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 The modernists rejected both natural and historical references and relied primarily on industrial materials such as metal, glass, plywood, and, later, plastics.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 Indian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Stone, Bronze
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Metal
2010s Italian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Metal
2010s Italian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Wood, Oak, Driftwood
2010s French Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Metal
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Metal, Stainless Steel, Steel, Cut Steel
2010s American Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Velvet, Foam, Maple
1980s Italian Vintage Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Glass
Late 20th Century Unknown Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Glass, Resin
1970s American Vintage Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Metal
21st Century and Contemporary Turkish Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Epoxy Resin, Wood, Walnut
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Metal
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Steel, Nickel
21st Century and Contemporary European Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Stainless Steel
2010s Turkish Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Metal
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Steel
2010s Italian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Aluminum
2010s French Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Oak
2010s Italian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Other
21st Century and Contemporary German Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Oak
2010s French Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Brass
2010s Spanish Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Concrete
1990s French Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Brass
1970s French Vintage Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Stainless Steel
2010s French Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Altuglas
2010s Italian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Plaster
21st Century and Contemporary British Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Bronze
1970s Italian Vintage Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Travertine
2010s Lebanese Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Concrete
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Concrete
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Glass
21st Century and Contemporary Austrian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Wood
2010s American Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Brass
2010s Italian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Marble
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Walnut
2010s Spanish Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Crystal, Limestone, Marble, Metal
1950s American Vintage Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Walnut
21st Century and Contemporary Asian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Wood
2010s Portuguese Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Marble
2010s American Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Marble
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Metal
Mid-20th Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Acrylic
2010s Belgian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Slate, Brass, Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Fabric, Resin
2010s Italian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Travertine
21st Century and Contemporary Dutch Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Birch
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Metal
2010s South African Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Brass, Steel
2010s Balkan Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Marble
1960s American Vintage Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Walnut
1970s German Vintage Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Iron
2010s Italian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Metal, Bronze
2010s Italian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Fiberglass
2010s German Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Glass
Late 20th Century North American Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Glass
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Metal, Stainless Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Belgian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Wood
2010s German Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Glass
1970s Italian Vintage Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Glass, Plexiglass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Wrought Iron