$12,686 / item
Large Alpi Gray Bold Coffee Table by Mohdern
Located in Geneve, CH
Large Alpi Gray Bold Coffee Table by Mohdern Dimensions: W 140 x D 80 x H 30 cm (Marble Tray Included ⌀ 52 cm) Materials: Solid Ash Bold is a refined collection of coffee tables de...
Ash
$12,686 / item
Large Carrara White Bold Coffee Table by Mohdern
Located in Geneve, CH
Large Carrara White Bold Coffee Table by Mohdern Dimensions: W 140 x D 80 x H 30 cm (Marble Tray Included ⌀ 52 cm) Materials: Solid Ash Bold is a refined collection of coffee table...
Ash
Deposit 50% / Set of 2 Andrea and Luca Coffee Table by Umberto Bellardi Ricci
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 2 Andrea and Luca coffee table by Umberto Bellardi Ricci Dimensions: Andrea: D 94 x W 71 x H 28 cm. Luca: D 140 x W 86.5 x H 32 cm. Materials: Travertine, bronze legs. Umbert...
Travertine, Bronze
$31,067 / item
Beauty of Simplicity Coffee Table by Grzegorz Majka
By Grzegorz Majka
Located in Geneve, CH
The beauty of simplicity coffee table by Grzegorz Majka Dimensions: W 180 x D 80 x H 45 cm Materials: stone Coffee table inspired by the influence of minimalistic style. The massive...
Stone
Custom Listing / Set of 2 Andrea and Luca Coffee Table by Umberto Bellardi Ricci
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 2 Andrea and Luca coffee table by Umberto Bellardi Ricci Dimensions: Andrea: D 94 x W 71 x H 28 cm. Luca: D 140 x W 86.5 x H 32 cm. Materials: Travertine, bronze legs. Umbert...
Travertine, Bronze
Nissa Travertino Stone Contemporary Coffee Table by Ivan Colominas
Located in Geneve, CH
Nissa Travertino Stone Contemporary Coffee Table by Ivan Colominas Dimensions: W 182.5 x D 72.5 x H 40.5 cm Materials: Travertine stone. Available in Nero Marquinia, Travertino and ...
Stone
$11,603 / item
Lily Round Oak Coffee Table by Fred and Juul
Located in Geneve, CH
Lily Round Oak Coffee Table by Fred and Juul Dimensions: Ø 122 x H 36 cm. Materials: Oak. Available in oak, evonized oak and in Navona Travertine. Custom sizes, materials or finishe...
Oak
Two tier wooden pivoting top coffee table by roche Bobois, 1980s
By Roche Bobois
Located in Leuven, Vlaams Gewest
Beautiful post modern design, which is also very handy as you can turn the table tops as desired.
Oak
Rectangular Prism Base Light Blue Grey Onyx Coffee Table by RAFFINATO
Located in Geneve, CH
Taffy Blue Onyx Coffee Table by RAFFINATO Dimensions: Ø 100 x H 38 cm. Materials: Blue onyx. This table is available in different stone options: White Travertine, Calacatta Viola, R...
Onyx
Cristallo Unique Sculptural Coffee Table in Crystal & Quartz by Alex Turco
Located in Geneve, CH
Cristallo Unique Sculptural Coffee Table in Crystal & Quartz by Alex Turco One Of a Kind Dimensions: D 67 x W 79 x H 67 cm. Materials: Crystal and quartz. This sculptural coffee tab...
Crystal, Quartz
Tecton Coffee Table in Red Alabaster by Félix Millory for Monitillo 1980
Located in Geneve, CH
Tecton Coffee Table in Red Alabaster by Félix Millory for Monitillo 1980. Limited Edition of 2 Pieces. Dimensions: W 140 x D 140 x H 35 cm. Materials: Alabaster. Please note that wh...
Alabaster
Cylindrical Honey Onyx Coffee Table with Round Clear Glass Top by RAFFINATO
Located in Geneve, CH
Apollo Honey Onyx Coffee Table by RAFFINATO Dimensions: D 100 x 100 x H 43 cm. Materials: Honey onyx and glass. This table is available in different stone options: Red Travertine, L...
Onyx
Square Block White Veining and Dark Red Marble Coffee Table by RAFFINATO
Located in Geneve, CH
Cara Rosso Levanto Coffee Table by RAFFINATO Dimensions: D 100 x W 100 x H 55 cm. Materials: Rosso Levanto marble. This table is available in different stone options: White Travert...
