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Coffee and Cocktail Tables For Sale
Color: Silver
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Green Circular Acrylic Coffee Tables, Sheer by Carnevale Studio
Located in Providence, RI
This is Carnevale Studio’s first acrylic collection of tables. Shown first on 1stdibs!
This collection consist of a Coffee Table, Side Table & Bedside Table.
Jessica had been work...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Acrylic
Modern Pico Side Table, Silver Portoro Marble, Handmade Portugal by Greenapple
By Greenapple
Located in Lisboa, PT
Pico Side Table, Contemporary Collection, Handcrafted in Portugal - Europe by Greenapple.
The Pico side table seamlessly integrates nature’s elements to bring the essence of the isl...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Marble, Brass
Biomorphic Line by Studio Chora, White Coffee Table, Lime Plaster, In Stock
By Studio Chora
Located in Albuquerque, NM
Designed by Studio Chora, 2024.
Biomorphic: ‘bios' meaning life and 'morphe' meaning form.
The 'Mother' coffee or accent table is organically-shaped and part of the biomorphic seri...
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2010s American Organic Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Plaster, Paper, Hardwood
Biomorphic Line by Studio Chora, White Coffee Table, Lime Plaster, In Stock
By Studio Chora
Located in Albuquerque, NM
Designed by Studio Chora, 2024.
Biomorphic: ‘bios' meaning life and 'morphe' meaning form.
The 'Mother' coffee or accent table is organically-shaped and part of the biomorphic seri...
Category
2010s American Organic Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Plaster, Hardwood, Paper
Opinion Ciatti Tab.ulino Small Table with Mirror Top
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Take a wooden frame, cover it in aluminium and then work its surface, ”scrunch” it by hand to achieve a crimpled profile. This is the process at the core of Tab.ulino and Tab.ulone, ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Aluminum
Opinion Ciatti XXX Small Round Table
Located in Brooklyn, NY
What is immediately clear when we look at the XXX coffee table range designed by Lapo Ciatti is the contrast between the fine finishes and the shapes that are purposely irregular and...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Wrought Iron
Solid Silver Travertine Oval Coffee Table 140 by Studio Narra
Located in 1204, CH
Introducing the "Abraccio" Collection or translated "embrace" Collection unites the enduring beauty of solid carved marble with a language of form that pays homage to primitive struc...
Category
2010s Italian Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Marble
REGENT Round Coffee Table in Silver Leaf with Wooden Top and X Cross Base
Located in Lentate sul Seveso, Monza e Brianza
Introducing the Regent Round Coffee Table—a dazzling centerpiece that marries opulence with timeless design. Crafted from solid beech wood, this table boasts a silhouette that seamle...
Category
2010s Italian Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Silver Leaf
Aldo Tura Coffee Table in Emerald Green Parchment with Brass Inlay, 1979
By Aldo Tura
Located in San Francisco, CA
This is an unusual Aldo Tura large rectangular coffee cocktail table in emerald green parchment with diagonal brass inlay. The top is lacquered for beauty and preservation.
Aldo Tu...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Brass
Opinion Ciatti Tab.ulone Large Table with Mirror Top
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Take a wooden frame, cover it in aluminium and then work its surface, “scrunch” it by hand to achieve a crimpled profile. This is the process at the core of Tab.ulino and Tab.ulone, ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Aluminum
Art Deco Table Structure from Lam Lee Group, 1990s
Located in Montelabbate, PU
Silver leaf side table, resin-carved legs, and punched, polished, and back-treated glass top by Lam Lee, 1990s.
Category
1990s Art Deco Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Silver Leaf
Eclectic Table Covered with Silver Top Glass, 1990s
Located in Montelabbate, PU
Silver-covered coffee table with glass top by Lam Lee Group, 1990s
Category
1990s Art Deco Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Silver Leaf
Lacquer with Thread Polychrome Metal Table, 1960s
Located in Montelabbate, PU
Exceptional example of high decoration: metal coffee table covered in silver leaf with a non-removable tray top with a silver frame and filiform spotted lacquered piece decoration. T...
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1960s Art Deco Vintage Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Metal, Silver Leaf
Coffe Table Design Vintage
Located in Napoli, NA
Vintage coffe table.
Design modernariato Small signs of wear.
