Post-Modern Chairs
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
Salvador Dali Leda Armchair, Sculpture
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Leda armchair designed by Dali manufactured by BD.
Structure in polished cast brass varnish.
Measures: 47 x 60 x 92 H.cm
Year: 1935-1937
Taken from “Femme á la téte rose” 1935 (W...
Category
2010s Spanish Post-Modern Chairs
Materials
Brass
Stone Chair by Plyus Furniture
Located in Geneve, CH
Stone Chair by Plyus Furniture
Dimensions: D 81 x W 115 x H 88 cm
Materials: Wood, HR foam, polyester wadding, fabric upholstery.
PLYUS Furniture creates pieces in collectible de...
Category
2010s Emirian Post-Modern Chairs
Materials
Upholstery, Wood
Boucle Small Oscar Chair by Duistt
Located in Geneve, CH
Boucle Small Oscar Chair by Duistt
Dimensions: W 60 x D 58 x H 77 cm
Materials: Special Boucle Fabric Nobilis SF.DE.21.006
Swivel version available upon request. Please contact us.
...
Category
2010s Portuguese Post-Modern Chairs
Materials
Bouclé
Bla' Station, Condeco Chair by Johan Lindau, 2003
By Bla Station
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Bla' Station
Condeco chair
Design: Johan Lindau, 2OO3
Chair. Frame of solid oak
Very comfortable with extraordinary shaped geometrical structure.
Leather and wood in excellent ...
Category
Early 2000s Scandinavian Post-Modern Chairs
Materials
Leather, Oak
Smile Lounge Chair by Doimo Brasil
Located in Geneve, CH
Smile Lounge Chair by Doimo Brasil
Dimensions: W 71 x D 63 x H 76 cm
Materials: Veneer, Soleta natural.
With the intention of providing good taste and personality, Doimo deciphers...
Category
2010s Brazilian Post-Modern Chairs
Materials
Metal
1980s Memphis Style Slipper Chairs by Milo Baughman for Thayer Coggin, a Pair
Located in Roanoke, VA
Baughman was inspired by the courageous young avant-garde designers known as the Memphis Group that burst on to the works stage in 1981 with a total disregard for the traditions and design tenants of restrained, idealized Modernism, Baughman designed a small collection of 11 colorful, post-modern pieces and convinced Coggin to put the collection into production by 1984. The unexpected designs made a splash upon their debut, with critics praising Baughman’s graceful and carefully considered take on the wild Italian ‘new design.’ The wider American audience and Coggin’s well-to-do yet conservative clientele did not take to Baughman’s experiment in exercising complete creative control. ''Only galleries bought it,'' Baughman told the NYT in the months after the collection’s release. Pieces from the 1984 Prisma collection are extremely difficult to come by.
Literature: Oscar Fitzgerald, American furniture: 1650 to the Present , 2017. P 517; CH 19 Postmodern and AvantGarde Furniture...
Category
1980s American Vintage Post-Modern Chairs
Materials
Textile
1990s Post-Modern Philippe Starck for Vitra Black Louis 20 Armchair, 3 Available
By Philippe Starck, Vitra
Located in Secaucus, NJ
Philippe Starck is regarded as the leading French figure in the area of new design in the eighties.
In 1991 he designed the Louis 20 chair with the char...
Category
1990s European Post-Modern Chairs
Materials
Aluminum
Institution Sculptural Chair, White Lamb Leather
Located in Ciudad de México, CDMX
Uncannily challenging excessive symbolic power granted to scientific institutions, the “Institutional Chair” reveals a tension with the accepted desubjectivisation of the body into s...
Category
2010s Mexican Post-Modern Chairs
Materials
Steel, Nickel
Gregory Hawthorne Sculpted Iron Modernist Chair
Located in South Jordan, UT
Offered is a Gregory Hawthorne iron chair crafted from welded metal. The seat was reupholstered in distressed brown, olive colored leather that is soft to the touch. The chair would ...
