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Center Tables For Sale
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Magic Mirror Coffee Table by Duffy London in Mirror-Polished Stainless Steel.
By Duffy London
Located in London, GB
For this coffee table, Chris Duffy attempts to give the impression of continuous motion, although the table is stationary it has a zoetropic feeling, like Sisyphus rolling a boulder in an infinite circle.
Part of Duffy London...
Category
2010s British Center Tables
Materials
Stainless Steel
Mid-Century Cerused Oak Octagonal Center Table
Located in New York, NY
Mid-century cerused oak pedestal base center / dining table having a round octagonal top with a fluted edge and dark wood & metallic insets.
Category
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Center Tables
Materials
Metal
Rene Drouet Large Round Gilt Iron Coffee Table
By René Drouet
Located in Philadelphia, PA
French Forties Art Deco large round table by Rene Drouet in gilt forged iron. 42” diameter x 18” high. Can take glass, stone or marble top.
Rene Drouet
(1899-1993)
Following...
Category
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Center Tables
Materials
Iron
Dutch Marquetry Inlaid Mahogany Tilt-Top Center Table
Located in New York, NY
Dutch (19th century) mahogany flame veneer round tilt-top table with a center floral marquetry inlaid medallion supported on a tripartite base with scalloped legs.
Category
19th Century Dutch Other Antique Center Tables
Materials
Wood, Mahogany
French Louis XV Period Provincial Cherry Center Table with Marble Top, 18th C
Located in Shippensburg, PA
LOUIS XV PROVINCIAL CHERRYWOOD MARBLE-TOP CENTER TABLE
France, circa last quarter of the 18th century
Item # 111XPY03A
A fine center table characterized by a veined rose-and-beige ...
Category
18th Century French Louis XV Antique Center Tables
Materials
Marble
Tommi Parzinger Elegant Center/Game Table, 1970s
Located in New York, NY
Chic center / game table model 701 with tessellated birch wood top and polished chrome base by Tommi Parzinger for Parzinger Originals, American 1970's. The artisan tessellated top m...
Category
1970s American Modern Vintage Center Tables
Materials
Chrome
Side Table Designed by Uno and Östen Kristiansson for Luxus, Sweden, 1960s
Located in Stockholm, SE
Neat rosewood side or small coffee table by Uno and Östen Kristiansson. Sleek, clean lines, with slender steel legs. The top squares of the legs make cool details at the corners of t...
Category
1960s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Center Tables
Materials
Steel
Gong Terrazzo Table in Sheet Metal with Matte Top by Giulio Cappellini
Located in New York, NY
Unique and inimitable: The Gong Terrazzo table is an eclectic version of the iconic product designed by Giulio Cappellini. For this edition, still contradistinguished by the absolute...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Center Tables
Materials
Metal, Iron
Raphael Navot Poh Patchwork Oval Hemisphere Bench in Walnut by Cappellini
Located in New York, NY
The Poh bench, designed by Raphael Navot, can also be used as a low table and consists of a patchwork of wooden pieces covered with solid natural American walnut. Every Poh bench is ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Center Tables
Materials
Poplar, Walnut
T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings Table for Saridis of Athens
Located in Dallas, TX
A rare center table designed by T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings for Saridis of Athens, 1969.
Carved walnut with brass trimmed base.
Signed with applied meta...
Category
1960s Vintage Center Tables
Materials
Walnut
Megalith Table, Round Edition by Duffy London
By Duffy London
Located in London, GB
With its glass table balancing miraculously on top of toppling monoliths, Duffy London’s mind-boggling creation appears to defy the laws of physics by rem...
Category
2010s British Center Tables
Materials
Stainless Steel
Megalith Dining Table in Black Steel by Duffy London
By Duffy London
Located in London, GB
With its glass table balancing miraculously on top of toppling monoliths, Duffy London’s mind-boggling creation appears to defy the laws of physics by rem...
