Mid Century Cocktail Table Cartouche Shape Mirrored Top
Located in Asheville, NC
Mid Century Cocktail Table, Cartouche with Gold Veined Mirrored Top, hand fashioned and stamped by
Mirror, Wood
$3,744 / item
Midcentury Cocktail Table with Eglomisé Top
Located in Westwood, NJ
A midcentury Cocktail Table with Eglomisé Top with gold leaf etched details and a brass trim edge
Wrought Iron
Spectacular American Modern Biomorphic Mid Century Cocktail Table C.1950’s
Located in Bernville, PA
American Modern Biomorphic Mid Century cocktail table. Spectacular biomorphic design with a glass
Brass
Midcentury Cocktail Table
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Stylish midcentury coffee or cocktail table. Chrome base, with a sizable piece of beveled glass
Chrome
$1,196Sale Price|20% Off
Midcentury Cocktail Table by Merton Gershun
By American of Martinsville, Merton Gershun
Located in New York, NY
This square walnut cocktail table was designed by Merton Gershun for American of Martinsville. It
Brass
Mosaic Tile & Brass Mid-Century Cocktail Table by Mosaic House
By Mosaic House
Located in Hanover, MA
1950’s American mosaic tile and brass coffee table by Mosaic House. 14.5 inches high x 43.5 inches
Brass
Paul McCobb Midcentury Cocktail Table End Table Connoisseur Collection
By Paul McCobb
Located in Port Jervis, NY
Paul McCobb Connoisseur collection for H. Sacks and Sons, Brookline mass. Three-drawer cocktail
Brass
$3,749Sale Price|20% Off
Mid-Century Cocktail Table Eve with Snake in the Manner of Melchiorre Bega
By Melchiorre Bega
Located in Albano Laziale, Rome/Lazio
This stunning round coffee table from the late 1940s boasts a one-of-a-kind design. The solid cast
Alabaster, Marble, Brass
Mid-Century Coffee Table in Lucite and Chrome
Located in Brooklyn, NY
. The sculptural qualities of this Mid-Century cocktail table make this an impressive addition to any
Chrome
Mid-Century Modern Coffee Table in the style of Mastercraft
By Mastercraft
Located in Brooklyn, NY
, manufactured in the style of Mastercraft. Sleek mid-century cocktail table makes a great living room center
Metal
Milo Baughman Coffee Table for Thayer Coggin
By Milo Baughman
Located in Brooklyn, NY
, designed by Milo Baughman for Thayer Coggin. Stunning mid-century cocktail table makes an elegant addition
Rosewood
Maison Jansen Style Mid-Century French Modern Coffee Table
By Maison Jansen
Located in Forney, TX
A superb French midcentury cocktail table in the style of Maison Jansen. Fine craftsmanship and
Brass, Bronze
Midcentury Italian Gilt Metal Cocktail Table - Glass Top and Star Stretcher
Located in Atlanta, GA
An Italian Midcentury gilt metal cocktail table with glass top and star shaped cross stretcher
Metal
French Mid-Century Latticed Steel & Travertine Cocktail Table by Airborne
By Cocktail Tables
Located in New York, NY
Rare, Elegant French Midcentury 1960's Modernist coffee table by Airborne International circa 1960
Travertine, Stainless Steel, Chrome
Vintage Iron and Glass MId Century Modern Coffee Table
Located in South Salem, NY
This Mid-Century cocktail table is a sleek and stylish piece that would elevate any living space
Metal
French Mid-Century Louis XV Hollywood Glam Inlaid Onyx Gilt Brass Coffee Table
By Maison Jansen
Located in Forney, TX
Stunning vintage French mid-century cocktail table. circa 1960s/1970s A transitional masterpiece
Onyx, Marble, Breccia Marble, Brass, Bronze
French Midcentury Hammered Iron / Bronzed Coffee Table in Style of Giacometti
