$1,692 / item
Organic Modern Side Table Catus in Lacquered Wood
By Mambo Unlimited Ideas
Located in Lisbon, PT
Open since 1997 and based in Lisbon, Portugal, a country with a long crafts tradition, Mambo Unlimited Ideas' design team researches for innovation and creativity developments around...
Travertine, Marble, Metal
Organic Modern Side Table Catus in Terrazzo Green Marble
By Mambo Unlimited Ideas
Located in Lisbon, PT
Open since 1997 and based in Lisbon, Portugal, a country with a long crafts tradition, Mambo Unlimited Ideas' design team researches for innovation and creativity developments around...
Travertine, Marble, Metal
Organic Modern Side Table Catus in Terrazzo Sage Marble
By Mambo Unlimited Ideas
Located in Lisbon, PT
Open since 1997 and based in Lisbon, Portugal, a country with a long crafts tradition, Mambo Unlimited Ideas' design team researches for innovation and creativity developments around...
Travertine, Marble, Metal
Organic Modern Center Table Catus in Terrazzo Red Marble
By Mambo Unlimited Ideas
Located in Lisbon, PT
Open since 1997 and based in Lisbon, Portugal, a country with a long crafts tradition, Mambo Unlimited Ideas' design team researches for innovation and creativity developments around...
Travertine, Marble, Metal
$2,570 / item
Amazonas Low Table by Ayres
Located in Geneve, CH
Amazonas Low Table by Ayres Dimensions: W 120 x D 80 x H 43 cm Materials: Sand Travertine In the great culture of the amazonas, they always believe the connection between gods and h...
Travertine
Drapery Table made in Italy from Silver Traverte 51" diam designed by Yaniv Chen
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Known for his signature sense of nostalgia, designer Yaniv Chen shares the story behind the Drapery Table—an evocative piece carved in Italy from a single block of travertine. Produc...
Travertine
Drapery Table made in Italy from Silver Traverte 63" diam designed by Yaniv Chen
By Lemon
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Known for his signature sense of nostalgia, designer Yaniv Chen shares the story behind the Drapery Table—an evocative piece carved in Italy from a single block of travertine. Produc...
Travertine
$3,638 / item
Labium Side Table by Somaschini
Located in Geneve, CH
Labium Side Table by Somaschini Dimensions: D 25 x H 55 cm Materials: Monolithic milled structure in solid Roman Travertine. Side table in solid Roman Travertine. About: Somaschin...
Travertine
$5,451 / item
Fiftyfour Side Table by Somaschini
Located in Geneve, CH
Fiftyfour Side Table by Somaschini Dimensions: W 36 x D 36 x H 40 cm Materials: Monolithic milled structure in solid Roman Travertine. Side table in solid Roman Travertine. About: ...
Travertine
Ivory La Terra Medium Occasional Table by Agnes Morguet
Located in Geneve, CH
Ivory La Terra medium occasional table by Agnes Morguet Materials: Metal, Ivory Travertine. Dimensions: D 40.5 x W 57.2 x H 41 cm The founders, Mia and Torben Koed, decided to p...
Travertine, Metal
$1,296 / item
La Terra Small Occasional Table by Agnes Morguet
Located in Geneve, CH
La Terra small occasional table by Agnes Morguet Materials: metal, Ivory Travertine. Dimensions: D 31.2 x W 40.5 x H 45.7 cm The founders, Mia and Torben Koed, decided to put th...
Travertine, Metal
Grey Melange La Terra Small Occasional Table by Agnes Morguet
Located in Geneve, CH
La Terra small occasional table by Agnes Morguet Materials: Metal, Grey Melange Travertine Dimensions: D 31.2 x W 40.5 x H 45.7 cm The founders, Mia and Torben Koed, decided to ...
Travertine, Metal
Grey Melange La Terra Large Occasional Table by Agnes Morguet
Located in Geneve, CH
Grey Melange La Terra large occasional table by Agnes Morguet Materials: metal, grey Melange Travertine Dimensions: D 54 x W 95 x H 36 cm The founders, Mia and Torben Koed, deci...
Travertine, Metal
Grey Melange La Terra Medium Occasional Table by Agnes Morguet
Located in Geneve, CH
Grey Melange La Terra medium occasional table by Agnes Morguet Materials: metal, grey melange travertine Dimensions: D 40.5 x W 57.2 x H 41 cm The founders, Mia and Torben Koed,...
