Confused by the perplexing object in the picture? Well, don’t be as this imaginative piece of furniture is a modern take on the ubiquitous coffee table. Designed by Haldane Martin of Cape Town, South Africa, this Polyhedra Modular Coffee Table will become the centre piece of any dynamic space and will grab eye-balls instantly. The modish design has been inspired by the images of human bones when seen by the  electron microscopes and also the  Weaire-Phelan structure.

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The Polyhedra Modular Coffee Table

Add a contemporary touch in your decor by purchasing the Eastvold Classic Coffee Table. This chic coffee table may have a Scandinavian vibe to it, but it is homegrown and is made in the USA. In fact, Eastvold is a company based out of Minnesota and only uses  ethically harvested lumber in the construction of their furniture.  The coffee table has a mid century feel and has a nifty storage option as well. The Eastvold Classic Coffee Table can be purchased from Design Public for $767.00.

The Eastvold Classic Coffee Table

Light Box Multi-Functional Furniture by GUS

Cubico is a multi-functional piece of furniture that can be used in a number of ways and is a nifty thing to have around, especially for those who want to save space. The contemporary furniture piece has been designed by Italian designer Alessandro Di Prisco who envisions it as a magazine rack, a coffee table, a stool or just a simple old block of cube.

Cubico Multi-Functional Furniture

The old saying “all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy” holds true even today and the  James Perse Ping Pong/Conference Table has been designed keeping in mind this classic adage. The teakwood ping-pong table converts into a  formal conference or dining table easily and proves how furniture can be extremely multi-functional these days.

Uber Cool James Perse Ping Pong/Conference Table

Here is something sweet. As people have the knack of going down memory lane by looking back at old photos, here is a table that is shaped like a photo album and at the same time allows people to store treasured shots in them. The table functions as a standard photo album, simply flipped open to reveal familiar pages you would find on standard photo albums.

As a coffee table, it also comes with a storage compartment for miscellaneous use, but it’s the novelty of being able to share a gigantic photo album that will have people lining up to purchase one of these mega memory holders. The Remembrance was designed by Mitch Steinmetz.

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Remembrance: A Photo Album Coffee Table

After a hard days work, you just want to open a bottle of wine, kickback, relax and go down memory lane with loved ones. The Remembrance Coffee Table has been designed for such noble pursuits and kudos to NMU design student Mitch Steinmetz for thinking out of the box. This unique coffee table resembles a giant leather bound album and even has storage space for family memorabilia. Made of wood, stainless steel, vinyl and denim cloth,the Remembrance Coffee Table is a brilliant concept.

The Remembrance Coffee Table

The Recto Verso CT1 Coffee Table

Add another quirky table to your home with the Cubik Coffee Table. This coffee table was designed by Elena Belforte and Giusi Rivoira of Italy, made up of a wooden base and handmade fabric pouf-cubes. The noticeable thing about this coffee table is that it is another ideal solution for people seeking to save on space thanks to its stackable feature at times when a room needs to make space for guests.

They come in different materials and colors and should be easy to blend in any contemporary or modern living space. Simple and design, these are functional pieces that should serve their purpose, particularly when it comes to table needs and space requirements.

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Cubik Coffee Table Design

People have the tendency to sit on tables despite knowing that it may not necessarily be sturdy enough to withstand the weight of the human body. But with this spiked table, owners and guests may yet improve that habit of leaning or sitting on tables.

Though a bit exaggerated, this is one table that could really make you think. Called the Don’t Sit on the Table, this is actually a coffee table that comes with presumably safe aluminum spikes (foil perhaps?) in the middle which should make people or guests think twice about sitting on a table ever again. The torture-like coffee table was designed by Joseph Louis Tan.

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Don’t Sit on the Table – Spiked Coffee Table

The whole world seems to be fascinated by the prefix “i” and we have Apple to thank or blame for that. Check out the latest “i” product, the iTable and no it doesn’t come from the stables of Apple. This high-tech and futuristic table has been designed  by  Kyle Buckner Designs and it moonlights as a a complete entertainment system  and includes  two aluminum-trimmed cup holders, a motorized sound bar,  four controls, LED on/off, Volume up & down and the motorization control.

The iTable By Kyle Buckner Designs

Coffee Tables always add a touch of class in a living room and are a great way to show off your eclectic coffee book collection. At IKEA there is a wide variety of coffee tables available but I really liked the TOFTERYD Coffee table. Stylish yet affordable, the contemporary styled coffee table has a generously sized surface and features a separate shelf for storing magazines, etc. Available for $199.00, the coffee table is available in a plethora of finishes and prices also vary according to finishes.

The IKEA TOFTERYD Coffee Table

The buzz of the town is the upcoming Royal Wedding of Will and Kate and for the people who want to look for furnishings closely related to the whole event, here is one called the Illuminated Coffee Table. The table is made of stainless steel and is highlighted by a toughened glass top together with some neon lights that should make it something to give or have.