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Steel
DS-615 Customizable Hand-Stitched Leather and Brass Coffee Table by De Sede
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Coffee table DS-615/91A by De Sede. As leather experts, it is our great passion to experiment with leather as a material. With DS-615, we succeeded in achieving a major accolade as w...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Leather
Cocktail Side Table Modern HandShaped Round Silver Palladium Leaf Sculpture
Located in Bronx, NY
SPIRIT TABLE - PALLADIUM LEAF FINISH
J.M. Szymanski
d. 2023
Our spirit table is a self portrait of the owner. What is your spirit animal? We will carve the spirit into iron and pal...
Category
2010s American Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Steel
Handcrafted Felix Muhrhofer Blue Turquoise Terrazzo Coffee Table Pope Bella nova
Located in Berlin, DE
Each item made by Felix Muhrhofer is carefully handcrafted and a unique, one-of-a-kind piece. Muhrhofer is an Austrian designer who primarily works with steel and terrazzo. His piece...
Category
2010s Austrian Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Steel
De Sede Circular Coffee Table
By De Sede
Located in Brooklyn, NY
DS-611/93 large coffee table by De Sede. DS-611 coffee table series is a stylish counterpart to the sofa for use in home as well as public interiors. The round tabletop is integrated...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Steel
De Sede Semi-Outdoor Circular Coffee Table
By De Sede
Located in Brooklyn, NY
DS-611/793 semi-outdoor large coffee table by De Sede. DS-611 coffee table series is a stylish counterpart to the sofa for use in home as well as public interiors. The round tabletop...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Stainless Steel
Willy Rizzo Green Lacquer and Chrome Square Bar Coffee Table Alveo 1970s
By Willy Rizzo
Located in Paris, IDF
This stunning square Alveo coffee table is guaranteed to be the focus of attention when you entertain guests in your living room. Following the glamorous mid-century look of other Classic Willy Rizzo designs, this beautiful green lacquered table...
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Chrome
Table in Metal "Corolla"
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Table in metal "Corolla"
Small coffee table of interesting form, made in steel, available in differants colors.
Measures: H: 50 cm, D: 45 cm.
MD008
Category
21st Century and Contemporary European Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Steel
Anza White Carrara Marble Coffee Table
Located in Brooklyn, NY
For the past six years Portuguese designer Rui Pereira and Japanese designer Ryosuke Fukusada have been collaborating on projects that tap into the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Danish Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Carrara Marble
Opinion Ciatti XXX Large Round Table
Located in Brooklyn, NY
What is immediately clear when we look at the XXX coffee table range designed by Lapo Ciatti is the contrast between the fine finishes and the shapes that are purposely irregular and...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Wrought Iron
Silver Plated LaVerne Coffee Table
Located in New York, NY
A circa 1970's silver plated and polychromed LaVerne coffee table.
Measurements:
Length: 36"
Width: 18"
Height: 17.25".
Category
1970s American Vintage Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Metal
Mid Century Asian Modern Chinoiserie Large Square Emerald Green Cocktail Table
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A large and impressive coffee table with an Asian modern contemporary look. It features emerald green coated steel, brass accents, thick clear glas...
Category
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Brass, Steel
Primitive Coffee Table by Newanderthal for Superego Editions, Italy
Located in Milan, Italy
Primitive coffee table by Newanderthal for Superego Editions.
All made by hand as a sculpture in polyurethane painted with a special paint to obtain a resistant and soft effect like rubber. Unique pieces 2022.
Newanderthal Collection
Approximately 40,000 years ago: a group of Neanderthal men and women go about their daily activities. They prey on deers, boars and mammoths for food; they make tools from flint, bones and wood. They live in cold barren caves and their days are all the same.
On a day that seems like any other day, the men are getting ready to go hunting and the women are attending to their babies and preparing animal skins. All of a sudden, the sky turns a ghastly color. Everything becomes dark. The cave people have no idea of what is going on. They’re terrified. Everything looks gloomy. In a flash, the black sky is infused with an intense kaleidoscopic light that illuminates everything. And then there’s a loud thump.
A fucsia meteorite has rocketed down from the sky, producing an enormous impact crater. The cave people cannot believe their eyes; they’re petrified. Only the youngest man in the tribe and his girl, though startled, dare to approach the crater, while the others run away. The adventurous couple goes down the crater to check out this huge, bizarre and colorful rock that blinds them with its light. They reach the meteorite and start touching and sniffing it out, suspiciously. As they try to figure out what happened, the meteorite seems to come to life: it opens a time portal and the two are plunged into the present. Specifically in Milan, and precisely in the subway, at rush hour. They’re terrified and have no idea of what is going on around them. They see these strange people clad in strange colorful hides moving around hurriedly, in hectic sync with each other. The couple follows the crowd outside the subway. They come to a group of people gathered at the entrance of a large building. Filled with curiosity, the two get closer. The small crowd stares at them but in a sort of intrigued way. They think they are part of some bizarre performance! Our friends enter the big building. It’s the Design Museum. “What’s going on?” — they wonder — “Where are we?”. Everything is so weird and incredibly amusing at the same time. They look around. “What in the world are those mysterious utensils?”.
