French press and a scone, anyone? The perfect little breakfast requires the perfect surface. Enjoy the simplicity of a small meal on a modern or traditional style breakfast table to take in the start of a new day, everyday. This week’s Top Ten list features a set of the best square, rectangular and round breakfast tables that fit into corners, next to windows, and most importantly, into studio apartments and stately homes alike.

Top Ten: Quaint Breakfast Tables.

Breakfast Never Tasted So Good! 10 Quaint Breakfast Tables to Start the Day Off Right.

1. Strut Medium
MANUFACTURER: Blu Dot
PRICE: $699
Dimensions: 56″W x 29″H x 28″D

Seating up to four people, this medium-sized version of the Strut dining table comes in ivory, white, watermelon or slate. It’s small stature is defined by powder-coated steel legs with sharp angles for a contemporary look, and a polyurethane finished MDF top.

2. Roco
DESIGNER: Michael Wolk
MANUFACTURER: Loewenstein
PRICE: Available upon request
Dimensions: square or round, 18″H x 20.75″W

Designed by Michael Wolk for Loewenstein, Roco is a minimalist cantilever table that provides a simple breakfast space for your morning coffee or tea. In a round or square tabletop design powder-coated to match any interior color scheme, the low profile pedestal table can include a translucent acrylic, Corian®, veneer or laminate surface for even more options.

3. Paperclip
DESIGNER: Massimo and Lella Vignelli
MANUFACTURER: Knoll
PRICE: $1,225+
Dimensions: square 30″W x 30″D- 42″W x 42″D (28-1/8″H); round 36″- 48″W (28-1/8″H)

Created in partnership with the Vignelli’s Handkerchief chair, the Paperclip Cafe table comes in three different sizes to fit your space. In addition to the sizing options, there are square or round tabletops of laminate or slate that sit on the steel rod, painted base in three colors.

4. Unger
MANUFACTURER: City Joinery
PRICE: $4,650- 6,500
Dimensions: 29″H x 36″W x 36″L

In this in between table size – not quite dining table, not quite end table – the Unger makes the perfect post for your breakfast pop tart with its dual purpose being a card table. The square motif decorates the tabletop of this “elegant game table” that is shown here in Black Walnut and Bronze, but it comes made to order in any of their sustainable wood options.

5. Reverse
MANUFACTURER: Andreu World
PRICE: Available upon request
Dimensions: square 35.5″- 51.25″W (28.5″- 29.5″H); round 39.5″- 63.25″dia. (28.5″- 29.5″H)

The Reverse table uses a round, 100% recyclable polyethylene base to form what Andreu World calls a sculptural, proportioned for that allows great freedom in its modern form. The ultra sleek table top comes in a round or square shape, and makes for a clean looking breakfast nook in Black, White, Red Cayenne, Chocolate Brown, or Cement Gray.

6. Bird
MANUFACTURER: Uhuru
PRICE: $1,800+
Dimensions: custom sizes

Listed as a “simple small apartment sized dining table” that uses iron and wood in its construction, the Bird table by Uhuru features a unique woodcut silkscreen print inspired by Japanese artwork on its surface and is available in dark ebony walnut, natural walnut, reconstituted macassar ebony (not solid), white ash and grey ash.

7. Atlas
MANUFACTURER: Room & Board
PRICE: $1,179
Dimensions: 42″dia. x 29″H

Seat up to four people around the Room and Board circular table known as Atlas. In its eighteen different stocked colors with four custom colors available upon request, this high quality pedestal table comes with a lacquer-finished natural steel base to perfectly embrace your every morning.

8. Perch
DESIGNER: Pierre Favresse
PRICE: Available upon request
Dimensions: n/a

Described as a desk, the Perch Collection features a square table that can be placed in a number of workable sites around the home. Designed by Pierre Favresse, match it as a breakfast table with integrated light with a few different chairs from the same modern collection.

9. Patched Butcher Block
MANUFACTURER: Wisteria
PRICE: $899
Dimensions: 40″dia. x 29.75″H

Standing on a cast-iron tripod base, the Patched Butcher Block breakfast table uses end grain patches of butcher blocks fused together to form the smooth, round table great for a sun-drenched bay window and scrambled eggs.

10. Dr. Na (and Dr. No)
DESIGNER: Philippe Starck
MANUFACTURER: Kartell
PRICE: $665
Dimensions: 17.8″ base dia. x 23.6″top dia. x 28.75″H

Designed by Philippe Starck, the indoor/outdoor Dr. Na breakfast table go with the Dr. No chairs for Kartell to create a three-piece set. The top, or surface, of the table is manufactured with a batched-dyed polypropylene, and the base comes in anodized aluminum. Available in a variety of colors, the Dr. Na helps create the ultimate of small space breakfast nooks.

Hope you enjoyed our roundup of the Top Ten Quaint Breakfast Tables!

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