Philip and Kelvin LaVerne Console Tables
American
Look closely at any vintage furniture designed by father-son duo Philip and Kelvin LaVerne and a cacophony of stylistic influences reveals itself.
The LaVernes’ position at the intersection of art and design was the result of their combined backgrounds: Philip (1907–87) studied painting with Ashcan School artist John Sloan at the Art Students League of New York, while his son, Kelvin (b. 1937), attended the Parsons School of Design, taking classes in art history, furniture design and metalwork. The resulting merge of stylistic elements and innovative processes make for singular designs that defy categorization, striking a balance between modern and traditional, intricate and minimal, art piece and functional item. Their work was also strikingly different from the modern furniture created by Philip’s brother Erwine and his wife, Estelle, of Laverne Originals.
The LaVernes began producing one-of-a-kind furniture and sculpture in the mid-1950s out of a studio on Wooster Street in New York City before opening a showroom on Manhattan’s East 57th Street. As their 1960s advertisements declared: “It’s not just functional and not just art, it’s an investment.”
The LaVernes married a stunning array of techniques and styles to achieve their singular, deeply layered look for one-of-a-kind and limited-edition pieces. Chinoiserie motifs abound on many of their acid-etched tables, but art from ancient Greece and Egypt also served as inspiration. The influence of figurative sculptors is evident in designs like coffee tables and side tables with bronze bodies serving as frames or bases; other pieces, meanwhile, have deeply detailed surfaces and strikingly simple silhouettes.
The duo developed their own unconventional methods — sometimes to an extreme — for finishing their pieces: Techniques employed by the LaVernes included acid washing and burying furniture underground in a mixture of soil and chemicals to achieve a desired patina through oxidation. While they sometimes used pewter and silver, bronze was one of their most commonly employed materials, either etched or cast and sometimes paired with glass tops. Their partnership ended when Philip died in 1987 and Kelvin shifted his practice to sculpture.
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Creator: Philip and Kelvin LaVerne
Philip and Kelvin Laverne Spring Festival Console Table
By Philip and Kelvin LaVerne
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Acid-Etched and enameled bronze patinated surface.
The console depicts multiple figures and structures.
Signed.
Clean original surface
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1960s American Vintage Philip and Kelvin LaVerne Console Tables
Materials
Bronze
Philip & Kelvin LaVerne, Large Spring Festival Console Table, Bronze, 1960s
By Philip and Kelvin LaVerne, Philip and Kelvin LaVerne
Located in Manhasset, NY
Philip and Kelvin LaVerne, Mid-Century Modern, Large Spring Festival Console Table, Bronze, 1960s
Rare and important special order example of an engraved and patinated bronze-clad w...
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Mid-20th Century American Philip and Kelvin LaVerne Console Tables
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Bronze
Extraordinary Phillip And Kelvin LaVerne Bronze “Festival” Bronze Console
By Philip and Kelvin LaVerne
Located in Bridgeport, CT
From master Furniture and Art creators Philip and Kelvin LaVerne and created in the 1960’s. The diminutive Bronze Console from their celebrated “Festival” series depicts a lively an...
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Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Philip and Kelvin LaVerne Console Tables
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Bronze, Enamel, Pewter
Rare Philip and Kelvin LaVerne Kuan Yin Console
By Philip and Kelvin LaVerne
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An extremely rare form.
The acid-etched and enameled surface is in beautiful original condition.
Raised signature on the console top, paper label and care instructions attached to ...
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1960s American Vintage Philip and Kelvin LaVerne Console Tables
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Bronze
Philip & Kelvin LaVerne Mid-Century Modern Spring Festival Console Table, Bronze
By Philip and Kelvin LaVerne
Located in Manhasset, NY
Philip & Kelvin LaVerne, American Mid-Century Modern, 'Spring Festival' Console Table, Bronze, c. 1960s
Rare and important double signed example of an engraved and patinated bronze-...
