Percival Lafer Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Brazilian, b. 1936
When it comes to mid-century furniture, the innovative work of the Brazilian Modernists has often been overlooked, including the designs of prolific maker Percival Lafer. Lafer studied architecture at São Paulo’s Universidade Mackenzie. After he graduated, his father passed away suddenly, leaving a furniture business that Lafer took over with his brothers.
Taking up the mantle, Lafer made the jump from architecture to furniture design in 1961, putting a focus on thoughtfully designed pieces available at affordable prices. That year, Lafer introduced his supremely popular MP-1 chair, a plush piece of furniture made with iron and wood that he has riffed on throughout his entire career.
The silhouettes of Lafer lounge chairs, armchairs and other seating were distinct from streamlined American and European mid-century modernism, taking on casual, puffed forms thanks to his use of polyurethane layers as padding. He combined such contemporary industrial materials with local natural ones, namely Brazilian hardwoods, which delighted customers around the world as Lafer became one of the country’s leading exporters of furniture.
Lafer has continued to design furniture throughout his career, branching into sofas, tables and lighting. He was at the forefront of mechanical furniture movements, debuting the MP-7 sofa, which could turn into a twin bed, in 1965, the first such piece on the market. One of his most intriguing projects was the MP Lafer, a two-seat fiberglass roadster designed to emulate British sports cars. Some 4,300 units were produced over its 16-year manufacturing run in the ’70s and ’80s, with several ending up in the collections of major car museums.
Still, Lafer’s biggest claim to fame is his seating, which he continues to design, drawing inspiration from modern shapes and local materials. In 2017, a retrospective of his work was organized as part of the São Paulo Design Weekend.
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Creator: Percival Lafer
Mid-Century Modern Brazilian Mahogany & Glass Cocktail Table by Percival Lafer
By Percival Lafer
Located in New York, NY
This stunning Mid-Century Modern mosaic cocktail table was realized by the esteemed Brazilian designer Percival Lafer circa 1970. It features an austere waterfall form- like a volume...
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1970s Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Percival Lafer Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Glass, Mahogany
Mid-Century Modern Brutalist Folding Coffee Table by Percifal Lafer, 1960s
By Percival Lafer
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Stunning and iconic Mid-Century Modern Brutalist folding coffee table.
Design by Percifal Lafer.
Striking Brazilian design from the 1970s.
The Brutalist coffee table is made out of t...
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1960s Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Percival Lafer Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Hardwood
Brazilian Modern Rosewood and Copper Mosaic Coffee Table by Percival Lafer
By Percival Lafer
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Sculptural coffee table designed by Percival Lafer composed of a visually striking copper patchwork/mosaic surface supported by deeply carved Brazilian Rosewood bases with exposed me...
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1960s Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Percival Lafer Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Metal, Copper
Mid-Century Modern Brazilian Rosewood Cocktail Table by Percival Lafer
By Percival Lafer
Located in Port Jervis, NY
Beautiful rosewood cocktail table by Percival Lafer with original glass top. Solid rosewood with beautiful grain. Total hgt. of table is 15 in. In excellent vintage condition with mi...
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1970s Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Percival Lafer Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Rosewood, Glass
$1,000 Sale Price
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Percival Lafer Folding Rosewood Cocktail Tables, a Pair, 1970s
By Percival Lafer
Located in Culver City, CA
These cocktail tables are fabulous! Designed by Percival Lafer a Brazilian furniture designer known for his innovative and modern designs. One of his most iconic creations is the Percival Lafer folding table, which was first introduced in the 1970s.
The Percival Lafer folding tables are versatile functional pieces of furniture that can be used in a variety of settings. It is designed to be lightweight and easy to move, with a simple folding mechanism that allows it to be set up or stored away quickly and easily.
The table features a sleek and minimalist design, with a rosewood parquette type design that featured different pieces of rosewood arranged at different heights, creating an uneven, heavily textured, almost brutalist look-- topped with glass. This eye catching design is one of his most iconic designs.
