Maurice Bailey Rectangular Coffee Table for Monteverdi Young
By Monteverdi-Young, Maurice Bailey
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Maurice Bailey glass top coffee table for Beverly Hills furniture brand Monteverdi Young, c.1960s. The table features a walnut base with four tapered legs and brass cross bars. Dime...
Brass
Founders Mid-Century Modern Walnut Parquetry Coffee Table with Black Wood Base
By Founders Furniture Company
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Handsome mid-century modern coffee table by Founders, featuring a richly grained walnut veneer top with striking geometric parquetry patterning.
Walnut
Mid-Century Modern Faux Bamboo Silver Gilt Iron Glass Coffee Cocktail Table
By Maison Baguès
Located in Roslyn, NY
Mid-Century Modern faux bamboo, silver gilt over double iron and X-base form rectangular coffee or cocktail table with thick glass inset top.
Iron
Mid-Century Modern Lucite and Glass Coffee Table by Karl Springer
By Karl Springer
Located in North Hollywood, CA
This mid-century modern lucite coffee table, designed by Karl Springer and crafted in the 1980s, is a striking example of the designer's mastery of minimalist form and premium materi...
Glass, Acrylic, Lucite
Mid-Century Danish Modern Coffee Table, Sculptural Legs, Teak, c. 1960s
Located in Rancho Cucamonga, CA
A beautifully proportioned Danish Modern coffee table, crafted in the 1960s and showcasing refined Scandinavian design. The long rectangular top highlights the natural grain of the w...
Teak
Mid-Century Modern Widdicomb Solid Wood Coffee Table, Grand Rapids 1950s
By Widdicomb Furniture Co.
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Elegant and timeless Mid-Century Modern coffee table designed and manufactured by Widdicomb Furniture Corporation in Grand Rapids, Michigan, one of the most respected American furnit...
Wood
Mid-Century American Coffee Table, Ebonized Metal & Glass Top
Located in Queens, NY
American Mid-Century (1960s) ebonzied metal and chrome trim rectangular coffee table with cluster legs connected with a stretcher and a smoky inset glass top.
Chrome
Italian mid-century modern stackable metal and glass coffee tables, 1940s
Located in MIlano, IT
Italian mid-century modern stackable metal and glass coffee tables, 1940s Pair of rectangular stackable coffee tables.
Metal
Vintage Mid Century Modern Danish Style Coffee Table with Sculpted Drawer Pulls.
Located in Seattle, WA
This vintage Mid Century Modern coffee table showcases design elements commonly associated with Danish modern furniture of the mid-20th century.
Wood
Grete Jalk for Glostrup Mid Century Danish Modern Rosewood Coffee Table
By Grete Jalk, Glostrup Møbelfabrik
Located in Baltimore, MD
A beautiful mid-century modern, rosewood Danish coffee table by Grete Jalk for Glostrup Mobelfabrik, circa 1960's.
Rosewood
1970s Mid-Century Modern Brass, Steel and Smoked Glass Italian Coffee Table
By Romeo Rega
Located in Aci Castello, IT
Made in Italy, it combines the use of high-quality materials such as brass, steel, and smoked glass to create a visually striking and functional piece. The table features a rectangul...
Metal, Brass
Italian mid-century modern disassemblable coffee table in wood and glass, 1950s
Located in MIlano, IT
Italian mid-century modern disassemblable coffee table in wood and glass, 1950s Coffee table with a rectangular glass top and rounded edges.
Glass, Wood
Solid Walnut Mid Century Modern Italian Rustic Exposed Joinery Coffee Table
Located in Grand Cayman, KY
Mid Century Modern Italian Rustic solid slab walnut coffee table.
Hardwood, Walnut
'MP-105' Coffee Table, by Percival Lafer, Brazilian Mid-Century Modern
By Percival Lafer
Located in Sao Paulo, SP
The center table by Percival Lafer, a renowned Brazilian furniture designer, is a classic example of mid-20th-century design. It features a minimalist and functional aesthetic, chara...
