Sergio Rodrigues, Coffee Table, Wood, Marble, Brazil, 1960s
By Sergio Rodrigues
Located in High Point, NC
A wood and marble coffee table designed and produced in Brazil, c. 1960s. Wear consistent with age and use. Overall Dimensions (inches): 11.0"H x 32.5"W x 32.5"D All items ship fr...
Marble
Brazilian Designer, Coffee Table, Wood, Marble, Brazil, 1960s
Located in High Point, NC
A wood and marble coffee table designed and produced in Brazil, c. 1960s. Wear consistent with age and use. Overall Dimensions (inches): 15.85"H x 43.15"W x 20.0"D All items ship ...
Marble
French Round Coffee Table Marble Top & Wrought Iron
Located in Labrit, Landes
French round coffee table wrought iron & marble top, made circa 1960. A circular wrought-iron coffee table featuring scrollwork and stylized leaf motifs, resting on four curved legs...
Marble, Wrought Iron
Brazilian Designer, Coffee Table, Iron, Marble, Brazil, 1950s
Located in High Point, NC
A black-lacquered iron and marble coffee table designed and produced in Brazil, c. 1950s. Provenance: Apartamento 61, São Paulo. Dramatic patina on iron frame. Wear consistent with...
Marble, Iron
Coffee Table in Expressive Marble and Oak, 1970s
Located in Tilburg, NL
Coffee table in expressive marble and oak, 1970s.
Marble
Marble sphere coffee table by Roche Bobois, 1980s
Located in Leuven, Vlaams Gewest
Gorgeous vintage coffee table with 3 white marble spheres mounted on lucite bases topped with a a glass table top. Beautiful, timeless piece. This table comes from Roche Bobois a l...
Marble
Mid-20th Century Marble Top Occasional Table
Located in Martlesham, GB
Mid-20th century Italian occasional / coffee table with a veined marble top with a moulded edge, the base made from giltwood which is heavily carved, decorated with swags which are u...
Marble and Walnut Coffee Table in the Style of Adrian Pearsall
By Adrian Pearsall
Located in Brooklyn, NY
A striking and unique coffee table combining rich woodgrain with different shades of marble, styled after Adrian Pearsall. Please confirm item location with seller (NY/NJ).
Marble
French 1950s Iron and Marble Coffee Table
Located in Isle Sur La Sorgue, Vaucluse
Elegant rectangular coffee table with a wrought iron base, with original red paint, and a Carrara marble top. Raised on cabriole legs, and elaborate curlicued base.
Carrara Marble, Wrought Iron
$17,500 / item
Mid-Century Modern Coffee Table Made to Order Old Plank
Located in Highwood, IL
Our Mid-Century Modern Steel, Brass and Marble Coffee Table can be built in most any dimension and a myriad of finishes.
Marble, Metal, Brass, Steel
$993Sale Price|20% Off
Vintage Brass and Marble Coffee Table, Italy 1950s
Located in Catania, CT
Good vintage condition for this brass and marble coffee or side table produced in Italy during the 1950s. Normal trace of age and use but a crack on the upper part of the brass struc...
Marble, Brass
Wrought iron coffee table with a green marble
Located in Milano, IT
COD-CVR01 Wrought iron and copper-green lacquered coffee table with a green marble top. French manufacture, Art Deco period, ca. 1930.
Marble, Iron
Celina Decorações, Coffee Table, Wood, Marble, Brazil, 1960s
By Celina Decoracoes
Located in High Point, NC
A wood and marble coffee table produced by Celina Decorações, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1960s. Loss to veneer as illustrated. Complimentary touch up available upon request. Overall ...
Marble
1960s Square Coffee Table with a Green Marble Top
Located in Beerse, VAN
Beautiful sleek coffee table from the 1960s. The table consists of a black metal frame with a green marble top. The top has a very lively pattern with all kinds of color nuances. I...
Marble, Metal
Mid-Century Set of 3 Italian Marble and Brass Tables
Located in Oud Beijerland, NL
Lovely set of 3 Italian coffee or cocktail tables. They have a Carrara marble round plate with a brass base. All tables have a different hight, the plates have the same size.
Carrara Marble, Metal
Marden, Coffee Table, Marble, Brass, Wood, USA, 1950s
Located in High Point, NC
A dark-grey marble, brass and wood coffee table produced by Marden, USA, c. 1950s. Wear consistent with age and use. Overall Dimensions (inches): 14.25"H x 57.5"W x 29.0"D All ite...
