Category: Side table

Nook

The Nook sidetable is an apparently fairly simple and straightforward concept designed by Germany-based Lukas Franciszkiewicz… Yet it questions and challenges our very basic spatial conventions.

We are used to have predetermined beliefs in placing our furniture. My aim was to create an object that demonstrates new ways of dealing with the relation between space and structure. The table correlates with architecture and other pieces of furniture.

Aesthetically minimalistic but intrinsically filled with some form of questioning, however simple it may be, is the motto that frequently informs Franciszkiewicz’s designs, who is focused on research and experimental concepts, dealing with the impact of technology on human perception and behavior, often using fiction as a tool to further present his work.

In a technology-oriented world increasingly filled with products and objects and stuff, I can definitely appreciate this effort in thoughtfulness.

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Dual Cut

Hong Kong born and Canada based designer Kitmen Keung has collaborated with Belgian furniture label Sixinch on their début project, Dual Cut – a modular furniture piece that employs the simplest production processes true to its materials with minimal wastage.

The design features two ergonomically comfortable L-shaped foam blocks and a multi-formation ability to compose a one seater with a side table, a chaise lounge or a corner table. Dual Cut is available in Light Grey and Dark Grey and with a three-layer-system coating, it’s suitable for both indoor and outdoor use.

The designer explains:

Dual Cut was designed with a dedication to Sixinch’s urethane cut technology, which is processed by data without the need of molding. It was an experiment to minimise the production process and material wastage, and more importantly to maximise its function values and flexibility in real life.

Not only does this look good, but it’s an effective and practical way of occupying restricted spaces in the home.

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Oak

This is Oak, the result of an extracurricular, collaborative student workshop at Lund University School of Industrial Design, Sweden. The goal: to explore archetypes and stereotypes in the world of furniture. The group developed a range of independent pieces, but which are actually impressively coherent. Of course it helps that they’re all made from the [...]

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Platta

The idea behind the three-legged Platta side tables was to make a table with as little material as possible, and use that to its advance in terms of aesthetics.

That’s what Antti Pulli says, who designed Platta. Pulli is a Finnish industrial design student at Helsinki’s Aalto University. He adds:

I wanted to leave it simple and minimalist, while stating that sometimes the only decoration needed is color.

The Platta tables may be thin, but are quite sturdy nevertheless. They are made from painted metal with colors that accentuate the simple but interesting form.

Photography by Anne Yli-Ikkelä.

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ECAL

Swiss industrial designer Nicolas le Moigne created ECAL, a stool and side table of fibre cement, a mixture of cement and asbestos cellulose and synthetic fibers. Organically shaped, light of weight and durable, ECAL is perfect as garden furniture, but the stool and side table would look amazing indoor as well.

ECAL was conceived as part of a design contest at the University of Art and Design (ECAL) in Lausanne, Switzerland.

Photography by Thomas Adank.

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Reading Table

German designer Uli Budde combined a magazine rack with a side table, thus creating Reading Table.

I could tell you how it works, but it’s perfectly self-explanatory – which may be the exact reason why I like it so much!

Reading Table comes in two different sizes, and two colours: white and red. I’ll take the white one ;-)

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