Modern 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 The modernists rejected both natural and historical references and relied primarily on industrial materials such as metal, glass, plywood, and, later, plastics.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.
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Tables
Clay
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Tables
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Tables
Acrylic, Hardwood, Paint
2010s Portuguese Modern Tables
Wood, Plywood, Oak
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Tables
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Tables
Metal
2010s American Modern Tables
Metal
2010s American Modern Tables
Oak
2010s Modern Tables
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Austrian Modern Tables
Wood
2010s Turkish Modern Tables
Marble, Brass
2010s European Modern Tables
Walnut, Plywood, Wood
2010s European Modern Tables
Wood, Ash, Plywood
2010s American Modern Tables
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Tables
Marble
2010s Portuguese Modern Tables
Walnut, Wood, Plywood
2010s Portuguese Modern Tables
Wood, Plywood, Ash
2010s European Modern Tables
Wood, Plywood, Ash
1960s French Vintage Modern Tables
Metal
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Tables
Wood, Hardwood, Ash, Cherry, Maple, Oak, Poplar, Sycamore, Walnut, Cedar...
2010s European Modern Tables
Wood, Plywood, Ash
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Tables
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Tables
Rosewood, Glass
21st Century and Contemporary German Modern Tables
Blown Glass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Tables
Ash
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Tables
Wood
2010s Dutch Modern Tables
Resin
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Tables
Plastic
21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Tables
Leather
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Tables
Aluminum
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Tables
Carrara Marble, Steel, Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Tables
Metal
1970s French Vintage Modern Tables
Concrete
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Tables
Glass, Wood
2010s Italian Modern Tables
Nickel, Bronze
2010s European Modern Tables
Oak, Wood, Plywood
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Tables
Wood, Ash, Oak, Walnut
21st Century and Contemporary German Modern Tables
Marble
21st Century and Contemporary German Modern Tables
Marble
2010s Canadian Modern Tables
Wood, Ash, Cherry, Maple, Oak, Walnut
2010s Portuguese Modern Tables
Leather, Wood
2010s Brazilian Modern Tables
Metal
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Tables
Steel
2010s European Modern Tables
Oak, Wood, Plywood
21st Century and Contemporary English Modern Tables
Oak
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Tables
Stainless Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Tables
Plastic
21st Century and Contemporary Slovenian Modern Tables
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Tables
Onyx, Granite, Marble, Carrara Marble, Brass, Stainless Steel, Gold Leaf
1980s American Vintage Modern Tables
Goatskin, Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Tables
Glass, Ziricote
2010s American Modern Tables
Stainless Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Dutch Modern Tables
Oak
21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Tables
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Tables
Brass, Stainless Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Tables
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Tables
Wood
2010s American Modern Tables
Granite, Brass