Modest Designs Tables
Color: Brown
Milo Baughman Rosewood Long Bench or Table
By Milo Baughman, Thayer Coggin
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Low bench/table in highly figured book-matched rosewood veneer on three ebonized wood sleigh legs. For Thayer-Coggin Furniture, circa 1960s
Category
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Rosewood
Vladimir Kagan, Early Custom Sculptural Walnut Desk
By Vladimir Kagan, Kagan-Dreyfuss, Inc.
Located in Brooklyn, NY
A rare, likely one-of-a-kind, Vladimir Kagan design, employing all of the design touches that make him such an important figure in American Modernism.
A wonderful melding of rationalist and biomorphic elements, the triangular black laminate writing surface cantilevers over a cubist stack of drawers raised on sculptural foot; on the opposite end the top is supported by a classic Kagan split leg.
The piece is finished on the back to allow floating in a room. This comes out of a Kagan-Dreyfuss designed Manhattan apartment...
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Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Laminate, Walnut
Karl Springer Faux Malachite Polyhedron Occasional Table
By Karl Springer
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Rare faceted table consisting of triangles and squares, the surface is beautifully hand-lacquered in a faux-malachite pattern. Originally used with a glass top as a coffee table, the...
Category
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Side Tables
Materials
Hardwood, Lacquer
Mahogany and Saint Gobain Glass Cocktail Table Attributed to Adnet
By Jacques Adnet
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Interesting circa 1940s French modernist design employing the high/low mix strongly associated with the designs of Jacques Adnet in this period.
Chunky, almost rustic slab mahogany...
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Vintage 1940s French Mid-Century Modern End Tables
Materials
Art Glass, Mahogany
Paul McCobb Side Tables #8712 with Original Vitrolite Tops
By Paul McCobb
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Rare pair of Paul Mccobb side tables retaining the original white "carrera glass" tops. Part of the Irwin Collection by Calvin Furniture Co.. McCobb em...
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Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern End Tables
Materials
Vitrolite, Mahogany
Petite Console, La Permanente Cantu
By Carlo De Carli, Ico Parisi
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Chic small console in black piano lacquer, with single inset drawer, raised on sculpted legs and stretchers. The side brass supports add an elegant material contrast.
Unmarked and designer unknown, this table was retailed by La Permanente Cantu...
Category
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Console Tables
Materials
Brass
Pair Edward Wormley for Dunbar Side Tables, Model 279
By Edward Wormley, Dunbar Furniture
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Rare and sophisticated lamp tables in dark stained mahogany. The simple, architectural configuration is surprisingly contemporary for a 70 year old design. Original finish, with rect...
Category
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern End Tables
Materials
Mahogany
Edward Wormley, Early Pair Side Tables model 4774A
By Edward Wormley, Dunbar Furniture
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Perfect, architectural 3-tier mahogany side tables by Edward Wormley. This simple, streamlined design typifies Wormley’s restrained modern style of the 1940s. The pair retains thei...
Category
Vintage 1940s American Mid-Century Modern End Tables
Materials
Mahogany
Edward Wormley for Dunbar 3-Tier Side Table
By Edward Wormley
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Architectural Edward Wormley design in mahogany with curved bentwood drawer pull, gallery trimmed top, reverse leg taper, and leather capped feet.
An interesting modern update on an Arts & Crafts form. Works equally well as side or occasional table or nightstand. Dunbar metal...
Category
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Side Tables
Materials
Mahogany
Gio Ponti Style Modern Italian Library or Dining Table
By Gio Ponti
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Sharply tailored mahogany writing or dining table with single side drawer and sculpted legs ending in brass sabots. Measure: Drawer is 20.5" deep and 19.25" wide.
Category
Vintage 1940s Italian Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
Materials
Mahogany
Chic Brutalist Dining/Centre Table by Max Papiri
By Max Papiri
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Fantastic cast aluminum dining table base in a hard organic form, with 56" d stone top with brass rim. From the atelier of Mac Papiri, an im...
Category
Vintage 1960s Italian Brutalist Dining Room Tables
Materials
Stone, Aluminum
Frits Henningsen (attributed) Rosewood and Lacquered Chest on Stand
By Frits Henningsen
Located in Brooklyn, NY
An unusual Chinese Export-style console, constructed with the highest level of craftsmanship typical of the finest Danish cabinet makers. The rosewood upper case has inset leather to...
