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Set of Four Post-Modern Marble Blocks / Paperweights
Located in San Diego, CA
Gorgeous set of four post-modern marble blocks / paperweights, circa 1980s. The pieces are in very
Category
Late 20th Century American Post-Modern Paperweights
Materials
Marble
$260 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Pair Post Modern Acrylic Table lamps
Located in Palm Springs, CA
A monumental pair of cast acrylic lamps, circa late 1980's. Lamp bases are cast with a satin finish in a shade of apricot orange. Finals and feet are also cast acrylic, but in a glo...
Category
Vintage 1980s American Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Brass
$3,200 / set
French Post-Modern Sectional Sofa in Purple Upholstery 1970s
By Ligne Roset, Bernard Govin
Located in Waalwijk, NL
to a more lower and relaxed type of furniture. Since the design is modular you can play around with
Category
Vintage 1970s French Post-Modern Sectional Sofas
Materials
Fabric, Foam
Post Modern Murano Glass Vase
Located in Miami, FL
Art Deco style blue Murano glass vase.
Made in Italy.
Category
20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Glass, Art Glass
Pair of Fine Custom Post Modern Design Club Chairs
Located in Bridgeport, CT
Pair of Post Modern Style barrel back chairs with sculptured frame, slightly flared arms and
Category
20th Century Post-Modern Club Chairs
Materials
Fabric, Wood
Pair of Italian Post-Modern Ceramic Salad Servers
Located in San Diego, CA
A nice pair of Italian post-modern ceramic salad servers, circa 1980s. The set is in very good
Category
20th Century Italian Post-Modern Serving Pieces
Materials
Ceramic
Post modern Memphis dining chairs in bouclé, 1980s
Located in Zaandam, NL
Gorgeous set of 6 memphis dining chairs in turquoise with white bouclé upholstery on metal wire frames. This set in in a good vintage condition considering its around 40 years old. S...
Category
Vintage 1980s Dutch Post-Modern Dining Room Chairs
Materials
Metal, Chrome
1970s Italian Post-Modern Lounge Chair in White Fiberglass
Located in Waalwijk, NL
base in Italy, embody the post-modern spirit of the 1970s. The frames are made from white fiberglass, a
Category
Vintage 1970s Italian Post-Modern Lounge Chairs
Materials
Fabric, Fiberglass, Beech
Post Modern Sculptural Plaster Coffee Table
Located in New York, NY
Post modern sculptural plaster coffee table. The table is plaster over a wood frame with a painted
Category
Vintage 1970s Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Wood, Plaster
Midcentury Italian Post Modern Travertine Marble Rectangular Dining Table
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A simple modern travertine marble dining table circa 1980s. It features solid slab Travertine
Category
Vintage 1980s Italian Post-Modern Dining Room Tables
Materials
Travertine
ICf Italian Post Modern Chairs Set of 8
By ICF Milano 1, Herman Miller, Charles and Ray Eames
Located in BROOKLYN, NY
ICF armless and swivel with return (spring back to front). Shiny chromed aluminum in wonderful shape with very comfortable mesh upholstery that is durable and easy to clean.
Mesh i...
Category
1990s Italian Post-Modern Office Chairs and Desk Chairs
Materials
Aluminum, Chrome
$999 / item
Memphasis Stripes Pattern Post Modern Lacquer Ice Bucket
By Georges Briard
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A Georges Briard Memphasis plastic-lacquer ice bucket in the Stripes pattern, inspired by the Memphis Art Movement, produced in Japan, 1985.
Georges Briard’s pieces from his Memphis...
Category
Vintage 1980s Japanese Post-Modern Barware
Materials
Plastic
Negresco
Post-Modern Adjustable Leather Loveseat by Bernard Massot, Signed
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This beautiful red leather Post-Modern loveseat sofa designed by Bernard Massot and produced by
Category
Vintage 1980s French Post-Modern Loveseats
Materials
Chrome
$4,500 Sale Price
29% Off
Hala Zeist Halogen Table Lamp Post Modern 1980s Holland
By Hala Zeist
Located in Den Haag, NL
Very nice futuristic Post Modern Table lamp . Good quality lamp .