Marble
Ernest Unique Coffee Table in Agate Gemstone & Cast Brass by Alex Turco
Located in Geneve, CH
Ernest Unique Coffee Table in Agate Gemstone & Cast Brass by Alex Turco One Of a Kind Dimensions: D 50 x W 63 x H 30 cm. Materials: Agate gemstone and cast brass. Ernest is a one-of...
Agate, Brass
Stoneage One Of A Kind Sculptural Coffee Table in Brass & Marble by Alex Turco
Located in Geneve, CH
Stoneage Sculptural Coffee Table in Brass, Marble & Cast by Alex Turco One Of a Kind Dimensions: D 70 x W 110 x H 40 cm. Materials: Brass, marble, and cast. Elevate your interior wi...
Marble, Brass, Other
Duo Reflected Black and Gold Marble Sculptural Coffee Table by Andres Monnier
Located in Geneve, CH
Raza center piece by Andres Monnier One of a kind. Dimensions: D 40 x W 160 x H 40 cm. Materials: Portoro black marble. Stone options available: Grey, black and white marble, natural...
Marble
Ialino One Of A Kind Sculptural Coffee Table in Crystal & Quartz by Alex Turco
Located in Geneve, CH
Ialino One Of A Kind Sculptural Coffee Table in Crystal & Quartz by Alex Turco One Of a Kind Dimensions: D 40 x W 63 x H 50 cm. Materials: Crystal and quartz. This sculptural co...
Crystal, Quartz
Aurisino One Of A Kind Coffee Table in Bronze, Marble & Resin by Alex Turco
Located in Geneve, CH
Aurisino One Of A Kind Coffee Table in Bronze, Marble & Resin by Alex Turco One Of a Kind Dimensions: D 165 x W 185 x H 47 cm. Materials: Bronze, marble, and resin. This unique coff...
Marble, Bronze
$25,630 / item
Puzzle Table Travertino Noce by Madina Tsarikaeva
Located in Geneve, CH
Puzzle Table Travertino Noce by Madina Tsarikaeva Dimensions: W 160 x D 66 x H 45 cm. Materials: Travertine. Madina Tsarikaeva (1994) From early childhood, Madina began to show i...
Travertine
$24,595 / item
Lonely Table Travertino Noce by Madina Tsarikaeva
Located in Geneve, CH
Lonely Table Travertino Noce by Madina Tsarikaeva Dimensions: W 200 x D 80 x H 32 cm. Materials: Travertine. Madina Tsarikaeva (1994) From early childhood, Madina began to show i...
Travertine
Brutalist Coffee Table Handmade and signed by Pia Manu, 1960s
Located in Meulebeke, BE
Belgium / 1960s / Coffee Table / Pia Manu / metal, stone, chrome / Mid-century / Vintage / Brutalist Brutalist post-modern coffee table by the Belgian artist Pia Manu, handcrafted i...
Stone, Metal, Chrome
$7,613 / item
Lily Drink Table by Fred and Juul
Located in Geneve, CH
Lily Drink Table by Fred and Juul Dimensions: Ø 24 x H 60 cm. Materials: Navona travertine and brass. Fred&Juul, short for Federico Minarelli and Julie Janssen, are two architects w...
Travertine, Brass
$9,500Sale Price|32% Off
Rare Pia Manu Brutalist Coffee Table, circa 1969 Belgium, Signed
By Pia Manu
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Consider using this rare Pia Manu coffee table in a Mid-Century Modern, Space Age Mod, Scandanavian Modern or Danish Modern home or penthouse apartment but could also look fantastic ...
Steel
$9,300Sale Price|33% Off
Rare Pia Manu Brutalist Coffee Table, circa 1969 Belgium, Signed
By Pia Manu
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Consider using this rare Pia Manu coffee table in a Mid-Century Modern, Space Age Mod, Scandanavian Modern or Danish Modern home or penthouse apartment but could also look fantastic ...
Steel
$3,400Sale Price|20% Off
Custom Italian Travertine Coffee Table, Marble Center Table Table, Side Table
Located in İnegöl, TR
POST MODERN TRAVERTINE MARBLE COFFEE TABLE Type of Marble: Travertine Dimensions: 52" x 35 x 16" Leg Model: Travertine Customizable: Available!
Travertine, Marble
Sculptural Pia Manu coffee table in marble and stone, Belgium 1970s
Located in Meulebeke, BE
Belgium / 1970 / coffee table / Pia Manu / metal, stone, marble / Mid-Century / Vintage / Brutalist Rare post-modern sculptural Pia Manu table, handmade in Belgium in the 1970s.
