$10,294 / item
White Oak Rectangular Coffee Table
By Joel Escalona
Located in Ciudad de México, CDMX
Fishes is a series of sculptural coffee tables inspired by the famous Fish (1930) sculpture of Rumanian artist Constantin Brancusi. Brancusi's work has been widely regarded as a mast...
Wood, Hardwood, Oak
$12,830 / item
Patricia Urquiola Sengu Coffee Table For Cassina
By Patricia Urquiola
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Patricia Urquiola Sengu Coffee Table For Cassina Asian-inspired, this design coffee table by Patricia Urquiola is a domestic architecture enhanced by the layering of different mater...
Walnut
$7,205 / item
Patricia Urquiola Sengu Coffee Table For Cassina
By Patricia Urquiola
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Patricia Urquiola Sengu Coffee Table For Cassina Asian-inspired, this design coffee table by Patricia Urquiola is a domestic architecture enhanced by the layering of different mater...
Walnut
$7,266 / item
Patricia Urquiola Sengu Coffee Table For Cassina
By Patricia Urquiola
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Patricia Urquiola Sengu Coffee Table For Cassina Asian-inspired, this design coffee table by Patricia Urquiola is a domestic architecture enhanced by the layering of different mater...
Walnut
$5,194 / item
Patricia Urquiola Sengu Coffee Table For Cassina
By Patricia Urquiola
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Patricia Urquiola Sengu Coffee Table For Cassina Asian-inspired, this design coffee table by Patricia Urquiola is a domestic architecture enhanced by the layering of different mater...
Walnut
$8,279 / item
Patricia Urquiola Sengu Coffee Table For Cassina
By Patricia Urquiola
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Patricia Urquiola Sengu Coffee Table For Cassina Asian-inspired, this design coffee table by Patricia Urquiola is a domestic architecture enhanced by the layering of different mater...
Walnut
Mid-Century Coffee Round Centre Table in Turned Walnut and Veneered Walnut Top
Located in Vigonza, Padua
1930s Mid-Century Italian Large round centre table , service coffee table in turned walnut, with top in veneered walnut.
Walnut
Live Edge Elongated Organic Shape Coffee Table Bench
By George Nakashima
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Mid-Century Modern beautiful wood grain live edge organic shape coffee table.
Walnut
Edward Wormley for Dunbar Janus Coffee Table
By Edward Wormley
Located in New York, NY
Edward Wormley for Dunbar Janus coffee table. The table is walnut with a geometric shape and the centre has five, round, Tiffany Studios glass tiles.
Walnut, Glass
1950s Unusual Italian Coffee Table with Model Fish
By Paolo Buffa
Located in London, London
This table is a remarkable example of mid-century furniture design, characterized by its elegant wooden frame and the setting of model fish inside the body of the table. It features ...
Glass, Walnut
Sheath of "Wheat" Style Round Base for Round Glass Dining Conference Table
By McGuire, Ficks Reed
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Sheath of "Wheat" Style Round Base for Round Glass Dining Conference Table. Mid-Century Modern decorative table base atr. to McGuire.
Bamboo, Walnut, Reed
Gianfranco Frattini coffee table Cassina Italy 1960
By Gianfranco Frattini
Located in Roosendaal, Noord Brabant
Beautiful coffee table designed by Gianfranco Frattini and manufactured by Cassina in Italy in 1960. Made from rich walnut wood, the table has a warmth and timeless appeal. The addit...
Brass
Mario Marenco Saporro coffee table Italy 1975
By Mario Marenco
Located in Roosendaal, Noord Brabant
Very nice large sized coffee table by Mario Marenco and manufactured by Mobil Girgi, Italy 1975. Fantastic low and large-sized coffee table made from a combination of walnut and beec...
Metal
Sapporo coffee table by Mario Marenco for Mobil Girgi
By Mario Marenco, Mobil Girgi
Located in RIDDERKERK, NL
This Sapporo coffee table , designed by Mario Marenco for Mobil Girgi in the 1970s, is an elegant example of Italian design from that period. The table has solid wood legs supporting...
Wood, Walnut
Quartzite Flow Coffee Table from Redline Design Furniture
Located in Toronto, CA
Introducing our exquisite natural quartzite stone and solid walnut coffee table, a masterful blend of luxury and natural elegance. This piece features a striking green marble top tha...
Marble
Walnut Library Table With Scroll Legs and X Stretcher
Located in Locust Valley, NY
A walnut library table with scroll legs and an X stretcher. The substantial table has a shaped and curved lip around the perimeter creating a tray like table top. The beautiful scr...
