Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
1930s Italian Art Deco Vintage Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Wood
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Wood
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Glass, Wood
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Iron
1930s Italian Art Deco Vintage Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Wood
1930s Swedish Karl Johan Vintage Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Birch
Mid-20th Century French Art Deco Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Brass
19th Century English Georgian Antique Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Hardwood
Mid-20th Century Italian Art Deco Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Mirror, Wood
Mid-20th Century Italian Art Deco Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Brass
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Brass
1940s French Art Deco Vintage Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Metal
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Metal
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Glass, Maple
Early 1900s French Baroque Revival Antique Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Cast Stone, Iron
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Wood
20th Century Unknown Art Deco Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Chrome
1930s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Oak
1910s English Jacobean Vintage Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Oak
1910s French Country Vintage Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Wood
1930s Italian Art Deco Vintage Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Wood
1930s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Metal
1930s Vintage Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Walnut
1910s Vintage Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Brass
1930s French Art Deco Vintage Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Amboyna
1930s French Vintage Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Metal
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1930s American Vintage Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Brass
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Oak
1930s Swiss Vintage Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Metal
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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