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Hub Table Is A Night Stand For All Your Charging Needs

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Over the years, side tables have evolved from a place to hold magazines, picture frames and desk clocks to a mess of wires where you set your phones, tablets and laptops when charging them. The Hub Table is a modern side table designed for tidying up the tangled bundle of wires that result from that. Instead of having a solid slab like most end tables, it comes with a removable top that reveals a generous container space for hiding your [...]

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Toldo Table Features Multiple Layers For Organized Storage

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Tables with built-in organization features, like the Vika Veine and this 1930s French Postal Desk, are always a good thing. At the least, it saves you from having to spend extra time searching out organizers, add-on drawers and a bunch of storage options. Instead of offering built-in cabinets and drawers, the Toldo Table goes another route, using multiple layers to compartmentalize various items on your desk. Designed by Mexico-based Christian Vivanco, the table is inspired by the top-view aesthetic of [...]

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Homework Table With Unusual Gutter Design Looks Useful

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My desk is a mess, littered with books, printouts, stationeries, office supplies, toys, USB accessories, spare cables and all sorts of things that help you get through the workday. While swiping them all off into a box is probably the simplest way to relieve the pile, the Homework Table probably offers something a disorganized dork like myself can better live with. Designed by Tomas Kral, the table features an aluminum gutter along the edges, allowing you to swipe off everything [...]

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Floppytable Brings Retro Storage To Your Living Room

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You had serious hots for that NES Controller Coffee Table. Unfortunately, the fancy gaming-inspired furniture piece didn’t quite fit into your budget, which is why you still have the same cocktail table you traded for an old game console from a dude on Craigslist. Well, here’s another retro tech-themed coffee table you probably can’t afford: the Floppytable. Created by Berlin design firm Neulant van Exel, the living room piece comes with a top styled to look like a 3.5-inch floppy [...]

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Takka Stool Set Features A Height-Adjustable Table

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Height adjustable chairs, especially ones for office use, are plenty common. What we seem to be missing, though, are height-adjustable tables that your kids can use as a play table in the morning and you can use to work on a laptop later in the night. That’s the gap the Takka Stool Set appears to be looking to fill. Designed by Agnieszka Mazur, it’s a three piece set consisting of a small round table and a pair of stools, all [...]

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This Laptop Desk Features A Built-In Sound System

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Do you spend most of the time on a laptop either making or listening to music? Then it should be hard to find a more fitting workstation than the La Boite LD120 Laptop Desk, which integrates a hi-fi sound system right into the table frame. No, these aren’t just desktop speakers slotted into cabinets either — this is a high-quality sound system built into a functional work desk. It’s the kind of table every budding digital producer should have, instead [...]

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Drink Wine While Sitting On This Giant Champagne Cork Stool

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A long time ago in a land far, far away, a giant came down from his home in the heavens bringing a giant crate filled with giant bottles of wine to share with the puny humans in the land down below. They partied, got drunk and got a little rowdy through the course of the night, eventually breaking the bottles and leaving nothing but the corks behind. Those corks have now made their way to the internet and are sold [...]

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Mixtape Coffee Table

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Cassette tapes, along with ghetto blasters and Sony’s Walkman, beautifully represent how people consumed their music in the 80s. So it’s not surprising a lot of today’s designers are incorporating those iconic objects into their creations. This gorgeous Mixtape Table has to be one of the darling examples. Made by Jeff Skierka, it’s a coffee table clad in the iconic form of a cassette tape. And he stays faithful, recreating the old media in detail, complete with fake tape running [...]

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Urban Shelf Is A Temporary Side Table You Can Set Up In Any Bed

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You want a side table for the bedroom. But the last of your card’s credit limit went to that NES Controller Table you impulse-purchased during a drunken haze last week. Don’t worry, your nighttime stash don’t have to be strewn across the floor night after night. You can get a functional side table without an actual side table with the Urban Shelf. A three-panel foldable shelf designed to install by your bed, you simply unfold the whole thing and slip [...]

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Portable Folding Picnic Table Stretches To Hold More People

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You’re shopping for a cool little portable table that you can bring to picnics, campings and afternoons at the beach. And you can’t decide whether to get the big one or the small one. With the Expandable Portable Table, you don’t need to make the choice. Able to go from small to big in a jiffy, the table features an expandable frame that lets you slip in a second tabletop. That way, you can bring both a four-seat and a six-seat [...]

