Margaret McCurry Media Unit
By Stanley Tigerman
Located in Highland, IN
This striking media unit was custom designed in 1989 by Margaret McCurry for an important commission by her husband Stanley Tigerman known as "Suburban Village" in Highland Park, IL....
Marble, Stainless Steel
$3,761 / item
Classy Large Highboard Bookcase by Pastform
Located in Geneve, CH
Classy Large Highboard Bookcase by Pastform Dimensions: D 43 x W 100 x H 180 cm Materials: Stained and varnished wood. Available in different wood color finishes: Whiskey, Rum, BPA,...
Wood
$2,318 / item
Laro Bookshelf by Pastform
Located in Geneve, CH
Laro Bookshelf by Pastform Dimensions: D 40 x W 40 x H 170 cm. Materials: Stained and varnished wood. Available in different wood color finishes: Whiskey, Rum, BPA, Nobel, Brandy, S...
Wood
Roberto Fallani Bookshelf One-off Wrought iron and glass, Italy, 1995
By Roberto Fallani
Located in Padova, IT
Roberto Fallani Bookshelf One-off in Wrought iron and glass, Italy, 2001 Bibliography: Roberto Fallani, Thrones, catalog edited by Giuliano Serafini, 2016 Fallani - Futuro Anterio...
Iron
Black Tree Console Shelf by Elisabeth Hertzfeld
Located in Geneve, CH
Beige tree console shelf by Elisabeth Hertzfeld Materials: Fenix Laminate Dimensions: D 35 x W 53 x H 6.5 cm The founders, Mia and Torben Koed, decided to put their 30 years of...
Laminate
$1,443 / item
Object 010 Hanger by NG Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Object 010 Hanger by NG Design Dimensions: D120 x W50 x H180 cm Materials: Powder coated steel. Also Available: All of objects available in different materials and colors on dem...
Steel
$662 / item
Object 011 Hanger by NG Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Object 011 Hanger by NG Design. Dimensions: D130 x W40 x H190 cm. Materials: powder coated steel. Also available: All of objects available in different materials and colors on d...
Steel
$2,424 / item
Object 009 Shelves by NG Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Object 009 shelves by NG Design Dimensions: D160 x W40 x H190 cm Materials: Powder coated steel. Also Available: All of objects available in different materials and colors on de...
Steel
$7,286 / item
Endless Garden Shelf by Haus Otto
Located in Geneve, CH
Endless Garden Shelf by Haus Otto Dimensions: D30 x W90 x H66 cm Materials: Brushed Red Oak Endless Garden is a modular shelving system which conceptually addresses the meaning ...
Oak
$14,572 / set
Set of 2 Endless Garden Shelves by Haus Otto
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 2 Endless garden shelves by Haus Otto Dimensions: D 30 x W 90 x H 66 cm Each Materials: Brushed red oak Endless Garden is a modular shelving system which conceptually add...
Oak
$21,859 / set
Set of 3 Endless Garden Shelves by Haus Otto
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 3 Endless Garden shelves by Haus Otto Dimensions: D30 x W90 x H66 cm Each Materials: brushed red oak Endless Garden is a modular shelving system which conceptually addres...
Oak
$1,194 / 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. This listing features the Smoked Oak Stedge Shelf 60 in a 2-shelf configu...
Metal
$1,076 / 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. This listing features the Black Painted Oak Stedge Shelf 80 in a 2-shelf co...
Metal
$1,218 / 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. This listing features the Smoked Oak Stedge Shelf 80 in a 2-shelf configu...
Metal
$1,194 / 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. This listing features the White Pigmented Oak Stedge Shelf 80 in a 2-shelf confi...
Metal
$1,135 / 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. This listing features the White Pigmented Oak Stedge Shelf 60 in a 2-shelf confi...
Metal
$1,123 / 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. This listing features the Black Painted Oak Stedge Shelf 60 in a 2-shelf co...
Metal
$2,247 / item
Innocent Bookshelf Three Modules by Mingardo
Located in Geneve, CH
Innocent bookshelf three modules by Mingardo Dimensions: D90 x W39 x H110 cm Materials: RAL 9005 black varnished iron structure, shelf in black stained oak Weight: 60 kg Also ...
Iron
$1,123 / item
Innocent Bookshelf Single Module by Mingardo
Located in Geneve, CH
Innocent bookshelf single module by Mingardo Dimensions: D90 x W39 x H43 cm Materials: RAL 9005 black varnished iron structure, shelf in black stained oak Weight: 30 kg Also a...
