Spanish Wooden Sidetable with a Drawer

18th century Spanish wooden side table with drawer.

1970s Spanish bamboo and wicker sidetable with hexagonal top.

1970s Spanish Handmade Round Bamboo Sidetable

1970s Spanish handmade round bamboo sidetable.

1950s chinoiserie style lacquered wooden sidetable.

Vintage 1980s Spanish 2-drawer side table. The top needs repair.

Beautifully time-worn, antique, Southern European, chestnut wood end or side table. This relatively small size antique table is a joy to look at and the history of this kind of table makes it very interesting as well. Pay tables or paying tables were initially used by tax collectors and later in time (in the latter part of the middle ages), when most cities started to have their own currency, came the need for 'money exchangers'. A lot of the first money exchangers in 'early Netherlands' came from the Italian region of Lombardy and their name for these paying tables was 'banco'. Yes, it is this where also the English word 'bank' originates from. Pretty soon these money exchangers, who mainly serviced businessmen and travelers, also started 'safekeeping' and lending money. These tables therefor are at the very root of banking and just like some banks in this day and age, some of these earliest 'bankers' did not keep enough cash in their tables to be able to pay out when clients needed their money. This sometimes would lead to a lynching whereby the table of that particular money lender would be broken into pieces. The Italian word for such a broken table...

A low side table with single drawer in dark walnut, originating in 18th Century Spain. Beautifully aged wood with original iron drawer pull and lock detail.

A Swedish period Gustavian painted wood table from the early 19th century. This antique table from Sweden has been designed in simple, clean lines, featuring an over-hung rectangular...

Foot Side Table With Drawer by Project 213A Dimensions: W 32 x D 28 x H 62 cm Materials: Oak The Foot Side Table is made from Oak wood with carefully designed jointing details. ...

Capitol inaugurates a new collection of Studio Job that plays with the icons of history and architecture, rooted in our memory, ranging between East and West. It is an ironic but fun...

Family of small pouf-tables made entirely of natural mélange woven wicker or lacquered in matt white, grey, black, ocean or dove-grey, characterised by an hourglass shape, and by a s...