Modern Center Tables
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 The modernists rejected both natural and historical references and relied primarily on industrial materials such as metal, glass, plywood, and, later, plastics.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.
2010s Indian Modern Center Tables
Metal
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Center Tables
Brass, Stainless Steel
2010s Danish Modern Center Tables
Marble
2010s American Modern Center Tables
Brass, Steel
2010s Danish Modern Center Tables
Marble, Brass
1970s French Vintage Modern Center Tables
Steel
2010s Danish Modern Center Tables
Marble, Brass
2010s Danish Modern Center Tables
Brass
2010s Danish Modern Center Tables
Marble
2010s Danish Modern Center Tables
Marble, Brass
2010s Danish Modern Center Tables
Marble, Brass
2010s Danish Modern Center Tables
Marble, Brass
2010s Indian Modern Center Tables
Stainless Steel
2010s Danish Modern Center Tables
Marble, Steel
2010s Italian Modern Center Tables
Concrete
2010s Danish Modern Center Tables
Marble, Brass
2010s Danish Modern Center Tables
Marble, Brass
2010s Italian Modern Center Tables
Glass, Polyester
21st Century and Contemporary British Modern Center Tables
Cast Stone
2010s Danish Modern Center Tables
Marble, Brass
2010s Italian Modern Center Tables
Glass, Polyester
2010s Portuguese Modern Center Tables
Wood
2010s Philippine Modern Center Tables
Acrylic, Fiberglass, Foam
1980s American Vintage Modern Center Tables
Glass, Walnut
21st Century and Contemporary European Modern Center Tables
Marble, Brass
2010s Portuguese Modern Center Tables
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary European Modern Center Tables
Stainless Steel
2010s Mexican Modern Center Tables
Wood, Oak, Walnut
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Center Tables
Brass
2010s Philippine Modern Center Tables
Steel
2010s Philippine Modern Center Tables
Steel
2010s Indian Modern Center Tables
Stainless Steel
2010s Portuguese Modern Center Tables
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Center Tables
Brass
2010s Lebanese Modern Center Tables
Metal
2010s Italian Modern Center Tables
Concrete
2010s Danish Modern Center Tables
Marble
2010s Ukrainian Modern Center Tables
Steel
Late 20th Century French Modern Center Tables
Oak
2010s Portuguese Modern Center Tables
Wood
2010s Spanish Modern Center Tables
Marble, Iron
2010s Spanish Modern Center Tables
Marble
2010s German Modern Center Tables
Concrete
2010s Philippine Modern Center Tables
Fiberglass, Foam, Polyester
21st Century and Contemporary European Modern Center Tables
Marble
2010s Australian Modern Center Tables
Stainless Steel
2010s Philippine Modern Center Tables
Steel
2010s Portuguese Modern Center Tables
Walnut
2010s North American Modern Center Tables
Beech
21st Century and Contemporary Turkish Modern Center Tables
Marble, Metal
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Center Tables
Marble, Metal
2010s Argentine Modern Center Tables
Bronze
2010s Italian Modern Center Tables
Marble
2010s Philippine Modern Center Tables
Stone, Steel
2010s Philippine Modern Center Tables
Steel
2010s Spanish Modern Center Tables
Glass, Fiberglass, Wood
2010s Balkan Modern Center Tables
Marble
2010s Spanish Modern Center Tables
Concrete