T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings Walnut Trestle-Base Coffee / Cocktail Table
By T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings
Located in Queens, NY
American Mid-Century walnut coffee / cocktail table with a rectangular top resting on a crossed trestle base.
Wood, Walnut
Double X Base Glass Top Rectangular Coffee Table on Wheels
By John Widdicomb, Dunbar Furniture
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Mid Century Modern double X-base design coffee table from c.1970's.
Brass
Vladimir Kagan Selig Danish Modern Walnut Chrome Glass Propeller Coffee Table
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Vladimir Kagan Selig Danish Modern Walnut Chrome Glass Propeller Coffee Table. Item features curved walnut ends, rectangular glass top, chrome stretcher support, clean Modernist lines.
Chrome
Rectangular 4 Pieces Nesting Solid Stainless Chrome Legs Coffee Table
By Paul McCobb, Established Lines
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Box shaped set of 4 coffee tables by Established Lines. Mirror polished solid stainless steel rod frame bases coffee table with three 18 x 18 x 15 cube shape nesting tables. The ele...
Stainless Steel, Chrome
Mario Bellini "Pianura" Rectangular Coffee Table for Cassina, 1971
By Cassina, Mario Bellini
Located in Lonigo, Veneto
Mario Bellini "Pianura" rectangular coffee table for Cassina, brown mohair velvet and wood, Italy, 1971. The “Pianura” living room set is a great expression of the minimalism and el...
Wood
Spanish Baroque Side Table with Wood Stretcher and Rectangular Top in Walnut
Located in Miami, FL
19th Century Spanish Baroque ebonized side or working table with wood stretcher and top in walnut. We have a matching smaller coffee table, you can see it in the last picture.
Walnut
Brass Inlayed & Framed Rectangular Reverse Painted Atlas Map Top Coffee Table
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Mid-Century Modern reverse painted old atlas map glass top coffee table. Brass inlayed legs. The glass top is secured with brass frame. The legs are secured with wing nuts.
Brass
Folk Art Solid Walnut Coffee Table Italy, circa 1950
By Charlotte Perriand, Edward Wormley
Located in Vienna, AT
Large artisan walnut table, Italy, 1950 Great Italian rectangular walnut coffee table.
Walnut
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
$1,068Sale Price|20% Off
Vintage 1960s Walnut Coffee Table, Italian Design
Located in Torino, Piemonte
Rectangular coffee table made of solid walnut, Italian design, 1960s. CONDITION: In good condition, with signs of wear due to age. DIMENSIONS: Height 39 cm; Width 112 cm; Depth 57 ...
Wood
Pair of Mid-Century Spanish Walnut Trestle Tables-Benches with Iron Stretchers
Located in Dallas, TX
This handsome pair of Spanish walnut trestle tables or benches was crafted in Spain circa 1950 and reflects a mid-century interpretation of traditional Spanish rustic furniture.
Wrought Iron
Newly Refinished - Mid-Century Modern Butter Yellow Ceramic Tile Coffee Table
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Enjoy! 😁 Materials: Walnut-Stained Pine, Original Ceramic Tile Top This Mid-Century Modern butter yellow ceramic tile coffee table, c.1970s, brings a warm and casual vintage chara...
Ceramic, Pine
Guglielmo Ulrich Walnut, Agate and Brass Coffee Table, Italy, circa 1950
By Guglielmo Ulrich
Located in New York, NY
Superb walnut and brass coffee table designed by Italian mid-century designer, Guglielmo Ulrich.
Agate, Brass
Mid-Century Modern coffee table by ISA Bergamo, 1950s, attributed to Gio Ponti
By ISA Bergamo, Gio Ponti
Located in Vigonza, Padua
The table is distinguished by its simple rectangular wooden top and its elegant architectural base, consisting of four slender black-lacquered metal legs that are slightly flared and...
Metal
Vintage MCM Walnut Coffee Table Designed After Kipp Stewart for Drexel
By Kipp Stewart, Drexel
Located in Chicago, IL
Vintage Mid Century Modern Walnut Coffee Table Designed After Kipp Stewart for Drexel This low rectangular shaped table has some cool features with its top door that lifts open to ...