Marble, Metal, Tin
$13,203 / item
Large Andrea Nesting Table by Umberto Bellardi Ricci
Located in Geneve, CH
Large Andrea nesting table by Umberto Bellardi Ricci Dimensions: D 94 x W 71 x H 28 cm. Materials: Travertine, bronze legs. Umberto Bellardi Ricci is an Italian sculptor and arc...
Travertine, Bronze
$10,720 / item
Small Andrea Nesting Table by Umberto Bellardi Ricci
Located in Geneve, CH
Small Andrea Nesting table by Umberto Bellardi Ricci. Dimensions: D 74 x W 56 x H 18 cm. Materials: Travertine, bronze legs. Umberto Bellardi Ricci is an Italian sculptor and ar...
Travertine, Bronze
Slice Me Up Sculptural Coffee Table in Travertine by Pietro Franceschini
By Pietro Franceschini
Located in Geneve, CH
Slice Me Up Sculptural Coffee Table in Travertine by Pietro Franceschini. Dimensions: W 161cm x L 117cm x H 36 cm Materials: Travertine. This listing features the Slice Me Up Coffe...
Travertine
$15,698 / item
Nisus Accent Table by Alter Ego Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Nisus Accent Table by Alter Ego Studio Dimensions: D 66 x W 83 x H 41 cm. Materials: Travertine Silver. Available in other marbles. The products are made from natural stone, so the...
Marble
$27,443 / item
Puzzle Table Nero Marquina Venato by Madina Tsarikaeva
Located in Geneve, CH
Puzzle Table Nero Marquina Venato by Madina Tsarikaeva Dimensions: W 160 x D 66 x H 45 cm. Materials: Nero Marquina Marble. Madina Tsarikaeva (1994) From early childhood, Madina ...
Marble
$4,200 / set
Italian Travertine Marble End Tables, Pair
Located in New York, NY
A substantial pair of Italian travertine marble end or side tables, Modern style/Postmodern period, circa late 20th century (1970s), Italy. Executed in travertine with a clean square...
Travertine, Marble
$5,600Sale Price|22% Off
Paul Evans Brutalist Cocktail Table in Patinated Steel and Bronze, c. 1970
By Paul Evans, Directional
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This Paul Evans coffee table offers a rare combination of durability, sculptural presence, and historical importance.
Bronze, Steel
Sculptural Post-Modern Kotor Center Table Walnut Wood by Mavo Atelier Handmade
By Mavo Atelier
Located in Trofa, PT
The Kotor Coffee Table expresses architectural depth, layered materiality, and structural clarity in a compact, refined form. Inspired by the historic coastal town of Kotor in Monten...
Brass
Rotating Top Maitland Smith Tessellated Travertine Side Tables with Brass Inlay
By Maitland Smith
Located in Saint Louis, MO
Table tops continue the movement with hand laid travertine tiles dressed with a modern brass oval embellishment.
Travertine, Brass
Verhey Center Table in Brass and Romano Travertine by Mavo Atelier
By Mavo Atelier
Located in Trofa, PT
VERHEY COFFEE TABLE The handcrafted, asymmetrical Verhey Coffee Table expresses the purity of materiality and sculptural play on form. Bridging art and design, the confluence of meta...
Travertine, Brass
Medium Travertine Contemporary Guéridon, Sebastian Herkner
By Sebastian Herkner
Located in Geneve, CH
Medium travertine contemporary guéridon, Sebastian Herkner Dimensions: D 40 x H 46 cm Materials: Travertine stone, copper The salute table exists in 3 sizes, 4 different marble ...
Travertine, Copper
High Travertine Contemporary Guéridon, Sebastian Herkner
By Sebastian Herkner
Located in Geneve, CH
High travertine contemporary guéridon, Sebastian Herkner Dimensions: D 42 x H 57 cm Materials: Travertine stone, copper The salute table exists in 3 sizes, 4 different marble st...
Travertine, Copper
Post Modern Curtis Jeré Brass and Smoked Glass Pedestal Signed 1984
By Curtis Jeré, C. Jeré Artisan House
Located in Saint Louis, MO
Photographed along with and also currently available in our shop- Vladimir Kagan Nautilus Swivel Chair & Custom Ottoman in Ivory Holly Hunt Alpaca Pair of Directional Post Modern Swi...