A wonderful piece that can be easily folded and stored away if necessary. This table would look incredible in any mid century modern, Brazilian modern, or contemporary home. Place both tables together to have a larger functional coffee table. We currently have this table in the gallery alongside a Sergio Rodrigues sofa as well as a Jorge Zalszupin mesa...
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1970s Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Percival Lafer Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Glass, Rosewood
1970s Solid Wood Base on Italian Carrara Marble Cocktail Low Table by Lafer
By Percival Lafer
Located in San Diego, CA
Beautiful 1970s low cocktail, coffee, end table by Percival Laufer, circa 1970s, nice clean condition hard to find. Solid rose wood base with solid Italian Carrara marble. Nice condi...
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Late 20th Century Brazilian Post-Modern Percival Lafer Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Carrara Marble
$700 Sale Price
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Coffee Table by Percival Lafer with Wood Relief Top
By Percival Lafer
Located in London, GB
Brazilian coffee table designed with a sculptural relief of various horizontal pieces of wood in different heights and lengths to create a Brutalist effect edged with a wooden border...
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1960s Brazilian Brutalist Vintage Percival Lafer Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Glass, Wood
Percival Lafer Smoked Glass Top Brazilian Modern Rosewood End Tables
By Percival Lafer
Located in Chattanooga, TN
Pair of vintage 1970s Percival Lafer, Brazilian Modern side tables. The deep red hue rosewood bases support a rich smoked glass table top. Both of the tables bear the “Lafer” label. ...
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1970s Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Percival Lafer Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Smoked Glass, Rosewood
$1,596 Sale Price / set
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Percival Lafer Green Marble Coffee Table, Brazil, 1970s
By Percival Lafer
Located in Göteborg, SE
Striking Brazilian Modernist coffee table by Percival Lafer, crafted in the 1970s. Featuring a rich green marble top with bold veining, supported by a sculptural wood frame. A rare a...
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1970s Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Percival Lafer Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Marble
Percival Lafer Exotic Wood and Glass Coffee Table MP 97, 1970's
By Lafer, Percival Lafer
Located in Lisboa, PT
This coffee table, model, MP 97, was designed and produced by Percival Lafer, in Brazil, during the 1970's. It has a simple structure in solid exotic wood and the top in smoked glass...
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1970s Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Percival Lafer Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Glass, Smoked Glass, Wood
$1,320 Sale Price
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Percival Lafer Folding Coffee Table
By Percival Lafer
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The Percival Lafer brutalist coffee table is made out of teak, jacaranda, and rosewood in different heights and lengths. It is designed to be lightweight and easy to move and has a s...
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Mid-20th Century Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Percival Lafer Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Teak, Jacaranda, Rosewood
Percival Lafer Folding Rosewood Coffee Table, 1970s
By Percival Lafer
Located in Culver City, CA
This coffee table is fabulous! Designed by Percival Lafer a Brazilian furniture designer known for his innovative and modern designs. One of his most iconic creations is the Percival Lafer folding table, which was first introduced in the 1970s. Coming in a number of sizes, this is the large coffee table.
The Percival Lafer folding tables are versatile functional pieces of furniture that can be used in a variety of settings. It is designed to be lightweight and easy to move, with a simple folding mechanism that allows it to be set up or stored away quickly and easily.
The table features a sleek and minimalist design, with a rosewood parquette type design that featured different pieces of rosewood arranged at different heights, creating an uneven, heavily textured, almost brutalist look-- topped with glass. This eye catching design is one of his most iconic designs.
A wonderful piece that can be easily folded and stored away if necessary. This table would look incredible in any mid century modern, Brazilian modern, or contemporary home. Place both tables together to have a larger functional coffee table. We currently have this table in the gallery alongside a Sergio Rodrigues sofa as well as a Jorge Zalszupin mesa...
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1970s Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Percival Lafer Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Steel
$2,320 Sale Price
20% Off
Percival Lafer Brutalist Style End Table
By Percival Lafer, Lafer
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This impressive Brazilian hardwood coffee table features a brutalist style sculpted top with a mix of woods for a sculptural design with a protective glass top. By Lafer Design of Brazil, this Percival Lafer design...
