Modern End Tables
MODERN STYLE
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 The modernists rejected both natural and historical references and relied primarily on industrial materials such as metal, glass, plywood, and, later, plastics.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.
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Style: Modern
Period: Mid-20th Century
Small side table by Jacques ADNET
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Jacques ADNET (1900-1984)
Small side table with double trail leather covered \with brass hardware and contrast stitching
Originally designed as a telephone table
Category
1950s French Vintage Modern End Tables
Materials
Brass
Guzzini Side Table - Ivory
Located in Princeton Junction, NJ
Guzzini Side Table - Ivory
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Modern End Tables
Materials
Plastic
Architectural Occasional Table Gerald McCabe
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Gerald McCabe was a California based designer craftsman.
He was known for starting McCabe's Guitar Shop in Santa Monica.
And at the same time, he was tinkering away and making furnit...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern End Tables
Materials
Steel
Brown Saltman Solid Walnut End Table with Burl Walnut Inset
Located in Soquel, CA
Brown Saltman Solid Walnut End Table with Burl Walnut Inset
Elegant end table designed by John Keal and manufactured by Brown Saltman. This piece is clean and modern, which highlights the gorgeous burl of the top. It will fit well with a variety of decor and design choices.
15"H x 18"D x 18"W
At a time when many furniture makers were turning to cheaper materials for mass production, mid-century modern designer John Keal didn't shy away from utilizing quality woods in his work, like mahogany and walnut to create his coffee tables, cabinets and benches.
While little is known about Keal, he was part of a powerhouse group that collaborated with Los Angeles furniture manufacturer Brown-Saltman in the 1940s and ‘50s. Other designers who had partnered with the firm during the mid-20th century included Greta Magnusson Grossman, Paul Frankl, Paul Laszlo, and Gilbert Rohde, a New York City-born designer who would help legendary Michigan furniture manufacturer Herman Miller avert financial disaster during the Great Depression.
Brown-Saltman was established in 1923 and initially specialized in reproductions of furniture in period styles. When cofounder David Saltman met Frankl, the firm had discontinued its Early California collection and was producing modern furniture.
Keal’s work also fit snugly into what we now call California modernism, which derived from the Bauhaus and International Style movements, and revolutionized the way we build homes today, not only in the Golden State but across the globe. Keal created sleek end tables...
Category
1960s American Vintage Modern End Tables
Materials
Walnut
Mobelfabrikken Toften Teak End Table with Tile Top
Located in Soquel, CA
Mobelfabrikken Toften Teak End Table with Tile Top
Solid wood table with four tiles inlaid in the top. All of the tiles have the same pattern, eight circl...
Category
1960s Danish Vintage Modern End Tables
Materials
Ceramic, Teak
Lucite End Table
Located in Stratford, CT
Lucite end table.
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern End Tables
Materials
Lucite
1960s Drexel Faux Bamboo Leather Wrapped Parsons Table
By Drexel
Located in Vero Beach, FL
1960s Drexel ET Cetera Faux Bamboo Leather Wrapped Chinoiserie Coffee or Side Parsons Table
The vintage brown leather wrapped brass nail head studded side or coffee table was made i...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern End Tables
Materials
Brass
Pair of Chic Italian Blond Ash End Tables in the Style of Gio Ponti
By Gio Ponti
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pair of Italian blond ash end tables in the style of Gio Ponti.
Excellent proportions; beautiful wood grain.
Chic and understated.
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Modern End Tables
Materials
Ash
Tessellated Stone Side Table
Located in Denton, TX
Maitland Smith Style Tessellated Stone Side Table
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern End Tables
Materials
Stone
1960s Paul Evans Slate Top Occasional Table
By Paul Evans
Located in Roanoke, VA
Gorgeous occasional table with eight-sided welded steel base. Sides are alternating textured and gold and topped with original circular slate by Paul Evans, American 1960s. This tabl...
Category
1960s American Vintage Modern End Tables
Materials
Slate, Metal
Early Alvar Aalto Finsven Inc. Occasional Table
By Finsven, Alvar Aalto
Located in Bainbridge, NY
Early Alvar Aalto for Finsven Inc. Side Table, End Table, Coffee Table, Circa 1940. Featuring a rectangular form, newly relacquered Black surface, multi layered Birch bentwood legs, ...
