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Coffee and Cocktail Tables For Sale
Item type: Antique and Vintage
Color: Gold
Brass "Cheval" Horse Head Coffee Table by Maison Charles, France
Located in Stamford, CT
French bronze horse head glass top coffee table by Maison Charles circa 1970.
Category
1950s French Vintage Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Gold-Plated Side Table with Travertine Shelf, 23-Carat by Belgo Chrome
By Belgo Chrome
Located in Tourcoing, FR
Pair of gold-plated side tables with shelf, 23-carat by Belgo Chrome, circa 1970s, Belgian. Belgo Chrome was known for its beautiful clean designs in hot metals and noble materials. ...
Category
1970s French Vintage Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Travertine, Gold Plate
Maison Jansen Parchment and Gold Gilt Table
Located in London, GB
A very good quality table by Maison Jansen, with elaborate gold gilt supports in the Rococo manner, and a shaped top in parchment. Stamped Jansen underneath.
Category
Mid-20th Century French Rococo Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Gold Leaf
Maison Jansen Bronze and Marble Coffee Table
Located in Miami, FL
Superb coffee table by Maison Jansen…., brass and vert mer marble top. Very high quality made in France in 1950.
Totally restored and refinished.
Category
1940s European Neoclassical Vintage Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Italian Brass Swan Coffee Table, 1950s
Located in Antwerp, BE
A chic and elegant 1950s Italian brass swan coffee table with swan head legs and original glass.
Well-made and heavy.
Dimensions base:
Wid...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Hollywood Regency Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Metal, Brass, Bronze
Vintage Bronze Double Monkey Coffee Table Base with Verde Patina
Located in Yonkers, NY
A vintage bronze double monkey coffee table base from the mid-20th century, with verde patina. The top is not included but shown on the photos to a...
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Mid-20th Century Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Bronze
Vintage Cast Bronze Dancing Cherubs Coffee Table Base with Dark Patina
Located in Yonkers, NY
A vintage lost wax bronze dancing cherubs coffee table base from the mid 20th century, with dark patina. We have two table bases available, priced ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Bronze
Italian Bronze Cherub Glass Coffee Table
Located in Pasadena, CA
Italian mid century bronze cherub holding an piece of glass forming a coffee table. Each cherub is on its knees and extending their arms outward to hold the glass piece that makes the table top portion of this coffee table. There is wonderful patina on the cherubs. Great small details as the cherubs are also holding a bow and arrows on their bodies. There is a small ivy wrapped around the arms for added textures and details. Measures approx - 65w x 28d x 15h
This 3 piece coffee table...
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Bronze
Neoclassical Bronze and Marble Empire style Gueridon Table, Two-Tier
Located in Montreal, Quebec
A classic French bronze and black marble two-tiered round gueridon table on scrolled legs with paw feet on castors. A round black marble top is encircled by a decorative bronze band. The legs are joined by an openwork triangular bronze crosspiece, with large acorn at the centre. The legs support a second black marble shelf...
Category
20th Century French Neoclassical Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Pair of Willy Rizzo Style Coffee Tables
By Willy Rizzo
Located in Miami, FL
A superb pair of coffee tables in the style of Willy Rizzo.
Category
1970s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Bronze
Brass Mastercraft Coffee Table with Mirror
By Mastercraft
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Brass Mastercraft coffee table with mirror, Mid-century Modern.
Category
20th Century North American Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Brass, Bronze
Acid-Etched and Patinated Bronze Coffee by Philip and Kelvin LaVerne
Located in Montreal, QC
Acid-etched and patinated bronze coffee table depicting floral motifs by Philip and Kelvin LaVerne.
Signed "Philip & Kelvin Laverne".
Category
1970s American Vintage Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Bronze
Coffee Table from Lam Lee Group, 1980s
Located in Montelabbate, PU
Splendid eclectic coffee table with a Dèco flavour. Conical legs ending in a sphere support the table top worked with carved and applied movable bands around and above the top. Lacqu...
Category
1980s American Art Deco Vintage Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Silver Plate, Gold Leaf
1970’s ‘Koi Fish’ coffee table in bronze, Italy
Located in Beerse, VAN
1970’s Italian coffee table in Hollywood Regency style. It has a ‘Koi Fish’ base and a beautiful thick glass top. In full original condition.
