Tue Poulsen Square Tile Top Coffee Table of Wengé by Erik Wørts Danmark 1960s
Located in Oirlo, LI
More than a coffee table, this piece represents a successful collaboration between ceramic art and fine cabinetmaking, making it a highly collectible example of mid-century Danish de...
Brass
Coffee Table in Teak with Brown Ceramic Tiles of Danish Design from the 1960s
Located in Lejre, DK
Coffee table in teak with brown ceramic tiles of Danish design from the 1960s.
Ceramic, Teak
Vintage Mobelfabrikken Toften Danish MCM Solid Teak & Tile Coffee & Side Tabl
By Mobelfabrikken Toften
Located in Lake Worth, FL
For FULL item description click on "Read More" or "View More Details" below. Shipping Quote Information The shipping quote stated in the listing is from 1st Dibs and they normally s...
Ceramic, Teak
Ceramic Tile Topped Iron Frame Cocktail Table
Located in Hanover, MA
Modern rectangular coffee table made of slim blackened iron frame the top of which is inset with 12 square glazed ceramic tile.
$1,776Sale Price|20% Off
Ceramic Coffee Table
By Juliette Belarti
Located in Antwerp, BE
Ceramic abstract 1950s coffee table. Signed Belarti. The table has a black metal base and the top of the table has ceramic tiles with a beautiful abstract pattern, characteristic of...
Metal
Ceramic Coffee Table Vintage
By Atelier Cerenne of Vallauris
Located in Paddington, NSW
Charming mid-century ceramic coffee table in the style of Auguste Vallauris, crafted in France circa 1950.
Iron
Danish Teak Side Table with Lava Ceramic Tiles, Haslev, 1960s
By Tue Poulsen, Haslev Mobelsnedkeri
Located in Rødekro, DK
A striking example of Danish mid-century design at its most expressive — a solid teak side table inset with six hand-glazed ceramic tiles in deep red, black, and volcanic yellow. Th...
Ceramic, Teak
Floris Fiedeldij Square Mosaic Tile Table for Artimeta, 1950's
By Artimeta, Floris H. Fiedeldij
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Produced by Dutch manufacturer Artimeta in the 1950s, this square coffee table was designed by Floris Fiedeldij. The top is composed of small hand-placed white mosaic tiles arranged ...
Metal
Raised Edge Danish Modern Teak Ceramic Mosaic Tile Cocktail Table
By Gordon & Jane Martz, Helge Vestergaard-Jensen
Located in Chattanooga, TN
We’ve never seen a tile top Danish teak cocktail table with this captivating tile design. Each tile is a completely unique, individual work of art. The tile colors are an ebb and f...
Teak, Ceramic
Ceramic Low Table with Roger Capron's Tiles, France circa 1950
By Roger Capron
Located in St Ouen, FR
Garden table in terracotta ceramic tiles whose center is decorated with country motifs combining fruits, flowers and birds in an orientalist spirit. The enamelling in relief brings a...
Ceramic
Ceramic Low Table with Roger Capron's Tiles, France circa 1950
By Roger Capron
Located in St Ouen, FR
Garden table in terracotta ceramic tiles whose center is decorated with country motifs combining fruits, flowers and birds in an orientalist spirit. The enamelling in relief brings a...
Ceramic
Vintage ceramic coffee table, 1960s
Located in Leuven, Vlaams Gewest
Mid century ceramic tile coffee table with bottles decor Beautifully decorated tiled table top on a chrome frame.
Chrome
Pair of Black Iron & Wire Tables with Taupe Yellow & White Terrazzo Tile Tables
Located in Bainbridge, NY
Pair of Two Tier Black Iron Rod and Wire Framed Terrazzo Tile Side Tables. Side by Side Coffee Tables. End Tables.
Steel, Wire
Juliette Belarti Ceramic tile Table set of 3 Belgian 1970s
By Juliette Belarti
Located in Den Haag, NL
Beautiful set of Three Juliette Belarti Tables . Hand painted decorative Ceramic Tiles . Stunning Abstract decor . Great color . The smaller Table has 2 broken tiles and some rust o...
Ceramic
Unique Vintage Modern Coffee Table
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Mid-Century Modern burl wood cube coffee table featuring unique wood tile designs inside a glass-top.