Marble, Brass
Vladimir Kagan, Coffee Table, Walnut, Marble, USA, 1950s
By Vladimir Kagan
Located in High Point, NC
A walnut and marble coffee table designed by Vladimir Kagan and produced by Kagan-Dreyfuss, Inc., New York, c. 1950s. Provenance: DeLorenzo Gallery, New York. Wear consistent with ...
Marble
John Widdicomb, Coffee Table, Wood, Marble, USA, 1950s
By John Widdicomb
Located in High Point, NC
A wood and marble coffee table produced by John Widdicomb, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA, c. 1950s. Wear consistent with age and moderate use. Overall Dimensions (inches): 13.15"H x ...
Marble
Mid Century Modern Harvey Probber Walnut with Black Marble Cocktail Table
By Harvey Probber
Located in Chicago, IL
Mid Century Modern Harvey Probber Walnut with Black Marble Cocktail Table Elevate your home decor with this timeless piece.
Marble
Italian Designer, Coffee Table, Wood, Marble, Italy, 1970s
Located in High Point, NC
A marble and wood coffee table likely designed and produced in Italy, c. 1970s. Overall Dimensions (inches): 15.25"H x 54.0"W x 26.0"D All items ship from High Point, North Carolina.
Marble
Giuseppe Scapinelli, Coffee Table, Wood, Marble, Brazil, 1950s
By Giuseppe Scapinelli
Located in High Point, NC
A wood and marble coffee table designed and produced by Giuseppe Scapinelli, Brazil, c. 1950s. Dimensions: 12.75” H x 29.75” Diameter
Marble
Giuseppe Scapinelli, Coffee Table, Wood, Marble, Brazil, 1950s
By Giuseppe Scapinelli
Located in High Point, NC
A wood and marble coffee table designed and produced by Giuseppe Scapinelli, Brazil, c. 1950s. Dimensions: 13.25” H x 28.75” Diameter
Marble
Brazilian Designer, Coffee Table, Wood, Marble, Brazil, 1950s
Located in High Point, NC
A wood and marble coffee table designed and produced in Brazil, c. 1950s. Dimensions: 12.4” H x 35.375” W x 30.55” D
Marble
Celina Decorações, Coffee Table, Wood, Marble, Brazil, 1960s
By Celina Decoracoes
Located in High Point, NC
A wood and marble coffee table produced by Celina Decorações, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, c. 1960s. Dimensions: 12” H x 60” W x 32” D All items ship from High Point, North Carolina.
Marble
Giuseppe Scapinelli, Coffee Table, Wood, Marble, Brazil, 1950s
By Giuseppe Scapinelli
Located in High Point, NC
A wood and glass coffee table designed and produced by Giuseppe Scapinelli, Brazil, c. 1950s. Overall Dimensions (inches): 13.625"H x 27.5"W x 27.5"D All items ship from High Point...
Marble
Mid-Century Modern Inspired Walnut and Leathered Avocatus Quartzite Coffee Table
Located in Toronto, CA
A striking balance of architectural form and organic texture, this contemporary coffee table draws inspiration from Mid-Century Modern lines and the Studio Craft movement. Designed a...
Marble
Celina Decorações, Coffee Table, Wood, Marble, Brazil, 1960s
By Celina Decoracoes
Located in High Point, NC
A wood and marble coffee table produced by Celina Decorações, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, c. 1960s. The wooden base presents with moderate loss of wood in various places throughout stru...
Marble
H Coffee Table by Joaquim Tenreiro, Mid-Century Modern Brazilian, 1960
By Joaquim Tenreiro
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Architectural and elemental, this solid rosewood table anchors a white marble top with H-shaped legs — a sculptural shift from Tenreiro’s earlier delicacy toward grounded, modernist ...
Marble
French Three-Part Marble "Iceberg" Coffee Table, C. 1960
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A striking French sculptural coffee table crafted entirely of marble, featuring a free-form organic top supported by two monumental pedestal bases. The table's hand-carved surfaces e...
Marble
American Designer, Coffee Table, Brass, Marble, USA, 1960s
Located in High Point, NC
A black and white marble and brass coffee table designed and produced in the US, c. 1960s. Overall Dimensions (inches): 13.5"H x 54.0"W x 19.0"D All items ship from High Point, Nor...
Marble, Brass
$11,975 / item
Black Marble Prospect Coffee Table by Lawson-Fenning
By Lawson-Fenning
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The prospect coffee table features a stone top that rests atop a sculpted American walnut or white oak base with two cutouts for drum tables on either end. The Lawson-Fenning Colle...
