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Remember the Watch Diary, yes the very one that pointed out your current chores with a bright red pointer and sheepishly reminded you of ones you missed, plus the upcoming ones? Well the hardbound diary has now been upped to a Whiteboard Cutout. You can plan your daily timetable on its face and maybe even attach pictures using the magnet. I prefer this use-and-rub version. What about you?

Designed by Wonjune Song for Connect Design

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I’m all for quirky design, especially when it’s inspired by something natural or animal. At first I thought this peculiar table, called Office, was feline-inspired- but come to find out, it’s a cow. I can’t say it would be my first choice for a desk, but I do like the clean and simple form. Hmmm… maybe with some refinement Chick-Fil-A would be interested. I hear their cows play tennis too.

Designer: Kevin Krumnikl

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If you really like low profile tables, you’ll love the Lowbay by Han Koning. I’m actually very smitten with how it looks. There’s a simplicity in the design that I love and yet the exposed ridges of the table top lend confidence in the construction because you can see how he bent the layers of wood. It’s a “complex simplicity” if you will. It’s 118×60 in size and technically a limited edition called “white”, although I don’t see anything white about it, except Mr. Koning… and his shirt… and his glasses.

Designer: Han Koning

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The dining table is the hub of family life. With this in mind, the Moon table, inspired by Moon Type (an alternative to Braille), was designed to encourage those who are blind or partially sighted to develop workable systems at the dinner table. Aluminum inlays map the essential paths, intersections, and spheres of use at a dining table. The integration of color and material contrast, edge tracking for navigation, and aluminum feet that provide feedback when approached with a cane, make Moon 100% compliant with standard way-finding methods. An admirable design.

Designers: Jackson McConnell, Alex Stewart, and Monika Wensel, in collaboration with Carey Wright (occupational therapy)

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Not really, but Rubber Table’s plunger-inspired legs will stick onto any flat, clean surface to create a suction vacuum. Shown here in the classic burnt-orange color of its predecessor, this table’s aesthetic is quirky and whimsical. Admittedly, I wasn’t sure if I loved or hated it, but ultimately it’s grown on me. I’m a sucker (no pun intended) for anything that is inspired by familiar fragments; not to mention, anything that looks like it’s crawling toward you. This design pushes functionality to a whole new level.

Designer: Thomas Schnur

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In case my title wasn’t obvious enough, this is the Ant Table by Oliver Nikolic – a modern take on a coffee table that emphasizes simplicity and functionality by using simple materials; wood and glass. Two tabletops at different levels are connected with gently curved legs. Look closely and you may see how it got its name. It’s an ideal compliment to any contemporary living space and every aspect of the design expresses a simplicity that gives it a timless qualitty.

Designer: Oliver Nikolic

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The Exhibi-Table for Library is quite a unique idea, it looks at dividing books and magazines in categories to be exhibited in their own select slot. So basically you can display a lot more books up front and provide space for readers to browse though the collection. I think it will work well in schools and maybe at book exhibitions and stalls.

Designers: Lu Chieh-Hua & Cheng Tzu-Hao

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Would that this table were a time table! Oh, but it is. Partially recycled and partially newly made, this table is but a time table, taken here and there from points in design, oh the frankensteining is immense! Designer Jody Racicot uses rich mahogany (just like Ron Burgundy), teak, and ebony in his works, his works which use this old/new method and have most recently burst forth this magical end table. “I believe it is my obligation to make an object as useful as it is beautiful” he says, wielding bits of furniture like a master craftstman.

In this end table, old chrome steel legs from an elder table are re-used, attached to a newly formed end table that now is more than the sum of its parts without a doubt. Racicot goes on, I love the style of the furniture that surrounded me growing up. I remember our home had a knockoff Arne Jacobsen Egg Chair, an Eames rocker, and lots of chrome.” Truly you can see the influence.

Behold this and the rest of Racicot’s designed collection at his website over at MODERNREVISION. What a rock and roll process!

Designer: Jody Racicot of MODERNREVISION

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The designers at UNStudio, those folks who design football stadiums, have released this lovely weird new table. It’s got a place to sit, right inside of it. It’s called SitTable and it’s designed for PROOFF. Made to make the table more than just a component, instead turning this one piece of furniture into a place to lounge, meet with other people, converse, or just have a nice book reading. Two color combinations for everyone’s pleasure.

It’s a hybrid that offers itself up as a completely singular option for multiple situations, including waiting rooms, office meeting rooms, or if you’re planning on making an awesome funhouse like me, your Dungeons and Dragons room. Dungeon Master gets the head seat!

Materials/dimensions:
SitTable Type 1 (pictured):
tabletop: wood veneer, dark oak A32 – Morado
fabric seat: Divina 462 ( mustard yellow )
frame: steel C3, Anthraciet Grey
l x w x h: 3800 x 1750 x 750mm.

