Organic Modern Center Table Catus in Travertine Marble and Wood
By Mambo Unlimited Ideas
Located in Lisbon, PT
Catus center table is unique in its conception with Organic Modern inspiration. Natural Stone is unrepeatable in its individuality, this way each Catus table is unique featuring the ...
Travertine, Marble, Metal
Organic Modern Dinner Table Catus in Travertine Marble and Wood
By Mambo Unlimited Ideas
Located in Lisbon, PT
Catus dinner table is unique in its conception with Organic Modern inspiration. Natural Stone is unrepeatable in its individuality, this way each Catus table is unique featuring the ...
Travertine, Marble, Metal
Large Travertine Mid Century Italian Modern Trapezoidal Glass Cocktail Table
Located in Philadelphia, PA
An extra long coffee table from Italy circa 1970's. It features 2 triangular travertine pedestals supporting a thick clear glass top.
Travertine
Organic Modern Dinner Table Catus in Red Terrazzo and Travertine Marble
By Mambo Unlimited Ideas
Located in Lisbon, PT
Catus dinner table is unique in its conception with Organic Modern inspiration. Natural Stone is unrepeatable in its individuality, this way each Catus table is unique featuring the ...
Travertine, Marble, Metal
Modern to Postmodern Coffee Table Travertine Hexagon Base Glass Rectangle Top
By Artedi
Located in Topeka, KS
Lovely vintage Modern to Postmodern Italian coffee table comprised of a hexagon shaped travertine pedestal base, rectangular chrome tube details, and a rectangular glass top in the s...
Travertine, Metal
$6,135Sale Price|46% Off
Herder Dining Table Italian Travertine Marble, Slate & Glass Modern Design Spain
By Joaquín Moll, Meddel
Located in VALVERDE DEL MAJANO, CL
Herder Dining Table Italian Travertine Marble, Slate & Glass Modern Design Spain The Herder dining table is a striking example of contemporary collectible design, created by Span...
Crystal, Travertine, Marble, Slate
$3,994Sale Price|42% Off
MEC Italy Travertine Marble Coffee Table Brazilian Sandstone Modern Design Spain
By Joaquín Moll, Meddel
Located in VALVERDE DEL MAJANO, CL
MEC Italy Travertine Marble Coffee Table Brazilian Sandstone Modern Design Spain The MEC Coffee Table is a remarkable example of Italian modern design, combining the elegance of trav...
Crystal, Sandstone, Marble, Travertine
Maurice Villency Italian Travertine Pedestal Table
By Maurice Villency
Located in Hudson, NY
An Italian travertine center table by Maurice Villency. Post modern period, the square table top with a double beveled edge is supported on an angular travertine pedestal base.
Travertine
$2,460 / item
Travertine Side Table by Petra Madalena
Located in Geneve, CH
Travertine Side Table by Petra Madalena Dimensions: W 20 x D 30 x H 50 cm Materials: travertine. Weight: 30 kg (± 5 kg for packaging) Indulge in the ultimate luxury and sophisticati...
Travertine
$4,060Sale Price|30% Off
Rectangular Vintage Unfilled Travertine Coffee Table
By Angelo Mangiarotti, Giovanni Offredi
Located in Las Vegas, NV
Make a huge statement with this monumental, unfilled travertine coffee table. Table is very modern, with thick proportions. This table is the perfect piece if you need durability, si...
Travertine
$2,400 / item
Honed Travertine Occasional Side Table
Located in Houston, TX
Honed travertine occasional side table with column base.
Travertine
$22,410 / item
Travertine Dining Table by Tino Seubert
Located in Geneve, CH
Travertine dining table by Tino Seubert Dimensions: D 240 x W 100 x H 73 cm. Materials: Travertine. Tino Seubert When he first made his now signature wicker and aluminium stool...
Travertine
$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
Vintage Italian Beveled Travertine Pedestal Dining Table
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Condition: Original Vintage Condition This vintage Italian dining table from the 1970s makes a striking statement through its sculptural form and beautifully figured natural traver...
Travertine
Ebru Two-Tone Stone Wall Mirror, Onyx & Marble, Post-Modern Design
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The Ebru Mirror is a sculptural design that blends modern curves with classic elegance, offering a timeless presence in any space. Its distinctive two-tone stonework creates a sense ...
