Born out of a kind of spontaneous combustion of Art Deco, Modern and Scandinavian styles, Heywood-Wakefield furniture was everyman’s furnishings in the ’40s and ’50s. Young marrieds bought ...

Called “Rio,” it is one of the scarcer of Heywood-Wakefield’s lines. I believe the step back table is from the 1940 “Challenger” line.

Heywood-Wakefield Co. of Gardner, Mass., traces its history back to 1826, but it didn’t start using the name Heywood-Wakefield until 1921, and it began using the eagle trademark in 1946.