They start sniffing and touching everything: chairs, sofas, lamps and tables, whatever they see. What’s the use of that strange object with 4 legs and a backrest? What are the tables and desks for? You can lie down on them! And the lights? They are fascinated and amazed by all they see. Then, at one point they see that blinding fucsia light again. They are drawn to it. They can’t resist it, they have to follow it. They enter a room with the Ultrafragola mirror...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Rubber
Mid-Century Modern Vintage Oval Cherry Brass Green Glass Side Table 1950s Italy
Located in Vienna, AT
Mid-Century Modern Vintage oval side table from cherrywood, green glass and brass 1950s Italy.
An amazing side table or coffee table from shel...
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1950s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Brass
Coffee table marble top texturised legs handmade in Italy by Cupioli available
Located in Rimini, IT
Modern coffee table with Grey Salomé marble top cm. Measures: 140 x 85 H. 32 - inches 55,12" x 33,46" H. 12,60" Thickness of the top cm. 12 / 4.72"
Salom...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary European Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Marble
Sketch Elle Sidetable Made of Green Acrylic Des, Roberto Giacomucci in 2022
Located in ancona, IT
Side table, handmade in transparent yellow acrylic colored with an innovative technology.
The material is made through the fusion of three plates, one of which
partially cured cent...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Acrylic
Silas Seandel Silver Leafed Brutalist Coffee Table
Located in Dallas, TX
Silver leafed torch cut coffee table by Silas Seandel. Retains original glass top.
Base measures: 44 x 21".
Category
Mid-20th Century American Brutalist Coffee and Cocktail Tables
DS-615 Customizable Hand-Stitched Leather and Brass Coffee Table by De Sede
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Coffee table DS-615/91A by De Sede. As leather experts, it is our great passion to experiment with leather as a material. With DS-615, we succeeded in achieving a major accolade as w...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Leather
Hispo Mosaic Top Coffee Table by Designed Alessandro Mendini for Alchimia
Located in London, GB
This an original occasional round table with a petal mosaic top. Italian design by Alessandro Mendini for Alchimia, signed on the base ...
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1980s Italian Modern Vintage Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Stone, Metal
Sketch Quadro Coffee Table Made of Green Acrylic Des, Roberto Giacomucci in 2020
Located in ancona, IT
Coffee table, handmade in transparent green acrylic colored with an innovative technology.
The material is made through the fusion of three plates, one of which
partially cured cen...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Acrylic
Silver Gilt Iron Cocktail Table
Located in Houston, TX
Late 20th Century silver gilt hand wrought iron table with antiqued mirror glass top.
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Iron
Table Sofa Coffee Low Spherical Ball Pod, Futuristic Lime Green Ice Tray Steel
Located in BUNGAY, SUFFOLK
Rare, spherical, ball or pod, futuristic, lime green (pantone reference 13-0442 TPG green glow, sofa or coffee table, the stainless steel top with ice bucket ...
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1960s English Futurist Vintage Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Stainless Steel
Hollywood Regency Style Silver Gilt Iron Coffee Table with Mirror Top
Located in Bridgeport, CT
A large and very well made rectangular coffee table with tapering square legs joined by a shaped curved X-stretcher. With a mottled mirror inset top.
Measures: Length 55", depth 30 ...
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20th Century Hollywood Regency Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Iron
Long Coffee Table in Silver Veneer, Stainless Steel Pipes, Grey Sphere
Located in Larnaca, CY
Wooden bulb veneer in silver color, stainless steel stiles and a Swedish pine solid wood sphere lacquered in grey color.
The SEA SURFACE long coffee table evolved out of its fellow ...
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2010s Greek Space Age Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Stainless Steel
Limited Edition Marble Aluminium Table, Sumatra V2 by Edizione Limitata
Located in Milano, IT
Sumatra V2 is a 21st Century low table made by Italian artisans in aluminium with an extraordinary Verde Guatemala green marble plane. It is part of the collectible design language S...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Stone, Marble, Aluminum
SEA SURFACE Coffee Table Silver Veneer and Solid Wood Lilac Spheres
Located in Larnaca, CY
Silver Alpi Veneer attached on solid wood pastel lilac lacquered spheres.
