Modern 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 The modernists rejected both natural and historical references and relied primarily on industrial materials such as metal, glass, plywood, and, later, plastics.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
Creator: Driade
"Gazelle" Black or White Finished Dining Table by Park Associati for Driade
By Park Associati, Driade
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Gazelle" is a dining table, designed by Park Associati and manufactured by Driade, with a painted tubular steel structure, available in four different colors: black, white, red and ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Tables
Materials
Cement, Steel
Frate Italian table in cast iron, glass and wood by Enzo Mari for Driade, c. 1980.
Located in MIlano, IT
Modern dining table or desk, cast iron, tempered glass and wood, Frate model by Enzo Mari for Driade Italia, c. 1980.
Frate model dining table or desk with rectangular tempered glass...
Category
1980s Italian Vintage Modern Tables
Materials
Iron
Pair of Enzo Mari Cuginetto Side Tables, Driade, Italy, 1970
Located in London, GB
SOLD AS A PAIR.
As Oliver Basciano wrote in Enzo Mari’s obituary in the Guardian in 2020, politics infused everything that designer Enzo Mari touched. An ardent communist, Mari hate...
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Modern Tables
Materials
Steel
"Fratello" Low Tempered Glass Double-Top Table Designed by Enzo Mari for Driade
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Fratello" is a low double-top table, designed by Enzo Mari and manufactured by Driade, with a black anthracite painted steel sections structure braced through a solid beechwood beam...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Tables
Materials
Steel
"Kissi Kissi" Colored Polyethylene Table Designed by Miki Astori for Driade
By Miki Astori, Driade
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Kissi Kissi" is a table or coffee table, designed by Miki Astori and manufactured by Driade, with polyethylene structure and top, available in white, anthracite black, red or blue c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Tables
Materials
Plastic
Didymos Oval Table with Black Marble Top by Antonia Astori for Driade
By Antonia Astori, Driade
Located in Brooklyn, NY
On its 50th anniversary, Driade modifies the design of an iconic table, for which, in its original version, Antonia Astoria had balanced the elegant minimalism of the top with a scul...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Tables
Materials
Marble
Didymos Round Table with White Marble Top by Antonia Astori for Driade
By Driade, Antonia Astori
Located in Brooklyn, NY
On its 50th anniversary, Driade modifies the design of an iconic table, for which, in its original version, Antonia Astoria had balanced the elegant minimalism of the top with a scul...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Tables
Materials
Marble
"Frate" Tempered Glass Top Benchwood Beam and Steel Table by E. Mari for Driade
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Frate" is a table, designed by Enzo Mari and manufactured by Driade, featuring a black anthracite painted steel sections structure braced through a solid beechwood beam with rectang...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Tables
Materials
Steel
"Frate" Tempered Glass Top Benchwood Beam and Steel Table by E. Mari for Driade
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Frate" is a table, designed by Enzo Mari and manufactured by Driade, featuring a black anthracite painted steel sections structure braced through a solid beechwood beam with rectang...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Tables
Materials
Steel
"Mingx" Canaletto Walnut Veneered and Steel Table by Konstantin Grcic for Driade
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Mingx" is a table, designed by Konstantin Grcic and manufactured by Driade, with structure in printed steel sheet and rod with polyester painted in orange, light grey, bronze or bla...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Tables
Materials
Steel
"Lybra" Tempered Glass and Steel Table Designed by Elliott Littman for Driade
By Driade, Elliott Littman
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Lybra" is a dining table, designed by Elliott Littman and manufactured by Driade, featuring a silver grey painted steel structure with tempered glass th. 0.47" top.
Indoor use only.
DIMENSIONS:
D. 56.7", W. 127.5", H. 28.3"
Tables can be considered as a project in tension between architecture and sculpture for a designer. Littman visualizes this Dual nature designing Lybra table by emphasizing the supporting steel beam, making it clear through top transparency and giving it the value of a craftwork.
