11 Creative Designers Reimagining the Coffee Table

The coffee table is a staple in all homes, providing not only an essential centerpiece in our living space but a practical piece of furniture. While the functionality of any furniture design piece is crucial, these designers have reimagined the coffee table creating pieces that allow both beauty and function to thrive together.

Browse through our selection of reinterpreted coffee tables to add an exciting, design-forward furniture piece to your space.

Slide Coffee Table by People’s Industrial Design Office is an Artling exclusive. The sleek unique table boasts a beautiful natural stone base supporting three stainless steel triangular prisms that form the sliding top of the table. The table is configured for a range of interactions and uses that can accommodate larger groups when guests are over. When opened up, the table reveals angled surfaces perfect to prop up books, magazines or your electronic devices.

This Lego Coffee Table by Yusong Zhang offers the young at heart the perfect design piece to add to a space. At first glance, the white exterior of the table alludes to a sleek, modern table. Upon further inspection, the Lego pieces reveal themselves in texture and fun colors. The table is made entirely of 10,480 2x4 Lego pieces with no glue, bolts or screws. The table is composed of 4 colored structural layers of white, red, yellow and green inserted together creating a reinforced structure able to withhold heavyweight.

Levitaz Coffee Table by Isaac Katz captures the elegance of billowing silk frozen in time forever, captivating and inspiring anyone who is in its presence. The eerie stillness and smoothness of its surface is reminiscent of dark and silent waters where the cascade of shimmering bronze falling from the edges adds to its innate liquidity. The table is a result of the luxurious meeting the mysterious, making the piece an enigma.

Taarof Table by Kouros Maghsoudi is an opulent modular cocktail table inspired by Taarof, a Persian tradition of etiquette and generosity. The legs are custom made which can include fruit baskets, a pewter ashtray and a double-walled ice bucket. The table is perfect to host a relaxed night in with friends and family with every corner offering a function needed for any occasion. The artist is constantly inspired by the Persian culture in his designs, adding playful postmodern motifs to encourage people to explore their hedonistic side.

Set No. 5 Table by Musing Selles explores and re-interprets the relationship between form and utility, moving away from expected functionality in everyday furniture. The set aims to create new domestic environments where units are homogenized through physical and visual similarities. The table pieces in the set perform as furniture centred around entertaining. The pieces are carved from wood and finished with gradient metallic car paint where the reflective finish gives the tables a softness by revealing the overall geometries of the form through subtle changes in color.

TC coffee table by Studio ThusThat is part of a collection of pieces made using a variety of techniques with the scientists of KU Leuven to create monolithic black forms of varying scales. The table and the rest of the collection aim to represent a new functional aesthetic appreciation for a material that is an inevitability of our future, as much as it is a trace of our past; alongside industrial era slag heaps that dot the European landscape. The project asks what this future landscape can offer where the monolithic forms echo slag heaps textured by the hand-made process of forming mirroring the molten origins of the material. Each piece is joined with hammered copper surfaces that speak to the long heritage of copper-smithing that has disappeared in the age of copper wires and cables. This piece is not only imaginative in design but sustainable in production.

The Aurora Coffee table by Studio Chacha is part of the Multi-layer Collections where pieces are structured in which a colored film is sandwiched between laminated glass. With the transparency of the glass, the layers create an intermediate layer in one screen, and the glass layer intersects and collides through the overlapping feature of the design. The table appears different depending on how we choose to view it, giving the piece a unique visual experience from every angle.

Fumo Coffee Table by MMario makes a statement with its impeccable craftsmanship and marble. The coffee table regards us and lets itself be regarded, a silent eye that knows how to welcome and bestow. The coffee table has a way of creating its own dominance while allowing the space to feel undisturbed. The brass-plated opening in the table which can be used for functionality contrasts the bright ambience that the marble entails.

Equilibrium Series Coffee/Tea Table by Xinyi Chen focuses on the common ground between Taoist philosophy and sustainability, exploring the balance between nature and humans in modern urban life. To embody the concept of yin and yang in her furniture design, Xinyi Chen seeks harmonious coexistence between lacquer, branches, and abstract geometric forms. The table adds a sense of balance and peace, making it the perfect piece for a contemplative space.

Stacks by Prince and Fox Studio is a functional monument designed during the long global pandemic. The carefully shaped, repetitive stones assembled in commemoration is an ode to the “counting of days” that seem to be the primary activity during these times. The concrete table explores the contemplative practice of stacking as well as shifts assumptions by making the heavy feel light with its whimsical nature. This coffee table functions as a focal point in your living space existing as a moment in history set in stone and a landmark brought indoors.

Megalith Coffee Table, Mirror-Polished Gold & Black finish by Duffy London is brought to life in an array of luxurious, modern finishes. The piece is an eye-catching and illusionary design that makes for a dramatic centrepiece to your living space. The table is inspired by the Arthur C. Clarke book ‘The Sentinel’ which was made into the cult favorite film 2001: A Space Odyssey. The glass plane lays atop six toppling monoliths that appear frozen, in a permanent state of impending collapse. The table is a beautiful, functional piece of playful illusion made through careful design and craftsmanship.

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