Vintage Post Modern Italian Travertine Coffee Table
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Condition: Original Vintage Condition Made in Italy during the 1980s, this Post Modern coffee
Travertine
Post-Modern Rectangular Travertine Coffee Table
By Angelo Mangiarotti
Located in San Diego, CA
Travertine is back in a big way and we are all about it! This vintage modern coffee table has soft
Travertine, Marble, Stone
Post modern mid century Travertine coffee cocktail table
Located in BROOKLYN, NY
Mid century Travertine Coffee table. Table base and top are solid travertine made in Italy. Table
Travertine
Post Modern Architectural Travertine Coffee Table With Glass Top
Located in Brooklyn, NY
A post modern travertine coffee table. Two architectural base pieces of travertine support an oval
Travertine
Vintage Italian Live Edge Travertine Stone Coffee Table, Post-modern
Located in Miami, FL
Vintage Postmodern Live Edge Travertine Stone Coffee Table Offered for sale is a substantial
Stone, Travertine
2-Piece Tiered Post-Modern Italian Travertine Coffee Table
By Giovanni Offredi
Located in Las Vegas, NV
Classic Postmodern tiered Italian travertine coffee table. Simple beautiful piece. Table is of
Travertine
Post-Modern Travertine Coffee Table with Unique Triangular Legs, circa 1980s
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Such a unique design, this travertine coffee table features four triangular legs which were made to
Travertine
Vintage Post Modern Travertine Coffee Cocktail Table - Organic Live Edge Stone
By Stone International, Roche Bobois
Located in Decatur, GA
Vintage organic modern Italian travertine square coffee or cocktail table with live edge detail
Stone, Travertine, Marble
Sold|$3,250
Round Travertine Coffee Table
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Coffee table, travertine, Italy, 1970s. This coffee table in travertine features a cross shaped
Travertine
Sold|$6,400
Sculptural Travertine Coffee Table
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Coffee table, travertine and metal, Italy, 1970s. A sculptural cocktail table with two tabletops
Travertine, Metal
Sold|$4,500
Italian Travertine Coffee Table
Located in Miami, FL
Travertine and glass coffee table, Italy.
Travertine
Mid Century Italian Post Modern Travertine Marble Cocktail Table in Triangular
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A chunky and substantial cocktail in travertine from Italy circa 1992. It features heavy travertine
Travertine
Sold|$3,500
Floating Brown Travertine Coffee Table
Located in Las Vegas, NV
We love this floating brown travertine coffee table. Table is a beautiful design, it rest on a
Travertine
Sold|$3,800
Rectangular Coffee Table in Travertine
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Coffee table, travertine, Italy, 1970s With a travertine angular tabletop and a strong cylindric
Travertine
Sold|$1,900
Vintage Postmodern Travertine Coffee Table
By Stone International
Located in Chino Hills, CA
Postmodern 80s Travertine coffee table. Lovely neutral tone with a porous finish. Excellent
Travertine
Sold|$4,850
Round Coffee Table in Travertine
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Round coffee table, travertine, Italy, 1970s This coffee table is fully made out of bright
Travertine
Sold|$7,500
Monumental Travertine Coffee Table, 1970
Located in Chicago, IL
Monumental Travertine coffee table, 1970. Original and beautiful color tones.
