Post-Modern Floor Mirrors and Full-Length Mirrors
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 Greek Post-Modern Floor Mirrors and Full-Length Mirrors
Carrara Marble, Brass
2010s Swiss Post-Modern Floor Mirrors and Full-Length Mirrors
Marble
2010s Swiss Post-Modern Floor Mirrors and Full-Length Mirrors
Marble
2010s Swiss Post-Modern Floor Mirrors and Full-Length Mirrors
Marble
2010s English Post-Modern Floor Mirrors and Full-Length Mirrors
Granite, Brass
1980s Italian Vintage Post-Modern Floor Mirrors and Full-Length Mirrors
Glass, Plastic
2010s Italian Post-Modern Floor Mirrors and Full-Length Mirrors
Mirror, Wood
2010s Mexican Post-Modern Floor Mirrors and Full-Length Mirrors
Oak
1980s Italian Vintage Post-Modern Floor Mirrors and Full-Length Mirrors
Glass, Plastic
2010s Dutch Post-Modern Floor Mirrors and Full-Length Mirrors
Mirror, Resin
1980s Italian Vintage Post-Modern Floor Mirrors and Full-Length Mirrors
Glass, Plastic
2010s Dutch Post-Modern Floor Mirrors and Full-Length Mirrors
Mirror, Resin
2010s Dutch Post-Modern Floor Mirrors and Full-Length Mirrors
Mirror, Resin
2010s Dutch Post-Modern Floor Mirrors and Full-Length Mirrors
Mirror, Resin
1980s French Vintage Post-Modern Floor Mirrors and Full-Length Mirrors
Steel
1980s Italian Vintage Post-Modern Floor Mirrors and Full-Length Mirrors
Glass, Plastic
1980s Italian Vintage Post-Modern Floor Mirrors and Full-Length Mirrors
Glass, Plastic
1980s Italian Vintage Post-Modern Floor Mirrors and Full-Length Mirrors
Glass, Plastic
2010s South African Post-Modern Floor Mirrors and Full-Length Mirrors
Steel
1970s Italian Vintage Post-Modern Floor Mirrors and Full-Length Mirrors
Mirror, Laminate
2010s Ukrainian Post-Modern Floor Mirrors and Full-Length Mirrors
Wood, Mirror
2010s Ukrainian Post-Modern Floor Mirrors and Full-Length Mirrors
Glass, Mirror, Wood
2010s Cypriot Post-Modern Floor Mirrors and Full-Length Mirrors
Mirror, Burl
2010s Cypriot Post-Modern Floor Mirrors and Full-Length Mirrors
Mirror, Wood, Burl
1980s Italian Vintage Post-Modern Floor Mirrors and Full-Length Mirrors
Glass, Wood
2010s Mexican Post-Modern Floor Mirrors and Full-Length Mirrors
Stone
1970s Italian Vintage Post-Modern Floor Mirrors and Full-Length Mirrors
Mirror, Acrylic
2010s Portuguese Post-Modern Floor Mirrors and Full-Length Mirrors
Travertine
2010s Ecuadorean Post-Modern Floor Mirrors and Full-Length Mirrors
Steel, Bronze
2010s Polish Post-Modern Floor Mirrors and Full-Length Mirrors
Mirror, Ash
2010s Mexican Post-Modern Floor Mirrors and Full-Length Mirrors
Marble
2010s Mexican Post-Modern Floor Mirrors and Full-Length Mirrors
Stone
2010s Indian Post-Modern Floor Mirrors and Full-Length Mirrors
Brass
2010s Polish Post-Modern Floor Mirrors and Full-Length Mirrors
Mirror, Ash
2010s Polish Post-Modern Floor Mirrors and Full-Length Mirrors
Mirror, Ash
Early 2000s Japanese Post-Modern Floor Mirrors and Full-Length Mirrors
Mirror, Wood
1990s Italian Post-Modern Floor Mirrors and Full-Length Mirrors
Velvet, Art Glass, Wood
2010s American Post-Modern Floor Mirrors and Full-Length Mirrors
Wood
Late 20th Century Malaysian Post-Modern Floor Mirrors and Full-Length Mirrors
Metal
1970s Italian Vintage Post-Modern Floor Mirrors and Full-Length Mirrors
Mirror, Resin
2010s Panamanian Post-Modern Floor Mirrors and Full-Length Mirrors
Metal
2010s Dutch Post-Modern Floor Mirrors and Full-Length Mirrors
Mirror, Resin
2010s Dutch Post-Modern Floor Mirrors and Full-Length Mirrors
Mirror, Resin
2010s French Post-Modern Floor Mirrors and Full-Length Mirrors
Marble
2010s French Post-Modern Floor Mirrors and Full-Length Mirrors
Marble
2010s Belgian Post-Modern Floor Mirrors and Full-Length Mirrors
Iron
2010s Lithuanian Post-Modern Floor Mirrors and Full-Length Mirrors
Mirror