Marble
Mid-Century Modern Salemas Stone Coffee Table Egyptian Onyx, Handmade Greenapple
By Greenapple, Rute Martins
Located in Lisboa, PT
Mid-Century Modern Salemas Stone Coffee Table, Contemporary Collection, handcrafted in Portugal - Europe by Greenapple. The Salemas stone coffee table was designed to bring a sense ...
Onyx, Marble, Carrara Marble, Statuary Marble, Travertine
Paul McCobb / Milo Baughman Vintage Modern Custom Marble Coffee Table by Marden
By Marden Furniture
Located in Chicago, IL
Mid-Century Modern vintage custom marble coffee table by Marden.
Marble
Large Eye Shaped Sicilian Marble Coffee Table, 1970s
Located in Paris, IDF
Beautiful eye shaped coffee table made in France in the early 1970s from a beautiful Sicilian wavy marble. The thick table surface is slick yet intriguing, with a beautiful and origi...
Marble
T.H. Robsjohn Gibbings for Widdicomb Mid Century Marble Cocktail Table
By T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings, Widdicomb Furniture Co.
Located in Dallas, TX
We have perfectly restored this beautiful cocktail table designed by T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings for Widdicomb. This includes refinishing the base and having the marble expertly polished....
Marble
Brazilian Modern Rosewood & Marble Coffee Table, Ziglio Decorações, Brazil
Located in New York, NY
Visible joinery details and hardware accents reflect the pragmatic sophistication characteristic of mid-century Brazilian design workshops. The marble top introduces a cool, tactile...
Marble
Vintage French Marble Top Giltwood Coffee Table 20th Century
Located in London, GB
This is an exquisite French giltwood and marble top coffee table with Limoges plaques, circa 1950 in date. This wonderful oval coffee table has four elegant and stylish tapering flu...
Marble
Fredrik Schriever Abeln, Coffee Table, Teak, Marble, Sweden, 1960s
Located in High Point, NC
A teak and marble coffee table designed by Fredrik Schriever Abeln, Sweden, c. 1960s. Wear to wood frame consistent with age and use. Replaced marble top. Overall Dimensions (inche...
Marble
Stunning Walnut and Marble Coffee Table, USA 1950s
By Harvey Probber
Located in Miami, FL
Beautiful Coffee Table from the 1950s, base is solid walnut, top is 1” thick Italian Marble. Ready for a new home.
Marble
Early 20th Century French Coffee Table with Marble Top
Located in New Orleans, LA
This distinctive early 20th-century French coffee table features a beautifully veined marble top supported by a sculptural curly base, blending classic materials with an unexpectedl...
Marble, Iron
Swedish Designer, Coffee Table, Bamboo, Rattan, Marble, Sweden, 1950s
Located in High Point, NC
A moulded bamboo, rattan and marble coffee table designed and produced in Sweden, c. 1950s. Natural imperfections in marble. Wear consistent with age and use. Replaced marble top. ...
Marble
Italian Marble Leaf Shape Coffee Table, 1980's
Located in Oud Beijerland, NL
A very nice Italian Coffee Table handcrafted out of marble in the 80's. The fabulous marble features a beautiful pattern of different colors. The beautiful top has the shape of ...
Marble
Florence Knoll Coffee Table with Verde Alpi Marble Top
By Florence Knoll, Knoll
Located in Rochester, England
The Florence Knoll coffee table with Verde Alpi marble top is a timeless example of modern luxury. Designed with precision and crafted from quality materials, this piece combines sle...
Marble
1950s Eugenio Escudero Coffee Table Mahogany Marble Bronze
By Eugenio Escudero
Located in Chula Vista, CA
AMBIANIC presents Elegant Coffee Table Marble Bronze Mahogany Mexico City 1950s. Mexican Modernism at its finest. Unmarked, attribution Eugenio Escudero. 17.5 h x 59 w x 30 d Origina...
Marble, Brass, Bronze
$2,520Sale Price / set|20% Off
1960 Mid Century Modern "Muller" Cult. Marble & Match. Side Table by "Muller"
Located in Opa Locka, FL
c1960's Mid Century Modern Cultured Marble Coffee Table with Matching Side/ Accent Table by Famed Mexican Designer "Muller".
Marble
Original coffee table in varnished metal, black marble top.
Located in Mouscron, WHT
Original coffee table in varnished metal, black marble top. the tray measures 60 cm in diameter.
