Post-Modern Floor Lamps
Strictly speaking, postmodern design was a short-lived movement that manifested itself chiefly in Italy and the United States in the early 1980s. The characteristics of postmodern furniture and other postmodern objects included hot-colored, loud-patterned, usually plastic surfaces; strange proportions and weird angles; and a vague-at-best relationship between form and function.
Critics derided postmodern design as a grandstanding bid for attention and nothing of consequence. The fact that, decades later, postmodern design still has the power to provoke thoughts (along with other reactions) proves they were not entirely correct.
Postmodernism 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. In the next decade in Milan, a cohort of designers led by Ettore Sottsass and Alessandro Mendini brought the discussion to bear on design.
Sottsass and Michele de Lucchi, in 1980, gathered a core group of young designers, which would come to include Michael Graves, Marco Zanini, Shiro Kuramata and Matteo Thun, into a design collective they called Memphis. The Memphis Group saw design as a means of communication and they wanted it to shout. That it did: the first Memphis collection appeared in 1981 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. After the initial Memphis show caused an uproar, postmodern design quickly took off in America. The architect Robert Venturi had 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 collection of postmodern furniture includes seating, decorative objects, lighting fixtures and more.
2010s Turkish Post-Modern Floor Lamps
Iron
2010s German Post-Modern Floor Lamps
Steel
1970s Italian Vintage Post-Modern Floor Lamps
Metal
2010s French Post-Modern Floor Lamps
Brass
Mid-20th Century American Post-Modern Floor Lamps
Ceramic, Plaster
2010s Turkish Post-Modern Floor Lamps
Iron
2010s Spanish Post-Modern Floor Lamps
Metal
2010s Ukrainian Post-Modern Floor Lamps
Plastic, Ceramic
2010s Mexican Post-Modern Floor Lamps
Steel
1970s Italian Vintage Post-Modern Floor Lamps
Steel
2010s Italian Post-Modern Floor Lamps
Steel
Late 20th Century American Post-Modern Floor Lamps
Aluminum
2010s British Post-Modern Floor Lamps
Metal, Brass
1970s Italian Vintage Post-Modern Floor Lamps
Carrara Marble, Stainless Steel, Chrome
2010s French Post-Modern Floor Lamps
Brass
2010s Dutch Post-Modern Floor Lamps
Brass
2010s Brazilian Post-Modern Floor Lamps
Wood, Mahogany
2010s German Post-Modern Floor Lamps
Steel
1970s Italian Vintage Post-Modern Floor Lamps
2010s British Post-Modern Floor Lamps
Metal, Brass
2010s Dutch Post-Modern Floor Lamps
Brass
1970s Italian Vintage Post-Modern Floor Lamps
Metal, Chrome
2010s Portuguese Post-Modern Floor Lamps
Metal
2010s French Post-Modern Floor Lamps
Brass
2010s Pakistani Post-Modern Floor Lamps
Ash
2010s Dutch Post-Modern Floor Lamps
Brass
2010s German Post-Modern Floor Lamps
Brass, Steel
2010s Dutch Post-Modern Floor Lamps
Brass
2010s Dutch Post-Modern Floor Lamps
Brass
2010s American Post-Modern Floor Lamps
Brass
2010s French Post-Modern Floor Lamps
Brass
2010s Dutch Post-Modern Floor Lamps
Brass
1980s Italian Vintage Post-Modern Floor Lamps
Aluminum
1980s Italian Vintage Post-Modern Floor Lamps
Metal
2010s German Post-Modern Floor Lamps
Steel
2010s Dutch Post-Modern Floor Lamps
Brass
2010s Dutch Post-Modern Floor Lamps
Brass
2010s Dutch Post-Modern Floor Lamps
Brass
2010s Dutch Post-Modern Floor Lamps
Brass
1960s Italian Vintage Post-Modern Floor Lamps
Metal
1930s Danish Vintage Post-Modern Floor Lamps
Brass
1980s Italian Vintage Post-Modern Floor Lamps
Stainless Steel
2010s German Post-Modern Floor Lamps
Brass, Steel
2010s British Post-Modern Floor Lamps
Marble, Metal, Brass, Other
21st Century and Contemporary British Post-Modern Floor Lamps
Glass, Acrylic, Oak
2010s Dutch Post-Modern Floor Lamps
Brass
2010s French Post-Modern Floor Lamps
Stoneware
2010s Italian Post-Modern Floor Lamps
Aluminum
2010s Canadian Post-Modern Floor Lamps
Stainless Steel
2010s Dutch Post-Modern Floor Lamps
Brass
1970s Italian Vintage Post-Modern Floor Lamps
Acrylic
2010s Italian Post-Modern Floor Lamps
Brass
2010s French Post-Modern Floor Lamps
Stoneware
2010s Spanish Post-Modern Floor Lamps
Cotton
2010s Portuguese Post-Modern Floor Lamps
Metal
Mid-20th Century Italian Post-Modern Floor Lamps
Chrome
2010s Dutch Post-Modern Floor Lamps
Brass
Late 20th Century American Post-Modern Floor Lamps
Resin