Category
2010s British Center Tables
Materials
Stainless Steel
19th Century Italian Micro-Mosaic Grand Tour Table Attributed to Roccheggiani
By Cesare Roccheggiani
Located in London, GB
A rare grand tour table
Possibly by Cesare Roccheggiani
The circular platform of marmore nero, inset with fine micromosaic panels consisting of thousands of coloured glass tesserae; a central roundel depicting The Vatican from St Peter's Square within a malachite border, surrounded by a border including four cartouches in polychrome reserves of Roman views including the Coliseum, the Roman Forum, with the remnants of the Temple of Vespasian; the Temple of Vesta, and the Pantheon, all interspersed and linked by voluminous bouquets of fruit and flowers representing the 4 seasons; the outer stylised border inlaid with deep blue tesserae evocative of exotic Lapis Lazuli. Supported on a finely carved Italian giltwood base, its design incorporating baskets of fruit and floral garlands echoing the 4 seasons theme of the table.
Italian, Circa 1875
Other table tops inspired by this design, although not as finely executed, can be found in several Russian collections (which house the greatest micromosaics) including Vorontsov Palace, Muranovo House, as well as the imperial State Hermitage Museum. A tabletop with profuse floral micromosaic work was commissioned by the Belgian Royal family (sold Sotheby's, 2003).
The floral garlands, the magnificent quality of the inlay and the use of distinct curved tesserae support the present attribution to Cesare Roccheggiani. According to Jeanette Hanisee Gabriel, the world expert on micro mosaics, curved tesserae pieces were used in foliage, grass and animal fur by only the very best mosaicists such as Roccheggiani. Evidence of curved pieces, for instance, is observed in the foreground of the Temple of Vesta cartouche, to name but one observation of the master's hand.
The scion of a dynasty of mosaicists, Roccheggiani was perhaps the most successful mosaicist in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. He is doubtless related to Lorenzo Roccheggiani, a late eighteenth-century master mosaicist at the Vatican, whose work included the altarpiece, Crucifixion of St. Peter after Guido Reni. Nicolo Roccheggiani, possibly Lorenzo's son, was also a principle artist at the Vatican, involved in executing the famous tabletop Achilles Shield...
Category
19th Century Italian Grand Tour Antique Center Tables
Materials
Malachite, Marble, Belgian Black Marble
Brutalist Paul Evans Patinated Patchwork Coffee Table with Slate Top
By Paul Evans
Located in New York, NY
Brutalist American Modern 1970s Paul Evans for Directional patinated patchwork metal coffee table with riveted copper, brass, and pewter sheet...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Brutalist Center Tables
Materials
Slate, Copper, Pewter
Claudio Silvestrin Millenium Hope Table in Natural Oak for Cappellini
Located in New York, NY
The Millenium Hope table, by designer Claudio Silvestrin, is a monolithic union of honeycombed fir with medium density conglomerate fiber. This table, c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Center Tables
Materials
Wood
Modern Round Mahogany Center Table with Platform Base
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary round mahogany center table with four cylindrical legs atop a round platform base, with stainless steel detail at tops of colu...
Category
20th Century American Modern Center Tables
Materials
Metal, Steel
Victorian Oak and Chinese Porcelain Inlay Center Table
Located in New York, NY
Victorian Aestheticism-style round oak center table having an inset antique, 18th century blue and white porcelain plate (as is) decorated in al...
Category
18th Century Victorian Antique Center Tables
Materials
Porcelain, Oak, Wood
"Nizza" Copper Perforated Steel Top Low Rectangular Table by Moroso for Diesel
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Nizza" is a rectangular low table, designed by Diesel Creative Team and manufactured by Moroso, featuring a top made of a perforated steel sheet varnished with a copper finish and b...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Center Tables
Materials
Metal, Steel
Break Table in Dark Green Stainless Steel or Matte Lacquer Finish for Cappellini
Located in New York, NY
The Break table collection, by Giulio Cappellini, includes numerous stylish options that adapt beautifully to both private and contract use. The vast array of available finishes and ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Center Tables
Materials
Stainless Steel
Monument Valley Oval Coffee Table, Polished Rose Gold Finish
By Duffy London
Located in London, GB
Duffy London casts an eye across the American West with the new Monument Valley coffee table.
A uniquely modern coffee table design.
A stunning visual tribute to the rich American desert...
Category
2010s British Center Tables
Materials
Aluminum
Giulio Cappellini Gong Lux in Blue Laser-Cut Sheet Metal
Located in New York, NY
Brass, blue: these Classic colors elegantly enhance the celebrated gong lux table by Giulio Cappellini, a precious object that is surprisingly modern despite the Classic warm hues. T...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Center Tables
Materials
Iron, Sheet Metal
Neoclassical Empire Style Ormolu and Lapis Lazuli Table
Located in London, GB
Neoclassical Empire style ormolu and lapis lazuli table with patinated bronze mounts,
French, 20th century
Dimensions: Height 74cm, diameter 100cm
Finely wrought in the French N...
