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Funky Distressed Red Wooden Vintage Washing Machine
Located in Hopewell, NJ
side table or found object that adds warmth and curiosity to a space. Handle on left lifts up and down
Category

Vintage 1920s American American Classical End Tables

Materials

Wood

Vintage Formica & Walnut Step Tables
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Absolutely fantastic pair of unique formica & walnut end tables. A funky two-tiered design is as
Category

Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Side Tables

Materials

Brass

Vintage Formica & Walnut Step Tables
Vintage Formica & Walnut Step Tables
H 23.5 in W 21 in D 30.5 in
Pair of Funky Industrial Steel Tables
Located in Hopewell, NJ
Steel industrial tables salvaged from a factory, original paint patina. Great endtables or work
Category

Vintage 1930s American Industrial End Tables

Materials

Steel

Pair of Funky Industrial Steel Tables
Pair of Funky Industrial Steel Tables
H 30 in W 26.25 in D 16 in
Brass and Chrome End Table
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A funky design and even better end table from the swingin' 60s to your abode.
Category

Vintage 1960s Italian End Tables

Brass and Chrome End Table
Brass and Chrome End Table
H 18 in W 24 in D 19 in
Funky Iron & Tile Table
Located in San Francisco, CA
Mid Century iron and tile tilt top table
Category

Vintage 1950s American End Tables

Materials

Wrought Iron

Funky Iron & Tile Table
Funky Iron & Tile Table
H 26 in W 17 in D 17 in
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Funky End Table For Sale on 1stDibs

Find many varieties of an authentic funky end table available at 1stDibs. Each funky end table for sale was constructed with extraordinary care, often using wood, brass and hardwood. Your living room may not be complete without a funky end table — find older editions for sale from the 20th Century and newer versions made as recently as the 20th Century. A funky end table, designed in the mid-century modern or neoclassical style, is generally a popular piece of furniture. A well-made funky end table has long been a part of the offerings for many furniture designers and manufacturers, but those produced by Brugnoli Mobili Cantú, La Permanente Mobili Cantù and United Furniture Corporation are consistently popular.

How Much is a Funky End Table?

The average selling price for a funky end table at 1stDibs is $2,064, while they’re typically $650 on the low end and $8,500 for the highest priced.

A Close Look at Mid-century Modern Furniture

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.