Modern Console 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 The modernists rejected both natural and historical references and relied primarily on industrial materials such as metal, glass, plywood, and, later, plastics.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.
21st Century and Contemporary Vietnamese Modern Console Tables
Wood
2010s Italian Modern Console Tables
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Console Tables
Velvet, Birch, Art Glass
2010s Indian Modern Console Tables
Agate, Bronze
21st Century and Contemporary Indian Modern Console Tables
Stone
2010s French Modern Console Tables
Wood
2010s French Modern Console Tables
Wood
2010s French Modern Console Tables
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Console Tables
Lucite
2010s French Modern Console Tables
Wood
2010s South African Modern Console Tables
Copper
2010s Australian Modern Console Tables
Hardwood, Softwood, Lacquer
2010s European Modern Console Tables
Wood, Plywood, Ash
2010s Italian Modern Console Tables
Nutwood, Plywood, Lacquer
2010s Portuguese Modern Console Tables
Wood, Lacquer
2010s Italian Modern Console Tables
Steel
1980s Italian Vintage Modern Console Tables
Chrome
1970s American Vintage Modern Console Tables
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary English Modern Console Tables
Oak
2010s French Modern Console Tables
Wood
2010s Italian Modern Console Tables
Nutwood, Plywood, Lacquer
2010s American Modern Console Tables
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Vietnamese Modern Console Tables
Wood
2010s Indian Modern Console Tables
Stone, Bronze
21st Century and Contemporary French Modern Console Tables
Onyx, Brass
1970s American Vintage Modern Console Tables
Boxwood
2010s French Modern Console Tables
Wood
2010s Italian Modern Console Tables
Nutwood, Plywood, Lacquer
2010s Turkish Modern Console Tables
Marble, Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Console Tables
Wood, Lacquer
2010s Italian Modern Console Tables
Metal
2010s Italian Modern Console Tables
Marble
Late 20th Century North American Modern Console Tables
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Asian Modern Console Tables
Wood
2010s Turkish Modern Console Tables
Marble
1990s French Modern Console Tables
Metal
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Console Tables
Copper
21st Century and Contemporary Asian Modern Console Tables
Marble
2010s Australian Modern Console Tables
Hardwood, Softwood, Lacquer
2010s Indonesian Modern Console Tables
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Console Tables
Glass, Lacquer
2010s North American Modern Console Tables
Marble, Metal
21st Century and Contemporary French Modern Console Tables
Iron
1980s Italian Vintage Modern Console Tables
Aluminum, Iron
2010s American Modern Console Tables
Steel
Late 20th Century American Modern Console Tables
Chrome
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Console Tables
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Asian Modern Console Tables
Metal
2010s Chinese Modern Console Tables
Oak
2010s Portuguese Modern Console Tables
Wood, Lacquer
21st Century and Contemporary Vietnamese Modern Console Tables
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Console Tables
Aluminum
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Console Tables
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Belgian Modern Console Tables
Marble, Steel
1970s Italian Vintage Modern Console Tables
Metal
2010s French Modern Console Tables
Metal, Bronze
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Console Tables
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Console Tables
Steel