Top Ten: Modular Tables
Flexibility can be the feature that sets a piece of furniture apart from its counterparts, and that goes for even the largest pieces like tables. Modular tables, with their flexibility, functionality, and style, serve every kind of environment from offices, to meeting rooms, to homes, and more.
1. Zoom Table
MANUFACTURER: Davis Furniture
Built of conference table tops and linking tops, the Zoom table series makes the company meeting room more interconnected with its flexible, changeable design.
2. Fat Fat low tables
DESIGNER: Patricia Urquiola
MANUFACTURER: B&B Italia
This series of three tables take the tray theme into a new realm of utility with its light, stackable design.
3. Fractal table
DESIGNER: Nicholas Karlovasitis & Sarah Gibson
DIMENSIONS: 430mm W x 364mm H x 353mm D (individual pieces)
The triangular pieces that make up the Fractal table are made with walnut or Australian hoop pine plywood and can be used separately or together, held in place by hidden magnets.
4. Hex Table
MANUFACTURER: Lerival
DIMENSIONS: 16″ H x 13″ D
Celebrating minimalism, Hex Tables are made of sleek stainless steel and fit seamlessly next to one another, allowing for a nearly infinite number of configurations.
5. The Compound table
DESIGNER: Italy Ohaly
The Compound table questions the functionality and definition of the traditional living room table by breaking up its static form and increasing modularity, encouraging interaction between its piece and the user.
6. Nimble Tables
DESIGNER: Jason Lees
DIMENSIONS: 22.5" W x 26" D x 18" H
PRICE: $420
Made with FSC Certified Europly Birch Plywood, a water-based low VOC stain, and a non-yellowing water-based low VOC clear topcoat, the Nimble Tables combine functionality and versatility into charming, groupable triangles.
7. X-plus Table
DESIGNER: Shi Xiaoxi
Made of a single sheet of steel, the X-plus Table creates a dynamic geometrics form that’s minimalist yet bold.
8. Sebastopol Tables
MANUFACTURER: Coalesse
DESIGNER: Emilia Borgthorsdottir
Two shapes and two heights define this set of occasion tables that eschew convention and invite interaction.
9. REK coffee table
DESIGNER: Reinier de Jong
DIMENSIONS: 80 x 60 x 30 cm (collapsed)
The wooden surfaces of the REK coffee table slide in and out to transform the entire piece into different shapes perfect for all kinds of areas.
10. 7wonders table
DESIGNER: Amanda Karsberg
Both small and large areas are served with the six pieces of the 7wonders table that take different, eclectic shapes and are all simple and essential.
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