Walnut
Patricia Urquiola Sengu Coffee Table in Walnut & Glass, Modern Design
By Patricia Urquiola
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Patricia Urquiola Sengu Coffee Table For Cassina Asian-inspired, this design coffee table by Patricia Urquiola is a domestic architecture enhanced by the layering of different mater...
Walnut
Mid-Century Modern Two-Drawer Cocktail Table in Walnut and Brass, Harvey Probber
By Harvey Probber
Located in New York, NY
This elegant and refined cocktail table was designed by Harvey Probber and handmade in Fall River, Massachusetts circa 1960. Probber believed that "aging gracefully" represented the ...
Brass
Edward Wormley for Dunbar Two-Tier Walnut & Rosewood Coffee Table / TV Stand
By Dunbar Furniture, Edward Wormley
Located in St. Louis, MO
1960s Edward Wormley for Dunbar Two-Tier walnut & rosewood elegant rectangular parson style coffee table, with subtle inset legs. The legs / end frame structure appear to be rose...
Rosewood, Walnut
Beautiful Walnut and Brass Mounted French Directoire Baker Coffee Table
By Baker Furniture Company
Located in Swedesboro, NJ
Ideal for both formal and relaxed settings, this coffee table integrates seamlessly into antique-inspired interiors, Hollywood Regency decor, or even clean, mid-century modern spaces.
Brass
19th Century French Louis XIII Walnut Coffee Table with Marble Inlay Top
Located in Dallas, TX
Bring a sophisticated Old World accent to a seating area or library with this elegant antique coffee table crafted in southern France circa 1860. Built of richly patinated walnut in ...
Marble
Mid-Century Modern Burlwood Pedestal Cocktail Table, 1970s
By Karl Springer, Pace Furniture Company, Tommaso Barbi, Willy Rizzo, Milo Baughman
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Striking vintage 1970s Mid-Century Modern coffee table featuring richly figured walnut burl with a sculptural pedestal base and softly rounded rectangular top.
Wood, Walnut
Baker Furniture Burl Walnut Queen Anne Coffee Table with Parquetry Top
By Baker Furniture Company
Located in W Allenhurst, NJ
An elegant Baker Furniture Queen Anne-style coffee table crafted in richly figured burl walnut with an exceptional geometric parquetry top. The rectangular surface is framed by finel...
Wood
$2,280Sale Price|20% Off
Mid-Century Modern Walnut with Architectural Glass Attributed to Founder's
By Founders Furniture Company
Located in Port Jervis, NY
Fabulous architectural styled glass top cocktail table with a rectangular minimalist wooden base. Attributed to the Founders Furniture Co. and designed and constructed in the late si...
Glass, Walnut
Gordon & Jane Martz Green Speckle Glazed Coin Tile Coffee Table
By Gordon & Jane Martz
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Rectangular coffee table by Gordon & Jane Martz. The table top is inlaid with green ceramic coin tiles. The frame, base and pedestal of the table are all solid walnut. Dimensions 49...
Ceramic, Walnut
Walnut Low Table from USA
Located in Sagaponack, NY
A walnut low table having a long rectangular top with raised end rails resting on a six-legged base with turned legs and stretchers. The legs attach to the top with a through tenon ...
Walnut
$5,074 / item
Midcentury Style Coffee Table
Located in Westwood, NJ
Mid-Century Modern style brass inlaid walnut rectangular form cocktail table. This table features a veneer technique borrowed from the artisans of the Italian Renaissance. Inlays and...
Brass
Set of two Spanish Baroque Side Tables with Wood Stretcher and rectangular top
Located in Miami, FL
19th Century Spanish Baroque ebonized side or working table with wood stretcher and top in walnut. We have a matching smaller coffee table, you can see it in the last picture.
Walnut
$12,724 / item
Patricia Urquiola Sengu Coffee Table For Cassina
By Patricia Urquiola
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Patricia Urquiola Sengu Coffee Table For Cassina Asian-inspired, this design coffee table by Patricia Urquiola is a domestic architecture enhanced by the layering of different mater...
Walnut
$7,212 / item
Patricia Urquiola Sengu Coffee Table For Cassina
By Patricia Urquiola
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Patricia Urquiola Sengu Coffee Table For Cassina Asian-inspired, this design coffee table by Patricia Urquiola is a domestic architecture enhanced by the layering of different mater...
