Antique Louis XV Style Cherry Wood Dressing Table Marquetry Inlaid Top
Located in Bridgeport, CT
A diminutive Antique French dressing table with decorative and contrasting inlaid top. The Hinged flip top Louis XV style lady's dressing table or poudreuse, with the top opening to ...
Brass
19th Century French hairdresser wash basin
Located in Delft, NL
19th Century French hairdresser wash basin A French hairdresser wash basin by Pelleray, Paris-Bruxelles standing on an adjustable cast iron base with a copper sink. The sink has a ...
Brass, Iron
Neoclassical Mahogany & Marble Dressing Table, France, 1800s
Located in Baton Rouge, LA
A distinct and stately Neoclassical gentleman’s dressing table from France, perhaps inspired by the influential English aesthete Beau Brummell whose high standards for personal appea...
Marble, Brass
Italian Mid-Century Dressing Table, Silvio Cavatorta
Located in New York, NY
An elegant Italian Mid-Century dressing table by Silvio Cavatorta (1899-1957), crafted in the 1950s. The table features an adjustable round mirror on the left side and four drawers w...
Brass
Mid 20th Century Maison Jansen Ebonized French Writing Desk With Mirror
Located in Elkton, MD
Maison Jansen ebonized writing desk of French origin from the mid-20th century. The composition features a central mirror above the writing surface framed by symmetrical drawer eleme...
Brass
Midcentury Mirrored Dressing Table in Sycamore and Walnut, France, circa 1950
Located in London, GB
Midcentury mirrored dressing table in sycamore and walnut, France, circa 1950. The vanity table has a large trifold mirror. Two central drawers flanked by a cupboard on either side, ...
Brass
19thC French Boulle Work / Dressing Table
Located in Staffordshire, GB
Circa 1850 19thC French boulle work / dressing table Serpentine shaped top with a central inlaid chariot and scroll surround opening to reveal an interior with a mirror and sli...
Brass
Jacques Adnet, Sewing box in Lacquered Metal and Leather, France 1950
By Jacques Adnet
Located in Catonvielle, FR
Jacques Adnet (1900-1984), rare sewing box in topstitched fawn leather, structure in black lacquered metal and gilded brass, Compagnie des Arts Français, 1950. The work box is fixed ...
Metal, Brass
$3,579Sale Price|20% Off
Lacquered Wood Console Table with Glass Top and Mirror
By Ico Parisi
Located in Madrid, ES
Console / vanity table with a glass top, wooden drawer compartment and a mirror. Scissor-legged structure made of lacquered hardwood with brass clips. Back platform upholstered in le...
Brass
Regency Gilt-Metal-Mounted Tulipwood and Inlaid Porcelain Worktable
Located in Tarry Town, NY
Add a touch of timeless elegance to your home with this exquisite Antique French Regency gilt-metal-mounted tulipwood side table, a masterful example of 19th-century French craftsman...
Brass
19th c Dutch Marquetry Inlaid Side or Dressing Table in Mahogany and Fruitwood
Located in Milford, NH
A finely made Dutch marquetry two drawer dressing table in mahogany and fruitwood with foliate and scroll inlay on hinged top, opening up to three foliate inlaid paterae, continued o...
Brass
Toilet or entryway console table of Italian manufacture, 1940s-50s
Located in SAN PIETRO MOSEZZO, NO
Elegant and refined dressing table or entryway console, of Italian manufacture, dating from the 1940s or 1950s. The design of this furniture a style that combines elements of Art D...
Brass
$3,443Sale Price|25% Off
English Victorian Mahogany Dressing Table - Black Marble Top and Mercury Mirror
Located in Firenze, IT
A finely crafted English Victorian dressing table in richly figured mahogany, dating from the 19th century, notable for its restrained scale and exceptional attention to detail. Rai...
Brass, Bronze
$1,936Sale Price|50% Off
Beresford & Hicks Tola Wood Four Drawer Kneehole Ebonised Dressing Table
By Beresford & Hicks
Located in Reading, Berkshire
Beresford & Hicks Tola Wood Four Drawer Kneehole Dressing Table. With Ebonised Legs & A Swing Framed Tryptic Mirror For There Berwick Furniture Range Made in Hoxton, Londo...
Brass
$1,596Sale Price|20% Off
Antique Carved Victorian Marble Top Wash Stand
Located in Swedesboro, NJ
Dimensions- H: 57 1/2in W: 24 1/2in D: 18in. This Antique Carved Victorian Marble Top Wash Stand Vanity is really unique and made of the highest quality woods and marble! If you tak...
Marble, Brass
$7,324 / item
Contemporary Gralto Dressing Table With Wood Top
Located in Freamunde, PT
Gralto dressing table features a sleek, rounded design with two distinctive legs—one in brushed brass and the other in light wood. This combination of materials creates a balanced lo...
