$3,859 / item
Boba Mini Shelf I by Curvy World Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Boba Mini Shelf I by Curvy World Studio Handmade Dimensions: D 35 x W 35 x H 46 cm. Materials: Wood, hemp, recycled marble powder, steel mesh, coating. The Mini Shelf I Boba sideboa...
Marble, Steel
$5,712 / item
Cells Enno Shelf by Curvy World Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Cells Enno Shelf by Curvy World Studio Handmade Dimensions: D 28 x W 57 x H 68 cm. Materials: Wood, hemp, recycled marble powder, steel mesh, coating. The Cells Enno shelf belongs t...
Marble, Steel
Set of 2 Boba Mini Shelf II and Mini Stool by Curvy World Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 2 Boba Mini Shelf II and Mini Stool by Curvy World Studio Handmade Dimensions: D 35 x W 35 x H 80 cm. Materials: Wood, hemp, recycled marble powder, steel mesh, coating. The ...
Marble, Steel
$2,731 / item
Boba Mini Shelf II by Curvy World Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Boba Mini Shelf II by Curvy World Studio Handmade Dimensions: D 35 x W 35 x H 45 cm. Materials: Wood, hemp, recycled marble powder, steel mesh, coating. The Mini Shelf II Boba sideb...
Marble, Steel
$1,745 / item
Display 1 Moving Shelves by Georgiev Kiril
Located in Geneve, CH
Display 1 Moving Shelves by Georgiev Kiril Dimensions: D 25 x W 60 x H 80 cm. Materials: Brushed stainless steel. Georgiev Kiril is a multidisciplinary practice that floats within a...
Stainless Steel
$14,370 / item
BIS Bookshelf by MOB
Located in Geneve, CH
BIS bookshelf by MOB Limited editions of 15 + 1 prototype Designer: Benjamin Ossa (Chile) Dimensions: H 210 x D 50 x W 210 cm Material: Cherry tree veneer 18mm, steel chrome uni...
Steel
$13,325 / item
Steel and Brass Bookshelves by Lukasz Friedrich
By Lukas Friedrich
Located in Geneve, CH
Steel and Brass Bookshelves by Lukasz Friedrich. Signed and dated. Measures: D 33 x W 43 x H 191 cm. Finish: Patinated solid brass, blackened steel shelves.
Brass, Steel
$6,912 / item
High Oak and Black Tray Shelf i by Hanne Willmann
Located in Geneve, CH
High oak and black tray shelf I by Hanne Willmann Materials: metal, oak. Dimensions: D 40 x W 100 x H 201 cm Also available in different tray conbinations and 2 sizes: H 81, H 201...
Metal
Black Oak Elevate Shelving V by Camilla Akersveen and Christopher Konings
Located in Geneve, CH
Black Oak Elevate shelving V by Camilla Akersveen and Christopher Konings. Materials: Metal, oak. Dimensions: D 40 x W 86.8 x H 182.6 cm. Available in matt lacquered oak or black ...
Metal
Black Oak Elevate Shelving IV by Camilla Akersveen and Christopher Konings
Located in Geneve, CH
Black Oak Elevate shelving IV by Camilla Akersveen and Christopher Konings Materials: Metal, oak. Dimensions: D 40 x W 120 x H 147.9 cm Available in matt lacquered oak or black oa...
Metal
$6,912 / item
High Oak and Black Tray Shelf II by Hanne Willmann
Located in Geneve, CH
High Oak and black tray shelf II by Hanne Willmann Materials: Metal, oak. Dimensions: D 40 x W 100 x H 201 cm Also available in different tray combinations and 2 sizes: H81, H 201...
Metal
$6,912 / item
High Oak and Black Tray Shelf III by Hanne Willmann
Located in Geneve, CH
High oak and black tray shelf III by Hanne Willmann. Materials: metal, oak. Dimensions: D 40 x W 100 x H 201 cm. Also available in different tray conbinations and 2 sizes: H 81, H...
Metal
$6,912 / item
High Oak and Black Tray Shelf V by Hanne Willmann
Located in Geneve, CH
High oak and black tray shelf V by Hanne Willmann Materials: Metal, oak. Dimensions: D 40 x W 100 x H 201 cm. Also available in different tray combinations and 2 sizes: H81, H 201...