Category
1930s Swedish Vintage Modern End Tables
Materials
Enamel
Wicker Pencil Reed End or Side Table Crespi Style
Located in New York, NY
A blonde geometric wicker pencil reed end or side table, in the Modern style, circa mid-20th century. In the style of designer Gabriella Crespi. Measurements from first image positio...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern End Tables
Materials
Wicker, Reed
Pair of Mid-Century Modern Art Deco Cloud Tables Attributed to Gilbert Rohde
Located in Port Jervis, NY
Fabulous pair of Mid-Century Modern sculptural "Cloud" form tables in the style of Gilbert Rohde. Tapered and reeded legs in a dark stained walnut with an organic cloud form glass to...
Category
1940s American Vintage Modern End Tables
Materials
Brass
Pair of Post WWII Modern Wrought Iron Anchor & Chain Yacht Side Tables
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Pair of Post WWII modern wrought iron anchor & chain yacht side tables
USA, Post WWII
Provenance: Palm Beach Estate
Each modern wrought iron anc...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern End Tables
Materials
Iron, Wrought Iron
Vladimir Kagan 2-Tier Side Table with Inset Ceramic Tile Top 1950 'Signed'
Located in New York, NY
Rare and early open-sided table in oak with artisan ceramic tiles inset in top by Vladimir Kagan for Kagan-Dreyfuss, American, c.1950 (signed on bottom “Kagan-Dreyfuss New York. A Vladimir Kagan Design”.) Kagan incorporated hand-made ceramic tiles by Alexandra Kasuba in some of his early designs. They are works of art and their collaboration was a great success.
Reference:
The Complete Kagan...
Category
1950s American Vintage Modern End Tables
Materials
Ceramic, Oak
A Pair of American of Martinsville Occasional Tables with Caned Shelf
Located in St.Petersburg, FL
A pair of American of Martinsville occasional tables. Pull out drawer, caned shelf underneath. Walnut/black micarta tops.
Category
1960s American Vintage Modern End Tables
Hammary Fine Furniture Bookmatched Top Side Table, Circa 1970s
Located in Germantown, MD
Offered to you is this Hammary Fine Furniture Burl bookmatched top side table. One dovetailed drawer with drop down pull.
Absolutely beautiful and in very good condition. Minor sig...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern End Tables
Materials
Brass
Pair of Paul McCobb Designed Modernist Side Cabinets
Located in New York, NY
A pair of Paul McCobb designed modernist side cabinets.
Mahogany with brass trim details and nickel pulls.
With original label.
Category
1960s North American Vintage Modern End Tables
Materials
Brass, Nickel
Mid 20th Century Modernist French Chrome and Glass Round Coffee Table
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
Vintage French 1970’s round chrome and glass coffee table, with a spare architectural base below an inset round glass top.
Category
Mid-20th Century French Modern End Tables
Materials
Chrome
Neoclassical Two-Tier Brass and Glass Coffee Table
Located in Sheffield, MA
Maison Jansen style two-tier square brass contemporary coffee table has inset glass surfaces and is square. Original and beautifully ag...
Category
1960s French Vintage Modern End Tables
Materials
Brass
Stylish 1960s Circular Cherrywood Side/End Table by Widdicomb
Located in San Francisco, CA
The round occasional/end table featuring a bookmatched top above a similar lower shelf; metal label to underside "Wm. A. Berkey Furniture Co., Est. 1881, A Division of John Widdicomb.
Category
1960s American Vintage Modern End Tables
Materials
Cherry
Pair of Brancusi Style Steel Pedestal Side Tables
By Brancusi
Located in Stamford, CT
Compelling pair of geometric steel side tables or pedestals very much in the style of Constantin Brancusi. With a soft rust colored patina, these will make great lamp stands or wonderful pedestals for sculpture...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern End Tables
Materials
Cut Steel
Pair of Elegant Italian Tables with Cabriolet Legs
By Paolo Buffa
Located in St.Petersburg, FL
A pair of circa 1950s Italian tables in walnut, inlaid tops with cabriolet legs. Quality craftsmanship, stamped, made in Italy.