Walnut
Erno Fabry Fishtail Surfboard Marble & Walnut Cocktail Table
By M. Singer & Sons
Located in Hanover, MA
This table came from the collection of a prominent child psychiatrist and a magnificent apartment on Central Park West furnished in original Italian Mid-Century Modern furnishings so...
Marble
Mid-Century Chinese Brass Tray Table with Carved Folding Base
Located in Dallas, TX
Add a touch of exotic charm to your home with this elegant two-piece coffee table from China, circa 1950. The round twelve-sided brass tray features intricate pierced and engraved ge...
Brass
Noguchi-Inspired Solace 43: Round Top, Stunning Walnut Grain
By Joel Escalona
Located in Ciudad de México, CDMX
Sculptural Coffee Table Made of Solid Wood, Center Table Solace S43 by Joel Escalona The Solace table series, designed by Joel Escalona, is a furniture collection that exudes balan...
Hardwood
Danish Mid Century Adrian Pearsall Oiled Walnut Rounded Square Coffee Table MINT
By Adrian Pearsall
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Danish Mid Century Adrian Pearsall Olied Walnut Rounded Square Coffee Table MINT!
Glass, Walnut
Gibbings for Widdicomb Mid-Century Modern Round Walnut Coffee Table Tapered Legs
By T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings, Widdicomb Furniture Co.
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Gibbings for Widdicomb Mid-Century Modern round walnut coffee table tapered legs.
Walnut
Walnut Elegance Solace 40: Hand-Finished Round Top with Unique Texture
By Joel Escalona
Located in Ciudad de México, CDMX
Sculptural Coffee Table Made of Solid Wood, Center Table Solace S40 by Joel Escalona The Solace table series, designed by Joel Escalona, is a furniture collection that exudes balan...
Hardwood
Joel Escalona's Round Solace 50: Solid Walnut Elegance and Quality
By Joel Escalona
Located in Ciudad de México, CDMX
Sculptural Coffee Table Made of Solid Wood, Center Table Solace S50 by Joel Escalona The Solace table series, designed by Joel Escalona, is a furniture collection that exudes bal...
Hardwood
Elegant Walnut Solace 37: Round Top and Stunning Wood Grain
By Joel Escalona
Located in Ciudad de México, CDMX
Sculptural Coffee Table Made of Solid Wood, Center Table Solace S36 by Joel Escalona The Solace table series, designed by Joel Escalona, is a furniture collection that exudes balan...
Hardwood
Sculpted Solid Walnut Solace 35: Unique Grain and Round Top
By Joel Escalona
Located in Ciudad de México, CDMX
Sculptural Coffee Table Made of Solid Wood, Center Table Solace S35 by Joel Escalona The Solace table series, designed by Joel Escalona, is a furniture collection that exudes balan...
Hardwood
Artistic Walnut Solace 32: Joel Escalona Masterpiece with Round Top
By Joel Escalona
Located in Ciudad de México, CDMX
Sculptural Coffee Table Made of Solid Wood, Center Table Solace S32 by Joel Escalona The Solace table series, designed by Joel Escalona, is a furniture collection that exudes balan...
Hardwood
Midcentury Coffee Table , Teak Wood, Ilmari Tapiovaara attributed for Permanente
By Ilmari Tapiovaara
Located in Vigonza, Padua
Midcentury Ilmari Tapiovaara attributed round six legs coffee table in ebonized walnut structure and with the top veneered in teakwood. Wax polished Measures cm: Height 41, diameter...
Walnut, Teak
$5,975 / item
Travertine Bronson Coffee Table by Lawson-Fenning
By Lawson-Fenning
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Travertine and oak round Bronson coffee table by Lawson-Fenning. The Bronson coffee table features a stone top with notched corners that rests atop a detailed American walnut or whit...
Travertine
Florence Knoll Midcentury Design Wood Coffee Table
By Florence Knoll
Located in Brescia, IT
Round coffe table designed by Florence Knoll for Knoll International. Manufactured in the United States of America, circa 1960. Walnut top and metal base.
Metal
Patricia Urquiola Sengu Coffee Table in Wood & Glass, Modern Design by Cassina
By Patricia Urquiola
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Patricia Urquiola Sengu Coffee Table For Cassina Asian-inspired, this design coffee table by Patricia Urquiola is a domestic architecture enhanced by the layering of different mater...
