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Rustic Industrial and Work Tables

RUSTIC STYLE

For some, the phrase “rustic style” suggests a house like “La Pitchoune,” the late chef Julia Child’s cottage in Provence, with its exposed wooden beams and well-worn antique furniture. For others, rustic furnishings and decor prompt images of a place like the Lake Placid Lodge in Upstate New York, with its stone fireplaces and knotty pine paneling. Indeed, rustic furniture design takes many forms: twig furniture, a plank trestle table, a hand-stitched quilt, a chandelier made of deer antlers.

The rustic style originated in the late 1800s in England, where it was heavily influenced by Romanticism. By the 20th century, it had spread to the United States, adopted by wealthy New Yorkers and the National Park Service alike. Although there are many categories of rustic furniture, one of the most popular and familiar manifestations of the style is the 1903 Thomas Lee Adirondack chair.

Rustic design is perhaps mostly about texture and humble materials: hand-hewn wood, woven rush seating, wrought iron, coarse stone and weathered metal. As a decor, it exudes warmth and honesty, while a single piece of countrified design adds an intriguing visual counterpoint in a sleek, modern environment.

Easily identifiable by its rough textures, earthy colors and natural materials, rustic furniture helps bring the beauty of the outdoors inside. As you can see on 1stDibs, rustic wares offer no end of inspiration.

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Vintage French Rustic Wood and Iron Folding Work Table
Located in Houston, TX
Interesting rustic table from France. Practical folding design with large surface area for working or meals. Nice patina.
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1940s French Vintage Rustic Industrial and Work Tables

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Iron

Vintage French Rustic Wood and Iron Folding Work Table
Vintage French Rustic Wood and Iron Folding Work Table

Vintage French Rustic Wood and Iron Folding Work Table

Italy Mid-19th Century Kitchen Pinewood Dining Table
Located in Brescia, IT
This is a table totally handmade by the Italian master craftsmen in the traditional Italian style of the Mid-19th Century, widespread in the Northern part of Italy. This model was ti...
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Mid-19th Century Italian Antique Rustic Industrial and Work Tables

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Wood

Italy Mid-19th Century Kitchen Pinewood Dining Table

Italy Mid-19th Century Kitchen Pinewood Dining Table

Pine Copper Lined Rustic Plant Stand
Located in Garnerville, NY
This one is for the house plant enthusiast. A copper lined long and narrow plant stand dating from the late 19th Century. A nice, dark patina on steel casters. The recessed front and...
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Late 19th Century American Antique Rustic Industrial and Work Tables

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Copper, Steel

Pine Copper Lined Rustic Plant Stand
Pine Copper Lined Rustic Plant Stand

Pine Copper Lined Rustic Plant Stand

American Country Rustic Stripped Work Table with Zinc Top
Located in New York, NY
American Country Rustic style (19th Century) rectangular stripped antique weathered work table with a zinc top and a shelf stretcher.
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19th Century American Antique Rustic Industrial and Work Tables

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Zinc

American Country Rustic Stripped Work Table with Zinc Top
American Country Rustic Stripped Work Table with Zinc Top

American Country Rustic Stripped Work Table with Zinc Top

Antique Tavern/ Work Table With Breadboard Top
Located in Bridgeport, CT
A Primitive Work Table with plank construction on the overhanging bread board edge top with separate carved and attached side ends. A single tool drawer an...
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19th Century Antique Rustic Industrial and Work Tables

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Wood

Antique Tavern/ Work Table With Breadboard Top
Antique Tavern/ Work Table With Breadboard Top

Antique Tavern/ Work Table With Breadboard Top

Rustic 19th Century Spanish Pine Work Bench Table
Located in Forney, TX
Patina perfection!! A rustic 19th century hand-crafted Spanish work table, in a distressed, weathered painted finish. Having a rectangular two board wooden plank top with beautiful, ...
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19th Century Antique Rustic Industrial and Work Tables

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Rustic 19th Century Spanish Pine Work Bench Table
Rustic 19th Century Spanish Pine Work Bench Table

