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MODERN STYLE

The late 19th and early 20th centuries saw sweeping social change and major scientific advances — both of which contributed to a new aesthetic: modernism. Rejecting the rigidity of Victorian artistic conventions, modernists sought a new means of expression. References to the natural world and ornate classical embellishments gave way to the sleek simplicity of the Machine Age. Architect Philip Johnson characterized the hallmarks of modernism as “machine-like simplicity, smoothness or surface [and] avoidance of ornament.”

Early practitioners of modernist design include the De Stijl (“The Style”) group, founded in the Netherlands in 1917, and the Bauhaus School, founded two years later in Germany.

Followers of both groups produced sleek, spare designs — many of which became icons of daily life in the 20th century. The modernists rejected both natural and historical references and relied primarily on industrial materials such as metal, glass, plywood, and, later, plastics. While Bauhaus principals Marcel Breuer and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe created furniture from mass-produced, chrome-plated steel, American visionaries like Charles and Ray Eames worked in materials as novel as molded plywood and fiberglass. Today, Breuer’s Wassily chair, Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona chaircrafted with his romantic partner, designer Lilly Reich — and the Eames lounge chair are emblems of progressive design and vintage originals are prized cornerstones of collections.

It’s difficult to overstate the influence that modernism continues to wield over designers and architects — and equally difficult to overstate how revolutionary it was when it first appeared a century ago. But because modernist furniture designs are so simple, they can blend in seamlessly with just about any type of décor. Don’t overlook them.

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Style: Modern
Color:  Pink
Contemporary Molecule 422 Coffee Table in Handmade Coloured Resin
Located in London, GB
Molecule comprises sister sculptures that create new geometries from a recurring, recognizable fragment. Dotted with holes, the structures explore the capacity of the repeating torus...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables

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Resin

Coffee Table Molecula Model by Marco Pettinari for Superego Editions, Italy
Located in Milan, Italy
Coffee table Molecula designed by Marco Pettinari for Superego Editions. This sculpture/coffee table made from a transparent Plexiglas block, it made by hand and with numerical con...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables

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Plexiglass

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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Danish Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables

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Carrara Marble

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

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Rubber

Yves Klein Pink "Monopink" Glass Table, Made in France
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Yves Klein Pink "Monopink" pigment glass table This iconic table is from an edition begun in 1963 under the supervision of Yves Klein’s widow, Rotraut ...
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2010s French Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables

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Stainless Steel

Sketch Mini Ponte Side Table Made of Pink Acrylic Design Roberto Giacomucci 2020
Located in ancona, IT
Side table, handmade in transparent pink acrylic colored with an innovative technology. The material is made through the fusion of three plates, one of which partially cured center...
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2010s Italian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables

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Acrylic

Sketch Coffee Table Made of Acrylic Design Roberto Giacomucci 2022
Located in ancona, IT
Side table, handmade in transparent pink acrylic colored with an innovative technology. The material is made through the fusion of three plates, one of which partially cured center...
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2010s Italian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables

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Acrylic

Dancing Contemporary Coffee Table in Steel
Located in London, GB
The Dancing coffee table is an exploration of the concept of movement, so naturally, it’s conceived only of circles, since they have an inherent movement in them. From wheels, to bea...
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2010s Italian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables

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Steel

Sketch Side Table Made of Acrylic Design Roberto Giacomucci, 2022
Located in ancona, IT
Side table, handmade in transparent pink acrylic colored with an innovative technology. The material is made through the fusion of three plates, one of which partially cured center...
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2010s Italian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables

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Acrylic

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

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Carrara Marble

Contemporary 'Puà' Coffee Table Pink Crystal and Polished Brass by Ghirò Studio
Located in Pieve Emanuele, Milano
The coffee table Puà is born from instinct, from the artist’s desire to create an eye-catching coffee table, out of the box and extremely contemporary. The entire support structure ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables

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Brass

21st Century Sopovria So Central Table in Frosted Plexiglass by Sovrappensiero
Located in Cantù, Lombardia
"Sopovria SO is a diaphanous object, whose contours dissolve and melt with the surroundings. We can spot its hidden soul, balanced between transparency and color. Zoomorphic shapes c...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables

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Plexiglass

21st Century Sopovria Re Side Table in Frosted Plexiglass by Sovrappensiero
Located in Cantù, Lombardia
"Sopovria RE is a diaphanous object, whose contours dissolve and melt with the surroundings. We can spot its hidden soul, balanced between transparency and color. Zoomorphic shapes c...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables

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Plexiglass

Marquetry Mania Inlaid Occasional Table in Matte Pink
Located in New York, NY
Marquetry Mania explores the handcrafted technique of marquetry by applying a playful yet powerful interpretation to it. Bypassing the expected, the co...
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Early 2000s Lebanese Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables

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Wood, Lacquer

21st Century Sopovria Va Side Table in Frosted Plexiglass by Sovrappensiero
Located in Cantù, Lombardia
"Sopovria VA is a diaphanous object, whose contours dissolve and melt with the surroundings. We can spot its hidden soul, balanced between transparency and color. Zoomorphic shapes c...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables

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Plexiglass

"Mingx" Steel Coffee Table Designed by Konstantin Grcic for Driade
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Mingx" is a coffee table, designed by Konstantin Grcic and manufactured by Driade, with a structure in printed steel sheet and rod with polyester painted in orange, light gray, bron...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables

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Steel

21st Century Venny Central Table in Decorative Mirror Layers by Matteo Cibic
Located in Cantù, Lombardia
"A game of shapes and colors giving life to a unique design and unprecedented reality. Venny coffee table is a sculpture with a double function. With its circular openings, it sugges...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables

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Metal

Bench or Coffee Table Tormalina Model by Studio Superego, Italy
Located in Milan, Italy
A beautiful bench or coffee table in transparent plexiglass with color pink and with ten brass legs designed by Studio Superego for Superego Editions, in 2018. Biography: Superego ...
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2010s Italian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables

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Brass

21st Century Venny Small Table in Decorative Mirror Layers by Matteo Cibic
Located in Cantù, Lombardia
"A game of shapes and colors giving life to a unique design and unprecedented reality. Venny coffee table is a sculpture with a double function. With its circular openings, it sugges...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables

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Metal

Joan Crawford Lips Lacquered Coffee Table by Jay Spectre
Located in Stamford, CT
Joan Crawford lips, lacquered wood coffee table designed by Jay Spectre for Jay Spectre Inc. unsigned.
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1980s American Vintage Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables

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Yves Klein 'Monopink' Rose Pigment Cocktail Table, 1961 / 1963 France, Signed
Located in Los Angeles, CA
'Monopink' is a work of functional fine art by Yves Klein, this piece is from an edition begun in 1963 under the supervision of Rotraut Klein-Moquay in France, based on a 1961 model ...
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20th Century French Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables

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Glass, Lucite

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