ELLIOTT LITTMAN, a confirmed cultural wanderer intermediate between new world creative happiness and old world intellectual restlessness, moves quickly from Washington to Vienna, dividing himself impartially between New York and Milan and between the activity of critic and writer and constructive application to the furniture and structure themes.
Like a sculptor, Littman gives shape to function by modelling objects that are useful for daily life but also charming to look at, pieces of design similar to three-dimensional prostheses from a virtual universe built on descriptive geometrical magic. While for many years he has been exploring the mysteries of an “American archaeology” made of abandoned spaces...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Tables
Materials
Steel
Table Basalt Model by Fredrikson Stallard for Driade, Italy
Located in Milan, Italy
Basalt is the table designed by Fredrikson Stallard in 2014. The structure is in black painted steel, while the top is in lightened concrete. The designer places fragmentation at the...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Tables
Materials
Cement, Steel
Didymos Oval Table with White Marble Top by Antonia Astori for Driade
By Driade, Antonia Astori
Located in Brooklyn, NY
On its fiftieth anniversary, Driade modifies the design of an iconic table, for which, in its original version, Antonia Astoria had balanced the elegant minimalism of the top with a ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Tables
Materials
Marble
Didymos Round Table with Black Marble Top by Antonia Astori for Driade
By Driade, Antonia Astori
Located in Brooklyn, NY
On its fiftieth anniversary, Driade modifies the design of an iconic table, for which, in its original version, Antonia Astoria had balanced the elegant minimalism of the top with a ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Tables
Materials
Marble
"Mingx" Outdoor Quartzite Top and Steel Table by Konstantin Grcic for Driade
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Mingx" is an outdoor table, designed by Konstantin Grcic and manufactured by Driade, with structure in printed steel sheet and rod with protective cataphoresis treatment polyester p...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Tables
Materials
Quartz, Steel
"Mingx" Outdoor Steel Top Table by Konstantin Grcic for Driade
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Mingx" is an outdoor table, designed by Konstantin Grcic and manufactured by Driade, with structure in printed steel sheet with protective cataphoresis treatment and rod with protec...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Tables
Materials
Quartz, Metal, Steel
"Frate" Tempered Glass Top Benchwood Beam and Steel Table by E. Mari for Driade
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Frate" is a table, designed by Enzo Mari and manufactured by Driade, with black anthracite painted steel sections structure braced through a solid beechwood beam with rectangular te...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Tables
Materials
Steel
"Easel" Canaletto Walnut Table by Ludovica and Roberto Palomba for Driade
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Easel" is a table, designed by Ludovica and Roberto Palomba and manufactured by Driade, with base in solid Canaletto walnut wood and beveled stri...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Tables
Materials
Walnut
"Psiche" Table and Mirror Designed by Philippe Starck for Driade
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Psiche" is a hybrid piece of furniture between a table and a mirror, designed by Philippe Starck and manufactured by Driade, featuring a structure made of dark gray painted cast iro...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Tables
Materials
Aluminum, Iron
"Frate" Tempered Glass Top Benchwood Beam and Steel Table by E. Mari for Driade
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Frate" is a table, designed by Enzo Mari and manufactured by Driade, featuring a black anthracite painted steel sections structure braced through a solid beechwood beam with rectang...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Tables
Materials
Steel
"François" Frosted Glass Top Table Designed by Lievore Altherr for Driade
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"François" is a dining table, designed by Lievore Altherr studio and manufactured by Driade, with a structure in metal rod, legs in ash with natural oak finish or in ebonized ash and...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Tables
Materials
Metal
Round Fourdrops Table with White Marble Top, Oscar & Gabriele Buratti for Driade
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The relationship between the vertical support – the drop-section leg from which the project takes its name – and the horizontal top with tapered edges and round corners – forms an oc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Tables
Materials
Marble
Round Fourdrops Table with Black Glass Top, Oscar & Gabriele Buratti for Driade
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The relationship between the vertical support the drop-section leg from which the project takes its name and the horizontal top with tapered edges and round corners forms an occasion...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Tables
Materials
Glass
"Frate" Tempered Glass Top Benchwood Beam and Steel Table by E. Mari for Driade
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Frate" is a table, designed by Enzo Mari and manufactured by Driade, featuring a black anthracite painted steel sections structure braced through a solid beechwood beam with rectang...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Tables
Materials
Steel
"Easel" Tempered Glass Top and Walnut Base Table by L. and R. Palomba for Driade
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Easel" is a table, designed by Ludovica and Roberto Palomba and manufactured by Driade, featuring a base in solid Canaletto walnut wood and a transparent tempered glass top th. 0.59...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Tables
Materials
Walnut, Glass
"Easel" Tempered Glass Top and Ash Base Table by L. and R. Palomba for Driade
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Easel" is a table, designed by Ludovica and Roberto Palomba and manufactured by Driade, featuring a base in solid ebonized ash wood and transparent tempered glass top th. 0.47".
