Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
MID-CENTURY MODERN STYLE
Organically shaped, clean-lined and elegantly simple are three terms that well describe vintage mid-century modern furniture. The style, which emerged primarily in the years following World War II, is characterized by pieces that were conceived and made in an energetic, optimistic spirit by creators who believed that good design was an essential part of good living.
ORIGINS OF MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGN
- Emerged during the mid-20th century
- Informed by European modernism, Bauhaus, International style, Scandinavian modernism and Frank Lloyd Wright’s architecture
- A heyday of innovation in postwar America
- Experimentation with new ideas, new materials and new forms flourished in Scandinavia, Italy, the former Czechoslovakia and elsewhere in Europe
CHARACTERISTICS OF MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGN
- Simplicity, organic forms, clean lines
- A blend of neutral and bold Pop art colors
- Use of natural and man-made materials — alluring woods such as teak, rosewood and oak; steel, fiberglass and molded plywood
- Light-filled spaces with colorful upholstery
- Glass walls and an emphasis on the outdoors
- Promotion of functionality
MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGNERS TO KNOW
- Charles and Ray Eames
- Eero Saarinen
- Milo Baughman
- Florence Knoll
- Harry Bertoia
- Isamu Noguchi
- George Nelson
- Danish modernists Hans Wegner and Arne Jacobsen, whose emphasis on natural materials and craftsmanship influenced American designers and vice versa
ICONIC MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGNS
- Eames lounge chair
- Nelson daybed
- Florence Knoll sofa
- Egg chair
- Womb chair
- Noguchi coffee table
- Barcelona chair
VINTAGE MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE ON 1STDIBS
The mid-century modern era saw leagues of postwar American architects and designers animated by new ideas and new technology. The lean, functionalist International-style architecture of Le Corbusier and Bauhaus eminences Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius had been promoted in the United States during the 1930s by Philip Johnson and others. New building techniques, such as “post-and-beam” construction, allowed the International-style schemes to be realized on a small scale in open-plan houses with long walls of glass.
Materials developed for wartime use became available for domestic goods and were incorporated into mid-century modern furniture designs. Charles and Ray Eames and Eero Saarinen, who had experimented extensively with molded plywood, eagerly embraced fiberglass for pieces such as the La Chaise and the Womb chair, respectively.
Architect, writer and designer George Nelson created with his team shades for the Bubble lamp using a new translucent polymer skin and, as design director at Herman Miller, recruited the Eameses, Alexander Girard and others for projects at the legendary Michigan furniture manufacturer.
Harry Bertoia and Isamu Noguchi devised chairs and tables built of wire mesh and wire struts. Materials were repurposed too: The Danish-born designer Jens Risom created a line of chairs using surplus parachute straps for webbed seats and backrests.
The Risom lounge chair was among the first pieces of furniture commissioned and produced by celebrated manufacturer Knoll, a chief influencer in the rise of modern design in the United States, thanks to the work of Florence Knoll, the pioneering architect and designer who made the firm a leader in its field. The seating that Knoll created for office spaces — as well as pieces designed by Florence initially for commercial clients — soon became desirable for the home.
As the demand for casual, uncluttered furnishings grew, more mid-century furniture designers caught the spirit.
Classically oriented creators such as Edward Wormley, house designer for Dunbar Inc., offered such pieces as the sinuous Listen to Me chaise; the British expatriate T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings switched gears, creating items such as the tiered, biomorphic Mesa table. There were Young Turks such as Paul McCobb, who designed holistic groups of sleek, blond wood furniture, and Milo Baughman, who espoused a West Coast aesthetic in minimalist teak dining tables and lushly upholstered chairs and sofas with angular steel frames.
Generations turn over, and mid-century modern remains arguably the most popular style going. As the collection of vintage mid-century modern chairs, dressers, coffee tables and other furniture for the living room, dining room, bedroom and elsewhere on 1stDibs demonstrates, this period saw one of the most delightful and dramatic flowerings of creativity in design history.
