From sleek metal to welcoming wooden Ping-Pong tables, today’s designers are reimagining the table (and its accompanying accessories) for the chic, modern table tennis player. Find Ping-Pong tables or a range of other vintage, new and antique game tables for your game room or living room on 1stDibs.
Ping-Pong (or table tennis) has come a long way from its inception as an upper-class parlor game in 1880s Victorian England, when it was commonly called whiff waff, flim flam or gossima, and the net was composed of stacks of books. (As befit its high-society origins, a Champagne cork was often used as the ball.) British colonialism in the 20th century helped carry the game across Europe and into Asia, where it remains highly popular.
In modern times, Ping-Pong has probably been most closely associated with the high socks, shorts and bowl cuts of the 1970s. Its breakout year, however, was 1988, when it officially became an Olympic sport.
If Olympic status and worldwide popularity aren’t enough to erase the image of bulky green plywood tables from your mind’s eye, the luxurious examples on 1stDibs — which include designs by James de Wulf, Janne Kyttanen and others — should prove to you that Ping-Pong can be surprisingly high fashion.