Halogen ,comes with a good
Category
Vintage 1980s Dutch Post-Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Metal
Post-Modern Italian Travertine Marble Hexagonal Side Table, 1970s
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Italian travertine marble haxagonal side table or pedestal. The polished travertine is beige and cream colored with beautiful variation. Notice in some areas the grain develops a red...
Category
Vintage 1970s Italian Post-Modern Side Tables
Materials
Travertine
Post Modern Italian Leather Alanda Sofa by Paolo Piva
By B&B Italia, Paolo Piva
Located in Las Vegas, NV
SUPER RARE. These Paolo Piva Alanda sofas are rarely available in the US and NEVER IN THIS COLOR. This sofa is vintage patinated leather perfection. Love the adjustable headrest a...
Category
Late 20th Century Post-Modern Sectional Sofas
Materials
Leather
Italian post modern coat stand
Located in London, GB
A sculptural post modern coat stand in natural polished plywood with travertine base
Italy C1970
Category
Vintage 1970s Italian Coat Racks and Stands
Materials
Travertine
$1,314 Sale Price
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Superb All Black Nicoletti Salotti Post Modern Italian Leather Low Sofa
By Nicoletti Salotti
Located in Brooklyn, NY
All black Nicoletti Salotti Post Modern Italian Leather Sofa. Very fun Beautiful pop art long
Category
Vintage 1980s Italian Post-Modern Sofas
Materials
Leather
$3,400 Sale Price / item
20% Off
Pair of Post-Modern Italian Carrara Marble Vases
Located in San Diego, CA
A nice pair of post-modern Italian carrara marble vases, circa 1970s. Gorgeous black veins of
Category
20th Century Italian Post-Modern Vases
Materials
Carrara Marble
Post modern low long oval taupe lacquer coffee table
By Karl Springer
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Post modern low long oval taupe lacquer coffee table. Beautiful table with off center oval chrome
Category
Vintage 1980s American Post-Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Chrome
$2,600 Sale Price
20% Off
Post-Modern Italian Lounge Chair
Located in Houston, TX
A stylized chic Italian lounge chair. Sturdy solid fruitwood frame with steel stanchions that support arms and seat. All professionally padded and upholstered in a low pile white vel...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Art Deco Lounge Chairs
Materials
Steel
Post-Modern 1980s Cream Chrome Thonet Lounge Chair
By Thonet
Located in Madison, WI
statement in any space!
It is a Post-Modern style chair, with extreme character.
This chair is in good
Category
Vintage 1980s American Post-Modern Side Chairs
Materials
Chrome
$1,800 Sale Price
20% Off
Missoni Post-Modern Wool Rug, 1980s, Italy, Signed
By Missoni Home, Missoni
Located in Los Angeles, CA
you're working on. This signed Missoni rug is from the 1980s Italy and in an oh-so-on-trend Post-Modern
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Vintage 1980s Italian Post-Modern Western European Rugs
Materials
Wool
$7,700 Sale Price
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Midcentury Italian Post Modern Travertine Marble Rectangular Dining Table
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A simple modern travertine marble dining table circa 1980s. It features solid slab marble
Category
Vintage 1980s Italian Post-Modern Dining Room Tables
Materials
Marble
Pair of Travertine Post-Modern Dining Table Bases Pedestals
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Cool 1980’s polish travertine Post-Modern dining table or Console pedestal bases.
