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Brand/Maker: Baker Furniture Company (manufacturer's label on underside)
Piece Name: Triangle Side Table
Style: Traditional / English Country …
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Quick Hits:
Brand/Maker: Baker Furniture Company (manufacturer's label on underside)
Piece Name: Triangle Side Table
Style: Traditional / English Country / Jacobean-influenced
Materials: Wood with herringbone pattern inlay top; heavily turned barley twist legs; triangular stretcher base
Era: Late 20th Century
Country of Origin: USA
Why We Love It: A herringbone inlay top, barley twist legs, and a triangular stretcher base — Baker at its most confident and ornate, in a form that solves every corner problem you've ever had.
More About This Item:
The barley twist leg is one of furniture design's most theatrical elements — a spiral-turned column that catches light along its spiral ridges and gives a piece an energy that straight legs simply cannot. Baker's deployment of this form on a triangular side table, with heavily turned barley twist legs descending to a matching triangular stretcher base, is a combination of visual
ideas that rewards every angle you look at it from.
But it's the top that delivers the real surprise. A modified triangle with a herringbone pattern inlay — alternating wood grain directions creating that distinctive V-shaped weave — transforms what could have been a plain surface into something genuinely decorative. The craftsmanship required to execute a herringbone inlay correctly, maintaining the pattern cleanly around a non-standard triangular form, is exactly the kind of detail that Baker's late-20th-century production was known for delivering.
Practically, the triangle format solves a specific set of room problems: it fits into corners where round tables leave dead space, it nestles naturally against curved sofas, it works alongside a wing chair in a reading nook where a square table would crowd the arms. Baker's label on the underside confirms the provenance. Everything else — the inlay, the twist, the stretcher, the geometry — confirms the quality.
Design Style:
The barley twist leg has roots in 17th-century Jacobean and William and Mary furniture — a period when the spiral-turned column was one of the defining expressions of craft virtuosity in English and American cabinetmaking. Baker's late-20th-century revival of this element is a knowing nod to that tradition, paired here with the herringbone inlay that connects the piece to the English Country aesthetic: the layered, collected, warmly traditional interior sensibility that mixes antique references with comfortable domesticity.
This table works in English Country rooms, traditional American interiors, eclectic collected spaces, and any setting where a single side table needs to carry significant decorative weight. It's the table that makes design people stop and look.
Brand Legacy:
Baker Furniture's manufacturer's label, found on the underside of this table, is one of the most recognized and respected marks in American furniture. For over a century, Baker produced pieces that set the standard for American residential design — their quality of wood selection, finish work, and joinery consistently above what the market offered at similar price points. Late-20th-century Baker pieces, particularly those with distinctive design elements like herringbone inlay and barley twist legs, are actively sought on the secondary market by designers and collectors who understand what the label represents.
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- Dimensions
- 38.62ʺW × 18.73ʺD × 28.25ʺH
- Table Shape
- Other (unique shapes)
- Period
- Late 20th Century
- Country of Origin
- United States
- Item Type
- Vintage, Antique or Pre-owned
- Materials
- Oak
- Condition
- Good Condition, Original Condition Unaltered, Some Imperfections
- Color
- Brown
- Condition Notes
- This table is in very good condition consistent with age and use. There are very minor scuffs and marks throughout. … moreThis table is in very good condition consistent with age and use. There are very minor scuffs and marks throughout. This tale presents very well and is quite sturdy. less
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