Rustic 19th Century Spanish Pine Work Bench Table

19th Century French Oak Carpenter Press Table with Eight-Bottle Storage Rack
Located in Dallas, TX
This antique table was crafted in the Poitou region of France, circa 1880. The rustic, oak piece decorated with the word "Provence" across the front, has a very thick top and feature...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Rustic Industrial and Work Tables

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Wrought Iron

19th Century French Oak Carpenter Press Table with Eight-Bottle Storage Rack
19th Century French Oak Carpenter Press Table with Eight-Bottle Storage Rack

19th Century French Oak Carpenter Press Table with Eight-Bottle Storage Rack

1900s French Sawhorse Table with Wooden Top
Located in High Point, NC
A metal table with wooden top from France, produced circa 1900. A massive vintage table, spanning an impressive length in excess of eleven feet, that manages to maintain a low-key pe...
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Early 1900s French Antique Rustic Industrial and Work Tables

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Metal

1900s French Sawhorse Table with Wooden Top
1900s French Sawhorse Table with Wooden Top

1900s French Sawhorse Table with Wooden Top

Late 18th Early 19th Century Tavern Table
Located in Bridgeport, CT
A fine late 18th-early 19th century tavern/work table with strongly turned legs, ball feet, breadboard plank top and bottom H-form stretcher. The table has a long drawer on one end w...
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Late 18th Century Antique Rustic Industrial and Work Tables

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Wood

Late 18th Early 19th Century Tavern Table
Late 18th Early 19th Century Tavern Table

Late 18th Early 19th Century Tavern Table

19th Century French Pine Drapers Table Store Display
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Fantastic 19th century French drapers table or store display table featuring 10 work drawers. This large table was used in cloth merchant shops for...
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19th Century French Antique Rustic Industrial and Work Tables

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Brass

19th Century French Pine Drapers Table Store Display
19th Century French Pine Drapers Table Store Display

19th Century French Pine Drapers Table Store Display

Rustic Antique American Farmhouse Weathered Work Table
Located in Forney, TX
A one-of-a-kind rustic antique American country work table in original plum - wine paint finish with heavily worn distressed patina! Full of antique character and unique folky charm, featuring primitve hand-crafted farmhouse craftsmanship and solid wooden construction, having a plank boarded top, simple wide apron with pegged detail, rising on distinctive spool-turned Jenny Lind legs terminating in tapering ring-turned feet. This rustic folk art table most likely originating in the Southern United States, handmade during the early/mid-19th century by a farmer, not a formally trained carpenter or furniture maker, adding to the overall antique character, elegant warmth, and rich historical depth. Dimensions: (approx) 33" High, 64" Wide, 31" Deep Provenance / Acquisition: Acquired from reputable auction house Bright Star Antiques Co., Sulfur Springs, Texas. May 2022 Session 1.5 catalog. Founded on generations of experience in rare antiques and furnishings, Bright Star has been specializing in rare American country antiques and architectural elements for over 25 years. Condition: Beautiful age, weathered patina and attractive faded mellow coloring. Heavily worn, naturally distressed, chippy paint, losses, warping, slight wobble, substantial wear and tear consistent with age and use. Not overly strong or sturdy, but certainly functional and delivered ready for immediate use. Jenny Lind’s Legs? Johanna Maria Lind (Sweden; 1820–1887) spent many nights in the U.S. during her wildly popular concert tour, presenting an opportunity for furniture makers to claim that P.T. Barnum’s Swedish Nightingale rested in one of their beds. Celebrity endorsements—sanctioned or not—had been found to boost sales, and 19th-century entrepreneurs had little aversion to stretching the truth. By the time she returned to Europe, Jenny Lind’s name or likeness had been affixed to riding hats, cigars, dolls, perfume, and more. Still, the association between spool-turned beds and the name “Jenny Lind” appears to be a 20th-century phenomenon, likely an attempt to conjure a connection to simpler times after the fact. Several bits of folklore connect the opera star with specific beds. The most widespread asserts that Philadelphia furniture manufacturer George J. Henkels placed a special bed—actually, a carved Rococo piece with a side canopy—in Lind’s hotel, and later gave it to her as a gift or, in a divergent ending, vowed to name it after her. A second story centers on a common, early 19th-century mahogany spool bed...
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Mid-19th Century Antique Rustic Industrial and Work Tables