In beautiful
Category
Vintage 1980s American Post-Modern Dining Room Tables
Materials
Travertine
Large Pair of Post Modern Murano Glass Sconces
By Pietro Chiesa, Vistosi, Fontana Arte, Vetri, Max Ingrand
Located in Houston, TX
Large Pair Of Post Modern Murano Glass Sconces. This Monumental Pair Of Italian Modern / Italian
Category
Vintage 1980s Italian Post-Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Blown Glass, Murano Glass
$6,850 / set
A Set of 4 MEMPHIS POST-MODERN CHAIRS, Italy 1980
By Willy Rizzo
Located in PARIS, FR
A set of 4 Post-Modernist chairs, Memphis, Bauhaus, metal structures with square section and
Category
Vintage 1980s Italian Post-Modern Chairs
Materials
Metal
Large Post Modern Oval Dining Table after Evans
By Milo Baughman, Paul Evans
Located in New York, NY
Spectacular oval dining table on Cityscape like architectural brass base, with inset oval glass top, on solid oak racetrack molding. Impressive scale, top quality design and construc...
Category
Early 20th Century American Post-Modern Dining Room Tables
Materials
Brass
$10,000 Sale Price
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Set of Eight 1980s Post Modern Dining Chairs by Ercol
By Ercol
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This vintage set of eight dining chairs were made by British furniture icon Ercol. These
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Vintage 1980s Post-Modern Dining Room Chairs
Materials
Elm
French Post Modern Bronzed
Mushroom
Lamp, circa 1980s
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
French Post Modern Bronzed 'Mushroom' Lamp, circa 1980s
European, wired for the US
Of good size
Category
Late 20th Century French Post-Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Metal
$940 Sale Price
20% Off
1980s Post Modern Wall Clock by Empire Arts
By Empire Art Products Co.
Located in Brooklyn, NY
A vintage 1980s postmodern wall clock by Empire Art Products. The clock's face has various shades of black, off-white, and silver with geometric shapes.
In good vintage condition wi...
Category
Late 20th Century Post-Modern Wall Clocks
Materials
Glass, Wood
Post-Modern Brass Table Lamp with Brass Shade
Located in San Diego, CA
A very cool and unique Post-Modern brass table lamp with brass shade, circa 1980s. The lamp has
Category
Mid-20th Century American Post-Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Brass
$480 Sale Price
20% Off
Post modern halogen desk lamp glass brass 1980s
By Robert Sonneman
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Postmodern design halogen desk lamp after Robert Sonneman for Kovacs. Use with halogen light bulb 60 watts max. Dimmer switch with knob to center of base.
Dimensions: H 15.25 in. ...
Category
Vintage 1980s Italian Post-Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Metal, Brass
Post-Modern Art Glass Paperweight / Sculpture by Svoboda Karlov
By Svoboda
Located in W Allenhurst, NJ
Gorgeous post-modern art glass paperweight / sculpture by Svoboda Karlov circa 1980s. Great period
Category
Vintage 1980s Czech Post-Modern Paperweights
Materials
Art Glass
Pair of post modern shell wall lamps , 1980s
Located in Delft, NL
Pair of post modern shell wall lamps , 1980s
Category
Vintage 1970s German Post-Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Materials
Glass, Plastic
1980 Italy Post-Modern Bronze Chromed Abstract Sculpture
By Urano Palma
Located in Brescia, IT
Lucio Fontana.
He specially worked to the sculptured furniture, inventing a casting technique to obtain
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Post-Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Hexagonal Marble Coffee Tables – 70s Post-Modern Design
Located in LYON, FR
Pair of Hexagonal Marble Coffee Tables – 70s Post-Modern Design
Description: Mineral architecture
Category
Vintage 1970s Italian Post-Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Marble
Post-Modern Wall Unit in Glass and Travertine
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Wall unit, travertine, glass, Europe, 1970s
Elegant and architectural wall unit crafted during the 1970s, composed of travertine supports and glass shelves. The design is defined by...