Category
Vintage 1950s Danish Console Tables
Materials
Lacquer
Milo Baughman Low Walnut Long Bench or Coffee Table
By Milo Baughman, Thayer Coggin
Located in Brooklyn, NY
C. 1960, simple architectural design energized with exaggerated proportion, in a modern interpretation of a classic Japanese chabudai. Retains paper Thayer Coggin label to underside.
Category
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Walnut
Pair J. Ingvard Jensen Teak Rolling Bookshelf Side Tables
By J. Ingvard Jensen Odense
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Handsome and masculine pair of Danish Modern rolling bookcase side tables raised on chrome casters. Divided into three shelving sections, each table has two adjustable shelves in two...
Category
Vintage 1960s Danish End Tables
Materials
Rosewood
Roy Sheldon Free Edge Cocktail or Coffee Table
By Roy Sheldon
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Beautiful Butternut (white walnut) example of Sheldon's Nakashima-esque natural wood creations. Signed to underside.
Category
Vintage 1960s American Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Nutwood
Edward Wormley for Dunbar Side Table Model # 5425
By Dunbar Furniture, Edward Wormley
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Occasional table by Edward Wormley for Dunbar, model 5425. Rosewood and Walnut folding x-base with removable mahogany tray top. Labeled with Dunbar gold metal tag
Category
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Side Tables
Materials
Rosewood, Mahogany
Elegant Osvaldo Borsani (attrib) Cocktail Table
By Atelier Borsani Varedo, Osvaldo Borsani
Located in Brooklyn, NY
c. 1950, mahogany, ash, fruitwood, the round top clad in starburst pattern mahogany veneer with central brass star inlay, over three round tapered and sharply sabered legs, with chan...
Category
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Mahogany
Parchment Topped Coffee Table, Attr. Atelier Borsani Varedo
By Atelier Borsani Varedo, Osvaldo Borsani
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Elegant low cocktail table with natural goatskin tiles on top, and beautifully carved base and figured legs. Unsigned but exceptionally well made table attributed to Borsani.
Category
Vintage 1940s Italian Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Goatskin, Hardwood
Rare Paul Frankl Cork and Mahogany Kneehole Desk
By Johnson Furniture Company, Paul Frankl
Located in Brooklyn, NY
C. 1940s, American, the mahogany eight- drawer desk encased in cork veneer on four sides, with book storage-well on the reverse. Bakelite and brass pulls....
Category
Vintage 1940s American Mid-Century Modern Desks
Materials
Mahogany, Cork
Danish Rosewood and Steel Coffee Table
By Georg Thams
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Chic coffee table with bookmatched rosewood top on brushed flatbar steel base. Design by architect Georg Thams.
Category
Vintage 1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Rosewood
Nakashima Widdicomb Style Walnut and Burl Table
By George Nakashima
Located in Brooklyn, NY
American walnut occasional or lamp table with burl maple inlaid top and hickory edge, circa 1957. Nice architectural details like exposed supports and octagonal carved legs. Unmarked...
Category
Vintage 1950s American American Craftsman End Tables
Materials
Walnut
Goatskin and Aluminum Center Table
By Paul M. Jones, John Vesey
Located in Brooklyn, NY
High quality 1970-1980s era table with brown parchment clad top on modernist tripod base. The form is after a John Vesey design and may be a later Paul M. Jones interpretation. Unsig...
Category
Vintage 1980s American Modern Center Tables
Materials
Aluminum
Harvey Probber Teak and Mahogany Side Table
By Harvey Probber
Located in Brooklyn, NY
American, the rectangular teak top on dark stained mahogany curved slat X-base, with brass pin hardware, circa 1960. Model 1216 in the Harvey Probber catalog.
Category
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Side Tables
Materials
Mahogany, Teak
Ferdinand Boberg, Swedish Art Nouveau Library or Dining Table
By Nordiska Kompaniet, Gustaf Ferdinand Boberg
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This handsome, masculine design in solid old-growth mahogany, is distinguished by the muscular orb carving on the legs and the sharply flaring feet. Removed from the original custom interiors of the executive suite of the Stockholms Gasverks, designed in 1906 by Gustav Ferdinand Boberg, Sweden's most prolific and highly regarded Art Nouveau architect.
