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Mid-Century Modern Game 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

CHARACTERISTICS OF MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGN

MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGNERS TO KNOW

ICONIC MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGNS

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 legendary 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.

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
Paul McCobb Planner Group Black Lacquered Extension Dinette Table, Refinished
Located in South Bend, IN
A sleek and stylish Mid-Century Modern extension dinette table or game table By Paul McCobb for Winchendon Furniture, "Planner Group" USA, 1950s Solid maple construction, wi...
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1950s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Game Tables

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Maple, Lacquer

Raoul Guys Square Table in Lacquered Metal and Ash Wood Veneer, France 1950s
Located in La Teste De Buch, FR
Square table by french designer Raoul Guys. Black lacquered metal feet with an ash wood veneered top. Made in France in the 1950s. Literature: "Interieurs Modernes" Georges Eudes, Ed C Massin...
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1950s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Game Tables

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Metal

Merle James Edelman for Casa Bique Tessellated Dining Gaming Table
Located in Lake Worth, FL
Offering one of our recent Palm Beach Estate fine furniture acquisitions of a Merle James Edelman for Casa Bique Tessellated Dining Gaming Table Featuring a textured steel form wit...
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1980s Vintage Mid-Century Modern Game Tables

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Stone, Marble, Steel, Brass

Giò Ponti Game Table
Located in Catania, IT
Game table with reversible top, one side with the green cloth for the game and a part with wood finish to be a normal dining room table. The Table is a famous work of the greatest It...
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1960s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Game Tables

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Fabric, Wood

1950s Mid-Century American Glamorous Smokey Mirrored Center Hall / Game Table
Located in New York, NY
This stunningly beautiful mid-century smoked mirrored table with slightly bowed and curved corners was realized in America. This timeless piece features a beveled, tessellated top with a undulating...
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1950s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Game Tables

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Mirror, Smoked Glass

Mid-Century Modern Italian Bamboo Game Table Set with 2 Chairs, 1970s
Located in Prato, IT
Mid-Century Modern Italian Bamboo game table set. The Table top with green cloth is endorsable to become a normal dining table equipped with two bamboo seats...
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1970s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Game Tables

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Fabric, Bamboo, Rattan, Wood

Dark Olive Grass Cloth Textured Flip Top Game Convertible to Dining Table
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Mid-Century Modern glass cloth wrapped bracket feet flip top (doubles in size) square game table. Karl Springer decor match. Completely restored condition.
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20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Game Tables

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Grasscloth

Italian 50s Hexagonal Playing Table
Located in bari, IT
Hexagonable wooden gaming table with green cloth on the floor Production brothers Zari Milan years late 50s.
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1950s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Game Tables

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Fabric, Wood

Midcentury Walnut and Brushed Steel Table by Jack Cartwright
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Amazing Mid-Century Modern table by Jack Cartwright for founder in the United States, circa 1960s. Features a book-matched walnut top, X-shaped stretcher, and brushed steel legs with...
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1960s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Game Tables

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Steel

Mark II Game Table in Leather with 4 Chairs by Karl Springer
Located in Palm Desert, CA
This is an original Mark II Game table by Karl Springer. It is covered in the original brownish taupe leather with an inset glass top. The four chairs are in the original matching le...
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1980s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Game Tables

Materials

Brass

Leather and Chromed Steel Italian Game Table attributed to Zanotta, 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Large midcentury leather and chromed steel game table. This card table was produced in Italy during 1960s and it is attributed to Zanotta. The top is in new green fabric, black le...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Game Tables

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Chrome, Steel

60s Games Table
Located in bari, IT
Closeup game table in wood with green cloth on the floor.
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1960s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Game Tables

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Fabric, Wood

Robsjohn-Gibbings for Widdicomb Flip Top Dining or Game Table, Newly Refinished
Located in South Bend, IN
An exceptional Mid-Century Modern flip top dining table or game table By T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings for Widdicomb USA, 1950s Black lacquered walnut, with original brass hardware...
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1950s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Game Tables

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Walnut, Lacquer

Large Midcentury Teak Wood Coffee Table
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This beautiful teak wood coffee table is perfect for your living or sitting room. With deep wood grain patterns and ample surface space, this ta...
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Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Game Tables