Iron
$20,818 / item
Flora Bookcase by Ginger & Jagger
Located in Geneve, CH
Flora Bookcase by Ginger & Jagger Dimensions: D 50 x W 145 x H 220 cm. Materials: Brass and glass. Finish: Structure in cast Brass in Silver finishing; shelves in Glass in Smoke...
Brass, Silver
Piazzetta Shelf, Light Grey by Atelier Ferraro
Located in Geneve, CH
Piazzetta shelf, light grey by Atelier Ferraro Dimensions: L33 x W10 x H14 cm Materials: Recycled Aluminium Also Available: Cement Greyand Pebble Grey colors „THE FORM FOLLOW...
Aluminum
Piazzetta Shelf, Pebble Grey by Atelier Ferraro
Located in Geneve, CH
Piazzetta shelf, pebble grey by Atelier Ferraro Dimensions: L35 x W13 x H12 cm Materials: recycled aluminium Also available: cement grey and light grey colors. „The Form Follows Th...
Aluminum
Set of 3, Piazzetta Shelves, Light, Cement and Pebble Grey by Atelier Ferraro
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 3, piazzetta shelves, light - cement and pebble grey by Atelier Ferraro Dimensions: L 33 x W 10 x H 14 cm Materials: recycled aluminium „THE FORM FOLLOWS THE REST“: In a ...
Aluminum
Piazzetta Shelf, Cement Grey by Atelier Ferraro
Located in Geneve, CH
Piazzetta shelf, cement grey by Atelier Ferraro Dimensions: L 33 x W 10 x H 14 cm Materials: recycled aluminium Also available: light grey and pebble grey colors. "The form f...
Aluminum
Set of 4, Blue Valet Coat Hanger & Grey Piazzetta Shelves by Atelier Ferraro
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 4, pastel turquoise valet coat hanger & grey ( cement, light, pebble) Piazzetta shelves by Atelier Ferraro Dimensions: L 33 x W 10 x H 14 cm (Shelves), L 35 x W 65 x H 7 cm (...
Aluminum
Oak Console Height Bookcases Custom Designed (One Available)
Located in North Miami, FL
This is a wonderful low and narrow console height bookcases in solid oak and porcelain top in natural stone finish. ONLY ONE is available.
Porcelain, Oak
Anacleto Spazzapan Sculptural Display
By Anacleto Spazzapan
Located in New York, NY
An Anacleto Spazzapan sculptural display. Impressive metal sculpture comprised of intricate metal connections to make weave-like pattern with two display shelves.
Metal
Postmodern American Studio Craft Sculptural Wood Display Console Shelf 1990s
Located in Troy, MI
American studio craft sculptural shelf or console table circa 1990s Unique Memphis inspired step design executed in ash and walnut with dovetail joinery and lower wave stretcher So...
Wood
$7,806 / item
Leaf Wall Console by Pol Quadens
Located in Geneve, CH
Leaf Wall Console by Pol Quadens Limited Edition Of 8+4 Pieces. Dimensions: D 30 x W 200 x H 7 cm. Materials: Mirror-polished stainless steel. Pol Quadens was born in Brussels. His...
Stainless Steel
$1,242 / item
Forets Shelf by Mélissa Mariller
Located in Geneve, CH
Forets Shelf by Mélissa Mariller Dimensions: D 25 x W 35 x H 12 cm. Materials: Cast aluminum. All our lamps can be wired according to each country. If sold to the USA it will be wir...
Aluminum
$10,929 / item
Mezzo Shelving by Laylo Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Mezzo Shelving by Laylo Studio Dimensions: D 45.7 x W 167.6 x H 73.6 cm. Materials: Blackened steel, walnut. LAYLO is the practice of Sam and Lydia Link. Founded with the intention...
Steel
Giuseppe Rivadossi Sculptural Carved Trunk or Bench in Oak
By Giuseppe Rivadossi
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Giuseppe Rivadossi for Officina Rivadossi, trunk / side bench / side table, oak, Italy, 1970s Crafted in solid oak during the 1970s, this versatile trunk by Giuseppe Rivadossi exemp...