Metal
Black Oak Elevate Shelving ii by Camilla Akersveen and Christopher Konings
Located in Geneve, CH
Black oak elevate shelving II by Camilla Akersveen and Christopher Konings Materials: metal, oak. Dimensions: D 40 x W 120 x H 78.7 cm Available in matt lacquered oak or black oak...
Metal
Oak Elevate Shelving III by Camilla Akersveen and Christopher Konings
Located in Geneve, CH
Oak elevate shelving III by Camilla Akersveen and Christopher Konings. Materials: metal, oak. Dimensions: D 40 x W 120 x H 78.7 cm. Available in matt lacquered oak or black oak. D...
Metal
$3,468 / item
Low Black Oak Tray Shelf by Hanne Willmann
Located in Geneve, CH
Low black oak tray shelf by Hanne Willmann Materials: metal, oak. Dimensions: D 40 x W 100 x H 81 cm Also available in different tray conbinations and 2 sizes: H81, H 201 cm. H...
Metal
Oak Elevate Shelving VI by Camilla Akersveen and Christopher Konings
Located in Geneve, CH
Oak elevate shelving VI by Camilla Akersveen and Christopher Konings. Materials: metal, oak. Dimensions: D 40 x W 120 x H 182.6 cm. Available in matt lacquered oak or black oak. D...
Metal
$1,068 / item
Black Oak Stedge Shelf 80 by Leonard Aldenhoff
Located in Geneve, CH
Black oak stedge shelf 80 by Leonard Aldenhoff Materials: Metal, oak. Dimensions: D 22 x W 80 x H 120 cm Available in oak, smoked oak, black oak or white oak. Also available add-...
Metal
$6,912 / item
High Oak Tray Shelf by Hanne Willmann
Located in Geneve, CH
High oak tray shelf by Hanne Willmann Materials: metal, oak. Dimensions: D 40 x W 100 x H 201 cm Also available in different tray conbinations and 2 sizes: H81, H 201 cm. Hanne...
Metal
High Walnut and Black Tray Shelf IV by Hanne Willmann
Located in Geneve, CH
High walnut and black tray shelf IV by Hanne Willmann. Materials: Metal, walnut. Dimensions: D 40 x W 100 x H 201 cm. Also available in different tray conbinations and 2 sizes: H8...
Metal
$6,912 / item
High Oak and Black Tray Shelf IV by Hanne Willmann
Located in Geneve, CH
High Oak and black tray shelf IV by Hanne Willmann. Materials: metal, oak. Dimensions: D 40 x W 100 x H 201 cm. Also available in different tray conbinations and 2 sizes: H 81, H ...
Metal
$3,859 / item
Low Walnut and Black Tray Shelf i by Hanne Willmann
Located in Geneve, CH
Low walnut and black tray shelf I by Hanne Willmann Materials: metal, walnut. Dimensions: D 40 x W 100 x H 81 cm Also available in different tray conbinations and 2 sizes: H 81, H...
Metal
$7,613 / item
High Walnut and Black Tray Shelf I by Hanne Willmann
Located in Geneve, CH
High walnut and black tray shelf I by Hanne Willmann Materials: Metal, walnut. Dimensions: D 40 x W 100 x H 201 cm Also available in different tray conbinations and 2 sizes: H81, ...
Metal
Black Oak Elevate Shelving I by Camilla Akersveen and Christopher Konings
Located in Geneve, CH
Black oak elevate shelving I by Camilla Akersveen and Christopher Konings Materials: Metal, oak. Dimensions: D 40 x W 120 x H 44.3 cm Available in matt lacquered oak or black oak....
Metal
Oak Elevate Shelving II by Camilla Akersveen and Christopher Konings
Located in Geneve, CH
Oak elevate shelving II by Camilla Akersveen and Christopher Konings. Materials: metal, oak. Dimensions: D 40 x W 120 x H 78.7 cm. Available in matt lacquered oak or black oak. Di...