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Style: Mid-Century Modern
Skovby Mid Century Teak Hidden Leaf Dining Table with 2 Leaves
Located in Countryside, IL
Skovby Mid Century Teak Hidden Leaf Dining Table with 2 Leaves
This table measures: 65 wide x 39.5 deep x 28 inches high, with a chair clearance of 26.5 inches, each hidden leaf mea...
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1970s Danish Vintage Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
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Teak
Large French 1950s Palette-Shaped Wrought Iron Dining Table
Located in Isle Sur La Sorgue, Vaucluse
Unique and unusual dining table attributed to Mathieu Matégot. The top is shaped to resemble a painter's palette (or a heart) and is made made of sturdy-quality cloverleaf-patterned ...
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Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
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Iron
Rustic Brutalist Table Mobichalet, Belgium, 1960s
By Mobichalet
Located in Echt, NL
Handmade brutalist table in very good original condition.
Manufactured by Mobichalet, Belgium in the 1960s
The top is made from very heavy solid oak which was not heavily processed...
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20th Century Belgian Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
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Wood, Oak
Walnu Dining Table – Minimalist Furniture for Sophisticated Living Spaces
Located in CAMBRE, ES
Dining Table in Solid Wood with Geometric Silhouette and Sculptural Presence
This handmade dining table blends minimalist geometry with a grounded, architectural stance. Its structu...
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2010s Spanish Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
Materials
Walnut
1950s Sculptural Dining Table Mahogany and Sapele restored
Located in Chula Vista, CA
1950s Sculptural Mahogany and Sapele Dining Table
Mahogany and sapele wood. Sculptural legs. Base is solid mahogany wood.
Unmarked.
Professionally restored.
31 h x 49.5 w Center, 46....
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1950s Mexican Vintage Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
Materials
Mahogany, Sapele Wood
Magnus Olesen Mid Century Dining Table Expandable 70s
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
Mid Century Modern 1970s dining table designed by Rud Thygesen and Johnny Sorensen for Magnus Olesen. Made in Denmark. Includes 1 leaf. White top. 66.5-94in Long 55in Deep 28.5in Tal...
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Mid-20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
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Wood
Mid-Century Modern Vittorio Dassi Extendable Dining Table - Italy 1950s
By Dassi
Located in Brussels, BE
Mid-Century Modern Vittorio Dassi extendable dining table - Italy 1950s
Measures: W 120 to 213 cm.
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1950s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
Materials
Wood
Alfred Hendrickx , Table in Rosewood and Rosewood Veneer circa 1970
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Alfred Hendrickx Dining room table in rosewood and rosewood veneer, circa 1970.
Belform Edition
Dimensions with one leaf: 75 x 210 x 90 cm.
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1970s European Vintage Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
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Rosewood
1960s Large Danish Wooden Dining Table
Located in Praha, CZ
- Good original condition with minor signs of use
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Mid-20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
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Wood
Midcentury Brass and Glass Dining Table, Germany 1970s
Located in Praha, CZ
- circa -1970s
- Good original condition
- The glass shows signs of use - scratches,
- brass, no good, has an old patina.
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1970s German Vintage Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
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Brass
Round teak dining table with 3 leaves, Denmark 1960
Located in Torino, IT
Round teak dining table with 3 leaves, Denmark 1960
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1960s Danish Vintage Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
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Teak
Dining table in teak, Denmark 1960
Located in Torino, IT
Teak dining table with 1 extension of 40cm, Denmark 1960
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1960s Danish Vintage Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
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Teak
Blowing Rock Mid-Century Walnut Dining Table
Located in Countryside, IL
Blowing rock mid-century walnut dining table
This table measures: 60 wide x 42 deep x 30 inches high, with a chair clearance of 26 inches
All pieces...