Glass, Hardwood
Vintage Mid Century Modern Walnut and Glass Coffee Table by Lane Furniture
Located in Seattle, WA
This vintage Mid-Century Modern coffee table by Lane Furniture exemplifies the sculptural elegance and refined craftsmanship of the era.
Walnut
Teak Coffee Table with Slatted Lower Shelf Mid-Century Modern Denmark 1960s
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This rectangular teak coffee table combines a long narrow top with a full-length slatted lower shelf.
Teak
Mid Century Modern Style Coffee Table or Accent Table with metal Hairpin Legs.
Located in Seattle, WA
This vintage mid-century modern coffee table or accent table exudes a minimalist yet organic charm that perfectly captures the essence of its era.
Wood
Vintage Mid-Century Walnut Coffee Table by Lane Furniture
By Lane Furniture
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Vintage Mid-Century Walnut Coffee Table by Lane Furniture showcasing classic mid-century design with rich walnut grain and sleek, minimalist lines. Crafted with quality and timeless ...
Walnut
Mid-Century Modern Glass Top Coffee Table with Plexiglass Base, Italy
Located in Houston, TX
Coffee table’s top is made out of thick piece of glass. Supporting base is made out of plexiglass and composed from four rectangular elongated pieces. Due to transparent material, th...
Glass
Brass Modern Leaf Motif Base and Glass Top Rectangular Coffee Table
By Mastercraft, Karl Springer
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Very nice rectangle figural brass base coffee table with glass top.
Brass
$1,516Sale Price|31% Off
Large Vintage Mid-Century Modern Swedish Rosewood & Aluminum Coffee Table
Located in Warszawa, Mazowieckie
It will successfully find its place in many arrangements, putting the aesthetics of the Scandinavian Mid-Century Modern trend in to the interior. The table is in original vintage co...
Aluminum
Danish Mid-Century Rosewood Coffee Table, 1960s
Located in Nørre Aaby, DK
A beautiful rectangular rosewood coffee table, crafted in Denmark during the 1960s. Featuring a warm tone and stunning natural grain pattern, this elegant piece showcases the timeles...
Rosewood
Rectangular Glass top Lucite Base Coffee Table
By Neal Small, Pace Collection
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Mid-Century Modern thick glass top Lucite base coffee table.
Glass, Lucite
$1,800Sale Price|28% Off
Jeffrey Bigelow Style Mid Century Modern Lucite Base Coffee or Cocktail Table
By Jeffrey Bigelow
Located in Plainview, NY
An artful Mid Century Modern Coffee or Cocktail rectangular table crafted in the style of Jeffery Bigelow, the esteemed American designer/ sculptor of the 20th Century.
Glass, Lucite
Karl Springer Style, Mid-Century Modern, Grey Faux Shagreen, Coffee Table, 1980s
By Karl Springer
Located in Stamford, CT
Karl Springer Style, Mid-Century Modern, Grey Faux Shagreen, Coffee Table, 1980s A large rectangular coffee table in the form of a scroll, inspired by the designs of Karl Springer.
Wood
Art Tile Top Beach Scene Turned Legs Mid-Century Modern Coffee Table
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Mid-Century Modern rectangular Artist-signed art tile top coffee table on turned legs.
Metal
Lane Acclaim Series Mid Century Modern 56" Coffee Table Andre Bus 1960s
By Lane Acclaim, Andre Bus
Located in Forest Grove, PA
An iconic Lane Acclaim series Mid-Century Modern coffee table from the 1960’s.
Ash, Walnut
$8,150 / item
Rectangular 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 ...
Marble
Mid-Century Modern Coffee Table in Chrome and Brass, Italy, Circa 1970s
By Romeo Rega
Located in London, London
A refined mid-century coffee table featuring a clean architectural form and a warm mixed-metal finish. The rectangular frame is constructed from steel and brass. The brass displays ...
Brass, Chrome
Italian Mid-Century Venetian Coffee Table with Gilt Mirror Trim
Located in Queens, NY
Italian Venetian style (Mid 20th Century) \"antique\" mirror rectangular coffee table with gilt wood trim resting on shaped carved painted fluted legs with acanthus leaf motif Good ...
