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 The modernists rejected both natural and historical references and relied primarily on industrial materials such as metal, glass, plywood, and, later, plastics.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 Italian Modern Center Tables
Stone, Marble, Bronze
2010s Spanish Modern Center Tables
Glass, Fiberglass, Wood
2010s American Modern Center Tables
Hardwood, Oak
2010s Balkan Modern Center Tables
Marble
2010s Danish Modern Center Tables
Steel
1960s French Vintage Modern Center Tables
Steel
Late 20th Century Italian Modern Center Tables
Metal, Brass, Chrome
2010s Turkish Modern Center Tables
Marble, Brass
2010s Spanish Modern Center Tables
Brass
1980s French Vintage Modern Center Tables
Bronze
Late 20th Century French Modern Center Tables
Wrought Iron
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Center Tables
Brass
2010s Canadian Modern Center Tables
Maple, Walnut
2010s French Modern Center Tables
Other
2010s German Modern Center Tables
Stainless Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Center Tables
Marble
21st Century and Contemporary Indian Modern Center Tables
Glass, Art Glass
2010s German Modern Center Tables
Glass
2010s German Modern Center Tables
Stainless Steel
2010s Italian Modern Center Tables
Ceramic, Wood, Plywood
2010s Spanish Modern Center Tables
Glass, Fiberglass, Wood
2010s German Modern Center Tables
Glass
2010s German Modern Center Tables
Stainless Steel
2010s German Modern Center Tables
Glass
2010s Lebanese Modern Center Tables
Concrete
2010s Danish Modern Center Tables
Marble, Steel
1970s French Vintage Modern Center Tables
Slate
2010s German Modern Center Tables
Glass
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Center Tables
Wood, Ash, Maple, Walnut
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Center Tables
Wood, Oak
2010s Spanish Modern Center Tables
Brass
2010s American Modern Center Tables
Metal
2010s German Modern Center Tables
Glass
2010s German Modern Center Tables
Glass
2010s English Modern Center Tables
Oak, Resin
2010s German Modern Center Tables
Glass
2010s German Modern Center Tables
Glass
2010s German Modern Center Tables
Glass
21st Century and Contemporary French Modern Center Tables
Iron
2010s German Modern Center Tables
Glass
1970s Italian Vintage Modern Center Tables
Concrete, Steel, Chrome
2010s German Modern Center Tables
Glass
2010s German Modern Center Tables
Glass
2010s German Modern Center Tables
Glass
2010s German Modern Center Tables
Glass
21st Century and Contemporary European Modern Center Tables
Marble, Brass
2010s German Modern Center Tables
Glass
2010s German Modern Center Tables
Glass
2010s German Modern Center Tables
Glass
2010s German Modern Center Tables
Glass
2010s German Modern Center Tables
Glass
2010s German Modern Center Tables
Glass
2010s German Modern Center Tables
Glass
2010s German Modern Center Tables
Glass
Early 2000s Spanish Modern Center Tables
Iron, Brass
2010s German Modern Center Tables
Glass
2010s German Modern Center Tables
Stainless Steel
2010s German Modern Center Tables
Stainless Steel