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Teak

Custom-Made Center Hall Table in Cold Plated Bronze with Onyx Top in Most Sizes
Located in Chicago, IL
Hand-made in Chicago workshop and part of the Old Plank Collection of Furniture and Sheep. Our Mid-Century Modern center hall tables are typically built to order and are available in...
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2010s North American Mid-Century Modern Game Tables

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Onyx, Steel

Pair of Fused Glass Blocks Pedestal Bases Rounded Square Tops Dining Game Table
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Pair of fused glass blocks pedestal bases rounded square tops dining game table. Very unusual design game cafe dining tables with 3/4" thick rounded corners glass. Bases are etched...
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20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Game Tables

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Glass

Maitland-Smith Tessellated Game Table with Chrome, Malachite and Pearl Inlay
Located in Miami, FL
Exceptional black tessellated stone game / card table with Malachite, mother of pearl and chrome inlay by Maitland-Smith and produced in the Philippines circa 1980s. Knee clearanc...
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1980s Philippine Vintage Mid-Century Modern Game Tables

Materials

Stone, Chrome

Square Marble Top Cylinder Chrome Legs Game Dining Center Table
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Mid-Century Modern marble top leg thought the top joint game dining table.
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20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Game Tables

Materials

Marble, Chrome

Lucite X-Base Base Gueridon Center Dining Table
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Very nice butterfly of X-base round guerdon center or game table with thick glass top.
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20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Game Tables

Materials

Lucite

Baker Furniture Pedestal Games Table with Craquelure Finish
Located in Chicago, IL
Baker Furniture oxblood lacquer pedestal games table with craquelure finish. The finish is offset by a black glaze that really makes the crackle finish pop. The base is a brass detai...
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1980s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Game Tables

Materials

Brass

Pair of Mid-Century Modern End Tables
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This beautiful pair of vintage modern end tables feature a unique chrome rod frame. Sleek and sturdy design with a gray tinted-glass tabletop....
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Late 20th Century Unknown Mid-Century Modern Game Tables

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Chrome

Karl Springer Embossed Leather Square Game Dining Table
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Mid-Century Modern embossed leather square game dining table by Karl Springer.
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20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Game Tables

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Leather

1970s Italian Game Table and Chairs by Pierluigi Molinari for Pozzi
Located in Paris, FR
Italian game table for bridge, cards and poker by Pierluigi Molinari (Milan, 1938) for Pozzi Milano. Structure in lacquered ebony wood. The four cub...
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20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Game Tables

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Ebony, Felt

Signed Maison Jansen Leather Top Backgammon Game Table
Located in East Hampton, NY
Stamped Jansen, this chromed steel and black and red leather backgammon games table, circa 1975, provenance: Malmaison, Roger Prigent Enterprises. This b...
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1970s Swiss Vintage Mid-Century Modern Game Tables

Materials

Steel, Chrome

Ceramic Game Table with Chessboard Hand Sculpted 1960s
Located in London, GB
Unique 1960s hand sculpted chess table and coffee table is sculptural and yet functional, made out of large ceramic slabs and glazed in function of the game. The table exudes a Mater...
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1960s German Vintage Mid-Century Modern Game Tables

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Wood, Ceramic

Brass Claw Feet Crome and Brass Glass Round Top Gueridon Center Cafe Game Table
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Decorative brass and chrome base claw feet round 3/4" glass top dinette cafe gueridon table.
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20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Game Tables

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Brass, Chrome

Eclectic Game Table with Python Sculpture from the Fifties
Located in bari, IT
Plaster culture depicting a life-size python covered with bronzed scales, central structure made of heavy bronze casting and wooden top with inlays inspired by the game.
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1950s European Vintage Mid-Century Modern Game Tables

Materials

Bronze

Rare Italian Console and Game Table Attr. to Paolo Buffa
Located in Milano, IT
Rare and wonderful console and game table attributed to Paolo Buffa from 1950. The beautiful console was made using fine walnut wood. The peculiarity of this beautiful console is ...
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1950s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Game Tables

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Walnut

Unique Cabinetmakers Game Table, or Party Set
Located in Munich, DE
Amazing woodworkers set on custom order. Size is for the table - stools are 37cm high and 30cm x 35cm.
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1970s German Vintage Mid-Century Modern Game Tables

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Wood

Console in the Style of Gio Ponti
Located in Vienna, AT
Very rare console with a frame of solid brass and a marble top. Most probably this piece has been part of a facility of a casino in Italy in the early 1950s. Its design language is s...
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1950s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Game Tables