Walnut
Art Deco Spider Table in Walnut by Jindřich Halabala, 1940s, Czechoslovakia
By Jindřich Halabala
Located in Almelo, NL
Art Deco Spider Table in Walnut by Jindřich Halabala, 1940s, Czechoslovakia A celebrated design by Jindřich Halabala, this Art Deco spider table from the 1940s embodies the bold ele...
Beech, Walnut
Walnut Elegance Solace 40: Hand-Finished Round Top with Unique Texture
By Joel Escalona
Located in Ciudad de México, CDMX
Sculptural Coffee Table Made of Solid Wood, Center Table Solace S40 by Joel Escalona The Solace table series, designed by Joel Escalona, is a furniture collection that exudes balan...
Hardwood
Rectangular Small Bosque Coffee Table by Lawson-Fenning
By Lawson-Fenning
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Solid wood, with rounded legs that give the piece its weight without sharpening it. The top is chosen, not assigned—inset leather, wood, or stone, each material changing the table's ...
Leather, Oak
Hans J. Wegner CH004 Nesting Tables Walnut/Oak Oil for Carl Hansen
By Hans J. Wegner, Carl Hansen & Søn
Located in New York, NY
Hans J. Wegner was known for designing exceptionally simple and functional items of furniture that enhanced any room through their harmonious and aesthetic dimensions and materials. ...
Oak, Walnut
Edward Wormley Dubar off White Leather Top Dark Walnut Cocktail Table
By Edward Wormley, Dunbar Furniture
Located in Westport, CT
Edward Wormley for Dunbar large round off-white leather too dark walnut base cocktail table, with gold metal tag to underside. Model 5219 Dunbar catalog.
Leather, Walnut
Round Folding Center Oak Table with Carved Top and Solomonic Legs, 1940s
Located in Miami, FL
Round Folding oak side table with Solomonic legs and carved top and carved edges. The table has six legs when its opened with stretchers between the legs to reinforce the stability ....
Walnut
Organic Round Shape Solace 51: Solid Walnut, A Work of Functional Art
By Joel Escalona
Located in Ciudad de México, CDMX
Sculptural Coffee Table Made of Solid Wood, Center Table Solace S51 by Joel Escalona The Solace table series, designed by Joel Escalona, is a furniture collection that exudes b...
Hardwood
$11,294Sale Price / item|20% Off
Wooden Oval Coffee Table, Fishes Series 15 by Joel Escalona
By Joel Escalona
Located in Ciudad de México, CDMX
Fishes is a series of sculptural coffee tables inspired by the famous Fish (1930) sculpture of Rumanian artist Constantin Brancusi. Brancusi's work has been widely regarded as a mast...
Wood, Hardwood, Oak
Wooden Oval Coffee Table, Fishes Series 14 by Joel Escalona
By Joel Escalona
Located in Ciudad de México, CDMX
Fishes is a series of sculptural coffee tables inspired by the famous Fish (1930) sculpture of Rumanian artist Constantin Brancusi. Brancusi's work has been widely regarded as a mast...
Wood, Hardwood, Oak
$7,059Sale Price / item|20% Off
Wooden Coffee Table, Fishes Series 18 by Joel Escalona
By Joel Escalona
Located in Ciudad de México, CDMX
Fishes is a series of sculptural coffee tables inspired by the famous Fish (1930) sculpture of Rumanian artist Constantin Brancusi. Brancusi's work has been widely regarded as a mast...
Wood, Hardwood, Oak
$12,705Sale Price / item|20% Off
Wooden Coffee Table, Fishes Series 14 by Joel Escalona
By Joel Escalona
Located in Ciudad de México, CDMX
Fishes is a series of sculptural coffee tables inspired by the famous Fish (1930) sculpture of Rumanian artist Constantin Brancusi. Brancusi's work has been widely regarded as a mast...
Wood, Hardwood, Oak
Wooden Coffee Table, Fishes Series 19 by Joel Escalona
By Joel Escalona
Located in Ciudad de México, CDMX
Fishes is a series of sculptural coffee tables inspired by the famous Fish (1930) sculpture of Rumanian artist Constantin Brancusi. Brancusi's work has been widely regarded as a mast...
Wood, Hardwood, Oak
Wooden Coffee Table, Fishes Series 17 by Joel Escalona
By Joel Escalona
Located in Ciudad de México, CDMX
Fishes is a series of sculptural coffee tables inspired by the famous Fish (1930) sculpture of Rumanian artist Constantin Brancusi. Brancusi's work has been widely regarded as a mast...