Mirror
Mid Century Modern Coffee Table in Green Iron with Bronze and Brass Details
Located in Miami, FL
Mid Century Modern Coffee Table in Green Iron with Bronze and Brass Details Beautiful table with beveled frame and glass top inlaid.
Iron
Mid Century Modern Stainless Chrome X-Base Coffee Table with Glass Top
By Milo Baughman, Knoll, Le Corbusier, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Nice mid century modern glass top X base rectangular coffee table.
Stainless Steel
Ole Bjørn Krüger Rosewood Tile-Top Coffee Table Danish Mid-Century Modern 1960s
By Ole Bjørn Krüger, OBK
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This rectangular low coffee table features an artistic ceramic tile inset surface framed by clean timber borders.
Rosewood
Rectangular ‘Soleil’ Model Coffee Table by Roger Capron
By Roger Capron
Located in BAUD, FR
Rare rectangular "Soleil" model coffee table by Roger Capron. Ceramic top with a black steel base and apron. Signed "R. Capron" in the bottom left corner of the table. An iconic and ...
Metal
$762Sale Price|20% Off
1960s Scandinavian Vintage Rectangular Wood Coffee Table
Located in Ceglie Messapica, IT
A vintage coffee table with wood and legs structure. Pure scandinavian style from the 1960s. In very good condtions with only few signs of time.
Wood
21st Century Bossa Rectangular Coffee Table, Natural Solid Oak, by Duistt
By Duistt
Located in Leça da Palmeira, PT
Bossa Rectangular Coffee Table, Natural Solid Oak Wood, Handcrafted by Duistt The “Bossa” collection is inspired by the subtlety, particular charm, and harmonious simplicity of the ...
Wood, Oak
Rectangular Walnut Aluminum Frame Smoked Glass Coffee Table
By Lane Furniture
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Mid-Century Modern Baughman looking, circa 1970s coffee table. Walnut frame wrapped in aluminum molding.
Aluminum
Excellent Silas Seandel Brutalist Torch Cut Nail Coffee Table Mid-Century Modern
By Silas Seandel
Located in Pemberton, NJ
Magnificent signed Silas Seandel torch cut nail coffee table. We just love the brutalist mixed metal rectangular torchcut pieces expertly pair with the brass nails-see photos. This...
Brass, Bronze, Copper
Lucite Base Glass Top Compact Rectangular Coffee Table
By Neal Small Design Studio, Karl Springer
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Mid-Century Modern lucite bases thick 3/4" glass top rectangular coffee table.
Glass, Lucite
$1,424Sale Price|20% Off
Vintage Mid-Century Scandinavian Modern Oak Coffee Table by Karl-Erik Ekselius
By Karl-Erik Ekselius, JOC Mobler Vetlanda
Located in Warszawa, Mazowieckie
The very rare coffee table with a strong, modernist form. It was designed by Karl Erik Ekselius for J.O. Carlsson in Sweden during the 1960s. The geometric table is made of light oak...
Oak
$2,076Sale Price|20% Off
Mid-Century Modern Chequered Top Coffee Table by Arne Vodder for France & Son
By Arne Vodder, France & Søn
Located in Baltimore, MD
A beautiful Mid Century Modern Chequered top design, rectangular coffee table by Arne Vodder For France & Son circa 1960’s.
Wood
$1,629Sale Price|45% Off
Rectangular solid wood mosaic coffee table, Netherlands 1960s
By Paul Evans, Rolf Middelboe & Gorm Lindum
Located in ECHT, NL
Rectangular mid century coffee table. The top is made from numerous solid pinewood cubes joined together. The top is mounted on a simple solid wood frame. Probably made in the Nether...
Wood
Mid-Century Modern Coffee Table with Brass Base and Glass Top, Italy
Located in Piacenza, Italy
Awesome and sturdy rectangular coffee table, solid brass base and glass top.
Brass
Glass Top Bent Lucite Legs Rectangular Coffee Table
By Hivo Van Teal
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Mid-Century Modern glass top carved Lucite cabriole leg rectangular coffee table.
