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What are end tables used for?

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What are end tables used for?

End tables typically hold lamps, coasters and other items to keep them within easy reach from the sofa or chair they are next to.

1stDibs ExpertSeptember 25, 2019
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Instock Cocktail Side End Table Modern Round Handmade Blackened Steel
Located in Bronx, NY
Table No. 8 - stool or side table J.M. Szymanski d. 2021 A perfectly simple stool or side table. Solid 3/4” steel components are combined to make a dynamic form. Finished in black w...
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2010s American Modern Side Tables

Materials

Steel, Iron

1967 Signed Paul Evans Exceedingly Rare Side Tables or Coffee Table
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A striking pair of welded and patinated metal end tables by Paul Evans, 1967. These sculptural tables were created as separate pieces and as so are unusual, they feature Evans’ signa...
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Mid-20th Century North American Brutalist End Tables

Materials

Steel

Hexagona Tramp Art Style Inlaid Occasional Table
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Hexagonal tramp art style ? walnut, maple, rosewood and mother of pearl inlaid occasional table. With a hexagonal inlaid top with mother of pearl inlay on side edges, an inlaid apron...
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Vintage 1930s Unknown Folk Art End Tables

Materials

Mother-of-Pearl, Maple, Rosewood, Walnut

Grey Short Kreten Side Table from Souda, Made to Order
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Industrial, organic and sculptural, the Kreten side tables are concrete furniture like you haven’t seen before. Original pieces are created in Souda's Brooklyn studio by casting conc...
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2010s American Modern End Tables

Materials

Concrete, Cement

Tove & Edvard Kindt-Larsen Teak Side Table Denmark Danish Teak France & Daverkos
Located in Forest Grove, PA
Tove & Edvard Kindt-Larsen Teak Side Table by France & Daverkosen. Made in Denmark, 1960s. Graet design with the top side rail being boat shaped or convex and the lower magazine she...
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Vintage 1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern End Tables

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Teak

Italian, Veneto, Neoclassic Shaped Walnut Circular 1-Drawer Table, ca. 1830
Located in Atlanta, GA
having a circular top with a slightly raised gallery edge atop a conforming case housing one drawer, the case raised on uniquely shaped square tapering legs
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Antique 1830s Italian Neoclassical End Tables

Materials

Walnut

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