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1980s Postmodern Grey Lacquer Laminate Waterfall Dresser - 6 Drawers
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Amazing postmodern waterfall lowboy Dresser. Feature a grey lacquer laminate with 6 spacious
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Vintage 1980s American Post-Modern Dressers

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Wood

Postmodern Wood Grain Laminate and Chrome Dresser - 9 Drawers
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Exceptional vintage postmodern 9 drawer dresser. Features a glossy woodgrain laminate with a chrome
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Vintage 1980s American Post-Modern Dressers

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Wood

Postmodern Flesh Lacquer Laminate Armoire Chest Set With Gold Accents
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Elevate your space with the Postmodern Flesh Lacquer Laminate Armoire Chest Set, featuring elegant
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20th Century American Post-Modern Wardrobes and Armoires

Materials

Wood

Rare Postmodern Memphis Era George Sowden Plastic Laminate Box
By George Sowden
Located in San Diego, CA
Beautiful and rare, ice bucket made in Japan circa 1980s by Taste Setter Sigma, great colors, and design with removable insert and lid. Fabulous pattern and design.
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20th Century Japanese Post-Modern Decorative Boxes

Materials

Lacquer

Postmodern Extra Long Faux Travertine Laminate Waterfall Console Table
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Embrace modern elegance with the Postmodern Faux Travertine Waterfall Console Table, a chic fusion
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Vintage 1980s American Post-Modern Console Tables

Materials

Wood

Postmodern Pink and Cream Lacquer Laminate With Gold Trim Mirror
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Indulge in the playful sophistication of the Postmodern Pink and Cream Lacquer Laminate Mirror with
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20th Century American Post-Modern Wall Mirrors

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Wood

A Pair of Postmodern Laminate Side Tables by Lane Altavista. Circa 1970s
By Lane Furniture
Located in Miami, FL
A Pair of Postmodern Pink Laminate Side Tables by Lane Altavista. Circa 1970s Feature a straight
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Vintage 1970s American Post-Modern Side Tables

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Formica, Wood

Ettore Sottsass Post-Modernism Colored Geometric Mirror for Glas Italia 2007
By Ettore Sottsass, Glas Italia
Located in New York, NY
A modern polychromatic Memphis-style mirror designed by Ettore Sottsass, of the post-modernism
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Early 2000s Italian Post-Modern Wall Mirrors

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Art Glass, Mirror, Cut Glass, Wood

2007 Sottsass Post-Modernism Mirror in Green Blue Yellow Pink for Glas Italia
By Ettore Sottsass, Glas Italia
Located in New York, NY
A modern polychromatic mirror designed by Ettore Sottsass of the post-modernism movement, part of
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Early 2000s Italian Post-Modern Wall Mirrors

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Wood, Art Glass, Mirror

Niels Gammelgaard Guide Shelf
By Niels Gammelgaard
Located in Toronto, CA
furnishing style of the 1980s. The shelving unit came about as a cousin to the modern MOMENT sofa, which had
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Vintage 1980s Swedish Post-Modern Shelves and Wall Cabinets

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Metal

Pair of 1980s Postmodern Texture Faux Stone Nightstands
Located in Miami, FL
rounded edges trims at the tops, with a smooth faux washed wood grain laminated sides and tops. The bottom
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Vintage 1980s Brazilian Post-Modern Night Stands

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Laminate, Formica, Plaster

Black Chippendale Chair by Robert Venturi for Knoll, 1980s. Attached Cushion.
By Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, Knoll
Located in Kansas City, MO
discoloration to the edges and light scratches. This icon of post modern design present well and is ready to
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Vintage 1980s American Post-Modern Chairs

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Laminate, Birch

Memphis Group Ettore Sottsass Style Kidney Shape Coffee Table, 1980s
By Memphis Group
Located in South Bend, IN
. The table features three unique custom designed legs and a red laminate kidney-shaped tabletop. The
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Vintage 1980s Post-Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables

Materials

Metal

Robert Venturi Sheraton chair for Knoll
By Knoll, Robert Venturi
Located in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
Robert Venturi chair for knoll Model: Sheraton Silkscreen printed pattern on black plywood.  
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Vintage 1980s Japanese Post-Modern Chairs

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Plywood

Small Circular Pedestal Dining Table
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Dining table, high pressured laminate with coating and steel, 1980s, Europe. This dining is both
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Vintage 1980s European Post-Modern Dining Room Tables

Materials

Steel

1980s, Postmodern Waterfall Marbleized Formica Sideboard Credenza
Located in Miami, FL
Springer's Manner. Circa 1980s. Features a wood body laminated with a glossy Marbleized Formica, a waterfall
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Vintage 1980s Post-Modern Sideboards

