Retro Coffee Tables – One is perfect for your room
Living rooms are focused on relaxing or entertaining and typically are centered around one piece of furniture: the coffee table. While people want to reflect their individuality and style in their decor, they often need comfortable and functional furniture in their living rooms. There are many different styles to choose from to obtain the desired look, and when it comes to the living room people often choose an Eileen gray table as a hip alternative.
Modern furniture dates from the art deco twenties to the pop-art seventies, and the term retro typically denotes the innovative forms of the forties through the sixties. The best-known retro furniture can be seen in the forties, fifties, and sixties and no matter the decade one will always recognize the retro style. Identifiably, retro is about the form: clean lines, organic shapes, and modular capabilities. Too, because of the materials that became readily available after WWII, it often incorporates non-traditional materials such as fiberglass and synthetic lacquers.
Retro coffee tables were often designed because families were adopting a more casual atmosphere into their homes. After the war, the interior landscape became more relaxed and people were looking for furniture that was different from their parents’ generation, furniture that utilized new forms and new materials. Luckily, designers understood this and were fortunate enough to have new technology and materials such as plastics, chromium-plated steel and plywood at their disposal. Designers were able to mold these materials into new and interesting forms, and manufacturers were able to mass produce furniture yet still keep them durable.
A classic retro coffee table the Noguchi table with a base of two pieces of sculpted wood pinned together at an angle. Another is by Harvey Probber, called the Nuclear Table, and it is a good example of the casual lifestyle that families desired to incorporate into their homes. Designed as a modular piece, its basic circular form is actually two half circles that can be rearranged into a snake-like form by lining them up, can be stacked on top of one another, or can be put at opposite ends of a sofa. The well-known Tulip Table by Eero Saarinen is another innovative retro design. Its lacquered steel base is a pedestal form and was designed to reduce the “clutter” of legs that typical tables have.
In today’s contemporary furniture one can see inspiration from the classic retro style’s of yesterday. For instance, Paul Frankl’s Big Foot coffee table from the 1940’s, with its amorphic shape, is reminiscent of Zaha Hadid’s futuristic designs. Whoever the owner, a retro coffee table, with its innovative forms and materials, can offer a sleek and elegant, yet fun way to liven up one’s living room.
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