20 Uniquely Beautiful Coffee Tables

A unique coffee table can be an effective focal point for any living space. When you are able to choose one that is well crafted, it can even inspire the decor around it to a high level. The tables included in this post are high quality and entirely unique, making them a bold choice for anyone looking for something more than a place to put their coffee.

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The amazing design here uses wood and class to create a coffee table that mimics real life topography.

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Another table that takes its inspiration from nature. The way the table is cut, it almost appears as if a puddle of clear blue water is suspended in the piece.

3 | Designer: Dahle Hulma

Bringing elements of nature into the home can make things feel brighter, bigger, and healthier. This coffee table, featuring a built in bonsai tree, has its own zen aura about itself, as well.

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The living room can be a space where both children and adults gather. By turning a useful, modern coffee table into an element that doubles as a doll house for the children, design needn’t be compromised for the sake of the kids.

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This minimalist white table is low to the ground and magnificently simple. The hidden crevasse for books and magazines gives it a practical flair as well.

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This is a truly designer coffee table. Gold enamel balloons look like they are keeping the clear glass tabletop afloat for a luxurious – and whimsical – effect.

7 | Designer: Faye Toogood

Another table that uses unique shapes as its stabilizing element, this glass topped table is like a piece of practical modern art.

8 | Source: West Elm

This simple pebble coffee table design from West Elm stands out because its round design means that it could easily double as an ottoman or even a small seat.

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What better way to reconnect with nature than by growing your own terrarium? And what better way to house that terrarium than in your coffee table? Guests will be in awe — you’ll never lack for a conversation starter with this in your living room.

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Another example of marrying coffee tables with trees is this white table with a built in planter. Any type of indoor plant could fit and thrive in this table.

11 | Designer: Verdi Profolio

Bringing in elements of nature is one thing, but this coffee table is nature itself. With a mossy growth underneath the glass tabletop, this look is incredibly unique and very eco-friendly.

12 | Source: DesignBoom

This world aquarium is ripe for a coffee table adaptation.

13 | Via: Heim Elich

Not every home is equipped with a fireplace, but you can still enjoy the luxury of a roaring fire with this unique coffee table.

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This deceptively simple design leaves plenty of space for entertaining comfortable and for storing reading materials.

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Or create your own custom coffee table message, like this unique option that just says SHAZAM

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In a design that looks a bit similar to the Shazam table, this unique stone creation has many little crevices and nooks for books and magazines.

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If nature is not quite your thing, bring the supernatural through the door with this coffee table perched on a dragon’s back.

18 | Via: David Maloney

Don’t hide away your inner nerd. Let it shine bright with this computer circuitry coffee table.

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The Lycoming R680 9 Cylinder Radial Engine Table is a perfect gift for a motorhead.

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And for those homes that need a beautiful coffee table but are not quite ready for the unique designs of some other on this list, this large wooden table fits the bill.

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11 Modern Minimalist Computer Desks

Recently I set out to find a new desk for my computer to rest on and came across a lot of ideas that I thought were worthy enough to share. Actually the search was tough. I mean, I know there would be a lot of people out there who would be happy with huge desks that house a nook for every peripheral… (like the one below)



…but somehow they just don’t work for me. Design wise, I am more of the minimalist so naturally the ones I tend to like also favour this type of style. These minimalist computer desks we are going to feature are light weight, easy on the eyes and most of them are as sleek as the technology they are designed to hold.

OneLessDesk from Heckler Designs has a 2 deck design and takes up merely 12 inches of space when put away. The company’s pitch for the product actually sounds convincing.

At one time, you needed a desk that could fit a mountain of paper, a two-foot-deep monitor, printer, and a CPU the size of a Labrador. Today, your computer is an inch thick. You have moved forward. It’s time your desk caught up.

If you normally tend to work on a laptop, this floating Ledge desk from Urban Case might be all you need.



Milk‘s computer desk is another minimalist desk concept that is defined by clean lines and in-built compartments for hardware and fish tank!







The Airia Desk From Herman Miller is the latest example of the design giant’s genius. The desk is sleekly modernized version of a drafting table, giving you storage with style.



The Signalement Desk designed by Germany’s Peter Petersen as part of his Tank Collection, and is made entirely of medium density fiberboard and looks like something from the future.





If you are the kind who gets easily distracted, you would love the ReWrite desk by GamFratesi. The half cubicle-half egg design would help you get work done!





The iDesk is as sleek as any iMac, making it a great décor compliment to your computer.





MisoSoup Design’s K Workstation looks like a single piece of material mounted to a wall to provide a workspace, storage and overhead shelving with the aesthetic fluidity of a noodle.





The VU.VU.VU desk by Emmemobili appears to nearly levitate, while providing space for a PC, keyboard and accouterments.



The XYZ desk offers something revolutionary – it integrates the computer right into the desk.