Materials

Formica

Pair of Postmodern Side Tables, Memphis Era
Located in San Diego, CA
Pair of Postmodern side tables with round white laminate tops and angled aluminum boomerang shaped
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20th Century American Post-Modern Side Tables

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Aluminum

Rare Rodney Kinsman for Bieffeplast Desk Grid Table, Italy, circa 1985
By Rodney Kinsman, Bieffeplast
Located in Vienna, AT
Postmodern desk perfect for any stylish daily accomplishments. Comprised of a laminated tabletop and
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Vintage 1980s Italian Post-Modern Desks and Writing Tables

Materials

Steel

Rodney Kinsman for Bieffeplast Rare Desk Grid Table, Italy, circa 1985
By Rodney Kinsman, Bieffeplast
Located in Vienna, AT
of a laminated tabletop and lacquered steel structure. The tabletop interlocks with the table feet
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Vintage 1980s Italian Post-Modern Desks and Writing Tables

Materials

Steel

Modular Hexa Coffee Table by Bernard Vuarnesson for Bellato, 1980s
By Bernard Vuarnesson
Located in Izegem, VWV
This modular coffee table construction was designed by Bernard Vuarnesson and allows you to create your own composition using the six interchangeable table tops, all with a double co...
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Late 20th Century Post-Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables

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Laminate, Formica, Wood

Michele de Lucchi Burgundy Writing Dining Table For Memphis Milano Italy, 1985
By Memphis Group, Michele de Lucchi
Located in Vienna, AT
Iconic dining table, laminated wood and steel, Michele de Lucchi 'Burgundy' table Memphis Italy
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Vintage 1980s Italian Post-Modern Dining Room Tables

Materials

Steel

Ettore Sottsass Cantone Corner Shelving / Tables, See Photos!
By Zanotta, Ettore Sottsass
Located in Kansas City, MO
retain the original "Bacterio" laminate designed by Sottsass in 1978. The legs are sliver plated brass
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Vintage 1980s Italian Post-Modern Corner Cupboards

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Silver Plate, Brass

Roberto Pamio Renato Toso for Stilwood Bookcase in Ash
By Roberto Pamio Renato Toso, Stilwood
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Roberto Pamio & Renato Toso for Stilwood, bookcase, ash, laminated wood, Italy, 1972 This large
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Vintage 1970s Italian Post-Modern Bookcases

Materials

Laminate, Ash

Postmodern Pink Lacquered Tiered Floating Credenza with Gold Handles
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Phenomenal vintage postmodern credenza which has been refinished in a hot pink. Each door has a golden handle and opens to reveal shelved storage section ascending from the center.
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Vintage 1980s American Post-Modern Credenzas

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Laminate, Wood, Lacquer

Willy Rizzo Sliding Chrome Coffee Table for Cidue, Italy, 1970s
By Willy Rizzo, Cidue
Located in Antwerp, BE
Hollywood Regency inspired eclectic decor. Rectangular coffee table on a black laminate base, chromed steel
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Late 20th Century Italian Post-Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables

Materials

Chrome

"Fortune" Table / Desk by Michele de Lucchi for Memphis Milano, Early Original
By Michele de Lucchi, Memphis Milano
Located in Kansas City, MO
. Constructed of blue, green and gray laminate, lacquered wood and glass. This a rare early original example.
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Vintage 1980s Italian Post-Modern Desks and Writing Tables

Materials

Glass, Laminate, Wood

Carlton Bookcase Roomdivider by Ettore Sottsass for Memphis, 1981
By Ettore Sottsass, Memphis Group
Located in Vienna, AT
in 1981. Heavy quality HPL (high pressure laminate) on wood construction in various colours. This
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Vintage 1980s Italian Post-Modern Bookcases

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Laminate, Plywood

Original Vintage "Rio" Rocking Chaise by Oscar Niemeyer
By Oscar Niemeyer
Located in North Miami, FL
A sculptural rocking chaise longue in black painted laminated wood frame with leather upholstery
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Vintage 1970s Brazilian Post-Modern Chaise Longues

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Chrome, Steel

Vintage Cream Marble Dining Table
Located in Denver, CO
1970’s - 80’s Post Modern Believed to be American-made at the time that similar items were being
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Late 20th Century American Post-Modern Dining Room Tables

Materials

Marble

Modular Profilsystem Wall Unit with Diverse Storage Compartments in Green
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Flötotto, modular sideboard 'Profilsystem', obeche wood, laminate, 1970s/80s Remarkable in both
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Vintage 1970s German Post-Modern Bookcases

