Chalkstone Top on Steel Base
By Brendan Bass
Located in Dallas, TX
A stunning, modern and creative piece of furniture, this circular tabletop is crafted from chalkstone, a natural material with unique and organic detailing. Set atop an ebonized stee...
Stone, Steel
Chalkstone Top on Steel Base
By Brendan Bass
Located in Dallas, TX
A stunning, modern and creative piece of furniture, this circular tabletop is crafted from chalkstone, a natural material with unique and organic detailing. Set atop an ebonized stee...
Stone, Steel
American Round Mid-Century Modern Turned Bleach Oak Wood & Glass Coffee Table
By Chelsea House, Thomasville
Located in Miami, FL
Mid-Century Modern American bleached oak coffee table with round 1/2-inch glass top.
Glass, Oak
Rare Vintage Side/Coffee Table by Design Institute of America
Located in Chicago, IL
Please be aware that the shipping amount shown is only an estimate — the final cost will depend on the buyer's location and the size of the item. Before placing any order, we encoura...
Nickel
Large Modern Coffee Parsons Style Table in Rustic Oak with Grey Stain
By Alabama Sawyer
Located in Birmingham, AL
This large modern coffee parsons style table in rustic oak with grey stain was crafted to modern lines with traditional joinery. The extra large size, 48 x 48, can work in a mountain...
Oak
Chrome Brass Smoked Glass Side End Coffee Table Stand
By Design Institute America, Romeo Rega
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Mid-Century Modern chrome brass smoked glass end side table.
Brass, Chrome
Light Walnut Oversize 32" Wide Two Drawers Dowel Leg Step End Coffee Table MINT!
By Drexel, American of Martinsville
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Light Walnut Oversize 32" Wide Two Drawers Dowel Leg Step End Coffee Table MINT!
Leather, Walnut
T.H. Robsjohn Gibbings American Art Moderne Sycamore Pedestal Coffee Table
By T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings
Located in Queens, NY
American Art Moderne rectangular sycamore high coffee table with carved triple column pedestal base and eight mirrored panels on top. (attributed to: T.H. ROBSJOHN GIBBINGS)
Sycamore, Mirror
American postmodern rectangular wooden coffee table by AQQ, 1990s
By AQQ Design
Located in MIlano, IT
American postmodern rectangular wooden coffee table by AQQ, 1990s Coffee table with rectangular wooden top. It has a shelf in the central part of the structure. The two legs, of the ...
Wood
Modern Walnut Wood Bedside or Coffee Table Beach Ave by Alabama Sawyer
By Alabama Sawyer
Located in Birmingham, AL
Introducing the Beach Avenue, a modern side table. This small table with modern lines is made of solid wood, hand selected from our stock of urban timber. It is versatile and attract...
Wood, Walnut
Modern White Oak Wood Bedside or Coffee Table Beach Ave by Alabama Sawyer
By Alabama Sawyer
Located in Birmingham, AL
Introducing the Beach Avenue, a modern side table. This small table with modern lines is made of solid wood, hand selected from our stock of urban timber. It is versatile and attract...
Wood, Oak
$6,240Sale Price / item|20% Off
Joint Coffee Table from Cadenza, CIRCLE, Aluminum, Made to order
By Kai Ming Yang Studio
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Joint Table draws from traditional wood joinery, reinterpreted through modular bent aluminum sheets. The structure is assembled through simple stacking and interlocking, with each el...
Stainless Steel
Joint Coffee Table from Cadenza, CIRCLE, Matte Black, Made to order
By Kai Ming Yang Studio
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Joint Table draws from traditional wood joinery, reinterpreted through modular bent aluminum sheets. The structure is assembled through simple stacking and interlocking, with each el...
Stainless Steel
$10,527Sale Price|40% Off
1965 Alexander Girard for Braniff Airlines & Herman Miller Glass Coffee Table
By Alexander Girard
Located in Seattle, WA
Alongside his contemporaries Charles and Ray Eames and George Nelson, Alexander Girard was a prominent figure in postwar US design. In a departure from the rather austere Modernist a...
Aluminum
$10,398Sale Price|60% Off
1965 Alexander Girard for Braniff Airlines & Herman Miller Marble Coffee Table
By Alexander Girard
Located in Seattle, WA
Alongside his contemporaries Charles and Ray Eames and George Nelson, Alexander Girard was a prominent figure in postwar US design. In a departure from the rather austere Modernist a...
Aluminum
Mid-Century Walnut Klismos Leg Coffee Table by T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings
By Widdicomb Furniture Co., T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings
Located in Dallas, TX
Mid-Century Modern walnut klismos leg coffee table or cocktail table designed by T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings for Widdicomb furniture. Elegant and graceful square top with a two-tier desig...