Category
20th Century French Empire Center Tables
Materials
Lapis Lazuli, Bronze, Ormolu
Queen Anne Cherry Wood Tilt Top Table with Cabriole Legs
Located in New York, NY
Queen Anne, possibly American, (18th Century) mahogany round tilt top table supported on a pedestal with three carved cabriole legs with pad feet.
Category
18th Century American Queen Anne Antique Center Tables
Materials
Wood, Cherry
French Empire Antique Burl Walnut Center Table with Black Marble Top, circa 1815
Located in Shippensburg, PA
EMPIRE ORMOLU-MOUNTED BURL WALNUT CENTER TABLE
With an original dished black marble top; France, circa 1815
Item # 101OPB21A
A very fine Empire center table crafted of beautifully patinated burl walnut veneers over secondary woods, the table retains its original black marble top. This was turned to create the dished top with an integral raised rim.
Over each of the three columns is a honeysuckle gilded bronze mount, each pillar...
Category
19th Century French Empire Antique Center Tables
Materials
Marble, Brass, Bronze
Spanish Baroque Walnut Desk Table, Late 17th Century
Located in CH
Spanish Baroque walnut desk table, late 17th century.
A rectangular single plank (1.25-inch thick) walnut top is sitting over 2 geometrical car...
Category
Late 17th Century Spanish Baroque Antique Center Tables
Materials
Walnut
Midcentury Aldo Tura Italian Circular Goatskin Dining Table with Leaves
By Aldo Tura
Located in New York, NY
Italian midcentury circular goatskin center table with circular pedestal base with silver metal trim along base and an expandable tabletop with two leaves. (leaves: 16" each) (Aldo T...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Center Tables
Materials
Goatskin
19th Century Swedish Empire Centre Console Table
Located in Mjöhult, SE
Fine and unusual 19th century Swedish Empire centre console table with Italian pink Calacatta marble top, Ca 1830.
Category
19th Century European Empire Antique Center Tables
Materials
Marble
Rosewood Coffee Table by Bernt Petersen for Wørts Møbelsnedkeri, Denmark, 1960s
Located in Stockholm, SE
Elegant rosewood coffee table by Bernt Petersen, with a smooth top. Amazing slender design with beautifully sculpted feet.
Category
1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Center Tables
Materials
Rosewood
American Victorian John Henry Belter Marble Top Center Table
Located in New York, NY
American Victorian rosewood rectangular serpentine shaped center table with stretcher and white marble top (attributed to JOHN HENRY BELTER).
Category
19th Century American Victorian Antique Center Tables
Materials
Marble
Italian Micro Mosaic and Specimen Marble-Top Centre Table
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A Neoclassical pietra dura, micro mosaic and walnut centre table, the circular black marble top with a large central micro mosaic roundel depicting St Peter’s Square, Rome, surrounde...
Category
1880s Italian Antique Center Tables
Materials
Marble
Large Scrubbed Pine and Oak Cricket Table
Located in Greenwich, CT
Unusual English or Welsh cricket table having a single board pine top over oak base having splayed tapered legs joined by box stretcher and retaining traces of original red wash, the...
Category
1830s Welsh Country Antique Center Tables
Materials
Pine
Louis XV Style Vitrine Table, François Linke and Léon Messagé French, circa 1900
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A fine Louis XV Style gilt bronze mounted table Vitrine, by François Linke, the mounts designed by Léon Messagé.
Index Number 131.
This elegant tabl...
Category
20th Century French Louis XV Center Tables
Materials
Bronze
English 19th Century Walnut Occasional Table with Watercolor Top
Located in London, GB
Constructed in walnut; rising from a quadripartite base, the cabriole and hipped legs with scrolled toes, and a central carved oblate pendant finial; the tapering and turned column, ...
Category
19th Century British Early Victorian Antique Center Tables
Materials
Walnut, Glass, Paint
Russian Malachite and Silver Table by Imperial Silversmiths the Grachev Brothers
Located in London, GB
Russian malachite and silver table by Imperial silversmiths the Grachev Brothers
Russian, 1884
Measures: Height 85cm, width 113cm, depth 63cm
This beautiful silver table was man...