The bronze base is naturally colored d...
Category
1970s Italian Hollywood Regency Vintage Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Bronze
Traccia Table by Meret Oppenheim, 1970s
Located in Berlin, Berlin
Side or coffee table 'Traccia' designed by Meret Oppenheim. Italy, Simon International, 1972.
ORIGINAL EDITION. The Traccia table was designed by Meret Oppenheim in 1939 and produced by Simon International in Milan in the early 1970s. Wooden top with bird impressions embossed and applied with gold leaf...
Category
1970s Italian Modern Vintage Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Bronze
Idir Mecibah, Brutalist Coffee Table in Massive Steel, Handcrafted in Belgium 97
By Idir Mecibah
Located in Forest, BE
Fantastic shaped brutalist coffee table by Idir Mecibah (1958-2013), produced by Smederij Moerman 1998. This table is from the scrab series designed in th...
Category
1990s Belgian Brutalist Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Steel, Gold Leaf
Midcentury Chippendale Style Bronze and Onyx Coffee Table, Italy, 1950s
Located in Palermo, IT
Rectangular Chippendale style coffee table with onyx top and bronze structure with relief decorations. Italian manufacture, 1950s.
We...
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Onyx, Bronze
Philip and Kelvin Laverne "Chan" Coffee Table
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Philip Laverne vintage modern etched bronze top coffee table on bronze faux bamboo legs. This table is tamped and tagged by the designer, fitting for...
Category
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Bronze
Rare Stephane Boudin for Maison Jansen Gilt Bronze and Glass Cocktail Table
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Exceptionally rare Jansen design. A chic modern take on a Louis XV-style low coffee table, the shaped 1.5" thick green glass top raised on beautifully cast and thickly gilt bronze acanthus-form legs. From a Maison Jansen decorated Park Ave. estate. An identical table was in the library of Jayne & Charles B. Wrightsman's Palm Beach house, a well-documented Jansen commission, illustrated in J.A. Abbott, Jansen, New York 2006, p. 291 (photo provided), as well as architectural sketches of the original design by the hand of Stephane Boudin...
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1950s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Bronze
Philip and Kelvin Laverne Coffee Table
Located in New York, NY
An Oval form etched bronze Coffee table designed by Philip and Kelvin Laverne. This unique coffee table is of two tone depicting chinoiserie figures.
Category
1970s American Vintage Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Bronze
Bronze and Glass Coffee Table by Jacques Quinet for Maison Malabert
Located in New York, NY
Bronze and glass coffee table by Jacques Quinet for Maison Malabert. Polished bronze and glass coffee/cocktail table by Jacques Quinet for Maison Malabert. Signed and stamped "broncz...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Bronze
Rare Philip & Kelvin LaVerne Erotica Coffee Table
Located in New York, NY
A Rare Philip & Kelvin LaVerne Erotica Coffee table of unusual design. This highly important and rare table depictis six scenes of nude females in patinated bronze and pewter by Phil...
Category
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Bronze, Pewter
Post-Modern Round Tessellated Stone Side Table With Gold Brass Supports
Located in Chattanooga, TN
Please inquire if you are interested in a custom size / shape glass top and we'll send you a quote.
Nineteen-Laties (1970s-1980s) tessellated occasional table with round glass top...
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1970s Philippine Mid-Century Modern Vintage Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Stone, Brass
1950s Sculptural Bronze Coffee Side Table Arturo Pani Mexico City
By Arturo Pani
Located in Chula Vista, CA
1950s Mexican Modernist side coffee table sculptural bronze
Bronze with glass tabletop. Arturo Pani Mexico City
Unmarked.
Rectangular shape round corners curvy wishbone legs.
29.5 x...
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1950s Mexican Mid-Century Modern Vintage Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Bronze
1960s Modular Square Two-tone Cocktail Table Arturo Pani Mexico
By Arturo Pani
Located in Chula Vista, CA
1960s Modular Square Cocktail Table Arturo Pani made in Mexico
Aluminum and Bronze
43.25 x 43.25 x 15.75 h
Glass area 39.25 x 39.25
Original vintage unr...
Category
1960s Mexican Mid-Century Modern Vintage Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Aluminum, Bronze
Italian Art Deco Parchment, Gold Leaf and Black Lacquered Coffee Table, 1980s
Located in Meda, MB
This Art Deco style coffee table was produced in Italy in the 1980s.
