Mid-century RWAY Furniture Company Painted Dining Table, Fitted Glass Top

RWAY Furniture Company Painted Dining Table with Fitted Glass Top

Offered for sale is an American mid-century modern painted dining table by the RWAY Furniture Company. The table can be expanded but the leaves are not included. The matching dining chairs are available in a separate listing. The table has a clear glass top which was added by the previous owner when they painted the table. There are no leaves.

Before it became R-Way, the Sheboygan, Wisconsin-based company was known as the Mattoon Manufacturing Company, founded by entrepreneur George B. Mattoon. Mattoon enlisted with the Union Army and fought in the Civil War. In 1865and later worked at his brother’s chair factory in Sheboygan Falls. He established the Mattoon Manufacturing Company in 1881.
After Mattoon died in 1904, the company became Northern Furniture. In 1916, the C. Reiss Coal Company bought the firm, and in 1942, it changed the name to R-Way. Throughout the 1940s and 1950s, R-Way became known for producing high-quality home furnishings.