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Coffee and Cocktail Tables For Sale
Scandinavian Midcentury Coffee Table, Anonymous, Pine, circa 1970s
Located in Hønefoss, 30
This Scandinavian midcentury coffee table from around 1970s, features a light brown stained color and is crafted from solid pine. Its four low square legs add a unique touch of elega...
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Mid-20th Century Norwegian Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Pine
Tavolino da salotto, piano nero e verde ardesia, base ferro battuto disponibile
Located in Rimini, IT
Tavolino da salotto con piano in ardesia nera ed intarsio in scagliola verde malachite brillante, base in ferro battuto. Questo tavolino costituirà un'aggiunta di valore al vostro a...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Art Deco Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Slate, Wrought Iron
PK61 Coffee Table by Poul Kjaerholm for E. Kold Christensen
Located in Dronten, NL
Poul Kjærholm for E. Kold Christensen PK61 occasional table, white honed marble and matte chrome steel, made in Denmark, designed in 1955.
Marked with E. Kold Christensen logo in th...
Category
1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Marble, Steel
1960s Italian Marble Coffee Table
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Incredible vintage marble coffee table from Italy, 1960s. Gorgeous cream colored marble table with accents of green and brown coloring. Rectangular top rests on two angular legs. Bea...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Marble
Organic Shaped Cork Coffee Table
By Paul Frankl
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Organic shaped “Cloud” cork and cerused mahogany coffee table newly made in the style of Paul Frankl.
Category
Late 20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Cork
Double Gourd Meditation Stone Table
Located in Chicago, IL
This low, stone top table exemplifies Organic Modern style with an emphasis on natural materials. The organic shape and irregular patterning of the stone slab top evokes the complexi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Organic Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Stone
Large Brutalist Wabi Sabi Coffee Table, France, 1960s
Located in Antwerp, BE
This large brutalist coffee table, crafted in France circa 1960, exemplifies the rugged elegance of brutalist design. Constructed from solid wood, its four-legged structure boasts a ...
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1960s French Brutalist Vintage Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Wood
Paul Kingma square coffee table The Netherlands 1980
By Paul Kingma
Located in Roosendaal, Noord Brabant
Nice large sized coffee table made by Paul Kingma and made in his own Atelier, The Netherlands 1980. The large square tabletop has beautiful features like the orange/brown tile piece...
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1980s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Vintage Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Concrete, Slate, Brass, Steel
Cheese Large by Piegatto, a Sculptural Coffee Table
Located in Guatemala, GU
A unique and tasteful creation crafted from horizontal sections of laminated birch and spruce wood, each slice measuring 18.5 mm in thickness.
The wood slices are carefully laminat...
Category
2010s Guatemalan Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Plywood
Fred Brouard Sculptural Cast Bronze and Rectangular Glass Coffee Table, 1970s
By Fred Brouard
Located in New York, NY
Fred Brouard cast polished bronze coffee table with abstract sculptural base and rectangular plate glass top, France, 1970s.
Signed and numbered "F BROUARD 5/8" on the base.
After ...
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1970s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Bronze
Coffee Table in Stone Composite by Mike Ruiz-Serra
Located in New York, NY
Quad Table, cast in stone composite. It features a bright white color and a matte finish achieved through a blend of marble dust and resin. This innovative composition enhances durab...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Composition
Mid Century Petala Table, Attributed to Jorge Zalszupin
Located in New York, NY
Original Petala Coffee Table, a masterpiece designed by Brazilian designer Jorge Zalszupin. Crafted from Pau Ferro, this table embodies sophistication.
This coffee table has been we...
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Mid-20th Century Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Hardwood
Isamu Noguchi Coffee Table, USA 1950's
Located in New York, NY
Early Classic Noguchi IN 50 table in black stained Cherry and vintage apple green glass, aluminum connecting pin present.
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Aluminum
K'ang Hsi Coffee Table by Rose Tarlow "Melrose House"
By Emilio Roselli
Located in New York, NY
K'ang Hsi Coffee Table by Rose Tarlow 'Melrose House,' Chinese style with intricate black lacquer and hand-painted gold leaf flowers.
Featuring a unique design with turned-up sides...
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1970s American Neoclassical Vintage Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Fruitwood
Italian Coffee Table in Travertine and Facet Cut Glass, 1980s
Located in Oud Beijerland, NL
Very nice Italian coffee or side table handcrafted out of travertine, 1980s.
