Tue Poulsen Danish Modern Oak and Tile Coffee or Breakfast Table
By Tue Poulsen
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
Danish Modern Tue Poulsen for Haslev Mobelsnedkeri Coffee Table or Breaksfast Table. 1960s. Oak frame and Ceramic Tile top. 46diam 28.5height.
Ceramic, Oak
Danish Modern Oak Coffee Table / Console with Tiled Top, Frits Henningsen, 1950s
By Frits Henningsen
Located in Odense, DK
A rare and characterful sculptural coffee table in solid oak, attributed to Danish master cabinetmaker Frits Henningsen, dating from the 1940s.
Ceramic, Oak
Unique Danish coffee table with colorful tiles and lacquered black steel legs
By Johannes Aasbjerg
Located in DK
This large colourful coffee table was designed by Johannes Aasbjerg Andersen (1921-2006) in the 1950s. Executed by Aasbjerg & Ørtoft by special commission in 1965. The table has ...
Steel
$653Sale Price|20% Off
1970s Danish Modern Coffee Table in Solid Teak with Inset Slate Tile Top
Located in Praha, CZ
An authentic mid-century coffee table manufactured in Denmark during the 1970s. This piece is a sophisticated example of Scandinavian craft, featuring a meticulously constructed soli...
Ceramic, Teak, Wood
18th Century Tile Top Side or Coffee Table with Later Wrought Iron Base
Located in Hopewell, NJ
Antique wrought iron table with beautiful 18th century tile top made from 6 large delft tiles. Lovely sculpted wrought iron base, stunning blue green and yellow colors, very nice ant...
Wrought Iron
$3,117Sale Price|20% Off
Bamboo Coffee Table with Ceramic Tiles designed by Audoux Minnet, France, 1950s
By Adrien Audoux and Frida Minnet, Roger Capron
Located in Antwerp, BE
Fantastic Boho rectangular coffee table in natural bamboo, designed by Adrien Audoux and Frida Minnet and Roger Capron designed the glazed tiles, mid-20th-century French design.
Ceramic, Bamboo
Moroccan Fez Mosaic Tile Coffee Table in Black and White
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
Moroccan mosaic Fez tiles side table on iron base. Handmade by expert artisans in Fez, Morocco using reclaimed old glazed black and white colors tiles inlaid in concrete and making b...
Iron
$1,365Sale Price|20% Off
Retro Vintage Juliette Belarti Ceramic Tile Wall Art, Belgian Mid-Century, 1960s
Located in Markington, GB
Juliette Belarti Ceramic Tile Wall Art, Belgian Mid-Century, 1960s BOLD CERAMIC DESIGN — A striking piece of mid-century wall art by Juliette Belarti, celebrated for vibrant ceram...
Ceramic
$609Sale Price|47% Off
French Coffee Table with Ceramics Signed Jean d'Asti Vallauris, 1960
Located in Labrit, Landes
Coffee table modern yet vintage ceramic top tiled coffee table signed Jean d'Asti and made in Vallauris.
Faience, Wood
Tiled Coffee Table, Glazed Ceramic Tile Top, Metal Base, France, 1960s
Located in New York, NY
An elegant rectangular coffee table with a pared down dark metal frame and a tiled top arranged in a Mondrianesque pattern of black, red, and white rhombuses.
Ceramic
Jacques Blin, Rectangular Tiled Coffee Table, Oak and Ceramic, France circa 1970
By Jacques Blin
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful oak and ceramic coffee table by famed French ceramist Jacques Blin, this piece features his beautiful, stripped down design aesthetic and his characteristic cave painting...
Ceramic, Oak
Roger Capron, Rectangular Tile-top Coffee Table, France, 20th century
By Roger Capron
Located in New York, NY
Roger Capron, the celebrated French mid-century ceramist, created a large body of work notable for its elegance, varied sources of inspiration, and expert execution. This beautifully...
Ceramic, Wood
Roger Capron, "L'Herbier, " Coffee Table with Tiled Top, France, Midcentury
By Roger Capron
Located in New York, NY
A coffee table with a simple, elegant, iron base, and a top of rectangular tiles punctuated by beautifully inscribed images of grasses. Inscribed: R. Capron.
Iron
Roger Capron, Tile-topped Cafe Table with Tarot Motif, France, circa 1960s
By Roger Capron
Located in New York, NY
Roger Capron, the celebrated French mid-century ceramist, created a large body of work notable for its elegance, varied sources of inspiration, and expert execution. This table is on...
Wrought Iron
Roger Capron, Tile-topped Cafe Table with Tarot Motif, France, circa 1960s
By Roger Capron
Located in New York, NY
Roger Capron, the celebrated French mid-century ceramist, created a large body of work notable for its elegance, varied sources of inspiration, and expert execution. This table is on...
Wrought Iron
Roger Capron, Tile-topped Cafe Table with Tarot Motif, France, circa 1960s
By Roger Capron
Located in New York, NY
Roger Capron, the celebrated French mid-century ceramist, created a large body of work notable for its elegance, varied sources of inspiration, and expert execution. This table is on...
Wrought Iron
Roger Capron, Tile-topped Cafe Table with Tarot Motif, France, circa 1960s
By Roger Capron
Located in New York, NY
Roger Capron, the celebrated French mid-century ceramist, created a large body of work notable for its elegance, varied sources of inspiration, and expert execution. This table is on...
Wrought Iron
Roger Capron, Tile-topped Cafe Table with Tarot Motif, France, circa 1960s
By Roger Capron
Located in New York, NY
Roger Capron, the celebrated French mid-century ceramist, created a large body of work notable for its elegance, varied sources of inspiration, and expert execution. This table is on...
Wrought Iron
Roger Capron, Tile-topped Cafe Table with Tarot Motif, France, circa 1960s
By Roger Capron
Located in New York, NY
Roger Capron, the celebrated French mid-century ceramist, created a large body of work notable for its elegance, varied sources of inspiration, and expert execution. This table is on...
Wrought Iron
Roger Capron, Tile-topped Cafe Table with Tarot Motif, France, circa 1960s
By Roger Capron
Located in New York, NY
Roger Capron, the celebrated French mid-century ceramist, created a large body of work notable for its elegance, varied sources of inspiration, and expert execution. This table is on...
Wrought Iron
Roger Capron, Tile-topped Cafe Table with Tarot Motif, France, circa 1960s
By Roger Capron
Located in New York, NY
Roger Capron, the celebrated French mid-century ceramist, created a large body of work notable for its elegance, varied sources of inspiration, and expert execution. This table is on...
Wrought Iron
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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