By Alberto and Diego Giacometti
Located in New York, NY
An elegant French midcentury cocktail table circa 1940 in deeply hammered, hand forged iron with
Wrought Iron
Rare Italian Modern Neoclassical Gilt Bronze Coffee Table Attr. to Gio Ponti
Located in New York, NY
Rare, important Italian midcentury cocktail table in the modern neoclassical style attributed to
Travertine, Metal, Brass
Mid-Century French Vallauris Oak and Ceramic Coffee Table Signed J.G. Picard
Located in Dallas, TX
Decorate a den or living room with this elegant mid-century cocktail table from southern France
Wrought Iron
Distressed Midcentury Philip and Kelvin Laverne Coffee Table
By Philip and Kelvin LaVerne
Located in Bridgeport, CT
Classic midcentury cocktail table in acid etched patinated bronze, this one in an understated and
Bronze
Mid-Century Hollywood Regency Walnut Finish Glass Top Coffee Table
Located in Rancho Cucamonga, CA
An elegant Mid-Century cocktail table crafted in a rich walnut finish, featuring sophisticated
Wood, Glass
Coffee table, mid-century, Sputnik style
By Mid Century Antiques
Located in Milano, Lombardia
This charming Mid-Century style round coffee table is an elegant fusion of wood and glass. Its base
Glass, Wood
Large Lacquered Square Coffee Table w/ Chrome Plinth Base By Directional 1970s
By Directional
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
Mid Century Modern plinth base modern white lacquered coffee table with chrome plinth base and
Glass, Wood, Lacquer
Mid-20th Century Cocktail Table
Located in Stockbridge, GA
Mid-20th century cocktail table created by an original designer with it's own unique originality
Metal
$3,600 / item
Mid Century Cube Cocktail Table
Located in Westwood, NJ
This simple yet refined cocktail table adds depth and warm reflection in an alluring mix of
Mirror, Wood
$6,066 / item
Mid Century Mirrored Cocktail Table
Located in Westwood, NJ
table's generous proportions offer ample space for your evening cocktails or as a showcase for your
Mirror, Wood
$4,368 / item
Mid Century Square Cocktail Table
Located in Westwood, NJ
This square cocktail table brings a beautiful balance of linear forms and light. Its Tuxedo Black
Acrylic, Wood
$3,687 / item
Mid Century Round Cocktail Table
Located in Westwood, NJ
in our Bistre finish and complimented by a beautifully honed inset Crema Marfil marble stone top, features a sophisticated tapered silhouette and reeded carved details. Dimensions:...
Marble
Coffee Table “Zodiac” Iron Glass, 1950, Italy
By Mid Century Antiques
Located in Milano, IT
Coffee table “Zodiac” iron glass, 1950, Italy.
Glass
$1,193 / item
Mid Century Round Leather Cocktail Table
Located in Westwood, NJ
Mid century Round leather cocktail table with a shagreen embossed leather top in a geometric grid
Metal
$1,597 / item
Mid Century Style Leather Cocktail Table
Located in Westwood, NJ
Leather Cocktail Table, with grey embossed leather with gold trim raised on simple block feet
Leather, Wood
Mid-Century Octagonal Neo-Regency Chrome Cocktail Table
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Bring bold vintage style and architectural elegance to your living space with this Mid-Century
Glass
$2,607 / item
Mid Century Marble Top Cocktail Table
Located in Westwood, NJ
crafted from Prima Vera in our Bistre finish and complimented by a beautifully honed inset Crema Marfil marble stone top, features a sophisticated tapered silhouette, reeded detailin...