It is made of beautiful travertine.
Please take notice of the very nice patterns.
The oval shaped pl...
Category
1980s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Travertine
Ebonized round coffee table in the manner of Jansen circa 1940
Located in Philadelphia, PA
An ebonized round coffee table in the manner of Jansen having a gold gilt wood top trimmed in bronze and bronze mounted legs, circa 1940.
Category
1940s French French Provincial Vintage Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Bronze
Two Sculptural Parchment Coffee Tables
Located in Cathedral City, CA
Mid-Century Modern style set of two coffee tables is covered in goatskin.
Parchment is in varying shades of natural finish.
Dimension of each coffee table:
w 38 inches d 32 in...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Goatskin, Wood, Parchment Paper
Brown Saltman Sculptural Coffee Table
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Vintage sculptural coffee table by Brown Saltman. The walnut frame has been refinished. Original glass top shows some signs of wear. No...
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1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Glass, Walnut
Mid-Century Modern Mahogany Coffee Table for Tingströms
By Tingströms
Located in Atlanta, GA
Large Mid-Century Modern Coffee Table for Tingstroms in Sweden. Features a lower rack and gold detail around table edge. Very good vintage condition, with...
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1960s Swedish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Mahogany
Fruit Bowl in marble, by Karen Chekerdjian, Made in Italy
Located in Milan, IT
The value of change in a simple act, in stock. Karen Chekerdjian’s new creation puts design front and center: from one foundation, multiple possibilities.
An essential shape and cla...
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2010s Italian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Marble
New Modern Fruit Bowl in White Marble, Creator Karen Chekerdjian Stock
Located in Milan, IT
The value of change in a simple act, in stock. Karen Chekerdjian’s new creation puts design front and centre: from one foundation, multiple possibilities.
An essential shape and cla...
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2010s Italian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Marble
Space Age White Beech Coffee Table by Opal, 1970, Germany
By Opal
Located in Vienna, AT
This vintage Space Age coffee table consists of a white lacquered beech wooden base topped with an oval shaped smoked glass top.
The vintage condition is very good.
Approximate mea...
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1970s German Space Age Vintage Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Beech
Coffee Center Cocktail Table All Glass Curved Shape Collectible Design Italy
Located in Ancona, Marche
“Bent straights” table origins in a game of curves, arising from a two-dimensional surface turning into three-dimensional objects, prospectively contradictory, deceiving the percepti...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Cut Glass
Coffee Table, Leaf Shape, Maple Solid Organic Shaped
Located in Dietmannsried, Bavaria
Coffee table in solid maple.
Worked out by hand in leaf form
The deformed leaf - stem / leaf tip / leaf side are the support points
The wood is sculpted an...
Category
2010s German Organic Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Maple
Modern Vintage Metal Glass Coffee Table Sofa Table Paolo Piva Style Italy 1980s
By Paolo Piva
Located in Vienna, AT
Modern vintage coffee table or sofa table Paolo Piva style from chromed tube steel and clear glass.
The sofa table is very similar to Paolo Piva and shows a square chromed tube stee...
Category
1980s Modern Vintage Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Steel
Contemporary Modern Decorator Style Coffee Table
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Vintage iron coffee table with nine glass panel inserts. Strong metal frame with bowed runners makes an impressive modern addition to home or...
Category
20th Century Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Glass
Vintage Chinese Coffee Side Table
Located in Pasadena, TX
Vintage Chinese coffee side table
Antique Asian table in a richly grained rosewood with giant arm stretcher supports.
Category
Mid-20th Century Asian Chinoiserie Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Rosewood
Tresor Patinated Set of 3 Coffee Table
Located in Paris, FR
Coffee table Tresor Patinated set of 3 with all structure of each table
in solid brass in polished and patinated finish. With gloss varnished.
Measu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Brass
Italian Travertine and Glass Coffee Table, 1980s
Located in Oud Beijerland, NL
Very nice Italian coffee table from the 80's, handcrafted out of travertine.
One round travertine plate and one turnable glass plate.
The table is made of beautiful travertine.
Category
1980s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Travertine
Live Edge Solid Slab Coffee Table or Bench in the Style of George Nakashima
Located in Topeka, KS
Incredible midcentury live edge or free edge solid slab coffee table or bench in the style of George Nakashima. It is in wonderful vintage condition with normal wear, circa 1950s-198...