Category
Vintage 1970s European Post-Modern Shelves
Materials
Travertine
Plaster Coffee Table Post Modern Grey, Pink, White, 1970
Located in Chicago, IL
Postmodern gray, pink, & white Plaster Coffee Table, 1970. Original
Category
Vintage 1970s American Post-Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Plaster
Post Modern Pair Lounge Chairs by Preview in Boucle, 1980
By Preview
Located in Chicago, IL
Post Modern Pair Lounge Chairs by Preview in Boucle, 1980 Fully restored and reupholstered in white
Category
Vintage 1980s American Post-Modern Lounge Chairs
Materials
Bouclé
1980s Post Modern Art Copper Table Sculpture signed Organic Mid-Century Modern
Located in Chula Vista, CA
For your consideration, a post-modern table art sculpture. Sculpture in copper. Signed "I U Arte
Category
Vintage 1980s Post-Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Copper
Vintage Post Modern Monumental Ceramic Vases - a Pair
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
These striking Vintage Post Modern Monumental Ceramic Vases captivate with their bold geometric
Category
Vintage 1980s American Post-Modern Vases
Materials
Ceramic
Flammand Passage Acrylic Painting, Post-Modern, Late 20th Century
Located in Round Top, TX
Richard Carter original painting in custom acrylic frame with provenance from the Weingarten Realty Investors Corporate Art Program and Kauffman Galleries (Houston, TX) en verso. We ...
Category
Late 20th Century American Post-Modern Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Paint, Paper
Chatter Divine Acrylic Painting, Post-Modern, Late 20th Century
Located in Round Top, TX
Richard Carter original painting in custom acrylic frame with provenance from the Weingarten Realty Investors Corporate Art Program and Kauffman Galleries (Houston, TX) en verso. We ...
Category
Late 20th Century American Post-Modern Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Paint, Paper
Post-Modern Clear Acrylic Lucite Obelisk Table Top Sculpture
By Karl Springer, Charles Hollis Jones
Located in Chattanooga, TN
Post-Modern clear acrylic Lucite obelisk. The vintage 1970s table-top monument features a curious
Category
Vintage 1970s American Post-Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Acrylic, Lucite
Post Modern Alabaster Ashtray 1970, Made in Italy
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
stone large ashtray with brown and grey color accents.
Mid-20th century stylish post modern heavy marble
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Post-Modern Tobacco Accessories
Materials
Marble, Stone, Alabaster
Post-Modern Teak and Frosted Glass Double Letter Tray
Located in San Diego, CA
A really cool and high quality set of post-modern teak and frosted glass double letter trays, circa
Category
Late 20th Century American Post-Modern More Desk Accessories
Materials
Glass, Teak
Vintage Post Modern Wrought Iron Sculpture of Woman
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Fantastic Monumental Abstract sculpture. Beautiful tall form of a woman rendered in wrought iron. Done in a distinctive PostModern style. Acquired from a Palm Beach estate.