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Marble, Brass

1986 Memphis Style Game and Dining Tables Glossy Black Gray Cream Lacquer
Located in Arosio, IT
A 3-pieces set of game and/or dining tables by Italian manufacturer Sormani, carried out for a contract work in the USA in 1986. These three tables are an example of very functional ...
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1980s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Game Tables

Materials

Felt, Wood

1950s Harvey Probber Travertine and Ebonized Wood Dining or Game Table
Located in Dallas, TX
Bold, geometric dining or game table designed and manufactured by Harvey Probber for Modern. With cross-hatching legs and an octagonal top of travertine outlined by a thick beveled e...
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1950s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Game Tables

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Travertine

Turquoise Snakeskin Game Table in the Style of Karl Springer, c. 1970's
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
Stunning Mid-Century Modern game table features a genuine leather top in vibrant turquoise with embossed python pattern. Square table with shield top design. Solid lucite cylinder le...
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1970s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Game Tables

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Metal

Leon Rosen for PACE Marble and Steel Game/ Card Table
Located in East Hampton, NY
This is a rare Leon Rosen for Pace game or card table. The V shaped cutout stainless steel corners make sculptural forms. It has beautiful original encrusted marble top. The stainles...
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1970s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Game Tables

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Marble, Steel

Vintage Ebonized Beech Game Table Produced by Chiavari with Red Fabric, Italy
Located in Bresso, Lombardy
Made in Italy, 1950s. It features a wooden and turned ebonized beech frame and its red original fabric top. The wooden structure doesn't need to be restored. It is a vintage piece, t...
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1950s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Game Tables

Materials

Fabric, Wood, Beech

Wormley Game Table for Dunbar, Solid Walnut & Olive Burlwood
Located in Dallas, TX
Edward Wormley Game Table for Dunbar, Solid Walnut & Olive Burlwood Gorgeous Dunbar table with a four-panel bookmatched olive burl wood top and a solid...
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Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Game Tables

Materials

Walnut, Burl

Mid-Century Modern Wood Brass French Roulette Game Table
Located in Madrid, ES
French roulette mounted on a table made of wood with waist and feet made of brass. Top made of oakwood that hides the roulette, since this type of pieces was used in clandestine game...
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1940s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Game Tables

Materials

Brass

Card Table or Game Table Handcrafted with Spade Club Diamond Heart Design Top
Located in Westport, CT
Card table or game table handmade Mid-Century Modern design with heart club spade diamond large mahogany top, inset glass, there are two available with a slight leg difference.
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Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Game Tables

Materials

Mahogany

Charming Midcentury Rosewood Coffee Table
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This elegant coffee table features storage in both front and back. Sporting a beautiful red hue with a deep grain pattern this table is sure to turn heads. Please confirm the item lo...
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Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Game Tables

Materials

Rosewood

1960s Cocktail Table by Milo Baughman for Thayer-Coggin
Located in Sagaponack, NY
A Milo Baughman designed Mid-Century Modern round low table / cocktail table with solid wood veneer and bronzed steel circular rod base. Manufactured by Thayer-Coggin in the USA in t...
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1960s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Game Tables

Materials

Steel

Mid-Century Modern Vintage Black Metal Side Table, 1950, Italy
Located in Vienna, AT
This Mid-Century Modern vintage side table shows a round black lacquered sheet metal top with multicolored motifs. The black lacquered wire steel base is foldable and features rubber...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Game Tables

Materials

Metal

Elegant Game Low Dinning Table Designed by Wormley for Dunbar
Located in San Diego, CA
Elegant low game table in walnut top with mahogany base and brass accents feet, circa 1950s in its original finish very clean for its age has a nice look.
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20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Game Tables

Materials

Brass

Huge Harvey Probber Walnut and Terrazzo Marble Table
Located in Berlin, DE
Designed by Harvey Probber which could be used as a coffee table or gaming table. Walnut top with a terrazzo insert and an ebonized wooden base with brass feet.
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1960s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Game Tables

Materials

Brass

Heavy Massive Lucite Base Round Bronze Smoked Glass Top Dining Conference Table
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Very nice Mid-Century Modern high quality heavy and massive Lucite base dining table.
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20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Game Tables