Travertine
Sold|$3,850
Round Travertine Coffee Table, 1970s
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Cocktail table, travertine, Italy, 1970s. This strong coffee table features a column foot and a
Travertine
Sold|$4,250
Italian Coffee Table in Travertine
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Coffee table, travertine, Italy, 1970s A round shaped cocktail table executed in travertine. The
Travertine
Sold|$6,500
Monumental Italian Travertine Coffee Table
By Angelo Mangiarotti, Giovanni Offredi
Located in Las Vegas, NV
Make a huge statement with this monumental honed travertine coffee table. Table is very modern
Travertine
Sold|$3,400
1980s Italian Travertine Coffee Table
Located in Brooklyn, NY
1980s Italian Travertine coffee table. Rectangular slab sits on top of a hollow travertine plinth
Travertine
Mid-Century Italian Post Modern Travertine Marble Rectangular Cocktail Table
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Heavy substantial coffee table from the 1970s and made in Italy. It features 100% travertine
Travertine
1970s Architectural Postmodern Travertine Coffee Table
Located in La Mesa, CA
Postmodern coffee table consisting of a 3-piece travertine base and a beveled glass top. with
Travertine
Architectural Belgian Coffee Table in Travertine
By Roger Vanhevel, Ado Chale, Jean Claude Dresse
Located in Tilburg, NL
Large architectural coffee table in travertine, Belgium, 1970’s. This is a real conversation piece
Travertine
Sold|$3,200
Travertine and Marble Coffee Table, 1980
By Stone International
Located in Chicago, IL
Travertine and Marble Coffee Table, 1980. End table in separate listing.
Travertine, Marble
Postmodern Coffee Table in Travertine, circa 1970
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Side table, travertine, Italy, 1970s. This sculptural is a typical example of postmodern design
Travertine
Large Angelo Mangiarotti Coffee Table in Travertine
By Angelo Mangiarotti
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Coffee table in travertine, by Angelo Mangiarotti for Up&Up, Italy, 1970s. This large sculptural
Travertine
Italian Coffee Travertine Table in Two Parts, 1970
Located in VILLEURBANNE, FR
Spectacular in a living room, this pair of large coffee tables is made entirely of travertine. The
Travertine
Set of Three Architectural Coffee Tables in Travertine
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Set of three coffee tables, travertine, Italy, 1970s These strong coffee tables feature a cross
Travertine
Up & Up 1970s Italian Travertine Coffee Table Triangular
By Angelo Mangiarotti, Sergio Asti, Mario Bellini, Afra & Tobia Scarpa, Up & Up
Located in San Diego, CA
Up&Up travertine coffee table, Italy 70s. Travertine coffee table in very good condition
Travertine
Angelo Mangiarotti Travertine Coffee Table for Up & Up
By Angelo Mangiarotti, Up&Up
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Angelo Mangiarotti for Up & Up, coffee table, travertine, Italy, 1970s. Sculptural travertine
Travertine
Mangiarotti Square Travertine Coffee Table for Up & Up
By Up & Up, Angelo Mangiarotti
Located in Antwerp, BE
Travertine Mid-Century Modern coffee table by Angelo Mangiarotti for Up & Up. This piece is
Travertine
Angelo Mangiarotti Travertine Coffee Table for Up & Up
By Angelo Mangiarotti
Located in Antwerp, BE
Travertine marble rectangular coffee table designed by Angelo Mangiarotti for Up & Up, Italy
Travertine
Monumental Midcentury Postmodern Italian Travertine Marble Coffee Table
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A larger scale and substantial cocktail table from Italy, circa 1980s. The piece is constructed of
Travertine
Postmodern Travertine Coffee Table with Ming Style Legs
By Ello Furniture
Located in Chicago, IL
Absolutely gorgeous coffee table is excellent condition. I took photos of all 4 corners. No chips
Travertine, Marble
Vintage 1980s Travertine Square Coffee Table with Rounded Edge
By Afra & Tobia Scarpa, Angelo Mangiarotti, Mario Bellini, Carlo Scarpa, Milo Baughman
Located in Palm Desert, CA
This vintage 1980s travertine coffee table features a solid stone construction with a smooth
Travertine
Vintage adjustable travertine coffee table for Roche Bobois, 1970s
Located in Leuven, Vlaams Gewest
Gorgeous travertine coffee table with two adjustable pivoting table tops for Roche Bobois
Travertine
Mario Bellini Inspired Postmodern Square Italian Travertine Coffee Table
By Angelo Mangiarotti, Mario Bellini
Located in Houston, TX
Mario Bellini inspired postmodern square Italian travertine coffee table or cocktail table. This
Travertine
Italian Travertine Two Piece Tiered Postmodern Coffee Table, 1970s
By Up & Up
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Made from Italian Travertine, circa 1970s. The tables are triangular, when placed together they
Travertine
Cantilever Coffee Table by Brueton, Travertine and Brass 1970
By Brueton
Located in Chicago, IL
Travertine and brass coffee table with cantilever glass top. Brueton 1970's.
