Black Square Quad Coffee Table in Stone Composite, Crafted by Mike Serra
Located in Geneve, CH
Black Square Quad Coffee Table in Stone Composite, Crafted by Mike Serra Dimensions: W 48" x D 48" x H 12" inch.
Other
White Square Quad Coffee Table in Stone Composite, Crafted by Mike Serra
Located in Geneve, CH
White Square Quad Coffee Table in Stone Composite, Crafted by Mike Serra Dimensions: W 48" x D 48" x H 12" inch Materials: Stone composite Mike Ruiz-Serra is a New York based desig...
Other
Black Rounded Square Quad Coffee Table in Fiberglass by Mike Ruiz Serra
By Mike Ruiz Serra
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The Quad is a low, sculptural coffee table with four hemispherical legs that acts as a quiet yet powerful visual anchor in the room.
Fiberglass
Contemporary Steel "Quad Diamonds" Cocktail Table by Alex Drew & No One 2015
By Alex Drew & No One
Located in Detroit, MI
The “Quad Diamonds” cocktail table is from the 2015 collection of Alex Drew & No One. Inspired by traditional craftsmanship while incorporating a modern edge, AD&NO's work plays on l...
Brass, Gold Leaf, Silver Leaf, Metal, Steel
Quad Coffee Table by Mike Serra
Located in Geneve, CH
Quad coffee table by Mike Serra Dimensions: W 48" x D 48" x H 12" inch Materials: gypsum, shellac Collection 1 (previously titled PULP) started as an exploration into the struct...
Other
Oval Studio Design Coffee Table With Quad Ellipse Base
Located in Chicago, IL
Base of triple coils of welded steel, connected by a central X. Finished in a patinated green to resemble the color of aged bronze. Race track oval glass top with bull nose polished ...
Steel
Quad Coffee Table by Mike Serra
Located in Geneve, CH
Quad coffee table by Mike Serra Dimensions: W 48" x D 48" x H 12" inch Materials: Gypsum, Shellac Collection 1 (previously titled PULP) started as an exploration into the struct...
Other
Quad Coffee Table by Mike Serra
Located in Geneve, CH
Quad coffee table by Mike Serra Dimensions: W 48" x D 48" x H 12" inch Materials: Gypsum, Shellac Collection 1 (previously titled PULP) started as an exploration into the struct...
Other
Quad Coffee Table by Mike Serra
Located in Geneve, CH
Quad coffee table by Mike Serra Dimensions: W 48" x D 48" x H 12" inch Materials: Gypsum, Shellac Collection 1 (previously titled PULP) started as an exploration into the structural...
Other
Quad Coffee Table by Mike Serra
Located in Geneve, CH
Quad coffee table by Mike Serra Dimensions: W 48" x D 48" x H 12" inch Materials: Gypsum, Shellac Collection 1 (previously titled PULP) started as an exploration into the struct...
Other
Quad Coffee Table by Mike Serra
Located in Geneve, CH
Quad coffee table by Mike Serra Dimensions: W 48" x D 48" x H 12" inch Materials: Gypsum, Shellac Collection 1 (previously titled PULP) started as an exploration into the struct...
Other
Quad Coffee Table by Mike Serra
Located in Geneve, CH
Quad coffee table by Mike Serra Dimensions: W 48" x D 48" x H 12" inch Materials: Gypsum, Shellac Collection 1 (previously titled PULP) started as an exploration into the structural...
Other
Quad Coffee Table by Mike Serra
Located in Geneve, CH
Quad coffee table by Mike Serra Dimensions: W 48" x D 48" x H 12" inch Materials: Gypsum, Shellac Collection 1 (previously titled PULP) started as an exploration into the struct...
Other
Quad Coffee Table by Mike Serra
Located in Geneve, CH
Quad coffee table by Mike Serra Dimensions: W 48" x D 48" x H 12" inch Materials: Gypsum, shellac Collection 1 (previously titled PULP) started as an exploration into the struct...
Other
Quad Coffee Table by Mike Serra
Located in Geneve, CH
Quad coffee table by Mike Serra Dimensions: W 48" x D 48" x H 12" inch Materials: Gypsum, Shellac Collection 1 (previously titled PULP) started as an exploration into the structural...
