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 The modernists rejected both natural and historical references and relied primarily on industrial materials such as metal, glass, plywood, and, later, plastics.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 Italian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Marble
1960s French Vintage Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Iron
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Steel
2010s Italian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Lacquer, Oak
Early 2000s Spanish Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Brass, Iron
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Quartz
Early 2000s Italian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Stainless Steel
21st Century and Contemporary English Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Oak, Walnut
2010s Philippine Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Steel
1980s American Vintage Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Brass
2010s Italian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Metal
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Brass
Early 2000s Spanish Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Brass, Iron
Mid-20th Century French Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Chrome
21st Century and Contemporary Danish Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Composition, Brass
Early 2000s Spanish Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Brass, Iron
Late 20th Century Unknown Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Chrome
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Carrara Marble
2010s Italian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Iron
2010s Italian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Wood
20th Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Brass, Chrome
1980s American Vintage Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Chrome
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Wood
1980s American Vintage Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Gold Leaf
Early 2000s Spanish Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Brass, Iron
21st Century and Contemporary Colombian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Stone, Quartz, Gold
2010s Egyptian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Mother-of-Pearl, Oak
2010s British Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Glass, Oak
21st Century and Contemporary Spanish Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Brass
2010s Turkish Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Metal
2010s Greek Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Ceramic, Lacquer, Wood, Glass
21st Century and Contemporary French Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Bronze
2010s American Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Steel, Metal, Sheet Metal
2010s Italian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Wood
2010s American Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Marble
21st Century and Contemporary Spanish Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Brass
2010s American Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Aluminum
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Steel
1980s Italian Vintage Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Aluminum
2010s North American Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Walnut, Plywood
2010s Italian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Marble
Early 2000s Spanish Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Brass, Iron
Early 2000s Spanish Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Brass, Iron
1970s American Vintage Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Metal
2010s Italian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Marble
21st Century and Contemporary Canadian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Marble
21st Century and Contemporary Canadian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Marble
Early 2000s Spanish Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Brass, Iron
2010s Italian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Walnut, Wood
Late 20th Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Mahogany
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Carrara Marble
1980s Colombian Vintage Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Bone
2010s Spanish Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Oak
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Brass
2010s Italian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Marble
2010s Brazilian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Metal
2010s Italian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Marble
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Metal
2010s Canadian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Walnut