Onyx, Marble, Travertine
Vintage Italian Beveled Travertine Pedestal Coffee Table
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Condition: Original Vintage Condition This vintage Italian coffee table from the 1970s showcases the natural beauty of travertine through a clean, architectural form. The elongated...
Travertine
Italian Midcentury / Post Modern Umbrella Stand, circa 1980
By Gruppo Alchimia, Alessandro Mendini
Located in New York, NY
Italian Mid-Century Modern umbrella stand in the style of Alessandro Mendini and Studio Alchimia, circa 1976-1980. The base is composed of carved travertine stone and the 3 container...
Travertine, Chrome
Eye-Shaped Travertine Coffee Table, 1980s
Located in London, London
Eye-Shaped Travertine Coffee Table, 1980s Elegant and sculptural travertine coffee table from the 1980s, featuring an unusual eye-shaped top resting on two thick slab legs with rou...
Travertine
$1,032Sale Price|20% Off
1970's Glass & Travertine Coffee Table
Located in Bern, CH
1970’s glass topped travertine lounge table. Round glass tabletop set on a two part solid natural stone base. The heavy travertine base can be set as required to enable an individual...
Travertine
Bellissimo Oval Table in Travertine by Pietro Franceschini
By Pietro Franceschini
Located in Geneve, CH
Bellissimo Oval Table in Travertine by Pietro Franceschini. Dimensions: W 280 x D 130 x H 76 cm. Materials: Travertine. This listing features the Bellissimo Oval Table in its traver...
Travertine
Vintage Travertine Coffee Table, Postmodern 1970s Design
Located in BERKEL EN RODENRIJS, NL
Beautiful vintage travertine coffee table with sculptural presence and a minimalist aesthetic. Crafted from solid travertine stone, this piece features a thick square top with rounde...
Travertine
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
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
$4,760Sale Price / item|30% Off
Architectural Unfilled Travertine and Glass Coffee Table
By Angelo Mangiarotti, Giovanni Offredi
Located in Las Vegas, NV
THERE ARE NO WORDS. This jaw dropping, sculpted piece of ART would make the most incredible centerpiece in any living space or gallery. Functional art. The table is comprised of...
Travertine
$2,600 / set
Pair Travertine Vessels, 1980
Located in Chicago, IL
Pair travertine vessels, 1980. Excellent condition and very heavy and solid. Measures 12" tall, 13" diameter, opening 6" diameter.
Travertine
Vintage travertine table lamps, 1970s
Located in Leuven, Vlaams Gewest
Charming polished solid travertine table lamp with its original seventiers lamp shade. Good condition, tested with a E27 light bulb Dimensions: Height 60cm/23.62" Diameter: 50cm/19...
Travertine
Block Travertine Low Candle Holder by Studionudo
Located in Geneve, CH
Block Travertine Low Candle Holder by Studionudo Unique Piece. Dimensions: D 4 x W 11 x H 8 cm. Materials: Travertine. Different materials and sizes are available. Prices may vary. ...
Travertine
$4,268 / item
Element Travertine Stool by Idaaf Architects
Located in Geneve, CH
Element Travertine Stool by Idaaf Architects Dimensions: W 75 x D 45 x H 55 cm Materials: Travertine ‘Element’, which combines furniture of different functions, was created under th...
Travertine
1970s Italian Brutalist Travertine Coffee Table, Mangiarotti Style
By Angelo Mangiarotti
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Italian Brutalist coffee table from the 1970s, influenced by the work of Angelo Mangiarotti. Thick glass top rests on two freestanding travertine pedestals, each composed of vertical...
Travertine
A MINIMALIST POST-MODERN COFFEE TABLE by ALAIN RICHARD France 1970
By Jean-Michel Wilmotte
Located in PARIS, FR
An elegant minimal and square rectangular coffee table, side table or night stand, Radical, Post-Modern, Architectural, black geometric structure made of square-section metal tubes, ...
Travertine, Metal
1970s Parsons Style Chrome & Solid Travertine Coffee Table
By Karl Springer, Heinz Lilienthal, Willy Rizzo
Located in Bensalem, PA
Amazing designer coffee table in solid travertine over a thick chrome base the top is 1” thick and can be lifted out please look at pictures for overall detail feel free to reach out...
