Be My Guest Dining Table 240 Black Oak Forrest Green by Warm Nordic
Located in Geneve, CH
Our designs encapsulate the Nordic spirit, which in its essence is timeless, inclusive and warm.
Steel, Other
Be My Guest Dining Table 240 White Oak Butter Yellow by Warm Nordic
Located in Geneve, CH
Our designs encapsulate the Nordic spirit, which in its essence is timeless, inclusive and warm.
Steel, Other
Herringbone Tile Side Table Pure White Tiles Soft Black Steel by Warm Nordic
Located in Geneve, CH
Our designs encapsulate the Nordic spirit, which in its essence is timeless, inclusive and warm.
Steel, Other
Herringbone Tile Dining Table Pure White Tiles Soft Black Steel by Warm Nordic
Located in Geneve, CH
Our designs encapsulate the Nordic spirit, which in its essence is timeless, inclusive and warm.
Steel, Other
Gesture Chair Teak Oiled Oak Black Leather Cappuccino Brown by Warm Nordic
Located in Geneve, CH
Our designs encapsulate the Nordic spirit, which in its essence is timeless, inclusive and warm.
Leather, Textile, Upholstery, Oak, Teak
Gesture Chair Teak Oiled Oak Black Leather Cappuccino Brown by Warm Nordic
Located in Geneve, CH
Our designs encapsulate the Nordic spirit, which in its essence is timeless, inclusive and warm.
Leather, Abalone, Textile, Upholstery, Beech
Gesture Chair Teak Oiled Oak Black Leather Hunter Green by Warm Nordic
Located in Geneve, CH
Our designs encapsulate the Nordic spirit, which in its essence is timeless, inclusive and warm.
Leather, Abalone, Textile, Upholstery, Beech
Mr Olsen 3 Seater Oak Challenger Pickle Green Leather by Warm Nordic
Located in Geneve, CH
Our designs encapsulate the Nordic spirit, which in its essence is timeless, inclusive and warm.
Leather, Upholstery, Foam, Oak
Mr Olsen 3 Seater Walnut Challenger Pickle Green Leather by Warm Nordic
Located in Geneve, CH
Our designs encapsulate the Nordic spirit, which in its essence is timeless, inclusive and warm.
Leather, Upholstery, Foam, Oak
Fringe Floor Lamp, by Hans Agne Jakobsson from Warm Nordic
Located in Viby J, DK
It is the epitome of the Warm Nordic lifestyle. It will look equally sophisticated alongside a modern sofa or a 1950s armchair.
Steel
Gourmet Round Wood Trivet, by Gunnar Cyren from Warm Nordic
By Gunnar Cyren
Located in Viby J, DK
Trivets were originally designed in the 1970s by the highly acclaimed Swedish designer, Gunnar Cyren as part of the Gourmet Wood range, and are now being manufactured again by Warm N...
Wood
Gourmet Square Wood Trivet, by Gunnar Cyren from Warm Nordic
By Gunnar Cyren
Located in Viby J, DK
Trivets were originally designed in the 1970s by the highly acclaimed Swedish designer, Gunnar Cyren as part of the Gourmet Wood range, and are now being manufactured again by Warm N...
Wood
Mr. Olsen Lounge Chair Mosaic Solid Smoked Oak Royal Blue by Warm Nordic
Located in Geneve, CH
Our designs encapsulate the Nordic spirit, which in its essence is timeless, inclusive and warm.
Upholstery, Foam, Oak
Mr. Olsen Lounge Chair Sprinkles Solid Smoked Oak Midnight Blue by Warm Nordic
Located in Geneve, CH
Our designs encapsulate the Nordic spirit, which in its essence is timeless, inclusive and warm.
Upholstery, Foam, Oak
Mr. Olsen Lounge Chair Mosaic Solid Smoked Oak Petrol Shade by Warm Nordic
Located in Geneve, CH
Our designs encapsulate the Nordic spirit, which in its essence is timeless, inclusive and warm.
Upholstery, Foam, Oak
Mr. Olsen Lounge Chair Mosaic Solid Smoked Oak, Cloudy Grey by Warm Nordic
Located in Geneve, CH
Our designs encapsulate the Nordic spirit, which in its essence is timeless, inclusive and warm.
