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 The modernists rejected both natural and historical references and relied primarily on industrial materials such as metal, glass, plywood, and, later, plastics.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 British Modern End Tables
Cast Stone
2010s Philippine Modern End Tables
Stainless Steel
21st Century and Contemporary French Modern End Tables
Wrought Iron
21st Century and Contemporary Canadian Modern End Tables
Aluminum
21st Century and Contemporary British Modern End Tables
Cast Stone
21st Century and Contemporary French Modern End Tables
Wrought Iron
21st Century and Contemporary French Modern End Tables
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary French Modern End Tables
Wrought Iron
2010s Italian Modern End Tables
Lapis Lazuli, Brass
21st Century and Contemporary British Modern End Tables
Cast Stone
2010s American Modern End Tables
Concrete, Metal
2010s Philippine Modern End Tables
Stone, Steel
2010s Philippine Modern End Tables
Aluminum
2010s Philippine Modern End Tables
Rattan
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern End Tables
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Dutch Modern End Tables
Acrylic
2010s Philippine Modern End Tables
Steel
19th Century European Antique Modern End Tables
Iron
21st Century and Contemporary British Modern End Tables
Cast Stone
2010s Italian Modern End Tables
Carrara Marble, Brass
2010s Philippine Modern End Tables
Rattan, Glass
21st Century and Contemporary British Modern End Tables
Cast Stone
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern End Tables
Stainless Steel
1950s French Vintage Modern End Tables
Bronze
21st Century and Contemporary British Modern End Tables
Cast Stone
2010s American Modern End Tables
Metal, Steel, Cut Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Guatemalan Modern End Tables
Wood
2010s French Modern End Tables
Tin
2010s Turkish Modern End Tables
Metal
2010s Philippine Modern End Tables
Steel
2010s Philippine Modern End Tables
Steel
2010s Philippine Modern End Tables
Aluminum
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern End Tables
Travertine, Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern End Tables
Wood
2010s American Modern End Tables
Metal, Steel, Cut Steel
2010s Philippine Modern End Tables
Steel
2010s Modern End Tables
Bronze
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern End Tables
Concrete
2010s Philippine Modern End Tables
Steel
2010s American Modern End Tables
Bronze
2010s Philippine Modern End Tables
Steel
2010s Philippine Modern End Tables
Steel
2010s Philippine Modern End Tables
Aluminum
2010s Philippine Modern End Tables
Aluminum
2010s Philippine Modern End Tables
Aluminum
2010s Italian Modern End Tables
Marble, Brass
2010s American Modern End Tables
Concrete, Bronze
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern End Tables
Steel
2010s American Modern End Tables
Concrete, Cement
2010s American Modern End Tables
Marble, Granite, Metal
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern End Tables
Marble, Brass
21st Century and Contemporary European Modern End Tables
Wrought Iron
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern End Tables
Copper
2010s European Modern End Tables
Wood
2010s Turkish Modern End Tables
Stone, Marble
21st Century and Contemporary North American Modern End Tables
Concrete
21st Century and Contemporary European Modern End Tables
Marble, Carrara Marble, Gold Plate, Brass, Metal, Gold, Nickel
21st Century and Contemporary Canadian Modern End Tables
Marble