But for the whole lot, you are bound to spend for it. The table reportedly costs about £2,000 and comes oddly designed with the British flag. Interested?

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The Illuminated Coffee Table

For the aspiring home improvement consumers, the Knot Table should get you all twisted. Kino Guerin of Canada offers an entangled looking furnishing, a wooden tablet that should become a stunning addition to any home.

This is actually a coffee table made from smoked oak veneer. The curves created from these wooden panels are elegant, intricate and would flow naturally with any style of living room decor. Twisted but stunning, this is a table that modern home owners are going to love, particularly the suckers for odd but unique made pieces offering functionality in their home.

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Why not the Why Knot Table?

Svilen Gamolov’s “Eye of the Storm” coffee table is just a concept and maybe it should remain that way since it is pretty darn creepy. But then again thats my own personal opinion and some of you might enjoy its rather bizarre design. Made of glass, stainless steel and glossy paint, the unique coffee table measures  47 cm., width – 112 cm., depth – 64 cm and will be more appropriate for commercial spaces like bar, waiting lounges than homes. What say?

Svilen Gamolov’s “Eye of the Storm” Coffee Table

Say goodbye to the usual coffee tables and hello to this new type of table. Though it looks like a combination of a paper shredder and a coffee table, it does help you get rid of those unwanted paper or mails and turn them into some into visually pleasing.

As you would for paper shredders, simply feed it with unnecessary paper materials, crank the lever and watch your junk mail turn into recyclable goodness. The table is also a great storage place for all the recycled paper you don’t know what to do with.

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The Papervore Coffee Table

The Vino Table

The Zeno Coffee Table is a lush table that was actually designed for Blueside-Emotional Design. The latter is really a company that specializes in Steroglass which was eventually used to produce a neat but simple table designed a minimalistic way.

The Zeno coffee table gives an impression of clear water flowing over polished pebbles. The transparency and volume of glass leaning on white ceramic feet gives Zeno a striking appearance. The Zeno Table typifies the high-end luxury design that Sand and Birch caters to and will be showcased at the International Fair of Nice from March 12 until March 21.

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The Zeno Coffee Table from Sand and Birch

Personally, the name may need some work since the first thing that comes into mind would be the sufferings that Jesus Christ had experienced. But up and close, the Crucifixion table is actually inspired by religion, aesthetics and geometry.

It is made of carbon fiber and stainless steel that comprise its overall figure. From afar this coffee table looks astounding, actually even when near. But as far as the name goes, improvement for it may be in order.

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The Crucifixion Coffee Table

The Magma Fireplace

Minus the portability part, here is a table that can pretty much function like your Apple iPad or iPhone. The Touchscape Multi-touch coffee table is made up of a 47” full HD LCD screen that is powered by a quad core processor. With a patented MT technology, it offers a touch screen to track as many touches as possible on the screen.

It also comes with a self-monitoring system then automates updates, monitors performance and keeps the system alive. If you want to see how this multi-touch coffee table works, check out the video below.

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Touchscape Multi-Touch Coffee Table

Acoustable Table With Speakers

If you have a modern-designed home, here is a coffee table that may just interest you. This is the Acoustable Coffee Table, a high-tech coffee tablet that comes with a built-in sound system. The table was designed by Jerome Spriet and Wolfgang Bregentzer which combines a coffee tablet and a sound system into one piece.

The coffee table offers an easy way to integrate music more seamlessly into daily life. Positioned between the table’s base and top surface is the sound system that includes Teac speakers, woofer and stereo amplifier with USB and iPod connection ports. There are USB adaptors within the table that can be extended to hook into PCs, iPods and phones.

For pricing it seems that you have to touch base with the designers for this one.

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The Acoustable Coffee Table

Dave Pickett offers a modern way for you to enjoy your cup of coffee with the Nook Coffee Table. This is an ingeniously designed geometric coffee table that comes with nooks for books. The integrated bookshelf makes sure to accommodate and balance your heavier volumes while the overall look provides a floating impression when you see it.

All four sides of the Nook offer enough foot room, and the nook is spacious enough to keep your books, magazines, laptops or extra pillows. The table is made of soft maple hardwood and is finished with natural tung oil.

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The Nook Coffee Table

It seems that Mexican designer Ricardo Garza Marcos is quite busy these days. After seeing that cooky looking Band-Aid Carpet, he know offers another odd-looking piece with the Earthquake table. The table carries a large crack in the middle, reminding you of the San Andreas fault, the famous tectonic boundary in California..

However, the crack is actually something that opens and closes to reveal some useful storage space. As a functional piece of furniture, it is indeed all that it’s cracked up to be.

