Oak
$2,350 / item
MG203 Turned Side Table by Malte Gormsen
Located in Geneve, CH
MG203 Turned Side Table by Malte Gormsen Dimensions: D 45 x H 40 cm. Materials: Grey Nature oak
Oak
$2,113 / item
MG203 Turned Side Table by Malte Gormsen
Located in Geneve, CH
MG203 Turned Side Table by Malte Gormsen Dimensions: D 45 x H 40 cm. Materials: Dark Nature oak
Oak
$3,870 / item
MG205 Large Side Table by Malte Gormsen
Located in Geneve, CH
MG205 Large Side Table by Malte Gormsen Dimensions: D 67 x H 50 cm. Materials: Dark Nature oak
Oak
$3,394 / item
MG205 Small Side Table by Malte Gormsen
Located in Geneve, CH
MG205 Small Side Table by Malte Gormsen Dimensions: D 60 x H 45 cm. Materials: Dark Nature oak
Oak
$6,481 / item
Brut Side Table by Daniel Schneiger
Located in Geneve, CH
Brut side table by Daniel Schneiger Dimensions: D 61 x W 61 x H 46 cm Materials: Wood and resin
Resin, Wood
$13,319 / item
Torque Walnut Side Table by Studio TOOJ
Located in Geneve, CH
Torque Walnut Side Table by Studio TOOJ Designed by Johan Wilén Dimensions: D 44 x H 51 cm
Walnut
$2,671 / item
Tio Mahogany Side Table by Studio TOOJ
Located in Geneve, CH
Tio Mahogany Side Table by Studio TOOJ Designed by Johan Wilén Dimensions: D 50 x W 50 x H 50 cm
Mahogany
$2,931 / item
Chouchou High Sand Side Table by Pulpo
Located in Geneve, CH
Chouchou high sand side table by Pulpo Dimensions: D 39 x H 57 cm Materials: Ceramic. Also
Ceramic
$8,937 / item
Fungus Side Table by David Valner
Located in Geneve, CH
Fungus Side Table by David Valner Dimensions: D 42 x W 67 x H 56 cm. Materials: Handcrafted glass
Granite, Metal
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.