Materials

Lucite

18th Century Irish Light Brown Walnut Games Table
Located in Dublin, GB
A superbly carved 18th century Irish walnut games table. The rectangular turnover top above a well carved frieze, with a central scallop shell, flanked by flowing acanthus, resting o...
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1760s Irish Antique Mid-Century Modern Game Tables

Materials

Walnut

Mid-Century Modern Game Table in Light Mahogany With Double Flap Top - France
Located in Girona, ES
Game table, solid light mahogany base with a double flap top, with a light mahogany parquet veneer, French polish. Polished brass hardware. France, ci...
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1940s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Game Tables

Materials

Brass

Fine Mid-Century Modern Ashwood Polished Bronze Square Lacquered Game Table
Located in Roslyn, NY
A wonderful Mid-Century Modern ashwood and brown lacquered game table with polished bronze finishes Purchased from Lorin Marsh.
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20th Century Mid-Century Modern Game Tables

Materials

Bronze

Handsome Burl Laminate Game Table Desk with Lucite Chair
Located in Pemberton, NJ
Handsomeburl laminate game table with thick Lucite slab legs. We love the burl laminate as opposed to real wood-kid and adult friendly. This piece can be...
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1970s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Game Tables

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Laminate, Lucite

Superb Bookmatch Olivewood Console, Game Table and Writing Desk, circa 1975
Located in Atlanta, GA
A fabulous restored multi-use table which may serve as a stunning console, writing desk and game table, circa 1975. Expertly crafted hardwood construction veneered in bookmatched Oli...
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1970s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Game Tables

Materials

Lucite, Olive

Easy Edges Gaming Table by Frank Gehry
Located in Sagaponack, NY
From architect Frank Gehry's iconic corrugated cardboard Easy Edges series, a rare gaming table having an octagonal top that rests upon three square columns.
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1970s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Game Tables

Materials

Paper

Remote Controlled Hi-Lo Adjustable Height Convertible Coffee Dining Game Table
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Square adjustable height faux granite finish dining coffee or game table. Unique custom built design adjustable height table with a remote control. Beautiful black lacquer finish.
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20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Game Tables

Materials

Lacquer

1970s Gambling Table or Coffee Table Attributed to Osvaldo Borsani for Tecno
Located in Vigonza, Padua
Mid-Century Modern gambling table attributed to Osvaldo Borsani for Tecno, veneered mahogany decorated for game chess. Legs in painted steel with adjustab...
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Late 20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Game Tables

Materials

Steel

Heavy Enameled Metal Cylinder Pedestal Base Top Round Gueridon Dining Table
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Heavy enamel finish mid century Modern heavy beautifully enameled steel with chrome banding single pedestal round center or gueridon small conference table.
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20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Game Tables

Materials

Steel

1950s Coffee Table from Cortina D'ampezzo, Posta Hotel, Ico Parisi manner
Located in Vigonza, Padua
Code: FI37 Italian Mid-Century Modern decorative Service coffee table provenance famous Hotel Posta, in Cortina d'Ampezzo Hand-painted oil on wood of Cortina landscape with glass pro...
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1950s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Game Tables

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Glass, Wood

Stacked Lucite Base Round Gueridon Center Table
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Very nice pyramid stacked Lucite base center or game table.
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20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Game Tables

Bleached Rosewood Games Table
Located in New York, NY
Bleached rosewood circular table with ebonized wood legs may be used as dining table or games table. USA, c. 1960's.
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Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Game Tables

Materials

Wood, Rosewood

Alessandro Albrizzi Purple Lucite Vintage Chrome Dining Table Game Base
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Rare vintage mid century modern Alessandro Albrizzi purple lucite and chrome dining table or game table base. Chrome and lucite will be polished prior to shipping. Glass top not incl...
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20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Game Tables

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Chrome

Charles Hollis Jones Vintage CHJ Lucite and Brass Metric Dining Table Base Rare
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Amazing vintage Hollywood Palm Beach Regency, 1970s Lucite and brass Charles Holis Jones CHJ "Metric" dining table, dinette, kitchen, game table base or desk. Glass top not included....
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20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Game Tables

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Brass

Mid-century Modern game tables for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a broad range of unique Mid-Century Modern game 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 game 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 wood, metal and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Mid-Century Modern game 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 game tables, popular names associated with this style include Edward Wormley, Dunbar, Karl Springer, and Baker Furniture Company. 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 game tables differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $395 and tops out at $85,000 while the average work can sell for $4,775.

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