Travertine, Metal
$2,651 / item
La Terra Large Occasional Table by Agnes Morguet
Located in Geneve, CH
La Terra large occasional table by Agnes Morguet Materials: Metal, Ivory Travertine Dimensions: D 54 x W 95 x H 36 cm The founders, Mia and Torben Koed, decided to put their 30 ...
Travertine, Metal
Ceramic sculpture by Lilianne Caumont dating from the 1970s 1980s
By Jules Agard
Located in LE CANNET, FR
Ceramic sculpture resting on a travertine plinth by Lilanne Caumont. She worked on ceramics for 30 years when she lived in Madrid. On her return to France in the 2000s she went to b...
Travertine
$15,780 / item
Gol. 002 Marble Console Table by Chapter Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Gol. 002 marble console table by Chapter Studio Dimensions: H 86 x W 40 x D 160 Material: marble (beige travertine, dark emperador) Effortless composition and eccentric design bring...
Travertine, Marble
Round Top 40 Muted BeigeTravertine Decorative Side Table by Beije Avenue
Located in Geneve, CH
Olympia Lizea 40 Handcrafted Travertine Decorative Side Table by Beije Avenue Dimensions: Ø 40 x H 50 cm. Materials: Travertine. Available in different size options. Please contact...
Travertine
Boule En Travertin 20 Round Decorative Object And Centerpiece by Beije Avenue
Located in Geneve, CH
Boule En Travertin 20 Round Decorative Object And Centerpiece by Beije Avenue Dimensions: Ø 20 x H 20 cm. Materials: Travertine. Available in different size options. Please contact...
Travertine
$2,215 / item
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: All of objects available in different materials and colors on demand. Made entir...
Travertine
$24,996 / 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
$23,986 / 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
$16,778 / item
Silvia Medium Dining Table by Moure Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Silvia medium dining table by Moure Studio Dimensions: D 80 x W 40 x H 80 cm. Materials: Travertine. Also available in different dimensions. Dining table made of travertine. S...
Travertine
$28,910 / item
Silvia Large Dining Table by Moure Studio
Located in Geneve, CH
Silvia large dining table by Moure Studio Dimensions: D220 x W85 x H80 cm Materials: Travertine Also available in different dimensions. Dining table made of travertine. Silvia...
Travertine
$2,272 / item
Amazonas Side Table by Ayres
Located in Geneve, CH
Amazonas Side Table by Ayres Dimensions: W 43 x D 25 x H 45 cm Materials: Red Travertine At AYRES we design utilitarian objects and furniture with a primary aesthetic. Our basic sh...
Travertine
$2,582 / item
Amazonas Side Table by Ayres
Located in Geneve, CH
Amazonas Side Table by Ayres Dimensions: W 43 x D 25 x H 45 cm Materials: Sand Travertine At AYRES we design utilitarian objects and furniture with a primary aesthetic. Our basic s...
Travertine
Set of 3 Alba Gaia Lena Coffee Tables by Le Berre Vevaud
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 3 Alba Gaia Lena Coffee Tables by Le Berre Vevaud Dimensions: D 98 x H 39 cm. Materials: Top in Osso travertine; feet in New Ivory RAL 9001 lacquer. For over 15 years, Rapha...
Travertine
$16,446 / item
Lena Coffee Table by Le Berre Vevaud
Located in Geneve, CH
Lena Coffee Table by Le Berre Vevaud Dimensions: D 58 x H 29 cm. Materials: Top in Osso travertine; feet in New Ivory RAL 9001 lacquer. For over 15 years, Raphaël Le Berre and Thom...
Travertine
$21,668 / item
Alba Coffee Table by Le Berre Vevaud
Located in Geneve, CH
Alba Coffee Table by Le Berre Vevaud Dimensions: D 98 x H 39 cm. Materials: Top in Osso travertine; feet in New Ivory RAL 9001 lacquer. For over 15 years, Raphaël Le Berre and Thom...
Travertine
$18,179 / item
Gaia Coffee Table by Le Berre Vevaud
Located in Geneve, CH
Gaia Coffee Table by Le Berre Vevaud Dimensions: D 78 x H 34 cm. Materials: Top in Osso travertine; feet in New Ivory RAL 9001 lacquer. For over 15 years, Raphaël Le Berre and Thom...
Travertine
$13,129 / item
Saturnia Coffee Table by Somaschini
Located in Geneve, CH
Saturnia Coffee Table by Somaschini Dimensions: W 180 x D 92 x H 28 cm Materials: Lightened mdf monolithic structure with emptying base with Pure metal finish in Burnished Copper – B...