Upholstery, Foam, Oak
Mr. Olsen Lounge Chair Mosaic Solid Smoked Oak Spicy Brown by Warm Nordic
Located in Geneve, CH
Our designs encapsulate the Nordic spirit, which in its essence is timeless, inclusive and warm.
Upholstery, Foam, Oak
Mr. Olsen Lounge Chair Solid Smoked Oak, Pickle Green Leather by Warm Nordic
Located in Geneve, CH
Our designs encapsulate the Nordic spirit, which in its essence is timeless, inclusive and warm.
Leather, Upholstery, Foam, Oak
Arctic Opal Blown Glass Vase by Gunnar Cyrén for Warm Nordic
By Gunnar Cyren
Located in Viby J, DK
The arctic vase was originally designed in the 1960s by the acclaimed Swedish glass artist and silversmith, Gunnar Cyrén and is now being manufactured for the first time by Warm Nord...
Blown Glass
Fringe Small Pendant, by Hans Agne Jakobsson from Warm Nordic
Located in Viby J, DK
It is the epitome of the Warm Nordic lifestyle. Perfect for an old luxury flat with stucco ceilings, but just as wonderful in a more modern setting, where the pendant will add soul a...
Steel
Fringe Table Lamp, by Hans Agne Jakobsson from Warm Nordic
Located in Viby J, DK
This exclusive table lamp is the epitome of the Warm Nordic lifestyle. Its soft light and graceful appearance will make any home feel cozier.
Steel
Fringe Large Pendant, by Hans Agne Jakobsson from Warm Nordic
Located in Viby J, DK
It is the epitome of the Warm Nordic lifestyle. Perfect for an old luxury flat with stucco ceilings, but just as wonderful in a more modern setting, where the pendant will add soul a...
Steel
Fringe Wall Lamp, by Hans-Agne Jakobsson from Warm Nordic
Located in Viby J, DK
This exclusive wall lamp is the epitome of the Warm Nordic lifestyle. Its soft light and graceful appearance will make any home feel cozier.
Steel
Lean Back Lounge Chair White Oiled Oak Light Sage Mocca by Warm Nordic
Located in Geneve, CH
Our designs encapsulate the Nordic spirit, which in its essence is timeless, inclusive and warm.
Upholstery, Foam, Oak
Lean Back Lounge Chair White Oak Spicy Brown Petrol Shade by Warm Nordic
Located in Geneve, CH
Our designs encapsulate the Nordic spirit, which in its essence is timeless, inclusive and warm.
Upholstery, Foam, Oak
Lean Back Lounge Chair White Oak, Petrol Shade, Light Sage by Warm Nordic
Located in Geneve, CH
Our designs encapsulate the Nordic spirit, which in its essence is timeless, inclusive and warm.
Upholstery, Foam, Oak
Lean Back Lounge Chair Mosaic Teak, Petrol Shade, Light Sage by Warm Nordic
Located in Geneve, CH
Our designs encapsulate the Nordic spirit, which in its essence is timeless, inclusive and warm.
Upholstery, Foam, Teak
Lean Back Lounge Chair Mosaic Teak, Royal Blue, Spicy Brown by Warm Nordic
Located in Geneve, CH
Our designs encapsulate the Nordic spirit, which in its essence is timeless, inclusive and warm.
Upholstery, Foam, Teak
Lean Back Lounge Chair Mosaic Teak, Spicy Brown, Petrol Shade by Warm Nordic
Located in Geneve, CH
Our designs encapsulate the Nordic spirit, which in its essence is timeless, inclusive and warm.
Upholstery, Foam, Teak
Fried Egg Right Chair Dark Blue Cappuccino Brown Cloudy Grey by Warm Nordic
Located in Geneve, CH
Our designs encapsulate the Nordic spirit, which in its essence is timeless, inclusive and warm.
Upholstery, Teak
Fried Egg Right Lounge Chair Petrol, Light green, Fresh Peach by Warm Nordic
Located in Geneve, CH
Our designs encapsulate the Nordic spirit, which in its essence is timeless, inclusive and warm.
