Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Plastic
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Marble
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Marble, Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Plastic
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Marble, Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Marble, Steel
Early 20th Century English Elizabethan Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Wood
19th Century Sheraton Antique Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Mahogany
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Plastic
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Marble, Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Plastic
19th Century British Victorian Antique Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Hardwood
Mid-20th Century French Provincial Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Wood
1840s English Antique Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Mahogany
1880s Danish Other Antique Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Wood
1750s Irish Queen Anne Antique Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Brass
Mid-20th Century Asian Chinoiserie Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Wood
18th Century English Chippendale Antique Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Mahogany
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Cherry
Early 19th Century Swedish Biedermeier Antique Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Cherry
1780s British Georgian Antique Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Mahogany
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Wood
20th Century American Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Metal, Chrome
20th Century British Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Oak
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Marble
18th Century English George II Antique Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Walnut
1960s Scandinavian Scandinavian Modern Vintage Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Teak
19th Century British Antique Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Wood
19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Ormolu
21st Century and Contemporary Vietnamese Modern Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Wood
19th Century Irish Georgian Antique Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Mahogany
Early 19th Century English Queen Anne Antique Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Mahogany
18th Century and Earlier British Antique Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
1760s English George III Antique Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Mahogany
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Wood
1770s British Georgian Antique Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Mahogany
18th Century and Earlier Italian Antique Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Giltwood
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Nickel
2010s Portuguese Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Oak, Walnut
19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Leather, Mahogany
1970s French Vintage Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Brass
19th Century French Louis XV Antique Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Brass, Bronze
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Ceramic, Oak
Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Copper
19th Century French Louis XVI Antique Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Carrara Marble, Ormolu
Early 19th Century Swedish Karl Johan Antique Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Burl
19th Century English Victorian Antique Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Oak
1840s English Early Victorian Antique Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Hardwood
20th Century French Louis XV Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Brass
1840s English Early Victorian Antique Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Oak
1780s English Georgian Antique Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Hardwood
Mid-19th Century French Belle Époque Antique Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Marble, Bronze, Ormolu
Early 20th Century American Art Nouveau Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Brass
19th Century English Georgian Antique Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Wood
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Glass, Wood
1780s Irish George III Antique Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Mahogany
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Marble, Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Marble, Steel
Antique and Vintage Dessert Tables and Tilt-Top Tables
In preparing for your next holiday party or dinner party, an antique or vintage dessert table might just be the perfect finishing touch.
Dessert tables are elegant pieces essential for hosting both formal and casual gatherings. Also known as tilt-top tables or loo tables (named for the card game), these eye-catching furnishings make it easy to host large parties so that guests are not confined to a single space for the night. The top of a tilt-top table is typically hinged to a pedestal in the structure’s center so that its surface can be turned from a horizontal to a vertical position and parked in the corner of a living room or dining room. This gives it an advantage over a traditional side table and allows it to take up less space when it’s not in use.
Dessert tables are deliberately built small or narrow so that they are easy to maneuver. These compact tables were especially prominent in the 18th century in the United States and England where they regularly accompanied social interactions like tea drinking. During the early 1920s, the sterling-silver full tea service and tray designed by Tiffany & Co. set atop your dessert table might include a hot-water kettle on a stand, a coffeepot, a teapot, a creamer with a small lip spout, a waste bowl and a bowl for sugar, which the British were stirring into tea by the 1720s and ’30s.
Older dessert tables often feature intricate carvings and motifs, making them enduringly popular through the decades. Many tilt-top tables likewise have elaborate veneers for a decoration that can be viewed when they are tilted down and stored against a wall.
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