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1970s Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Percival Lafer Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Jacaranda
Vintage Percival Lafer Rosewood and Glass Coffee Table
By Adrian Pearsall, Craft Associates, Milo Baughman, Percival Lafer, Thayer Coggin
Located in Raleigh, NC
Mid-century rectangular coffee table designed by Percival Lafer, circa 1970s. The base of the table is made from sculpted Brazilian rosewood. Rosewood known for being especially rich...
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1970s Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Percival Lafer Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Glass, Smoked Glass, Wood, Rosewood
Vintage Percival Lafer Patchwork Wood Coffee Table
By Percival Lafer
Located in Brooklyn, NY
A richly textured and visually engaging coffee table by celebrated Brazilian designer Percival Lafer. The top features Lafer’s signature patchwork mosaic of solid tropical hardwood b...
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Mid-20th Century Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Percival Lafer Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Hardwood, Rosewood
Brazilian MCM Brutalist Folding Coffee Table by Percival Lafer, 1960s
By Percival Lafer
Located in Miami, FL
Stunning and iconic Mid-Century Modern Brutalist folding coffee table designed by Percival Lafer.
Striking Brazilian design from the 1970s.
The Brutalist coffee table is made out of...
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Mid-20th Century Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Percival Lafer Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Rosewood, Teak, Jacaranda
Mid Century "MP-81" Brazilian Rosewood Coffee Table by Percival Lafer, c1970s
By Percival Lafer
Located in Chino Hills, CA
For sale is an exquisite "MP-81" Brazilian Mid Century Coffee Table, a stunning piece originally designed by the renowned Perciv...
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1970s Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Percival Lafer Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Slate
$4,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Percival Lafer Rosewood Coffee Table Brazil
By Percival Lafer
Located in Miami, FL
Percival Lafer Rosewood Coffee Table Base, signed made in brazil.
Table needs a glass top or marble top. We can help.
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1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Percival Lafer Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Rosewood
Mid Century Modern Percival Lafer Brutalist Rosewood Coffee Table
By Percival Lafer
Located in Tulsa, OK
Mid Century Modern Percival Lafer Brutalist Rosewood Coffee Table
Above average condition and structurally sound. Wood is in very good con...
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1970s Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Percival Lafer Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Rosewood, Glass
Percival Lafer Sculptural Brazilian Brutalist Jacaranda Coffee Table
By Percival Lafer
Located in Elkton, MD
Vintage coffee table designed by Percival Lafer. Features a continuous mixed wood pattern of rosewood, mahogany, jacaranda, and teak with offset varying levels that is sure to make a...
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1960s Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Percival Lafer Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Wood, Glass
Large Brazilian Brutalist Folding Coffee Table by Percival Lafer
By Percival Lafer
Located in Miami, FL
Mid-Century Modern Brazilian Mahogany & Glass Cocktail Table by Percival Lafer,
Large Brazilian Brutalist Folding Coffee Table by Percival Lafer, 1960s
Stunning and iconic Mid-C...
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Mid-20th Century Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Percival Lafer Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Rosewood, Teak, Jacaranda
"MP-79" Coffee Table, by Percival Lafer, Brazilian Mid-Century Modern
By Percival Lafer
Located in Sao Paulo, SP
This beautiful MP-97 coffee table, made of solid Jatobá wood, is another great example of the imaginative and innovative mind of designer and architect Percival Lafer. With its iconi...
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Mid-20th Century Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Percival Lafer Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Wood
Sculptural 1960s Brazilian Coffee Table by Percival Lafer
By Percival Lafer
Located in Long Island City, NY
A mid-century Brutalist style coffee table with a staggered wooden block relief design, protected with a glass top.
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1960s Brazilian Brutalist Vintage Percival Lafer Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Glass, Wood
Pair of Percival Lafer Coffee Table Brazilian Rosewood Exotic Wood Mosaic
By Percival Lafer
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Pair of Percival Lafer coffee tables with glass tops over rosewood hardwood mosaic.
