This table that houses plants in its centre by St Petersburg designer Maxim Scherbakov is named after the Soviet satellite that first took living objects into space and returned them safely to Earth (+ slideshow). More about Plants grow inside Maxim Scherbakov's marble Sputnik-5 table
A pair of combined wall mirrors and dressing tables by Berlin designer Florian Schmid have gone into production with German furniture brand Zeitraum (+ slideshow). More about Florian Schmid's two-legged tables intersect with mirrors
London Design Festival 2014: New York-based Amma Studio has created a range of coffee tables and stools made by moulding cement with a range of unexpected materials. More about Amma Studio's stools and tables combine cement with BB pellets and coffee grounds
Wood panels used for the floors of Venice's ubiquitous water taxis surround a bookcase and a coffee table by Italian designer Davide G Aquini (+ slideshow). More about Davide G Aquini's furniture collection is clad in boat decking
London Design Festival 2014: the legs of these small tables by Taiwan designer Andrew Cheng measure just 1.2 centimetres in diameter. More about Andrew Cheng designs Chopsticks side tables with skinny legs
South Korean designer Jeonghwa Seo has created a collection of stools and tables using 12 different materials in 15 different combinations (+ slideshow). More about Jeonghwa Seo explores contrasts with Material Container Series
The strength of polyester, aluminium and steel dictated the size of tables in this series by Belgian architects Office Kersten Geers David Van Severen (+ slideshow). More about Office KGDVS explores strength of materials with prototype furniture
London studio Featherstone Young Architects has designed a family of different-sized moveable tables as flexible workspaces for the atrium of art institution Central Saint Martins' King's Cross campus (+ slideshow). More about Giant tables by Featherstone Young Architects form workspaces at Central Saint Martins
German designer Katharina Gross has dipped brass boxes into a molten wax mixture to create a series of tables with stalactite-like legs (+ slideshow). More about Katharina Gross adapts candle-making process to create wax tables
A group of Nordic designers joined forces to create this simple wooden dining table for Swedish brand Fogia (+ slideshow). More about Nordic designers collaborate to create SAM table for Fogia
Compartments that form the top of this table by Mexican design studio Esrawe Studio allow belongings to be meticulously organised (+ slideshow). More about OCD Table by Esrawe Studio panders to compulsive organisation
New York 2014: to celebrate New York design week, the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum commissioned designer Joe Doucet to create a limited edition collection of "snap fit" marble tables. More about Joe Doucet designs flat-pack marble furniture for New York's Cooper-Hewitt museum
Clerkenwell Design Week 2014: Austrian designer Georg Oehler has used traditional Scottish tweed fabric and British ash wood in this furniture collection, manufactured using traditional carpentry techniques in the Alpine village where he grew up. More about Aesh and Tweed collection by Georg Oehler fuses British and Austrian design
Milan 2014: Swedish design group Front has created a combined coat rack and bench, and two tables from bent wood for design brand Gebrüder Thonet Vienna. More about Front revisits Gebrüder Thonet Vienna's roots to design bent-wood furniture
Milan 2014: Italian manufacturer Zanotta has launched two lightweight and versatile tables by Amsterdam designer Frank Rettenbacher (+ slideshow). More about Zanotta launches "shelves on legs" by Frank Rettenbacher
Milan 2014: Brussels-based designer Alain Gilles' extendable table for Italian furniture brand Bonaldo turns its functional mechanism into an aesthetic feature (+ slideshow). More about Alain Gilles' extendable Tracks Table reveals its inner workings
Milan 2014: this table by Dutch designer Studio Maks, featuring integrated wireless phone charging pads and WiFi signal enhancers, meandered around a warehouse in the Ventura Lambrate district of Milan last month (+ slideshow). More about Cloud Table by Studio Maks recharges phones
Icelandic designer Thorunn Hannesdottir used materials and colours influenced by the dramatic landscape of her home country to create this pair of tables topped with concrete and aluminium. More about Icelandic landscapes influence pair of tables by Thorunn Hannesdottir
Danish designer Cecilie Manz has added a trestle table held together by strips of leather to Menu's 2014 collection of furniture and homeware. More about Cecilie Manz's Knot Trestle for Menu swaps screws for leather strips
Milan 2014: holes and tunnels in the top of this wooden desk by Hong Kong-based designer Hao Ruan of LYCS Architecture have been designed to provide a playground for cats (+ slideshow). More about CATable by Hao Ruan offers a shared work surface for cats and their owners