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1970s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
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Walnut
Ernesto Hauner's Personal Use Mid-Century Modern Extendable Dining Table in Wood
Located in Sao Paulo, SP
Extendable round table with solid caviúna structure, table top with its top and finishings in caviúna wood, also known as "golden wood" due to its hue. When extended, its diameter is...
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1950s Brazilian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
Materials
Wood
Round Inset Tile and Rift Cut Birch Y-Leg Scandinavian Dining Table
Located in Chicago, IL
Round dining table in rare rift cut birch with a center ceramic tile insert. Y-shaped steam bent legs with hand written numbered paper label depicting a stag and forest. Believed to ...
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1970s Swedish Vintage Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
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Ceramic, Birch
1960's Mid Century Modern Lucite and Glass Dining Table
Located in Opa Locka, FL
1960's Mid Century Modern Lucite and Glass Dining Table. Glass top with heavy lucite leg posts topped with chrome caps.
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1960s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
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Lucite
Ilmari Tapiovaara Italian dining table, with certificate
By Gigi Radice
Located in Milano, IT
In the quiet embrace of the 1950s, Ilmari Tapiovaara created a dining table that has since become a timeless masterpiece: a symphony of wood that resonates with the soul of essential...
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1950s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
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Wood
Enrique Garcel Lacquered Goatskin Dining Table and 4 Chairs
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
A Unique Lacquered Goatskin Dining or Game Table and four Chairs. Handmade with great design in both tangerine and several shades of brown colors. This set has original labels "Enriq...
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Mid-20th Century Colombian Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
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Goatskin, Wood
Table with Filiform Legs Attributed to Ico & Luisa Parisi, 1950s
Located in Montelabbate, PU
Round table attributed to Ico and Luisa Parisi, 1950s. Rosewood top and rosewood-stained beech legs.
Piece attributed to the above designer/maker. It has no hallmark or proof of aut...
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1950s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
Materials
Beech, Rosewood
Parquet de Versailles Flooring on Newly Constructed Iron Base
Located in New Orleans, LA
This is a hand made item using antique Parquet de Versailles flooring pieced together. The table comes in oval,rectangle and round. The rectangle...
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2010s French Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
Materials
Wrought Iron
Super Yacht Table
Located in Sagaponack, NY
A custom ellipse table with a solid oak top and blackened steel base made by the Wyeth Workshop in NY. Available in custom sizes, woods and finishes.
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2010s American Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
Materials
Metal
Original Eero Saarinen Midcentury Esstisch Tulip Marmor Knoll Intenational
By Eero Saarinen, Knoll
Located in Berlin, DE
Wir bieten einen wunderschönen Tulip Esstisch mit weßer Carrara Marmorplatte aus den 1970er Jahren zum Verkauf an. Der Tisch wurde von Knoll International hergestellt und ist als ein...
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1970s German Vintage Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
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Carrara Marble, Aluminum
Signed Paul Evans Octagonal Cityscape Pedestal Dining Table
By Paul Evans
Located in Middlesex, NJ
Signed Paul Evans octagonal cityscape pedestal dining table
Table is showing reflection from floor.
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20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
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Metal
Sculptural Sengu Dining Table by Patricia Urquiola for Cassina
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Sengu Dining Table designed by Patricia Urquiola.
Manufactured by Cassina (Italy).
LIGHT-HEARTED POETRY
A design dining room table inspired by the ritual reconstruction of Japanese shrines, a contemporary piece that celebrates light-hearted cheer through dialog between different materials.
Sengu Table...
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2010s Italian Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
Materials
Wood
Model 227 Teak Long Extension Dining Table by Arne Vodder for Sibast, c. 1960s
By Arne Vodder
Located in Deland, FL
An exceptional Minimalist midcentury Danish Modern teak extension dining table. Very versatile, with drop leaves and two extension leaves. By Arne Vodder for Sibast Møbler Denmark, c...
