Modern Side 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 The modernists rejected both natural and historical references and relied primarily on industrial materials such as metal, glass, plywood, and, later, plastics.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 Danish Modern Side Tables
Iron
2010s Danish Modern Side Tables
Iron
2010s German Modern Side Tables
Glass, Wood, Lacquer
2010s Australian Modern Side Tables
Lacquer, Glass
2010s Australian Modern Side Tables
Glass, Lacquer
21st Century and Contemporary Belgian Modern Side Tables
Glass, Blown Glass
20th Century American Modern Side Tables
Steel
2010s Italian Modern Side Tables
Glass, Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Side Tables
Glass
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Side Tables
Glass, Walnut
21st Century and Contemporary Spanish Modern Side Tables
Fiberglass
2010s British Modern Side Tables
Stainless Steel
2010s Italian Modern Side Tables
Metal
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Side Tables
Brass
1980s Italian Vintage Modern Side Tables
Chrome
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Side Tables
Wood, Leather
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Side Tables
Gold, Gold Plate
21st Century and Contemporary French Modern Side Tables
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary German Modern Side Tables
Glass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Side Tables
Steel
2010s German Modern Side Tables
Granite, Stainless Steel
2010s Polish Modern Side Tables
Other
21st Century and Contemporary German Modern Side Tables
Glass
21st Century and Contemporary German Modern Side Tables
Glass
2010s British Modern Side Tables
Stainless Steel
2010s Italian Modern Side Tables
Glass, Ceramic
2010s British Modern Side Tables
Stainless Steel
2010s German Modern Side Tables
Glass, Wood, Lacquer
2010s German Modern Side Tables
Glass, Wood, Lacquer
2010s American Modern Side Tables
Metal
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Side Tables
Iron
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Side Tables
Marble, Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Side Tables
Metal
21st Century and Contemporary Spanish Modern Side Tables
Fiberglass, Glass, Wood
2010s Italian Modern Side Tables
Marble, Steel
21st Century and Contemporary German Modern Side Tables
Blown Glass
2010s American Modern Side Tables
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Side Tables
Nickel
21st Century and Contemporary Mexican Modern Side Tables
Glass
2010s German Modern Side Tables
Glass
1980s American Vintage Modern Side Tables
Metal
2010s Italian Modern Side Tables
Glass, Wood
2010s Italian Modern Side Tables
Marble, Metal
2010s German Modern Side Tables
Glass
21st Century and Contemporary German Modern Side Tables
Glass
2010s German Modern Side Tables
Glass
21st Century and Contemporary Spanish Modern Side Tables
Fiberglass
2010s Italian Modern Side Tables
Marble, Brass
2010s American Modern Side Tables
Cotton, Mirror, Epoxy Resin
21st Century and Contemporary Spanish Modern Side Tables
Fiberglass
2010s Italian Modern Side Tables
Marble, Steel
Late 20th Century Modern Side Tables
Glass, Wood
21st Century and Contemporary German Modern Side Tables
Blown Glass
2010s Spanish Modern Side Tables
Iron
1990s Italian Modern Side Tables
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Side Tables
Steel, Aluminum
2010s Portuguese Modern Side Tables
Marble
2010s Greek Modern Side Tables
Marble