Category
Late 19th Century Russian Neoclassical Antique Center Tables
Materials
Malachite, Silver
Giotto Stoppino Menhir Table for Acerbis International
Located in Dallas, TX
A marble, glass and stainless steel Menhir table designed by Giotto Stoppino for Acerbis International, 1983.
Category
1980s Vintage Center Tables
Materials
Marble
Regency Rosewood Five-Foot Tilt-Top Centre Table English, circa 1815
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A Regency rosewood five-foot tilt-top centre table, the circular top decorated with striking book veneers and a moulded edge, raised upon a stepped parcel gilt tripod...
Category
1810s English Regency Antique Center Tables
Materials
Rosewood
PH Lounge Table, Chrome, Solid Black Oak Table Plate
Located in Copenhagen, DK
The PH lounge table designed by Poul Henningsen is the perfect addition to any lounge space where a table is required to gather around or for display. ...
Category
2010s Danish Bauhaus Center Tables
Materials
Chrome
English Regency Square Canted Corner Walnut and Brass Trim Center Table
Located in New York, NY
English Regency (circa 1850s) gilt trimmed walnut center table with a square top and canted corners supported on a centered pedestal with 4 corner columns on a platform base (attribu...
Category
19th Century British Regency Antique Center Tables
Materials
Metal, Brass
Coffee Table by Hans J. Wegner for Andreas Tuck
Located in Stockholm, SE
Coffee table by Hans J. Wegner, in a clean, balanced design. Striking Wenge tabletop and round stained oak legs.
Category
1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Center Tables
Materials
Oak, Wenge
PH Lounge Table, Chrome, Solid Natural Oak Table Plate
Located in Copenhagen, DK
The PH lounge table designed by Poul Henningsen is the perfect addition to any lounge space where a table is required to gather around or for display. ...
Category
2010s Danish Bauhaus Center Tables
Materials
Chrome
Continental Burl Rootwood Parquetry Center Table
Located in Hudson, NY
Made with walnut and bird's eye maple, as well as fragments of polished rootwood.
Category
Early 20th Century European Center Tables
Materials
Birdseye Maple, Walnut
Break Table in White Carrara Marble & Matte Lacquer Finish by Giulio Cappellini
Located in New York, NY
The break table collection, by Giulio Cappellini, includes numerous stylish options that adapt beautifully to both private and contract use. The vast array of available finishes and ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Center Tables
Materials
Stainless Steel
PH Lounge Table, chrome, solid mahogany table plate
Located in Copenhagen, DK
The PH Lounge Table designed by Poul Henningsen is the perfect addition to any lounge space where a table is required to gather around or for display. ...
Category
2010s Danish Bauhaus Center Tables
Materials
Chrome
Louis XVI Style Parquetry Inlaid Centre Table
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A fine Louis XVI style gilt-bronze mounted and parquetry inlaid centre table, by François Linke.
Signed 'F. Linke' to the bronze rim.
Stamped 'FL' to the reverse of the bronze mo...
Category
19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Center Tables
Materials
Ormolu
Fine Early Victorian Amboyna Centre Table by Taprell and Holland & Sons
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A fine early Victorian amboyna centre table by Taprell and Holland & Sons, the circular top set on a gadrooned baluster support terminating in pet...
Category
1840s English Antique Center Tables
Materials
Amboyna
Bended Center Table by Valentin Loellmann
Located in San Francisco, CA
A large center table with bended top in oak hand finished to fit the shape. The base is made from hazel branches coated with coal that has been rein...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Dutch Organic Modern Center Tables
Materials
Oak
Adirondack Style Table
Located in Hudson, NY
Adirondack style table, wonderful rustic table from the Saranac Lake area of the Adirondacks. Top is trimmed with willow branches and under stretchers are made of wisteria vine...
Category
1950s American Adirondack Vintage Center Tables
Materials
Wood, Willow
Large Biedermeier Writing Table Early 19th Century Bird's-Eye Maple Veneer
Located in Worpswede / Bremen, DE
An unusually large desk, even suitable for two working spaces at a time. The rounded rectangular top with a tooled black leather writing surface above four frieze drawers, two to eac...
