Vintage Sliding Top Coffee Table

At 1stDibs, there are many versions of the ideal vintage sliding top coffee table for your home. Each vintage sliding top coffee table for sale was constructed with extraordinary care, often using metal, wood and brass. Find 152 options for an antique or vintage vintage sliding top coffee table now, or shop our selection of 25 modern versions for a more contemporary example of this long-cherished piece. Your living room may not be complete without a vintage sliding top coffee table — find older editions for sale from the 20th Century and newer versions made as recently as the 21st Century. A vintage sliding top coffee table is a generally popular piece of furniture, but those created in mid-century modern, Hollywood Regency and Art Deco styles are sought with frequency. A well-made vintage sliding top coffee table has long been a part of the offerings for many furniture designers and manufacturers, but those produced by Maison Jansen, R Y Augousti and Eric Maville are consistently popular.

A vintage sliding top coffee table can differ in price owing to various characteristics — the average selling price 1stDibs is $2,642, while the lowest priced sells for $149 and the highest can go for as much as $95,000.

As a practical focal point in your living area, antique and vintage coffee tables and cocktail tables are an invaluable addition to any interior.

Low tables that were initially used as tea tables or coffee tables have been around since at least the mid- to late-1800s. Early coffee tables surfaced in Victorian-era England, likely influenced by the use of tea tables in Japanese tea gardens. In the United States, furniture makers worked to introduce low, long tables into their offerings as the popularity of coffee and “coffee breaks” took hold during the late 19th century and early 20th century.

It didn’t take long for coffee tables and cocktail tables to become a design staple and for consumers to recognize their role in entertaining no matter what beverages were being served. Originally, these tables were as simple as they are practical — as high as your sofa and made primarily of wood. In recent years, however, metal, glass and plastics have become popular in coffee tables and cocktail tables, and design hasn’t been restricted to the conventional low profile, either.

Visionary craftspeople such as Paul Evans introduced bold, geometric designs that challenge the traditional idea of what a coffee table can be. The elongated rectangles and wide boxy forms of Evans’s desirable Cityscape coffee table, for example, will meet your needs but undoubtedly prove imposing in your living space.

If you’re shopping for an older coffee table to bring into your home — be it an antique Georgian-style coffee table made of mahogany or walnut with decorative inlays or a classic square mid-century modern piece comprised of rosewood designed by the likes of Ettore Sottsass — there are a few things you should keep in mind.

Both the table itself and what you put on it should align with the overall design of the room, not just by what you think looks fashionable in isolation. According to interior designer Tamara Eaton, the material of your vintage coffee table is something you need to consider. “With a glass coffee table, you also have to think about the surface underneath, like the rug or floor,” she says. “With wood and stone tables, you think about what’s on top.”

Find the perfect centerpiece for any room, no matter what your personal furniture style on 1stDibs — shop Art Deco coffee tables, travertine coffee tables and other antique and vintage coffee tables and cocktail tables today.