Category
1980s American Vintage Post-Modern Chairs
Materials
Iron
Institution Sculptural Chair, White Lamb Leather
Located in Ciudad de México, CDMX
Uncannily challenging excessive symbolic power granted to scientific institutions, the “Institutional Chair” reveals a tension with the accepted desubjectivisation of the body into s...
Category
2010s Mexican Post-Modern Chairs
Materials
Steel, Nickel
Contemporary Chair in Hand-Hammered Iron and Uhpolstered by Juliana Vasconcellos
Located in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais
In the Confetti chairs, we were inspired by the circular shape of the confetti, playing with the backrest, exploring different colors and combinations. ...
Category
2010s Brazilian Post-Modern Chairs
Materials
Iron
Bruno Rey Dietiker Vintage Chair Post-Modern Beechwood Switzerland
Located in Alsdorf, NW
Beautiful vintage stacking chairs by Bruno Rey for Dietiker. The chairs are in a nice and warm beechwood. Probably from the 1980s, made in Swi...
Category
1970s Vintage Post-Modern Chairs
Materials
Metal
Original Tongue Lounge Chair in Blue by Jaymar
By Jaymar
Located in Lake Worth, FL
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Offering One Of Our Recent Palm Beach Estate Fine Furniture Acquisitions Of An
Original Postmodern Tongue Lounge...
Category
1970s Canadian Vintage Post-Modern Chairs
Materials
Velvet
Brutus Stool by 101 Copenhagen
Located in Geneve, CH
Brutus stool by 101 Copenhagen
Designed by Kristian Sofus Hansen & Tommy Hyldahl
Dimensions: L 60 / W 30 /H 54 cm
Materials: fiber concrete
Inspired...
Category
2010s Danish Post-Modern Chairs
Materials
Concrete
Grace Chair by Munna
Located in Geneve, CH
Grace Chair by Munna
Dimensions: D 59 x W 55 x H 90 cm. SH: 52 cm.
Materials: Wood, foam, and upholstery.
Finish: Cotton Velvet, ref. Emerald, CV09.
Available in all Munna fabrics e...
Category
2010s Portuguese Post-Modern Chairs
Materials
Upholstery, Foam, Wood
White Memory Sofa by Plyus Furniture
Located in Geneve, CH
White Beige Memory Chair by Plyus Furniture
Dimensions: D 90 x W 240 x H 85 cm
Materials: Wood, HR foam, polyester wadding, fabric upholstery
“Memory” sofa.
Collection "Memory" ins...
Category
2010s Emirian Post-Modern Chairs
Materials
Upholstery, Wood
Ultrablack Amarone Aureo Chair by GIROTTI ENRICO
Located in Geneve, CH
Ultrablack Amarone Aureo Chair by GIROTTI ENRICO
Dimensions: W 56 x D 58 x H 80 cm
Materials: Steel.
Weight: 9 Kg.
Enrico Girotti is an industrial designer who has found in the wor...
Category
2010s Italian Post-Modern Chairs
Materials
Steel
Garden Pouf by Yukiko Nagai
Located in Geneve, CH
Garden Pouf by Yukiko Nagai
Dimensions: D75 x W90 x H40 cm
Material: Venetian color glasses, Natural stones, Antique
ceramic tiles, Marble (Biancone, Nero belgio, etc...) Iron bas...
Category
2010s Italian Post-Modern Chairs
Materials
Cement, Marble, Iron
ILVA Design Lounge Chair Model Cuba, Black Leather, Denmark, 2000s
Located in Antwerp, BE
ILVA Design Lounge Chair Model Cuba, with a chromed metal frame and black leather upholstery. Model Cuba was inspired by the "Timeless Chair", an original design by Italian architect...
Category
Early 2000s Danish Post-Modern Chairs
Materials
Metal
Highback Pair of Postmodern Lounge Chairs
Located in Las Vegas, NV
Lines line lines. These gorgeous chair are begging to be modernized. The boned are great but the fabirc has seen better days.
Reupholstery is needed. Professional upholstery avail...
Category
Late 20th Century Post-Modern Chairs
Materials
Fabric
Atlas Scultpural Chair by Drusch Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Atlas Scultpural Chair by Drusch Design
Dimensions: W 50 x D 46 x H 88 cm
Materials: Pine Wood.