Brass
Maison Jansen Mid-Century Black Lacquer Coffee Table with Eglomise Top
By Maison Jansen
Located in Queens, NY
French Mid-Century black lacquer low rectangular coffee table with 2 sliding eglomise mirrored chinoiserie decorated top top panels that slide open to cover a hidden storage section ...
Lacquer
Bronze Faux Bamboo Glass Top Rectangular Coffee Table
By La Barge
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Mid-Century Modern faux bamboo bronze coffee table by La Barge.
Bronze
Williams Hairpin Coffee Table Rectangular Maple Grey
By Tronk Design
Located in Cincinnati, US
A thin, elegant and light table that can be customized to any shape, size and color desired. This handcrafted item perfectly blends industrial hairpin legs with a beveled wooden top....
Steel
Williams Hairpin Coffee Table Rectangular Maple Gray
By Tronk Design
Located in Cincinnati, US
A thin, elegant and light table that can be customized to any shape, size and color desired. This handcrafted item perfectly blends industrial hairpin legs with a beveled wooden top....
Steel
Williams Hairpin Coffee Table Rectangular Maple Pink
By Tronk Design
Located in Cincinnati, US
A thin, elegant and light table that can be customized to any shape, size and color desired. This handcrafted item perfectly blends industrial hairpin legs with a beveled wooden top....
Steel
Williams Hairpin Coffee Table Rectangular Walnut Pink
By Tronk Design
Located in Cincinnati, US
A thin, elegant and light table that can be customized to any shape, size and color desired. This handcrafted item perfectly blends industrial hairpin legs with a beveled wooden top....
Steel
Williams Hairpin Coffee Table Rectangular Maple Green
By Tronk Design
Located in Cincinnati, US
A thin, elegant and light table that can be customized to any shape, size and color desired. This handcrafted item perfectly blends industrial hairpin legs with a beveled wooden top....
Steel
Williams Hairpin Coffee Table Rectangular Walnut Gray
Located in Cincinnati, US
A thin, elegant and light table that can be customized to any shape, size and color desired. This handcrafted item perfectly blends industrial hairpin legs with a beveled wooden top....
Steel
Williams Hairpin Coffee Table Rectangular Walnut Orange
Located in Cincinnati, US
A thin, elegant and light table that can be customized to any shape, size and color desired. This handcrafted item perfectly blends industrial hairpin legs with a beveled wooden top....
Steel
Williams Hairpin Coffee Table Rectangular Maple Black
Located in Cincinnati, US
A thin, elegant and light table that can be customized to any shape, size and color desired. This handcrafted item perfectly blends industrial hairpin legs with a beveled wooden top....
Steel
Williams Hairpin Coffee Table Rectangular Maple Yellow
Located in Cincinnati, US
A thin, elegant and light table that can be customized to any shape, size and color desired. This handcrafted item perfectly blends industrial hairpin legs with a beveled wooden top....
Steel
Williams Hairpin Coffee Table Rectangular Walnut Red
Located in Cincinnati, US
A thin, elegant and light table that can be customized to any shape, size and color desired. This handcrafted item perfectly blends industrial hairpin legs with a beveled wooden top....
Steel
Williams Hairpin Coffee Table Rectangular Walnut White
Located in Cincinnati, US
A thin, elegant and light table that can be customized to any shape, size and color desired. This handcrafted item perfectly blends industrial hairpin legs with a beveled wooden top....
Steel
Williams Hairpin Coffee Table Rectangular Maple Orange
Located in Cincinnati, US
A thin, elegant and light table that can be customized to any shape, size and color desired. This handcrafted item perfectly blends industrial hairpin legs with a beveled wooden top....
Steel
Mid-Century Modern '70s Italian coffee table chromed steel legs with marble top
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Mid-Century Modern, 70s coffee table in chromed steel legs with marble top Rectangular coffee table from the seventies, Italian manufacture.
Marble, Steel
Stacked Lucite Base Rectangular Glass Top Coffee Table
By Karl Springer
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Mid-Century Modern heavy stacked Lucite base glass top coffee table.
Glass, Lucite
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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