Category: Coffee table

Vic

Viña del Mar based design studio Elemento Diseño (Jaime Zuñiga and Emmanuel Gonzalez) have created Vic – a minimal coffee table for Quattria – a Barcelona based design company of contemporary furniture, who’s focus is developing the ideas of young designers.

Made from plywood and lacquered in white, the Vic coffee table, comprising of just three pieces, is assembled without any tools and would literally take seconds for one to do so. Vic measures 1150 x 700 x 402 mm, and is described by Quattria:

Environmental performance is the best definition of this coffee table. In manufacturing there are few losses so that all parts are utilised to build a harmonious whole.

Functional and practical with an attractive simplicity.

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KINK

Osko+Deichmann, the product design studio founded by Blasius Osko and Oliver Deichmann, created a minimalist family of tubular steel furniture named “KINK”. While normally tubing used in furniture is bent the Berlin design duo rather functionally folded, dented and kinked the tubes in their furniture pieces. The traces that come with the steel process are now integral to the furniture’s design.

The family consists of a table, chair, writing table, cantilever chair, sideboard, shelf, coffee table and floor lamp made exclusively of tubular steel, pine wood and clamps.

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Tray

Tray is the new coffee table collection by Spanish design studio Estudi Arola for furniture company Kendo.

The collection is constructed around a central concept: a matt lacquer metal base is combined with mobile trays. These trays, available in a matt lacquer metal or walnut finish, allow you to personalize the object and add a fine touch of color.

Kendo has been somewhat struggling with its brand image, but Tray might well be the start of a fresh future. We’ll see!

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Silva/Bradshaw

Without friends where would we be? My good friend Sonia of Area22 dropped us a line about Silva/Bradshaw, a small design studio based in Brooklyn, New York. Apparently, they have something good to offer – and yes they do!

Silva/Bradshaw, founded in 2010, is the combination of Sergio Silva and Matthew Bradshaw. Their portfolio spans furniture, jewelry and industrial design – and they’re also working on the design and branding of a restaurant.

As wide as their focus is, I’m impressed by the elegance and freshness of throughout their work. It’s just a pleasure to look at, isn’t it?!

(Pssst, they actually sell their jewelry online – and it’s quite affordable!)

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Dolphin

Dolphin is the new collection by Curve Ahead, Javier Palomares‘s design studio in California, USA.

The Dolphin collection spans two side tables and a coffee table. As the name suggests, the design is inspired by the anatomy of a dolphin.

The pieces are made of glaciar white Corian top with a powder coated steel frame. I like the elegant and sleek result, but above all, I like the subtlety of the shapes and details. The excellent manufacturing makes the result perfect.

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Impact

Gautier Pelegrin and Vincent Taïani are two Frech designers who work together under the flag of Noon Studio. Noon Studio is based in London, U.K. and Avignon, France.

The designers teamed up with Arkheia, which is the commercial exponent of LERM, the French Laboratory for Material Research and Study. Arkheia developed a quick setting concrete in an attempt to elevate the material to a nobler rank.

The result: Impact, a coffee table with a concrete top shaped into a bowl. The bowl could be used to hold books, but just as well as a fish tank – wouldn’t that be a conversation piece?

If you happen to be in Paris at the moment, do stop by at the Maison & Objet exhibition. Noon Objects have a stand (D46) with Impact on display.

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REK coffee table

I love the timeless design of the REK coffee table by Rotterdam-based designer Reinier de Jong, who works on both architectural and product design. The table is a brother of the acclaimed REK bookcase.

By easily sliding out the inner parts, you create extra table surface for guests or just to create some extra storage space.

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Blox

I myself am a pretty hardcore minimalist in my taste for furniture. I’m a sucker for that rational minimalism, where even the variation in an object’s proportions is brought down to the minimum. And so, cubes appeal to me.

Consider the Blox Cube. Doesn’t it remind you of our godfather Donald Judd’s cubes?

And then there’s its big brother, Blox Bench. Don’t put this against a wall, but in the middle of the room. Of course without piles of stuff on it!

(Before you continue to the rest of the images, please be warned: the mood shots are *really* tacky…)

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Coffee table 20

The work of designer Ronald Knol, from Dutch furniture studio RKNL, is characterized by clean lines combined with soft curves. The elegant Coffee table 20 is a good example of this.

The coffee table consists of two discs, of which the upper one seems to float. The space between the discs is offers a huge amount of storage room, so the table top itself can stay clutter free.

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