Post-Modern Desk Accessories
POSTMODERN STYLE
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
- Emerges during the 1960s; popularity explodes during the ’80s
- A reaction to prevailing conventions of modernism by mainly American architects
- Architect Robert Venturi critiques modern architecture in his Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (1966)
- Theorist Charles Jencks, who championed architecture filled with allusions and cultural references, writes The Language of Post-Modern Architecture (1977)
- Italian design collective the Memphis Group, also known as Memphis Milano, meets for the first time (1980)
- Memphis collective debuts more than 50 objects and furnishings at Salone del Milano (1981)
- Interest in style declines, minimalism gains steam
CHARACTERISTICS OF POSTMODERN FURNITURE DESIGN
- Dizzying graphic patterns and an emphasis on loud, off-the-wall colors
- Use of plastic and laminates, glass, metal and marble; lacquered and painted wood
- Unconventional proportions and abundant ornamentation
- Playful nods to Art Deco and Pop art
POSTMODERN FURNITURE DESIGNERS TO KNOW
- Ettore Sottsass
- Robert Venturi
- Alessandro Mendini
- Michele de Lucchi
- Michael Graves
- Nathalie du Pasquier
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.
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Style: Post-Modern
Unique Floor Photo Frame, Humour Plexi Fuchsia
Located in Sarezzo, IT
Humour plexi fuchsia is the first floor Photoframe to be put on the floor of
your sitting room, a very nice pop picture frame in artistic plexiglass
handmade in Italy.
It can be ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Post-Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Plexiglass
Italy 1980 Black Bronze Abstract Sculpture Walter Valentini Big Tracks Tracce
Located in Brescia, IT
Walter Valentini was born in 1928 in South Italy. A painter and engraver, he lives and works in Milan. He is Holder of the chair for engraving at the Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Post-Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Bronze
Set of 4 Solid Brass Sculpted Censers Signed by William Guillon
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 4 solid brass sculpted censers signed by William Guillon
Those candle holders are also censers, they can be used for both.
Each is signed William Guillon
Dimensions: Diam...
Category
2010s French Post-Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Brass
Italy 1980 Bronze Abstract Sculpture Walter Valentini Tavole Panels
Located in Brescia, IT
Walter Valentini was born in 1928 in South Italy. A painter and engraver, he lives and works in Milan. He is Holder of the chair for engraving at the Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in...
Category
Late 20th Century Post-Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Bronze
Balance in Depression Object by Sofia Alvarado
Located in Geneve, CH
Balance in depression object by Sofia Alvarado
Materials: Guayacán wood / lacquered solid metal
Dimensions: D 45 x H 30.
FI is an ornamental artist who embodies the creative Rev...
Category
2010s Panamanian Post-Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Metal
Small Black Leather Desk Mat by Henry Wilson
By Henry Wilson
Located in Geneve, CH
Small Black Leather Desk Mat by Henry Wilson
Dimensions: W 32 x D 22 x H 0.4 cm
Materials: Leather
Our leather desk mats are made of vegetable tanned...
Category
2010s Australian Post-Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Leather
Bronze Paperweight, Signed by William Guillon
Located in Geneve, CH
Bronze aperweight, Signed by William Guillon
Signed William Guillon
Limited edition of 20
Signed and numbered
Dimensions: 22 x 12 x 12 cm
Hand sculpted in France.
At the crossroads between his hybrid influences William Guillon took, for this series, his inspiration in the 18th century romantic imagery, Caravaggio and still life. This is how he created a set of timeless objects which address his favourite themes?: balance, tension and interplay of massive materials. Bronze, marble and copper cross...
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2010s French Post-Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Bronze
Set of 2 Lake Small Tropical Turquoise Tray by Pulpo
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 2 lake small tropical Turquoise tray by Pulpo.
Dimensions: D 27 x W 20 x H 4 cm.
Materials: ceramic.
Also available in different colours.
These charming additions allow you to create a true tablescape environment; from the tones and textures of the urban landscape, to a more rural setting or a dramatic mountaintop. Inspired by his own natural and artifi cial surroundings, French design Ferréol Babin...
