$1,171 / item
Cubo Side Table by Edoardo Lietti Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Cubo Side Table by Edoardo Lietti Studio Unique Piece Dimensions: D 32 x W 32 x H 32 cm. Materials: Birch plywood. Weight: 8 kg. All objects are self-manufactured, making each a uni...
Birch, Plywood
$1,408 / item
Alvorada Side Table by Giacomo Tomazzi Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Alvorada Side Table by Giacomo Tomazzi Studio Dimensions: W 62 x D 35 x H 55 cm Materials: Woven wicker, Polished stainless steel. ABOUT Giácomo Tomazzi graduated in architecture an...
Stainless Steel
$4,141 / item
Small Rivelo Side Table by Nikolai Kotlarczyk
By Nikolai Kotlarczyk
Located in Geneve, CH
Small Rivelo Side Table by Nikolai Kotlarczyk Dimensions: D 54 x W 40 x H 45 cm. Materials: Folded plywood, Alpi veneer. Also available in other designs and dimensions. Niko...
Other
$1,633 / item
Mottled Tripod Side Table by Donatas Zukauskas
By Donatas Žukauskas
Located in Geneve, CH
Mottled Tripod Side Table by Kasanai Dimensions: D 38 x H 65 cm. Materials: Concrete, recycled cardboard, glue, paint. 6 kg. The fusion of sturdiness and elegance, along with the bl...
Concrete
$1,917 / item
Band 55 Side Table by De Castelli
Located in Geneve, CH
Band 55 Side Table by De Castelli Dimensions: ⌀ 50 x H 55 cm Materials: DeLabré Brass, Metal Other versions are available, please contact us for any request. The Band table set crea...
Brass, Metal
$2,165 / item
Band 60 Side Table by De Castelli
Located in Geneve, CH
Band 60 Side Table by De Castelli Dimensions: ⌀ 50 x H 60 cm Materials: DeLabré Copper, Metal Other versions are available, please contact us for any request. The Band table set cre...
Metal, Copper
$3,419 / item
Alwa Two Green Black Side Table by Pulpo
Located in Geneve, CH
Alwa two green black side table by Pulpo. Dimensions: D38 x H44 cm. Materials: casted glass; powder coated steel. Also available in different finishes. Normally, glass is regarded...
Steel
Bespoke Post Modernist Wood and marble BONGO Tables, designed by Chris Maher
By Gabriel Ann Maher
Located in Buffalo, NY
Chris Maher is a visual artist and furniture designer who specializes in creating original one of a kind pieces that are both contemporary and timeless. He began his career as a scu...
Marble
$6,094 / item
Epang 09 Side Table by Sing Chan
Located in Geneve, CH
Epang 09 side table by Sing Chan Dimensions: W 40 x D 40 x H 37.5 cm Materials: Manual sculpture, teak, black paint, waxing. Sing Chan ( Chinese: 陈星宇/Xingyu Chen) , the founder of S...
Teak, Paint
$6,520 / item
Epang 08 Side Table by Sing Chan
Located in Geneve, CH
Epang 08 side table by Sing Chan Dimensions: W 25 x D 25 x H 90 cm Materials: Manual sculpture, teak, black paint, waxing Sing Chan ( Chinese: 陈星宇/Xingyu Chen) , the founder of SING...
Teak, Paint
$3,798 / item
Epang 06 Side Table by Sing Chan
Located in Geneve, CH
Epang 06 side table by Sing Chan Dimensions: W 25 x D 25 x H 37.5 cm Materials: Manual sculpture, teak, black paint, waxing. Sing Chan ( Chinese: 陈星宇/Xingyu Chen) , the founder of S...
Teak, Paint
$4,946 / item
Epang 07 Side Table by Sing Chan
Located in Geneve, CH
Epang 07 side table by Sing Chan Dimensions: W 25 x D 25 x H 52.5 cm Materials: Manual sculpture, teak, black paint, waxing Sing Chan ( Chinese: 陈星宇/Xingyu Chen) , the founder of SI...