Weight: 13 kg.
About: As an industrial designer based in Mexico City, they speciali...
Category
2010s Mexican Post-Modern Chairs
Materials
Wood
Stone Shadow Chair by DAaZ
Located in Geneve, CH
Stone Shadow Chair by DAaZ
Dimensions: D 62 x W 57.7 x H 92 cm.
Materials: Ash wood, fabric.
DAaZ Furniture honors the spirit of adventure. We embrace the escape of the ordinary an...
Category
2010s Chinese Post-Modern Chairs
Materials
Wood, Fabric
Eye Candy Armchair by Amber Dewaele
Located in Geneve, CH
Eye Candy armchair by Amber Dewaele
Dimensions: D 95 x W 70 x H 70 cm.
Materials: Anodised aluminum, coated foam.
EYE CANDY CHAIRS
Concept
A chair...
Category
2010s Belgian Post-Modern Chairs
Materials
Aluminum
Four Café Staking Chairs by Philippe Starck for Cerruti Baleri
Located in Palm Springs, CA
A set of four café chairs designed by Philippe Starck in 1983 for Costa café. This were made by Cerruti Baleri, Italy in 1984.
The seat is made out...
Category
1980s Italian Vintage Post-Modern Chairs
Materials
Steel
Paolo Pallucco "Sedia No.52" Chair, 1990 Italy.
Located in Brussels, BE
Rare sculptural chair number 52 "Sedia per inquadrature inconapevolmente di spalle", part of the series "100 Sedie in una Notte".
Designed by Paolo Pallucco and produced by Galleria ...
Category
1990s Italian Post-Modern Chairs
Materials
Wood
Alejandro Estrada Bamboo Dining Chairs for Piegatto, 2006
By Piegatto
Located in Antwerp, BE
Bamboo dining chairs by Estrada Plywood contour or "S-chair". A tribute of the Guatemalan designer Alejandro Estrada to the iconic Gerrit Rietveld "Z...
Category
Early 2000s Guatemalan Post-Modern Chairs
Materials
Bamboo, Plywood
Root Chair by DAaZ
Located in Geneve, CH
Root Chair by DAaZ
Dimensions: D 55.5 x W 46.5 x H 75 cm.
Materials: Wood, fabric.
DAaZ Furniture honors the spirit of adventure. We embrace the escape of the ordinary and revel in...
Category
2010s Chinese Post-Modern Chairs
Materials
Wood, Fabric
Strelitzia Dining Chair by Egg Designs
Located in Geneve, CH
Strelitzia dining chair by Egg Designs
Dimensions: 70 L x 70 D x 90 H cm
Materials: solid cast brass, handmade wool upholstery, Castors
Founded by South Africans and life partne...
Category
2010s South African Post-Modern Chairs
Materials
Brass
Creamy Nautilus Chair by Plyus Furniture
Located in Geneve, CH
Creamy Nautilus Chair by Plyus Furniture
Dimensions: D 100 x W 80 x H 86 cm
Materials: Wood, HR foam, polyester wadding, fabric upholstery.
“Nautilus” chair.
“Twenty Thousand Leagu...
Category
2010s Emirian Post-Modern Chairs
Materials
Wood, Upholstery
The Queen’s Chair by Alina Alamorean
Located in Geneve, CH
The Queen’s Chair by Alina Alamorean
One Of A Kind.
Dimensions: D 45 x W 40 x H 200 cm. SH: 46,5 cm.
Materials: Steel.
The dimensions for a single chair are D 45 x W 20 x H 200 cm. ...
Category
2010s French Post-Modern Chairs
Materials
Steel, Iron
Post Modern Chairs with black velvet upholstery, a pair
Located in Wichita, KS
This beautiful pair of post modern have been re upholstered and are in wonderful condition. The chairs have lines that curve and make a statement. They chairs are also very comfort...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Post-Modern Chairs
Materials
Upholstery
Post Modern Stool in Walnut Finish, Cane Back Leather Seat Counter or Bar Height
By SIMONINI
Located in Vila Cordeiro, São Paulo
The Aurora collection aka Dawn marks a new exiting moment in our design history, in where we dove deep in to the creativity unknown, to create a collection that would be able to hold...