Category
1950s Italian Vintage Modern End Tables
Maison Jansenpair of End Tables
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
End table gilt Bronze and glass top by Maison Jansen.
Category
1950s French Vintage Modern End Tables
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Modern Black Lacquer Side Tables with Brass Details
Located in Locust Valley, NY
A pair of modern black lacquer side tables with brass details to corners and trim.
Category
Mid-20th Century Unknown Modern End Tables
Materials
Brass
Pair of Side Tables
Located in New Haven, CT
This beautiful Pair of Asian inspired solid bronze frame faux bamboo side tables is powder coated in a deep red color.
The finish is baked on at 400 degrees which makes the color chi...
Category
1960s American Vintage Modern End Tables
Materials
Bronze
Paul Laszlo Rare Low Table
By Paul Laszlo
Located in New York, NY
Solid Birch pedestal form supporting a square top rounded corners and a blue laminate top surface. This table is possibly a unique creation. Provenance: Hudspeth Estate, Prineville, ...
Category
1950s American Vintage Modern End Tables
Materials
Laminate, Birch
Harvey Probber Occasional Table with Terrazzo Top
Located in St.Petersburg, FL
A classic Harvey Probber occasional table with terrazzo top and brass inlay.
Walnut octagonal base with decorative cut outs.
Category
1960s American Vintage Modern End Tables
Pair of Grosfeld House Art Moderne Bleached End Tables
Located in New York, NY
Pair of American Art Moderne bleached end tables with swag carved design on 3 sides and a drawer supported on a square fluted pedestal base. (Attributed to GROSFELD HOUSE) (PRICED AS...
Category
1940s American Vintage Modern End Tables
Materials
Wood
Pair of Unique French Art Deco End Tables or Consoles Attributed to Paul Kiss
By Paul Kiss
Located in New York, NY
Stunning pair of French consoles or side tables resting on just three legs, in hand-hammered copper and iron reflective of both a modern spirit and Art Deco. An accompanying center t...
Category
1930s French Vintage Modern End Tables
Materials
Copper, Iron
Two French, Mid- Century Modern Industrial Steel & Zinc Cafe Tables / End Tables
Located in New York, NY
2 Elegant French Mid-Century Modern side tables / cafe tables composed of a steel tripod base and frame, zinc tabletop surrounded by a bronzed border.
These authentic French pieces...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Modern End Tables
Materials
Steel, Zinc
Jansen Glass and Bronze End Tables, France 1950's
Located in New York, NY
Patinated Bronze and smoked glass end tables, the tiers have curved solid trims connected to round uprights.
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern End Tables
Materials
Bronze
Tile Topped End Table by Severin Hansen Jr.
Located in San Francisco, CA
An end table in rosewood with inset ceramic tiles. Manufactured by Haslev Mobelfabrik, the tables were designed by Severin Hansen Jr and the tiles by Nils Thorsson.
Category
1960s Danish Vintage Modern End Tables
Materials
Ceramic, Rosewood
Vintage Round Side or End Decorative Lamp Table
Located in Sheffield, MA
The vintage round side or end lamp table has a mirrored inset top embellished with a painted wreath of gold flowers and leaves. One section has a hidden drawer above the two shelves....
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern End Tables
Materials
Wood
Modern end tables for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Modern end tables for sale on 1stDibs. Many of these items were first offered in the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artisans have continued to produce works inspired by this style. If you’re looking to add vintage end tables created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include tables, more furniture and collectibles, seating and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with metal, wood and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Modern end tables made in a specific country, there are North America, United States, and Europe pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original end tables, popular names associated with this style include Design Frères, Roberto Giacomucci, Kenneth Cobonpue, and Bertu Furniture. It’s true that these talented designers have at times inspired knockoffs, but our experienced specialists have partnered with only top vetted sellers to offer authentic pieces that come with a buyer protection guarantee. Prices for end tables differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $160 and tops out at $34,800 while the average work can sell for $2,834.
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