Nesting Table Identification  

These are generally being described as guitar pick tables, I believe. Maybe with these words your search finds greater result.

The form en inset panels remind me of Laurids Lonborg items, but can't find something like this between the things they made.

Being walnut it's more likely to be American.

Wedged through tenons in the center of a glue joint is definitely more of an American "exposed joinery as a stylistic element" approach than how it would be done by a woodworker. So yeah, I would look for American makers.

That was almost my first thought, too, leif. Yet they (tables and joinery) remain intact. Imagine that!

I hesitate to knock American mass-manufacturers of the period. Different scale, different rules. And even the Danes made their share of crap. The good stuff always somehow survives. We just still have a lot more of the less good stuff.

They wedged it in the correct direction, so there is that, but I would also ask whether the wedged tenon is real or just an inlay? Arne Hovmand Olsen designed a coffee table with fake wedged through tenons, and I have still not forgiven him.

I guess my point was that while the poster is right that this can be a sign of high quality craftsmanship, it actually tells us right there that it was not done for the sake of craftsmanship but for the sake of the appearance of exposed joinery as a sign of craftsmanship, but not by a craftsman. And that says something about the table.

FWIW, leif, you're probably right that the 'through-tenons' are inlays. I'd guess the the tops are edge-banded and veneered plywood or particle board, too, if that's the case.

'Harvest gold' and 'avocado' were certainly "it" colors ca 1966. At least they were for the high-end kitchen appliances that my parents bought that year.