Wood
Vintage Biomorphic Mosaic Top Coffee Table
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
This vintage biomorphic coffee table pairs a sculptural wood base with an eye-catching ceramic mosaic top, embodying mid-century modern design at its most playful.
Ceramic, Wood
Modernist Large Mosaic Tile Top Cocktail Table by David Holleman
By David Holleman
Located in Buffalo, NY
Modernist large mosaic tile top cocktail table by David Holleman, stunning mosaics,,colors ,,composition.. Classic mid century modern design,, Signed ,,Hand delivery avail to New Yor...
Ceramic, Wood
Rectangle 39x67 Steel Angle Frame Art Tile Top Dining Table MINT
By Cassina
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Rectangle 39x67 Steel Angle Frame Art Tile Top Dining Table MINT
Steel
20th Century French Chrome Coffee Table With Ceramic Top By Juliette Belarti
By Juliette Belarti
Located in High Point, NC
This 20th Century French chrome coffee table with ceramic top by Juliette Belarti exemplifies mid-century artistry and modern design.
Chrome
Rustic Bespoke Oak Table with Ceramic Tile Tray, France, 1960
By Pierre Chareau
Located in Vienna, AT
Unique bespoke oak table with tile-tray from France, midcentury. Dimensions are: 38.58" x 24" x 17.71"- tray only 26" x 14.17" Unique plug-in table base with a solid oak base and...
Wood, Oak, Ceramic
Gordon & Jane Martz Square Coffee Table with Walnut Mosaic Inlay
By Gordon & Jane Martz
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Square walnut coffee table by Gordon & Jane Martz. The table top is inlaid with square tiles in a geometric pattern. The tiles feature varying wood grains and brown tones. The frame,...
Walnut
$930Sale Price|19% Off
Modernist ceramic coffee table, circa 1960
Located in LYON, FR
Maison Lecan presents Modernist ceramic coffee table, circa 1960 Rectangular coffee table featuring a mosaic top composed of glazed ceramic tiles in brown, white, and golden tones a...
Ceramic
Rare Roger Capron Ceramic Coffee Table
By Roger Capron
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Wonderful ceramic tile top coffee table designed by Roger Capron — France 1960's Unique Hand painted ceramic tile with illustrations of whimsical animals and objects ; Lion, Octopus...
Iron
Round Top Bronze Base Cocktail Table with Concentric Design Black Tiles
Located in Ferndale, MI
Black ceramic tiles set in a concentric design set in an inch and a quarter wide bronze band. All supported on three. 75" solid bronze legs. Bronze shows fine patina , tiles are in e...
Bronze
Roger Capron - End Table, Garrigue + Brown Ceramic Tiles, Dovetail Metal Frame
By Roger Capron
Located in Stratford, CT
*** Important detail: custom height available (1)*** Square end table with the famous Roger Capron Garrigue tiles, designed from 1968 to 1982. Mr. Capron was often balancing his d...
Metal
Floris Fiedeldij Square White & Gray Mosaic Tile Table for Artimeta, Black Legs
By Floris H. Fiedeldij, Artimeta
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Gorgeous square black enameled metal coffee table with inset glass mosaic tile by Floris Fiedeldij for Artimeta. A mid-size coffee table with small light gray, white and cream square...
Metal
1950s Mosaic Coffee Table / Flower Bench
Located in Berkeley, CA
Origin: Denmark Designer: Unknown Manufacturer: Unknown Era: 1950s Materials: Oak, Tile, Brass Measurements: 51.5″ wide x 15.5″ deep x 13.75″ tall
Brass
Round Travertine Tile Brass Inlay Cylinder Base Dining Conference Table Mint!
By Maitland Smith
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Round travertine tile brass inlay cylinder base dining conference table mint!
Travertine, Brass
Belarti Modernist Wrought Iron Ceramic Tile Nesting Side Table, a Trio, 1960s
By Juliette Belarti
Located in Atlanta, GA
Belarti, Set of Three Ceramic‑Tiled Nesting Tables, Belgium, 1960s A beautifully composed trio from Belarti, this 1960s Mid‑Century Modern nesting table set showcases the studio's ce...
Metal, Wrought Iron
Midcentury Italian Mosaic Table with Iron Base and Red Glass Tile Style Top
Located in Atlanta, GA
This Italian Midcentury mosaic coffee table embodies the vibrant essence and artistic flair of the mid-20th century.