Walnut
$7,212 / item
Patricia Urquiola Sengu Coffee Table For Cassina
By Patricia Urquiola
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Patricia Urquiola Sengu Coffee Table For Cassina Asian-inspired, this design coffee table by Patricia Urquiola is a domestic architecture enhanced by the layering of different mater...
Walnut
$5,155 / item
Patricia Urquiola Sengu Coffee Table For Cassina
By Patricia Urquiola
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Patricia Urquiola Sengu Coffee Table For Cassina Asian-inspired, this design coffee table by Patricia Urquiola is a domestic architecture enhanced by the layering of different mater...
Walnut
$8,211 / item
Patricia Urquiola Sengu Coffee Table For Cassina
By Patricia Urquiola
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Patricia Urquiola Sengu Coffee Table For Cassina Asian-inspired, this design coffee table by Patricia Urquiola is a domestic architecture enhanced by the layering of different mater...
Walnut
Travertine Top Coffee Table designed by Bertha Schaefer, Singer & Sons
By Bertha Schaefer
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Bertha Schaefer coffee table, by Singer & Sons, USA, walnut base with six sculptural curved supports, original rectangular travertine top.
Travertine
Sapporo coffee table by Mario Marenco for Mobil Girgi
By Mobil Girgi, Mario Marenco
Located in RIDDERKERK, NL
This Sapporo coffee table , designed by Mario Marenco for Mobil Girgi in the 1970s, is an elegant example of Italian design from that period. The table has solid wood legs supporting...
Wood, Walnut
$3,600Sale Price|35% Off
Widdicomb Three-Drawer Travertine Top Coffee Table, 1963
By Widdicomb Furniture Co.
Located in Camden, ME
An elegant and rare mid-century modern three-drawer coffee table by the Widdicomb Furniture Company, dated to the 1960s and retaining its original stenciled Widdicomb label with mode...
Travertine
Italian coffee table, 1960, Fontana Arte
By Fontana Arte
Located in Nice, FR
This table embodies an aesthetic highly characteristic of 1960s Italian design. A coffee table attributed to Fontana Arte (circa 1960), featuring a mahogany- or walnut-stained wood ...
Wood
Vintage Boho Lane “Perception” Triangle Coffee Table
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An authenticated piece from the highly sought-after “Perception” series by Lane Furniture, this coffee table is a hallmark of American Mid-Century Modern design.
Walnut
Walnut Low Table by Edward Wormley for Dunbar
By Edward Wormley, Dunbar Furniture
Located in Sagaponack, NY
A rectangular dark walnut low table having a black laminate top and distinctive triangular legs.
Walnut
$1,712Sale Price|42% Off
Italian Design Wooden Coffee Table, 1970s RESTORED
Located in Casale Monferrato, IT
This is a stunning and sophisticated piece of mid-century furniture. Italian design from the 1970s often combines elegance and practicality, making this coffee table truly unique.
Wood
Paul Michel for Roche Bobois Burl Wood Metamorphic Cocktail Bar Coffee Table 70s
Located in Nottingham, GB
A striking 1970s French metamorphic cocktail table by Paul Michel, combining richly figured burl wood with mirrored surfaces and an ingenious concealed bar. The substantial rectangu...
Steel
Patricia Urquiola Sengu Coffee Table in Wood & Glass, Modern Design by Cassina
By Patricia Urquiola
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Patricia Urquiola Sengu Coffee Table For Cassina Asian-inspired, this design coffee table by Patricia Urquiola is a domestic architecture enhanced by the layering of different mater...
Walnut
Tuscan Desk, Trestle Side Table, Occasional Table, in Solid Walnut, Wax-Polished
By Dini & Puccini
Located in Vigonza, Padua
Mid-20th century Tuscan trestle side table or occasional table or Desk table, by Dini & Puccini-Cascina- in carved walnut, with walnut weneer top, restored and polished to wax. Meas...
Walnut
Natural Organic Burl Root Coffee Table Base
Located in Stafford, TX
Vintage 1970s Natural Burl Root Coffee Table Base An exceptional vintage 1970s sculptural burl root coffee table base, handcrafted from a single massive section of naturally weather...