Teak, Paint
$8,307 / item
Epang 10 Side Table by Sing Chan
Located in Geneve, CH
Epang 10 side table by Sing Chan Dimensions: W 70 x D 25 x H 45 cm Materials: Manual sculpture, teak, black paint, waxing. Sing Chan ( Chinese: 陈星宇/Xingyu Chen) , the founder of SI...
Teak, Paint
$4,271 / item
Drop 38 Side Table by De Castelli
Located in Geneve, CH
Drop 38 Side Table by De Castelli Dimensions: W 69 x D 55 x H 38 cm Materials: Copper, Other Other versions are available, please contact us for any request. Drops is a family of co...
Copper, Other
$4,378 / item
Drop 52 Side Table by De Castelli
Located in Geneve, CH
Drop 52 Side Table by De Castelli Dimensions: W 42 x D 54 x H 52 cm Materials: Copper, Other Other versions are available, please contact us for any request. Drops is a family of co...
Copper, Other
$6,875 / item
T-03 Side Table by Orlando Pippig
Located in Geneve, CH
T-03 Side Table by Orlando Pippig Dimensions: W 23 x D 23 x H 57 cm (Dimensions may vary slightly) Materials: Burnt Ash T-03 was designed to harness opposites: light and dark, solid...
Ash
$4,674 / item
Luna Park Side Table by Secondome Edizioni
Located in Geneve, CH
Luna Park Side Table by Secondome Edizioni Designer: Hillsideout. Dimensions: D 45 x W 40 x H 27 cm. Materials: Murano glass. Collection / Production: Secondome. This piece can be c...
Murano Glass
$2,201 / item
Brick Side Table 03 by Idaaf Architects
Located in Geneve, CH
Brick Side Table 03 by Idaaf Architects Dimensions: D 30 x W 60 x H 45 cm. Materials: Burnt and painted wood. ‘Brick’ is the first attempt by Idaaf Architects workshop to create a n...
Wood
$1,562 / item
Brick Side Table 02 by Idaaf Architects
Located in Geneve, CH
Brick Side Table 02 by Idaaf Architects Dimensions: D 30 x W 30 x H 45 cm. Materials: Wood and micro cement. ‘Brick’ is the first attempt by Idaaf Architects workshop to create a ne...
Cement
$2,414 / item
Alchemy 35 Side Table by De Castelli
Located in Geneve, CH
Alchemy 35 Side Table by De Castelli Dimensions: ⌀ 48 x H 35 cm Materials: DeLabré Stainless Steel, Polished Stainless Steel Other versions are available, please contact us for any r...
Stainless Steel
$2,863 / item
Bermuda Triangle Flow Side Table by Odditi
Located in Geneve, CH
Bermuda Triangle Flow Side Table by Odditi Dimensions: W 54 x D 52 x H 65 cm Materials: Petrified Wood, Limestone Composite, Steel The ‘Bermuda Triangle’ flow table features a petr...
Limestone, Steel
$2,816 / item
Alentejo Estremoz Marble Side Table by InsidherLand
Located in Geneve, CH
Alentejo Estremoz Marble Side Table by InsidherLand Dimensions: D 49 x W 49 x H 60 cm. Materials: Estremoz marble, cast brass with patinated effect. 15 kg. Other materials available....
Marble, Brass
$5,703 / item
Ipanema Brass Marble Side Table by DUISTT
Located in Geneve, CH
Ipanema Brass Marble Side Table by DUISTT Dimensions: W 50 x D 50 x H 46 cm Materials: Twilight Marble top, Lacquered wood and Light Bronze details The rounded geometric shapes of t...
Marble, Bronze
$5,313 / item
Palm Estremoz Marble Side Table by InsidherLand
Located in Geneve, CH
Palm Estremoz Marble Side Table by InsidherLand Dimensions: D 50 x W 50 x H 60 cm. Materials: Estremoz marble, brass with patinated effect. 22 kg. Other marbles available. The Palm ...
