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Tomasz Omachel

Small Sideboard by Tomasz Omachel
Small Sideboard by Tomasz Omachel

Small Sideboard by Tomasz Omachel

Located in Geneve, CH

Small Sideboard by Tomasz Omachel Dimensions: D 40 x W 60 x H 80 cm.

Category

2010s Polish Post-Modern Sideboards

Materials

Brass

Bed with Nighstand  by Tomasz Omachel
Bed with Nighstand  by Tomasz Omachel

Bed with Nighstand by Tomasz Omachel

Located in Geneve, CH

Bed with Nighstand by Tomasz Omachel Dimensions: D 215 x W 275 x H 90 cm.

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2010s Polish Post-Modern Beds and Bed Frames

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Mirror With Shelf by Tomasz Omachel
Mirror With Shelf by Tomasz Omachel

Mirror With Shelf by Tomasz Omachel

Located in Geneve, CH

Mirror With Shelf by Tomasz Omachel Dimensions: D 17 x W 110 x H 76 cm.

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2010s Polish Post-Modern Wall Mirrors

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Glass, Ash

Small Coffee Table by Tomasz Omachel
Small Coffee Table by Tomasz Omachel

Small Coffee Table by Tomasz Omachel

Located in Geneve, CH

Small Coffee Table by Tomasz Omachel Dimensions: D 49 x W 72 x H 45 cm.

Category

2010s Polish Post-Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables

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Bench SB 01 by Tomasz Omachel
Bench SB 01 by Tomasz Omachel

Bench SB 01 by Tomasz Omachel

Located in Geneve, CH

Bench SB 01 by Tomasz Omachel Dimensions: D 48 x W 106 x H 74 cm.

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2010s Polish Post-Modern Benches

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Cabinet With A Drawer by Tomasz Omachel
Cabinet With A Drawer by Tomasz Omachel

Cabinet With A Drawer by Tomasz Omachel

Located in Geneve, CH

Cabinet With A Drawer by Tomasz Omachel Dimensions: D 40 x W 60 x H 35 cm.

Category

2010s Polish Post-Modern Cabinets

Materials

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Shelf with Brass Back by Tomasz Omachel
Shelf with Brass Back by Tomasz Omachel

Shelf with Brass Back by Tomasz Omachel

Located in Geneve, CH

Shelf with Brass Back by Tomasz Omachel Dimensions: D 33 x W 80 x H 34 cm.

Category

2010s Polish Post-Modern Shelves

Materials

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Sculptural Sirene Console in Wood by Tomasz Omachel Studio & Palucki Studio
Sculptural Sirene Console in Wood by Tomasz Omachel Studio & Palucki Studio

Sculptural Sirene Console in Wood by Tomasz Omachel Studio & Palucki Studio

Located in Geneve, CH

Small Coffee Table by Tomasz Omachel Studio & Palucki Studio Dimensions: L 125 × W 39 × H 92.5 cm Materials: Solid ash, natural goat parchment, bronze (foot) Colours: Smoked wood...

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2010s Polish Post-Modern Console Tables

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NSS 02 Elm and Brass Nightstand by Tomasz Omachel
NSS 02 Elm and Brass Nightstand by Tomasz Omachel

NSS 02 Elm and Brass Nightstand by Tomasz Omachel

Located in Geneve, CH

NSS 02 Nightstand by Tomasz Omachel Dimensions: D 35 x W 45 x H 55 cm.

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2010s Polish Post-Modern Night Stands

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Mirror With Shelf by Tomasz Omachel
Mirror With Shelf by Tomasz Omachel

Mirror With Shelf by Tomasz Omachel

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H 29.93 in W 43.31 in D 6.7 in

Mirror With Shelf by Tomasz Omachel

Located in Geneve, CH

Mirror With Shelf by Tomasz Omachel Dimensions: D 17 x W 110 x H 76 cm.

Category

2010s Polish Post-Modern Wall Mirrors

Materials

Ash, Glass

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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

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  • 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) 
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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.