Oak
$14,194Sale Price|20% Off
Custom steel and glass bookcase by Johan Bruynseraede, Netherlands 1990s
By Matteo Thun, Gaetano Pesce, Memphis Group, Ettore Sottsass
Located in ECHT, NL
Large custom made bookcase. It was designed by architect Johan Bruynseraede issued by bureau Contrast. It was designed specifically for an interior design project by bureau Contrast...
Steel
“John Ild” grey shelf by Philippe Starck for Disform, 1977.
By Disform, Philippe Starck
Located in Barcelona, ES
“John Ild” shelf, model in 1977, designed by Philippe Starck, produced by Disform in 1982. The structure is composed of two black metal tube uprights that can be placed against a wal...
Steel
Abracadabra by De Pas D'Urbino Lomazzi for Zerodisegno
By Gionathan de Pas & Donato D’Urbino & Paolo Lomazzi, Zerodisegno
Located in Milano, IT
Iconic Abracadabra bookshelf designed by the renowned Italian design trio De Pas, D'Urbino, Lomazzi. Produced by Zerodisegno, this stunning piece features a unique and playful design...
Aluminum, Iron
$780 / item
SIMPLY Foggy Shelf by Mademoiselle Jo
Located in Geneve, CH
SIMPLY Foggy Shelf by Mademoiselle Jo Dimensions: L 76 x W 24 cm. Materials: Matte foggy steel. Available in two versions and two colors. Please contact us. Behind SIMPLY is actual...
Steel
$591 / item
Simply White Shelf by Mademoiselle Jo
Located in Geneve, CH
Simply White Shelf by Mademoiselle Jo Dimensions: L 76 x W 24 cm. Materials: Matte white steel. Available in two versions and two colors. Please contact us. Behind SIMPLY is actual...
Steel
$1,200 / item
Custom Oak & Glass Display Shelf with Mirrored Base
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This beautifully crafted, custom-made oak shelf features five sturdy glass shelves and a mirrored base, perfect for showcasing your favorite decor, collectibles, or books. Its sleek ...
Glass, Mirror, Oak
Metal shelf Verspanntes Regal design Wolfgang Laubersheimer, Pentagon Group 1984
By Pentagon Group, Wolfgang Laubersheimer
Located in Offenburg, Baden Wurthemberg
One Postmodern shelf „Verspanntes Regal“ designed by Wolfgang Laubersheimer for Pentagon Group in 1984. early edition of the 'Verspanntes Regal', therefore without makers bedge or ...
Steel
Contemporary Art Writing Desk Amanuense Nero Black by Adolfo Natalini
By Mirabili, Adolfo Natalini
Located in Pistoia, IT
Limited edition of 99 numbered and signed copies. Amanuense, decoded in his characterizing elements (the functional nature of the writing desk-Sécretaire; the symbolic hand and the ...
Bronze
Contemporary Art Writing Desk Amanuense Dark Cherry Wood by Adolfo Natalini
By Mirabili, Adolfo Natalini
Located in Pistoia, IT
Limited edition of 99 numbered and signed copies. Amanuense, decoded in his characterizing elements (the functional nature of the writing desk-Sécretaire, the symbolic hand and the ...
Bronze
Monument Shelves In Black Marquina by Mathieu Girard & Gauthier Pouillart
By La Chance
Located in Geneve, CH
Monument Shelves In Black Marquina by Mathieu Girard & Gauthier Pouillart Dimensions: L 130 x H 117 Materials: White travertine shelves - black marble (marquina) columns Material ava...
Marble
Monument Shelves In Black Marquina by Mathieu Girard & Gauthier Pouillart
By La Chance
Located in Geneve, CH
Monument shelves by Mathieu Girard & Gauthier Pouillart. Dimensions: L 195 x H 117. Materials: White travertine shelves - black marble (marquina) columns. Material available: Birchwo...
Marble
$3,323 / item
Erro Shelf by Regina Merino and Rodrigo Ordóñez
By Regina Merino
Located in Geneve, CH
Erro shelf by Regina Merino and Rodrigo Ordóñez Dimensions: D 80 x W 27 x H 52 cm Materials: steel, walnut wood. Shelf made of carbon steel plate with mirror finish, cylindrical...
Steel
$23,420 / item
Source Tall Shelf No.2 by A Space
Located in Geneve, CH
The Source Tall Shelf No.2 by A Space Dimensions: D60 x W25 x H170cm Materials: Red tuff. Weight: 230 kg Inspired by antiquity, material, craftsmanship and architecture of Arme...