Marble, Brass
Postmodern Wooden Plant Stand or Side Table, 1980s
Located in Hamburg, DE
Postmodern Wooden Plant Stand or Side Table, in Very Good conditions. Designed 1980 to 1989. Additional information: Materials: Wood Style: Memphis, Postmodern Period: 1980s Item Ty...
Wood
$7,810 / item
Gwol Side Table by Lee Jung Hoon
Located in Geneve, CH
Gwol side table by Lee Jung Hoon Dimensions: D80 x W33 x H52cm Materials: Stainless steel, Iron Corrosion. This work is designed under the theme of coexistence between the past...
Stainless Steel, Iron
$7,810 / item
Gwol Side Table by Lee Jung Hoon
Located in Geneve, CH
Gwol Side Table by Lee Jung Hoon Dimensions: D60 x W40 x H52cm Materials: Stainless steel, Iron Corrosion. This work is designed under the theme of coexistence between the past...
Stainless Steel, Iron
$11,372 / item
Baltic Bronze Side Table by Gentner Design
By Christopher Gentner
Located in Geneve, CH
Baltic bronze side table by Gentner Design Dimensions: D 33 x W 33 x H 48 cm Materials: lightened bronze Available in lightened bronze and darkened bronze. The Baltic embodies a con...
Bronze
$3,905 / item
Stoneware Side Table 2 by Sophie Vaidie
Located in Geneve, CH
Stoneware Side Table 2 by Sophie Vaidie One Of A Kind. Dimensions: Ø 44 x H 62 cm. Materials: Beige stoneware with beige glaze. In the beginning, there was a need to make, with the...
Stoneware
Vintage Bronze and Glass Waterfall Side Table
By Pace Collection, Leon Rosen
Located in Atlanta, GA
Sleek Postmodern 1980s design waterfall accent or side table with heavy tempered glass top and side panels with gilt bronze curved corner brackets. The bottle green glass allows li...
Brass, Bronze
$4,839 / item
Metal Rino III Side Table by Studio Orth
Located in Geneve, CH
Metal Rino III Side Table by Studio Orth Dimensions: W 64 x D 48 x H 48 cm Materials: Cast Metal and Stone. Finishes: "Base: Polished Cast Brass or Polished Cast Aluminum. Tabletop: ...
Stone, Metal
$19,785 / item
Marble PHI Side Table by Lisa Franzen
Located in Geneve, CH
Marble PHI Side Table by Lisa Franzen Limited Edition of 8 pieces. Dimensions: Ø 39 x H 51 cm. Material: Marble Bianco Carrara, Marble Verde Alpi. Exclusively handmade in Italy...
Marble
Brown Red Maryland Occasional Side Table by Somaschini
Located in Geneve, CH
Brown Red Maryland Occasional Side Table by Somaschini Dimensions: D 50 x H 37 cm Materials: Lightened mdf monolithic structure with emptying. S 34-02, 118 Brown-red high gloss. Sid...
Lacquer
Brown Red Maryland Occasional Side Table by Somaschini
Located in Geneve, CH
Brown Red Maryland Occasional Side Table by Somaschini Dimensions: D 50 x H 57 cm Materials: Lightened mdf monolithic structure with emptying. S33 Nuanced Brown-red polyester lacquer...
Lacquer
Rodolfo side table 90s Y2K style Baleri Italia
By Baleri Italia, Enrico Baleri
Located in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
Rodolfo side table designed by Enrico Baleri for Baleri Italia. This table was published in the 90s. Half transparent table top and steel legs in polished finish. Really good exampl...
Steel
$4,674 / item
Sky Blue Hera Side Table by Studio Mohs
Located in Geneve, CH
Sky Blue Hera Side Table by Studio Mohs Dimensions: W 40 x D 40 x H 40 cm Materials: Marble. The Sky Blue marble originating from Alanya-Gazipaşa has orange-green and gray-blue vein...
