$2,680Sale Price|29% Off
Small Walnut Occasional Table, French, Early 20th Century
Located in Lisbon, PT
An antique walnut coffee center table with exceptionally small proportions (21.65" in height), featuring a rich varnish finish and refined carved detailing. This walnut center tabl...
Walnut
Small Walnut Black Lacquer Occasional Table, French, Early 20th Century
Located in Lisbon, PT
An antique walnut Black Lacquer coffee center table with exceptionally small proportions (21.65" in height), featuring a rich varnish finish and refined carved detailing. This waln...
Walnut
English Faux Bamboo Low Table with Recent Paint & Decoupage
Located in Baton Rouge, LA
English, late 19th century faux bamboo coffee or end table that has been recently updated with new paint of ebonized effect and pasted decoupage of seashells. The density of shell il...
Wood, Paint, Paper
Early 20th Century burr walnut occasional table
Located in Debenham, Suffolk
Early 20th century burr walnut occasional table circa 1900. We are pleased to offer this elegant low occasional table. Circular top featuring matched burr walnut veneers which real...
Walnut
George Jones Majolica Faux Bois Drinks Table or Garden Seat, England Circa 1878
By George Jones & Sons
Located in Darien, CT
A rare and highly sculptural George Jones majolica faux bois garden seat or drinks table, modeled as entwined tree trunks with climbing vines, rope-twist detail and the distinctive m...
Ceramic
$915Sale Price|30% Off
1 of 10 Antique Hand Painted French Pine Vendange Wine Tasting Tables Lovely
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
We are delighted to offer for sale 1 of 10 stunning hand made in France vendange wine tasting tables with removable legs. This sale is for one table, the other nine will be listed...
Pine
Late 19th Century English Labeled Papier Mache Tray on Later Stand
Located in Hudson, NY
This very nice old papier-mache tray produced approx 1885 comes from England while the stand is a modern addition creating a useful and attractive small coffee table. The base is mad...
Other
English Mahogany Bagatelle Box on Custom Stand
Located in Woodbury, CT
"Bagatelle" is defined as something of little value or importance; a trifle. It is no coincidence that a tabletop game involving a cue, ivory balls and numbered slots into which one ...
Mahogany
$766Sale Price|30% Off
Antique Victorian Decorated Black Lacquer Tray on Stand Coffee Table
Located in Wisbech, England
Dates from circa 1880. Would make a great coffee table. Solid, no loose joints. A great quality tray.
Lacquer
$1,575Sale Price|20% Off
Antique Occasional Table, Victorian, Chinese Elm, Octagonal, Coffee, Moorish
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is an antique occasional table. An English, Chinese elm octagonal coffee or lamp table in strong Moorish taste and dating to the mid-19th century, circa 1850. Burnt red hues ...
Elm
Victorian Nest of Four Oriental Hardwood Coffee Tables, Circa 1870
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
A Very Good Quality Mid 19th Century Nest of Four Oriental Hardwood Coffee Tables, Having Well Figured Panelled Tops, Retaining Good Rich Colour Throughout, Over Attractive Carved An...
Hardwood
$4,128Sale Price|20% Off
EXQUISITE ANTIQUE ViCTORIAN FLAMED HARDWOOD GUN CASE WITH STAND COFFEE TABLE
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this very rare highly collectable Flamed Mahogany Military Campaign gun case with stand formed as a coffee t...
Hardwood
Victorian Tilt-Top Brown Leather Coffee Table Carved Tripod Base Lion Castors
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely mahogany occasional table, with round table top and faded tan leather, inset with a gold-tooled edge, on a turned column with reeded le...
Leather, Hardwood
$3,044Sale Price|25% Off
SUBLIME ANTiQUE 19TH CENTURY SPECIMEN GEOMETRIC SAMPLE WOOD INLAID COFFEE TABLE
By Gillows of Lancaster & London
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this absolutely glorious, fully restored, antique circa 1880 hand made in England, Sample wood coffee table with Geometric inlaid ...
Wood
19th Century Mahogany Quartetto Nest Of Four Coffee Tables
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
A Very Good Quality Late 19th Century Mahogany Quartetto Nest Of Four Coffee Tables, Having Well Figured Rectangular Tops With Satinwood Banded Decoration And Cockbeaded Mouldings, R...
American Mahogany
Oriental Hardwood Nest Of Four Coffee Tables, Chinese Export, Circa 1870
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
A Very Good Quality Mid 19th Century Nest of Four Oriental Hardwood Coffee Tables, Having Well Figured Panelled Tops, Retaining Good Rich Colour Throughout, Over Attractive Carved An...
Hardwood
$1,588Sale Price|25% Off
English Cast Iron and Wooden Table
Located in Milano, IT
Rare vintage Victorian cast iron coffee table made in the late 1800s, fine English craftsmanship.
Cast Stone
Antique Victorian Pine Military Campaign Blanket Box Chest Trunk Coffee Table
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
We are delighted to offer for sale this extremely well made, antique Victorian circa 1860-1880 pine blanket chest which can be used as a coffee table A very good looking well made...
Pine
$3,624Sale Price|20% Off
Antique Celebration Chest, Indian, Teak, Brass, Trunk, Coffee Table, Victorian
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
An Indian, teak and brass trunk, ideal as an occasional coffee table, dating to the late Victorian period, circa 1900.
Brass
ANTIQUE ViCTORIAN LEATHER ELM & CANVAS STEAMER TRUNK CHEST COFFEE TABLE MUST SEE
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
We are delighted to offer for sale this original circa 1880 English Elm strapped with Wrought Iron rivets, leather handled, canvas steamer trunk This is a very well made example ...
Leather, Canvas, Elm
$1,599Sale Price|20% Off
Antique Carpenter's Chest, English, Pine, Tool Trunk, Coffee Table, Victorian
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
Can be used as a distinctive coffee table in the lounge. Solid joints and construction, delivered waxed, polished and ready for the home.
Pine
$1,592Sale Price|20% Off
Antique Workman's Chest, English, Pine Tool Chest, Coffee Table, Victorian, 1880
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
An English, pine tool chest or coffee table, dating to the Victorian period and later, circa 1880.
Pine
19th Century Pine Filing Cabinet Drawers, Coffee Table
Located in Godshill, Isle of Wight
19th Century Pine Filing Cabinet Drawers, Coffee Table This attractive Pine Filing Cabinet has 6 drawers, 4 of these have dividers inside, they can be used as a side table or coffe...
Pine
Stripped Pine Blanket Box, Coffee Table or ToyBox
Located in Godshill, Isle of Wight
Stripped Pine Blanket Box, Coffee Table or ToyBox Victorian Pine Blanket Box or Coffee Table, this piece has many uses This is a good quality pine box it has been fully restored, i...
Pine
English Victorian Period 19th Century Black Traveling Trunk With Initials J.G.F.
Located in Atlanta, GA
Whether utilized for practical storage or as a unique coffee table, this Victorian traveling trunk is sure to spark conversations and admiration.
Leather, Canvas
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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