Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
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 The modernists rejected both natural and historical references and relied primarily on industrial materials such as metal, glass, plywood, and, later, plastics.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 chair — crafted 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.
2010s Belgian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Agate, Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Vietnamese Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Marble, Metal
2010s Belgian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Brass, Silver Leaf
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Marble, Statuary Marble
1970s Italian Vintage Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Chrome
2010s Portuguese Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Brass
2010s Croatian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Walnut
2010s Croatian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Marble
2010s Croatian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Marble
2010s Croatian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Marble, Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Mexican Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Oak
2010s Belgian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Agate, Brass
2010s Croatian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Marble, Metal
2010s Croatian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Oak
2010s Croatian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Oak
2010s Italian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Marble
2010s Croatian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Walnut
2010s Croatian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Marble, Metal
2010s Croatian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Marble, Brass
2010s Turkish Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Wood, Glass
2010s Croatian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Marble
2010s Croatian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Marble
2010s Croatian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Marble
20th Century Dutch Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Brass, Chrome
2010s Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Wood
2010s German Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Clay
2010s Turkish Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Wood, Oak
2010s Croatian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Marble
2010s Croatian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Marble
2010s Croatian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Marble
2010s Croatian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Marble
2010s Croatian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Marble
2010s Croatian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Marble
2010s Croatian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Marble
2010s German Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Clay
2010s German Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Clay
2010s German Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Clay
2010s Croatian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Marble
2010s Croatian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Marble
2010s Croatian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Marble
2010s Croatian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Marble
1970s Italian Vintage Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Travertine, Marble
2010s Croatian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Marble
2010s Croatian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Marble
2010s Croatian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Marble
2010s Croatian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Marble
2010s Croatian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Marble
2010s Croatian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Marble
2010s Croatian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Marble
2010s Croatian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Marble
2010s Polish Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Other
2010s Croatian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Marble
2010s German Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Clay
2010s German Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Clay
1970s Italian Vintage Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Plastic
Late 20th Century French Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Glass, Wood
2010s Belgian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Agate, Brass