Category
2010s Brazilian Post-Modern Chairs
Materials
Leather, Textile, Upholstery, Faux Leather, Cane, Hardwood, Walnut
Postmodern German Kreuzschwinger Kitchen Barstool by Till Behrens, 1980s
By Till Behrens
Located in Hamburg, DE
Original Till Behrens Kreuzschwinger Kitchen stools or bar stools in a rare version with a matt surface.
Elegant design classic by Prof. Till Behrens in the Bar stool version. The f...
Category
20th Century German Post-Modern Chairs
Materials
Metal
2er Set Canasta Arrben Italy Stühle Design Vintage Freischwinger
By Arrben
Located in Berlin, DE
Wir bieten ein wunderschönes 2er Set "Canasta" Freischwinger von Arrben Italy aus den 1970er Jahren zum Verkauf an. Die Stühle verfügen über einen schwarz lackierten Stahlrahmen, auf...
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Post-Modern Chairs
Materials
Steel
#1582 Pair of Vintage Herman Miller Chiclet Chairs by Ray Wilkes - Green
Located in Dallas, TX
Designed by Ray Wilkes for Herman Miller and first introduced in 1976, this pair of eye-catching chairs makes a lasting impression with bold, rounded-edge cushions and steel brackets...
Category
1980s American Vintage Post-Modern Chairs
Materials
Metal
Giancarlo Piretti, Original Plona Armchair for Anonima Castelli, 1970
Located in London, GB
Designed in 1970 by Giancarlo Piretti, Plona is a folding and stackable armchair. The solid tubular structure is in polished stainless aluminum alloy, with hinges in die-cast light a...
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Post-Modern Chairs
Materials
Aluminum, Chrome
Sottsass Inspired Memphis Milano Chair, Italy, 1980s
Located in Antwerp, BE
Playful and sophisticated, this Memphis-style chair captures the essence of postmodern design with its bold shapes and pastel shades. The backrest features a curved silhouette in a r...
Category
1980s Italian Vintage Post-Modern Chairs
Materials
Steel
David Mazel Tov LifeGuard Chair, Handcrafted Maple Coastal Inspiration Seating
Located in Montreal, Quebec
This chair is named in honor of the famous lifeguard. David Mazel Tov is a design focused on perspectives and it allows two people to co-exist in a spa...
Category
2010s Canadian Post-Modern Chairs
Materials
Rattan, Maple
Ball Foot Sculptural Chair, Vegan Cactus Leather, Beige
Located in Ciudad de México, CDMX
The “Ball-Foot Chair” is upholstered with a subtle beige cactus leather, a vegan textile infused with natural cacti fibers, which is produced in Mexico. The chair’s comfortable and r...
Category
2010s Mexican Post-Modern Chairs
Materials
Steel
Casablanca Office Armchair by Jaime Tresserra, Spain, 1987
Located in Antwerp, BE
Postmodern luxurious 'Casablanca' chairs by Spanish designer Jaime Tresserra, created in 1987 for the Tresserra Collection. Featuring a striking combination of walnut wood, elegant c...
Category
1980s Spanish Vintage Post-Modern Chairs
Materials
Leather, Walnut
Mario Bellini Set of Six 'Lira E Liuto' Dining Chairs in Leather
By Cassina, Mario Bellini
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Mario Bellini for Cassina, set of six ‘Lira e Liuto’ dining chairs, cognac leather, Italy, 1989
This set of six ‘Lira e Liuto’ dining chairs has beautifu...
Category
1980s Italian Vintage Post-Modern Chairs
Materials
Leather
Set of 2 Airport Sliper Chairs by Hans Wegner for AP 39 Stolen Leather & Steel
Located in San Diego, CA
Set of 2 only 2 available one set of 2
Hans Wegner AP-39 "Airport" Lounge Chair in Black Leather, circa 1970s
A classic design by Hans Wener for the Kastrup Airport in Copenhagen and...