Another computer-desk integration concept. But this Sync Desktop by Gareth Battensby allows you to fold in the monitor too.

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12 Extraordinary Table Designs

Sometime back, we featured a story before about some rather unusual bookshelves but this time the spotlight is on tables. Product designers are never happy with the normal 4 legs-1 flat top tables. They want to experiment. And sometimes, experiments lead to amazing results:



Marta Antoszkiewicz calls it the Bulb chair. It is functional when in use and pretty when set aside and it saves a lot of place.



Kitchenette shown above is another one of Marta’s ideas.



Wish you could turn your tables into chairs? With this design by Joel Hesselgren, well, you can!



Here is one of our favourite pieces of furniture. An example of truly innovative and brilliant design. Made by DB Fletcher.

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Another concept in space saving furniture design.



Wish you had a fireplace? No problem, take a look at this coffee table from Planika Fires. Eco-friendly and safe to use this table is made of natural veneer wenge and covered with the polyurethane varnish for increased durability, making it resistant to water, alcohol and high temperatures. Need more ideas for fireplaces and mantelpieces? Check our article: Fireplace mantels and surrounds



Kids floating paperplanes everywhere? Your turn to get back. Bring the paperplane table to your living room. Designed by irish designer Lorraine Brennan.

Think you have seen it all? Are you sure? Take a look at the NES controller table by Kyle Downes



And here is a video on how you operate it:



Apple has definitely had its inspiraton on tables.


iPod Table by Ashley Burrows




iPhone Table by Tuan Nguyen

And here’s Microsoft bringing some technology to the table with its ‘Surface’





More technology. Here is another tech table that just might come in handy for your bar. iBar is a system for the interactive design of any bar-counter. Integrated video-projectors can project any content on the milky bar-surface. The intelligent tracking system of iBar detects all objects touching the surface. This input is used to let the projected content interact dynamically with the movements on the counter. Objects can be illuminated at their position or virtual objects can be “touched” with the fingers.



Do you love interior design inspiration. Check this video on interior design then.

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10 Strange Table Designs

When we first saw these strange tables, we wondered how folks actually came up with this freakishly awesome stuff. Whether the ideas were born out of a basic need or simply aesthetically fascinating, these tables are making a statement that we couldn’t pass up showing off.

Below are a host of radically unique and multi-functional tables that some really inventive characters decided to place on the market. Not only are they stylish and modern but very strange- and we think that is the best part about them…

Walking Table designed by Wouter Scheubin.The table really does walk by itself when triggered…but how aesthetically practical is this table with all the mechanics hiding under it?

There is an eastern belief that small changes in an individual’s life can affect the society at large through a ‘ripple’ effect. This is designer Jeonghwa Seo & Hanna Chung’s way of bringing this idea to the table.







Join two pieces of the jig saw puzzle to make this into a table.

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For all you video game freaks, we introduce to you The Playstation Controller Coffee Table, by Mark M.
This unique coffee table was made with plywood, MDF, veneer on veneer by a student on his down time!



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This levitating cube table has 64 cubes none of which touch each other or the floor! Surprising what magnetism and some good old steel cable can do!





“Brag” Diamond Cut Coffee Table made out of Corian…Looks as though defying gravity, it’s balanced with the tip on it’s base!




Designer Nenad Kostadinov created the Curved table with rotating drawers!




A traveling Picnic Table, it doesn’t get any cleverer than this….


And for those of you who have a variety of height within your family tree…this table is good for drafting and adjusts to your height. Just be careful not to place anything spill-able on top!


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Delicious Dining Room Schemes

If you are looking for dining room inspiration, then this cherry picked lot from a myriad of tasty portfolios should get your creative juices well and truly flowing.

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Via ArchCG Studio
An unusual angular suite creates instant visual impact without need for attention grabbing colors.

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Via Andrey Golubev
This cozy blue and white country look is a sweet scheme full of charm and understated style. Slightly mismatched wood tones in the surrounding furniture continues the laid-back look, appearing as though the room has evolved over time and the trials and tribulations of everyday family life, rather than being coldly contrived.

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The metallic finish of these dining chairs is an unexpected choice, but one that gives a sharp contemporary edge to the soft wood tones of the rest of the scheme.

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Above 2 via Roman Shepeta

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Via Geeduubraak
A cluster of different shaped pendant lights gathered over a dining table creates a perfect focal point in any style scheme.

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Via Artem Oganayn
Consider contrasting the color of your dining chairs to the color of your dining table for a slightly eclectic effect.

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Via Franky Winata
A tight color thread running through both a dining suite and adjacent units results in a highly stylized and cohesive look. Keep any culinary accessories that are not perfectly matching well hidden so as not to disturb the strictly two-tone balance.

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Via uwork

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Via N Studio

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Via Bogdan Stancu

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