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NES Controller Coffee Table – I Want One

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I’ve seen plenty of coffee tables dolled up like a retro gaming controller. Apparently, many young people who never played with them old consoles find them cool. But we doubt any of those tables we’ve seen before can match up to this NES Controller Coffee Table, which you can actually use to play your favorite 8-bit games of yesteryear. Created by furniture maker Charles Lushear, it’s basically a supersized NES Controller with legs. So big, in fact, that you can [...]

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Man Table Hides A Mini Fridge Behind The Drawers

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What would a side table designed by men for use by men look like? I would have guessed something that integrates an actual table, four breasts and a six-pack of beer. These Man Tables got me right on two out of three. Closed shut and tidied up, the furniture looks just like any finely-finished side table. It’s elegant enough to fit with most any contemporary living room and functional enough to hold a bunch of tabletop pieces. Not manly enough [...]

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Kai Table Hides Multiple Storage Areas With Creative Openings

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At first glance, the Kai Table looks just like a plain wooden coffee table for sitting in the center of your living room. Except with a bunch of rectangular lines etched in irregular patterns all around its boxy dimensions. Get busy on the edges, though, and out flip a bunch of doors, revealing a whole mass of storage spaces built into the deceptive furnishing. Designed by Naoki Hirakoso and Takamitsu Kitahara, it’s a low-standing coffee table and multi-panel storage box. [...]

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House Of Cards Table Looks Ready To Fall Over

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I’ll be honest here. There’s just something special about seeing fake playing cards used as a table’s legs that piques my natural attraction to accidents waiting to happen. Created by Brazilian designer-architect Mauricio Arruda, stability isn’t something to worry about here. According to the designer, the two pyramid-styled playing card legs can actually support up to 550lbs of weight. That means that lard-ass boxer Butterbean can use it as the base of his bed with pillows and a mattress and [...]

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Mark Makers Table Comes With 50 Coats Of Paint So You Can Redesign It

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Decorating a plain table usually involves adding layers of paint on top. The Mark Makers Table, however, does it the other way around, hiding numerous layers of differently-colored paint under the single coat exterior. Built by Ed Swan, the table starts out life in a plain shade of gray. Over use, the top color begins to chip, revealing the swath of colors lying underneath, creating a multi-colored abstract design on your tabletop. The Mark Makers Table has 50 different layers [...]

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Eat Now, Poker Later: The Convertible Dining And Game Table

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Dining table come mealtime, poker table when the boys come over. While that slab of wood on your kitchen probably does the same, it doesn’t exactly do it with the same flair as the Convertible Dining And Game Table, a luxury-drenched dual-function furniture that flips from an enamel top to a felt-covered playing area. It starts out life as a modern fixture for your dining room, complete with mood-lighting for those extra special dinners. Once the family have finished their [...]

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A Coffee Table With Dining Aspirations: The Basic Table

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Too many guests coming for supper? Time to put the Basic Table to work. Don’t worry, we didn’t ask a programmer from 1979 to design our home fixtures – it’s just the name of this awesomely-designed, short-legged coffee table that can shift shape to a full-size dining area. A sly dinner table in disguise, there’s absolutely nothing to clue anyone in that there’s more than a simple coffee table lying in your living room. It’s one part awesome and one [...]

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Piece Your Own Furniture Together With The Jigsaw Puzzle Stool/Table

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Want to turn your living room into a conundrum of tiles? Throw enough of these Jigsaw Puzzle Stool/Table pieces out there and you’ll be in business. On its own, one of these things would make for an odd-looking but functional stool, where you can put your legs up, plop your ass down or stand on top of while cleaning the ceiling with a broom (while wearing your French Maid outfit, of course). Slap a few of them together, though, and [...]

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Picture Table Hides A Desk Behind A Poster Frame

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Want a big table but no room for it? Not a problem with the Picture Table, a large desk that folds into your wall to become an equally-huge display frame. If you don’t need a table, just push it up towards the wall, fold the legs and slip your favorite poster into the slot. No way anyone will think you’ve got anything there except a huge frame showing off your favorite art. Oh, the pizza just arrived? Pull the top [...]

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