Other
Quad Coffee Table by Mike Serra
Located in Geneve, CH
Quad coffee table by Mike Serra Dimensions: W 48" x D 48" x H 12" inch Materials: Gypsum, Shellac Collection 1 (previously titled PULP) started as an exploration into the struct...
Other
Quad Coffee Table by Mike Serra
Located in Geneve, CH
Quad coffee table by Mike Serra Dimensions: W 48" x D 48" x H 12" inch Materials: Gypsum, Shellac Collection 1 (previously titled PULP) started as an exploration into the struct...
Other
Quad Coffee Table by Mike Serra
Located in Geneve, CH
Quad coffee table by Mike Serra Dimensions: W 48" x D 48" x H 12" inch Materials: Gypsum, Shellac Collection 1 (previously titled PULP) started as an exploration into the struct...
Other
Quad Coffee Table by Mike Serra
Located in Geneve, CH
Quad coffee table by Mike Serra Dimensions: W 48" x D 48" x H 12" inch Materials: Gypsum, Shellac Collection 1 (previously titled PULP) started as an exploration into the struct...
Other
Quad Coffee Table by Mike Serra
Located in Geneve, CH
Quad coffee table by Mike Serra Dimensions: W 48" x D 48" x H 12" inch Materials: Gypsum, Shellac Collection 1 (previously titled PULP) started as an exploration into the struct...
Other
Quad Coffee Table by Mike Ruiz-Serra
Located in Geneve, CH
Quad coffee table by Mike Ruiz-Serra Dimensions: W 48" x D 48" x H 12" inch Materials: Gypsum, Shellac Collection 1 (previously titled PULP) started as an exploration into the s...
Other
$1,650 / item
H 16.1 in Dm 11.5 in
'Plissé White Edition' Pleated Textile Table Lamp by Folkform for Örsjö
By Örsjö Industri AB
Located in Glendale, CA
'Plissé White Edition' pleated textile table lamp by Folkform for Örsjö. This unique table lamp was awarded “Lighting of the Year 2022” by Residence Magazine Sweden, who called it “...
Textile
$6,859 / set
H 24.01 in Dm 13.78 in
Pair of Constant Night Stands in Iroko Wood by Master Studio for Lemon
By Lemon
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Neatly proportioned with exceptional detailing, the constant nightstand is your perfect bedside partner. In our furniture making, the IDEA is to create special pieces that you can bu...
Hardwood
Leather Meander Flexible Wall Sconce
Located in Pound Ridge, NY
Leather wrapped flexible arm wall light you can pose and adjust as you wish. This is our updated Meander Reader light with larger cone shade and new upward angled arm. Lamping: Sing...
Metal, Brass, Nickel
Bertu Counter Stools, White Oak Counter Stool, Chile Stool
By Bertu Furniture
Located in Oak Harbor, OH
Bertu Counter Stools, White Oak Counter Stool, Chile Stool This White Oak Chile Counter Stool is beautifully constructed from solid wood in Ohio, USA. The stool is chunky and modern...
Wood, Oak
Bar Cabinet Carmen by Comité De Proyectos
Located in Geneve, CH
Bar cabinet Carmen by Comité De Proyectos Dimensions: large: W 45 x D 90 x H 110 cm Materials: Huanacaxaxtle Wood, Sisal Fiber, Steel, Wicker, Mirror, Leather. We are an interior a...
Steel
$2,503 / item
H 15.75 in Dm 21.66 in
Mustard Mohair Velvet Round Ottoman with Oak Feet, Modern UK Design
Located in London, England
Dagmar Design - Round Ottoman Custom-made ottoman developed & produced at our workshops in London using the highest quality materials. These examples are upholstered in a mustar...
Oak, Mohair, Velvet
Pair of 70s Style Italian Bamboo and Brass Table Lamps
Located in New York, NY
Monumental size Bamboo lamps. Crafted in Italy and made to order, these lamps are modern and chic. Production lead time 2-4 weeks. Base diameter 8 inches, hat diameter 20 inches, he...
Brass
$2,554 / item
H 17.72 in Dm 14.97 in
Soda Blown Murano Glass High Coffee Table in Blue Light by Yiannis Ghikas
By Miniforms, Yiannis Ghikas
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Soda was born upside-down, with a puff of air. It weighs 20 kilos, and it is blown, drawn out and shaped by three master glassmakers. The result is a single volume of glass with thre...