Travertine, Chrome
Pair of Vintage Italian Beveled Travertine Pedestal Side Tables
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Condition: Original Vintage Condition This striking pair of vintage Italian side tables, dating to the 1970s, showcases the natural beauty and sculptural quality of warm cream-tone...
Travertine
Travertine coffee table by Ballez Willy, 1970s
Located in Brussels, BE
Coffee table with a architectural travertine base designed by the belgian designer Willy Ballez in the 70'. The travertine base is in great condition. The glass top has a chip on t...
Travertine
$29,293 / item
Baptiz Red Travertine Bath Tub by Andres Monnier
Located in Geneve, CH
Baptiz Red Travertine Bath Tub by Andres Monnier Unique Piece. Dimensions: D 190 x W 110 x H 50 cm. Materials: Red travertine. Available in white marble, black marble, and red trave...
Travertine
Bellissimo Low Stool in Travertine by Pietro Franceschini
By Pietro Franceschini
Located in Geneve, CH
Bellissimo Low Stool in Travertine by Pietro Franceschini. Dimensions: Ø 44 x H 43.5 cm Materials: Travertine. This listing features the Bellissimo Low Stool in its travertine versi...
Travertine
Bellissimo Tall Stool in Travertine by Pietro Franceschini
By Pietro Franceschini
Located in Geneve, CH
Bellissimo Tall Stool in Travertine by Pietro Franceschini. Dimensions: Ø 44 x H 60 cm. Materials: Travertine. This listing features the Bellissimo Tall Stool in its travertine vers...
Travertine
1970's Postmodern Hollywood Regency Solid Travertine Coffee Table
By Mario Bellini
Located in Burbank, CA
Vintage 1970's Mid century Modern coffee table for sale. It's made of solid travertine, and is in excellent condition. It's rectangular, and has nice rounded edged and smoothed out l...
Travertine
$7,323 / item
Classic Travertine Unfilled Chunky Stool by Etamorph
Located in Geneve, CH
Classic Travertine Unfilled Chunky Stool by Etamorph Dimensions: Ø 36 x H 46 cm. Materials: Classic Travertine Unfilled. Chunky stands as a sculptural masterpiece. The variation of ...
Stone, Travertine
$14,385 / 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
Pair of Vintage Triangular Travertine Planters, Italy, 1980s
Located in Richmond, Surrey
Pair of Triangular Travertine Planters, Italy, 1980s Fabulous Pair of Post modern Travertine planters / jardinieres.
Travertine
1980’s Travertine And Pencil Reed Sideboard
Located in Chicago, IL
1980’s two doors sideboard made of travertine and pencil reed.
Travertine
Vintage 1980s Round Travertine Dining Table with Hexagonal Pedestal Base
By Mario Bellini, Massimo and Lella Vignelli, Stone International, Angelo Mangiarotti, Afra & Tobia Scarpa
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Sculptural vintage round dining table crafted entirely from solid travertine stone, featuring a substantial hexagonal pedestal base and a thick circular top with beautifully softened...
Travertine
Post-Modern Bagatelle Side Table in Marble by Mavo Atelier, Handmade Portugal
By Mavo Atelier
Located in Trofa, PT
The Bagatelle Side Table is a celebration of craftsmanship, creativity, and distinctive design. Handcrafted in Portugal, it combines architectural form with a rich interplay of noble...
Marble, 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
Acid-etched Ostuni Travertine Ettore Table by Dainelli Studio Atelier
Located in Geneve, CH
Acid-etched Ostuni Travertine Ettore Table by Dainelli Studio Atelier Dimensions: W 150 x D 150 x H 74 cm Materials: Solid Wood, Travertine. Table with a lightweight solid wood bas...
Travertine
Acid-etched Ostuni Travertine Naviglio Table by Dainelli Studio Atelier
Located in Geneve, CH
Acid-etched Ostuni Travertine Naviglio Table by Dainelli Studio Atelier Dimensions: W 300 x D 140 x H 74 cm Materials: Marble, Travertine. Table with a base and top composed of sev...