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Wood, Paint

Rustic Antique American Farmhouse Weathered Work Table
Rustic Antique American Farmhouse Weathered Work Table

Rustic Antique American Farmhouse Weathered Work Table

19th Century Pennsylvania Dutch Farmhouse Harvest Table
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Large, rustic 19th century Pennsylvania Dutch American farmhouse table, harvest table, or work table. Features a nearly 10 foot long plank top...
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19th Century American Antique Rustic Industrial and Work Tables

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Porcelain, Wood

19th Century Pennsylvania Dutch Farmhouse Harvest Table
19th Century Pennsylvania Dutch Farmhouse Harvest Table

19th Century Pennsylvania Dutch Farmhouse Harvest Table

19th Century French Oak Carpenter Press Table with Five-Bottle Storage Rack
Located in Dallas, TX
This antique table was crafted in the Poitou region of France, circa 1880. The rustic, oak piece decorated with the word "Sauternes" across the front, has a very thick top and featur...
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Late 19th Century French Antique Rustic Industrial and Work Tables

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Wrought Iron

19th Century French Oak Carpenter Press Table with Five-Bottle Storage Rack
19th Century French Oak Carpenter Press Table with Five-Bottle Storage Rack

19th Century French Oak Carpenter Press Table with Five-Bottle Storage Rack

19th Century American Farmhouse Work Table or Console
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Large 19th century American farmhouse table, work table, or harvest table. Featuring a rustic plank top 10 feet long. Supported by thick turne...
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19th Century American Antique Rustic Industrial and Work Tables

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Wood

19th Century American Farmhouse Work Table or Console
19th Century American Farmhouse Work Table or Console

19th Century American Farmhouse Work Table or Console

Rustic Antique Wood Farm Table
Located in Bridgeport, CT
A rarely seen dynamic form in original distressed condition with great all over age and use patina. In an overall weathered finish to a pale gray tone, with some mortise and tenon co...
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19th Century Antique Rustic Industrial and Work Tables

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Wood

Rustic Antique Wood Farm Table
Rustic Antique Wood Farm Table

Rustic Antique Wood Farm Table

19th Century Swedish Blue Folk Art Work Table
Located in Kramfors, SE
Blue work table in Folk Art from northern Sweden. The table is made circa 1810-1820 in Swedish pine and is painted with the original paint. The blue or...
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Early 19th Century Swedish Antique Rustic Industrial and Work Tables

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Pine

19th Century Swedish Blue Folk Art Work Table
19th Century Swedish Blue Folk Art Work Table

19th Century Swedish Blue Folk Art Work Table

18th Century French Yew Wood Work Table
Located in Bridgeport, CT
A large early rectangular table with overhanging banded plank constructed top. (the top with old crack fills, see photos). With an apron drawer near one end, and another drawer on on...
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Late 18th Century French Antique Rustic Industrial and Work Tables

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Yew

18th Century French Yew Wood Work Table
18th Century French Yew Wood Work Table

18th Century French Yew Wood Work Table

Rustic Hewn Farm Table
Located in Bridgeport, CT
Quite elemental in form, this Rustic table features attractive deep grained wood with a tactile hewn top finish. The wood is very heavy and tight grained and reminiscent of a South A...
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20th Century Rustic Industrial and Work Tables

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Wood

Rustic Hewn Farm Table
Rustic Hewn Farm Table

Rustic Hewn Farm Table

An Early 19th Century Hog Butchering Collapsible Work Table
By Shaker Style
Located in Hudson, NY
This rustic work purpose table made in pine was found in the New Lebanon area of Upstate New York. Used only during hog butchering time, mostly in early fa...
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19th Century American Antique Rustic Industrial and Work Tables

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Pine

An Early 19th Century Hog Butchering Collapsible Work Table
An Early 19th Century Hog Butchering Collapsible Work Table

An Early 19th Century Hog Butchering Collapsible Work Table

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