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1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Philip and Kelvin LaVerne Console Tables
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Bronze
'Generation' Bronze Sculpture Table by Philip and Kelvin LaVerne, c. 1964 Signed
By Philip and Kelvin LaVerne
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This important and documented bronze sculpture table named "Generation" by Philip and Kelvin LaVerne was sculpted circa 1964 and was featured on the cover of “Philip & Kelvin LaVerne: Sculpture III". Its large size allows this to be used as a coffee or cocktail table, console table or display table or can be simply displayed as sculptural fine art.
This pièce de résistance for collectors of Philip and Kelvin LaVerne is exceptionally rare and highly coveted. Within one single work of functional fine art the artists explored several different techniques the LaVernes were known to employ. Two heavy cast bronze figures, a boy holding a cat and the opposite side a girl, holding the table top which features a gorgeous torched bronze surface with inlaid colorful enamels, one bearing the LaVernes signature. Another acid washed bronze...
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1960s American Modern Vintage Philip and Kelvin LaVerne Console Tables
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Bronze, Enamel
Philip and Kelvin LaVerne 'Generation' Bronze Sculpture Table, c. 1964, Signed
By Philip and Kelvin LaVerne
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This important and documented bronze sculpture table named "Generation" by Philip and Kelvin LaVerne was sculpted circa 1964 and a similar example was featured on the cover of “Phili...
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1960s American Modern Vintage Philip and Kelvin LaVerne Console Tables
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Bronze
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Philip and Kelvin LaVerne Rare "Fragonard Pierced" Coffee Table 1960s 'Signed'
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Exceptional and rare “Fragonard Pierced” Coffee Table in patinated and pierced bronze and pewter, intricately cut with enamel cloisonne and gold and copper leaf with an inset glass top, by Philip and Kelvin Laverne, American 1960’s (signed “Philip Kelvin LaVerne”). These tables were cut by Kelvin's hand. This series always included Chinese figures with at least one animal. The delicate fretwork is a marvel. An inset glass top is part of the design.
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ALCHEMY: THE ART OF PHILIP AND KELVIN LAVERNE written by Evan Lobel with Kelvin LaVerne, published by Pointed Leaf Press in 2024, this coffee table is shown on pages 85 in the section Historical Civilization Series. The caption reads, “The 1960s FRAGONARD PIERCED coffee table...
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Located in West Palm Beach, FL
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Signed ontop.
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Philip And Kelvin LaVerne CHIN YIN Coffee Table
By Philip and Kelvin LaVerne
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Coffee table by Philip and Kelvin LaVerne. The table, part of the Chin Yin collection, blending intricate etching, patination, and polychrome techniques on bronze and pewter. Featuri...
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Acid-Etched and Patinated Bronze Coffee by Philip and Kelvin LaVerne
By Philip and Kelvin LaVerne
Located in Montreal, QC
engraved and acid-etched, patinated and polychromed bronze, pewter and enamel by Philip and Kelvin LaVerne.
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Philip & Kelvin Laverne Bronze Coffee Table Dogwood Floral
By Philip and Kelvin LaVerne
Located in Bradenton, FL
Philip & Kelvin Laverne Bronze Coffee Table, "Dogwood Floral". Philip Laverne (1907-1987) started his design studio in the 1940's, and became famous for creating luxurious pieces in ...
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20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Philip and Kelvin LaVerne Console Tables
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Distressed Midcentury Philip and Kelvin Laverne Coffee Table
By Philip and Kelvin LaVerne
Located in Bridgeport, CT
Classic midcentury cocktail table in acid etched patinated bronze, this one in an understated and undecorated mottled finish which is timeworn with signs of age. A square table with ...
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Bronze 'Chan' Coffee or Large End Table by Philip & Kelvin LaVerne, 1960s Signed
By Philip and Kelvin LaVerne
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a rare iteration of the classic and highly sought after 'Chan' coffee table by father and son team, Philip and Kelvin LaVerne (New York), produced in the 1960s and signed with the artists names on the top (see photos). Ingeniously designed with international patination and polychromed bronze and pewter, this rare form coffee table which also functions excellent as a large end table...