Category
2010s German Post-Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Ceramic
1980 Italy Post-Modern Bronze Abstract Sculpture Beppe Bonetti with Base
Located in Brescia, IT
This artwork was created by the Italian artist Beppe Bonetti. Title "Piccolo racconto" translate "Little tale""
Beppe Bonetti was born in 1951 in Brescia, Italy, where he lives and ...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Post-Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Bronze
Geometric Abstract Bookends, Pair
Located in New York, NY
A substantial pair of metal bookends with a geometric abstract design and a copper-rose gold hue, in the Post-Modern Deconstructivist design style. Pair could work well as individual...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Metal
Italy Late 20th Century Bronze Abstract Sculpture Walter Valentini Tracce Tracks
Located in Brescia, IT
Walter Valentini was born in 1928 in South Italy. A painter and engraver, he lives and works in Milan. He is Holder of the chair for engraving at the Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Post-Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Bronze
Set of 2 Small Leather Desk Mats by Henry Wilson
By Henry Wilson
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 2 Small Leather Desk Mats by Henry Wilson
Dimensions: W 32 x D 22 x H 0.4 cm
Materials: Leather
Our leather desk mats are made of vegetable ta...
Category
2010s Australian Post-Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Leather
Postmodern Black Metal, Clear Acrylic and Steel Nails Decorative Object
Located in New York, NY
A Postmodern period clear and black acrylic and metal decorative object, circa late-20th century Piece is rectangular in shape, comprised of three pieces acrylic (black and clear), black metal screws and thin metal nails (approximately 500), making this an interesting Postmodern decorative object...
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Late 20th Century Post-Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Metal
Andy Warhol Diaries, Hard-Cover Library or Coffee Table Book, 1989
By Andy Warhol
Located in New York, NY
'The Andy Warhol Diaries' book is hard-cover, first edition, May 1989.
The Andy Warhol Diaries is the dictated memoirs of the American artist, Andy Warhol, posthumously published, May 1989, USA. It was edited by his frequent collaborator and long-time friend, Pat Hackett...
Category
1980s American Vintage Post-Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Paper
Italy 1980 Bronze Abstract Sculpture Walter Valentini Tracce Tracks
Located in Brescia, IT
Walter Valentini was born in 1928 in South Italy. A painter and engraver, he lives and works in Milan. He is Holder of the chair for engraving at the ...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Post-Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Bronze
Langley Bookend by Henry Wilson
By Henry Wilson
Located in Geneve, CH
Langley Bookend by Henry Wilson
Dimensions: W 11 x D 10 x H 17 cm
Materials: Sand-cast Gunmetal bronze
Langley Bookend is part modernist sculpture part functional shelf accessory...
Category
2010s Australian Post-Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Bronze
Vintage Murano Sommerso Orb Blue Art Glass Ashtray
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Gorgeous vintage Murano Venetian handblown art glass bowl or ashtray.
Italian Murano Sommerso Cenedese orb blue art glass ashtray.
Heavyweight glass ashtray in a gorgeous minimal design.
A very beautiful and substantial two-tone blue Italian Murano art glass cigarette ashtray...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Post-Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Blown Glass
Vintage Postmodern Chrome Table Lighter Kogen Japan, 1970s
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Vintage Postmodern chrome table lighter Kogen Japan Piezo, 1970s
Postmodern vintage chrome table lighter.
Removable lighter portion is marked Piezo on top and Kogen on bottom
Vintage mid century modern 70s table lighter.
Does not work.
Great decorative collectible rare vintage table lighter...
Category
Late 20th Century Japanese Post-Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Chrome
Vintage Leather Stitched Padfolio Bond Street Italy
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Vintage Moroccan leather burgundy leather padfolio.
Vintage Bond Street Leather Portfolio Italy Burgundy.
Gorgeous Burgundy Pebbled Leather Portfolio
B...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Post-Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Leather
Italian Handmade Photo Frame Red White Plexi, Otto Sharing Red
Located in Sarezzo, IT
Sharing Otto Red is a unique multiples edition of Art with Heart collection of pop recto-verso photo frames by Laura G Italy. It is beautiful wherever you look at it, its surface is ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Post-Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Plexiglass
Wim Delvoye Cloaca Coke Light Cans, 2002 '3 Available, Price Per Can'
Located in Chicago, IL
Cloaca coke light cans by Wim Delvoye, new unopened, 3 available (price per can). Made for his first solo show in USA at the New Museum NY in 2002.