Metal
$1,175 / item
Smoked Oak Stedge Shelf 80 by Leonard Aldenhoff
Located in Geneve, CH
Smoked Oak Stedge shelf 80 by Leonard Aldenhoff. Materials: metal, oak. Dimensions: D 22 x W 80 x H 120 cm. Available in oak, smoked oak, black oak or white oak. Also available a...
Metal
$1,175 / item
Smoked Oak Stedge Shelf 60 by Leonard Aldenhoff
Located in Geneve, CH
Smoked Oak Stedge shelf 60 by Leonard Aldenhoff. Materials: metal, oak. Dimensions: D 22 x W 60 x H 120 cm. Available in oak, smoked oak, black oak or white oak. Also available a...
Metal
High Walnut and Black Tray Shelf III by Hanne Willmann
Located in Geneve, CH
High walnut and black tray shelf III by Hanne Willmann. Materials: metal, walnut. Dimensions: D 40 x W 100 x H 201 cm Also available in different tray conbinations and 2 sizes: H ...
Metal
Oak Elevate Shelving I by Camilla Akersveen and Christopher Konings
Located in Geneve, CH
Oak elevate shelving I by Camilla Akersveen and Christopher Konings. Materials: metal, oak. Dimensions: D 40 x W 120 x H 44.3 cm Available in matt lacquered oak or black oak. Diff...
Metal
High Walnut and Black Tray Shelf VI by Hanne Willmann
Located in Geneve, CH
High walnut and black tray shelf VI by Hanne Willmann. Materials: metal, walnut. Dimensions: D 40 x W 100 x H 201 cm. Also available in different tray conbinations and 2 sizes: H8...
Metal
High Walnut and Black Tray Shelf VII by Hanne Willmann
Located in Geneve, CH
High walnut and black tray shelf VII by Hanne Willmann. Materials: Metal, walnut. Dimensions: D 40 x W 100 x H 201 cm. Also available in different tray conbinations and 2 sizes: H...
Metal
$1,152 / item
Oak Stedge Shelf 80 by Leonard Aldenhoff
Located in Geneve, CH
Oak Stedge shelf 80 by Leonard Aldenhoff. Materials: Metal, oak. Dimensions: D 22 x W 80 x H 120 cm. Available in oak, smoked oak, black oak or white oak. Also available add-on s...
Metal
$3,859 / item
Low Walnut and Black Tray Shelf II by Hanne Willmann
Located in Geneve, CH
Low walnut and black tray shelf II by Hanne Willmann Materials: metal, walnut. Dimensions: D 40 x W 100 x H 81 cm. Also available in different tray combinations and 2 sizes: H81, ...
Metal
$6,912 / item
High Oak and Black Tray Shelf VI by Hanne Willmann
Located in Geneve, CH
High oak and black tray shelf VI by Hanne Willmann. Materials: Metal, oak. Dimensions: D 40 x W 100 x H 201 cm. Also available in different tray conbinations and 2 sizes: H81, H 2...
Metal
Oak Elevate Shelving IV by Camilla Akersveen and Christopher Konings
Located in Geneve, CH
Oak elevate shelving IV by Camilla Akersveen and Christopher Konings Materials: metal, oak. Dimensions: D 40 x W 120 x H 147.9 cm Available in matt lacquered oak or black oak. Dif...
Metal
$7,613 / item
High Walnut Tray Shelf by Hanne Willmann
Located in Geneve, CH
High walnut tray shelf by Hanne Willmann Materials: Metal, walnut. Dimensions: D 40 x W 100 x H 201 cm Also available in different tray conbinations and 2 sizes: H81, H 201 cm. ...
Metal
Oak Elevate Shelving V by Camilla Akersveen and Christopher Konings
Located in Geneve, CH
Oak elevate shelving V by Camilla Akersveen and Christopher Konings Materials: metal, oak. Dimensions: D 40 x W 86.8 x H 182.6 cm Available in matt lacquered oak or black oak. Dif...
Metal
$3,468 / item
Low Oak Tray Shelf by Hanne Willmann
Located in Geneve, CH
Low Oak Tray shelf by Hanne Willmann. Materials: Metal, oak. Dimensions: D 40 x W 100 x H 81 cm. Also available in different tray conbinations and 2 sizes: H81, H 201 cm. Hanne...