Category
20th Century Danish Post-Modern Chairs
Materials
Steel
Ron Arad Albert and Victoria for Moroso Leather Chairs, a Pair
By Ron Arad
Located in Chicago, IL
A continuous flow of curving lines, an image-form drawn without ever lifting the pencil off the paper. Originally a ‘doughnut’ which provided inspiration for a sculpture: squashed, and reworked, using irony to go beyond the usual approach to industrial design. Then the piece itself: the padding and sewn-to-measure upholstery over an inner fibreglass frame reveal the interaction between the technical and expressive merits of the design. Its never-ending lines are sensitive but strong, perfect consonance between surface and form, body and skin. The leather reaches out into the space around it magnifying and reinforcing the materiality of the piece yet without interrupting or overpowering its fluidity.
Made it Italy by Moroso designed by Ron Arad (Albert and Victoria...
Category
Early 2000s Italian Post-Modern Chairs
Materials
Leather
Ball Foot Sculptural Chair, Vegan Cactus Leather, Beige
Located in Ciudad de México, CDMX
The “Ball-Foot Chair” is upholstered with a subtle beige cactus leather, a vegan textile infused with natural cacti fibers, which is produced in Mexico. The chair’s comfortable and r...
Category
2010s Mexican Post-Modern Chairs
Materials
Steel
Ottoman by Le Berre Vevaud
Located in Geneve, CH
Ottoman by Le Berre Vevaud
Dimensions: W 65 x D 71 x H 85 cm.
Materials: Solid wood SIPO legs upholstered in Misia fabric Les Hautes Cimes
For over 15 years, Raphaël Le Berre and T...
Category
2010s French Post-Modern Chairs
Materials
Upholstery, Wood
Post Modern Stool in Solid Wood, Cane Back and Leather, Counter or Bar Height
By SIMONINI
Located in Vila Cordeiro, São Paulo
The Aurora collection aka Dawn marks a new exiting moment in our design history, in where we dove deep in to the creativity unknown, to create a collection that would be able to hold...
Category
2010s Brazilian Post-Modern Chairs
Materials
Leather, Textile, Upholstery, Faux Leather, Cane, Hardwood, Walnut
Mocca September Bar Stool by Oxdenmarq
Located in Geneve, CH
Mocca September Bar Stool by OxDenmarq
Dimensions: D 38 x W 42 x H 93 cm
Materials: leather, black powder coated steel
Also available: different colors available.
Ox Denmarq is...
Category
2010s Danish Post-Modern Chairs
Materials
Steel
Modern Style Aurora Chair Sculpted in Walnut Finish No Arms, leather seating
By SIMONINI
Located in Vila Cordeiro, São Paulo
The Aurora collection aka Dawn marks a new exiting moment in our design history, in where we dove deep in to the creativity unknown, to create a collection that would be able to hold...
Category
2010s Brazilian Post-Modern Chairs
Materials
Leather, Textile, Upholstery, Faux Leather, Cane, Hardwood, Walnut
Post Modern Oak & Yellow Steel Small Sculptural Chair, France 1980's
Located in New York, NY
Post modern tripod chair in yellow enameled steel with an oak seat and accents.
Category
Mid-20th Century French Post-Modern Chairs
Materials
Steel
Artist Made Colourful Painted Chair With Abstract Shapes and Bird Motive
Located in Rümmingen, BW
"shipping note: If your region or country is not listed under the shipping options please contact us directly"
Important Care Information:
When purchasing a chair, stool, table, or ...
Category
20th Century German Post-Modern Chairs
Materials
Wood, Hardwood
Institution Sculptural Chair, White Lamb Leather
Located in Ciudad de México, CDMX
Uncannily challenging excessive symbolic power granted to scientific institutions, the “Institutional Chair” reveals a tension with the accepted desubjectivisation of the body into s...
Category
2010s Mexican Post-Modern Chairs
Materials
Steel, Nickel
Oscar Chair by DUISTT
Located in Geneve, CH
Oscar Chair by DUISTT
Dimensions: W 65 x D 58 x H 77 cm
Materials: Duistt Fabric
Swivel version available upon request. Please contact us.