Iron
Vintage Coffee Table with Inlaid Top, 1960s
Located in OOSTERHOUT, NL
A unique coffee table featuring a brass frame and an exceptionally inlaid tabletop composed of hand-painted tiles. The tiles depict a biblical scene of Adam and Eve and are signed, a...
Brass
1960’s Belgian Brutalist Coffee Table
Located in Chicago, IL
1960’s Belgian Brutalist oak coffee table with hand made tiles.
Pottery, Oak
Design Institute of America (DIA) Marble Coffee Table attributed Milo Baughman
Located in Chicago, IL
DIA coffee table with (removable/replaceable) marble square tile tops. Easily change up this table with pure white, black or red marble tops. Comes with the original white marble top...
Chrome
Coffee table in teak by Helge Vestergaard Jensen
By Soren Horn, Helge Vestergaard-Jensen
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Coffee table in solid teak with a stoneware tile top featuring blue decoration. Designed by Helge Vestergaard-Jensen and made by Søren Horn.
Ceramic, Teak
Roger Capron ceramic and wood coffee table
By Roger Capron
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Mid-Century Ceramic Coffee Table by Roger Capron, circa 1960 A stunning coffee table by the renowned French master ceramicist Roger Capron.
Ceramic, Wood
Ceramic Coffee Table By Roger Capron With Flowers
By Roger Capron
Located in Charmes, FR
Coffee table in ceramic and Provencal floor tiles. Colored flower ceramic decoration. Black metal legs and structure. Excellent condition, with no cracks or missing pieces. Not a com...
Ceramic
Pair of Black Wrought Iron and Blue Purple & Aqua Terrazzo Tile Tables, 1950s
Located in Bainbridge, NY
Detailed with Black Rubber capped feet. Great Side by Side Coffee Tables. Versatile. Classic. American Mid Century. 9 pounds each.
Wrought Iron
$623Sale Price|20% Off
French modernist coffee table from the 70s
Located in LYON, FR
Large modernist coffee table in ceramic and black lacquered metal. Housing a main top made of Sarreguemines earthenware tiles, the black lacquered metal table accommodates a second ...
Ceramic
Mosaic Coffee Table by Berthold Müller, Germany, 1950s
By Berthold Muller
Located in Berlin, DE
Resting on four delicately tapered solid brass legs, the table exudes mid-century charm and refined craftsmanship.
Brass
Coffee table by Robert and Jean Cloutier
By Robert and Jean Cloutier
Located in LYON, FR
Maison Lecan presents this coffee table by Robert (1930-2008) and Jean (1930-2015) Cloutier, French ceramicists whose work under the ZG2 label is today actively sought after by colle...
Ceramic
$1,120Sale Price|36% Off
Mid-Century Modern Expandable Tessellated End Table in the Style Enrique Garcel
By Enrique Garcel
Located in Plainview, NY
A striking Mid-Century Modern tessellated bone coffee or end table crafted in the style of Enrique Garcel, celebrated for his luxurious organic materials and sculptural forms.
Wood
Charming Herbier Coffee Table by Roger Capron
By Roger Capron
Located in NICE, FR
Roger Capron's (1922-2006) herbarium coffee table is a mid-20th-century design piece, characterized by a ceramic tile top adorned with plant-inspired or abstract motifs.
Ceramic, Wood
Signed Roger Capron Coffee Table c. 1960's
By Roger Capron
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Signed Roger Capron Garrigue coffee table. Glazed Tile with intricate botanical frieze pattern carried out throughout the piece. The signed top sits inside a stained oak frame with w...
Ceramic, Oak
$1,695Sale Price|20% Off
Coffee Table by Guillerme et Chambron
By Guillerme et Chambron
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
An oak with tiles by Danikowski, circa 1960.
Ceramic, Oak
$10,000Sale Price|28% Off
Vladimir Kagan for Kagan-Dreyfuss Table w Alexandra Kasuba Tiles, c 1949, Signed
By Vladimir Kagan, Kagan-Dreyfuss, Inc.
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This Vladimir Kagan for Kagan-Dreyfuss low table with Alexandra Kasuba ceramic tiles would work great in a Mid-Century Modern, Scandanavian Modern or Danish Modern home or penthouse ...
