Giorgio Armani designed the Jingo table for Armani Casa with a top of emerald-green quartzite stone—an elegant material marked by its burgundy-streaked, mint-green hue.
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By Tiffany Jow January 05, 2018
Brazilian brand Artefacto, which is celebrating its 15th anniversary in the U.S. this year, created this Oro II table as part of the festivities. It’s available in a rose or polished-gold finish.
Dutch designer Xavier Dohr’s Kitale dining table, available at Avenue Road, is sculpted from solid French oak to form its top and frame.
The stately presence of Italian architect Antonio Citterio’s Eucalipto storage unit for B&B Italia is achieved with its bronze frame and eucalyptus frisée wood doors and drawers.
Equally at home in the dining room or on the patio, Ben Barber’s glass-topped, aluminum Ellipse dining table artfully combines spheres and circles to create its profile.
Poul Kjærholm created the PK52 Professor desk in 1955 as one in a series of objects for the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. Now part of Carl Hansen & Søn’s collection, this version features a reversible gray-and-black laminate top and lacquered frame.
Created in 1985 by French designer Charlotte Perriand to accompany a retrospective of her work at the Musée des Arts-Décoratifs, the lacquered-wood Accordo Low table was put into production by Cassina in 2009. Three new colors, shown here, were introduced this year.
Neuland Industriedesign’s Eva Paster and Michael Geldmacher take their lacquered-wood Random bookcase for MDF Italia to new heights this year with two additional sizes and a fresh range of colors.
Available at Design Within Reach, Italian designer Francesco Rota’s Jey table carries a sustainable secret: Its top is made from made from repurposed Fenix plastic.
Part of Jasper Morrison’s 1 Inch collection for Emeco, this bar table is a nod to the American brand’s deep mastery of recycled aluminum.
Topped with a removable metal tray, Flexform’s Cabaré table has a solid wood frame that’s available in various materials, including Canaletto ash, teak, ebony, and walnut.
To mark the 60th anniversary of Arne Jacobsen’s Grand Prix table, Fritz Hansen relaunched the elegant beech piece with subtly improved construction that doesn’t stray from its original design.
Patricia Urquiola’s aptly named Liquefy series of tables for Glas Italia is made of extra-light tempered glass, which gives the piece a marble-like appearance that changes when viewed from different angles.
Keen to make a chest of drawers that could take center stage, French designer Marie Christine Dorner created the wood Entrèves dresser for Ligne Roset. A “left” and “right” version of the chest can be pushed together to form a whole, as shown here.
The Inverted Gravity buffet showcases French designer Mathieu Lehanneur’s technical expertise, as its marble top appears to float atop its glass base.
Inspired by the shape of tree trunks, the Lou dining table was created for Minotti by French designer Christophe Delcourt, who sandwiched an amber-colored film between two sheets of laminated glass to form its top.
A single wood panel, meticulously folded like origami to create multiple modules, forms each stacked drawer of Ron Gilad’s Teorema shelving unit for Molteni & C.
Marcel Wanders based the design of his Moooi’s oak Woody table on the shape of an apprehensive deer. Look closely to spot a tiny metallic eye at its top.
Part of Paul Cocksedge’s five-piece “Excavation: Evicted” series, this shelving unit is made from material taken from the designer’s London studio after property development pushed him out of the space.
The Icon suite of tables, created by Phase Design founder Reza Feiz, includes this striking dining table, which makes a statement with its Nero Marquina marble top and brass-and-steel base.
An entertainer’s secret weapon, this elm Theca cocktail sideboard from Poliform was also designed by Marcel Wanders. Its customizable drawers, cabinets, and glass shelving adapt as your glassware collection grows.
Using matte-lacquered sheet metal and fabric-and-leather upholstery, designer Dmitry Kozinenko created these off-kilter Coin end tables for Roche Bobois.
French designer Ionna Vautrin’s Pion Petra table for Sancal takes a cue from chess pieces, whose shapes are referenced in its lacquered base.
Produced as a limited edition of 13, the blackened ash-and-stone Missiquoi 01 table incorporates found stone from Canada’s Missisquoi river valley, where designer Simon Johns’s studio is located.
First unveiled in 1945 by Jean Prouvé, the Flavigny table was reintroduced by Vitra earlier this year in three materials: oak, American walnut, and smoked solid oak.
Complete with copper and leather details, the whitewashed-ash Pacific Armoire from Brooklyn-based Volk Furniture was conceived as a contemporary nod to classical architecture, as apparent in the arches of its doors.
