Modern Dining Room 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 The modernists rejected both natural and historical references and relied primarily on industrial materials such as metal, glass, plywood, and, later, plastics.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.
2010s Spanish Modern Dining Room Tables
Concrete, Brass
2010s Turkish Modern Dining Room Tables
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Dining Room Tables
Oak
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Dining Room Tables
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Spanish Modern Dining Room Tables
Walnut
1970s Danish Vintage Modern Dining Room Tables
Steel
1960s American Vintage Modern Dining Room Tables
Steel
2010s Mexican Modern Dining Room Tables
Hardwood, Pine
2010s Modern Dining Room Tables
Bronze
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Dining Room Tables
Statuary Marble, Carrara Marble, Brass
1970s Italian Vintage Modern Dining Room Tables
Metal
2010s American Modern Dining Room Tables
Wood
1970s American Vintage Modern Dining Room Tables
Stainless Steel
2010s Canadian Modern Dining Room Tables
Metal
2010s Croatian Modern Dining Room Tables
Oak
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Dining Room Tables
Wood, Hardwood
2010s American Modern Dining Room Tables
Brass
2010s German Modern Dining Room Tables
Walnut
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Dining Room Tables
Wood, Oak
2010s American Modern Dining Room Tables
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Spanish Modern Dining Room Tables
Walnut
2010s Croatian Modern Dining Room Tables
Marble, Metal
Early 2000s American Modern Dining Room Tables
Glass, Wood
1970s Italian Vintage Modern Dining Room Tables
Steel
2010s Croatian Modern Dining Room Tables
Walnut
2010s Croatian Modern Dining Room Tables
Oak
2010s Croatian Modern Dining Room Tables
Oak
2010s Croatian Modern Dining Room Tables
Ash
2010s Croatian Modern Dining Room Tables
Walnut
2010s Croatian Modern Dining Room Tables
Walnut
21st Century and Contemporary Spanish Modern Dining Room Tables
Walnut
2010s Croatian Modern Dining Room Tables
Marble, Brass
2010s Croatian Modern Dining Room Tables
Marble, Metal
2010s Croatian Modern Dining Room Tables
Marble
2010s Croatian Modern Dining Room Tables
Walnut
1970s American Vintage Modern Dining Room Tables
Parchment Paper
2010s Croatian Modern Dining Room Tables
Ash
2010s Dutch Modern Dining Room Tables
Resin
2010s Croatian Modern Dining Room Tables
Marble
2010s Croatian Modern Dining Room Tables
Marble
2010s Croatian Modern Dining Room Tables
Marble, Brass
2010s Croatian Modern Dining Room Tables
Oak
Early 2000s American Modern Dining Room Tables
Granite, Stainless Steel
2010s Croatian Modern Dining Room Tables
Marble
2010s Croatian Modern Dining Room Tables
Marble
2010s Croatian Modern Dining Room Tables
Marble
2010s Croatian Modern Dining Room Tables
Marble
2010s Croatian Modern Dining Room Tables
Marble
2010s Croatian Modern Dining Room Tables
Marble
2010s Croatian Modern Dining Room Tables
Marble
2010s Croatian Modern Dining Room Tables
Marble
2010s Croatian Modern Dining Room Tables
Marble
21st Century and Contemporary Mexican Modern Dining Room Tables
Iron
2010s Croatian Modern Dining Room Tables
Marble
2010s Croatian Modern Dining Room Tables
Marble
2010s Croatian Modern Dining Room Tables
Marble
Early 2000s American Modern Dining Room Tables
Marble, Stainless Steel
2010s Croatian Modern Dining Room Tables
Marble