This table is the pilot piece of the series, conceived as a notional subtraction of the sea. The intriguing...
Category
2010s European Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Wood
Anza Black Carrara Marble Coffee Table
Located in Brooklyn, NY
For the past six years Portuguese designer Rui Pereira and Japanese designer Ryosuke Fukusada have been collaborating on projects that tap into their respective cultural heritage to engage users in new and unexpected design experiences. ANZA meaning ‘to sit at ease’ in Japanese, ANZA is a seating collection comprising a pouffe, bench and coffee table. The designers have updated a Kyoto-based textile, originally produced in the 18th century with a patchwork pattern, with a new color scale to match the official PWTBS color range. To complete the seating ensemble, with its high-gloss lacquer and oiled oak finishing, they have also added their own low coffee table based on a similar design vocabulary and featuring a durable Carrara marble top. This collection, part of a wider modular system, aims at enhancing both domestic and public environments.
Additional information:
Materials: tabletop in durable Nero black Carrara marble...
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21st Century and Contemporary Danish Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Carrara Marble
Bert Furnari Studio Free-Form Abstract Coffee Table in Powder-Coated Aluminum
By Bert Furnari
Located in Miami, FL
Bert Furnari Studio Free-Form abstract coffee table in powder-coated aluminum
Offered for sale is a Bert Furnari Studio powder-coated aluminum...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Post-Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Aluminum
Limited Edition Marble Aluminium Table, Sumatra V1 by Edizione Limitata
Located in Milano, IT
Sumatra V1 is a 21st Century side table made by Italian artisans in aluminium with an extraordinary Green Guatemala marble plane. It is part of the collectible design language Sumatr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Stone, Marble, Aluminum
Industrial Style Coffee Table in Silver and Leather, 1970s
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Industrial style coffee table. Iron base in silver. Orangeish leather tray, with a black patterned frieze. Assembly of the base and the top in gilded brass.
Work realized in the 1...
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20th Century Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Iron
Più Round Coffee Table Medium in Matt Lacquered Silver by Giuseppe Viganò
Located in Brooklyn, NY
A light, crisp and stylish table with a strong, clean design and an elegant, dainty spirit. Metal base and MDF top. Available in a matt lacquered finish.
The designer Giuseppe Vigan...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Metal
De Sede Circular Coffee Table
By De Sede
Located in Brooklyn, NY
DS-611/93 large coffee table by De Sede. DS-611 coffee table series is a stylish counterpart to the sofa for use in home as well as public interiors. The round tabletop is integrated in an intricately designed metal construction that calls to mind a ship’s railing. With its delicate design, the tabletop appears to float above the construct. DS-611 was intended to match the DS-610 maritime sofa series, but its neutral design...
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21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Steel
Limited Edition Marble Aluminium Table, Sumatra V3 by Edizione Limitata
Located in Milano, IT
Sumatra V3 is a 21st Century low table made by Italian artisans in aluminium with an extraordinary green Guatemala marble plane. It is part of the collectible design language Sumatra...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Stone, Marble, Aluminum
Opinion Ciatti XXX Small Square Table
Located in Brooklyn, NY
What is immediately clear when we look at the XXX coffee table range designed by Lapo Ciatti is the contrast between the fine finishes and the shapes that are purposely irregular and...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Wrought Iron
Fine Chinese Late 20th Century Carved Green Serpentine Center Table
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A Chinese late 20th century finely carved green serpentine center table. The six-legged pedestal table entirely carved of green serpentine, with a pierced apron in a Cantonese design...
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Late 20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Serpentine
Opinion Ciatti Foliae Sculptural Table
Located in Brooklyn, NY
A stool with multiple uses, made by welding small sheets of metal. This is how the projects of the Foliae collection are born, sculptural objects, between art and design, which come ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Steel
Opinion Ciatti ILtavolo Caffé Small Square Table
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Wherever you like, as you like, with whom you like. That’s ILtavolo Caffé, a table easy and simple, always appropriate, exactly like a coffee is! With the small top and the central base it has been developed to provide the highest level of comfort and usability even in tiny spaces. It is perfect for both, residential and contract environments. Kitchen and living room but also restaurant or café. For indoor and outdoor use. ILtavolo Caffé can be wherever you like! Like all the other "essentials" of Opinion Ciatti ( ILtavolo, LAlampada, LApanca, ILletto) ILtavolo Caffé combines very essential shapes with a high degree of customization.