Inspired by the curved lines poetry of Os...
Category
2010s Portuguese Post-Modern Chairs
Materials
Fabric
Modern Style Aurora Chair Sculpted in Walnut Finish Arms, leather back & seating
By SIMONINI
Located in Vila Cordeiro, São Paulo
The Aurora collection aka Dawn marks a new exiting moment in our design history, in where we dove deep in to the creativity unknown, to create a collection that would be able to hold...
Category
2010s Brazilian Post-Modern Chairs
Materials
Leather, Textile, Upholstery, Faux Leather, Cane, Hardwood, Walnut
Brera Chair by Somaschini
Located in Geneve, CH
Brera Chair by Somaschini
Dimensions: W 55 x D 55 x H 80 cm
Materials: Solid wood and curved plywood structure padded with polyurethane foam in different densities. Pre-upholstery in...
Category
2010s Italian Post-Modern Chairs
Materials
Fabric, Upholstery, Wood
Santos Chair by Studio Romell
Located in Geneve, CH
Santos Chair by Studio Romell
Dimensions: W 53 x D 59 x H 86 cm
Materials: Natural Waxed Oak.
The Santos Chair by Studio Romell is a study in purity and exposure—an homage to the...
Category
2010s Swedish Post-Modern Chairs
Materials
Oak
Guido Faleschini for I4 Mariani Set of Six 'Dilos' Dining Chairs in Leather
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Guido Faleschini for i4 Mariani, set of six 'Dilos' dining chairs, part of the 'Pace Collection', beech, leather, Italy, circa 1975
These 'Dilos' chairs are designed by the creative Italian designer Guido Faleschini as part of the ‘Pace Collection’ for Italian furniture company I4 Mariani. The design is immediately recognisable by the smooth constructed armrests and round contours in the seating. The camel beige leather complements the blond...
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Post-Modern Chairs
Materials
Leather, Beech
Ball Foot Sculptural Chair, Vegan Cactus Leather, Gray
Located in Ciudad de México, CDMX
The “Ball-Foot Chair” is upholstered with a subtle beige cactus leather, a vegan textile infused with natural cacti fibers, which is produced in Mexico. The chair’s comfortable and r...
Category
2010s Mexican Post-Modern Chairs
Materials
Steel
Postmodern Chrome & Black Leather Timeless Lounge Chairs by Antonio Citterio
Located in Detroit, MI
This exceptional pair of vintage Antonio Citterio for Flexform “Timeless” chrome & black leather lounge chairs are a sleek, postmodern interpretation of classic Mid-Century Modern st...
Category
1980s Italian Vintage Post-Modern Chairs
Materials
Steel, Chrome
Post Modern Leather Chair Made in Germany by Schillig
By Willi Schillig
Located in New York, NY
Post modern leather arm chair made in Germany by noted maker Schillig. The chair is executed in top quality black leather ( shows minor wear )...
Category
Late 20th Century German Post-Modern Chairs
Materials
Leather
Ron Arad Bad Tempered Chair #29/1000 for Vitra, 2002, Carbon Fiber, Signed
Located in Kansas City, MO
Ron Arad "Bad Tempered" chair, by Vitra, number 29 of an edition of 1000, die-cut sheets of carbon and Kevlar laminates, fastened by bolts with wing nuts,...
Category
Early 2000s German Post-Modern Chairs
Materials
Metal
GG02 Walnut Chair by Togigi
Located in Geneve, CH
GG02 Walnut Chair by Togigi
Dimensions: D 50 x W 50 x H 77,2 cm.
Materials: Walnut and jacquard.
The fabric is Baby Blue marble jacquard. Available in Thermal Spray Zinc, walnut, an...
Category
2010s Belgian Post-Modern Chairs
Materials
Walnut, Jacquard
Bla' Station, Condeco Chair by Johan Lindau, 2003
By Bla Station
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Bla' Station
Condeco chair
Design: Johan Lindau, 2OO3
Chair. Frame of solid oak
Very comfortable with extraordinary shaped geometrical structure.
