Scandinavian teak coffee table from the 1950s

Vintage coffee table with teak veneer top and solid beech tapered legs. Essential and well-proportioned design. Scandinavian coffee table from the 1960s with warm-grained teak venee...

Scandinavian teak coffee table produced by Alberts for Tibro, 1950s/60s, with original stamp under the top. Made by Alberts for Tibro, this teak coffee table dates from the 1950s/60...

Scandinavian 1950s coffee table with beech frame and teak top. Geometric lines, screw joints, and magazine holders. Vintage Scandinavian coffee table from the 1950s with beech frame...

Vintage oak coffee table with slatted shelf and lightweight frame. Original product with label Kägers Industrier AB. Scandinavian coffee table for living room from the 1960s made of...

Danish Coffe Table 1960s

Art Deco style table from the mid-20th century. The minimalist design will work perfectly in contemporary interiors. The table is manufactured by Haslev Mobelsnedkeri, the manufactu...

Raro tavolino progettato da Johannes Aasbjerg in teak massello dalla forma affusolata. Grazie alla sua superficie poco profonda, puo' essere posizionato ovunque anche in un corridoio.

From the Annika series. 1950's. Stamped. Patinated wood. As the descendant of four generations of Swedish master cabinetmakers, Bruno Mathsson was born to design furniture. Mathsson was known as a methodical perfectionist who made usefulness the fundamental attribute of his works, yet he was also a ceaseless experimenter, who constantly searched for improvements in form, materials and methods of making. Like the Finnish designer Alvar Aalto, Mathsson was one of the first Scandinavians to embrace undulating, biomorphic forms in furniture. His early pieces such as the Eva and Pernilla series of chairs incorporate dramatically flowing bent beechwood frames, making them some of the most instantly recognizable works of 20th-century design. Mathsson was also a pioneer of ergonomics — he is said to have based the contours of his chairs on the impression his body made when he sat in a snow bank — and used supple, accommodating woven webbing for seats. His concern for practicality is shown by pieces such as the Maria table. An elegant design with gate legs and hinged leaves, the table measures more than nine feet long when fully extended, but folds down to just nine inches in thickness. From the mid-1940s through the 1950s, Mathsson focused on architecture, designing and building houses with insulated, triple-glazed window walls...