Marble, Metal
$5,143 / item
Black Marble Coffee Table Top, Floral Stone Inlay
By Stephanie Odegard Collection
Located in New York, NY
A hand-crafted Black Marble coffee table is crafted from Black Marble and decorated with a traditional Italian floral Pietra Dura composition executed in semiprecious stone. The piec...
Marble, Agate, Lapis Lazuli
Mid-Century Modern Salemas Quartz Coffee Table, Patagonia Quartz, by Greenapple
By Rute Martins, Greenapple
Located in Lisboa, PT
Mid-Century Modern Salemas Quartz Coffee Table, Contemporary Collection, handcrafted in Portugal - Europe by Greenapple. The Salemas quartz coffee table was designed to bring a sens...
Onyx, Marble, Statuary Marble, Travertine
Lawson-Fenning San Rafael Coffee Table, Marble Top Round Cocktail Table
By Lawson-Fenning
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The San Rafael Coffee Table - Round by Lawson-Fennig has 4 solid hardwood sculptural legs and a Ceppo Marble top. The robust beauty will be the anchor of any room. The Lawson-Fenni...
Marble
Angelo Mangiarotti Carrara Marble Coffee Table, Italy 1970's
By Angelo Mangiarotti
Located in Antwerp, Antwerp
Italian coffee table designed by Angelo Mangiarotti, executed in solid white Carrara marble with characteristic natural veining. The table presents a substantial rectangular top supp...
Carrara Marble
Italian White Marble and Brass 1970s Square Coffee Table
Located in Varese, Lombardia
This elegant coffee table was produced in Italy around the 1970s. It is made from a brass structure with a white marble top. The table remains in very good vintage condition: unifor...
Marble, Brass
Mid-Century Modern Bronze and Marble Rectangular Cocktail Table after Knoll
By Knoll, Florence Knoll
Located in Philadelphia, PA
An incredibly heavy and well made coffee table in the manner of Florence Knoll. It features a solid bronze heavy frame with an inlaid Perlato marble.
Marble, Bronze
Lawson-Fenning San Rafael Coffee Table, Marble Top Square Cocktail Table
By Lawson-Fenning
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The San Rafael Coffee Table - Square by Lawson-Fenning has 4 solid hardwood sculptural legs and a stone top. The robust beauty will be the anchor of any room. The Lawson-Fenning Co...
Marble
Set of Two Italian Mid-Century Modern Marble Base Artedi Tables
By Artedi
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This stunning vintage modern end table and coffee table features a marble base with brass cross supports. An elegant Italian design with a cube base and a taller diamond shaped base....
Marble, Brass
Antique Italian Baroque Fruitwood Marble Top Coffee Table
Located in Dallas, TX
Antique Italian Baroque fruitwood marble top coffee table is a beautiful expression of the Baroque revival style as expressed in a restrained manner from solid fruitwood, sculpted al...
Marble
Mid-Century Modern Raw Marble Side Table, Calacatta Bianco, Handmade Greenapple
By Rute Martins, Greenapple
Located in Lisboa, PT
Mid-Century Modern Raw Marble Side Table, Contemporary Collection, Handcrafted in Portugal - Europe by Greenapple. The Raw marble side table celebrates the interplay between refined...
Onyx, Marble, Travertine, Statuary Marble, Quartz, Metal, Brass, Stainle...
Argentine Designer, Coffee Table, Marble, Wood, Metal, Argentina, 1950s
Located in High Point, NC
A marble, wood and metal coffee table designed and produced in Argentina, c. 1950s. Wear consistent with age and use. Overall Dimensions (inches): 12.5"H x 31.25"W x 15.75"D All i...
Marble, Metal
Argentine Designer, Coffee Table, Wood, Marble, Brass, Argentina, 1950s
Located in High Point, NC
A wood, marble and brass coffee table likely designed and produced in Argentina, c. 1950s. Wear consistent with age and use. Overall Dimensions (inches): 12.5"H x 42.0"W x 17.0"D ...
Marble, Brass
19th Century Oriental Hardwood & Marble Coffee Table
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
A very good quality mid-19th century oriental hardwood coffee table having inset marble top over elegant pierced frieze raised on cabriole legs (Much larger than the more commo...
Hardwood
Brass and Marble Base Glass Top Square Coffee Table
By Angelo Mangiarotti
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Mid-Century Modern marble and brass base large square glass top coffee table.
Marble, Brass
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
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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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