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Laminate, Wood

Miniature of the Iconic Carlton Bookcase Designed by Sottsass Memphis Milano
By Ettore Sottsass, Memphis Group
Located in Uccle, BE
A perfect miniature reproduction of the iconic Carlton bookcase designed by Ettore Sottsass for Memphis Milano in 1981, this edition from 1995, on 500 Exemplars, this example Artist ...
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1990s Italian Post-Modern Bookcases

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Laminate

Enetri Shelving System by Niels Gammelgaard for Ikea 1990 s
By Niels Gammelgaard, IKEA
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
"guide", an example of 80's post-modern design, simple very sleek and extremely functional. Can be used
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1990s Swedish Post-Modern Shelves

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Metal

VASA VELIZAR MIHICH Lucite Ruler Sculpture
By Vasa Velizar Mihich
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Laminated acrylic stack sculpture.
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Late 20th Century American Post-Modern Sculptures

Materials

Acrylic

Contemporary Art TOTEM Chocolat Ceramic Brown Orange White Pa by Ettore Sottsass
By Ettore Sottsass, Mirabili
Located in Pistoia, IT
phenomenon in renewing the Art of Living with a modern feeling for the old.?.
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Post-Modern Abstract Sculptures

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Ceramic, Wood

90s Pedestal Column Pillar Stand with Zig-Zag Design
Located in New York, NY
A Postmodern style pedestal column pillar stand in matte black and silver-gilt style zig-zag design, late 20th century, circa 1990s. Top and base area are a light tan hue finished wi...
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1990s American Post-Modern Pedestals and Columns

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Laminate, Wood

Contemporary Art TOTEM Odalisca Yellow Black White PA by Ettore Sottsass
By Ettore Sottsass, Mirabili
Located in Pistoia, IT
Limited rdition of 29 pieces. These ceramic columns evoke Totems and Menhir, ancient architectures or imaginary archetypes, among timeless sacredness and contemporary irony.
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Vintage 1980s Italian Post-Modern Abstract Sculptures

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Ceramic, Wood

"Menta Totem" by Ettore Sottsass, Bitossi for Mirabili
By Ettore Sottsass, Bitossi
Located in Kansas City, MO
Menta Totem. This work was conceived by Ettore Sottsass between 1965 and 1969 and realized in 1985 by Bitossi Montelupo Fiorentino to be distributed by Mirabili, Italy. This work is ...
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Vintage 1980s Italian Post-Modern Abstract Sculptures

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Ceramic, Wood

Silver Aluminum and Chromed Metal 1990s Nomos Table by Norman Foster for Tecno
By Sir Norman Foster, Tecno
Located in Varese, Lombardia
This nomos table or desk was designed by Norman Foster in the 1980s. This version belongs to a later production, (1990-2000). Rare version with a silver aluminum tabletop (rough fini...
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1990s Italian Post-Modern Dining Room Tables

Materials

Metal, Aluminum, Chrome

Ettore Sottsass Tahiti Lamp
By Ettore Sottsass
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Ettore Sottsass, known as the godfather of "Italian cool" designed this colorful post-modern table
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Late 20th Century Italian Post-Modern Table Lamps

Materials

Metal

Four Italian Postmodern Sculptural Walnut Dining Chairs, 1980s, Italy
Located in Biebergemund, Hessen
Set of four Postmodern sculptural dining chairs, Italy, 1980s. They feature a laminated walnut
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Vintage 1980s Italian Post-Modern Side Chairs

Materials

Walnut

1980 s Rare Glitter Motion Lamp "Poverty Sucks" by Fantasia Products
By Fantasia Light
Located in San Diego, CA
Amazing rare 1980s glitter motion lamp glass front with laminate wood case, excellent working
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20th Century American Post-Modern Table Lamps

Materials

Glass, Laminate

Table Lamp TAHITI by Ettore SOTTSASS, Memphis Milano
By Ettore Sottsass
Located in Berlin, Berlin
Metal construction, wooden base with laminate and head with halogen lamp, 'The Duck'. With original
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Vintage 1980s Italian Post-Modern Table Lamps

Materials

Metal

Alberto Paoli Drop-leaf Kitchen Island or Worktable
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Alberto Paoli, drop-leaf kitchen island or work table, laminated plywood, Italy, 1970s. A
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Vintage 1970s Italian Post-Modern Drop-leaf and Pembroke Tables

Materials

Laminate, Plywood

Robert Venturi Chippendale Side Chairs for Knoll International, 1986
By Robert Venturi, Knoll
Located in Los Angeles, CA
were shaped to conform to modern standards of the International Style dictum of elegance, comfort, and
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Vintage 1980s American Post-Modern Side Chairs

Materials

Fabric, Laminate, Plywood

Positano console table by Ettore Sottsass for Zanotta
By Zanotta, Ettore Sottsass
Located in Ravenna, IT
Console table designed by Ettore Sottrass for Zanotta in 1990. The legs have a conical structure with decorative geometric elements at the end. The front legs are staggered on the in...
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1990s Italian Post-Modern Console Tables

