Glass Accent Tables

Glass has a clearly magic quality of transforming the use of a sparkling material into a highly functional utilitarian object for everyday use while pleasing the eye.

In the case of glass accent tables, they provide beautiful and practical form following function with the added bonus of avoiding visual clutter. In a room, one is more likely to notice a glass accent table when its used and when bare, adds visual punch when eyes are on it yet never takes away from everything in the room, including space. No other material makes this extraordinary claim.

Glass has both strength and substance while remaining crystal clear or translucent in myriad colors, etched, cut or a plethora of texture or lamination and with various tempering retains its original beauty and resiliance. Glass objects and furniture have been treasured throughout the ages for their style, clarity, vast color and textural variations as part of a design or as a valued aspect of the material itself. Glass has been used to beautify interior spaces from the earliest civilized times and continues today as cutting edge design. No other material so readily takes on the potential of modernity while retaining historically classical traditions from cut glass to polychromatic luster.

Glass remains a valued collectors item and this is the case with glass tables, whether they are accent tables or substantive furniture statements in themselves. Glass accent tables offer a sense of understated quality furnishings other materials cannot consistently match. No matter what the initial cost of a glass table, there is always a market due to the desire for glass in the home whether it is traditional or contemporary in decor.

Accent Tables