As was typical for Boberg projects, Interior lighting and furnishings for the building are believed to have been custom designed by the architectural firm to create a whole unified environment. The table was constructed in the early cabinet...
Category
Early 20th Century Swedish Art Nouveau Dining Room Tables
Materials
Mahogany
Rare Poul Kjaerholm PK59 Oak-Topped Coffee Table
By Poul Kjærholm, E. Kold Christensen
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Matte chrome-plated steel frame with figured oak veneer top, circa 1957. Stamped for E. Kold Christensen, Denmark to underside stretcher. The PK-59 table has been out of production f...
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Vintage 1950s Danish Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Oak
Pair TH Robsjohn-Gibbings End Tables
By T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings, Widdicomb Furniture Co.
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Elegant and amply proportioned side tables, each with one frieze drawer and lower shelf. Finished in original dark mahogany stain on all sides to allow floating placement. Widdicomb ...
Category
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern End Tables
Materials
Mahogany
Pair Robsjohn Gibbings Side Tables with Raffia Cane-Wrapped Pulls
By Widdicomb Furniture Co., T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Iconic pair of T.H. Robsjohn Gibbings for Widdicomb end tables or nightstands. Single drawer with rattan-wrapped pulls, raised on long tapering brass legs. Widdicomb labels to inner ...
Category
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Side Tables
Materials
Walnut
Early Dunbar Cocktail Table
By Dunbar Furniture, Edward Wormley
Located in Brooklyn, NY
An early example of Edward Wormley's transition to modern furniture design. Mahogany frame with inset leather top. Dunbar brand to underside.
Category
Vintage 1940s American Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Leather
Ico Parisi Urio Cocktail Table for MIM
By Ico Parisi
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Square cocktail table in great mix of materials: Italian walnut top, futuristic cast aluminum mounts and sabots, gun metal enamel steel legs. For the Urio series.
Category
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Palisander
Early Gilbert Rohde Console
By Gilbert Rohde, Herman Miller
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Fantastic example of early American Modern Age design. Chromed steel base, with demilune cork and mahogany top is the epitome of jazz-age experim...
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Vintage 1930s American Demi-lune Tables
Materials
Cork
Dunbar Chrome and Walnut Occasional Table
By Edward Wormley, Dunbar Furniture
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Chic and rarely seen Edward Wormley design that can function as a lamp table, end table or small cocktail table. Dunbar label on bottom.
Category
Vintage 1960s American Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Chrome
Mahogany Dining Table by T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings
Located in Brooklyn, NY
An early design by Robsjohn-Gibbings for Widdicomb recalls the elegant simplicity of French Moderne. Original finish has lovely color. With a 24" leaf.
Category
Vintage 1940s American Dining Room Tables
Materials
Mahogany
Tommi Parzinger Macassar Ebony Desk
By Tommi Parzinger, Charak Furniture Company
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Sexy one drawer desk with extravagantly grained Macassar ebony surface on mahogany legs and brass stretchers and corner decoration. With raised drawer ...
Category
Vintage 1950s American Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Macassar
Mahogany Occasional Table by Edward Wormley
By Edward Wormley
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Wonderful ribbon mahogany top has jewel-like iridescence. Solid-brass casters. Small brass knobs to tie down an upholstered cushion, for use as an ottoman/stool. Early Dunbar brass l...
Category
Vintage 1940s American End Tables
Materials
Mahogany
Walter Charak Macassar Ebony Desk
By Walter Charak, Charak Furniture Company
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Sexy one-drawer desk with extravagantly grained Macassar ebony surface on mahogany legs with brass stretchers and corner decoration. Has a raised drawer front detail, mirrored-imaged...
Category
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Desks and Writing Tables
Materials
Brass
Italian Rosewood and Aluminum Low Coffee Table
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Straight grain palisades top on double-bar aluminum legs with cast iron feet and hardware is a fantastic mix of earthy and industrial.
Category
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Rosewood
Campo Graffi Small Coffee Table
By Franco Campo & Carlo Graffi
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Great architectural design by Franco Campo & Carlo Graffi, with steel beam base and trademark teak veneered molded plywood top. For home. Documented.
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