Travertine, Marble
Postmodern Travertine Nesting Side Tables, a Set of 3
By Karl Springer
Located in Brooklyn, NY
A set of three nesting side tables in solid travertine, designed in a stepped form typical of postmodern furniture. Each table is constructed as a U-shaped volume, allowing the small...
Travertine
Ettorino Table Solid Acid-Treated Ostuni Travertine by Dainelli Studio Atelier
Located in Geneve, CH
Ettorino Table Solid Acid-Treated Ostuni Travertine by Dainelli Studio Atelier Dimensions: W 60 x D 60 x H 53 cm Materials: Acid-etched Ostuni travertine, wire-brushed with an open-p...
Travertine
1970's Italian Design Travertine Nesting Side Table Set
Located in Oud-Turnhout, VAN
Vintage 1970's Italian Design set of 3 Travertine Nesting Side Tables. Made in Italy in the 1970's. Square with rounded edges on each table. All are in good condition, the largest mo...
Travertine
Contemporary Natural Black Travertine Big Poche by Henry Wilson
By Henry Wilson
Located in Geneve, CH
Black Travertine Big Poche by Henry Wilson Dimensions: D 30 x H 7 cm Materials: Black travertine. Available in Black travertine, Calacatta marble, Classico travertine, and Green Gua...
Travertine
White Rectangular Travertine Marble Minimalist Low Table By Kelly Boukobza
Located in Geneve, CH
Marble Yoki Low Table by Kelly Boukobza Dimensions: W 300 x D 125 x H 75 cm Materials: Marble, Travertine. Available Finishes : Marble / travertine / stone / US walnut wood / metal....
Travertine, Marble
Architectural Black Nero & Travertine Marble Pedestal Coffee Table
Located in Farmington Hills, MI
We are very pleased to offer a striking postmodern marble table, circa the 1980s. This piece features a sleek, rectangular black marble top with dramatic white veining, creating a b...
Travertine, Marble
Post-Modern Viotti Side Table in Marble by Mavo Atelier, Handmade Portugal
By Mavo Atelier
Located in Trofa, PT
A sculptural dialogue between wood and stone, the Viotti Side Table is a poetic expression of form, texture, and balance. Every detail tells a story of patience and precision, invit...
Travertine
Postmodern Italian Travertine Desk with Three Drawers, 1980s
Located in Palm Desert, CA
This sculptural Italian travertine three drawer desk dates to the 1980s and exemplifies the bold architectural approach to stone furniture associated with late 20th-century Italian d...
Travertine
$33,347 / item
Bellissimo Console in Travertine by Pietro Franceschini
By Pietro Franceschini
Located in Geneve, CH
Bellissimo Console in Travertine by Pietro Franceschini. Dimensions: W 200 x D 40 x H 80 cm. Materials: Travertine. This listing features the Bellissimo Console in its travertine ve...
Travertine
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
Round Italian Travertine Ashtray with Removable Metal Dish, 1970
Located in Conversano, IT
Overview A sculptural round ashtray made of warm Italian travertine, from the 1970s, featuring a removable polished metal dish. A solid, architectural object whose gently curved, col...
Travertine
Umbral Side Table in Black Marble & Travertine by Panorammma
Located in Geneve, CH
Umbral Side Table in Black Marble & Travertine by Panorammma Dimensions: D 29 x W 29 x H 40 cm. Materials: Onyx. Each edition’s patterns and tone will naturally vary. Please follow ...
Travertine, Marble
Stone Heart Travertine Stool by Harshita Jhamtani Designs
Located in Geneve, CH
Stone Heart Travertine Stool by Harshita Jhamtani Designs Dimensions: D 30.5 x H 45.7 cm Materials: Travertine. Handcrafted from beige and red travertine, this unique ottoman/end ta...
Travertine
1980s Italian Postmodern Square Travertine Stone Parsons Coffee Table
By Afra & Tobia Scarpa, Gae Aulenti, Angelo Mangiarotti, Up & Up, Massimo and Lella Vignelli
Located in Palm Desert, CA
This Vintage Square Postmodern Travertine Parsons Coffee Table features a bold, architectural form crafted entirely from solid natural stone. Designed in the Postmodern Parsons style...
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.