Ind...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Tables
Materials
Glass, Ash
"Easel" Tempered Glass Top and Walnut Base Table by L. and R. Palomba for Driade
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Easel" is a table, designed by Ludovica and Roberto Palomba and manufactured by Driade, featuring a base in solid Canaletto walnut wood and a transparent tempered glass top th. 0.47...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Tables
Materials
Glass, Walnut
Fourdrops Rectangular Table with Wood Top by Oscar & Gabriele Buratti for Driade
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The relationship between the vertical support – the drop-section leg from which the project takes its name – and the horizontal top with tapered edges and round corners – forms an oc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Tables
Materials
Marble
Round Fourdrops Table with Stained Wood Top, Oscar & Gabriele Buratti for Driade
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The relationship between the vertical support the drop-section leg from which the project takes its name and the horizontal top with tapered edges and round corners forms an occasion...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Tables
Materials
Wood
"Easel" White Carrara Marble Top Table Designed by L. and R. Palomba for Driade
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Easel" is a table, designed by Ludovica and Roberto Palomba and manufactured by Driade, supported by Canaletto walnut legs and featuring a white Carrara marble top.
Indoor use only....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Tables
Materials
Carrara Marble
"Didymos" Oval Marble Top and Crystalplant Base Table by A. Astori for Driade
By Antonia Astori, Driade
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Didymos" is an elegant and refined oval table, designed by Antonia Astori and manufactured by Driade, with crystalplant base and marble top.
Indoor use only.
DIMENSIONS:
D. 55.1", W. 78.7", H. 28.3"
In a table, oval means perfect: no edge, no head of the table, no “odd” diner and, above all, a form expanded in space. Antonia Astori balanced then the top elegant simplicity with a sculptural base, made of a malleable as well as contemporary material.
ANTONIA ASTORI, after graduating in Industrial and Visual Design at Lausanne, founded Driade in 1968 with her brother, Enrico, and sister-in-law, Adelaide Acerbi. She has designed furniture systems and furnishings as well as installations and exhibitions for Driade. In addition to her work in furniture design, she has also worked in interior design on projects for homes, offices, showrooms and stores.
Her long-standing partnership with the French fashion designers, Marithé and François...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Tables
Materials
Marble
Fourdrops Rectangular Table with Black Marble Top by Oscar & Gabriele Buratti
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The relationship between the vertical support – the drop-section leg from which the project takes its name – and the horizontal top with tapered edges and round corners – forms an oc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Tables
Materials
Marble
"Easel" Tempered Glass Top and Ash Base Table by L. and R. Palomba for Driade
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Easel" is a table, designed by Ludovica and Roberto Palomba and manufactured by Driade, featuring a base in solid ebonized ash wood and transparent tempered glass top th. 0.59".
Ind...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Tables
Materials
Glass, Ash
Modern tables for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Modern 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 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 tables made in a specific country, there are Europe, Italy, and North America pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original tables, popular names associated with this style include Gervasoni, Paola Navone, Moooi, and ClassiCon. 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 tables differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $139 and tops out at $370,125 while the average work can sell for $4,865.
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