Modern Console 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 The modernists rejected both natural and historical references and relied primarily on industrial materials such as metal, glass, plywood, and, later, plastics.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.
1970s Vintage Modern Console Tables
Brass
1960s German Vintage Modern Console Tables
Composition, Steel
2010s American Modern Console Tables
Metal
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Console Tables
Marble, Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Console Tables
Onyx, Marble, Stainless Steel
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Console Tables
Bronze, Steel
2010s European Modern Console Tables
Wood, Plywood, Walnut
21st Century and Contemporary European Modern Console Tables
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Console Tables
Brass
2010s American Modern Console Tables
Ash, Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Console Tables
Carrara Marble, Onyx, Brass, Stainless Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Console Tables
Marble, Onyx, Carrara Marble, Stainless Steel, Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Console Tables
Carrara Marble, Marble, Onyx, Brass
2010s American Modern Console Tables
Metal
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Console Tables
Onyx, Travertine, Marble, Carrara Marble, Brass, Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Console Tables
Onyx, Marble, Brass, Stainless Steel, Gold Leaf
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Console Tables
Metal, Stainless Steel, Brass, Copper, Steel, Cut Steel
2010s American Modern Console Tables
Metal
2010s Modern Console Tables
Bronze
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Console Tables
Brass
2010s American Modern Console Tables
Plaster, Plywood
2010s American Modern Console Tables
Plaster, Plywood
1980s Vintage Modern Console Tables
Wood, Lacquer
2010s Canadian Modern Console Tables
Acrylic, Ash, Oak, Walnut, Fir
21st Century and Contemporary English Modern Console Tables
Oak, Leather
2010s Modern Console Tables
Pine, Lacquer
Late 20th Century Colombian Modern Console Tables
Horn
2010s Canadian Modern Console Tables
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Mexican Modern Console Tables
Oak
2010s American Modern Console Tables
Stainless Steel
2010s Turkish Modern Console Tables
Wood, Glass
2010s Turkish Modern Console Tables
Glass, Wood
2010s Mexican Modern Console Tables
Marble, Travertine
1980s American Vintage Modern Console Tables
Goatskin, Wood
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Console Tables
Concrete, Steel
21st Century and Contemporary English Modern Console Tables
Ash
1980s Italian Vintage Modern Console Tables
Glass, Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Console Tables
Metal
2010s American Modern Console Tables
Silver Leaf
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Console Tables
Metal
1970s American Vintage Modern Console Tables
Goatskin, Wood, Lacquer
2010s Swedish Modern Console Tables
Wood
1970s American Vintage Modern Console Tables
Bronze, Pewter
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Console Tables
Bronze
Early 2000s European Modern Console Tables
Bronze, Stainless Steel
21st Century and Contemporary European Modern Console Tables
Cement
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Console Tables
Onyx
Mid-20th Century Modern Console Tables
Brass, Chrome
2010s Turkish Modern Console Tables
Travertine
2010s American Modern Console Tables
Marble
2010s Italian Modern Console Tables
Glass, Wood
20th Century American Modern Console Tables
Gold Leaf
2010s American Modern Console Tables
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Console Tables
Iron
21st Century and Contemporary English Modern Console Tables
Oak
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Console Tables
Onyx, Marble, Brass, Stainless Steel, Gold Leaf
1970s American Vintage Modern Console Tables
Boxwood
2010s Italian Modern Console Tables
Bronze