Travertine, Brass
Italian Travertine Coffee Table by STONE INTERNATIONAL
By Stone International
Located in Lake Worth, FL
adjustable in height if you have an uneven floor. This incredibly stylish live-edge travertine coffee table
Travertine, Brass
Pace Vintage Postmodern Travertine, Brass Coffee Table with Glass Top
By Pace Collection
Located in Miami, FL
Pace Vintage Postmodern Travertine, Brass Coffee Table with Glass Top Offered for sale is a
Travertine, Brass
1980s Postmodern Italian Travertine Coffee Table by Stone Intentional, Italy
By Stone International
Located in Miami, FL
Large Postmodern Italian travertine square coffee table by Stone Intentional Florence, Italy. Circa
Travertine
Vintage Square Travertine Stone Coffee Table Marble Postmodern MCM Retro Minimal
By Angelo Mangiarotti, Pace Collection, Carlo Scarpa
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Vintage 80s Cream Travertine Coffee Table. The table is made out of a beautiful shade of light
Travertine
1970s Up and Up Travertine Coffee Table - Set of 2
Located in Chicago, IL
Such a good design. Two triangles that form a square 39” by 39”. The taller triangle is 16” in height and the shorter is 13”. Place them as you like.
Travertine, Marble
1970s Italian Marble Travertine Metafora Coffee Table by Lella Massimo Vignelli
By Massimo and Lella Vignelli
Located in London, London
Metafora coffee table By Lella and Massimo Vignelli Marble and travertine 3D shapes Cube
Travertine, Marble
Italian Travertine Marble Coffee Table by Up & Up
By Up & Up
Located in New York, NY
Chic and sophisticated 2 part coffee table circa 1970s made in Italy by Up & Up furniture. This
Marble
1980s Italian Walnut Travertine Postmodern Coffee Table with Bowed Edge, Honed
Located in Chicago, IL
This looks like the dessert. Unbelievable. The slab is beautiful and after honing it it’s even better than I could have imagined. The most beautiful combination of brown, ivory, and ...
Travertine
Travertine and Bronze Finish Over Iron Coffee or Cocktail Table by Formations
By Formations
Located in Miami, FL
Postmodern, Deco Revival coffee table with polished unfilled travertine top set in a bronze
Travertine, Iron
Sold|$4,950
Pair of Round Travertine Cocktail Tables
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Pair of round travertine coffee tables, Italy, 1970s. This set of cocktail tables feature a
Travertine
Vintage Italian Travertine Coffee Table with Live Edge, by Stone International
By Stone International
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Vintage Italian travertine coffee table with live edge detail. Made by Stone International Italy
Marble
Italian Postmodern Eye or Teardrop Shaped Travertine Marble Coffee Table 1980s
By Stone International, Ello Furniture
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Designed and made in Italy in the 1980s, this teardrop or eye shaped coffee table sits on two
Breccia Marble
Vintage Travertine Coffee Table in the Style of Mario Bellini, Italy, 1970s
By Mario Bellini, Cassina
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Italian figured travertine stone. Along with its archaic design language, this table's construction also
Travertine
Sold|$3,000
Post-Modern Travertine Cube Side Tables
By Kreiss
Located in Las Vegas, NV
side tables, end tables or side by side as a small coffee table. They could even be used as stools or
Travertine
Sold|$1,800
Tessellated Stone Coffee Table
By Maitland Smith
Located in Denton, TX
Square cocktail table of stone veneer.
Travertine
Midcentury Italian Post Modern Dark Travertine Cube End Tables or Coffee Table
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A simple pair of Classic cube tables from Italy circa 1980s. These feature solid travertine
Travertine
Sold|$2,259
Object 068 Coffee Table by NG Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Object 068 coffee table by NG Design Dimensions: D70 x H35 cm Materials: Travertine Also Available
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.