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Phillip & Kelvin LaVerne, Muses Bronze Coffee Table
By Philip and Kelvin LaVerne
Located in New York, NY
Great Mid-Century Phillip & Kelvin LaVerne Patinated Bronze Acid Etched Coffee Table. Overall great vintage condition with minor surface wear. There are two minor cracks in legs whe...
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Philip And Kelvin Laverne Chan Table
By Philip and Kelvin LaVerne
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Philip and Kelvin Laverne 48" Chan Table
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Unusual for a Chan Table
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Signed on the Table Top
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Fantastic Acid Etched Asian Inspired Coffee Table by Phillip and Kelvin Laverne
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Philip & Kelvin Laverne Patinated Bronze Table
By Philip and Kelvin LaVerne
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A Rectangular coffee table by Philip and Kelvin Laverne
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Philip & Kelvin LaVerne, Coffee Table, Pewter, Bronze, USA 1960s
By Philip and Kelvin LaVerne
Located in High Point, NC
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Dimensions: 17.3” H x 47.5” W x 23.5” D
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'Creation of Man' Console Table by Philip & Kelvin LaVerne
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Philip & Kelvin Laverne, Console, Brass, Pewter, USA, 1960s
By Philip and Kelvin LaVerne
Located in High Point, NC
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Philip & Kelvin LaVerne "Spring Festival" Console Table, 1937
By Philip and Kelvin LaVerne
Located in Manhasset, NY
Philip & Kelvin LaVerne "Spring Festival" Console Table, 1937. A large and impressive console table by this one of a kind father and son duo. One of tw...
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Philip & Kelvin LaVerne "Spring Festival" Console Table, 1937
By Philip and Kelvin LaVerne
Located in Manhasset, NY
Philip & Kelvin LaVerne oriental console or sofa table, bronze clad table with polychrome oriental village motif. Signed Philip & Kelvin LaVerne. Meas...
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1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Philip and Kelvin LaVerne Console Tables
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Philip and Kelvin LaVerne Console Single Edition
By Philip and Kelvin LaVerne
Located in New York, NY
Philip and Kelvin LaVerne
Console
Bronze and pewter, circa 1960
Measures: 32 1/2” H x 47 1/2” L x 11 1/2” D
(83 cm x 121 cm x 29 cm)
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Philip and Kelvin LaVerne Festival Console
By Philip and Kelvin LaVerne
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Philip and Kelvin LaVerne "Festival" console table. Signed on top and a paper label to underside.
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Philip and Kelvin Laverne “Festival” Console Table
By Philip and Kelvin LaVerne
Located in Pawtucket, RI
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Philip & Kelvin Laverne Rare "Surrealistic" Console Table, 1960s ‘Signed’
By Philip and Kelvin LaVerne
Located in New York, NY
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Mid-Century Modern Extremely Rare and Important Table by Philip Kelvin Laverne
By Philip and Kelvin LaVerne
Located in Keego Harbor, MI
For your consideration is a wonderful, etched bronze coffee or console table on casters, signed by Philip & Kelvin Laverne, circa the 1960s. It has been said that only 4 of this tabl...
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H 18.5 in W 51 in D 22 in
Philip and Kelvin LaVerne “Spring Festival” Console Table
By Philip and Kelvin LaVerne
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Manufacturer: Philip and Kelvin LaVerne
Period/Style: Mid-Century Modern
Country: United States
Date: 1970s
Dimensions: 26.25" H x 56" W x 20" D
Materials: Bronze with pewter ...
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1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Philip and Kelvin LaVerne Console Tables
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Bronze
Philip And Kelvin Laverne console tables for sale on 1stDibs.
Philip and Kelvin LaVerne console tables are available for sale on 1stDibs. These distinctive items are frequently made of metal and are designed with extraordinary care. There are many options to choose from in our collection of Philip and Kelvin LaVerne console tables, although gold editions of this piece are particularly popular. Many of the original console tables by Philip and Kelvin LaVerne were created in the modern style in united states during the 20th century. If you’re looking for additional options, many customers also consider console tables by and Drexel. Prices for Philip and Kelvin LaVerne console tables can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — on 1stDibs, these items begin at $22,000 and can go as high as $48,100, while a piece like these, on average, fetch $32,000.
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