Legless Table Self-Supports With Resin, Without Legs

This strange self-supporting table cloth design is somewhat haunting - after all, doesn't a table have to have legs or, well, a table for that matter? Not so in this case. Resin makes the cloth itself sturdy enough to support not only itself but also objects placed on it.

As this technology improves, one could imagine a whole house full of such ghostly furniture and completely devoid of the normal structural elements we associate with furniture building. On the other hand, this could just be another design novelty and ultimately a passing trend.

Dynamic Movement-Inspired Artistic Table Designs

These table legs appear to have lives of their own. Smooth and elegant at the top they are amorphous, dynamic and seemingly mobile below.Achieving visual as well as structural balance in these forms was probably one of his greatest challenege - beyond carving the near-perfect curves.

Easy-to-Transform Creative Convertible Wood Table

In its coffee table configuration six stools pack in underneath it - storage that is flawlessly visually integrated with the overall aesthetic. From start to finish, here is this remarkable convertible table design in action - completely transformed in a few simple steps:

Transforming Tables: Convert Coffee to Dining Surfaces

Varying in size, style and mode of transformation some of these clever convertible tables quick-change from a simple, small modern-looking coffee or side table into a mid-to-full-sized dining room table with iterations along the way that are as elegant as either finished formation.

Some of their designs have only a few fixed positions while others are height-adjustable and can be fixed in place at ay stage of their transformation process. They come in a variety of colors, some of them expressing the various parts and pieces that go into making a single whole and others carefully concealing their transformative functions.

Futuristic Transforming Dining Room Table-and-Chairs Set

The pieces fit neatly together and a simple pneumatic system would make the central lift possible - providing a cosmetic overhang that doubles as a central light fixture.

Cute, convertible and space-saving though it may be, this design does have some drawbacks. Namely, there is an object in the center of the table that obstructs views and the seats don't appear to be fully stable on their own. Still, as a concept design it is certainly some good designer eye-candy either way.

Brilliant Blood Red Glossy Art Table Design

You would certainly not want to spoil the composition with a tablecloth but it is easy to envision some likewise macabre place settings and tableware to go along with this strange scene. Just watch out - some of those drops look like that could fall right on you while you sit there.

Simply Elegant: Extruded Tree Coffee Table Design

Sometimes art can be allowed to trump function, or at least more subtly integrated with the pragmatic side of furniture design. The silhouette of a tree is visible at one angle, extruded from the surface to create the support structure.

However, one would also be able to use the broadest opening to store magazines or books. While it might not be the most practical design it is an elegant, simple and inspirational table that could spawn a series of other furniture types potentially should the designers choose to pursue such. The question is: what do you do when you need to clean it?

Transforming All-in-One Wooden Table-and-Chairs Set

There is often a perceived (or possibly real) gap in design between doing something innovative and doing something well. The most unusual, offbeat and creative designs are often made of new materials that may or may not look good or be comfortable.

As these close-up images show, this combined unit comprised of table and chairs that slot neatly into its sides are elegantly proportioned and have joinery, grain orientation and other fine details that are well-considered at each intersection and on every surface.

Whether you are a fan of wood you have to admit this is an excellent execution of a wood design that takes advantage of the best properties the material has to offer while pushing style and design innovation in new directions.

Dangerously Real Trampoline Coffee Table Design

Usually when you see a design like this you immediately assume it is just the artistic vision of a bored industrial designer. At first glance, this is a fairly respectable-looking and simple coffee table design - a round wood-paneled rim surrounding a mysteriously sunken center. On closer inspection, however, its radical dual purpose is quickly revealed. Whether you would want to use it as an indoor table is questionable but sitting around it outside seems to make at least some sense. However, the shin-height siding also renders it somewhat less practical when you think about it more.

Simple, Stylish & Modular: Wood & Glass Coffee Table

A series of five identical 'leaves' are set together in the shape of an abstract flower. These structural design elements interlock without the need for glue or fasteners - much in the way you overlap the folds on top of a cardboard box to close it, only easier. This makes for an incredibly simple assembly process with very few parts, all of which pack flat for shipping/moving, and almost no labor involved.

The materials are not difficult to come by to the point where this would also make a great do-it-yourself coffee table project. Each 'leaf' is simply cut from a sheet of plywood and the simple round glass top sits without any additional elements directly on top, requiring no customization nor even a particular fixed size (so it could easily be recycled from another old glass table, for example).

3D Pixel Furniture: Modular Transforming Table Design

Like life-sized LEGOs or real-life Tetris pieces, the modules that compose this table design system lend themselves to interaction somewhere between fun and functional, challenging and pragmatic.

Space Saving Ideas: Extending Dining Room Table Tops

Wood and modern design are too rarely found together when it comes to interior and furniture design, the classic material judged to clash with clean modern lines. These all-wood modernist rectangular and round extending tables, however, transform and expand with technological ease but have the natural visual variety associated with powerfully grained hardwoods. They extend extra dining space with hi-tech grace but traditional beauty, expanding to accommodate additional visitors.

With stainless steel support elements and dramatic olive, cherry and other durable, exotic and high-contrast hardwoods, these dining room extension tables make bold statements as the solid centerpieces of a dining room interior design. Further, whether round or rectangle, they are a visually appealing marriage of traditional natural materials and modern technology and hardware responsible for extending and retracting the core form.

Elegant Convertible Wood Coffee & End Table Design

As an end table this piece has a flat top surface, recessed storage shelf and magazine nook. As a coffee table, it has a raised and lowered surface as well as a niche for tucking in remote controls and other table-top odds and ends.

In short: each the object is appealing but also designed so that each mode yields only elements that enhance usability and add style. Best of all, it is made out of fast-growing bamboo for maximum sustainability.