Travertine, Copper
$6,413 / item
Simone Coffee Table by Studio Gaia Paris
Located in Geneve, CH
Simone Coffee Table by Studio Gaia Paris Dimensions: ⌀ 80 x H 38 cm Materials: White Onyx and Travertine. The Simone coffee table, in onyx and travertine, features two types of nat...
Onyx, Travertine
$17,674 / item
PSI Chair by Lisa Franzen
Located in Geneve, CH
PSI Chair by Lisa Franzen Limited Edition of 8 pieces. Dimensions: D 80 x W 103 x H 120 cm. Materials: Natural travertine and Canaletto walnut. Exclusively handmade in Switzerl...
Travertine
$4,544 / item
Red Onyx Gisele Side Table by Studio Gaia Paris
Located in Geneve, CH
Red Onyx Gisele Side Table by Studio Gaia Paris Dimensions: ⌀ 39 x H 50 cm Materials: Red Onyx and Travertine The Gisèle side table, in onyx and travertine, features two types of na...
Onyx, Travertine
$4,544 / item
Green Onyx Gisele Side Table by Studio Gaia Paris
Located in Geneve, CH
Green Onyx Gisele Side Table by Studio Gaia Paris Dimensions: ⌀ 39 x H 50 cm Materials: Green Onyx and Travertine The Gisèle side table, in onyx and travertine, features two types o...
Onyx, Travertine
$4,544 / item
Exotic Onyx Gisele Side Table by Studio Gaia Paris
Located in Geneve, CH
Exotic Onyx Gisele Side Table by Studio Gaia Paris Dimensions: ⌀ 39 x H 50 cm Materials: Exotic Onyx and Travertine The Gisèle side table, in onyx and travertine, features two types...
Onyx, Travertine
$46,618 / item
Rialto Sofa by Laurameroni
Located in Geneve, CH
Rialto Sofa by Laurameroni Dimensions: W 264 x D 86 x H 75 cm Materials: Cachemire Loro Piana Altai 037 Paprika, gray travertine stone legs. Upholstered sofa featuring four legs in ...
Travertine
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
Duplex Lilac Lacquered Side Table by Mambo Unlimited Ideas
By Mambo Unlimited Ideas
Located in Lisbon, PT
Open since 1997 and based in Lisbon, Portugal, a country with a long crafts tradition, Mambo Unlimited Ideas' design team researches for innovation and creativity developments around...
Travertine
$1,809 / item
Duplex Lacquered Side Table by Mambo Unlimited Ideas
By Mambo Unlimited Ideas
Located in Lisbon, PT
Open since 1997 and based in Lisbon, Portugal, a country with a long crafts tradition, Mambo Unlimited Ideas' design team researches for innovation and creativity developments around...
Travertine
$8,837 / item
LCN 403 Bench by Tommaso Le Rose
Located in Geneve, CH
LCN 403 Bench by Tommaso Le Rose Dimensions: W 132 x D 49 x H 40 cm. Materials: Iron, Travertine. Lichene is a new experimental design project by designer Tommaso Le Rose. Lichene d...
Travertine, Iron
Contemporary Riviera Rectangle center table in Earth lacquered metal for Outdoor
By Mambo Unlimited Ideas
Located in Lisbon, PT
Our newly unveiled collection is meticulously handcrafted in Portugal. Departing from conventional norms, we embrace a palette of unconventional materials, including different marble...
Travertine, Marble, Metal
$1,935 / item
Duplex Walnut Side Table by Mambo Unlimited Ideas
By Mambo Unlimited Ideas
Located in Lisbon, PT
Open since 1997 and based in Lisbon, Portugal, a country with a long crafts tradition, Mambo Unlimited Ideas' design team researches for innovation and creativity developments around...
Travertine
Postmodern Karl Springer Style Sculptural Coffee Table
By Karl Springer
Located in Chicago, IL
Postmodern Karl Springer Style Faux Travertine Waterfall Coffee Table with Glass Top A sophisticated Postmodern coffee table in the style of Karl Springer, featuring a sculptural wa...
Travertine
$12,234 / item
Travertino Small Table Ronde by Bicci De’ Medici
Located in Geneve, CH
Travertino Small Table Ronde by Bicci De’ Medici. Dimensions: D 140 x H 74cm. Materials: Travertino Light Vein. Available in multiple colors and finishes Bicci de’ Medici manufactu...