Two shapes (round and square) two sizes for each and three materials (steel, marble and ceramic) to mix with a variety of finishes. With the top made in white Carrara marble or in ceramic with a cast iron, concrete, bronze or marble finish, it is finally perfect to give a refined touch to the outdoor spaces. The result is "à la carte...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Stainless Steel
Arcade Coffee Table, 3 Arches Round Silver Version, by Kasadamo & Pierre Tassin
By Kasadamo
Located in Chézard, CH
The Arcade coffee table - 3 arches round version - natural silver, has been created By Kasadamo in collaboration with Pierre Tassin, french designe...
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21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Stainless Steel
ClassiCon Bell Coffee Table in Brass and Emerald Green by Sebastian Herkner
Located in New York, NY
The Bell Table by Sebastian Herkner turns our perceptual habits on their head, using the lightweight, fragile material of glass as base for a metal top that seems to float above it. ...
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21st Century and Contemporary German Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Blown Glass
Opinion Ciatti XXX Large Square Table
Located in Brooklyn, NY
What is immediately clear when we look at the XXX coffee table range designed by Lapo Ciatti is the contrast between the fine finishes and the shapes that are purposely irregular and...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Wrought Iron
Two-Tier Ceramic Cloud Side Table & Stool in Drippy Palladium by BZIPPY
Located in Sun Valley, CA
Two-Tier Ceramic Cloud Side Table & Stool in Drippy Palladium. Made to order.
BZIPPY ceramic goods are one-of-a-kind stoneware / earthenware editions including furniture, planters ...
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2010s American Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Ceramic
Unique Italian Murano Stained Glass and brass coffee table 1960s
Located in Paris, IDF
This unique large square coffee table was created in Murano, Italy, in the late 1960s. Made of blown Murano stained glass, protected by a transpar...
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1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Brass
English "Airplane Wing" Coffee Table
Located in New York, NY
A circa 1930's English metal coffee table in the shape of an airplane wing.
Measurements:
Height: 16.5"
Width: 57"
Depth: 31".
Category
1930s English Vintage Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Silver Plate
Modern Silver Dust Eglomise Mirror Mosaic Coffee Table by Ercole Home
By Ercole Home
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Silver Dust (églomisé) mirror mosaic coffee table designed by Ercole Home with handcut mirror mosaic surface in Sunburst pattern.
The base is made of 1/2''thick tubular metal in Nat...
Category
2010s American Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Metal
Neoclassical Silver Coffee Table with Animal Feet and Black Lacquered Glass Top
Located in Marcq-en-Barœul, Hauts-de-France
This very nice coffee table is made of a silver base with ribbons and animal feet and with a crown all around the top. The top of the cocktail table is mad...
Category
1940s French Neoclassical Vintage Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Silver
Antique, New and Vintage Coffee Tables and Cocktail Tables
As a practical focal point in your living area, antique and vintage coffee tables and cocktail tables are an invaluable addition to any interior.
Low tables that were initially used as tea tables or coffee tables have been around since at least the mid- to late-1800s. Early coffee tables surfaced in Victorian-era England, likely influenced by the use of tea tables in Japanese tea gardens. In the United States, furniture makers worked to introduce low, long tables into their offerings as the popularity of coffee and “coffee breaks” took hold during the late 19th century and early 20th century.
It didn’t take long for coffee tables and cocktail tables to become a design staple and for consumers to recognize their role in entertaining no matter what beverages were being served. Originally, these tables were as simple as they are practical — as high as your sofa and made primarily of wood. In recent years, however, metal, glass and plastics have become popular in coffee tables and cocktail tables, and design hasn’t been restricted to the conventional low profile, either.
Visionary craftspeople such as Paul Evans introduced bold, geometric designs that challenge the traditional idea of what a coffee table can be. The elongated rectangles and wide boxy forms of Evans’s desirable Cityscape coffee table, for example, will meet your needs but undoubtedly prove imposing in your living space.
If you’re shopping for an older coffee table to bring into your home — be it an antique Georgian-style coffee table made of mahogany or walnut with decorative inlays or a classic square mid-century modern piece comprised of rosewood designed by the likes of Ettore Sottsass — there are a few things you should keep in mind.
Both the table itself and what you put on it should align with the overall design of the room, not just by what you think looks fashionable in isolation. According to interior designer Tamara Eaton, the material of your vintage coffee table is something you need to consider. “With a glass coffee table, you also have to think about the surface underneath, like the rug or floor,” she says. “With wood and stone tables, you think about what’s on top.”
Find the perfect centerpiece for any room, no matter what your personal furniture style on 1stDibs. Browse a vast selection of antique, new and vintage coffee table and cocktail tables today.
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