Marble
$1,763 / item
Itaca 45 Side Table by Atlas Project
Located in Geneve, CH
Itaca 45 Side Table by Atlas Project Dimensions: Ø 45 x H 50 cm. Materials: Stainless mirror steel and glass. Available in different sizes. Please contact us. Itaca Coffee Tables ...
Stainless Steel
Italian Postmodern White Marble & Glass Side Tables, Pair
By Hank Kwint, Metaform Holland
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pair of Italian Postmodern side tables, each featuring a thick square clear glass top supported by an L-shaped white marble slab base with chrome risers. The marble displays bold Gra...
Marble, Chrome
$9,111 / item
Values Multiculture Side Table by Geke Lensink
Located in Geneve, CH
Values multiculture side table by Geke Lensink Dimensions: D 45 x H 50 cm Materials: nutwood and gold leaf After graduating from ArtEZ University of the Arts, Geke Lensink star...
Gold Leaf
$3,147 / item
Euphoria Small Side Table by Memoir Essence
Located in Geneve, CH
Euphoria Small Side Table by Memoir Essence Dimensions: D 46 x W 46 x H 50 cm. Materials: Poplar Root with high gloss lacquer and brushed brass. Available in two different sizes and...
Brass
$3,147 / item
Euphoria Tall Side Table by Memoir Essence
Located in Geneve, CH
Euphoria Tall Side Table by Memoir Essence Dimensions: D 37 x W 37 x H 60 cm. Materials: Poplar Root with high gloss lacquer and brushed brass. Available in two different sizes and ...
Brass
Vintage Pencil Reed Bowl Side Tables - A Pair
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
This striking pair of vintage side tables beautifully marries organic textures with structural elegance. Featuring hand-applied pencil reed in a concentric, bowl-style design, these ...
Metal
$3,905 / item
Cold Bent Side Table by Nick Pourfard
Located in Geneve, CH
Cold bent side table by Nick Pourfard Dimensions: W 20.5 x D 35.5 x H 46 cm. Materials: wood. Different finishes available. Wood is bent without steam or lamination, playing ad...
Wood
$1,917 / item
Band 65 Side Table by De Castelli
Located in Geneve, CH
Band 65 Side Table by De Castelli Dimensions: ⌀ 50 x H 65 cm. Materials: DeLabré Stainless Steel, Metal Other versions are available, please contact us for any request. The Band tab...
Stainless Steel, Metal
$3,905 / item
Ocean Murano Waste Side Table by Hillsideout
Located in Geneve, CH
Ocean Murano Waste Side Table by Hillsideout Dimensions: W 37 x D 37 x H 39 cm. Materials: Murano Glass, Woods, Epoxy resin, Acrylic. The side-table is as well lighting and stool i...
Glass, Acrylic, Wood, Epoxy Resin
Pair of Vintage Italian Beveled Travertine Pedestal Side Tables
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Condition: Original Vintage Condition This striking pair of vintage Italian side tables, dating to the 1970s, showcases the natural beauty and sculptural quality of warm cream-tone...
Travertine
$2,686 / item
Pins Round Side Table with Spheres by Marioni
Located in Geneve, CH
Pins Round Side Table with Spheres by Marioni Dimensions: D 65 x H 65 cm. Materials: Brass details, 4 spheres and glazed ceramic base. Back painted glass top. Product code: 02928 P...
Brass
$19,064 / item
Large Departed Marble Side Table by Studio TOOJ
Located in Geneve, CH
Large Departed Marble Side Table by Studio TOOJ Designed by Johan Wilén Dimensions: D 41 x H 52 cm. Materials: Soft-honed Cipollino marble. Introducing "DEPARTED" by Johan Wilén, a ...
