Japanese architect Yo Shimada of Tato Architects has designed a table intended to be made at home by consumers using standard materials bought from any DIY store. More about Yo Shimada debuts coffee table made from basic DIY store materials
Italian designer Simone Bonanni has designed a series of terracotta coffee tables for Moooi, which are made to appear handmade, natural and "gently imperfect". More about Simone Bonanni creates "gently imperfect" terracotta Obon coffee tables for Moooi
Chilean collective GT2P has used a computer to delicately cut wavy forms based on the Andes mountains into the top of a wooden coffee table, currently on show at New York gallery Friedman Benda. More about GT2P's Manufactured Landscapes exhibition features rippled coffee table
Spanish designer Max Enrich has contrasted simple, geometric panels with bulky, tubular legs to create a trio of nesting steel coffee tables. More about Max Enrich pairs bulky legs with slender surfaces to create nesting coffee tables
British artist Hugh Miller based this collection of chairs, stools and a table on a Japanese coffee-making ritual he observed while travelling. More about Hugh Miller creates ceremonial furniture for coffee-drinking ritual
A coffee table based on the "restraint and detailing" of a bentwood box associated with Shaker folklife has launched at Maison&Objet, which begins today in Paris. More about Pinch bases Rodan coffee table on Shaker storage box
London design duo Brooksbank & Collins has designed a coffee table based on Stanley Kubrick's science-fiction movie 2001: A Space Odyssey (+ slideshow). More about 2001: A Space Odyssey inspires Brooksbank & Collins' coffee table
Graduate shows 2016: this coffee table by Northumbria University graduate George Riding features objects that nestle into the furniture's metal framework (+ slideshow). More about George Riding's Wire Series coffee table comes with integrated accessories
Australian studio BoardGrove Architects has designed a pair of steel tables made from opposing forms that appear to have been cut from the same piece (+ slideshow). More about BoardGrove Architects designs two coffee tables with opposite shapes
Stockholm 2016: Swedish designer Monica Förster has partnered with brand Erik Jørgensen to create a coffee table to be used with her Savannah seating range for the Danish furniture company. More about Monica Förster designs Savannah coffee table for Erik Jørgensen
Design Miami 2015: islands of bronze rest on top of marble tables designed by Chilean studio GT2P for its first collaboration with New York's Friedman Benda gallery. More about GT2P pairs unusual materials in Marble vs Bronze coffee table
London Design Festival 2015: London design studio Pinch has unveiled a coffee table made from plaster and resin composite material Jesmonite (+ slideshow). More about Pinch's Nim coffee table is made from textured hand-painted Jesmonite
Product news: Milan design studio NVDRS has designed a coffee table with a removable wooden top that doubles as a tray. More about Gergeti Coffee Table by NVDRS
Product news: these coffee tables with interlocking wooden legs by German studio Ding3000 have been put into production by Danish brand Normann Copenhagen (+ slideshow). More about Coffee tables by Ding3000 for Normann Copenhagen
This coffee table by Rotterdam designer Reinier de Jong can be expanded by sliding the middle sections outwards in either direction. More about REK coffee table by Reinier de Jong