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1960s Danish Vintage Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
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Teak
Peter Hvidt Style Mid Century Danish Teak Expanding Dining Table with 2 Leaves
By Peter Hvidt
Located in Countryside, IL
Peter Hvidt Style Mid Century Danish Teak Expanding Dining Table with 2 Leaves
This table measures: 47 wide x 47 deep x 28.75 inches high, with a chair clearance of 28 inches, each ...
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1970s Danish Vintage Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
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Teak
Elisse Dining Table by Claudio Salocchi for Sormani, 1960s
Located in Brussels, BE
Elisse dining table by Claudio Salocchi for Sormani, 1960s.
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1970s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
Materials
Marble
Asian Inspired Sengu Dining Coffee Table by Patricia Urquiola for Cassina
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Sengu Coffee Table designed by Patricia Urquiola.
Manufactured by Cassina (Italy).
AN ASIAN INVITATION
Asian-inspired, this design coffee table by Patricia Urquiola is a domestic architecture enhanced by the layering of different materials.
The system of primary and secondary oval beams that supports the top of this table,
ideal for a modern living room, draws upon the ritual reconstruction of Japanese shrines to define an elegant piece of furniture with Far-Eastern fascination.
Supported by a solid wood base, the rectangular or round top is available in extra-clear glass, smoked glass or marble.
BASE
In solid wood: Canaletto walnut, natural oak or oak stained black.
TOP
Transparent extra-clear or smoked glass, or marble: white Carrara, Grigio Carnico, Verde Alpi, Rosso Levanto, Calacatta Gold, or Nero Marquina, with matt finish.
Inspired by Asian influences ‒ a theme that often recurs in the Cassina collections ‒ and especially by the ritual reconstruction of Japanese shrines through the use of different materials, like the other pieces in the Sengu family, the Sengu Coffee Table, designed by Patricia Urquiola, is envisioned as an exquisitely layered and sophisticated home architecture. The base, crafted with a grid of primary and secondary oval solid wood beams, echoes the shapes found in the Sengu Sofa...
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2010s Italian Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
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Wood
Mid-Century Modern "Sherry" Expanding Dining Table By Widdicomb
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Crafted by the renowned Widdicomb Furniture Company, the "Sherry" Collection is celebrated for its luxurious designs and impeccable attention to detail. The Expanding Leaf Table is a...
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Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
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Wood
Vittorio Introini walnut Dining Table with Round Top, Italy 1960's
Located in Antwerpen, BE
Geometric walnut "Chelsea" dining table by Vittorio Introini, with a round top resting on a pyramidal base.
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1960s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
Materials
Steel
Luciano Frigerio Barium dining table sculptural Italy 1970
Located in Roosendaal, Noord Brabant
Presenting a striking dining table from the Barium series, designed by the renowned Luciano Frigerio and crafted by Frigerio di Desio in Italy, circa 1970. This exceptional piece exe...
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1970s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
Materials
Glass, Teak
Skyscraper Dining/Center Table in Lucite and Chrome by Charles Hollis Jones
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Stunning and unique "Skyscraper" dining or center table in Lucite and chrome designed and manufactured by Charles Hollis Jones and originally commissioned by Loretta Young.
The fi...
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1960s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
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Chrome
Painted Iron Table - France, 1950s
Located in Isle Sur La Sorgue, Vaucluse
Rectangular dining table made of bent/folded sheet metal, painted blue/green, with traces of rust & white showing through. Tapering legs.
Also available are two similar tables wit...
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1950s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
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Metal
Attributed Pierluigi Colli Mid-Century Modern Italian Dinning Table, 1970s
Located in Puglia, Puglia
Spectacular dining or center table in finely carved ivory lacquered gilded wood of Italian design with oval crystal top. Attributed to Pier Luigi Colli.
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1970s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
Materials
Glass, Wood
Dining Table by Florence Knoll for Knoll International
By Knoll, Florence Knoll
Located in Dallas, TX
Beautiful dining table designed by Florence Knoll for Knoll International. Table features a teak top with a chromed steel base and is in excellent condition.
