‘Long Table’ Swedish Modern Organic-Leg Coffee Table by Bruno Mathsson, 1950s

Danish midcentury Tall Rectangular Coffee Table Additional information: midcentury Table with Leg Joinery + Edge Banding. Acquired from the Royal Danish Embassy in Washington, D...

“Saw Horse” Extendable Dining Table in Oak by Hans Wegner for Andreas Tuck,1950s Additional information: Material: Oak Featured at DC: A very hard to come by example of this ta...

From the Annika series. 1950's. Stamped. Patinated wood. As the descendant of four generations of Swedish master cabinetmakers, Bruno Mathsson was born to design furniture. Mathsson was known as a methodical perfectionist who made usefulness the fundamental attribute of his works, yet he was also a ceaseless experimenter, who constantly searched for improvements in form, materials and methods of making. Like the Finnish designer Alvar Aalto, Mathsson was one of the first Scandinavians to embrace undulating, biomorphic forms in furniture. His early pieces such as the Eva and Pernilla series of chairs incorporate dramatically flowing bent beechwood frames, making them some of the most instantly recognizable works of 20th-century design. Mathsson was also a pioneer of ergonomics — he is said to have based the contours of his chairs on the impression his body made when he sat in a snow bank — and used supple, accommodating woven webbing for seats. His concern for practicality is shown by pieces such as the Maria table. An elegant design with gate legs and hinged leaves, the table measures more than nine feet long when fully extended, but folds down to just nine inches in thickness. From the mid-1940s through the 1950s, Mathsson focused on architecture, designing and building houses with insulated, triple-glazed window walls...

A classic mid-century Danish coffee table with a beautiful natural teak grain. Slender, carved legs give a sleek profile, sure to work well with a variety of styles. An ample tableto...