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Earthquake Coffee Tables

Multi-functional furniture always gets a thumbs up from us since who doesn’t like complete value of money? The Urbis Daybed by Baita Design also takes multi-tasking to a new level since it conveniently turns into a coffee table or a side table when not in use for napping. The modern and sleek form factor doesn’t go unmixed either and this one is the perfect synthesis of form and functionality.

Urbis Daybed Turns Into A Coffee Table

The Extreme NES Coffee Table is another cool designed table which should fit in well with the avid gamers. It is the exact replica of the famed NES Controller and actually has a NES built into it.

Technically, it can still function as a NES game controller and makes it easy for the hardcore gamers to enjoy their classic favorite games. Simply sit by your couch and pull up the table and play to your heart’s delight as you wish.

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The Extreme NES Coffee Table

Looking more like a giant Rubiks Cube, the Float Table is a creation by RockPaperRobot. The table is made from 64 cubes snug together using a wire and held together by a magnetic force.

The table is likewise customizable in terms of size, shape and surface finish but may not be reasonable for people working on a budget. The Float Table will set you back for a crazy $2,000. The table can be used either as a coffee table and/or a side table.

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The Float Table

Looks can be deceiving and while we all know how cardboards can be easily turned into something useful, here is one bound to throw you off guard. This is the Box Coffee Table, a simple yet deceivingly looking design that takes the form of a familiar cardboard box.

It is portable and simple to use and have. Now for something as plain-looking as the Box Coffee Table, would you pay a crazy $495 for it? Yep, that is how much this thing costs.

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The Box Coffee Table

Here is another geeky table to have in your home. Made for the people who love racing so much, the Race-Star Convertable is actually a convertible coffee table that comes with a hidden racing rig inside. When you want, you can have some fun with it just like the pros do on the race tracks.

A driving game cockpit may be something you have seen before but this is one creation that does away with the bulkiness and storage problems. The Race-Star Converttable folds up into itself to become a somewhat awkward but still legitimate piece of furniture.

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The Race-Star Convertable

Party animals wills appreciate the Ice Island furniture series by Opacmare. For the uninitiated, Opacmare is known for designing yacht accessories and this collection has been designed keeping in mind the needs of private home owners or hatch owners The highlight is the round table which is made from  Plexiglas and where one can secure expensive bottles and glasses  safely and securely.

Opacmare Ice Island Furniture

Multi-Use Couch

Inspired by a Bushel Stick placed on the hand, this is one table that should rock your home with some unique-looking furnishings. It takes its form from something like when you cut a bushel of sticks on one end where the surface would be created.

It makes a great looking coffee table with holes in it. As for the holes, maybe you can put some pots or other items like vases in them to add some ambiance for the room where you will be placing it. Rare and unique, this is one table that should perk up your interior and eco-friendly design intent.

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The Bushel Table

There are a lot of things you can find over at Etsy and here is one from an artisan called QualityCraftsmen. This is a handmade modern coffee table that measures 36 inches long and 18 inches wide.

The top moves thanks to some bearings and reveals a second shelf too. The spice holders can be moved and opened; they are held in place with a stainless steel magnet strip.

About 4 wine bottles can be stored and become a beautiful display and the kitchen cart can be moved anywhere smoothly and locked into place with the 2.5-inch wheels.

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Handmade Modern Coffee Table

Robert Delponte of Stratodesign offers a unique looking coffee table for your home, incorporating wood with some modern aesthetics. This is the Modular Bonsai Wooden Coffee table, made of three sections and a removable bulkhead.

One side of the table can hold a flowerpot while the other end offers a touch screen interface or maybe an iPad placed on it. They are entirely made of wood and should be something great to have in any home.

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Modular Bonsai Wood Version Coffee Table

Buchtisch Table Perfect For Book Lovers

For those of you with a bit of carpentry skills and perhaps and old, broken pinball machine, you can make your own LED pinball coffee table.

There I was, minding my own business, when all of a sudden (as all good stories start) I found an old pinball machine at the dump. I promptly took it home and has help putting it in the house where it sat in my living room long enough to put rust stains on the carpeting where the metal feet sat.

It wasn’t complete enough to make it work without spending a lot of time and money on it. I live too far away from a market to sell it as-is. And honestly, the wife didn’t seem too keen on starting a game parlor with our limited space.

So I decided to make a coffee table out of the main playing surface.

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How to Make an LED Pinball Coffee Table!

Here is one table made for the people going retro of vintage. The Factory Cart Table should be one of the best looking ones you can find to date but is certainly expensive.

The Factory Cart Coffee Table measures 48x27x16 and is priced at a hefty $525.

The oak body has been sanded, smoothed and sealed in a thick matte urethane. Even the ironwork is polished and waxed to look as fresh as possible. The washed out logo LINEBERRY, N. WILKESBORO, N.C has been conserved on both sides of the cart coffee table.