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1960s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
Materials
Teak
Carlo Bartoli Style Round Dining Table, Italy 1970s
Located in Naples, IT
Beautiful chrome-plated stainless steel dining table with smoked glass top, designed in Italy in the 1970s. The base of this charming dining table features three chrome legs held tog...
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1970s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
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Steel
Conference Dining Work Table Designed by Wormley for Dunbar 2 available
By Ward Bennett, Knoll
Located in New York, NY
Spectacular large table, designed by Edward Wormley , Manufactured by Dunbar, having an X, or cross, form base, constructed of polished stainless steel, with screw in disk feet, and ...
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Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
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Stainless Steel
French 60-Year Old Elmwood Dining Table or Desk with Modern Steel Base
Located in Chicago, IL
The Elmwood top was imported from France and is reportedly about 60-years old and we were fortunate enough to be able to purchase several slabs. The Mid-Century Modern steel base, is...
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2010s American Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
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Steel
Hans J. Wegner 'CH327' Dining Table in Oak and White Oil for Carl Hansen & Son
Located in Glendale, CA
Hans J. Wegner 'CH327' Dining Table in Oak and White Oil for Carl Hansen & Son
The story of Danish Modern begins in 1908 when Carl Hansen opened his first workshop. His firm commitment to beauty, comfort, refinement, and craftsmanship is evident in iconic pieces designed by such legends as Hans J. Wegner, Arne Jacobsen, Kaare Klint, Poul Kjærholm, Vilhelm Lauritzen and others. Now in its third generation as a family run business, Carl Hansen & Son maintains its legacy through skillful work with the highest quality materials, sustainably producing Danish design classics by past icons and influential new designers.
Originally designed in 1962 by legendary creator Hans J. Wegner, the 'CH327' table appears to float above the frame courtesy of wonderfully tapered edges which add to this table's appeal. Smooth clean lines express a delicate yet confident piece resulting in an alluring table...
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21st Century and Contemporary Danish Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
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Wood, Oak
Danish Mid-Century Modern Square Teak Refectory Extension Boards Dining Table
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Danish Mid-Century Modern square teak Refectory 15" extension boards dining game table mint.
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20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
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Teak
Mid Century c1970s Bent "C" Curve Chrome Ribbon Style Base Dining Table Bauhaus
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Mid Century c1970s Bent "C" Curve Chrome Ribbon Style Base Dining Table Bauhaus
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20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
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Chrome
Florence Knoll Arabescato Marble Table or Desk
Located in Dallas, TX
Elevate your space with this stunning 78" Florence Knoll arabescato marble table, desk, or dining table, exclusively at circa20c. Showcasing a ...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
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Marble, Steel
Mid-Century Oval Dining Table Melchiorre Bega Attributed Onix Tanzania Brass
Located in Palermo, Sicily
Very rare table from the 1950s, it can also be used as a boardroom table or in a hotel hall, the top made of Flamed Tanzanian onyx, with brass band, ebonized wood foot and parts in s...
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1950s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
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Marble, Brass
Tobia Scarpa for Gauvina "Andre" Dining Table w/ Smoked Glass Top
By Tobia Scarpa
Located in Pasadena, TX
A Mid-Century Modern Andre coffee table designed by Tobia Scarpa for Gauvina. The Chrome frame is made of flatbar steel and the legs are made of tubular steel. It has a beautiful smo...
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1970s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
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Chrome
Dinning Table, High Gloss Laminate, Brass, Conic Legs, Diamond Black- M
Located in Alcoy, Alicante
Julieta Collection.
Table with Black Steel Conical Legs with Brass Bottom End Table Top on High Gloss Laminate Brass Tape Frame
Introducing the stunning dining room table with...
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2010s Spanish Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
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Brass
Orange Dining Table by Azucena, Metal and Black Granite, Italy, 1980s
By Azucena
Located in Brussels, BE
Dining table by Azucena, Metal and black granite, Italy, 1980s.
