1930s Coffee and Cocktail Tables

An outstanding 1930s Italian blue glass and brass coffee table in the style of designs by Pietro Chiesa for Fontana Arte. This table has a rectangular glass tabletop with a beveled e...

In the realm of furniture design and craftsmanship, there exist certain pieces that transcend time, becoming iconic symbols of an era. Margaret T. Nordman's 1930s coffee table, a cre...

Early Alvar Aalto for Finsven Inc. Side Table, End Table, Coffee Table, Circa 1940. Featuring a rectangular form, newly relacquered Black surface, multi layered Birch bentwood legs, ...

This 1930s Italian bench is so over-scaled, and monumental in appearance, that it seems to have been made for the large room it was destined, rather than the comfort of a typical sitter. As such, it would function equally well as a low side table or a high cocktail table. We’ll allow the buyer to determine its use. The designer was Pierluigi Colli, and the fabricator Martinotti, the Turin furniture and interior decorating firm that was established in 1831, and exhibited at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition and the 1904 St Louis World’s Fair. Colli’s family owned a textile company that supplied Martinotti with upholstery fabrics, suggesting nepotism had something to do with his being hired as the firm's director in 1926. Nevertheless, he proved himself worthy as a designer and a businessman. Having studied in Paris at the Ecole des Arts Decoratifs, he befriended leading French designers, and arranged for Martinotti to retail Lalique glass and Jean Perzel lighting. In addition, the quality of their work, and Colli’s dedication to the modern design movement, prompted Carlo Mollino, Gio Ponti, and Gino Levi-Montalcini, among others, to have Martinotti fabricate some of their furniture. Colli’s claim to fame, however, is his own work as a designer, and his ability to master the vocabularies of every trend from Art Deco to midcentury modern. During the Great Depression, when nearly every nation floundered economically, fascist Italy...

An elegant and early Pietro Chiesa designed cocktail table manufactured by Fontana Arte. Rose gold mirrored glass top inset onto wood dish frame above splayed legs. Early Fontana Art...

Solid walnut table with two levels designed by Josef Frank in the 1930s. It is visually beautiful and touching it with the hand one feels the subtleness of craftsmanship. Table is ...

American Art Moderne (1930s) coffee table with a slat pine faux bamboo-style base and a round glass top. (attributed to: PAUL FRANKL)

Coffee table by Osvaldo Borsani, in ebonized mahogany with carved and gilt details to the base and glass top, Aterlier di Varedo, Italy, circa 1937. Literature: Irene de Guttry, I...