21st Century Elena Salmistraro Stool Low Table Verde Alpi Marble Polyurethane
By Elena Salmistraro
Located in Tezze sul Brenta, IT
aspect of this highly versatile product, which can be a coffee table or even a stool. Eight top finishes
Marble
21st Century Elena Salmistraro Stool Low Table Red Levanto Marble Polyurethane
By Elena Salmistraro
Located in Tezze sul Brenta, IT
aspect of this highly versatile product, which can be a coffee table or even a stool. Eight top finishes
Marble
21st Century Elena Salmistraro Stool Low Table White Carrara Marble Polyurethane
By Elena Salmistraro
Located in Tezze sul Brenta, IT
aspect of this highly versatile product, which can be a coffee table or even a stool. Eight top finishes
Marble
Sculptural Italian Chair by Arflex in Hand Sewn Champagne Shearling Hides c.1991
By Arflex
Located in Saint Louis, MO
Travertine Side Tables with Brass Inlay Large Italian Two Part Travertine Modular Coffee Table by Up & Up
Chrome
$4,482 / item
Imperial S Decorative Object by Kreoo
Located in Geneve, CH
: precious objects, vases, and centerpieces on a dining table, console, coffee table, or sideboard, both in
Marble
$7,222 / item
Imperial L Decorative Object by Kreoo
Located in Geneve, CH
design projects: precious objects, vases, and centerpieces on a dining table, console, coffee table, or
Marble
$5,811 / item
Imperial M Decorative Object by Kreoo
Located in Geneve, CH
: precious objects, vases, and centerpieces on a dining table, console, coffee table, or sideboard, both in
Marble
21st Century Elena Salmistraro Stool LowTable GrigioBilliemi Marble Polyurethane
By Elena Salmistraro
Located in Tezze sul Brenta, IT
aspect of this highly versatile product, which can be a coffee table or even a stool. Eight top finishes
Marble
21st Century Elena Salmistraro StoolLowTable WhitePintaVerde Marble Polyurethane
By Elena Salmistraro
Located in Tezze sul Brenta, IT
aspect of this highly versatile product, which can be a coffee table or even a stool. Eight top finishes
Marble
Unavailable|$2,100
Post-Modern Travertine Coffee Table
Located in Portland, ME
Post-Modern Travertine coffee table or low side table in the form of an unfinished section of Doric
Travertine
Unavailable|$4,078
Flower Travertine Coffee Table
Located in London, GB
This exquisite Italian travertine coffee table from the 1980s boasts a unique and rare cut flower
Travertine
Unavailable|$5,000
Vintage Square Travertine Coffee Table by Stone International, 1980s
By Stone International
Located in Dallas, TX
Stunning square travertine table with beautiful coloring and veining. Sourced from the original
Travertine
Unavailable|$2,107
Glass topped Oval Coffee Table on a Travertine and Brass Base, 1980s
Located in Chesham, GB
A post modern glass oval topped coffee table on two triangular bases joined by a brass piece
Travertine
Unavailable|$5,500 / set
1970 Travertine Octagon Nested Tables - a Set of 3
Located in Staten Island, NY
1970 Travertine Octagon Nested Tables - a Set of 3 This set is made in Italy, as shown on the
Stone
Unavailable|$1,250
Mid-Century Italian Marble Coffee Cocktail Table
Located in Saint Paul, MN
A lovely minimalist Italian modern travertine marble cocktail table circa 1970s-80s. This stunning
Marble
Unavailable|$1,850
Travertine Cube Octagonal Side Table
By Roche Bobois
Located in Westfield, NJ
Vintage circa 1980s travertine cube table that can be used as a coffee table, side table or
Travertine
Sold|$1,482
Post modern travertine coffee table, 1980s
Located in Leuven, Vlaams Gewest
Post modern travertine coffee table. Cool design with beautiful natural travertine stone. 1980s
Travertine
Post Modern Travertine Glass Top Coffee Table
Located in Clarksboro, NJ
This listing is for a Post Modern Travertine Glass Top Coffee Table. Featuring a post modern design
Travertine, Brass
Vintage Italian Travertine Coffee Table by Stone International Post-Modern
By Stone International, Angelo Mangiarotti
Located in Miami, FL
Vintage Postmodern Travertine Square Coffee Table by Stone International. Made in Florence, Italy
Stone, Travertine
Italian Mid-Century Post Modern Oval Travertine Coffee Table