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20th Century Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Percival Lafer Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Hardwood, Rosewood
Percival Lafer Brutalist Parquet Hardwood Block Relief Brazilian Cocktail Tables
By Giuseppe Scapinelli, Paul Evans, Percival Lafer
Located in Chattanooga, TN
Sold as a pair. Please consider and compare the quality of this set to similar offerings. You won't find a more beautifully restored example anywhere.
These 1970's Mid-Century, Br...
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1970s Brazilian Brutalist Vintage Percival Lafer Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Rosewood, Glass, Walnut
Brazilian Coffee Table Design by Percival Lafer, 1960s
By Percival Lafer
Located in Oirlo, LI
Brazilian Coffee Table design by Percival Lafer,1960s
A beautiful Brutalist coffee table by Brazilian top designer Percival Lafer
Made in the 60s.
A tropical mix of Jacara...
Category
1960s Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Percival Lafer Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Glass, Jacaranda
$1,912 Sale Price
20% Off
1970s Brazilian Hardwood Coffee Table by Percival Lafer
By Percival Lafer
Located in Victoria, BC
A striking 1970s Brazilian hardwood coffee table by the iconic Percival Lafer, featuring his unmistakable geometric mosaic top set beneath sleek glass for a touch of modern elegance....
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1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Percival Lafer Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Wood
Pair of 1970s Brazilian Hardwood Side End Tables by Percival Lafer
By Percival Lafer
Located in Victoria, BC
Pair of 1970s Brazilian hardwood side tables by the celebrated Percival Lafer, each showcasing his signature geometric mosaic tops beneath smooth glass. Freshly cleaned and polished ...
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1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Percival Lafer Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Wood
Vintage Percival Lafer Rosewood Set of Three Tables
By Percival Lafer
Located in Toledo, OH
Set of three vintage Percival Lafer tables. Pieced stacked rosewood top with new glass tops. Coffee table measures 47" x 24.5" x 14.5". Two side...
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Mid-20th Century Central American Modern Percival Lafer Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Rosewood
Percival Lafer Mosaic Coffee Table
By Percival Lafer
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Mid-Century Modern coffee table with brutalist style. Features a sculptural relief design throughout.
(Please confirm item location - NY or NJ - with dealer).
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1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Percival Lafer Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Wood
'MP- 51' Coffee Table in Marble, by Percival Lafer, Brazilian Mid-Century Modern
By Percival Lafer
Located in Sao Paulo, SP
The MP-51 coffee table, designed by Percival Lafer, is a quintessential piece that showcases the elegance and timeless appeal of Brazilian mid-century modern design. It is a fine rep...
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Mid-20th Century Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Percival Lafer Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Marble
"MP-29" Coffee Table, by Percival Lafer, Brazilian Mid-Century Modern
By Percival Lafer
Located in Sao Paulo, SP
The MP-29 coffee table, created by renowned architect and designer Percival Lafer in the 1960s, is a stunning piece that was initially designed for whole a set including a three-seat...
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Mid-20th Century Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Percival Lafer Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Iron
$6,720 Sale Price
20% Off
Percival Lafer coffee and cocktail tables for sale on 1stDibs.
Percival Lafer coffee and cocktail tables are available for sale on 1stDibs. These distinctive items are frequently made of wood and are designed with extraordinary care. There are many options to choose from in our collection of Percival Lafer coffee and cocktail tables, although brown editions of this piece are particularly popular. Many of the original coffee and cocktail tables by Percival Lafer were created in the mid-century modern style in south america during the 20th century. If you’re looking for additional options, many customers also consider coffee and cocktail tables by Sergio Rodrigues, Branco & Preto, and Giuseppe Scapinelli. Prices for Percival Lafer coffee and cocktail tables can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — on 1stDibs, these items begin at $875 and can go as high as $8,820, while a piece like these, on average, fetch $2,416.
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- What is Percival Lafer?1 Answer1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022Percival Lafer is a leading contemporary Brazilian furniture designer most famous for his Mid-Century Modern sofas and chairs constructed with hardwood and luxurious leather. Lafer is a pioneer of the Brazilian Modernist movement. On 1stDibs, find authentic Percival Lafer furniture from top sellers.