Modern Card Tables and Tea 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 The modernists rejected both natural and historical references and relied primarily on industrial materials such as metal, glass, plywood, and, later, plastics.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 German Modern Card Tables and Tea Tables
Oak
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Card Tables and Tea Tables
Walnut
2010s French Modern Card Tables and Tea Tables
Concrete, Metal
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Card Tables and Tea Tables
Metal
1970s American Vintage Modern Card Tables and Tea Tables
Faux Leather, Wood
1970s American Vintage Modern Card Tables and Tea Tables
Oak, Walnut
2010s Egyptian Modern Card Tables and Tea Tables
Mother-of-Pearl, Oak
Late 20th Century American Modern Card Tables and Tea Tables
Mahogany
2010s Egyptian Modern Card Tables and Tea Tables
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Card Tables and Tea Tables
Oak
2010s Egyptian Modern Card Tables and Tea Tables
Mother-of-Pearl, Oak
2010s Egyptian Modern Card Tables and Tea Tables
Brass
2010s Egyptian Modern Card Tables and Tea Tables
Mother-of-Pearl, Oak
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Card Tables and Tea Tables
Walnut
2010s American Modern Card Tables and Tea Tables
Marble
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Card Tables and Tea Tables
Carrara Marble
2010s American Modern Card Tables and Tea Tables
Ash
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Card Tables and Tea Tables
Hardwood
2010s American Modern Card Tables and Tea Tables
Ash
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Card Tables and Tea Tables
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Card Tables and Tea Tables
Stainless Steel, Brass
2010s Italian Modern Card Tables and Tea Tables
Chrome
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Card Tables and Tea Tables
Hardwood
2010s Italian Modern Card Tables and Tea Tables
Metal
Early 2000s French Modern Card Tables and Tea Tables
Leather, Oak
Late 20th Century American Modern Card Tables and Tea Tables
Metal
2010s American Modern Card Tables and Tea Tables
Walnut
Early 1900s English Antique Modern Card Tables and Tea Tables
Oak
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Card Tables and Tea Tables
Oak
2010s American Modern Card Tables and Tea Tables
Mahogany, Walnut
1970s French Vintage Modern Card Tables and Tea Tables
Lucite, Glass
1820s German Antique Modern Card Tables and Tea Tables
Maple, Walnut
20th Century Mexican Modern Card Tables and Tea Tables
Onyx, Marble
2010s Mexican Modern Card Tables and Tea Tables
Ash, Oak
2010s American Modern Card Tables and Tea Tables
Mahogany, Walnut
Mid-20th Century Scandinavian Modern Card Tables and Tea Tables
Oak
2010s South African Modern Card Tables and Tea Tables
Brass
1970s French Vintage Modern Card Tables and Tea Tables
Chrome
1990s American Modern Card Tables and Tea Tables
Mahogany
Late 20th Century American Modern Card Tables and Tea Tables
Metal
1970s American Vintage Modern Card Tables and Tea Tables
Marble
Late 20th Century American Modern Card Tables and Tea Tables
Chrome
Late 20th Century American Modern Card Tables and Tea Tables
Mahogany
Late 20th Century American Modern Card Tables and Tea Tables
Rosewood
1970s Slovak Vintage Modern Card Tables and Tea Tables
Wood
2010s American Modern Card Tables and Tea Tables
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Card Tables and Tea Tables
Brass
2010s Italian Modern Card Tables and Tea Tables
Wood
1970s American Vintage Modern Card Tables and Tea Tables
Marble
Late 20th Century American Modern Card Tables and Tea Tables
Mahogany