Modern End 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 The modernists rejected both natural and historical references and relied primarily on industrial materials such as metal, glass, plywood, and, later, plastics.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.
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern End Tables
Metal
2010s American Modern End Tables
Metal
21st Century and Contemporary Belgian Modern End Tables
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Central American Modern End Tables
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern End Tables
Elm
2010s American Modern End Tables
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern End Tables
Birch
2010s American Modern End Tables
Metal
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern End Tables
Metal
1970s North American Vintage Modern End Tables
Brass
2010s Modern End Tables
Stone, Concrete
2010s North American Modern End Tables
Marble, Brass
1980s Italian Vintage Modern End Tables
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern End Tables
Wood
20th Century English Modern End Tables
Walnut
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern End Tables
Fir
2010s French Modern End Tables
Metal
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern End Tables
Marble, Brass
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern End Tables
Walnut, Oak
21st Century and Contemporary English Modern End Tables
Brass, Copper, Nickel
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern End Tables
Elm
2010s Canadian Modern End Tables
Metal
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern End Tables
Leather, Lacquer
1980s French Vintage Modern End Tables
Marble, Iron
21st Century and Contemporary French Modern End Tables
Wrought Iron
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern End Tables
Metal
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern End Tables
Metal
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern End Tables
Metal
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern End Tables
Metal
Late 20th Century American Modern End Tables
Oak
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern End Tables
Metal
2010s American Modern End Tables
Ash, Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern End Tables
Metal
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern End Tables
Wood, Hardwood, Walnut
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern End Tables
Elm
1950s Italian Vintage Modern End Tables
21st Century and Contemporary Unknown Modern End Tables
Marble, Iron, Gold Leaf
Late 20th Century Modern End Tables
Teak
2010s American Modern End Tables
Carrara Marble, Marble
21st Century and Contemporary English Modern End Tables
Brass
2010s American Modern End Tables
Wood, Giltwood
2010s Canadian Modern End Tables
Metal
2010s American Modern End Tables
Leather
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern End Tables
Brass
2010s Canadian Modern End Tables
Walnut
2010s American Modern End Tables
Wood
2010s American Modern End Tables
Metal
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern End Tables
Marble
2010s American Modern End Tables
Wood
2010s American Modern End Tables
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern End Tables
Iron
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern End Tables
Metal
20th Century English Modern End Tables
Crocodile
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern End Tables
Brass
2010s American Modern End Tables
Marble
2010s American Modern End Tables
Marble
2010s American Modern End Tables
Wood
2010s American Modern End Tables
Wood