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20th Century Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Wood
Martell Woodworks Claro Walnut Slab Coffee Table with Wenge Butterflies
Located in Mendocino, CA
This is an example of a Claro walnut slab coffee table I make, inlaid with wenge butterflies, and featuring a sculpted walnut base. The slab has bea...
Category
2010s American Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Walnut, Wenge
Vintage Ceramic Panther Coffee Table
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Vintage ceramic and glass panther coffee table. Origin: Circa 1980’s. In excellent condition with some minor scratches to glass, consistent with age
Category
Late 20th Century Unknown Art Deco Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Ceramic, Glass
Contemporary Side Table, HOT Collection, Gradient Stainless Steel
By Buzao
Located in Paris, FR
Side table, coffee table
Electroplated stainless steel (nylon table top)
Measures: H 54cm – D 50cm.
Production lead time: 3 to 4 weeks
Side table from “HOT” collection, a cre...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Stainless Steel
Set of 2 Jade Coffee Tables by Draga & Aurel
Located in Geneve, CH
Set of 2 Jade coffee tables by Draga & Aurel.
Dimensions: W 50, D 50, H 38, top Ø 50 cm.
Materials: Resin and bronze.
Also available: W 50, D 50, H 28, top Ø 50 cm
Formed fro...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Bronze
Italian Brass Swan Coffee Table, 1950s
Located in Antwerp, BE
A chic and elegant 1950s Italian brass swan coffee table with swan head legs and original glass.
Well-made and heavy.
Dimensions base:
Wid...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Hollywood Regency Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Metal, Brass, Bronze
A Vintage French Pedestal Table With Turned Base, Reminiscent of Charles Dudouyt
Located in London Road, Baldock, Hertfordshire
A French pedestal table with a turned column stem, reminiscent of Charles Dudouyt designs. Probably dating from the early 20th Century.
Befitting of interiors that blend pieces of ...
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20th Century French Rustic Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Wood, Elm
Brass Bonsai Tree Coffee Table
By Willy Daro
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Brass bonsai tree and cranes coffee / side table in the manner of Willy Daro. Glass shown is 33” x 33” by 3/8” thick and not included. Table base wil...
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1970s Belgian Hollywood Regency Vintage Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Brass
Vintage Modern Marble Coffee Table
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Interesting marble coffee table featuring a full marble construction including the base. The top sits on without latches or fasteners.
Please confirm item location (NY or NJ).
Category
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Marble
Cosmos Coffee Table by Studio Superego, Italy
Located in Milan, Italy
Coffee table model Cosmos in transparent plexiglass with agate disks of different colors and with brass legs designed by Studio Superego for Superego Editions.
Superego editions was...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Agate, Brass
Hand-Painted Tile Coffee Table with Rosewood and Chrome Frame
Located in Belmont, MA
This coffee table is hand-painted tile with a rosewood and chrome frame. The piece features a signature indicating it was created in 1973.
Category
Mid-20th Century Unknown Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Chrome
Art Deco Stone Coffee Table Calacatta Marble Handmade in Portugal by Greenapple
By Greenapple
Located in Lisboa, PT
Stone Coffee Table, Modern Collection, Handcrafted in Portugal - Europe by GF Modern.
Stone coffee table lives up to its name featuring an exuberant stone texture with beautiful, in...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Marble, Carrara Marble
Modern Bordeira Coffee Table, Calacatta Marble, Handmade Portugal by Greenapple
Located in Lisboa, PT
Bordeira Coffee Table, Contemporary Collection, Handcrafted in Portugal - Europe by Greenapple.
Designed by Rute Martins for the Contemporary Collection, the Bordeira modern coffee ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Marble, Onyx, Brass, Stainless Steel
Wrought Iron Martini Table, Small
Located in London, GB
A wrought iron martini table, hand made in England to a 1940s original design. 500
Shown here finished with a natural bronze patina. Available in bronze or black finishes.
Large: 3...
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2010s British Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Wrought Iron
Midcentury Coffee Table by Svend Aage Jessen & Sejer Pottery for Ryesberg
Located in Belmont, MA
This famous design also known as the Ryesberg design uses midcentury tile, wood, and stainless. Initially designed by Svend Aage Jessen & Sejer Pottery for Ryesberg Møbler. Tiles sig...
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1970s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Steel
Beautiful Mexican Art Deco Round Coffee Table
Located in Mexico, DF
Beautiful Round Coffee Table made in Mexico in the 1940s. It is very well crafted and assembled incorporating hand-carved motifs of flowers. Art Deco style arrived in Mexico much lat...
