Post-Modern Wall 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.
1990s Italian Post-Modern Wall Mirrors
Mirror
1970s Italian Vintage Post-Modern Wall Mirrors
Metal
2010s Danish Post-Modern Wall Mirrors
Mirror
Late 20th Century Philippine Post-Modern Wall Mirrors
Travertine, Marble
1990s Italian Post-Modern Wall Mirrors
Mirror, Plastic
2010s British Post-Modern Wall Mirrors
Glass, Wood
2010s Danish Post-Modern Wall Mirrors
Mirror
2010s Danish Post-Modern Wall Mirrors
Mirror
2010s Danish Post-Modern Wall Mirrors
Mirror
1970s Finnish Vintage Post-Modern Wall Mirrors
Mirror, Plastic
2010s Danish Post-Modern Wall Mirrors
Mirror
1980s American Vintage Post-Modern Wall Mirrors
Marble, Stainless Steel
1980s Italian Vintage Post-Modern Wall Mirrors
Chrome
2010s French Post-Modern Wall Mirrors
Mirror, Ceramic
2010s Italian Post-Modern Wall Mirrors
Metal
2010s Italian Post-Modern Wall Mirrors
Brass
2010s Dutch Post-Modern Wall Mirrors
Glass, Ash
2010s Danish Post-Modern Wall Mirrors
Crystal
2010s Mexican Post-Modern Wall Mirrors
Other
2010s French Post-Modern Wall Mirrors
Silver, Bronze
1970s American Vintage Post-Modern Wall Mirrors
Aluminum
Early 2000s Italian Post-Modern Wall Mirrors
Glass
2010s Danish Post-Modern Wall Mirrors
Crystal
2010s Mexican Post-Modern Wall Mirrors
Other
2010s Italian Post-Modern Wall Mirrors
Other
2010s Mexican Post-Modern Wall Mirrors
Other
2010s Canadian Post-Modern Wall Mirrors
Brass
2010s Italian Post-Modern Wall Mirrors
Other
2010s British Post-Modern Wall Mirrors
Glass, Resin
2010s English Post-Modern Wall Mirrors
Brass
2010s Polish Post-Modern Wall Mirrors
Stainless Steel
2010s Finnish Post-Modern Wall Mirrors
Textile, Mirror
2010s Italian Post-Modern Wall Mirrors
Mirror
1970s European Vintage Post-Modern Wall Mirrors
Brass
2010s French Post-Modern Wall Mirrors
Ceramic, Mirror
1980s Vintage Post-Modern Wall Mirrors
Mirror
2010s Danish Post-Modern Wall Mirrors
Mirror
1980s American Vintage Post-Modern Wall Mirrors
Mirror, Tulipwood, Zebra Wood
1990s American Post-Modern Wall Mirrors
Mirror
2010s English Post-Modern Wall Mirrors
Travertine, Brass
2010s Italian Post-Modern Wall Mirrors
Brass, Silver Leaf
2010s Danish Post-Modern Wall Mirrors
Crystal
1980s Philippine Vintage Post-Modern Wall Mirrors
Stone, Brass
1990s Italian Post-Modern Wall Mirrors
Velvet, Art Glass, Wood
Early 2000s Italian Post-Modern Wall Mirrors
Art Glass, Wood, Cut Glass, Mirror
1970s Italian Vintage Post-Modern Wall Mirrors
Metal
2010s British Post-Modern Wall Mirrors
Glass, Resin
2010s Danish Post-Modern Wall Mirrors
Mirror
2010s French Post-Modern Wall Mirrors
Ceramic, Mirror
1980s American Vintage Post-Modern Wall Mirrors
Laminate, Wood
1970s Italian Vintage Post-Modern Wall Mirrors
Glass, Mirror, Wood
2010s French Post-Modern Wall Mirrors
Bronze
2010s French Post-Modern Wall Mirrors
Mirror
2010s British Post-Modern Wall Mirrors
Glass, Resin
2010s Mexican Post-Modern Wall Mirrors
Other
2010s Dutch Post-Modern Wall Mirrors
Glass
2010s Mexican Post-Modern Wall Mirrors
Other
2010s French Post-Modern Wall Mirrors
Slate