Marble
Mid Century French Iron And Glass Cocktail Table
Located in Bridgeport, CT
A refined French Cocktail Table with a scrolled Iron base patinated in a deep Gilt finish with red
Iron
$10,350
Sainte Croix Cocktail Table
By Tara Shaw, Century Furniture
Located in New Orleans, LA
The French midcentury brass cocktail table with lion detail and paw feet, featuring a neoclassical
Stone, Marble, Metal, Brass
$2,400Sale Price|25% Off
Mid Century Lucite Cocktail Coffee Table
By Karl Springer
Located in Hudson, NY
Sexy, sculptural, and glamorous cocktail tale with thick, curved, Lucite and brass frame, glass top
Brass
$3,900Sale Price|35% Off
Mid Century Brutalist Cocktail Table
By Paul Evans
Located in New York, NY
Brutalist cocktail coffee table. Outstanding Brutalist coffee table of sculpted Bronzed resin with
Resin
Classic Mid Century Cork Cocktail Table By Paul Frankl
By Paul Frankl
Located in Bridgeport, CT
Table was retailed by Mid Century Master John Stuart and his Metal name tag is affixed to the table top
Wood, Cork
Mid Century Brutalist Farmhouse Style Pine Trestle Cocktail Table
Located in Germantown, MD
Mid Century Brutalist Farmhouse Style Trestle Cocktail Table Measure 36.5" in width, 17.5" in
Pine
Mid Century Crotch Mahogany Butler's Cocktail Table by Drexel
By Drexel
Located in Germantown, MD
A Mid Century Crotch Mahogany Butler's Coctail Table by Drexel. Measures 42.5" in width, 21.5" in
Mahogany
Danish Mid-Century Modern Rosewood Cocktail Table
By Johannes Andersen
Located in Port Jervis, NY
Book matched rosewood cocktail table with cerused oak base. Tapered legs. Floating edge top subtle
Rosewood, Oak
Glass and Brass Mid-century Coffee/Cocktail Table, Pace Attributed
By Pace Collection
Located in Miami, FL
Glass and Brass Mid-century Coffee/Cocktail Table, Pace Attributed Offered for sale is a glass
Metal, Brass
Mid Century Style Live Edge Burl Cocktail Table
Located in Bridgeport, CT
the best of the both worlds of Organic Modern and Mid Century. The Table measures 50” wide by 33
Iron
Mid-Century Modern Alessandro Albrizzi Chrome & Lucite Coffee Cocktail Table
By Alessandro Albrizzi
Located in LOS ANGELES, CA
Mid-Century Modern Alessandro Albrizzi Chrome & Lucite coffee cocktail table - Judith Krantz Estate
Chrome
Stylish Mid Century Scrolled Cocktail Table In James Mont Style
By James Mont
Located in Bridgeport, CT
A rarely seen Marble Top Cocktail Table with particularly fine form. With black finished Chinese
Marble
Maison Jansen Mid-20th Century Coffee Table - Cocktail Table
Located in Round Top, TX
A very elegant mid-20th century Maison Jansen Cocktail Table - Coffee Table. Wonderfully
Bronze
Mid-Century Modern Teak Coffee or Cocktail Table
Located in Nantucket, MA
A Mid-Century Modern teak coffee or cocktail table. An unusual base design with reeded edges along
Teak
American Mid Century Smoked Glass and Wicker Waterfall Edged Cocktail Table
Located in Queens, NY
American Mid-Century smoked glass and wicker waterfall edged cocktail table with curved scroll legs
Glass
Mid Century Modern Milo Baughman Style Glass & Brass Plated Cocktail Table
By Milo Baughman
Located in Bridgeport, CT
Mid Century Modern 3-tier brass and glass cocktail table. The top with two tiers that pivot out to
Metal
Rare Tommi Parzinger Mid-Century Modern Cocktail Table and Stools
By Tommi Parzinger
Located in Bridgeport, CT
Tommi Parzinger Mid-Century Modern two-tier cocktail table with stained walnut top featuring an
Walnut
Round Mid-Century American Cocktail Table
Located in Pompano Beach, FL
Round walnut cocktail table with a glass top.
Wood
Mid Century Modern Teak Coffee or Cocktail Table
Located in Nantucket, MA
A handsome Mid Century Modern teak coffee or cocktail table. Features a bowed top with a lower
Teak
Mid Century Style Circle Pattern Black Iron & Glass Cocktail Coffee Table
Located in Long Branch, NJ
Mid Century Style Black Iron & Glass Cocktail Coffee Table Dimensions : 48" Long X 24" Deep X 18
Iron
Mid Century Victorian Style Carved Mahogany Marble Top Cocktail Table
Located in Germantown, MD
A Mid Century Victorian Style Carved Mahogany Marble Top Cocktail Table. Measures 39.25" in width
Marble
Extraordinary Philip And Kelvin LaVerne Mid Century Chan Cocktail Table
By Philip and Kelvin LaVerne
Located in Bridgeport, CT
An incredible table by father and son Mid Century designers and manufacturers Philip and Kelvin
Bronze, Enamel, Pewter
Milo Baughman for Directional Mid-Century Glass Geometric Cocktail/Coffee Table
By Milo Baughman
Located in Queens, NY
American Mid-Century (1972) geometric bronze frame coffee table with a rounded square glass top
Bronze
French Mid-Century Modern Neoclassical Cocktail Table
By Maison Jansen
Located in New York, NY
An Elegant French Mid-Century Modern Neoclassical coffee table in the style of Maison Jansen
Wrought Iron
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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