Metal
Black Oak Elevate Shelving III by Camilla Akersveen and Christopher Konings
Located in Geneve, CH
Black oak elevate shelving III by Camilla Akersveen and Christopher Konings Materials: metal, oak. Dimensions: D 40 x W 120 x H 78.7 cm Available in matt lacquered oak or black oa...
Metal
$6,912 / item
High Oak and Black Tray Shelf VII by Hanne Willmann
Located in Geneve, CH
High oak and black tray shelf VII by Hanne Willmann Materials: metal, oak. Dimensions: D 40 x W 100 x H 201 cm Also available in different tray conbinations and 2 sizes: H81, H 20...
Metal
Black Oak Elevate Shelving XI by Camilla Akersveen and Christopher Konings
Located in Geneve, CH
Black oak elevate shelving XI by Camilla Akersveen and Christopher Konings. Materials: metal, oak. Dimensions: D 40 x W 153.2 x H 182.6 cm Available in matt lacquered oak or black...
Metal
Black Oak Elevate Shelving IX by Camilla Akersveen and Christopher Konings
Located in Geneve, CH
Black oak elevate shelving IX by Camilla Akersveen and Christopher Konings Materials: metal, oak. Dimensions: D 40 x W 120 x H 147.9 cm Available in matt lacquered oak or black oa...
Metal
$1,128 / item
Black Oak Stedge Shelf 60 by Leonard Aldenhoff
Located in Geneve, CH
Black oak stedge shelf 60 by Leonard Aldenhoff Materials: Metal, oak. Dimensions: D 22 x W 60 x H 120 cm Available in oak, smoked oak, black oak or white oak. Also available add-...
Metal
$3,468 / item
Low Oak and Black Tray Shelf i by Hanne Willmann
Located in Geneve, CH
Low oak and black tray shelf I by Hanne Willmann Materials: metal, oak. Dimensions: D 40 x W 100 x H 81 cm Also available in different tray conbinations and 2 sizes: H81, H 201 cm...
Metal
$7,613 / item
High Walnut and Black Tray Shelf V by Hanne Willmann
Located in Geneve, CH
High walnut and black tray shelf V by Hanne Willmann Materials: metal, walnut. Dimensions: D 40 x W 100 x H 201 cm Also available in different tray conbinations and 2 sizes: H81, ...
Metal
$3,859 / item
Low Walnut Tray Shelf by Hanne Willmann
Located in Geneve, CH
Low Walnut Tray shelf by Hanne Willmann. Materials: Metal, walnut. Dimensions: D 40 x W 100 x H 81 cm. Also available in different tray conbinations and 2 sizes: H81, H 201 cm. ...
Metal
High Walnut and Black Tray Shelf II by Hanne Willmann
Located in Geneve, CH
High walnut and black tray shelf II by Hanne Willmann. Materials: metal, walnut. Dimensions: D 40 x W 100 x H 201 cm. Also available in different tray conbinations and 2 sizes: H8...
Metal
$6,912 / item
High Black Oak Tray Shelf by Hanne Willmann
Located in Geneve, CH
High Black Oak Tray shelf by Hanne Willmann. Materials: Metal, oak. Dimensions: D 40 x W 100 x H 201 cm. Also available in different tray conbinations and 2 sizes: H81, H 201 cm. ...
Metal
Black Oak Elevate Shelving VI by Camilla Akersveen and Christopher Konings
Located in Geneve, CH
Black oak elevate shelving VI by Camilla Akersveen and Christopher Konings Materials: Metal, oak. Dimensions: D 40 x W 120 x H 182.6 cm Available in matt lacquered oak or black oa...
Metal
Oak Elevate Shelving viii by Camilla Akersveen and Christopher Konings
Located in Geneve, CH
Oak elevate shelving VIII by Camilla Akersveen and Christopher Konings. Materials: Metal, oak. Dimensions: D 40 x W 233.2 x H 78.7 cm. Available in matt lacquered oak or black oak...