Brass
Geometrical Console in Black Oak and Light Travertine Detail by Ultramobili
Located in Geneve, CH
Renzo Geometrical Console in Black Oak and Travertine by Ultramobili Dimensions: W 156 x D 40 x H 92 cm Materials: Black Oak, Travertine. 40 mm structure in black oak and traverti...
Travertine
Slice Me Up Sculptural Coffee Table in Plaster by Pietro Franceschini
By Pietro Franceschini
Located in Geneve, CH
Slice Me Up Sculptural Coffee Table in Plaster by Pietro Franceschini. Dimensions: W 161cm x L 117cm x H 36 cm Materials: plaster. This listing features the Slice Me Up Coffee Tabl...
Plaster
Slice Me Up Coffee Table in Eucalyptus Pomele Wood by Pietro Franceschini
By Pietro Franceschini
Located in Geneve, CH
Slice Me Up Coffee Table in Eucalyptus Pomele Wood by Pietro Franceschini. Dimensions: W 161cm x L 117cm x H 36 cm. Materials: Eucalyptus Pomele wood, matte finish. This listing fea...
Wood
Slice Me Up Coffee Table in Madrona Burl Wood by Pietro Franceschini
By Pietro Franceschini
Located in Geneve, CH
Slice Me Up Coffee Table in Madrona Burl Wood by Pietro Franceschini. Dimensions: W 161cm x L 117cm x H 36 cm. Materials: Madrona Burl, matte finish. This listing features the Slic...
Wood
Slice Me Up Coffee Table in Noce Canaletto Wood by Pietro Franceschini
By Pietro Franceschini
Located in Geneve, CH
Slice Me Up Coffee Table in Noce Canaletto Wood by Pietro Franceschini. Dimensions: W 161cm x L 117cm x H 36 cm Materials: Noce Canaletto Wood, matte finish. This listing features ...
Wood
Round Coffee Table with Brown Marble Base & Smoky Glass Top by Antonio De Marco
Located in Geneve, CH
Opus Mod 2 Travertino Rosso, Glass And Metal Dining Table by Antonio De Marco Dimensions: Ø 160 x H 73,5 cm. Materials: Travertino Rosso stone, metal, and glass. Available in diffe...
Travertine, Metal
Slice Me Up Coffee Table in Ash Burl Wood by Pietro Franceschini
By Pietro Franceschini
Located in Geneve, CH
Slice Me Up Coffee Table in Ash Burl Wood by Pietro Franceschini. Dimensions: W 161cm x L 117cm x H 36 cm. Materials: Ash Burl, matte finish. This listing features the Slice Me Up ...
Wood, Ash
Tecton Stool & Coffee Table in Travertine by Félix Millory for Monitillo 1980
Located in Geneve, CH
Tecton Stool & Coffee Table in Travertine by Félix Millory for Monitillo 1980. Dimensions: W 69.2 x D 40 x H 55 cm. Materials: Travertine. This Small Stool and Coffee Table is avail...
Travertine
Set Of 2 Marble Crepa Coffee Tables by Atelier Terrai
Located in Geneve, CH
Set Of 2 Marble Crepa Coffee Tables by Atelier Terrai Dimensions: D 45 x W 45 x H 55 cm. Materials: Carrara marble, Nero Marquina marble, and satin brass. A powerful lightning bolt ...
Carrara Marble, Marble, Brass
Nissa Travertino Stone Contemporary Stool And Side Table by Ivan Colominas
Located in Geneve, CH
Nissa Travertino Stone Contemporary Stool And Side Table by Ivan Colominas Dimensions: Ø 37 x H 40 cm. Materials: Travertine stone. Available in Nero Marquinia, Travertino and Bian...
Travertine
Nissa S Travertino Stone Contemporary Side Table by Ivan Colominas
Located in Geneve, CH
Nissa S Travertino Stone Contemporary Side Table by Ivan Colominas Dimensions: Ø 39 x H 50 cm. Materials: Travertino stone. Available in Nero Marquinia, Travertino and Bianco Gioia....
Travertine
Nissa Travertino Stone Contemporary Round Dining Table by Ivan Colominas
Located in Geneve, CH
Nissa Travertino Stone Contemporary Round Dining Table by Ivan Colominas Dimensions: Ø 120 x H 74,5 cm. Materials: Travertino stone. Available in Nero Marquinia, Travertino, Rosso A...
Travertine
$1,471 / item
Object 041 Center Table by NG Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Object 041 center table by NG Design Dimensions: D90 x W60 x H23 cm Materials: Powder coated steel, Travertine/Marble Bianco Ibiza/ Marble Nero marquina. Also Available: All of ...