Marble
$15,005 / item
Small Departed Marble Side Table by Studio TOOJ
Located in Geneve, CH
Small Departed Marble Side Table by Studio TOOJ Designed by Johan Wilén Dimensions: D 41 x H 40 cm. Materials: Soft-honed Rosso Francia marble. Introducing "DEPARTED" by Johan Wilén...
Marble
$4,686 / item
Elena Cube Side Table by Studio Gaia Paris
Located in Geneve, CH
Elena Cube Side Table by Studio Gaia Paris Dimensions: W 40 x D 40 x H 40 cm Materials: Amber, Green, White and Pink Onyx The Elena cube in striped onyx is a refined piece of furni...
Onyx
Cathy Lies Side Table by Christopher Pillet. France, 1980s.
Located in London, GB
'Cathy Lies' Side Table by Christopher Pillet. This very finely finished piece takes the form of a three armed figure holding a circular top.
Wood
$5,703 / item
Nickel Plated Ipanema Side Table by DUISTT
Located in Geneve, CH
Nickel Plated Ipanema Side Table by DUISTT Dimensions: W 50 x D 50 x H 46 cm Materials: Green Spider Marble top, Lacquered wood and Nickel Plated Brass details Rich in contrast and ...
Marble, Brass, Nickel
$8,129 / item
Dripotlé Quartz Sand Side Table by Studio TOOJ
Located in Geneve, CH
Dripotlé Quartz Sand Side Table by Studio TOOJ Designed by T. Woon Dimensions: D 47 x H 55 cm. Materials: Quartz sand. Also available in walnut, travertine, and mahogany. Please con...
Other
$4,283 / item
Brushed Diabase Hera Side Table by Studio Mohs
Located in Geneve, CH
Brushed Diabase Hera Side Table by Studio Mohs Dimensions: W 40 x D 40 x H 40 cm Materials: Marble. Diabase, also known as dolerite and microgarbo in the literature, extracted from ...
Marble
$3,999 / item
Polished Diabase Envo Side Table by Studio Mohs
Located in Geneve, CH
Polished Diabase Envo Side Table by Studio Mohs Dimensions: W 55 x D 30 x H 52 cm Materials: Marble. Diabase, also known as dolerite and microgarbo in the literature, extracted from...
Marble
$3,999 / item
Brushed Diabase Envo Side Table by Studio Mohs
Located in Geneve, CH
Brushed Diabase Envo Side Table by Studio Mohs Dimensions: W 55 x D 30 x H 52 cm Materials: Marble. Diabase, also known as dolerite and microgarbo in the literature, extracted from ...
Marble
$3,408 / item
Polished Diabase Sobre Side Table by Studio Mohs
Located in Geneve, CH
Polished Diabase Sobre Side Table by Studio Mohs Dimensions: W 45 x D 30 x H 51 cm Materials: Marble. Diabase, also known as dolerite and microgarbo in the literature, extracted fro...
Marble
$6,283 / item
Cirque Side Table by Studio Uwe Gaertner
Located in Geneve, CH
Cirque Coffee Table by Studio Uwe Gaertner Dimensions: D 45 x W 52 x H 38 cm. Materials: Estremoz, brass, and oak. DESIGN BY STUDIO UWE GAERTNER The furniture collection from Studi...
Brass, Other
$3,928 / item
Tall "T" Side Table by Gentner Design
By Christopher Gentner
Located in Geneve, CH
Tall "T" side table by Gentner Design Dimensions: D 22.8 x W 25.4 x H 55.8 cm Materials: darkened stainless steel The T Table Collection consists of two different sizes of t-sha...
Stainless Steel
$3,928 / item
Short "T" Side Table by Gentner Design
By Christopher Gentner
Located in Geneve, CH
Short "T" side table by Gentner Design Dimensions: D 30 x W 30 x H 35.5 cm Materials: darkened stainless steel The T Table Collection consists of two different sizes of t-shaped...
Stainless 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.