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 The modernists rejected both natural and historical references and relied primarily on industrial materials such as metal, glass, plywood, and, later, plastics.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.
1990s Italian Modern End Tables
Bentwood
1990s American Modern End Tables
Plywood
1990s American Modern End Tables
Chrome
1990s American Modern End Tables
Mahogany
1990s American Modern End Tables
Stainless Steel
1990s American Modern End Tables
Metal, Brass
1990s American Modern End Tables
Bronze
1990s Moroccan Modern End Tables
Wood, Paint
1990s American Modern End Tables
Stainless Steel
1990s American Modern End Tables
Lucite
1990s American Modern End Tables
Lucite, Walnut
1990s French Modern End Tables
Leather, Oak
1990s American Modern End Tables
Mahogany
2010s Lebanese Modern End Tables
Silver, Brass, Copper
21st Century and Contemporary Vietnamese Modern End Tables
Wood
2010s American Modern End Tables
Marble, Bronze
2010s American Modern End Tables
Oak
21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Modern End Tables
Stainless Steel
21st Century and Contemporary English Modern End Tables
Ash
1970s Italian Vintage Modern End Tables
Travertine
1970s American Vintage Modern End Tables
Wood
1970s American Vintage Modern End Tables
Walnut
1970s American Vintage Modern End Tables
Brass
1970s Vintage Modern End Tables
Chrome
2010s American Modern End Tables
Wood
1990s American Modern End Tables
Walnut
1990s American Modern End Tables
Metal
1990s American Modern End Tables
Marble, Steel, Chrome
1990s North American Modern End Tables
Gold Leaf
1990s Modern End Tables
Wood, Maple
1990s American Modern End Tables
Stainless Steel
1990s North American Modern End Tables
Aluminum, Iron
1990s Moroccan Modern End Tables
Brass
1990s Unknown Modern End Tables
Wood, Paint
1990s Moroccan Modern End Tables
Brass
1990s Moroccan Modern End Tables
Bone, Wood
1990s American Modern End Tables
Mahogany