Materials

Wood

Ettore Sottsass Attributed Marantz Audio Set; Speakers and Marantz Components
By Ettore Sottsass
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Set of audio equipment from manufacturer Marantz including Memphis style speakers attributed to Italian designer Ettore Sottsass. Components in champagne metal. Buyer to verify full ...
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Late 20th Century American Post-Modern Musical Instruments

Materials

Metal

Frank O. Gehry Easy Edges "Wiggle" Chairs, 1980s, USA
By Frank Gehry
Located in Biebergemund, Hessen
Set of sculptural "Wiggle" chairs from the iconic Easy Edges collection of cardboard furniture designed by Frank O. Gehry. They feature a cardboard with hardboard edges. This set is ...
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Vintage 1980s American Post-Modern Side Chairs

Materials

Masonite

Frank O. Gehry Easy Edges "Wiggle" Stools, 1980s, USA
By Frank Gehry, Vitra
Located in Biebergemund, Hessen
Set of sculptural "Wiggle" stools from the iconic Easy Edges collection of cardboard furniture designed by Frank O. Gehry. They feature a cardboard with hardboard edges. This set is ...
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Vintage 1980s American Post-Modern Side Chairs

Materials

Masonite

Post Modern Laminate Dining Table
Located in Los Angeles, CA
W67 W103 D42 H28.5 KNEE CLEARANCE 27.5 LEAVES 18 Vintage post modern laminate dining table im
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20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables

Materials

Laminate

Post-Modern Faux-Burl Wood Laminate Three-Tier Stepped Console Table, 1970s
Located in San Francisco, CA
A very handsome and uncommon 1970s post-modern faux-burl wood laminate three-tier stepped console
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Vintage 1970s American Post-Modern Console Tables

Materials

Laminate, Wood

Laminate Night Stands
Located in Philadelphia, PA
- 20.5"h, 28"w, 19.5"d - Pair of light gray laminate 2-drawer nightstands circa 1980s - Condition
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Vintage 1980s Unknown Post-Modern Night Stands

Materials

Laminate

Laminate Triangle Table, 1980s
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Go beyond the ordinary with this retro triangle table in classic Postmodern purple laminate. It's a
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Vintage 1980s Post-Modern Side Tables

Materials

Laminate

Red Laminate Desk, 1980s
Located in Philadelphia, PA
when you've got a stylish piece of furniture? - 28"h, 54"w, 18"d - Postmodern red laminate three
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Vintage 1980s Unknown Post-Modern Desks and Writing Tables

Materials

Laminate

Laminate Scroll Dining Table, 1990s
Located in Philadelphia, PA
- Measures: 29"h, 90"w, 40"d, 26"h (clearance) - Off-white laminate scroll dining table with white
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1990s Post-Modern Dining Room Tables

Materials

Laminate

Laminate Waterfall Coffee Table, 1980s
Located in Philadelphia, PA
laminate - Condition: Excellent; laminate chip on bottom edge
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Vintage 1980s Post-Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables

Materials

Laminate

Postmodern Glass Laminate Coffee Table
By Karl Springer
Located in Philadelphia, PA
- 17"H, 40"sq. - Postmodern square glass top coffee table with four laminate legs in the style of
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1990s Post-Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables

Materials

Glass, Laminate

Pinstripe Laminate Dining Table, 1980s
Located in Philadelphia, PA
- Measures: 29"H, 72"W, 36"D. - Glossy laminate dining table on two pedestal bases - Pinstripe
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Vintage 1980s Unknown Post-Modern Dining Room Tables

Materials

Laminate

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Laminate Post Modern For Sale on 1stDibs

With a vast inventory of beautiful furniture at 1stDibs, we’ve got just the laminate post modern you’re looking for. A laminate post modern — often made from laminate, wood and metal — can elevate any home. There are 186 variations of the antique or vintage laminate post modern you’re looking for, while we also have 25 modern editions of this piece to choose from as well. You’ve searched high and low for the perfect laminate post modern — we have versions that date back to the 20th Century alongside those produced as recently as the 21st Century are available. Each laminate post modern bearing Art Deco, Hollywood Regency or Mid-Century Modern hallmarks is very popular. A well-made laminate post modern has long been a part of the offerings for many furniture designers and manufacturers, but those produced by Ettore Sottsass, Memphis Group and Michele de Lucchi are consistently popular.

How Much is a Laminate Post Modern?

The average selling price for a laminate post modern at 1stDibs is $3,627, while they’re typically $275 on the low end and $74,233 for the highest priced.

A Close Look at Post-modern Furniture

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

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 Mendinia 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.