Modern Center Tables
The late 19th and early 20th centuries saw sweeping social change and major scientific advances — both of which contributed to a new aesthetic: modernism. Rejecting the rigidity of Victorian artistic conventions, modernists sought a new means of expression. References to the natural world and ornate classical embellishments gave way to the sleek simplicity of the Machine Age. Architect Philip Johnson characterized the hallmarks of modernism as “machine-like simplicity, smoothness or surface [and] avoidance of ornament.”
Early practitioners of modernist design include the De Stijl (“The Style”) group, founded in the Netherlands in 1917, and the Bauhaus School, founded two years later in Germany.
Followers of both groups produced sleek, spare designs — many of which became icons of daily life in the 20th century. The modernists rejected both natural and historical references and relied primarily on industrial materials such as metal, glass, plywood, and, later, plastics. While Bauhaus principals Marcel Breuer and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe created furniture from mass-produced, chrome-plated steel, American visionaries like Charles and Ray Eames worked in materials as novel as molded plywood and fiberglass. Today, Breuer’s Wassily chair, Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona chair — crafted with his romantic partner, designer Lilly Reich — and the Eames lounge chair are emblems of progressive design and vintage originals are prized cornerstones of collections.
It’s difficult to overstate the influence that modernism continues to wield over designers and architects — and equally difficult to overstate how revolutionary it was when it first appeared a century ago. But because modernist furniture designs are so simple, they can blend in seamlessly with just about any type of décor. Don’t overlook them.
2010s Czech Modern Center Tables
Steel
2010s Czech Modern Center Tables
Steel
2010s Canadian Modern Center Tables
Walnut, Maple
2010s Czech Modern Center Tables
Steel
2010s Czech Modern Center Tables
Steel
2010s Belgian Modern Center Tables
Brass
2010s Czech Modern Center Tables
Wood, Cherry
2010s Czech Modern Center Tables
Wood
2010s Italian Modern Center Tables
Fiberglass
2010s Italian Modern Center Tables
Fiberglass
2010s Czech Modern Center Tables
Steel
2010s Czech Modern Center Tables
Steel
2010s Czech Modern Center Tables
Wood
2010s Czech Modern Center Tables
Wood
2010s Czech Modern Center Tables
Steel
1970s French Vintage Modern Center Tables
Steel
2010s Italian Modern Center Tables
Fiberglass
2010s Italian Modern Center Tables
Fiberglass
2010s Italian Modern Center Tables
Fiberglass
2010s Italian Modern Center Tables
Fiberglass
2010s Italian Modern Center Tables
Other
2010s Italian Modern Center Tables
Fiberglass
2010s German Modern Center Tables
Metal
2010s Italian Modern Center Tables
Fiberglass
2010s Italian Modern Center Tables
Fiberglass
2010s Italian Modern Center Tables
Metal
2010s Italian Modern Center Tables
Fiberglass
2010s Italian Modern Center Tables
Fiberglass
2010s Portuguese Modern Center Tables
Marble
2010s Italian Modern Center Tables
Marble
2010s Italian Modern Center Tables
Stone
Mid-20th Century Italian Modern Center Tables
Glass, Lucite
2010s Canadian Modern Center Tables
Maple, Oak
20th Century Italian Modern Center Tables
Onyx
2010s French Modern Center Tables
Glass
2010s American Modern Center Tables
Hardwood, Oak
2010s English Modern Center Tables
Glass
2010s Spanish Modern Center Tables
Brass, Cut Steel
2010s Italian Modern Center Tables
Steel, Iron
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Center Tables
Marble, Limestone
2010s Italian Modern Center Tables
Steel, Iron
2010s Italian Modern Center Tables
Bronze
2010s American Modern Center Tables
Hardwood, Walnut
2010s Spanish Modern Center Tables
Brass, Cut Steel
2010s Italian Modern Center Tables
Steel, Iron
2010s Italian Modern Center Tables
Steel, Iron
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Center Tables
Marble, Limestone
2010s Mexican Modern Center Tables
Wood, Oak, Walnut
2010s Spanish Modern Center Tables
Marble
21st Century and Contemporary Brazilian Modern Center Tables
Steel
2010s Italian Modern Center Tables
Metal
21st Century and Contemporary Indian Modern Center Tables
Metal, Brass, Gold Leaf
2010s Mexican Modern Center Tables
Wood, Oak, Walnut
2010s Mexican Modern Center Tables
Wood, Oak, Walnut
2010s Mexican Modern Center Tables
Wood, Oak, Walnut
2010s Danish Modern Center Tables
Steel
2010s Egyptian Modern Center Tables
Oak
2010s Spanish Modern Center Tables
Glass, Fiberglass, Wood