Other
$23,420 / item
The Source Tall Shelf No.1 by a Space
Located in Geneve, CH
The Source Tall Shelf No.1 by A Space Dimensions: D60 x W25 x H170cm Materials: Red tuff. Weight: 230 kg Inspired by antiquity, material, craftsmanship and architecture of Arme...
Other
$3,560 / item
Lop Bookshelf by Pastform
Located in Geneve, CH
Lop Bookshelf by Pastform Dimensions: D 40 x W 240 x H 100 cm. Materials: Stained and varnished wood. Available in different wood color finishes: Whiskey, Rum, BPA, Nobel, Brandy, S...
Wood
$5,902 / item
Mid-Century inspired Bookshelf by Pastform
Located in Geneve, CH
Mid-Century Bookshelf by Pastform Dimensions: D 45 x W 150 x H 200 cm. Materials: Stained and varnished wood. Available in different wood color finishes: Whiskey, Rum, BPA, Nobel, B...
Wood
$3,619 / item
Rato Bookshelf by Pastform
Located in Geneve, CH
Rato Bookshelf by Pastform Dimensions: D 25 x W 130 x H 165 cm. Materials: Stained and varnished wood. Available in different wood color finishes: Whiskey, Rum, BPA, Nobel, Brandy, ...
Wood
$3,619 / item
Rato Bookshelf by Pastform
Located in Geneve, CH
Rato Bookshelf by Pastform Dimensions: D 25 x W 130 x H 165 cm. Materials: Stained and varnished wood. Available in different wood color finishes: Whiskey, Rum, BPA, Nobel, Brandy, ...
Wood
$28,625 / item
Shelving Design by Alexey Drozhdin
Located in Geneve, CH
Shelving design by Alexey Drozhdin Dimensions: D 220 x W 220 x H 55 cm. Materials: glass, oak shape. A young designer and artist Alexey Drozhdin creates extraordinary decorativ...
Glass, Oak
$9,368 / item
Hug Bookcase by Rejo Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Hug Bookcase by Rejo Studio Dimensions: D 165 x W 35 x H 180 cm Materials: Olivewood burl with Silver Metal This bookcase was designed to resemble, to some extent, what stormed ...
Metal
$13,318 / item
Talea Bookcase by De Castelli
Located in Geneve, CH
Talea Bookcase by De Castelli Dimensions: W 115 x D 32 x H 234 cm Materials: Orbitale DeLabré Copper, Other Stainless Steel and Brass versions are available. Other variations of this...
Copper, Other
$13,851 / item
Talea Bookcase by De Castelli
Located in Geneve, CH
Talea Bookcase by De Castelli Dimensions: W 185 x D 32 x H 198 cm Materials: Orbitale DeLabré Copper, Other Stainless Steel and Brass versions are available. Other variations of this...
Copper, Other
$30,683 / item
Nami Bookcase by De Castelli
Located in Geneve, CH
Nami Bookcase by De Castelli Dimensions: W 140 x D 37 x H 200 cm Materials: Striped DeLabré Brass Other versions are available. Please contact us for any request. Modular bookcase c...
Brass, Stainless Steel
$30,683 / item
Nami Bookcase by De Castelli
Located in Geneve, CH
Nami Bookcase by De Castelli Dimensions: W 140 x D 37 x H 200 cm Materials: Striped DeLabré Brass Other versions are available. Please contact us for any request. Modular bookcase c...
Brass, Stainless Steel
Desk, Vintage, Mahogany, Gilding, Book-Spine Form Drawers, History of England
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
I have never seen a desk like this before, it is really quirky, a great conversation piece. Tan leather top with gold leaf embossed tooling surrounded by crossbanding. The frieze wi...
Giltwood, Mahogany
$14,312 / 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
Oversized Custom Designed Black Metal Wall-Mounted Etagere/ Shelves (ONE Avail)
Located in North Miami, FL
WE have only ONE available of these phenomenal etagere/ shelving system that mounts to your wall and provides 5 deep and wide shelves. VERY solid and industrial style. NOTE: there ...
Metal
$201 / item
Wally Small Grey Shelf by +kouple
Located in Geneve, CH
Wally Small Grey Shelf by +kouple Dimensions: D 2,3 x W 2,5 x H 1,7 cm. Materials: Powder-coated steel. Available in different color options. Available in two different sizes. Plea...
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.
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.