Marble, Brass, Stainless Steel
Gilbert Rohde Mid-Century Dressing Table, Paldao Wood, 1950s Design
By Gilbert Rohde
Located in Queens, NY
Mid-Century American dressing table featuring 4 hinged compartments on the frame's top which is conjoined with a book-matched paldao wood column of 3 oval drawers with circular pulls...
Brass
Early 19th Century English Mahogany Leather Top Dressing Table or Lowboy
Located in Milford, NH
A nice example of an English mahogany dressing table, lowboy or server - with tooled leather top with gilt border decoration surmounting a case with single frieze drawer over two fit...
Brass
Émile Gallé Art Nouveau Lift Top Dressing Table with Floral Inlay
By Émile Gallé
Located in Queens, NY
French Art Nouveau occasional / dressing table with an elaborate inlaid floral and pastoral design that lifts on two brass hinges to reveal an interior mirror and inlaid floral desig...
Metal, Brass
$7,324 / item
Contemporary Gralto Dressing Table With Marble Top
Located in Freamunde, PT
Gralto dressing table features a sleek, rounded design with two distinctive legs—one in brushed brass and the other in black wood. This combination of materials creates a balanced lo...
Marble, Brass, Stainless Steel
Velara Dressing Table With Textured Drawers And Marble Top
Located in Freamunde, PT
This lacquered dressing table combines elegance and practicality with its 3D-relief drawers that add texture and character. The brushed brass handles and accents bring a touch of lux...
Marble, Brass, Stainless Steel
$1,967Sale Price / set|60% Off
Umberto Mascagni console table in genuine leather and brass 1950s 20th century
By Umberto Mascagni
Located in Palermo, IT
Dressing table/console with mirror by Umberto Mascagni, 1950s. Wooden frame and mirror with brass profile. Good conservative condition, there is no aesthetic or structural defect to ...
Metal, Brass
Important Beau Brummell Regency Period Flame Mahogany Gentleman's Dressing Table
Located in Forney, TX
A rare and spectacular George III period (1760-1820) Beau Brummell gentleman's dressing table. There is no mistaking this remarkably distinctive table's complex design and superb qu...
Brass
French Empire Mahogany Dressing Table with Mirror, Circa 1820, France
Located in Baton Rouge, LA
This exceptional French 19th century Empire mahogany dressing table is complete with its original mercury glass mirror and charcoal and white marble top. The arched mirror displays s...
Brass, Metal
Attributed to Eugène Printz, Mirrored Dressing Table and Stool, France, c. 1938
By Eugene Printz
Located in New York, NY
Attributed to the Art Deco master designer Eugène Printz, this spare, curving, lozenge-shaped mirror-topped vanity stands on slender, tapering legs. A single box drawer sits, unusual...
Brass
Vintage, new and antique vanity tables have forever felt like personal, intimate sanctuaries of sorts, designed to introduce a level of serenity that feels rare and welcome in our otherwise frenetic days. They’ve been variously known as dressing tables or makeup tables over the years, but no matter what we call them — and whether it's a sophisticated contemporary piece or an iconic vintage Luigi Massoni vanity — vanities have offered a special place for us to get ready for work, an early-morning appointment or lunch date or whatever lies ahead.
“Beauty routines, taking the time to protect what you have, a moment to accessorize, a moment to pause and slow down — these are all so important now as an antidote to our fast and hectic lives,” says Oona Bannon, creative director of Pinch Design in Clapham, South London. “Just thinking about a dressing table makes me feel calm.”
When decorative boxes would no longer suffice as repositories for cosmetics, fragrant oils and perfumes, dressing tables originated in France and England during the 17th century. Men who called the latter home used “shaving tables” — a proto-dressing table — for their grooming routines while women found in dressing tables an oasis for applying makeup, particularly as improvements upon vanity tables equipped them with mirrors and lighting. In the United States, as vanity tables became a seamless component of bedroom furniture, furniture makers working in Chippendale, Rococo and other styles were regularly commissioned to produce these popular items.
Vanity tables have evolved over the years, and while there is lots to love about the ornate carving and pronounced curvilinear forms of Victorian vanities, the clean lines that characterize mid-century modern vanities and the decorative flourishes associated with Art Deco vanities, the main elements of this furnishing are the same. All vanities are about as tall as a standard table with room for seating furniture, which tends to be a small bench, a stool or an armless chair. Many also have special organization features for makeup. Without a chair and a mirror, a vanity would resemble a dresser.
Nowadays, vanities are more than a place to do hair and makeup. They’re a platform to display beauty products and store makeup collections. Vanities are standard in bedrooms, particularly if you’re not lucky enough to have a spacious dressing room or walk-in closet for your dressing table. The better the lighting is in your bedroom or wherever you’ve positioned your vanity table — even if you’ve opted for a moody setting versus a bright one — the more you will benefit from having this personal place of respite to prepare for the day ahead.
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