Wood
American Studio Craft Coffee Table or Bench Mid Century Modern
Located in Atlanta, GA
Unique American Studio Craft Coffee Table or Bench, artist unknown, unsigned, American, circa 1960s. Interesting joinery. It is a versatile size and can be used as a coffee table or ...
Wood
$1,519Sale Price|47% Off
DIA Slat Chrome Bench Coffee table style of Milo Baughman
By Design Institute America
Located in Pasadena, TX
Design Institute of America Chrome Slat Bench Designed in the 1970s, this slatted chrome bench is simple and classic.
Chrome
Halston American Luxury Fashion Icon Collectable Coffee Table Book
Located in New York, NY
A great fashion book to add to a collection or to start one, for a library, office, etc. Also great as a coffee table book. Foreword, by Dorothy Twining Globus: "Roy Halston Frowic...
Paper
$1,725Sale Price|50% Off
Mid Century American Studio Craft Solid Black Walnut 4' Bench or Coffee Table
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Mid century American Studio craft solid black walnut 4' bench or coffee table circa 1950. Beautiful simple design solid walnut tapered legs. Dowel rod joints and flat head screws. Ve...
Walnut
Mid-Century Modern Slat Oak Bench / Coffee Table with Tapered Legs and Cushion
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Classic Mid-Century American Modern slatted oak bench or coffee table supported by four, slim, tapered legs (ca. 1950s, USA).
Oak
Swivel Mushroom Top Post Modern Style Ottoman Pouf in Ivory White Bouclé
Located in Saint Louis, MO
Photographed along with and currently available in our shop: Vladimir Kagan Post Modern Marilyn Sofa in Ivory White Bouclé Kaizo Oto for Design Institute of America Geometric Post Mo...
Bouclé, Upholstery
Mushroom Swivel Top Post Modern Style Ottoman Pouf in Ivory White Bouclé
Located in Saint Louis, MO
Photographed along with and currently available in our shop: Vladimir Kagan Post Modern Marilyn Sofa in Ivory White Bouclé Kaizo Oto for Design Institute of America Geometric Post Mo...
Bouclé, Upholstery
Brutalist Coffee Table by Paul Evans, Patinated Metal & Slate, 1970s
By Paul Evans
Located in Queens, NY
Brutalist American Modern 1970s patinated patchwork metal coffee table with riveted copper, brass, and pewter sheeting with slate top (attr: Paul Evans for Directional )
Slate, Copper, Pewter
American Studio Silas Seandel Style Modernist Metal, Wood and Glass Coffee Table
By Silas Seandel
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
Very cool and unique hand made coffee table in the style of Silas Seandel. This high quality table has thick twisted metal stretchers attached to 3 sculpted wooden legs. The top is 3...
Metal
Beech and Maple Round Coffee Table by MSJ Furniture Studio
Located in Vancouver, BC
Our comet coffee table has a whitewashed beech tabletop and solid maple base. The base has been carefully turned in our studio and hand waxed to insure a natural tone. This piece is ...
Beech, Maple
As a practical focal point in your living area, antique and vintage coffee tables and cocktail tables are an invaluable addition to any interior.
Low tables that were initially used as tea tables or coffee tables have been around since at least the mid- to late-1800s. Early coffee tables surfaced in Victorian-era England, likely influenced by the use of tea tables in Japanese tea gardens. In the United States, furniture makers worked to introduce low, long tables into their offerings as the popularity of coffee and “coffee breaks” took hold during the late 19th century and early 20th century.
It didn’t take long for coffee tables and cocktail tables to become a design staple and for consumers to recognize their role in entertaining no matter what beverages were being served. Originally, these tables were as simple as they are practical — as high as your sofa and made primarily of wood. In recent years, however, metal, glass and plastics have become popular in coffee tables and cocktail tables, and design hasn’t been restricted to the conventional low profile, either.
Visionary craftspeople such as Paul Evans introduced bold, geometric designs that challenge the traditional idea of what a coffee table can be. The elongated rectangles and wide boxy forms of Evans’s desirable Cityscape coffee table, for example, will meet your needs but undoubtedly prove imposing in your living space.
If you’re shopping for an older coffee table to bring into your home — be it an antique Georgian-style coffee table made of mahogany or walnut with decorative inlays or a classic square mid-century modern piece comprised of rosewood designed by the likes of Ettore Sottsass — there are a few things you should keep in mind.
Both the table itself and what you put on it should align with the overall design of the room, not just by what you think looks fashionable in isolation. According to interior designer Tamara Eaton, the material of your vintage coffee table is something you need to consider. “With a glass coffee table, you also have to think about the surface underneath, like the rug or floor,” she says. “With wood and stone tables, you think about what’s on top.”
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