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1940s Mexican Art Deco Vintage Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Hardwood
1970's Herringbone Onyx Pedestal Coffee Table
Located in Culver City, CA
Feast your eyes on this ultra-chic, vintage 1970s gem! This stunning coffee table is a true conversation starter, flaunting a mesmerizing herringbone pattern crafted from real onyx t...
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1970s Hollywood Regency Vintage Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Onyx
Mid Century Pencil Reeded Bamboo Scroll Coffee Cocktail Table
Located in Wichita, KS
This wonderful scroll leg pencil reeded bamboo table has a great presence and scale. In the style of Paul Frankl, it is mid- century modern and n...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Bamboo
Vintage 70s Cork Triangle With Bronze Glass Rectangle Coffee Table Burlwood MCM
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Vintage 70s Triangle Rectangle Cork & Bronze Glass Coffee Table.
The table is made out of wood and is veneered in cork. The table is in 3pc.
The two ends and the glass. The glass ...
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1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Glass, Cork
Ilana Goor Style Iron Brutalist Table Base
By Ilana Goor
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Impressive large Ilana Goor style Iron coffee table base with her typical rebar type construction.
Stunning Ilana Goor iron coffee table base with amazing sculptural Industrial Bruta...
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1980s American Brutalist Vintage Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Iron
Antique English Victorian Bagatelle Flip Top Game Table on Stand
Located in Forney, TX
A fun and unusual 19th century Victorian English mahogany Bagatelle game board table with nicely aged patina.
Featuring a rectangular folding portable game board with warm, rich mahogany wood case exterior, and a patinated brass hinged lid lift top that flips open to extend and reveal the baize (green felt like billiards material) lined gaming surface with semi-circular bentwood bumper at one end adorned with nine numbered holes, arranged with one in the center of the bentwood gallery and the rest surrounding it evenly in a ring. Framing the board, twenty-four contrasting inlay panels set with five holes run along either side of the board, originally used to keep score. circa 1890
The game board rests partially inset in a fitted mahogany stand base, raised on four straight square legs joined by ‘H’ stretcher.
A wonderful piece of game board history, originally designed to sit on top of a dining table or games table, this piece features a fitted stand, making it the ideal size and proportions for use as a one-of-a-kind coffee table, chair side table, cocktail table, low console, or simply displayed as a distinctive decorative folk art piece.
Dimensions (approx):
18" High, 31.25" Wide, 15.75" Deep
Open: 60" Wide
Good condition overall, especially considering age. Dark rich patina over the whole, enhanced by heavy buildup lustrous sheen and antique mahogany glow. No game pieces or accessories included. Age appropriate wear including various imperfections, with expected signs of use, including losses, checking, wear to finish and baize liner, staining, minor splitting to bent wood, all wear consistent with age and indicative of use. All of which adds to the elegant warmth, sophisticated antique character, and overall authenticity.
Please refer to photography for complete condition.
Delivered lightly cleaned, hand waxed, polished French patina finish, ready for immediate use as furniture.
History:
The origins of Bagatelle (or its many iterations) are even less clear than most games of a similar history, although we do know it has ties to French Kings, American President Abraham Lincoln, and developed into bar billiards, eventually leading to the development of pachinko and pinball.
Bagatelle was a game involving sticks and balls that evolved from efforts to bring outdoor games like ground billiards, croquet, and bowling inside for play during inclement weather. Dating all the way back to the 15th century, the most recent version came about in the 18th century.
In France, during the long 1643–1715 reign of Louis XIV, billiard tables were narrowed, with wooden pins or skittles at one end of the table, and players would shoot balls with a stick or cue from the other end, in a game inspired as much by bowling as billiards. Pins took too long to reset when knocked down, so they were eventually fixed to the table, and holes in the bed of the table became the targets. Players could ricochet balls off the pins to achieve the harder scorable holes. Quite a number of variations on this theme were developed.
In 1777 a party was thrown in honour of Louis XVI and the queen at the Château de Bagatelle, recently erected at great expense by the king's brother, the Count of Artois. Bagatelle from Italian bagattella, signifies 'a trifle', 'a decorative thing'. The highlight of the party was a new table game featuring a slender table and cue sticks, which players used to shoot ivory balls up an inclined playfield. The game was dubbed bagatelle by the count and shortly after swept through France.
