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The effective measures to fight against earthquake continued to improve, and here comes the Earthquake-proof Table, a collaborative work by Arthur Brutter and Ido Bruno. Though seems very common, the table actually could successfully protect people from possible injuries during the earthquake, which has been approved by a series of rigorous vertical impact tests. As an additional bonus, the earthquake-proof table also takes into account the financial limitations of people who may need it, and thus it will be produced with cost effective, yet responsible production methods and durable inexpensive materials.

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For small-apartment owners, the space-saving and multifunctional furniture sets are always welcomed, and on their lists there’s Claudio Sibille’s Sensei. The furniture set includes two chairs that could be used separately; but when you flip the chairs on their sides and piece them together, they would then serve as a table.

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Welcome to my personal lawn rightly inside my apartment! Never doubt your own eyes, and I’m not kidding, my lawn is really inside the room rather than outside of it. Why? You need to ask Haiko Cornelissen Architecten, who created the sod-covered aluminum table to bring the outdoorsy experience into city apartments.

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We humans are not consistent with ourselves, as on one hand we try to live in a place different from the nature, while on the other hand we’re pursuing designs that seem natural or made of natural materials. But never mind, because self-contradiction is also a source of inspiration, which may bring us with awesome creations like these Wood Rings Tables. The designer start with sections of trees ranging from 60 to 600 years old, combining them with resin plates so as to keep the beautiful rings in wood and endow them with a stylish aesthetics as well.

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Use as you read, these Alphabet Furniture sets all come with several individual modules but can combine to create a chair, a lamp and a table as well, just as the words you’ve already seen.  So what do you think? Isn’t it funny to surprise your guests with the Alphabet Furniture?

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The Compact Café Table by Sigurd Larsen is no doubt the best furniture you can ever find if you’re someone concerning both a stylish design and strong functions. Made from recycled paper and resin, the table and benches set is suitable for either interior or exterior use, according to your different needs. When viewing from the front, these four pieces of furniture are rightly displaying their nice thin lines… So cute!

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This white “tablecloth” is a new piece of furniture launched by German architectural studio Graft Architects. It breaks out the tradition that tables should come with several legs, and instead utilizes a tablecloth to reimage the table. The result turns to be really good, as the new table not only features the sense of beauty, but also solid and stable to ensure a long-term use.

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Leaf bench and leaf table set, crafted of steel and finished in green, is beautifully designed anti-oxidation furniture for your gardens. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Tomm Velthius has successfully blurred the line between furniture and toys. He built many railway lines in a wooden table, let small electric trains run through them and therefore changed tables into toys. Great work! [Read the rest of this entry...]

Probably one of the happiest things we commonly think of is to find something new everyday- a new friend, a new job, a new design or basically a new piece of furniture for our stylish rooms. Then on my way to find a new surprise, I met this Chain-shaped Coffee Table. [Read the rest of this entry...]

A table constructed with huge poker cards… also works as shelves or a dividing wall if with certain rearrangement. It is designed by BBMDS for Seletti and comes with an interesting name of “À la Carte”. Available in red and blue, these big cards may even build you a poker house just as that one appeared in “Alice in Wonderland”. Wow, crazy idea. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Quite often we see new tables coming in unique shapes or featuring distinctive functions, but we seldom imagine a table would have the ability to walk, just as we humans do! A walking table does seem amazing. It mimics an innate walking motion when pushed because it is built with mechanical linkages. A walking table is also valuable, as it is crafted from selected materials and available in only 8 pieces. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Anything that can change to meet our different needs is undoubtedly always welcome, and right here we’d like to introduce this Rubix Transformer Furniture Set created by Dosunodesign. It consists of three chairs and one table: the chairs can be adjusted to a proper height according to the users’ various needs, and the table would work as a tea table or a dinning table in different situations. So great! [Read the rest of this entry...]

Since almost all kids love to draw pictures on tables, why not just make a table that shall be used exclusively for them to write or draw on? Possibly inspired by that idea, designer Tiang Tiang has come up with such a paper table, something that features a pile of drawing paper as its tabletop so that your kids can conveniently draw on them. [Read the rest of this entry...]

Here’s an office meeting table from Naoto Fukasawa, and this time the well-known Japan-based designer has built the table with many storage boxes to store your personal items. In that case, the table has achieved maximum simplicity. [Read the rest of this entry...]