The top is in parchment, the column leg is in gold leaf and the base is black lacquered.
Completely restored.
Category
1980s Italian Art Deco Vintage Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Gold Leaf
Philip and Kelvin Laverne Kuan Su Coffee table
Located in New York, NY
A Unique Philip & Kelvin Laverne Kuan Su Bronze coffee table of rectangular form.
Category
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Bronze
Neoclassical Empire Style Guéridon, Bronze and Marble, Rectangular
Located in Montreal, Quebec
A Classic neoclassical French Empire style bronze and black marble rectangular guéridon table on slender bronze legs with paw feet. The rectangular black marble-top is surrounded by ...
Category
20th Century French Neoclassical Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Bronze 'Chan' Coffee or Large End Table by Philip & Kelvin LaVerne, 1960s Signed
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a rare iteration of the classic and highly sought after 'Chan' coffee table by father and son team, Philip and Kelvin LaVerne (New York), produced in the 1960s and signed with the artists names on the top (see photos). Ingeniously designed with international patination and polychromed bronze and pewter, this rare form coffee table which also functions excellent as a large end table...
Category
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Bronze, Pewter
Maison Baguès Bronze Saint Gobain Gilded Glass Coffee Table 1950s
Located in Paris, IDF
This beautiful coffee table by French house Maison Baguès was created in the early 1950s with solid bamboo shaped bronze structure and an amazing Saint Gobain dalle de sable gilded t...
Category
1950s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Bronze
Curvaceous X-Base Bronze Coffee Table
Located in Atlanta, GA
Curvaceous X-base bronze coffee table, American, circa 1990s. The bronze retains it's warm original patina.
Category
1990s American Hollywood Regency Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Bronze
Huge Maison Jansen Sliding Top Coffee Table in Brass and Chrome
Located in Berlin, BE
Elongated glass table with sliding top by Maison Jansen. Frame has an total original gold-plated and chrome metal finish.
Category
1970s French Hollywood Regency Vintage Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Gold Plate, Chrome
Brutalist Coffee Table by Lothar Klute, 1970s
By Lothar Klute
Located in Munster, NRW
Lothar Klute is a German designer active in the 1970s-1990s. His design is Brutalist with a refine elegance. He worked bronze and frosted glass to create furniture in an Artistic way...
Category
1970s German Brutalist Vintage Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Bronze
Expanding Three Tier Coffee Table by Design Institute of America 'Dia', 1980
Located in Hastings, GB
Rare vintage expanding three tier coffee table by Design Institute of America (DIA), 1980s. The 3 wedge-shaped tables are on a central pivot,...
Category
1980s American Post-Modern Vintage Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Metal, Gold Plate
Maison Baguès Mid-Century Modern Round Glass Brass Bronze Coffee Cocktail Table
Located in Roslyn, NY
Wonderful Maison Baguès Mid-Century Modern round glass top, with faux brass / bronze bamboo style structure.
Measures: 30" Round x 26" H.
Category
20th Century Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Brass, Bronze
Paul Evans Sculpted Bronze Coffee Table
By Paul Evans
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Paul Evans sculpted bronze coffee table. Signed PE 72. Table is being offered as a base only, no glass top will be provided. Beautiful verdigris patina ...
Category
1970s North American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Bronze
Bronze Sculpture Coffee Table of Semi Nude Women
Located in Lake Worth, FL
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Offering One Of Our Recent Palm Beach Estate Fine Furniture Acquisitions Of A
Bronze Semi-Nude Women Sculpture...
Category
Late 20th Century Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Bronze, Iron
French Bronze Guéridon Side Table in the Manner of Maison Toulouse, Telescopic
By Maison Toulouse
Located in Montreal, Quebec
French Bronze Telescopic Guéridon side tables in the Manner of Maison Toulouse. Mid-Century Modern. The very quintescence of chic.
Magnificent bronz...
Category
20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Marble, Brass, Bronze
1950s French Hollywood Regency Foliage Coffee Table in Gilt Iron
Located in Barcelona, ES
Coffee table / Low Table / Side Table with Foliage design, wrought iron, gold leaf, France, 1950s.
One of a kind Hollywood Regency coffee table or side table with naturalistic desig...