Blown Glass
$899 / item
H 11.03 in W 5.91 in D 33.86 in
Pair of Articulated Sconce Mid-Century Modern Solid Brass Black and White
By Stilnovo, Arredoluce, Gino Sarfatti
Located in Tavarnelle val di Pesa, Florence
This exquisite sconce is a nod to the timeless pieces crafted by mid-century modern Italian studios Arteluce and Stilnovo in the 1950s, but with a unique and distinctive design that ...
Metal, Aluminum, Brass
Chic 'Méandre' Gilt Bronze Side Chair by Design Frères
By Design Frères
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Undulating 'Méandre' gilt bronze finish side chair by Design Frères. Gilt bronze finish over steel frame. Natural linen upholstered cushion with contrasting piping. Chic and unders...
Steel
$4,250 / set
H 15.75 in W 5 in D 3 in
Brass and Murano Glass Sconces, Mid-Century Modern Style, Italy, New Design
Located in Austin, TX
Petite sconces from Murano, Italy made with smoked glass stamped into a lovely curved shape with texture. The brass structure has been newly wired to fit US standards. This pair is...
Brass
$9,500 / set
H 35 in W 20 in D 20.5 in
Postmodern Sculptural Steel Brown Leather French Pair of Chairs, 1980s, France
By Maria Pergay
Located in New York, NY
Sculptural steel brown leather French pair chairs, 1980s, France These are very rare leather and steel chairs form France. From the Maria Pergay, Michel Boyer Era. The leather is in...
Steel
Pink Marble Pedestal Cone Side Table
By Kiwano Concept
Located in Eindhoven, NB
Introduce monumental elegance and a grounded detail to your interior with the stunning pink marble CONE side table. The sculptural geometric shape of this contemporary design piece ...
Marble
Capiz Shell Table Lamp, Model Cornelia
By Dusty Deco
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Cornelia Table Lamp is a lamp that is made from capiz shells which gives the material an irregular structure. This makes each lamp unique, something that adds to its character and pe...
Brass
$3,990 / item
H 15.75 in W 74.81 in D 29.14 in
Mustard Velvet Daybed with V-Shaped Beechwood Base, Model V
By Dusty Deco
Located in Los Angeles, CA
DD V daybed is an exclusive daybed made by hand in Bosnia and Herzegovina by skilled craftsmen with long experience in wood and upholstery. Both frame and the characteristic V-shaped...
Fabric, Beech, Velvet
Organic Modern Table Lamp Sculptural Parota Wood Base
By Isabel Moncada
Located in San Antonio, TX
Pata de Elefante Small Table Lamp — Atomic Collection by Isabel Moncada Named ""Elephant's Foot"" for its bold, bulbous base, the Pata de Elefante Small is one of Isabel Moncada's m...
Fiberglass, Linen, Fabric, Wood
The late 19th and early 20th centuries saw sweeping social change and major scientific advances — both of which contributed to a new aesthetic: modernism. Rejecting the rigidity of Victorian artistic conventions, modernists sought a new means of expression. References to the natural world and ornate classical embellishments gave way to the sleek simplicity of the Machine Age. Architect Philip Johnson characterized the hallmarks of modernism as “machine-like simplicity, smoothness or surface [and] avoidance of ornament.”
Early practitioners of modernist design include the De Stijl (“The Style”) group, founded in the Netherlands in 1917, and the Bauhaus School, founded two years later in Germany.
Followers of both groups produced sleek, spare designs — many of which became icons of daily life in the 20th century. The modernists rejected both natural and historical references and relied primarily on industrial materials such as metal, glass, plywood, and, later, plastics. While Bauhaus principals Marcel Breuer and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe created furniture from mass-produced, chrome-plated steel, American visionaries like Charles and Ray Eames worked in materials as novel as molded plywood and fiberglass. Today, Breuer’s Wassily chair, Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona chair — crafted with his romantic partner, designer Lilly Reich — and the Eames lounge chair are emblems of progressive design and vintage originals are prized cornerstones of collections.
It’s difficult to overstate the influence that modernism continues to wield over designers and architects — and equally difficult to overstate how revolutionary it was when it first appeared a century ago. But because modernist furniture designs are so simple, they can blend in seamlessly with just about any type of décor. Don’t overlook them.
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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