Walnut Coffee and Cocktail Tables

A beautiful and elegant one drawer coffee table designed by John Keal for Brown Saltman. Crafted out of walnut the piece has a smoked glass top. The dimensions are 60x24 inches and ...

Expertly Refinished, New Smoke Glass Top With over 15 years of experience, our workshop has followed a careful process of restoration, showcasing our passion and creativity for vint...

Beautiful and versatile expandable mid century minimalist walnut slat bench designed by John Keal for Brown Saltman, circa 1960. This California modern piece features an expandable sliding top with eight support legs. Perfect to use as a living room coffee table, entryway or bedroom seating bench. Size: 55.5" expands to 98" long, 18"W x 12"H. John Keal: At a time when many furniture makers were turning to cheaper materials for mass production, mid-century modern designer John Keal didn't shy away from utilizing quality woods in his work, like mahogany and walnut to create his coffee tables, cabinets and benches. While little is known about Keal, he was part of a powerhouse group that collaborated with Los Angeles furniture manufacturer Brown-Saltman in the 1940s and ‘50s. Other designers who had partnered with the firm during the mid-20th century included Greta Magnusson Grossman, Paul Frankl, Paul Laszlo, and Gilbert Rohde, a New York City-born designer who would help legendary Michigan furniture manufacturer Herman Miller avert financial disaster during the Great Depression. Brown-Saltman was established in 1923 and initially specialized in reproductions of furniture in period styles. When cofounder David Saltman met Frankl, the firm had discontinued its Early California collection and was producing modern furniture. The Austrian-born Frankl was already a big name in decorating in California in the late 1930s — his clients were Hollywood movie stars who were drawn to pieces such as his Art Deco-style Skyscraper series and other biomorphically shaped designs that showed the influence of Chinese and Japanese forms (Brown-Saltman’s offerings were frequently demonstrative of Asian influences). Frankl had become interested in producing inexpensive furniture for middle-class consumers, and his 1940s-era collaboration with Brown-Saltman was a success — print advertisements touted his name as well as the fact that these furnishings, which drew on the clean lines of chrome-framed Bauhaus pieces but instead integrated organic materials, were intended for modern homes. Keal’s work also fit snugly into what we now call California modernism, which derived from the Bauhaus and International Style movements, and revolutionized the way we build homes today, not only in the Golden State but across the globe. Keal created sleek end tables...

A Mid-Century Modern expanding coffee table designed by John Keal for Brown Saltman of California. Table adjusts between 66 inches to 95 inches...

Newly Refinished Mid-Century Modern Walnut Coffee Table John Keal, Brown Saltman Year: c.1950’s With over 15 years of experience, our workshop has followed a careful process of res...

Mid-century walnut & glass coffee table designed by John Keal and manufactured by Brown Saltman in the United States circa 1950s. This stunning coffee table features a smoke glass to...

John Keal for Brown Saltman slatted walnut bench circa mid 1950's. Solid walnut slats and double sided drawer with original white laminate. Newly fi...

John Keal Smoke Glass & Walnut Coffee Table for Brown Saltman. ________________________________________ Transforming a piece of Mid-Century Modern furniture is like bringing histor...

Wonderful John Keal design for Brown Saltman, circa 1950s./ Walnut top sitting on two walnut cube bases, when you pull or separate the top haves, it reveals Black formica. This expan...

Large Mid-Century Modern expandable slat bench on tapered dowel cone legs.

John Keal Slatted low bench for Brown Saltman, circa 1955.

John Keal walnut & smoked glass side / coffee table for brown Saltman circa 1960.