Category
20th Century French Hollywood Regency Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Wrought Iron, Gold Leaf, Iron
Bronze and Glass Belgium Midcentury Coffee Table '2 Available'
Located in London, GB
A bronze, splayed coffee table with thick circular glass top.
Belgium, c1970s.
Two available, PRICED AND SOLD INDIVIDUALLY.
Good condition.
Location: Belgium Gallery.
...
Category
1970s Belgian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Bronze
Antique Southeast Asian Bronze Rain Drum
Located in Pasadena, CA
This a very large Southeast Asian patinated cast bronze rain drum or frog drum.
The intended use of the rain drum was ceremonial and was used to invoke rain and serve as an instrum...
Category
Late 19th Century Southeast Asian Chinoiserie Antique Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Bronze
Brutalist Coffee Table Brass Bronze by Salvino Marsura Sculpture Midcentury
Located in Berlin, BE
Gorgeous coffee table handcrafted by Italian Artist and Sculptor Salvino Marsura, who passed away in May 2020.
The coffee table shows an amazing tree in heavy gilt wrought iron.
On...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Brutalist Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Brass, Bronze, Steel
1970 ‘Pelican and Reed Coffee Table in Bronze by Christian Techoueyres
Located in Paris, FR
Gilt bronze coffee table with a pelican and a reed bush.
By Christian Techoueyres not signed.
Wooden base surrounded by black formica.
105 x 62cm
H 40 cm
Tempered glass top with...
Category
1970s Vintage Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Bronze
1940s Coffee Table by Gilbert Poillerat
Located in Paris, FR
A rare and important spindle feet console in patinated wrought iron with a spectacular carrare marble
A similar model is located at the Louvre museum at the bronze room into the deco...
Category
20th Century French Neoclassical Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Bronze Éclaté Gilded Bronze Coffee Table Lamp by Claude Victor Boeltz
Located in Montreal, QC
Bronze éclaté gilded bronze coffee table lamp by Claude Victor Boeltz inset with amethyst quartz.
Signed: "Made in France Royale Fonderie P...
Category
1970s French Vintage Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Bronze
Coffe Table in Marble and Bronze, 60°, Country France
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
Coffe table
Year: 1960
Country: France
It is an elegant and sophisticated coffe table.
You want to live in the golden years, this is the dining table that your project needs.
We hav...
Category
1960s French Space Age Vintage Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Italian Bronze Neoclassical Putti Di Mare Mermaid Cocktail Table
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Fantastic Italian nautical cocktail table or coffee table featuring a pair of patinated bronze Putti Di Mare mermaids supporting a thick glass pan...
Category
20th Century Italian Neoclassical Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Bronze
Signed Silas Seandel Coffee Table
Located in Middlesex, NJ
Signed silas seandel coffee table.
Category
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Brass, Bronze, Steel
Signed Large Square Bronze Coffee Table Jacques Quinet for Broncz, 1960s
By Broncz, Jacques Quinet
Located in Paris, IDF
This large coffee table signed by Jacques Quinet and stamped by Broncz, is a rare remarkable find. It features a strong, bronze base constructed to last. This coffee table will not o...
Category
1960s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Bronze
1950-1970 Coffee Table Maison Jansen Glazed
Located in Paris, FR
Maison Jansen coffee table in bronze and brass, uprights with gunmetal patina, characteristic of this brand
glass shelves,condition of use. circa 1950-1970.
Smoked glasses
Measure...
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1950s French Neoclassical Vintage Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Bronze
Continental 19th Century Louis XIV St. Bronze, Marble, and Ormolu Coffee Table
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A beautiful Continental 19th century Louis XIV st. ormolu, patinated bronze, Alabastro and black Belgian marble coffee table. The rectangular coffee table is raised by six elegant an...
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19th Century Unknown Louis XIV Antique Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
Large Mid Century Bronze Nude Coffee Table
Located in Staffordshire, GB
circa mid 20thC
Large Mid Century Bronze Nude Coffee Table
W110 x D110 x H30cm.
Category
Mid-20th Century Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Bronze
Large Laverne Coffee Table
Located in New York, NY
A midcentury patinated bronze coffee table with verdigris patina by LaVerne.
Measurements:
Length:69"
Width: 23"
Height: 16".