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Factory Cart Coffee Table

The Spyder Coffee Table is not necessarily the table associated with the Spiderman fame but it does carry a sensual look which makes you think it was. The Spyder Coffee Table is made of carbon fiber and was designed by Phil Frank.

The table keeps itself balanced with four beautifully designed legs that would make it fit well into a modern home too, besides Spidey’s web. It is a lightweight table and comes with a jewel in the center.

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The Spyder Coffee Table

The Exotic Retreat Coffee Table is a treat for the eyes since the geometric-patterned top creates quite a lasting impact. Selling on Amazon for $139.99, the coffee table has been constructed of bamboo laminate veneer and sports a  distressed finish.

Exotic Retreat Coffee Table

Jon Gilmore offers another cool and lush coffee table for the luxists with this Nova Blackhole Illuminated Coffee Table. This futuristic-looking table comes with a center section paired with rows of white LED lights.

The top portion is made of glass, representing highlights of a supposed “blackhole” for some spice when you are sipping a cup of coffee or two. The base is made of aluminum with a shiny silver finish and comes in the form of a familiar alien spaceship.

If you want the Nova Blackhole Illuminated Coffee Table then be ready to shell out $1,070 for it.

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Nova Blackhole Illuminated Coffee Table

Playstation fans and gamers are bound to find this new magnificently crafted PlayStation Controller Coffee Table impressive. The whole table was made by a certain Mark M., using plywood, MDF and Veneer.

MDF was used for the R and L legs. To bend around the Handles, the designer used 6mm Bendy Plywood. And to top it all off, he used a polyurethane full gloss finish which you have to admit provides a spunk finish. White gloss was used for the whole controller and Black gloss for the Buttons.

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PlayStation Controller Coffee Table

We have for you today another odd but neat looking coffee table called the Creative Step Coffee Table. The table was designed by Svilen Gamolov which carry a footprint-like design that should fit in perfectly for any type of home setting.

While the Creative Step Coffee Table is a concept for now, it does look promising. The coffee table makes use of materials that include glass, polywood and glossy paint.

With this unique looking table, serving drinks atop this product may feel a little strange, but you will agree that it is something new for people seeking new ways to create some rapport in their home.

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Creative Step Coffee Table

At the start of the month, we caught a glimpse of the Space Invaders Couch. And it seems that when there is a couch (or a chair), there will be a table coming out somewhere. This is exactly the case for this Space Invaders Coffee table which should pair in nicely with that couch you saw some days ago.

The Couch and table together with some arcade games thrown in can make your home the gaming hub of the neighborhood. The Space Invaders coffee table retails for about $130 in case you want one.

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And Now a Space Invaders Coffee Table

We have another coffee table for you but this time it comes with only two legs. The Two Leg table from Shay Carmon and Ben Klinger, made of oak legs which pair in nicely with the whole table surface.

The Two Leg Table is sleek and simple, being a functional piece that is both stable and offering a wide area of space for your stuff or when you feel like sipping up some coffee or maybe a tree-themed lamp to make it all compatible.

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The Two Leg Coffee Table

Here is a unique looking coffee table, coming with a surface that has a pothole in the middle. The pothole was meant to experiment placement of various stuff like perhaps a vase or a potted plant or even some candies.

Whatever the case may be, the middle is the accented part, something different from dull and common flat surfaces we see from coffee tables.

The White Desert Table is certainly something cool to have, different and coming with a different twist like a hole-like middle for spreading some ambiance for homes.

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The White Desert Table from Karim Mektigan

It isn’t that hard to see why this furniture set is called a coffee break set. Taking the shapes of familiar cups and stuff you would see from people who love to sip down coffee, They are designed according to broken down versions of the original form.

The name of this project is “Coffee Break,” and not just because you can have a hot cuppa while you’re sitting down on it. Designer Vasil Valchev has a bit of joy in making these undeniably cute furniture pieces for you to see and sit on.

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Coffee Break Furniture Set

Here is a neat looking table for the people who are on the prowl for unique and inspiring table designs. The Bouquet Coffee Table was made by Kenneth Cobonpue, carrying a simple and modern design.

The whole table top sits on slim, metal legs bearing a floral design which is also etched into the actual table top, creating a functional bouquet.

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The Bouquet Coffee Table

Wave Coffee Table

New café tables were introduced by Brodart Supplies and Furnishings but these things can also find a place in your home, especially for modern built ones. The new KI Athens Café Tables would look great in a coffee shop setting and can be customized by the base style, tabletop shape and color to match virtually any décor.

Bases are available in either a tapered chrome bottom or a disc bottom. Tabletops are available in four colors, white, beige, graphite, and cloud, and two shapes, square and round. Each table can be purchased in one of two heights to allow cafés to offer a variety of seating options for its customers.

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New KI Athens Café Tables