Leather and wood in excellent ...
Category
Early 2000s Scandinavian Post-Modern Chairs
Materials
Leather, Oak
Italian Black Leather CAB 413 Armchair by Mario Bellini
By Cassina, Mario Bellini
Located in Nashville, TN
4 chairs available. Price is per chair.
Black saddle leather with zippers along legs, steel frame painted black with plastic shell seat. The chairs are in excellent original conditi...
Category
1980s Italian Vintage Post-Modern Chairs
Materials
Steel
Yin & Yang Chairs by Plyus Furniture
Located in Geneve, CH
Yin & Yang Chairs by Plyus Furniture
Dimensions: D 75 x W 72 x H 84 cm
Materials: Wood, HR foam, polyester wadding, fabric upholstery.
PLYUS Furniture creates pieces in collectib...
Category
2010s Emirian Post-Modern Chairs
Materials
Upholstery, Wood
Giandomenico Belotti - Alias Set of 4 Red Fly Line Spaghetti Dining Side Chairs
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Designed by Giandomenico Belotti (1922-2004), these Spaghetti chairs are quite comfortable with their PVC spaghetti straps on steel bases. A most successful design by Belotti, they a...
Category
1980s Italian Vintage Post-Modern Chairs
Materials
Steel
Post Modern Stool in Solid Wood, Uphostery Back and Seat, Counter or Bar Height
By SIMONINI
Located in Vila Cordeiro, São Paulo
The Aurora collection aka Dawn marks a new exiting moment in our design history, in where we dove deep in to the creativity unknown, to create a collection that would be able to hold...
Category
2010s Brazilian Post-Modern Chairs
Materials
Leather, Textile, Upholstery, Faux Leather, Cane, Hardwood, Walnut
Set of 4 Italian Post-Modern / Memphis Dining Chairs by Massimo Iosa Ghini
Located in New York, NY
Set of 4 Italian Post-Modern / Memphis Bolidist "Velox" dining chairs by Massimo Iosa Ghini for Moroso, Milan, 1987. 1 "Velox" Chair with sweeping curved arms and 3 "Velox" side chai...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Post-Modern Chairs
Materials
Steel
Saffron Yellow RAP Chair by Karim Rashid
Located in Geneve, CH
Saffron Yellow RAP Chair by Karim Rashid
Dimensions: D 78 x W 115 x H 75 cm. Seat Height: 36 cm.
Materials: Polyethylene.
Weight: 24 kg.
Available in different color options. This p...
Category
2010s Italian Post-Modern Chairs
Materials
Other
Sosa Chair by Lagu
Located in Geneve, CH
Sosa armless chair by Lagu
Designed by Ufuk Ceylan
Dimensions: W 90 x D 85 x H 80 cm
Materials: Bouclé, Fabric, Foam, Hardwood.
Standing out with its round details and upholste...
Category
2010s Turkish Post-Modern Chairs
Materials
Fabric, Bouclé, Foam, Hardwood
Enigma Wood Accent Chair by Alter Ego Studio
Located in Castelo da Maia, PT
Enigma Wood Accent Chair by Alter Ego Studio
Dimensions
W 81 cm
D 66 cm
H 41 cm
Product features
Structure in Wood
Product options:
Wood finishes:
Available in all Alter Ego S...
Category
2010s Post-Modern Chairs
Materials
Oak
5 Chairs, 1980s steel and leather that might be by Mario Botta or Martin Szekely
Located in Paris, FR
Set of 5 post modern chairs in steel and leather seats, 80s.
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Unidentified and unattributed but could be from Mario Botta or Martin Szekely, or even Philippe Starck
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Some traces of...
Category
1980s European Vintage Post-Modern Chairs
Materials
Steel
1980s Ettore Sottsass Inspired Memphis Style Black Wood Frame Rocking Chair
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Fun Ettore Sottsass inspired Memphis style rocking chair with bent, black ebonized wood frame. This chair features a Memphis style graphic printed upholstery as well. Seat width is 1...
Category
1980s Dutch Vintage Post-Modern Chairs
Materials
Upholstery, Wood
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