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1980s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
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Granite, Metal
Vintage Metal Tulip Base Round Marble Top Dining Table
Located in Pasadena, TX
This table has a metal tulip base with a Marble Top.
24”x24x”x22”
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Late 20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
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Marble
Rectangle Round Corners Teak Midcentury Danish Modern Dining Table Pop Up Leaf
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Danish Mid-Century Modern teak dining table with one pop up fold hide away 1 x 20" leaf extension board.
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20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
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Teak
Oak and Metal “Shamrock” Desk or Dining Table by George Ciancimino
Located in Shippensburg, PA
"SHAMROCK" OAK, BRUSHED AND POLISHED ALLOY DINING TABLE OR DESK
Designed by George Ciancimino for Jens Risom circa 1970s unmarked
Item # 802PVK24S
A lively and beautifully made tab...
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Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
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Aluminum
Luther Conover Dining Table or Desk for Pacifica 1952
Located in Chicago, IL
Luther Conover Dining Table or Desk for Pacifica 1952 Phillippine mahogany hand-polished wood top, wrought iron base.
Conover was awarded 1st Prize by the C...
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1950s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
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Wrought Iron
Super-Ellipse Model B613 By Piet Hein For Fritz Hansen
Located in Lejre, DK
Super-Ellipse, Model B613, designed by Piet Hein, is an iconic table that combines functionality and aesthetics in a unique way. This table has a white laminate table top, which give...
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21st Century and Contemporary Danish Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
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Laminate
Mid-Century Modern Dining Table by Jorge Jabour Mauad, Brazil, 1960s
By Jorge Jabour
Located in Barcelona, ES
Stunning circular dining table (diameter 120cm), four legs in solid wood support the extendable table top (length 160cm).
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1960s Brazilian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
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Hardwood
Russell Woodard Sculptura Wrought Iron Round Dining Room Table Mid Century
Located in Wayne, NJ
Russell Woodard Sculptura Wrought Iron Round Dining Table Mid Century Modern
If you are in the New Jersey, New York City Metro Area,...
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1950s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
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Wrought Iron
Franco Albini Mahogany mid-centry Italian Table Model TL-22 produced by Poggi
Located in Barcelona, ES
Franco Albini & Franca Helg.
Dining table model no. TL22.
Manufactured by Poggi,
Italy, 1958.
Mahogany.
Measurements:
180.3 cm x 104.1 cm x 73 H cm.
70.98 in x 40.98 in x 28.74 in.
Literature:
Giuliana Gramigna, Repertorio 1950/1980, Milan, 1985, p. 123.
Franco Albini, was born in 1905 and died in 1977. He spent his childhood and part of his youth in Robbiate in Brianza, where he was born. Albini, as an adolescent moved with his family to Milan. Here he enrolled in the Faculty of Architecture of the Polytechnic and graduated in 1929. He started his professional activity in the studio of Gio Ponti and Emilio Lancia, with whom he collaborated for three years. At the 1929 International Exhibition in Barcelona (where Gio Ponti curated the Italian pavilion and Mies van der Rohe realized that of Germany) and in Paris where, as Franca Helg recounted, he had the opportunity to visit the studio by Le Corbusier.
In those three years, the works he carried out are admittedly of the twentieth century imprint. It is the meeting with Edoardo Persico that marked a clear turning point towards rationalism and the approach to the group of editors of "Casabella". The partly ironic and partly very harsh comments of the Neapolitan critic to a series of drawings, made by Albini for the design of some office furniture, caused him a great disturbance. “I spent days of real anguish - Albini recalls - I had to answer all the questions. I also had a fever, a large and long fever. "
The meted provoked Albini to openen a professional studio in via Panizza with Renato Camus and Giancarlo Palanti. The group of architects began to deal with public housing by participating in the competition for the Baracca district in San Siro in 1932 and then building the IFACP neighborhoods: Fabio Filzi (1936/38), Gabriele D'Annunzio and Ettore Ponti (1939).
