Art Deco Console Table Ideas

A mirrored top doubles every lamp in the hall, and by the second week it doubles every fingerprint as well. Mirrored, gold and black are the words people reach for before they think about depth or the face of the piece. The period itself cared more about line than about glitter. Wikipedia traces the name to the 1925 Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes in Paris, and its account of the furniture keeps returning to lacquer, exotic veneers and shagreen rather than glass. So read the profile first and ration the shine afterwards. Our wider run of art deco furniture is a good place to train the eye on edges.

Hip height, four ways: an art deco console table gallery

The first entry look puts a 47 inch black iron console with a bronze cast aluminum top against the side wall, a dark bronze and gold oval mirror above it, and a rectangular iron coffee table in the room beyond repeating the same metal. Nothing on the console is mirrored, and that restraint is why the oval gets to be the event. In afternoon light the layered brass frame catches the door; after dark only the rim glows and the glass turns deep and still. For more arrival walls built this way, our entryway console table ideas follow the same logic across other styles.

Art deco console table inspiration from the back of a sofa

In the dining room look a 60 inch reeded console stands behind a floating sofa and draws the line between sitting and eating. Reeding is the quiet deco signature, vertical grooves that turn a flat front into a run of small shadows, and it pays off exactly here, where people brush past it all evening. Keep the depth shallow and measure the walk before you measure the table: I want roughly 36 inches clear between the console face and a dining chair pulled out to sit. That is what narrow console tables are for.

When the console stretches into a media wall

The living room look takes the idea to 98 inches, a brown wood media console with storage, low enough that the white metal wall panel above it has air around it, with a two-tier dark oak coffee table echoing the horizontal. Deco loved the long low line of an ocean liner, and a media wall is the one place most rooms can still afford that proportion. The catch is cable clutter, which ruins a geometric front faster than any finish. Doors and drawers matter more than the hardware here, so if the television lives on top, start with the console tables with storage.

A credenza doing a console's job

The other entry look borrows a credenza, the 79 inch Phoenix, under a three-panel gold abstract with a pale onyx globe floating to one side. It is deeper than most halls allow, and it only works because the entry is wide enough to take it without crowding the door swing. The arrangement is simple arithmetic: a low bar of figured wood, a triptych stacked above it, a single sphere to interrupt the symmetry. The art deco entryway furniture collection carries the benches, mirrors and lamps that finish that wall.

Mirrored, gold, or the grain doing the work

Mirrored and gold leaf consoles have their place, usually a dim hall where the reflection hands a dark corner a second light source. The mistake is hanging a wall mirror over one. Glass facing glass multiplies each bulb into a corridor of hot points, and the effect stops reading as the period and starts reading as a hotel elevator. Every one of the art deco console table pictures above goes the other way: wood, iron or stone, with brass held to a frame, a rim or a foot. Reeded, faceted and crenellated fronts also age better than shine, because they work through shadow, and shadow does not show dust. The rest of the Dark Luxury Lookbook leans on that same preference for depth over gleam.

If you are saving art deco console table photos for a whole house rather than a single wall, note the depth and the front of each one, not just the color. The art deco interior design ideas page shows how that geometry travels into living rooms, bedrooms and baths once the hall is settled.

Whatever you shortlist, judge it after dark. Put a lamp on the top, switch off the overhead, and look at the front from the doorway. If the edges still read and the surface holds one soft pool of light rather than a glare, the piece belongs. That single test will thin a long list of art deco console table ideas faster than any finish swatch.