Post Modern Teapot
Vintage 1980s American Post-Modern Ceramics
Stoneware
1990s American Post-Modern Ceramics
Stoneware
1990s American Post-Modern Ceramics
Ceramic
Vintage 1980s Italian Post-Modern Tea Sets
Silver Plate, Brass
Late 20th Century German Post-Modern Pitchers
Ceramic
Late 20th Century European Post-Modern Porcelain
Porcelain
20th Century Japanese Post-Modern Tea Sets
Porcelain
Vintage 1980s Swedish Post-Modern Tea Sets
Porcelain
Vintage 1970s Italian Post-Modern Tea Sets
Ceramic
Vintage 1980s Italian Post-Modern Ceramics
Ceramic
2010s Post-Modern Abstract Sculptures
Ceramic
2010s Post-Modern Abstract Sculptures
Ceramic
2010s Post-Modern Abstract Sculptures
Ceramic
2010s Post-Modern Abstract Sculptures
Ceramic
Vintage 1980s American Post-Modern Tea Sets
Porcelain
Vintage 1980s Italian Post-Modern Tea Sets
Ceramic
1990s American Post-Modern Vases
Stoneware
20th Century American Post-Modern Tea Sets
Ceramic
1990s American Post-Modern Ceramics
Ceramic
Vintage 1980s American Post-Modern Vases
Ceramic
Late 20th Century Post-Modern Tea Sets
Ceramic
Vintage 1980s American Post-Modern Glass
Art Glass
20th Century Japanese Post-Modern Tea Sets
Porcelain
Late 20th Century Italian Post-Modern Tea Sets
Silver
Vintage 1970s American Post-Modern Tea Sets
Ceramic
Vintage 1980s American Post-Modern Tea Sets
Ceramic
Early 2000s American Post-Modern Ceramics
Ceramic
20th Century Italian Post-Modern Tea Sets
Stainless Steel
Vintage 1980s American Post-Modern Abstract Sculptures
Metal
Vintage 1980s American Post-Modern Ceramics
Ceramic, Porcelain
Vintage 1980s French Post-Modern Ceramics
Ceramic
Vintage 1980s American Post-Modern Ceramics
Ceramic, Porcelain
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A Close Look at post-modern Furniture
Strictly speaking, postmodern design was a short-lived movement that manifested itself chiefly in Italy and the United States in the early 1980s. The characteristics of postmodern furniture and other postmodern objects included hot-colored, loud-patterned, usually plastic surfaces; strange proportions and weird angles; and a vague-at-best relationship between form and function.
Critics derided postmodern design as a grandstanding bid for attention and nothing of consequence. The fact that, decades later, postmodern design still has the power to provoke thoughts (along with other reactions) proves they were not entirely correct.
Postmodernism 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. In the next decade in Milan, a cohort of designers led by Ettore Sottsass and Alessandro Mendini brought the discussion to bear on design.
Sottsass and Michele de Lucchi, in 1980, gathered a core group of young designers, which would come to include Michael Graves, Marco Zanini, Shiro Kuramata and Matteo Thun, into a design collective they called Memphis. The Memphis Group saw design as a means of communication and they wanted it to shout. That it did: the first Memphis collection appeared in 1981 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. After the initial Memphis show caused an uproar, postmodern design quickly took off in America. The architect Robert Venturi had 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 collection of postmodern furniture includes seating, decorative objects, lighting fixtures and more.