During this period, Albini also worked on his first villa (Pestarini), which Giuseppe Pagano, architect and critic of the time, presented as follows: “This coherence, which the superficial rhetoric of fashionable jugglers calls intransigence, and which is instead the basis of understood between the fantasy of art and the reality of the craft, in Franco Albini, it is so rooted that it transforms theory into a moral attitude ".
But it is above all in the context of the exhibitions that the Milanese master experienced his compromise between that "rigor and poetic fantasy" of which Pagano speaks, coining the elements that became a recurring theme in his . The opening in 1933 of the new Triennale headquarters in Milan, in the Palazzo dell'Arte, was an important opportunity to express the strong innovative character of rationalist thinking, a gym in which to freely experiment with new materials and new solutions, but above all a "method". "Cultivated as a communication laboratory, the art of setting up was for the rationalists of the first generation what the perspective had been for the architects of humanism: the field open to a hypothesis of space that needed profound reflections before landing the concreteness of the construction site ".
Together with Giancarlo Palanti, Albini on the occasion of the V Triennale di Milano set up the steel structure house (with R. Camus, G. Mazzoleni, G. Minoletti and with the coordination of G. Pagano), for which he also designed the 'furniture. At the following Triennale of 1936, Persico dided, together with a group of young designers gathered by Pagano in the previous edition of 1933, Franco Albini took care of the preparations of the home exhibition. The setting up of Stanza per un uomo, at that same Triennale, allows us to understand the acute and ironic approach of Albini, as a man and as a designer: "Celebrating the beauty of mechanics was the imperative to which, for example, the surprising displays by Franco Albini who managed, in the subtle way of a refined and rarefied style, to sublimate their practical content in the metaphysics of daring still lifes: flying objects which marked in the void refined frames and metal intricacies the nodes of a fantastic cartography where industry finally became art free from purpose ".
That same year Albini and Romano designed the exhibition of the Ancient Italian Goldsmithery: vertical uprights, simple linear rods, designed the space. A theme, of the "flagpole", seemed to be the center of the evolution of production and the creative process. The concept is reworked over time, with the technique of decomposition and recomposition typical of Albinian design: in the preparation of the Scipione Exhibition and contemporary drawings (1941) the tapered flagpoles, on which the paintings and display cases were hung, are supported by a grid of steel cables; in the Vanzetti stand (1942) they take the V-shape; in the Olivetti shop in Paris (1956) the polished mahogany uprights support the shelves for the display of typewriters and calculators.
The flagpole is found, however, also in other areas. In the apartments he designed, it is used as a pivot on which the paintings can be suspended and rotated to allow different points of view, but at the same time as an element capable of dividing the spaces. The Veliero bookcase...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
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Mahogany
Dark Flame Walnut Banded Double Tripod Pedestal Oval Dining Table 3 Leaves MINT!
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Dark Flame Walnut Banded Double Tripod Pedestal Oval Dining Table 3 Leaves MINT!
3 x 20in leaves with an extended length of 138in.
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20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
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Walnut, Burl
Smoked Glass Brass Puzzle Dining Table, Italy, 1970's
Located in Culver City, CA
Transport yourself to the glamour of the 1970s with our captivating dining table(s), This piece a homage to the iconic designs of an Italian designer whose pieces easily sell for 100...
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1970s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
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Brass
Danish Modern Kurt Ostervig Dining Folding Teak Table
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
Kurt Ostervig Dining Folding Table. 39-78 Long 39.5d 29h. Easy to slide back and forth lenghts.
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Mid-20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
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Teak
Ico Parisi Att. Dining Table with Oval Top, Italy, circa 1950
By Ico Parisi
Located in New York, NY
A stunning and highly unusual dining table attributed to visionary Italian designer Ico Parisi, the base in beech wood with dynamic angled legs supporting an oval laminate matte grey...
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1950s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
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Laminate, Beech
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