Category
1960s American Vintage Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Bronze
Etched Brass Coffee Table by LaVerne
Located in New York, NY
An etched and patinated circa 1960's coffee table by Phillip and Kevin LaVerne.
Measurements:
Height 25"
Diameter 39.25".
Category
1960s American Vintage Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Bronze
1970's Mid-Century Modern Ibex Coffee Table with Bronze Base & Glass Top
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Introducing our extraordinary mid-century modern ibex coffee table, a hand-crafted masterpiece that combines artistic design with functionality. Expe...
Category
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Bronze, Brass
Mid-Century Bronze and Clear Glass Hoof Foot Coffee / Cocktail Table
Located in New York, NY
Mid-Century square coffee / cocktail table with a bronze frame with curved legs ending in hoof feet and an X-stretcher base, supporting a thick clear glass tabletop.
Category
20th Century Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Metal, Bronze
French Modern Maison Jansen Attrib Mixed Metal Greyhound Table
Located in Forney, TX
A stunning rare midcentury French mixed metal two-tier table attributed to luxury Parisian design house Maison Jansen (Paris, France; 1880-1989)
Mid-20th Century, having a patinated silver-tone brushed steel frame, gilt metal accents, featuring sculptural bronzed figural greyhound heads, two colorless glass tiers, rising square and tubular legs, terminating in paw feet.
Having the ideal Size and proportions for a variety of different uses, including as a cocktail - coffee table, sofa end table, chair side table, bedside nightstand, etc. as well as a elegant, sophisticated, and highly decorative refined style that compliments many of today's most popular interior design styles, such as Mid-Century Modern, Hollywood Regency Glam, Art Deco, transitional Industrial, and more.
Dimensions: (approx)
21.75" High, 25.5" Wide, 25.5" Deep
Condition:
Great original unrestored vintage condition. Strong, sturdy, stable, and structurally sound. Presents splendidly, nicely aged patina - patinated with scattered spots of oxidation, heavily worn gilt finish, typical signs of wear consistent with age and use including minor scuffs, scratches and expected character marks. Overall a wonderful example!
Maison Jansen:
Maison Jansen (English: House of Jansen) was a Paris-based interior decoration office founded in the late 19th century and is considered the first truly global design firm, serving prominent clients in Europe, Latin America, North America (including the White House, numerous past presidents and celebrities) and the Middle East.
In 1880, at the height of the Belle Époque, Jean-Henri Jansen emigrated from Holland to open a furniture shop on the Rue Royale in Paris. No one could have anticipated that his little business (one of the forerunners of interior decoration as we know it) would grow into an Empire, but within Jansen’s lifetime, his emphasis on historical research, his focus on client needs, and his comprehensive approach to transforming space, would earn his firm a faithful client base of wealthy, royal, and otherwise elite clients—clients they would keep for almost a century to come.
Maison Jansen was a success from the very start. The shopkeeper made such a splash with his lavish and detailed window displays, and unique approach to selling furniture—Jansen was one of the first dealers to carry everything necessary to furnish a home—that within ten years Maison Jansen was no longer a store but a rapidly expanding design firm with a wealthy and faithful client base. By 1890 Jansen had established a prominent antiques trade, had opened up a workshop on the Rue Pergolese (where the company produced furniture of its own), and had achieved his first great feat of interior decoration—remodeling the Palace of Laeken at the behest of King Leopold II of Belgium.
By 1900 Jansen’s reputation was monumental. His firm represented not merely the royalty of Europe, but the wealthy and powerful from all over the world. What’s more, by the turn of the century his furniture was heralded as some of the finest in Europe. The spectacular Art Nouveau writing desk the firm presented at the 1900 Paris Exposition Universelle remains, to this day, in the collection of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, and is considered one of the supreme examples of the period. Maison Jansen would not miss an important show thereafter, and participated in the 1925 Exhibition...
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Mid-20th Century French Hollywood Regency Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Metal, Bronze, Steel, Iron
Maison Charles, Coffee Table, "Flying Horse of Gansu", 1970s, France
Located in Den Haag, NL
A beautiful square coffee table by Maison Charles from the 1970s.
A stylish coffee table, with 4 bronze horses "flying horse of Gansu". Two glass...
Category
1970s French Hollywood Regency Vintage Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Brass, Bronze
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.”
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