Wood, Hardwood, Oak
Wooden Coffee Table, Fishes Series 20 by Joel Escalona
By Joel Escalona
Located in Ciudad de México, CDMX
Fishes is a series of sculptural coffee tables inspired by the famous Fish (1930) sculpture of Rumanian artist Constantin Brancusi. Brancusi's work has been widely regarded as a mast...
Wood, Hardwood, Oak
$3,526Sale Price|20% Off
Art Deco Round Coffee Table, Inlaid Walnut, France, 20th Century
Located in Lisbon, PT
An Art Deco round coffee table of inlaid walnut and a beautiful center, three legs and a circular base.
Walnut
Roger Capron French Ceramic Coffee Table with Leaf Decorations Model Pamona
By Roger Capron
Located in Chicago, IL
Roger Capron ceramic coffee table with impressed leaf decorations. The leaves are from the surrounding woods and gardens of Vallauris where Capron had his studio. The table has a sl...
Ceramic, Wood
White Oak Oval Coffee Table, Fishes Series 14 by Joel Escalona
By Joel Escalona
Located in Ciudad de México, CDMX
Fishes is a series of sculptural coffee tables inspired by the famous Fish (1930) sculpture of Rumanian artist Constantin Brancusi. Brancusi's work has been widely regarded as a mast...
Wood, Hardwood, Oak
$9,882Sale Price / item|20% Off
Wooden Oval Coffee Table, Fishes Series 16 by Joel Escalona
By Joel Escalona
Located in Ciudad de México, CDMX
Fishes is a series of sculptural coffee tables inspired by the famous Fish (1930) sculpture of Rumanian artist Constantin Brancusi. Brancusi's work has been widely regarded as a mast...
Wood, Hardwood, Oak
Round Two Tier Greek Key Pattern Laminate Top Occasional Side End Table Stand
By Heritage-Henredon, Drexel
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Round Two Tier Greek key pattern laminate top occasional side end table stand.
Walnut, Laminate
Solace 15: Elegant Solid Wood Coffee Table with Orthogonal Lines
By Joel Escalona
Located in Ciudad de México, CDMX
Round Coffee Table Made of Solid Wood, Center Table Solace S15 by Joel Escalona The Solace table series, designed by Joel Escalona, is a furniture collection that exudes balance an...
Hardwood
$6,194Sale Price|20% Off
Italian Coffee Table by Giuseppe Scapinelli in Wood and Marble, 1950s
By Giuseppe Scapinelli
Located in Milano, IT
Small centre table by Giuseppe Scapinelli from the 1950s. The large coffee table is made of a walnut frame, which is carved and sculpted into its four supporting legs. At the centre ...
Marble
Solid White Oak Wood Coffee Table, Fishes Series 7 by Joel Escalona
By Joel Escalona
Located in Ciudad de México, CDMX
Fishes is a series of sculptural coffee tables inspired by the famous Fish (1930) sculpture of Rumanian artist Constantin Brancusi. Brancusi's work has been widely regarded as a mast...
Wood, Hardwood, Oak
Solid Wood Black Tinted Coffee Table, Fishes Series 7 by Joel Escalona
By Joel Escalona
Located in Ciudad de México, CDMX
Fishes is a series of sculptural coffee tables inspired by the famous Fish (1930) sculpture of Rumanian artist Constantin Brancusi. Brancusi's work has been widely regarded as a mast...
Wood, Hardwood, Oak
$8,470Sale Price / item|20% Off
Solid Wood Black Tinted Coffee Table, Fishes Series 9 by Joel Escalona
By Joel Escalona
Located in Ciudad de México, CDMX
Fishes is a series of sculptural coffee tables inspired by the famous Fish (1930) sculpture of Rumanian artist Constantin Brancusi. Brancusi's work has been widely regarded as a mast...
Wood, Hardwood, Oak
Solid Oak Wood Coffee Table, Fishes Series 4 by Joel Escalona
By Joel Escalona
Located in Ciudad de México, CDMX
Fishes is a series of sculptural coffee tables inspired by the famous Fish (1930) sculpture of Rumanian artist Constantin Brancusi. Brancusi's work has been widely regarded as a mast...
Wood, Hardwood, Oak
Solid Oak Wood Coffee Table, Fishes Series 2 by Joel Escalona
By Joel Escalona
Located in Ciudad de México, CDMX
Fishes is a series of sculptural coffee tables inspired by the famous Fish (1930) sculpture of Rumanian artist Constantin Brancusi. Brancusi's work has been widely regarded as a mast...
