Mid Century Modern Two Tier Table
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Wood
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Side Tables
Brass
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Console Tables
Brass, Chrome
Vintage 1960s Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Walnut
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Brass
Vintage 1970s Mid-Century Modern End Tables
Brass
Vintage 1970s Mid-Century Modern End Tables
Brass
Vintage 1970s Mid-Century Modern End Tables
Brass, Chrome
Vintage 1980s Mid-Century Modern Console Tables
Chrome
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Wood
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Side Tables
Steel
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern End Tables
Walnut
Vintage 1970s Mid-Century Modern Vanities
Chrome
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Brass
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Side Tables
Oak
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Giltwood, Wood, Walnut, Glass, Lacquer
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Wood, Plywood, Walnut, Glass, Lacquer
20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Side Tables
Brass
Vintage 1980s Belgian Hollywood Regency Serving Tables
Metal
Vintage 1970s Unknown Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Walnut
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Console Tables
Brass
Vintage 1970s Mid-Century Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Metal
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Metal
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Steel
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Console Tables
Chrome
Vintage 1980s American Hollywood Regency Side Tables
Metal
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary American Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Coc...
Walnut
Vintage 1960s Belgian Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Wood
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Walnut
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern End Tables
Walnut
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern End Tables
Hardwood, Oak
Vintage 1980s American Hollywood Regency Center Tables
Metal
Vintage 1970s Mid-Century Modern Side Tables
Wood
Mid-20th Century English Mid-Century Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Iron
Vintage 1960s Mid-Century Modern End Tables
Wood
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Side Tables
Maple
Vintage 1970s French Hollywood Regency Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Brass
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Plywood
Mid-20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Teak
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Console Tables
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Copper
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Serving Tables
Glass
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Teak
Mid-20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern End Tables
Cane, Teak
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Side Tables
Oak
Vintage 1970s Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Brass
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern End Tables
Laminate
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Side Tables
Walnut
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern End Tables
Wood
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Metal
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Brass
Vintage 1970s Mid-Century Modern Side Tables
Glass
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Card Tables and Tea Tables
Brass
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Brass
Vintage 1980s Belgian Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Gold Plate
Mid-20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Side Tables
Walnut
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Glass, Walnut
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Granite, Bronze
Vintage 1960s French Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Brass
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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 American 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.
Postwar American architects and designers were animated by new ideas and new technology. The lean, functionalist “International Style” architecture of Le Corbusier and Bauhaus eminences such as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius had been promoted in the United States during the ’30s 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, respectively, pieces such as the La Chaise and the Womb chair. George Nelson and his design team created Bubble lamp shades using a new translucent polymer skin. Harry Bertoia and Isamu Noguchi devised chairs and tables built of wire mesh and wire struts. Materials were re-purposed: the Danish-born designer Jens Risom created a line of chairs that used surplus parachute straps for webbed seats and backrests. The Risom lounge chair was among the first pieces of furniture commissioned and produced by legendary manufacturer Knoll, a chief influence 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.
As the demand for casual, uncluttered furnishings grew, more mid-century 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, blonde-wood furniture — and Milo Baughman, who espoused a West Coast aesthetic in lushly upholstered chairs and sofas with angular steel frames.
As the collection of vintage mid-century modern chairs, dressers, coffee tables and other furniture on 1stDibs demonstrates, this period saw one of the most delightful and dramatic flowerings of creativity in design history.
Finding the Right Tables for You
The right vintage, new or antique tables can help make any space in your home stand out.
Over the years, the variety of tables available to us, as well as our specific needs for said tables, has broadened. Today, with all manner of these must-have furnishings differing in shape, material and style, any dining room table can shine just as brightly as the guests who gather around it.
Remember, when shopping for a dining table, it must fit your dining area, and you need to account for space around the table too — think outside the box, as an oval dining table may work for tighter spaces. Alternatively, if you’ve got the room, a Regency-style dining table can elevate any formal occasion at mealtime.
Innovative furniture makers and designers have also redefined what a table can be. Whether it’s an unconventional Ping-Pong table, a brass side table to display your treasured collectibles or a Louis Vuitton steamer trunk to add an air of nostalgia to your loft, your table can say a lot about you. The visionary work of French designer Xavier Lavergne, for example, includes tables that draw on the forms of celestial bodies as often as they do aquatic creatures or fossils. Elsewhere, Italian architect Gae Aulenti, who looked to Roman architecture in crafting her stately Jumbo coffee table, created clever glass-topped mobile coffee tables that move on bicycle tires or sculpted wood wheels for Fontana Arte.
Coffee and cocktail tables can serve as a room’s centerpiece with attention-grabbing details and colors. Glass varieties will keep your hardwood flooring and dazzling area rugs on display, while a marble or stone coffee table in a modern interior can showcase your prized art books and decorative objects. A unique vintage desk or writing table can bring sophistication and even a bit of spice to your work life.
No matter your desired form or function, a quality table for your living space is a sound investment. On 1stDibs, browse a collection of vintage, new and antique bedside tables, mid-century end tables and more today.
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