SitTable Type 2 (pictured):
tabletop: white HPL, white veneer
fabric seat: Divina 692 ( purple )
frame: steel C3, Anthraciet Greyl x w x h: 5450 x 1750 x 750mm.

Photography: Roel van Tour & Pim Top

Designer: UNStudio for PROOFF

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Turn your vast collection of table leaf and board fragments into a lovely table miracle with “Grip,” a fabulous new solution by a couple of genius designers working for Bloomming. All it really is is a set of four table legs capable of gripping and screwing down tight onto a piece of wood with a very familiar screw-tight contraption. You can use your own wood or choose from a selection of bamboo boards also available from Bloomming. It’s ecologically responsible!

They’ve got so much bamboo for you! Natural Density, Natural Sidepressed, Caramel Density, Caramel Sidepressed, Caramel Plainpressed, and Sidepressed Thermo. All you could ever want! Change your table top for each day of the week, new guests, or seasons of the year. All carried nice by Grip.

Designer: Bas van Leeuwen & Mireille Meijs for Bloomming

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The first sentence I ever heard the word “Polish” in it was almost certainly a joke. Ever since then, Poles in every single different sect of professionalism including design and food preparation have been proving that first joke wrong. Polish people can make amazing stuff. Such amazing stuff that the old stuff inspires the new stuff. This “Nostalgic Table” is designed by Elad Shpigel, inspired by Polish heritage in his very own family.

This table is made of epoxy and recycled veneers. Such a lovely amount of bent wood for the greatness of all the Poles! Such a slick look – but don’t spill your drink on it!

Designer: Elad Shpigel

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All the way from Italy comes designer Alex Sacchetti with a table. Not just any table, nay, this is a table made of glass and shaped aluminum. Shaped in a unique sort of shape and made to appear at home in any number of aesthetically diverse locations. The transparent glass, both elegant and universally beautiful, is 12mm thick, supported in full by the major structure made out of pure aluminum. Put your monograms on there, your artist books and hardcover magazines.

This table goes by the name “Edgewire” and is not for putting your feet up on. So probably don’t put this in the room where your children run around and crash their heads into the edges of tables. DO put it in your fine local lobby or young adult/non-baby household living room.

Designer: Alex Sacchetti

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If you are planning on being an urban crime fighter but still can’t justify the gas guzzling tendencies of most superhero vehicles, well your ride has (conceptually) arrived. Designer Jean Baptiste Robilliard has rendered up this “CUSTOM BIKE CONCEPT” that would make Bruce Wayne’s attorneys take notice. Jean Baptiste describes it as a “two wheel muscle car”, hiding it’s electrical drivetrain and batteries in the frame. Featuring a FORMULA 1 inspired KINETIC ENERGY RECOVERY SYSTEM (KERS), that essentially coverts your braking into energy.

Originally conceived as a single global design, this customizable creation could be the shape of things to come.

Designer: Jean Baptiste Robilliard

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I love this “plated” table top from Elad Kashi. Although the legs mimic a very well known designer, it’s all about what’s on top. The table surface is actually made of several removable ceramic plates and the idea is each can hold a side dish or condiment. It encourages communal eating and is a great way to divvy up space at the dinner table. I love the last picture. DAMN those people are pigs. Oink!

Designer: Elad Kashi

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Of all the skateboard deck and skateboard sport related furniture I’ve seen in all my years of seeing such things in my line of work, I have never, ever, seen something so wild as this. This is the strangest, wildest, most wacky piece of skateboard furniture I have ever seen. It tops both the categories of skateboard related AND skateboard constructed (meaning there’s skateboard parts included) furniture. Tops. Wild.

This amalgamation is called PigZig 2.0 and it’s meant to be a hallway table. The “over vertical” element (the two big swoops piece) is made of hand fabricated stainless steel. Maple skateboard decks on top, 369 Independent trucks holding 75mm BigZig lime green wheels on the bottom.

Whether you plan on placing some glasses of caffeine-laced soda pop on top or dropping this into a halfpipe with you on top of it, please, PLEASE use nothing but caution. So, so much of it.

Designer: Dan McCabe

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There used to be a time when a calculator was the only gadget at home, but now the scenario includes an entourage of multi-media products that we cant live without. Taking cue from the automotive industry where seamless gadget integration is an integral part of the interior design, Philippe Barsol gives us the @home Coffee Table, which reciprocates the function at home. Blending gadgets into the home decor, this table effortlessly integrates mobilephone, laptop, memory stick, external hard drive, remote controls, cameras etc. within its niche spaces.

The main use of the chest is to bear the weight of a laptop, but also to fit the largest number of peripherals into its lateral drawers. The staggered double hinges enable it to be self-supporting and to raise its position when in use. It then becomes extremely easy to get the computer out when needed, without ever cluttering the table top.

Amazing design that Im sure many of us would want in our homes!

Designer: Philippe Barsol

@home – coffee table from PHILIPPE BARSOL / DESIGNER on Vimeo.

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