Wood, Hardwood, Oak
Solid Oak Wood Coffee Table, Fishes Series 3 by Joel Escalona
By Joel Escalona
Located in Ciudad de México, CDMX
Fishes is a series of sculptural coffee tables inspired by the famous Fish (1930) sculpture of Rumanian artist Constantin Brancusi. Brancusi's work has been widely regarded as a mast...
Wood, Hardwood, Oak
Karel Koželka & Antonín Kropáček for Interiér Praha, Oak and Glass Coffee Table
By Karel Kozelka & Antonin Kropacek
Located in Almelo, NL
Karel Koželka & Antonín Kropáček for Interiér Praha, Coffee Table in Oak and Glass, Czechia, 1960s — Multiple Available Designed by celebrated Czech designers Karel Koželka and Anto...
Glass, Oak, Bentwood
Formal Elegance Solace 17: Solid Wood Coffee Table with Straight Lines
By Joel Escalona
Located in Ciudad de México, CDMX
Round Coffee Table Made of Solid Wood, Center Table Solace S17 by Joel Escalona The Solace table series, designed by Joel Escalona, is a furniture collection that exudes balance an...
Hardwood
MID-19TH-CENTURY ROUND COFFEE TABLE WITH INLAYS
Located in Firenze, FI
Elegant solid walnut coffee table, finely carved and embellished with details in various woods and fruitwoods.
Wood, Fruitwood, Nutwood
Organically shaped, clean-lined and elegantly simple are three terms that well describe vintage mid-century modern furniture. The style, which emerged primarily in the years following World War II, is characterized by pieces that were conceived and made in an energetic, optimistic spirit by creators who believed that good design was an essential part of good living.
ORIGINS OF MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGN
CHARACTERISTICS OF MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGN
MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGNERS TO KNOW
ICONIC MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGNS
VINTAGE MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE ON 1STDIBS
The mid-century modern era saw leagues of postwar American architects and designers animated by new ideas and new technology. The lean, functionalist International-style architecture of Le Corbusier and Bauhaus eminences Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius had been promoted in the United States during the 1930s by Philip Johnson and others. New building techniques, such as “post-and-beam” construction, allowed the International-style schemes to be realized on a small scale in open-plan houses with long walls of glass.
Materials developed for wartime use became available for domestic goods and were incorporated into mid-century modern furniture designs. Charles and Ray Eames and Eero Saarinen, who had experimented extensively with molded plywood, eagerly embraced fiberglass for pieces such as the La Chaise and the Womb chair, respectively.
Architect, writer and designer George Nelson created with his team shades for the Bubble lamp using a new translucent polymer skin and, as design director at Herman Miller, recruited the Eameses, Alexander Girard and others for projects at the legendary Michigan furniture manufacturer.
Harry Bertoia and Isamu Noguchi devised chairs and tables built of wire mesh and wire struts. Materials were repurposed too: The Danish-born designer Jens Risom created a line of chairs using surplus parachute straps for webbed seats and backrests.
The Risom lounge chair was among the first pieces of furniture commissioned and produced by celebrated manufacturer Knoll, a chief influencer in the rise of modern design in the United States, thanks to the work of Florence Knoll, the pioneering architect and designer who made the firm a leader in its field. The seating that Knoll created for office spaces — as well as pieces designed by Florence initially for commercial clients — soon became desirable for the home.
As the demand for casual, uncluttered furnishings grew, more mid-century furniture designers caught the spirit.
Classically oriented creators such as Edward Wormley, house designer for Dunbar Inc., offered such pieces as the sinuous Listen to Me chaise; the British expatriate T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings switched gears, creating items such as the tiered, biomorphic Mesa table. There were Young Turks such as Paul McCobb, who designed holistic groups of sleek, blond wood furniture, and Milo Baughman, who espoused a West Coast aesthetic in minimalist teak dining tables and lushly upholstered chairs and sofas with angular steel frames.
Generations turn over, and mid-century modern remains arguably the most popular style going. As the collection of vintage mid-century modern chairs, dressers, coffee tables and other furniture for the living room, dining room, bedroom and elsewhere on 1stDibs demonstrates, this period saw one of the most delightful and dramatic flowerings of creativity in design history.
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.”
Find the perfect centerpiece for any room, no matter what your personal furniture style on 1stDibs — shop Art Deco coffee tables, travertine coffee tables and other antique and vintage coffee tables and cocktail tables today.
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