Upholstery, Teak
Fried Egg Right Lounge Chair Dark Blue, Eggplant, Light Sage by Warm Nordic
Located in Geneve, CH
Our designs encapsulate the Nordic spirit, which in its essence is timeless, inclusive and warm.
Upholstery, Teak
Fried Egg Left Chair Dark Caramel, Autumn Grey, Spicy Brown by Warm Nordic
Located in Geneve, CH
Our designs encapsulate the Nordic spirit, which in its essence is timeless, inclusive and warm.
Upholstery, Teak
Fried Egg Right Lounge Chair Plum, Soft Violet, Fresh Peach by Warm Nordic
Located in Geneve, CH
Our designs encapsulate the Nordic spirit, which in its essence is timeless, inclusive and warm.
Upholstery, Teak
Fried Egg Left Lounge Chair Dark Blue, Eggplant, Light Sage by Warm Nordic
Located in Geneve, CH
Our designs encapsulate the Nordic spirit, which in its essence is timeless, inclusive and warm.
Upholstery, Teak
Fried Egg Right Lounge Chair Petrol, Light Green, Pale Peach by Warm Nordic
Located in Geneve, CH
Our designs encapsulate the Nordic spirit, which in its essence is timeless, inclusive and warm.
Upholstery, Teak
Fried Egg Left Lounge Chair Light Green, Petrol, Fresh Peach by Warm Nordic
Located in Geneve, CH
Our designs encapsulate the Nordic spirit, which in its essence is timeless, inclusive and warm.
Upholstery, Teak
Fried Egg Left Lounge Chair Dark Blue, Cappuccino Brown, Cloudy by Warm Nordic
Located in Geneve, CH
Our designs encapsulate the Nordic spirit, which in its essence is timeless, inclusive and warm.
Upholstery, Teak
Fried Egg Left Lounge Chair Soft Violet, Plum, Fresh Peach by Warm Nordic
Located in Geneve, CH
Our designs encapsulate the Nordic spirit, which in its essence is timeless, inclusive and warm.
Upholstery, Teak
Fried Egg Left Lounge Chair Light Green, Petrol, Pale Peach by Warm Nordic
Located in Geneve, CH
Our designs encapsulate the Nordic spirit, which in its essence is timeless, inclusive and warm.
Upholstery, Teak
Be My Guest Dining Table 180 Black Oak Soft Black Tiles by Warm Nordic
Located in Geneve, CH
Our designs encapsulate the Nordic spirit, which in its essence is timeless, inclusive and warm.
Steel, Other
Be My Guest Dining Table 240 Black Oak Soft Black Tiles by Warm Nordic
Located in Geneve, CH
Our designs encapsulate the Nordic spirit, which in its essence is timeless, inclusive and warm.
Steel, Other
Be My Guest Dining Table 220 Black Oak Soft Black Tiles by Warm Nordic
Located in Geneve, CH
Our designs encapsulate the Nordic spirit, which in its essence is timeless, inclusive and warm.
Steel, Other
Be My Guest Cane Stool by Charlotte Høncke for Warm Nordic
Located in Viby J, DK
All the items are beautiful in their own right, but are elegant either when mixed and matched or together with other Warm Nordic designs.
Steel
The Orange Chair Mosaic White Oiled Oak, Light Sage, Petrol Shade by Warm Nordic
Located in Geneve, CH
Our designs encapsulate the Nordic spirit, which in its essence is timeless, inclusive and warm.
Leather, Upholstery, Wood, Oak
Evermore Dining Table Made In Walnut By Arne Hovmand-Olsen For Warm Nordic
By Arne Hovmand-Olsen
Located in Lejre, DK
The Evermore dining table, designed by Arne Hovmand-Olsen in 1955 and manufactured by Warm Nordic, is made of walnut and represents a classic example of Danish design tradition.
Walnut
Warm Nordic Gesture Monochrome Fully Upholstered Lounge Chair in Teak Oak
By Hans Olsen
Located in Viby J, DK
Choose from top-quality leather and several different exclusive fabrics from the Warm Nordic universe. The frame comes in several types of wood and a variety of surface treatments.