Category
Early 19th Century English Biedermeier Antique Center Tables
Materials
Brass
Wood Stool Attributed to Pierre Jeanneret
Located in Piacenza, Italy
Huge and elegant wood stool attributed to Pierre Jeannette, with below element: 40 cm (H)
Literature: Le Corbusier Pierre Jeanneret: The Indian ...
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1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Center Tables
Materials
Wood
Late George III Revolving Mahogany Drum Table Attributed to Gillows
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A late George III revolving mahogany drum table attributed to Gillows, the circular top inset with a faded and gilt tooled green leather above four full and four dummy frieze drawers...
Category
Early 1800s English Antique Center Tables
Materials
Mahogany
French Directoire-style Hexagonal Black and Gilt Leather Pedestal Center Table
Located in New York, NY
French Directoire-style hexagonal top center table with ebonized finish, gilt trim and details, gilt embossed leather top, and bronze decorative drawer pulls...
Category
20th Century Directoire Center Tables
Materials
Leather
Strings Gold and Black Metal Coffee Table by Nika Zupanc
Located in Kolkata, IN
Strings gold and black metal coffee table by Nika Zupanc, is elegant in its lace-like gold, steel base with matt black tray top.
The word s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Indian Modern Center Tables
Materials
Metal
Jacques Adnet Center Table in Stitched Leather, Bronze and Gllass, France, 1950s
Located in New York, NY
Exceptional center table by Jacques Adnet clad in tobacco brown leather, its four legs joined by an X-stretcher and a large brass frame supports the glass top, it rests on bronze feet.
Category
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Center Tables
Materials
Bronze
19th Century Swedish Mahogany Empire Center Table
Located in Mjöhult, SE
Fine 19th century Swedish mahogany Empire center table with one-drawer and brass details, circa 1830.
Category
19th Century Swedish Empire Antique Center Tables
Materials
Mahogany
Swedish Grace Antique Inlaid Birch Center Table, circa 1920-1930
Located in Shippensburg, PA
SWEDISH GRACE PARQUETRY INLAID BIRCH CENTER TABLE
Circa second quarter 20th century; unmarked
Item # 011QJP19Z
An exquisite selection from the rich design period later identified as Swedish...
Category
20th Century Swedish Art Nouveau Center Tables
Materials
Birch
George IV Centre Table Attributed to Thomas & George Seddon, circa 1830
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
A Very Fine George IV Parcel-Gilt Amboyna Centre Table Attributed to Thomas & George Seddon.
English, Circa 1830.
The table is of finely figured Amboyna with a circular tilt-top above a triform column with parcel-gilt scrolled supports. It is raised on a conforming plinth base with foliate carved feet and concealed castors.
George Seddon was the eighth child of John Seddon of Blakelea, Lancashire. His father apprenticed him to George Clemaphon of Cripplegate to learn cabinet making. He became a master cabinet maker. (He was Master of the Joiner’s Company in 1795).
In the early 1750s he was sufficiently successful to acquire London House, Aldersgate Street. It consisted of extensive workshops, where furniture was made, and showrooms to display the finished products. London House had formerly been a palace of the Bishops of London. The panelled state-rooms were ideal for the display of fashionable furniture; and the chapel and library made convenient workshops. When Seddon married, he converted the garden house and infirmary into the family home. Seddon was the biggest furniture maker of his time. His furniture store covered a two acre site in Aldersgate Street.
His workshop there was described by London visitor Sophie v. La Roche in 1786:
"We drove first to Mr. Seddon's, a cabinet-maker,...He employs four hundred apprentices on any work connected with the making of household furniture—joiners, carvers, gilders...
Category
Early 19th Century English George IV Antique Center Tables
Materials
Wood
Rosewood and Inlaid Wood Coffee Table by Tapio Wirkkala for Asko
Located in Stockholm, SE
Stunning coffee table by Tapio Wirkkala, with a rosewood top inlayed with an oval shape of contrasting wood that has a growth ring-like pattern. Exquisitely restored. Sturdy base mad...
