Furniture

An early photo of the Noguchi table taken by Martin J. Schmidt.

As the brand continutes to grow internationally—they now have stores in New Zealand and Melbourne, Australia—their focus remains local. All pieces, like the Line table and table lamp, both seen here in black, are manufactured by Shelling and his team of artisans in their Clevedon studio.

Cartagena Nesting Tables by BoConcept, $539 from boconcept.com/en-... This tiny trio from BoConcept offers the surface area of three tables for the footprint of one.

840 Stradera table for Cassina, from $3,480 Like the Roman pendulum scale that gives it its name, Franco Albini’s 1954 mixed-media writing table—part of Cassina’s I Maestri collection—is a study in balance.

In the shop finishing table legs for the Canteen Table

The “CPU Table” is from his “Wire Tables” series.

The dining room table transforms into a pool table for recreation.

The Bedrock Plank A dining table by Terry Dwan for Riva1920 is made from solid walnut tree trunks with a raw iron base that maximizes under-the-table leg space. Price available upon request.

The Vanity Table from Magis features rounded corners and either a mirrored or glass surface.

For the Minster Adib Pacha (shown), walnut, glass, and enamel were used to create contrast. "My dad goes over the sketches for the furniture design, and sometimes he laughs. He sits on the mockup chairs and says the armrest needs to be one-fourth inch shorter or tilt the back another degree. He’s always right. He’s also the tie-breaker if Grace and I can’t agree on a specific design,” Sevak says.

The Glass Trestle table "explores the relationship between steel and wood to complement each other in a way that each material is intrinsically weak without the other," Pedersen says. "The wood is clamped between the steel, which in turn holds the structural steel that supports the weight of the glass as it spans. The manufacturing process interests us a lot as the parts are individually cut out and welded together, but the strength only comes when the parts are assembled. We've done a range of sizes for this table, from a small home office desk to a larger boardroom table."

Brad Ascalon teamed up with Juniper to create a table designed from off-the-shelf stock materials. The Peasant Table’s solid brass tubes are available in a range of finishes including oxidized and polished brass, powder coat, and satin nickel.

The B desk’s design spotlights utility and comfort. The two-piece frame loops around the sides and back of the desktop, leaving just enough room for pesky power cords.

The solid oak top of the Moon Table combines with a powder-coated stainless steel frame to create a perfectly functional design. The table’s frame encircles the top with a short, overlapping lip to avoid spills.

Designed with the biomorphic form language of 1950s American design in mind, these playful and sleek Turtle coffee tables feature a powder-coated stainless steel top and solid oak legs.

Jasper Morrison's first pieces for SCP from 1986, reissued for 2014.

Current Table “The future possibilities are endless,” says van Aubel, “from entire libraries, restaurants and meeting rooms. They could all be furnished with these surfaces, allowing people to charge their phones during a meeting or dinner. Utility and aesthetics are combined via the use of solar energy in everyday objects.”

We are all bibliophiles and magazine-philes so Offi’s Embrace Media Table by John Green is perfect for extra storage. $299