Modern Icons: Eileen Gray Side Table
Adjustable, Streamlined and Portable, This '20s Classic Gets Along With All
If you've ever watched a high-end staging show, you probably had a hard time avoiding an Eileen Gray side table. This modern icon was designed in 1927, but this sexy octogenarian looks like she could have been designed yesterday. She's a petite side table whose glass top and chrome structure make her extremely versatile. She's the life of the party. Check her out:
Here the Eileen Gray Side Table makes some cocktail party chatter with an Arco Lamp.
She also likes to ask her pal Wassily to the party...
...as well as her buddy Mr. Orange Swan Chair.
She sidles right up to an eclectic lavender sofa...
Here the table fits right into a Victorian's foyer, along with her pals, the Fortuny light and a Corbusier chair.
Sometimes she slips away for an intimate conversation with a slick leather and chrome chair.
Sometimes she trades in the martinis for tulips.
She loves to sit and enjoy a Miami penthouse view.
She also loves to curl up by a warm hearth.
She plays nice with other circles as well as squares.
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Best of all, she's very portable, so you can keep her close and keep your cocktail within arm's reach.
Tip: Stylish side tables in living room sections of retail sites can make smashing nightstands, too. This table in particular is a great space saver, both visually, because of its clear top, and physically, because it only has two slender posts up the side.