Wood, Burl
$25,065Sale Price|20% Off
Clouds Modern Coffee Table Decorated with Gold Leaf and Plane Tree Bark
By Giordano Viganò
Located in Meda, Lombardia
Clouds is a coffee table inspired by a classical style. The top is covered with gold leaf and an inlay made with plane tree bark. The bark was cut into several cloud-shaped pieces th...
Gold Leaf
De Coene Frères Very Elegant Art Deco Coffee Table Belgium 1930s
Located in Meer, VAN
A wonderful coffee table by De Coene Frères, Belgium. 1930s. Very elegant and refined, this coffee table shows an architectural rectangular top combined with a sculptural base in ni...
Walnut, Maple
Roger Capron Ceramic Coffee Table White Tiles and Herbier Impressions Wood Base
Located in Chicago, IL
Roger Capron rectangular ceramic coffee table size. Charming table with rare pure white tiles and elongated tiles with the herbier impressions. The edge of the table on the ends hav...
Ceramic, Wood
Willy Rizzo Large Coffee Table in Brass, Burl, Smoked Glass, Italy, 1970s
By Willy Rizzo
Located in Roma, IT
Marvelous and unique large rectangular coffee table in a beautiful combination of brass and walnut burl, completed with two thick smoked glass tops.
Brass
Solace 23: Sophisticated Solid Wood Coffee Table with Angular Lines
By Joel Escalona
Located in Ciudad de México, CDMX
Rectangular Coffee Table Made of Solid Wood, Center Table Solace S23 by Joel Escalona The Solace table series, designed by Joel Escalona, is a furniture collection that exudes bala...
Hardwood
French Louis XVI Style Coffee Table with Marble Top and Geometric Lattice Design
Located in Hopewell, NJ
Elegant French carved walnut coffee table, mid-20th century, topped with a rectangular marble slab displaying warm, mottled veining.
Marble
Mid-Century Modern Walnut Lane "Rythym" Low Coffee/Console table
Located in Wilmington, DE
A handsome Mid-Century Modern low-profile walnut console featuring warm wood tones, clean architectural lines, and versatile storage. The long rectangular case is fitted with sliding...
Wood
Beautiful long Mid Century walnut wood coffee table with a mosaic surface
Located in München, DE
Extraordinary rectangular Mid Century walnut couch or side table. Surface with black square mosaic stones made of ceramic. A few colorful stones are arranged in an abstract design. G...
Ceramic, Walnut
$12,473 / item
Patricia Urquiola Set of Two Sengu Low Table For Cassina
By Patricia Urquiola
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Patricia Urquiola Set of Two Sengu Low Table For Cassina A collection of three designer low tables by Patricia Urquiola in combination with the eponymous sofa, they are the answer t...
Walnut
Patricia Urquiola Set of Two Sengu Low Wood and Marble Tables For Cassina
By Patricia Urquiola
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Patricia Urquiola Set of Two Sengu Low Table For Cassina A collection of three designer low tables by Patricia Urquiola in combination with the eponymous sofa, they are the answer t...
Walnut
Patricia Urquiola Set of Two Sengu Low Table For Cassina
By Patricia Urquiola
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Patricia Urquiola Set of Two Sengu Low Table For Cassina A collection of three designer low tables by Patricia Urquiola in combination with the eponymous sofa, they are the answer t...
Walnut
$2,880Sale Price|40% Off
Edward Wormley for Dunbar Table Bench with Brass Magazine Display
By Edward Wormley, Dunbar Furniture
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Dunbar coffee table or bench (Model 5933a) with built-in brass rods for suspending magazines. One other option is to recess a glass top over the rods to use as table surface. Signed ...
Brass
Harvey Probber Marble Top Rectangular Coffee Table w/ Brass Rectangular stretche
By Harvey Probber, Knoll
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Very nice Mid-Century Modern rectangular coffee table by Harvey Probber. Nice around perimeter solid brass stretcher.
Marble, Brass
Williams Hairpin Dining Rectangular Table 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 Dining Rectangular Table Walnut 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
$2,602Sale Price|25% Off
Mid Century Modern Art Deco Walnut Console Table, 20th Century
Located in Lisbon, PT
An exquisite Mid-Century console table crafted from rich walnut, blending Art Deco elegance with modern functionality.
Wood, Walnut
Williams Hairpin Dining Rectangular Table Walnut Brassy Gold
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
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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