Metal
Oak Elevate Shelving IX by Camilla Akersveen and Christopher Konings
Located in Geneve, CH
Oak elevate shelving IX by Camilla Akersveen and Christopher Konings Materials: Metal, oak. Dimensions: D 40 x W 120 x H 147.9 cm Available in matt lacquered oak or black oak. Dif...
Metal
$1,128 / item
Oak Stedge Shelf 60 by Leonard Aldenhoff
Located in Geneve, CH
Oak Stedge shelf 60 by Leonard Aldenhoff. Materials: Metal, oak. Dimensions: D 22 x W 60 x H 120 cm. Available in oak, smoked oak, black oak or white oak. Also available add-on s...
Metal
$3,468 / item
Low Oak and Black Tray Shelf II by Hanne Willmann
Located in Geneve, CH
Low Oak and Black Tray shelf II by Hanne Willmann. Materials: Metal, oak. Dimensions: D 40 x W 100 x H 81 cm. Also available in different tray conbinations and 2 sizes: H81, H 201...
Metal
$195 / item
Object 032 Wall Shelf by NG Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Object 032 wall shelf by NG Design Dimensions: D35 x W20 x H4 cm Materials: Powder coated steel, Tempered Glass Also Available: All of objects available in different materials and c...
Steel
I Found You In The Forest Dreaming Shelves by Michael Gittings
By Michael Gittings
Located in Geneve, CH
I Found You In The Forest Dreaming Shelves by Michael Gittings One of a Kind Dimensions: D 50 x W 110 x H 200 cm Materials: Stainless steel, copper, enamel. Michael Gittings Melbour...
Stainless Steel, Copper, Enamel
$7,351 / item
Marianne Bookshelf by Mingardo
Located in Geneve, CH
Marianne bookshelf by Mingardo Dimensions: D62 x W30 x H240 cm Materials: Matte nickel structure, tempered glass shelves. Natural brass details with spheres. Weight: 60 kg Also ...
Brass, Nickel
$1,737 / item
Tableau Shelf by Mingardo
Located in Geneve, CH
Tableau Shelf by Mingardo Dimensions: D55 x H55 cm Materials: Iron with brassed details Weight: 12 kg Also Available in different finishes. Tableau is a functional painting, ...
Brass, Iron
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.
Of all the vintage storage cabinets and antique case pieces that have become popular in modern interiors over the years, dressers, credenzas and cabinets have long been home staples, perfect for routine storage or protection of personal items.
In the mid-19th century, cabinetmakers would mimic styles originating in the Louis XIV, Louis XV and Louis XVI eras for their dressers, bookshelves and other structures, and, later, simpler, streamlined wood designs allowed these “case pieces” or “case goods” — any furnishing that is unupholstered and has some semblance of a storage component — to blend into the background of any interior.
Mid-century modern furniture enthusiasts will cite the tall modular wall units crafted in teak and other sought-after woods of the era by the likes of George Nelson, Poul Cadovius and Finn Juhl. For these highly customizable furnishings, designers of the day delivered an alternative to big, heavy bookcases by considering the use of space — and, in particular, walls — in new and innovative ways. Mid-century modern credenzas, which, long and low, evolved from tables that were built as early as the 14th century in Italy, typically have no legs or very short legs and have grown in popularity as an alluring storage option over time.
Although the name immediately invokes images of clothing, dressers were initially created in Europe for a much different purpose. This furnishing was initially a flat-surfaced, low-profile side table equipped with a few drawers — a common fixture used to dress and prepare meats in English kitchens throughout the Tudor period. The drawers served as perfect utensil storage. It wasn’t until the design made its way to North America that it became enlarged and equipped with enough space to hold clothing and cosmetics. The very history of case pieces is a testament to their versatility and well-earned place in any room.
In the spirit of positioning your case goods center stage, decluttering can now be design-minded.
A contemporary case piece with open shelving and painted wood details can prove functional as a storage unit as easily as it can a room divider. Alternatively, apothecary cabinets are charming case goods similar in size to early dressers or commodes but with uniquely sized shelving and (often numerous) drawers.
Whether you’re seeking a playful sideboard that features colored glass and metal details, an antique Italian hand-carved storage cabinet or a glass-door vitrine to store and show off your collectibles, there are options for you on 1stDibs.