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This Mid-Century solid oval travertine coffee table has an elegant Post Modern design. The heavy
Travertine
Beautiful Vintage Post Modern Travertine Coffee Table with a Glass Top
Located in Houston, TX
Beautiful vintage travertine coffee table with a glass top. Not much is known about this table, but
Travertine
Travertine Table Side Table / Coffee Table, Travertine, 1970s, Italy
Located in London, England
Side table / coffee table, travertine, 1970s, Italy. Travertine side table with a square top with
Travertine
Sold|$2,700
Travertine Postmodern Coffee Table
By Angelo Mangiarotti
Located in Antwerp, BE
Postmodern coffee table, architectural, geometrical, travertine, France, 1970s Minimalist modern
Travertine
Sold|$1,440
Tessellated Travertine Coffee Table
By Karl Springer
Located in Dallas, TX
Tessellated stone coffee table with a brass inlay and beveled edges.
Travertine, Brass
Rectangular Minimalist Travertine Coffee Table
Located in Las Vegas, NV
Make a huge statement with this monumental travertine coffee table. Table is very modern, with
Travertine
Sold|$1,600
Italian Travertine Coffee Table 1970
Located in VILLEURBANNE, FR
This elegant and spacious coffee table in travertine features a triangular base, upon which rests a
Travertine
Sold|$5,000
Postmodern Italian Travertine Coffee Table
By Mario Bellini, Angelo Mangiarotti
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Postmodern travertine coffee table, Italy, c.1980s. This rectangular table has a thick travertine
Travertine
Sold|$5,000
Postmodern Italian Travertine Coffee Table
By Mario Bellini, Angelo Mangiarotti
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Postmodern travertine coffee table, Italy, circa 1980s. This rectangular table has a thick
Travertine
Sold|$3,700
Travertine Postmodern Coffee Table, Italy
By Angelo Mangiarotti
Located in Antwerp, BE
Postmodern coffee table, travertine, Italy, 1970s Architectural coffee table as an arrangement
Travertine
Sold|$3,350
Artedi Brass & Travertine Coffee Table
By Artedi
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Vintage Postmodern Travertine and Glass Top Coffee Table with signature brass cross design
Travertine, Brass
Sold|$3,500
Postmodern Italian Travertine Coffee Table
By Mario Bellini, Angelo Mangiarotti
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This travertine coffee table from Italy in the 1970s, while almost monolithic in size doesn’t take
Travertine, Marble
Sold|$3,500
Postmodern Italian Travertine Coffee Table
By Mario Bellini, Angelo Mangiarotti
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This travertine coffee table, while almost monolithic in size doesn’t take over a space but rather
Travertine
Sold|$2,965
Vintage Travertine Glass Coffee Table
By Artedi
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Vintage Postmodern Travertine and Glass Top Coffee Table with signature brass cross design
Travertine, Brass
Sold|$1,725
Vintage Italian Travertine Coffee Table
Located in Denver, CO
80’s Post Modern, Made in Italy Bull nose profile on table top. Beautiful soft top shape bows out
Stone, Travertine
Sold|$1,482
Travertine Coffee Table set 1980s, Italy
Located in Leuven, Vlaams Gewest
Vintage metal and travertine table top coffee table set. The set has a rectangular coffee table
Travertine, Aluminum
Maurice Villency Italian Travertine Coffee Table
By Maurice Villency
Located in Brooklyn, NY
A post modern travertine coffee table by Maurice Villency. Rectangular travertine slab with double
Travertine
Sold|$1,200
Travertine Coffee Table with Storage, 1970
Located in Chicago, IL
Travertine Coffee Table with Storage, 1970
Travertine
Vintage Travertine coffee table, Italy, 1970s
Located in Langemark-Poelkapelle, BE
Striking vintage travertine coffee table, made in Italy during the 1970s. The rectangular tabletop
Travertine
Sold|$5,450
Italian Brass and Travertine Coffee Table
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Coffee table, travertine and brass, 1970s, Italy. This cocktail table is designed in the style
Travertine, Brass
Sold|$3,800
Travertine and Brass Coffee Table, 1970
By Stone International
Located in Chicago, IL
Travertine and brass coffee table, 1970.
