Post Modern Danish
Vintage 1970s Danish Post-Modern Lounge Chairs
Metal
Vintage 1980s Danish Post-Modern Dining Room Chairs
Metal
Vintage 1980s Danish Post-Modern Table Lamps
Metal
20th Century Kenyan Mid-Century Modern Animal Sculptures
Soapstone
2010s Danish Post-Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Aluminum
2010s Danish Post-Modern Table Lamps
Aluminum
Late 20th Century Danish Post-Modern Decorative Art
Ceramic, Porcelain
Vintage 1980s Danish Scandinavian Modern Stools
Beech, Bentwood, Lacquer
Vintage 1980s Dutch Post-Modern Candlesticks
Metal, Chrome
Vintage 1980s Danish Post-Modern Vases
Ceramic, Pottery
20th Century Danish Post-Modern Serving Pieces
Plastic
Late 20th Century Thai Post-Modern More Desk Accessories
Teak
Vintage 1980s Danish Scandinavian Modern Dining Room Chairs
Steel
Vintage 1930s Danish Post-Modern Paintings
Canvas
20th Century Post-Modern Dining Room Tables
Teak
Vintage 1950s American Scandinavian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Steel
Vintage 1970s Danish Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
Laminate, Beech
Vintage 1970s Danish Post-Modern Cabinets
Pine
Late 20th Century Unknown Post-Modern Barware
Stainless Steel
Mid-20th Century Danish Post-Modern Armchairs
Leather, Teak
Mid-20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Historical Memorabilia
Marble, Silver Plate
Vintage 1970s Danish Post-Modern Cabinets
Pine
Vintage 1980s Danish Post-Modern Stools
Steel
Late 20th Century Canadian Post-Modern Night Stands
Rosewood
Vintage 1970s Danish Post-Modern Vases
Stoneware
Vintage 1970s Danish Post-Modern Vases
Ceramic
Late 20th Century Danish Post-Modern Russian and Scandinavian Rugs
Wool
Vintage 1970s Danish Post-Modern Vases
Stoneware
Vintage 1960s Danish Post-Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Pine
Vintage 1970s Danish Post-Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Fabric, Pine
Vintage 1960s European Post-Modern Lounge Chairs
Fabric, Pine
Late 20th Century Danish Post-Modern Wall Mirrors
Mirror, Plastic
20th Century Danish Post-Modern Pitchers
Ceramic
1990s Danish Post-Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Pine
Early 2000s Danish Post-Modern Chaise Longues
Fabric
Vintage 1970s Danish Post-Modern Dining Room Tables
Wood, Stoneware
Late 20th Century Danish Post-Modern Animal Sculptures
Oak
20th Century German Post-Modern More Desk Accessories
Plastic
Mid-20th Century Danish Post-Modern Paintings
Paint
Early 2000s Danish Post-Modern Chairs
Metal
1990s Danish Post-Modern Paintings
Canvas
Late 20th Century Danish Post-Modern Barware
Plastic
20th Century Danish Post-Modern More Candle Holders
Metal
20th Century Danish Post-Modern Collectible Jewelry
Sterling Silver
20th Century Danish Post-Modern Decorative Bowls
Metal
Vintage 1980s Danish Post-Modern Busts
Stoneware
Vintage 1980s Danish Post-Modern Dining Room Chairs
Metal
Late 20th Century Danish Post-Modern Lounge Chairs
Steel
Vintage 1970s Danish Post-Modern Table Lamps
Stoneware
Vintage 1980s Danish Post-Modern Side Tables
Steel
20th Century Danish Post-Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Metal
20th Century Danish Post-Modern Decorative Bowls
Glass
Vintage 1970s Danish Post-Modern Table Lamps
Opaline Glass
Vintage 1980s Danish Post-Modern Chairs
Metal
Late 20th Century Danish Post-Modern Slipper Chairs
Steel
1990s Danish Post-Modern Lounge Chairs
Fabric, Rope, Wood
Vintage 1940s Danish Scandinavian Modern Lounge Chairs
Elm
Vintage 1970s Post-Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Ceramic, Rosewood
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A Close Look at Post-modern Furniture
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
- Emerges during the 1960s; popularity explodes during the ’80s
- A reaction to prevailing conventions of modernism by mainly American architects
- Architect Robert Venturi critiques modern architecture in his Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (1966)
- Theorist Charles Jencks, who championed architecture filled with allusions and cultural references, writes The Language of Post-Modern Architecture (1977)
- Italian design collective the Memphis Group, also known as Memphis Milano, meets for the first time (1980)
- Memphis collective debuts more than 50 objects and furnishings at Salone del Milano (1981)
- Interest in style declines, minimalism gains steam
CHARACTERISTICS OF POSTMODERN FURNITURE DESIGN
- Dizzying graphic patterns and an emphasis on loud, off-the-wall colors
- Use of plastic and laminates, glass, metal and marble; lacquered and painted wood
- Unconventional proportions and abundant ornamentation
- Playful nods to Art Deco and Pop art
POSTMODERN FURNITURE DESIGNERS TO KNOW
- Ettore Sottsass
- Robert Venturi
- Alessandro Mendini
- Michele de Lucchi
- Michael Graves
- Nathalie du Pasquier
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.
- What is Danish modern furniture?1 Answer1stDibs ExpertFebruary 13, 2024Danish modern furniture is the term for a style of furniture that emerged during the 1930s through the innovation of designers from Denmark. It is a subset of Scandinavian modern furniture, the warmest and most organic iteration of modernist design. The work of the designers associated with vintage Scandinavian modern furniture was founded on centuries-old beliefs in both quality craftsmanship and the ideal that beauty should enhance even the humblest accessories of daily life. Some notable Danish modern designers include Hans J. Wegner, Kaare Klint, Arne Jacobsen, Finn Juhl, Arne Vodder and Verner Panton. Shop a range of Danish modern furniture on 1stDibs.
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