Designed in Hackney: next up in our series of stories on Shoreditch design brand SCP is Tom Tom & Tam Tam by Konstantin Grcic, the first of his designs to be put into production back in 1992. More »
Designed in Hackney: furniture company SCP has been working with some of the best designers in the industry at its Shoreditch headquarters since the mid 1980s. Every day this week our Designed in Hackney series focusses on key products that were developed above the shop on Curtain Road, starting with the 1986 Side Table by Jasper Morrison. More »
Milan 2012: in response to the growing number of freelancers looking for workspaces outside of their homes, London studio Aberrant Architecture have created pub tables that can be adapted into desks by day and games tables by night. More »
Milan 2012: the 400 wooden slats of this table top by Mauricio Affonso allow it to expand, contract and fan out into a full circle. More »
Milan 2012: Konstfack University College student Nick Ross will present this bar with a hood for sharing secrets in crowded places at Spazio Rossana Orlandi in Milan this week. More »
Milan 2012: Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka will present a table that’s almost invisible at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan next week. More »
This school table by industrial design students graduate Arthur Brutter and professor Ido Bruno is specifically designed to form a safe shelter for pupils during earthquakes. More »
Milan 2012: London designer Benjamin Hubert will present an upholstered version of his Maritime chair plus a coordinating dining table called Pontoon for Italian brand Casamania at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile next week. More »
This coffee table by Chilean studio Elemento Diseño is made of a single sheet of plywood, with the legs cut out from its corners. More »
Stockholm 2012: London designer Samuel Wilkinson presents a table with legs that are sharpened like pencils at the Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair, which opens today. More »
Cologne 2012: German brand e15 presented these side tables that combine marble tops with coloured steel bases at trade fair imm cologne last week. More »
Ready yourself for civil unrest without cluttering your apartment: this coffee table incorporates a handy riot shield. More »
Handles on the tops of these pastel-coloured side tables let you easily move them around. More »
Qubique 2011: look carefully at these tables by Berlin-based collective llot llov and you’ll see that there’s a mirror in the wooden under-frame. More »
Beijing Design Week 2011: golden plates and cutlery become slowly submerged underwater when this table is set. More »