Category
1950s Finnish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Center Tables
Materials
Beech, Rosewood
19th Century Coromandel and Inlaid Table Attributed to Jackson & Graham
By Jackson & Graham
Located in London, GB
A magnificent library table
Attributed to Jackson & Graham
Of free standing rectangular form, constructed in coromandel, with inlays in thuya, ebony, boxwood, and honeysuckle; the fluted legs rising from square brass castor-shod feet; the frieze housing two lockable drawers fitted with rare ‘tamper proof’ Chubb locks and having quadrant moulded cedar lined interiors; the platform having a central panel of beautifully chosen matched coromandel veneers, with an outer guard border of a running pattern of stylised anthemions; the ebony edges having a thumb nail moulding,
circa 1865
The firm of Jackson & Graham established in 1836 by Thomas Jackson and Peter Graham at 37 Oxford Street London, and for the next fifty years produced predominately high quality furniture and represented Britain at many of the international exhibitions. Their clients included Queen Victoria, Napoleon III, the Grand Khedive of Cairo and the royal palace in Siam. They were particularly noted for their fine marquetry work, the use of Wedgwood plaques, rare woods, and fine casting of bronze mounts. They engaged the leading designers of the period, inter alia, Owen Jones, Bruce Talbert, Alfred Lorimer and Eugene Prignot. In the mid-1850s the workforce was recorded as 250, and by 1875, the company was employing 600 workers. They were feted exhibitors at many of the Great Exhibitions of the 19th century, and frequent prize winners. At the Paris International Exhibition of 1878, the furniture jury noted of them ‘ the workmanship is so perfect that even with the aid of a magnifying glass scarcely the slightest imperfection is to be found’. In 1885 the company was absorbed by Collinson and Lock, who continued their standard of excellence.
Charles Chubb was apprenticed as a blacksmith before starting business as a ships’ ironmonger in Winchester. Jeremiah soon joined the business, and by 1818 the brothers had branched out into lockmaking, founding the famous Chubb Company.
The business really got started when Jeremiah Chubb patented his new ‘detector lock’ in 1818. The lock was constructed so that if someone tried to pick it or open it with the wrong key it became inoperable. To make the lock work again the owner had to use a special key supplied with the lock. The aim of the detector lock was to prevent burglaries, and to warn the owner that someone had tried to break into their property.
The lock soon became popular, and sales of the Chubbs’ products increased even more when they won a government competition to design a lock that could only be opened using its own key. After the invention of the detector lock, the Chubbs decided to move to Wolverhampton, which already had an established lock making industry. By 1838 they were making 28,000 locks a year at their Wolverhampton factory. Another product was added to the Chubb range in 1835 when a patent was taken out for a burglar resistant safe, and in 1837 the Chubb safe...
Category
19th Century English Antique Center Tables
Materials
Brass
Antique and Vintage Center Tables
An alluring sitting area doesn’t have to be in the exact center of the room, but an antique or vintage center table is a great tool to partition off such an area.
By definition, a center table is a piece of furniture that is placed in the center of a room. Initially these appeared in the foyer or entryway before making their way into the living room. While one might keep seating furniture such as sofas against the walls to avoid limiting movement and closing off space, a center table in the living room can fill this central space without restricting the flow of the room.
One of the purposes of a center table is to anchor the rest of the furniture. It draws the eye to a specific area and invites guests to sit down. When thinking about how you’ll arrange your furniture, a good rule of thumb is to set tables an arm’s length away from seating. For instance, place a coffee table about 18 inches from a sofa so that it is within reach but not too close. In more modern layouts, tables are sometimes placed to the side to leave a large open area for foot traffic.
Because of its central position, a center table is one of the first things people will notice when entering a room. It’s important to consider how a center table can add to a room, as it’s a crucial element for defining the feel and theme of a room. Some center tables are mainly for decor, while others can be a great place to sit around over cocktails and hors d’oeuvres. Center tables are perfect for displaying decorative objects, floral arrangements, books or a cluster of prized antique vases given the prominent position of your table and the attention it will get.
The clean lines and organic forms that we typically associate with mid-century modern center tables means that they will bring a dose of sophistication to a space, and examples from the era can be found in square and round shapes. Wood tables were popular with furniture makers of the period, but versions in glass and marble are also widely available. Because Art Deco designers frequently incorporated ornamental embellishments such as exotic animal hides and veneers in their seating, case pieces and other furniture, your Art Deco center table will likely make a strong statement in any room. Alternatively, if you’re searching for something small and unassuming, Regency tables could be an option for your space.
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