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 The modernists rejected both natural and historical references and relied primarily on industrial materials such as metal, glass, plywood, and, later, plastics.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.
2010s American Modern Console Tables
Brass
Early 2000s Modern Console Tables
Linen, Glass
1970s American Vintage Modern Console Tables
Goatskin, Wood, Lacquer
2010s Italian Modern Console Tables
Metal
21st Century and Contemporary Asian Modern Console Tables
Marble, Iron
2010s European Modern Console Tables
Wood, Plywood, Ash
21st Century and Contemporary French Modern Console Tables
Steel
2010s Italian Modern Console Tables
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Console Tables
Gold Leaf
1990s French Modern Console Tables
Bronze
21st Century and Contemporary Vietnamese Modern Console Tables
Composition
2010s French Modern Console Tables
Altuglas
2010s American Modern Console Tables
Acrylic, Lucite, Plexiglass
1980s American Vintage Modern Console Tables
Grasscloth
2010s Portuguese Modern Console Tables
Travertine, Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Vietnamese Modern Console Tables
Wood
2010s Italian Modern Console Tables
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Asian Modern Console Tables
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Console Tables
Gold Leaf, Metal, Steel
20th Century European Modern Console Tables
Iron
2010s American Modern Console Tables
Maple
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Console Tables
Brass
1960s Italian Vintage Modern Console Tables
Wood
2010s Portuguese Modern Console Tables
Metal
2010s American Modern Console Tables
Paint
1980s American Vintage Modern Console Tables
Marble, Stainless Steel
2010s American Modern Console Tables
Bronze
2010s American Modern Console Tables
Paint, Oak
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Metal
1970s American Vintage Modern Console Tables
Concrete
2010s Canadian Modern Console Tables
Ash, Oak, Walnut, Fir
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Console Tables
Metal
2010s Italian Modern Console Tables
Metal
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Console Tables
Wood
2010s Modern Console Tables
Bronze
2010s American Modern Console Tables
Concrete
2010s American Modern Console Tables
Leather, Python
2010s Portuguese Modern Console Tables
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Console Tables
Velvet, Birch, Art Glass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Console Tables
Leather
2010s Mexican Modern Console Tables
Marble, Travertine
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Console Tables
Glass
2010s Dutch Modern Console Tables
Resin
2010s American Modern Console Tables
Lacquer
Early 2000s French Modern Console Tables
Gold, Gold Leaf, Silver Leaf
Late 20th Century North American Modern Console Tables
Brass
1950s Italian Vintage Modern Console Tables
Metal
2010s Argentine Modern Console Tables
Wood
Late 20th Century Unknown Modern Console Tables
Brass, Chrome
1950s Italian Vintage Modern Console Tables
Glass, Teak
21st Century and Contemporary Asian Modern Console Tables
Wood
20th Century Unknown Modern Console Tables
Bamboo, Rattan, Reed
2010s European Modern Console Tables
Bronze
Early 2000s Italian Modern Console Tables
Hardwood
21st Century and Contemporary Turkish Modern Console Tables
Epoxy Resin, Wood, Walnut
21st Century and Contemporary Indian Modern Console Tables
Metal
2010s European Modern Console Tables
Wood, Plywood, Oak
1970s American Vintage Modern Console Tables
Brass, Chrome
1970s Philippine Vintage Modern Console Tables
Bronze
1980s Italian Vintage Modern Console Tables
Iron