Travertine
$21,920 / item
Travertino Large Table Ronde by Bicci De Medici
Located in Geneve, CH
Travertino Large Table Ronde by Bicci de Medici Dimensions: D 170 x H 74cm Materials: Beige Travertino. Available in multiple colors and finishes, please contact us. Bicci de’ Medi...
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
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
$26,614 / item
Lui Side Table by Ira Boyko
Located in Geneve, CH
LUI side table by Ira Boyko Dimentions: D 42 x W 42 x H 42 cm Materials: Glass, Stone travertine classic light cross-cut. «RED SQUARE» by ?. malevich became a starting point for...
Travertine
$1,595 / set
Set Of 2 Block Candle Holders by Studionudo
Located in Geneve, CH
Set Of 2 Block Candle Holders by Studionudo Unique Pieces. Dimensions: High: D 9 x W 9 x H 12 cm. Low: D 4 x W 11 x H 8 cm. Materials: Travertine and marble. Different materials and...
Travertine, Marble
$12,877 / item
Luca Coffee Table Large by Umberto Bellardi Ricci
Located in Geneve, CH
Luca coffee table large by Umberto Bellardi Ricci Dimensions: D 139.7 x W 86.36 x H 34.29 cm. Materials: Travertine, bronze legs. Umberto Bellardi Ricci is an Italian sculptor and a...
Travertine, Bronze
Contemporary Riviera Rectangle center table in lacquered metal for Outdoors
By Mambo Unlimited Ideas
Located in Lisbon, PT
Our newly unveiled collection is meticulously handcrafted in Portugal. Departing from conventional norms, we embrace a palette of unconventional materials, including different marble...
Travertine, Marble, Metal
$32,720 / item
Holly Armchair by Kreoo
Located in Geneve, CH
Holly Armchair by Kreoo Designed by Christophe Pillet Dimensions: D 55 x W 85 x H 102 cm. Materials: Travertino Paglierino and leather. The price is inclusive of leather cushions, ...
Travertine
$32,720 / item
Holly Armchair by Kreoo
Located in Geneve, CH
Holly Armchair by Kreoo Designed by Christophe Pillet Dimensions: D 55 x W 85 x H 102 cm. Materials: Travertino Paglierino and leather. The price is inclusive of leather cushions, ...
Travertine
$2,421 / item
Duplex Copper Center Table by Mambo Unlimited Ideas
By Mambo Unlimited Ideas
Located in Lisbon, PT
Open since 1997 and based in Lisbon, Portugal, a country with a long crafts tradition, Mambo Unlimited Ideas' design team researches for innovation and creativity developments around...
Travertine
$2,443 / item
Duplex Oak Center Table by Mambo Unlimited Ideas
By Mambo Unlimited Ideas
Located in Lisbon, PT
Open since 1997 and based in Lisbon, Portugal, a country with a long crafts tradition, Mambo Unlimited Ideas' design team researches for innovation and creativity developments around...
Travertine
Demetra Coffee Table in Travertino Navona, Horn & Satin Metal in by Arcahorn
Located in Geneve, CH
Demetra Coffee Table in Travertino Navona, Horn & Satin Metal by Arcahorn Dimensions: D 120 x W 160 x H 39 cm. Materials: Travertine, horn, and satin metal. In 1958, Mario Guerra, a...
Travertine, Metal, Other
$25,754 / item
Giulia Coffee Table by Le Berre Vevaud
Located in Geneve, CH
Giulia Coffee Table by Le Berre Vevaud Dimensions: D 98 x H 39 cm. Materials: Plateau travertin Walnut, piètement laque ivoire RAL 9001. For over 15 years, Raphaël Le Berre and Tho...
Travertine
Bronze Horse Sculpture "Sete" by Fernando Mario Paonessa, Italy, 1980s
Located in Quarrata, IT
A rare bronze sculpture titled *Sete* (Thirst), designed and created by the Italian contemporary master Fernando Mario Paonessa. The piece features a sculptural, elongated equine sil...
Stone, Travertine, Bronze
$17,008 / item
Roma Bookshelf by Somaschini
Located in Geneve, CH
Roma Bookshelf by Somaschini Dimensions: W 65 x D 65 x H 161 cm Materials: Solid Roman Travertine structure. Boookshelf in solid Roman Travertine. About: Somaschini is a new-born ...
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.