From 1770 to 1850 Bagatelle was just as popular as Billiards throughout England and Britain.
Some French soldiers carried their favorite bagatelle tables...
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Late 19th Century Victorian Antique Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Brass
Oriental Hardwood Square Coffee Table Stand
Located in Bedfordshire, GB
A Very Attractive Late 19th Century, Oriental Hardwood, Chinese Export, Square Coffee Table, Or Pot Stand, Having Panelled Wooden Top Over Elegant Frieze With Pierced & Carved Decora...
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Late 19th Century Chinese Victorian Antique Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Hardwood
Henkel Harris Mid Century Solid Wild Cherry Shaker Style Coffee Table
Located in Clifton Forge, VA
This sweet table is absolutely the best quality, the wood is beautiful, solid and finely crafted. The style is simple with a timeless elegance that will last for many generations. Th...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Cherry
Chic 'Balustre' Blackened Iron and Honed Marble Coffee Table by Design Frères
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Chic 'Balustre' wrought iron and honed Macaubas coffee table by Design Frères.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Art Deco Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Marble, Steel
Rectangle Travertine Coffee or Side Table with Brass, Italy 1980s
Located in Oud Beijerland, NL
Very nice Italian coffee or side table, fabricated in the 1980s.
We found it in a lake-house in Italy.
It is handcrafted out of very beautiful travertine.
On the rectangle plate are...
Category
1980s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Travertine, Brass
Large Bamboo and Wenge Coffee Table by Axel Vervoordt, Belgium
By Axel Vervoordt
Located in Echt, NL
Exceptional large coffee table in very good condition.
Designed and produced by de renowned Belgian decorator Axel Vervoordt in the 1980s.
The table is constructed with a combinati...
Category
20th Century Belgian Japonisme Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Bamboo, Wood, Wenge
Danish Modern Early Finn Juhl Teak Table for France and Daverkosen, 1950s
Located in Belmont, MA
Danish modern early Finn Juhl teak table for France and Daverkosen. An early example of a classic design by the master - Finn Juhl, circa 1950s. N...
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1950s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Teak
Travertine coffee table
Located in PARIS, FR
Rectangular travertine coffee table dating from the 1970s. Good condition.
LP3242
Category
Mid-20th Century Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Travertine
Mid-Century Danish Modern Rosewood Coffee Table, Severin Hansen, Denmark, 1960s
Located in Belmont, MA
Mid-Century Danish Modern Rosewood Coffee Table, Severin Hansen, Denmark, 1960s. This table's design is distinctively Severin Hansen, with its angular legs and clean modern design.
Category
1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Rosewood
Antique and Vintage Coffee Tables for Sale: Shop Mid-Century Coffee Tables, Travertine Coffee Tables and More
As a practical focal point in your living area, antique and vintage coffee tables and cocktail tables are an invaluable addition to any interior.
Low tables that were initially used as tea tables or coffee tables have been around since at least the mid- to late-1800s. Early coffee tables surfaced in Victorian-era England, likely influenced by the use of tea tables in Japanese tea gardens. In the United States, furniture makers worked to introduce low, long tables into their offerings as the popularity of coffee and “coffee breaks” took hold during the late 19th century and early 20th century.
It didn’t take long for coffee tables and cocktail tables to become a design staple and for consumers to recognize their role in entertaining no matter what beverages were being served. Originally, these tables were as simple as they are practical — as high as your sofa and made primarily of wood. In recent years, however, metal, glass and plastics have become popular in coffee tables and cocktail tables, and design hasn’t been restricted to the conventional low profile, either.
Visionary craftspeople such as Paul Evans introduced bold, geometric designs that challenge the traditional idea of what a coffee table can be. The elongated rectangles and wide boxy forms of Evans’s desirable Cityscape coffee table, for example, will meet your needs but undoubtedly prove imposing in your living space.
If you’re shopping for an older coffee table to bring into your home — be it an antique Georgian-style coffee table made of mahogany or walnut with decorative inlays or a classic square mid-century modern piece comprised of rosewood designed by the likes of Ettore Sottsass — there are a few things you should keep in mind.
Both the table itself and what you put on it should align with the overall design of the room, not just by what you think looks fashionable in isolation. According to interior designer Tamara Eaton, the material of your vintage coffee table is something you need to consider. “With a glass coffee table, you also have to think about the surface underneath, like the rug or floor,” she says. “With wood and stone tables, you think about what’s on top.”
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