Yet they too can reach dizzying heights: in 2005 a design record was set when a glass-topped coffee table from 1949 by visionary Italian designer Carlo Mollino sold for almost $4 million! But fear not, you can find lots more affordable vintage options on Pamono. And for the more discerning collector, we’ve sourced a number of treasures from high-end auteurs, like Willy Rizzo, Gae Aulenti, Mario Bellini, and Alessandro Mendini.Ī living room staple, coffee tables are often considered the gateway into vintage furniture. You can’t go wrong with our catalogue of design icons and the timeless work of Alvar Aalto, Florence Knoll, Charles & Ray Eames, Eero Saarinen, Cassinaand Fritz Hansen, or the many anonymously-designed objects we have in the art deco and industrial styles. Shop this arteriors home meadow antique brass 36 wide coffee table from our top selling Arteriors Home living room tables. As well, we offer an exceptional selection of elegantly sculptural coffee tables by Italian masters like Gio Ponti and Osvaldo Borsani. Many of our best sellers are produced in fine woods with tapered legs and brass-capped feet, especially classic Scandinavian tables in teak and rosewood by masters like Hans Wegner, Cees Braakman, Grete Jalk, Kaare Klint, Kai Kristiansen, Poul Kjærholm, and Børge Mogensen. Pamono’s vintage coffee table collection is specialized in the midcentury modern style, but you can find any number of coffee tables suited to a variety of tastes. Proponents of this low-slung approach, like Bauhaus architect Marcel Breuer and postwar designer Isamu Noguchi, also embraced a more relaxed and informal aesthetic.

It was the 20th-century modernists that really got down with the coffee tables-that is to say, they advocated for furniture of all ilks, from chairs and sofas to tables and storage pieces, to sit much lower to the ground part of a general movement to design for smaller, urban spaces. Though 19th-century tea tables tended to be much higher and less expansive than today’s coffee tables, these original, functional, catch-all surfaces evolved over the next 100-plus years to carry our drinks, coasters, remote controls, books, magazines, and occasionally our feet. Whatever you want to call them, the long, low tables that sit between us and the television began life in the socially casual drawing rooms of Victorian England-hence the titular association with the Queen’s favorite hot beverage.

When is a coffee table not a coffee table? When it’s a tea table! (Or a cocktail table, an occasional table, a multitasking ottoman, and so forth).

Antique brass coffee tables