Also available, 5 Mugs Cloaca b...
Category
Early 2000s American Post-Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Metal
Rare 1979 Donovan Leisure NYC Cia Law Firm 50th Anniversary Brass Paperweight
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Extremely rare New York City historical relic. A fiftieth anniversary brass cubic monolith commemorative desk sculpture. Issued to monogram; AWS. Approx. 45-60 members of firm a that time, only a handful were issued this paperweight in solid Brass weighing 8 lbs. 4.2 oz.
Donovan, Leisure, Newton & Irvine was an American white-shoe law firm, located in New York. It was founded in 1929 by General William "Wild Bill...
Category
1970s American Vintage Post-Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Brass
Murano Sommerso Orb Blue Art Glass Vintage Ashtray Italy
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Gorgeous vintage Murano Venetian handblown art glass bowl or ashtray.
Italian Murano Sommerso orb blue and clear art glass ashtray
Extremely hard to fi...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Post-Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Blown Glass
Mackenzie-Childs Art Glass Vase with Gold Polka Dots, circa 1980s
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful authentic designer art glass vase by designers' MacKenzie-Childs, circa 1980s, New York. A rare hand-painted piece with gold polka dots around ruffled center/top, with blue and orange...
Category
Late 20th Century American Post-Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Art Glass
Brazilian Agate Onyx and Wood Round Jewelry or Trinket Box, Brazil, 1980s
Located in New York, NY
A Brazilian wood and agate onyx round jewelry or trinket box, in the Modern style/Post-Modern period, circa late 20th century, 1980s, Brazil. Agate is a light grey hue. Piece would s...
Category
Late 20th Century Brazilian Post-Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Agate, Onyx
Vintage Emerald Green and Blue Murano Art Glass Elephant Sculpture Paperweight
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Gorgeous vintage Murano Venetian style handblown art glass sculpture of an elephant.
Italian art glass hand blown green and uranium neon green elephant sculpture...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Post-Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Blown Glass
Marble and Brass Picture Frame by Designer Maitland Smith, circa 1980s
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful '80s marble, stone, and brass picture frame by designer Maitland-Smith, circa late-20th century, 1980s. Marble frame is rectangular/octagonal in shape with marble in peac...
Category
Late 20th Century American Post-Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Marble, Stone, Brass
Vintage Murano Art Glass Venetian Sculpture of Gondolas Ashtrays Italy
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Gorgeous vintage Murano Venetian handblown art glass sculpture of gondola boats one red, one green.
A very beautiful and substantial Italian Murano art g...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Post-Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Murano Glass, Blown Glass
Lake Small Tropical Turquoise Tray by Pulpo
Located in Geneve, CH
Lake small tropical Turquoise tray by Pulpo.
Dimensions: D 27 x W 20 x H 4 cm
Materials: Ceramic
Also available in different colours.
These char...
Category
2010s German Post-Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Ceramic
Italian Handmade Photo Frame Black White Plexi, Otto Sharing Black
Located in Sarezzo, IT
Sharing Otto back is a unique multiples edition of Art with Heart collection of pop recto-verso photo frames by Laura G Italy. It is beautiful wherever you look at it, its surface is...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Post-Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Plexiglass
Italy 1980 Post-Modern Abstract Pewter Sculpture Walter Valentini
Located in Brescia, IT
Walter Valentini was born in 1928 in South Italy. A painter and engraver, he lives and works in Milan. He is Holder of the chair for engraving at the ...
Category
1980s Italian Vintage Post-Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Pewter
Marble Mountain Bookends
Located in Treadwell, NY
Refined and rugged marble mountain bookends.
Listing for one pair of bookends.
One of a kind.
Dimensions:
A - 7 3/4" x 11" x 11"
B - 7 1/2" x 11" x 11 1/2"
Weight: Approx....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Post-Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Marble
Italian Photo Frame Yellow White Plexi , Sharing Yellow Round
Located in Sarezzo, IT
Sharing round yellow is a unique multiples edition of Art with Heart collection of pop recto-verso photo frames by Laura G Italy. It is beautiful wherever you look at it, its surface...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Post-Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Plexiglass
Marble and Brass Picture Frame by Designer Maitland Smith, ca. 1980s
By Maitland Smith, Artisan Collection LTD
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful '80s marble and brass picture frame by designer Maitland-Smith, circa late-20th century, 1980s. Frame is rectangular/octagonal in shape, and marble in shades of salmon pi...