Wood
Be My Guest Cane Bar Stool by Charlotte Høncke for Warm Nordic
Located in Viby J, DK
All the items are beautiful in their own right, but are elegant either when mixed and matched or together with other Warm Nordic designs.
Steel
Noble Chair in Pure Wood, by Arne Hovmand-Olsen from Warm Nordic
By Arne Hovmand-Olsen
Located in Viby J, DK
Choose from several different exclusive furnishing fabrics from the likes of Kvadrat in carefully selected shades from the Warm Nordic universe, or the highest quality black or natur...
Foam
Medium Twirling Bird Polished Wood Sculpture by Jakob Hermann for Warm Nordic
Located in Viby J, DK
Unique rotating wooden birds, created in the 1950s by the Danish furniture designer and true artist, Jacob Hermann and now being manufactured by Warm Nordic. The Danish-manufactured ...
Wood
Small Twirling Bird Polished Wood Sculpture by Jakob Hermann for Warm Nordic
Located in Viby J, DK
Unique rotating wooden birds, created in the 1950s by the Danish furniture designer and true artist, Jacob Hermann and now being manufactured by Warm Nordic. The Danish-manufactured ...
Wood
Large Twirling Bird Polished Wood Sculpture by Jakob Hermann for Warm Nordic
Located in Viby J, DK
Unique rotating wooden birds, created in the 1950s by the Danish furniture designer and true artist, Jacob Hermann and now being manufactured by Warm Nordic. The Danish-manufactured ...
Wood
Be My Guest Large Dining Table, by Charlotte Høncke from Warm Nordic
Located in Viby J, DK
Be My Guest comes in two sizes and is available in oak for a warm and unique look. Choose between various finishes and tiles in a range of beautiful colors from the Warm Nordic unive...
Wood
Be My Guest Small Dining Table, by Charlotte Høncke from Warm Nordic
Located in Viby J, DK
Be my guest comes in two sizes and is available in oak for a warm and unique look. Choose between various finishes and tiles in a range of beautiful colors from the Warm Nordic unive...
Wood
Gesture Lounge Chair in Pure Wood, by Hans Olsen from Warm Nordic
By Hans Olsen
Located in Viby J, DK
Choose from top-quality leather and several different exclusive fabrics from the Warm Nordic universe. The frame comes in several types of wood and a variety of surface treatments.
Wood
Noble Chair in Oak with Upholstery, by Arne Hovmand-Olsen from Warm Nordic
By Arne Hovmand-Olsen
Located in Viby J, DK
Choose from several different exclusive furnishing fabrics from the likes of Kvadrat in carefully selected shades from the Warm Nordic universe, or the highest quality black or natur...
Foam
Be My Guest Cane Bar Cabinet by Charlotte Høncke for Warm Nordic
Located in Viby J, DK
All the items are beautiful in their own right, but are elegant either when mixed and matched or together with other Warm Nordic designs.
Steel
Dainty Pouf, by Charlotte Høncke from Warm Nordic
Located in Viby J, DK
Sophisticated, two-colored pouf with soft shapes and a clean idiom. The Dainty pouf can be used in any room of your home as extra seating or as a leg rest. It is so neat that it can ...
Foam
Daisy Stool, by Sabine Stougaard from Warm Nordic
Located in Viby J, DK
The Daisy stool will add a cute touch to your home and is wonderfully soft to sit on. Daisy is a fashionable stool with several features. The velour cushion has a leather strap, so t...
Steel
Pebble Stool, by Welling / Ludvik from Warm Nordic
Located in Viby J, DK
Light stools and bar stools with organically shaped seats made of solid wood and with a strong attention to detail. With its well-conceived shape and wonderful finish, Pebble’s seat ...
Wood
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.
It's hard to resist the allure of a beautiful pool. So, go ahead and daydream about whiling away your summer in paradise.
Alessandro Mendini, Michael Graves, Ettore Sottsass and other design luminaries contributed to this unusual collection of porcelain wares representing a time capsule of late-20th-century decorative art.
Aided by photos taken of the maestro in his Milan studio, we honor the influential design talent who died last month at 87.
Adam Charlap Hyman and Andre Herrero, rising young design talents, are debuting a new, eclectic line of textiles.