Marble, Steel
$1,471 / item
Object 040 Center Table by NG Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Object 040 Center Table by NG Design Dimensions: D90 x W60 x H32 cm Materials: Powder coated steel, Travertine/Marble Bianco Ibiza/ Marble Nero marquina. Also Available: All of ...
Marble, Steel
Sculptural Organic Reverie Center Table in Mix Marbles by Mavo Atelier Handmade
By Mavo Atelier
Located in Trofa, PT
REVERIE CENTER TABLE The sculptural Reverie Coffee Table features alternating layers of White Carrara Marble and Nero Marquina Marble with a honed finish, perfectly showcasing the du...
Marble
Sculptural Verhey Center Table in Antique Brass and Marble by Mavo Atelier
By Mavo Atelier
Located in Trofa, PT
VERHEY COFFEE TABLE The handcrafted, asymmetrical Verhey Coffee Table expresses the purity of materiality and sculptural play on form. Bridging art and design, the confluence of meta...
Marble, Brass
Documented 'Kono' Dining Table / Desk by Lella & Massimo Vignelli, 1984, Italy
By Massimo and Lella Vignelli
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This unique and important work of art by Massimo and Lella Vignelli would work well as a dining table, a desk, a center table or just as a stand-alone Post-Modern sculpture.
Granite, Copper
$14,239 / item
Trono Travertine Classico Romano Chair by Lisa Franzen
Located in Geneve, CH
Trono Travertine Classico Romano Chair by Lisa Franzen Dimensions: D 53 x W 53 x H 72 cm. Materials: Travertine Classico Romano and Canaletto Walnut. Exclusively handmade in Swi...
Travertine
Italian Round Travertine and Copper-Toned Metal Ashtray, 1970
Located in Conversano, IT
Overview A sculptural round ashtray made in Italy in 1970, featuring a solid travertine body with concentric carved rings and a central copper-toned metal bowl. Its strong geometric ...
Travertine
$13,268 / item
Brut Console by Buket Hoşcan Bazman
By Buket Hoscan Bazman
Located in Geneve, CH
Brut console by Buket Hos¸can Bazman Dimensions: D 135 x W 34 x H 90 cm Material: unfilled travertine & patinated brass Available in custom sizing. Color variations on request. E...
Travertine, Brass
Square Italian Travertine Ashtray with Removable Metal Dish, 1970
Located in Conversano, IT
Overview A bold square ashtray made of warm Italian travertine, from the 1970s, featuring a removable polished metal dish. A solid, architectural object whose stepped, cornice-like m...
Travertine
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.
As a practical focal point in your living area, antique and vintage coffee tables and cocktail tables are an invaluable addition to any interior.
Low tables that were initially used as tea tables or coffee tables have been around since at least the mid- to late-1800s. Early coffee tables surfaced in Victorian-era England, likely influenced by the use of tea tables in Japanese tea gardens. In the United States, furniture makers worked to introduce low, long tables into their offerings as the popularity of coffee and “coffee breaks” took hold during the late 19th century and early 20th century.
It didn’t take long for coffee tables and cocktail tables to become a design staple and for consumers to recognize their role in entertaining no matter what beverages were being served. Originally, these tables were as simple as they are practical — as high as your sofa and made primarily of wood. In recent years, however, metal, glass and plastics have become popular in coffee tables and cocktail tables, and design hasn’t been restricted to the conventional low profile, either.
Visionary craftspeople such as Paul Evans introduced bold, geometric designs that challenge the traditional idea of what a coffee table can be. The elongated rectangles and wide boxy forms of Evans’s desirable Cityscape coffee table, for example, will meet your needs but undoubtedly prove imposing in your living space.
If you’re shopping for an older coffee table to bring into your home — be it an antique Georgian-style coffee table made of mahogany or walnut with decorative inlays or a classic square mid-century modern piece comprised of rosewood designed by the likes of Ettore Sottsass — there are a few things you should keep in mind.
Both the table itself and what you put on it should align with the overall design of the room, not just by what you think looks fashionable in isolation. According to interior designer Tamara Eaton, the material of your vintage coffee table is something you need to consider. “With a glass coffee table, you also have to think about the surface underneath, like the rug or floor,” she says. “With wood and stone tables, you think about what’s on top.”
Find the perfect centerpiece for any room, no matter what your personal furniture style on 1stDibs — shop Art Deco coffee tables, travertine coffee tables and other antique and vintage coffee tables and cocktail tables today.