Brass
Adnet Style Leather & Dark Jouve Style Lava Stone Tiles Table, France 1950's
By Jacques Adnet
Located in New York, NY
A minimal coffee table in the manner of Jacques Adnet. The steel frame is fully wrapped in a tobacco brown leather with a recessed top made of enameled lava stone tiles at one inch t...
Lava, Steel
Enameled "Shooting Star" Coffee Table, France 1950's
Located in New York, NY
Whimsical coffee table in steel with lava tiles enameled with multi-colored shooting stars.
Lava
French Mosaic Coffee Table with Brass Base, 1960s
Located in Chicago, IL
A French brass and ceramic mosaic coffee table from the 1960s, defined by its elongated oval form and richly textured surface. The top is composed of ceramic tesserae in a palette of...
Brass
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
Mado Jolain and Rene Legrand Ceramic Coffee Table
By Mado Jolain
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This Mado Jolain table combines handcrafted ceramic artistry with refined metalwork, resulting in a piece that is both functional and deeply expressive. The ceramic surface features...
Metal
Danish Rosewood Coffee Table by Severin Hansen Jr., 1960
By Nils Thorsson, Severin Hansen Jr.
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A vintage Mid-Century Modern Danish low sofa table or coffee table in restored Rosewood, in good condition.
Rosewood, Ceramic
Roger Capron, Coffee Table, Wood, Ceramic, France, 1960s
By Roger Capron
Located in High Point, NC
A wood and beige ceramic tile coffee table designed and produced by Roger Capron, France, c. 1960s. Overall Dimensions (inches): 10.75"H x 51.625"W x 24.5"D All items ship from Hig...
Ceramic, Wood
Ceramic and Steel Astrology French Coffee Table, 1960s
By Roger Capron
Located in New York, NY
Incredible and original French steel and ceramic coffee table. The top is a beautiful neutral color. You can see 12 Astrology signs imprinted in the tiles. For lovers of vintage and ...
Steel
Vallauris Ceramic Coffee Table Designed by Michel Barbier
By Maison Barbier
Located in MADRID, ES
This iconic coffee table is a masterpiece of Mid-Century French Modernism, created during the 1960s by artist Michel Barbier at the prestigious Atelier Le Mûrier in Vallauris.
Enamel
French Designer, Coffee Table, Ceramic, Iron, France, 1950s
Located in High Point, NC
A brown orange ceramic tile and painted iron coffee table designed and produced in France, c. 1950s. Overall Dimensions (inches): 15.125"H x 30.25"W x 30.25"D All items ship from H...
Iron
Mosaic Coffee Table with Floating Top, 1950s
By Mado Jolain
Located in Antwerp, BE
Vintage midcentury mosaic tile table. Striped design with neutral stone tile striped with blues and neon yellow. Floating iron frame. Dimensions: 91 W x 50 H x 47 D cm.
Metal
Mid Century Modern, Oak Nesting Tables by Henning Kjærnulf, Denmark, 1960s
By EG Kvaliteet, Henning Kjærnulf
Located in Rødding, DK
Solid oak and ceramic tile-top nesting tables by Henning Kjærnulf, Denmark, 1960s. Each top is inset with a grid of hand-decorated ceramic tiles carrying individually rendered circul...
Ceramic, Oak
Modernist coffee table from the 1960s, attributed to Lilienthal
Located in LYON, FR
Maison Lecan presents this modernist coffee table from the 1960s, attributed to Lilienthal, the German specialist in ceramic-top tables now actively sought after by mid-century desig...
Steel
Guillerme et Chambron Set of Four Side Tables / Modular Coffee Table, 1950s
By Votre Maison, Guillerme et Chambron, Boleslaw Danikowski
Located in The Hague, NL
This very rare set of four solid oak side tables was designed by Guillerme et Chambron and produced by their atelier Votre Maison in Northern France in the 1950s. Each table is toppe...
Ceramic, Oak
$3,813Sale Price|32% Off
Black Lacquered Metal Coffee Table with Ceramic Top
By Jacques Adnet
Located in Marcq-en-Barœul, Hauts-de-France
This beautiful design coffee table is made of a black lacquered metal base with ceramic tiles decorated with stylized fish and corals. This is a French work in the style of famous de...
Metal
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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