This trio of midcentury side tables is really rather special in our view. With a bench-like design, the larger, plank table houses two small, square tables underneath. The table tops are darker, finished with a richly grained walnut veneer on thick ply with a bevelled edge, and the base and splayed legs are blond beech. With a minimalist look that’s both of its time and contemporary, the quality of materials, the build and the design is of the highest quality. We’ve found it hard to definitively attribute them (there is sadly no maker’s mark) but looking at the key features and construction, we strongly believe them to have been designed by Peter Hayward, most likely for Vanson. Not only did he work a lot with walnut veneer and ply but the unusual cut / angles of the wood on the inside of the legs is a key feature of his. And to this end, it would date the table set to the late 1950s / early 1960s.