Category
Late 20th Century Philippine Post-Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Marble, Stone, Brass
Bespoke Italian Post Modern Rose Pink Murano Glass Geometric Couture Table Lamp
Located in New York, NY
A fun modernist table / desk lamp, a contemporary organic creation entirely hand made in Italy, the geometric shape inspired by a fashion tailored suit design, the waisted middle par...
Category
2010s Italian Post-Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Brass
Bespoke Italian Post Modern Rose Pink Murano Glass Geometric Couture Table Lamp
Located in New York, NY
A fun modernist table / desk lamp, a contemporary organic creation entirely hand made in Italy, the geometric shape inspired by a fashion tailored suit design, the waisted middle par...
Category
2010s Italian Post-Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Brass
Italian Photo Frame Blue White Plexi , Otto Sharing
Located in Sarezzo, IT
Sharing Otto blue is a unique multiples edition of Art with Heart collection of pop recto-verso photo frames by Laura G Italy. It is beautiful wherever you look at it, its surface is...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Post-Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Plexiglass
Pierre Giraudon, Rare Glow in the Dark Sculpture, Presse Papier, circa 1970s
Located in Schagen, NL
Very cool vintage Pop Art item, this glow in the dark lightbulb inside a Lucite box. Often used as a decorative piece, or a presse papier but it can also easily be used as a night la...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Post-Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Lucite
ROUND Italian Photo Frame Plexi Black White , Sharing Black Round
Located in Sarezzo, IT
Sharing round black is a unique multiples edition of Art with Heart collection of pop recto-verso photo frame by Laura G Italy. It is beautiful wherever you look at it, its surface i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Post-Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Plexiglass
Vintage Mid-Century Glass Ruby Red Cigar Ashtray
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Vintage mid-century large round glass ruby red cigar ashtray
Mid-Century Modern glass ashtray circa 1960's – 1970's USA.
Hand-made by Viking Art Glass...
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Mid-20th Century American Post-Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Art Glass
Vintage Collectible Casino Monte Carlo Wine Tester in Pewter
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Vintage Casino Monte Carlo wine tester in Pewter with the fleur de Lys as a handle and the Monaco flag inside the bowl marked with the Casino Monte Carl...
Category
Late 20th Century French Post-Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Pewter
Postmodern Chrome Table Lighter by Sarome Japan
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Postmodern chrome table lighter.
Excellent vintage condition, works great.
Great decorative collectible rare vintage table lighter.
Lighter made by Sarome, Asia Japan.
Measure: 5.75 in H, 2.5 in D.
About Sarome:
SAROME
Japanese cigarette lighter manufacturer founded in 1940.
The brand is named after SAROME, god of flames, object of fascination for humans. SAROME artisans craft delicate, glossy lighters in Tokyo to fascinate and enchant. Though known early on in Europe mainly for our superb crafting of cigarette lighters the luxury brand spread Worldwide.
Sarome lighters...
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Late 20th Century Japanese Post-Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Chrome
Italian Photo Frame Red and White Plexiglass, Sharing Red
Located in Sarezzo, IT
Sharing Red is a limited edition of art with Heart collection of pop recto-verso photo frames by Laura G Italy. It is beautiful wherever you look at it, its surface is decorated fron...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Post-Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Plexiglass
Italian Photo Frame Black and White Plexi , Sharing Black
Located in Sarezzo, IT
The photo frame Sharing black is a square modern design frame of Art with Heart collection recto verso by Laura G Italy. It is realized in artistic plexiglass black and white, with g...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Post-Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Plexiglass
Lucite Copper Penny Paperweight Decorative Object, 1980s
Located in New York, NY
An '80s modern or Postmodern period Lucite and copper U.S. penny paperweight, 1980, USA. All pennies are of the year 1980. A great desk accessory or ...