Travertine, Brass
Sold|$1,200
Travertine Coffee Table with Storage, 1970
Located in Chicago, IL
Travertine coffee table with storage, 1970.
Travertine
Sold|$1,800
Travertine Coffee Table with Glass Top
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Coffee table with travertine base and glass top. This table features an ascending stacked tri-level
Travertine
1980s Vintage Postmodern Travertine Rectangle Coffee Table
Located in Chicago, IL
Absolutely dreamy travertine coffee table. The beautiful patina gives this table the right balance
Travertine
Vintage Postmodern Solid Travertine Coffee Table
By Stone International
Located in Chino Hills, CA
Great condition for its age with apropiate wear. Measures approximately 60x30x18h. Lovely minimalistic/nuetral tones for your place! More on the off-white color. If you have any ques...
Travertine
Vintage post modern origami Italian 2 piece split level coffee table
Located in Houston, TX
This Italian 2 piece, split level origami travertine coffee table is stunning, and can be
Travertine
Travertine Coffee Table by Angelo Mangiarotti
By Up & Up, Angelo Mangiarotti
Located in Antwerp, BE
Postmodern coffee table by Angelo Mangiarotti for Up & Up, 1970, Italy. This piece is timeless
Travertine
Sold|$1,433 / set
Up&Up Travertine Triangular Coffee Tables, 1970s
By Up & Up
Located in Leuven, Vlaams Gewest
Pair of 1970s Italian travertine stone triangular coffee tables by Up&Up. The table can be a two
Travertine
Vintage Italian Raw Travertine Coffee Table, 1970s
Located in View Park, CA
A vintage Italian raw travertine coffee / center table, made in Italy circa late 1970s. Featuring a
Travertine
Postmodern Travertine Coffee Table with Glass Top
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Postmodern coffee table with travertine base and glass top. This table features a three piece
Travertine
1980s Postmodern Vintage Honed Travertine Coffee Table
Located in Chicago, IL
Oh my! I love this table. Arrived with lacquer so had that removed. Such an organic feel and the
Travertine
Sold|$4,506 / item
Demure Coffee Table in Italian Travertine
Located in Amsterdam, NH
The Demure coffee table draws its inspiration from the iconic entryways of Milan, particularly the
Travertine
Sold|$2,850 / set
Set of Three Italian Modern Travertine Tables
By Romeo Rega, Angelo Mangiarotti
Located in Houston, TX
Set Of Three Italian Modern Travertine Tables Offered is a beautiful set of 3 Italian travertine
Travertine
1990s Vintage Postmodern Cat-Eye Travertine Coffee Table
By Stone International
Located in Chino Hills, CA
Now available is an amazing Cateye shaped travertine coffee table. Overall in good condition with
Travertine
Modular Up and Up Travertine Coffee/Center Table
By Ello Furniture
Located in Nashville, TN
Travertine center/coffee table consisting of two right triangles finished on three sides. bottom is
Travertine
Mangiarotti Square Travertine Coffee Table for Up & Up
By Angelo Mangiarotti, Up & Up
Located in Antwerp, BE
Travertine Mid-Century Modern coffee table by Angelo Mangiarotti for Up & Up. This piece is
Travertine
Sold|$5,000 / set
1970s Postmodern Taupe Travertine Coffee Table, a Pair
Located in Chicago, IL
Oh so dreamy! I love the taupe travertine. 2 triangles form a square. Place next to each other or
Travertine
Rare Italian two tier travertine coffee table, circa 1970s
Located in Houston, TX
Rare Italian two tier travertine coffee table, circa 1970s. Two round travertine plates sit on an
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.