Category
Late 20th Century Post-Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wrought Iron
Post Modern Experiment Rocking Chair by Yrjö Kukkapuro
By Yrjö Kukkapuro
Located in Weesp, NL
Introducing a stunning piece of furniture - the minimalist and sleek Yrjö Kukkapuro rocking chair
Category
Vintage 1980s Finnish Post-Modern Rocking Chairs
Materials
Chrome, Iron
Rare Pair of Post-Modern Wrought Iron Candelabra
Located in San Diego, CA
Vintage rare pair of post-modern wrought iron candleholders. The two pieces are graphic and clean
Category
Vintage 1980s American Post-Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wrought Iron
$236 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Pair of Post WWII Modern Wrought Iron Anchor
Chain Yacht Side Tables
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Pair of Post WWII modern wrought iron anchor
chain yacht side tables
USA, Post WWII
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Side Tables
Materials
Iron, Wrought Iron
$2,592 Sale Price / set
46% Off
Post Modern Jatoba Arm Chairs by Ugo La Pietra
By Ugo La Pietra
Located in Weesp, NL
Busnelli Italy. These neo eclectic post modern chairs are the epitome of elegance and sophistication, with
Category
Vintage 1980s Italian Post-Modern Lounge Chairs
Materials
Leather, Wood
$41,535 / set
Post Modern Nautical Still Life Original Painting by Harold Shepard
Located in Southampton, NJ
Nautical scene Post Modern oil on canvas painting. Rich vibrant colors with beautiful composition
Category
20th Century American Post-Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Vintage Postmodern Marble
Glass Lighted Display Cabinet by Pulaski Furniture
By Pulaski Furniture Corporation
Located in Topeka, KS
Pulaski Furniture display cabinet or bookcase comprised of a wood frame featuring a marvelous half
Category
Late 20th Century American Post-Modern Vitrines
Materials
Marble, Brass
Vintage Post Modern Atomic Copper
Aluminum Table Lamp
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Condition:
Original Vintage Condition
Category
Vintage 1970s American Post-Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Aluminum, Copper
Post modern dress boy , 1980s Italy
Located in Delft, NL
Post modern dress boy , 1980s Italy
Dimensions: 152cm Height , 47cm Width , 45cm Depth
Condition
Category
Vintage 1980s Italian Mid-Century Modern Coat Racks and Stands
Materials
Metal
All Gray Nicoletti Salotti Post Modern Italian Leather Low lounge chair
By Nicoletti Salotti
Located in Brooklyn, NY
All light gray Nicoletti Salotti Post Modern Italian Leather lounge chair. Very fun Beautiful pop
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Vintage 1980s Italian Post-Modern Lounge Chairs
Materials
Leather
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Post Modern Furniture For Sale on 1stDibs
Find many varieties of an authentic piece of post modern furniture available at 1stDibs. Was constructed with extraordinary care, often using metal, wood and fabric. If you’re shopping for an item from our selection of post modern furniture, we have 25729 options in-stock, while there are 27117 modern editions to choose from as well. Whether you’re looking for newer or older items, there are earlier versions available from the 18th Century and newer variations made as recently as the 21st Century. Each choice in our collection of post modern furniture bearing mid-century modern, modern or Hollywood Regency hallmarks is very popular. Many designers have produced at least one well-made object in our assortment of post modern furniture over the years, but those crafted by Ettore Sottsass, Philippe Starck and Cassina are often thought to be among the most beautiful.
How Much is a Post Modern Furniture?
Prices for a piece of post modern furniture start at $1 and top out at $1,851,446 with the average selling for $2,506.
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
- 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.
Questions About Post Modern Furniture
- What is modern furniture design?1 Answer1stDibs ExpertAugust 8, 2024Modern furniture design is an overarching term for the new approach that designers began taking in the early 20th century. Many experts cite the Bauhaus movement as the start of the modern era. Its style was defined by the instructors and students at a progressive German art and design school founded by the architect Walter Gropius that operated from 1919 to 1933. In Bauhaus-style furniture, the school’s followers married industrial and natural materials in simple, geometric forms. The goal of the Bauhaus was to erase the distinction between art and craft while embracing the use of new technologies and materials. As the Bauhaus movement was emerging, so too was Art Deco. This iconic movement made an indelible mark on all fields of design throughout the 1920s and ’30s, celebrating society’s growing industrialization with refined elegance and stunning craftsmanship. Art Deco furniture makers respected the dark woods and modern metals with which they worked; they frequently incorporated decorative embellishments such as exotic animal hides as well as veneers in their seating, case pieces, living room sets and bedroom furniture. After World War II, modern design continued with the mid-century modern movement. The style is characterized by pieces that were conceived and made in an energetic, optimistic spirit by creators who believed that good design was an essential part of good living. Historians typically say that the modern approach to furniture design ended in the mid-1960s or early 1970s. Pieces made after that time may be called postmodern or contemporary. Shop a large collection of modern furniture on 1stDibs.