Category
1980s American Vintage Post-Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Copper
Double Large Photo Frame Plexiglass, Will Plexi Wood
Located in Sarezzo, IT
Will plexi wood is a large double picture frame in wood and clear plexiglass of the collection Art with Heart. It is possible to insert two large photos, o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Post-Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Wood, Plexiglass
Mahogany Tray with Antique Brass Handles
Located in Treadwell, NY
Individually stamped and numbered, these one of a kind presentation trays feature patinated brass handles with a satin finish lacquer top coat. Each wooden slab...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Post-Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Brass
Aluminum Desk Block and Tray Accessory Set
Located in Treadwell, NY
Collection I: Desk set
This high polished aluminum desk set, comprised of a desk tray and desk block, adds style and sophistication to your work surface
Measures: Desk block
3...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Post-Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Aluminum
Architectural Sculpture by Sottsass for Ultima Edizione, Italy 1986
Located in London, GB
Ettore Sottsass (1917–2007) was an Italian architect and designer during the 20th century. He is perhaps most celebrated as the founder of the Memphis Group, famous for its colourful...
Category
1980s Italian Vintage Post-Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Marble
Italian Photo Frame Plexi White and Pink, Sharing Pink
Located in Sarezzo, IT
The picture frame sharing pink is a square italian pink plexiglass, edition of Art with Heart collection of photo frames recto verso by Laura G It...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Post-Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Plexiglass
Post Modern Green Marble Ashtray 1970, Made in Italy
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Vintage marble stone green ashtray accent.
Mid-20th century stylish post modern green onyx marble stone ashtray.
Beautiful stone marble green
Made in Italy, 1970s.
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Post-Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Marble
Decorative Glass Knot or Presse Papier, circa 1980s
Located in Schagen, NL
Wonderful decorative object which is also sometimes used as a presse papier. This large piece remains in very nice condition. Colored black and transparent.
Category
Late 20th Century European Post-Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Glass
Light Mahogany Tray with Antique Brass Handles
Located in Treadwell, NY
Individually stamped and numbered, these one of a kind presentation trays feature patinated brass handles with a satin finish lacquer top coat. Each wooden slab is has its own unique...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Post-Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Brass
Large Art Glass Sculpture by Robert L. Hamon
Located in South Charleston, WV
5.5" diameter. USA, 1980s large sphere glass tabletop or mantel or shelf sculpture by studio artist Robert L. Hamon. Hamon glass produced paperweights and on occasion would produce v...
Category
1980s American Vintage Post-Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Art Glass
Modern Aluminum Sculptural Bookends
Located in Treadwell, NY
Collection I: Sculptural bookends
Architectural forms, minimalist design, and Machine Age simplicity inform these statuesque bookends.
Each p...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Post-Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Aluminum
Mahogany Tray with Antique Brass Handles
Located in Treadwell, NY
Individually stamped and numbered, these one of a kind presentation trays feature patinated brass handles with a satin finish lacquer top coat. Each wooden slab is has its own unique...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Post-Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Brass
Oak Tray with Antique Brass Handles
Located in Treadwell, NY
Individually stamped and numbered, these one of a kind presentation trays feature patinated brass handles with a satin finish lacquer top coat. Each wooden slab is has its own unique...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Post-Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Brass
Italy 1985 Postmodern Abstract Bronze Sculpture
By Edoardo Franceschini 1
Located in Brescia, IT
This artwork by the Italian artist Edoardo Franceschini becomes a landscape where the use of bright colors, it evoques the worlds of our dreams.
All his production is characterized b...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Post-Modern Desk Accessories
Materials
Bronze
Post-modern desk accessories for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Post-Modern desk accessories for sale on 1stDibs. Many of these items were first offered in the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artisans have continued to produce works inspired by this style. If you’re looking to add vintage desk accessories created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include decorative objects, serveware, ceramics, silver and glass, more furniture and collectibles and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with metal, plastic and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Post-Modern desk accessories made in a specific country, there are Europe, Italy, and North America pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original desk accessories, popular names associated with this style include Henry Wilson, Laura G Art With Heart, Argosy Designs, and Walter Valentini. It’s true that these talented designers have at times inspired knockoffs, but our experienced specialists have partnered with only top vetted sellers to offer authentic pieces that come with a buyer protection guarantee. Prices for desk accessories differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $79 and tops out at $11,717 while the average work can sell for $488.
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