Design Coffee Tables: The Going Rate, from Noguchi to the Platner

The coffee table is the piece of furniture we change most often and choose most poorly. Here is its going rate in 2026, from Italian marble to anonymous smoked glass, in broad ranges.

The monuments

The Noguchi (1947), which we have scanned: around £2,500 new at Vitra, more for an older Herman Miller. The Platner (Knoll, 1966), a sheaf of nickel-plated steel rods: between £2,500 and £4,000 new, hardly less second-hand. Saarinen's low Tulip: between £1,500 and £3,000 depending on the top. Mangiarotti's Eros (Skipper, 1971), marble slotted together without screws or glue: between £3,000 and £8,000 for a period piece, the Agapecasa reissue higher still. Willy Rizzo's tables from the 1970s, travertine, brass and steel: between £2,000 and £6,000.

The contemporaries already in demand

Sebastian Herkner's Bell Table (ClassiCon, 2012), blown glass and a brass top: between £1,500 and £3,000. Barber Osgerby's Tobi-Ishi (B&B Italia, 2013), a pebble set on two feet: above £3,000. Both resell without any dramatic loss.

Where the market still breathes

Unsigned 1970s travertine, between £300 and £800: the material does all the work. Smoked-glass tops on chromed bases, between £150 and £500. Nesting tables, in wood or lacquered metal, between £100 and £400 for a set of three. A heavy marble top on an anonymous base is often worth more than a name.

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