- What is modern style furniture?1 Answer1stDibs ExpertFebruary 22, 2021Modern style furniture has smooth shiny surfaces, straight lines, simple shapes. The general objective is a simple uncluttered look.
- 1stDibs ExpertAugust 8, 2024Modern furniture is made of many different types of materials. Some modern furniture makers used natural materials like wood for frames and leather and linen for upholstery. Metals, such as aluminum, stainless steel and nickel, were also common, as were some plastics. Explore a diverse assortment of modern furniture from some of the world’s top sellers on 1stDibs.
- What is Danish modern furniture?1 Answer1stDibs ExpertFebruary 13, 2024Danish modern furniture is the term for a style of furniture that emerged during the 1930s through the innovation of designers from Denmark. It is a subset of Scandinavian modern furniture, the warmest and most organic iteration of modernist design. The work of the designers associated with vintage Scandinavian modern furniture was founded on centuries-old beliefs in both quality craftsmanship and the ideal that beauty should enhance even the humblest accessories of daily life. Some notable Danish modern designers include Hans J. Wegner, Kaare Klint, Arne Jacobsen, Finn Juhl, Arne Vodder and Verner Panton. Shop a range of Danish modern furniture on 1stDibs.
- 1stDibs ExpertOctober 7, 2024The difference between modern furniture and old furniture is in the specificity of the term. Generally, pieces considered modern date from between the end of World War II in 1945 and the end of the 1970s. During this period, more furniture makers mass produced pieces, and designers increasingly used new materials, such as plywood and plastic. Old furniture is not a specific term. People frequently use the term old for anything that subjectively appears aged. Explore a large selection of modern furniture on 1stDibs.
- 1stDibs ExpertMay 22, 2019
Mid-century modernism first appeared in 1945 and merged a minimalist aesthetic with practicality. Mid-century modern furniture is distinguishable by its lack of decoration or extravagance and its use of clean lines, organic curves and variety of natural materials.
1stDibs ExpertFebruary 22, 2021Mid century modern furniture refers to pieces designed during the middle of the 20th century — specifically 1930s through the mid-1960s. This period represents a design and architecture movement characterized by simple shapes, clean lines, and organic materials. Some of the most famous mid century modern designers include Ray Eames, Charlotte Perriand, Isamu Noguchi and Eero Saarinen. - 1stDibs ExpertSeptember 25, 2019
Mid-century modern furniture combines sleek lines with organic shapes.
- 1stDibs ExpertFebruary 13, 2024Mid-century modern furniture is so popular largely because its characteristics align well with the trends and tastes that are dominant today. Many people love its simple look defined by clean lines, and the use of natural materials also adds to its popularity. In addition, designers created mid-century modern furniture to be as functional as it is visually appealing, making pieces executed in the style simple, convenient and comfortable to use. Find a wide range of mid-century modern furniture on 1stDibs.
- 1stDibs ExpertApril 22, 2024There is not a single year that is mid-century modern. The style emerged during the 1940s and 1950s and remained dominant through the 1960s and into the early 1970s. Some notable designers who contributed to the development of the mid-century modern style include Charles and Ray Eames, Eero Saarinen, Milo Baughman, Florence Knoll, Harry Bertoia, Isamu Noguchi and George Nelson. Shop a wide range of mid-century modern furniture on 1stDibs.
- 1stDibs ExpertSeptember 25, 2019
Some of the most famous mid-century modern furniture designers were Alvar Aalto, Charles and Ray Eames, Paul Evans, Poul Kjærholm, Florence Knoll, George Nakashima, Giò Ponti, Hans Wegner, Charlotte Perriand, Sergio Rodrigues and Eero Saarinen.
- 1stDibs ExpertMarch 22, 2022Marcel Breuer introduced the material of tubular steel to modern furniture design. He employed it in many of his chairs, tables and sofas, prizing the material because it minimized the weight of pieces without sacrificing their strength. Shop a range of Marcel Breuer furniture on 1stDibs.
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