Post Modern
Late 20th Century European Post-Modern Mobiles and Kinetic Sculptures
Wood
Late 20th Century Post-Modern Night Stands
Wood, Paint
Mid-20th Century Scandinavian Post-Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Hardwood
Vintage 1980s Italian Post-Modern Wall Mirrors
Cane
Vintage 1980s Italian Post-Modern Decorative Bowls
Marble
20th Century American Post-Modern Platters and Serveware
Lucite
Vintage 1980s Post-Modern Night Stands
Metal
Mid-20th Century American Post-Modern Abstract Sculptures
Wood
Late 20th Century North American Post-Modern Dining Room Tables
Travertine, Aluminum
Late 20th Century North American Post-Modern Armchairs
Upholstery, Velvet
1990s American Post-Modern Floor Lamps
Chrome
Vintage 1980s Italian Post-Modern Coat Racks and Stands
Travertine
Vintage 1980s Post-Modern Lounge Chairs
Fabric
Vintage 1980s Italian Post-Modern Coat Racks and Stands
Steel
Vintage 1980s Post-Modern Decorative Art
Glass, Plastic, Plexiglass, Paper
Vintage 1970s Italian Post-Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Travertine, Metal
20th Century Italian Post-Modern Vases
Marble
Vintage 1980s American Post-Modern Console Tables
Mirror
Vintage 1980s American Post-Modern Pedestals
Stone
Late 20th Century American Post-Modern Paperweights
Marble
Late 20th Century Post-Modern Dining Room Tables
Granite
Late 20th Century American Post-Modern Vases
Art Glass
Mid-20th Century American Post-Modern Abstract Sculptures
Acrylic
Vintage 1980s Italian Post-Modern Shelves
Metal
Late 20th Century Asian Post-Modern Platters and Serveware
Mother-of-Pearl, Lacquer
Vintage 1980s Post-Modern Club Chairs
Upholstery, Wood
Late 20th Century Post-Modern Figurative Sculptures
Canvas
20th Century Italian Post-Modern Vases
Marble
Vintage 1970s American Post-Modern Sofas
Upholstery
Late 20th Century American Post-Modern Floor Lamps
Plaster
Early 2000s American Post-Modern Figurative Sculptures
Bronze
Vintage 1980s Italian Abstract Sculptures
Acrylic
Early 2000s American Post-Modern Abstract Sculptures
Bronze
Early 2000s American Post-Modern Sculptures
Bronze
Late 20th Century American Post-Modern Floor Lamps
Steel
Vintage 1980s American Post-Modern Floor Lamps
Metal
Late 20th Century American Post-Modern Ceramics
Ceramic
Late 20th Century Side Tables
Lacquer
Mid-20th Century Italian Post-Modern Jars
Marble
20th Century American Post-Modern Coat Racks and Stands
Stainless Steel
1990s Colombian Post-Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Goatskin
Vintage 1970s Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Wood, Plaster
Late 20th Century Post-Modern Sofas
Velvet
Early 2000s Spanish Post-Modern Abstract Sculptures
Brass
Vintage 1980s European Post-Modern Chairs
Metal
Vintage 1980s Italian Post-Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Blown Glass, Murano Glass
Vintage 1970s American Post-Modern Porcelain
Porcelain
Vintage 1980s American Post-Modern Tea Sets
Pottery
Vintage 1980s Italian Post-Modern Side Tables
Cut Glass
20th Century Italian Post-Modern Vases
Marble
Late 20th Century Post-Modern Chairs
Leather
Vintage 1980s American Post-Modern Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Bamboo
Mid-20th Century Post-Modern Shelves
Wood
1990s Italian Mid-Century Modern Lounge Chairs
Upholstery, Wood
Late 20th Century Post-Modern Chairs
Leather
Vintage 1980s American Industrial Screens and Room Dividers
Plexiglass
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Jars
Travertine
20th Century Unknown Mid-Century Modern Benches
Leather, Mahogany
20th Century Italian Post-Modern Vases
Marble
Vintage 1980s Italian Post-Modern Floor Lamps
Steel
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How Much is a Post Modern?
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.
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