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Get the Look: 55 Coffee/Cocktail Tables

I’ve already given you the rundown on our living room coffee table situation yesterday. I realize I provide photos of our apartment when I talk about it, but that would require more tidying than I have time for, not to mention camera skills.

We sort of need a coffee table for our family room too, but I hate to take up the limited and cozy floor space. And it would be in the way during Oakley’s playtime. (My cat, not my kid.) I daresay side tables must suffice. In any case, here are 55 coffee/cocktail tables. More than a few are amazing.

S H O P P I N G

Concentric Brass Table by Codor, $5,600 at Tamara Codor, Dering Hall.

X-Frame Glass Top Table by Tapio Wirkkala for Artek, $14,705 at Hive.

Umbra Geometric Tile Table by Manulutio, $2,898 at Anthropologie.

Yellow Changeright Table by Worlds Away, $1,010 at Zinc Door.

Onyx Laser Cut Base Table by Eva Zeisel, $1,500 at DWR.

Lily Pad Table by Blu Dot, $399 at Hive.

Orange Lacquer Block Lucite X-Base, $1,495 at Jonathan Adler.

Braiden Oxidized Iron Coffee Table, $449 at Crate & Barrel.

Nixon Pierced Brass Base with Marble Top, $2,500 at Jonathan Adler.

Amoeba Table by Jens Risom, $991 at Hive.

Norwood Recycled Wood on Casters by Arteriors, now $2,518 at Zinc Door.

Como Bi-Level Table in Espresso Wood, $498 at Chiasso.

Gray Stones Table by Maya Lin for Knoll, $673 at All Modern.

Ion Round Glass Table with Ash Base, $299 at West Elm.

Diego Bronze Table w/White Top by Oly Studio at Tonic Home.

Set of Three Lucent Nesting Tables, $349 at CB2.

Two Tier Lucite Table with Brass Details at John Salibello Antiques.

Satellite Rec Rectangle Table by Loll Designs $519 at Design Public.

Black Hex Table by Cara and Cole , $781 at Candelabra.

Gold Leaf & Glass Sabine Table at Jan Showers, Dering Hall.

Around Table by Thomas Bentzen for Muuto, £449 at Made in Design.

Seguro Square Rustic Wood Table, $799 at Crate & Barrel.

Zebrawood Ellipse Table, $6,300 at Alexandra Angle, Dering Hall.

Brass Radial Base Table, $2,250 at Lawson-Fenning, Dering Hall.

Green Lacquer Jacqui Table by Bungalow 5, $715 at Candelabra.

Polished Nickel Table by Planter for Knoll,  $1,421 at Smart Furniture.

White Pipa Lattice Table by Oly Studio, $1,980 at Candelabra.

Keil Meshwork Table by Daniel Herr at Matter.

Lazy Susan Metal Strap Coffee Table, $1,350 at Candelabra.

Tri-Oval Glass Table by Ross Lovegrove for Knoll, $1,685 at All Modern.

Arktura Red Strand Coffee Table, $2,195 at Bobby Berk Home.

Splay-Leg Table by George Nakashima for Knoll, $1,676 at DWR.

Milo Baughman Bronze Geodesic Table, $6,500 at Converso, 1st Dibs.

Henredon Elephant Tusk Table, $2,300 at Galere, 1st Dibs.

Oly Studio George Table w/Black Resin Top, $1,845 at Candelabra.

Pierced Iron Base Table with Glass Top at John Salibello Antiques.

Smart Round White Marble & Chrome Table, $329 at CB2.

Kingston Driftwood Glass Oval Table by Arteriors, $1,260 at Candelabra.

Pi Steel & Black Laminate Table by Blu Dot, $599 at Smart Furniture.

Glossy White Rectangular Kira Table w/Chrome Legs, $458 at Chiasso.

Sea Green Coral Table by Arktura, $1,990 at Bobby Berk Home.

White Lacquer Capresi Swing-Out Table, $398 at Chiasso.

Red Around Table by Thomas Bentzen for Muuto, $640 at Ambiente Direct.

Fracture Table by Matthew Hilton, $3,385 at The Future Perfect.

Ash Base P7 Table with Glass Top by Jonas Wahlstrom, $299 at CB2.

Cork Table by Moooi, $423 at All Modern.

Olivia Nickel & Glass Round Table by Arteriors, $1260 at Zinc Door.

Rustic Pine & Iron Delwyn Table by Robert Ogden, $1,298 at Anthropologie.

Orange Zanotta Wire Table, $930 at Ambiente Direct.

Zuri Round Table, $599 at Crate & Barrel.

Brass-Plated Flash Square Table by Tom Dixon,  $1,010 at Lumens.

Tablo 3-Leg Table by Normann Copenhagen, $220CAD at The Modern Shop.

Pelutho Table by Lee Kirkbride, now $622.30 at The Future Perfect.

Steel & Glass Gubi Pedrera Table by Barba Corsini, $815 at Finnish Design Shop.

Kartell Panier Tables by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, $380 at Lumens.

Just In: 2012 New Trad Designers

Last month, San Francisco-based designer Palmer Weiss, whose work I adore, asked if would submit her work to Traditional Home for its Trad Home New Designers contest. (Trad Home is the magazine’s digital edition). The house we submitted is absolutely gorgeous, and I’m happy to say she won!

The May issue of the print magazine will feature an announcement with everyone’s photos, and the projects of the ten winners will be published in the spring edition of  Trad Home online. The bloggers who nominated the designers will write the accompanying stories. I’ve already did my interviews with Palmer and the homeowner, and will be working on crafting the feature all day today.

Congrats Palmer, and congratulations to the other New Trad winners.

P A L M E R   W E I S S
palmer weiss interior design
Nominated by Marni Elyse Katz, StyleCarrot

C H R I S T I N A   M U R P H Y
christina murphy interiors
Nominated by Marisa Marcantonio, StyleBeat

G R A N T   K.   G I B S O N
grant k. gibson interior design
Nominated by Crystal Gentilello, Rue Magazine

G I D  E O N   M E N D E L S O N
Mendelson Group
Nominated by Nicole Gibbons, SoHaute

T A M A R A   K A Y E – H O N E Y
House of Honey
Nominated by Cassandra LaValle, Coco+Kelley

M E L A N I E   T U R N E R
Melanie Turner Interiors
Nominated by Patty Day, Patty’s Ephiphanies

T A M M Y   C O N N O R
Tammy Connor Interior Design
Nominated by Ronda Carman, All the Best Blog

M O N A   R O S S   B E R M A N
MRB Interiors
Nominated by Naomi Stein, Design Manifest

A L L I S O N   H E N N E S S Y
Allison Hennessy Interior Design
Nominated by Stacey Bewkes, Quintessence

N I C K   O L S E N
Nick Olsen Style
Nominated by Anne Maxwell Foster and
Suysel dePedro Cunningham, Tilton Fenwick

ARTmonday: Lissy Elle

I discovered photographer Lissy Larrichia, or Lissy Elle, as she seems to go by, on one of my new favorite blogs, The Jealous Curator yesterday. Her work is incredibly atmospheric and angsty. She’s a Canadian teen (or maybe she’s just beyond teendom now; her Flickr stream started in late 2009). I really love her work—the settings, the dresses, the props, the narratives. You should have a look at her Facebook page too, where she’s posted some of her most recent images.

Golden Hours

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The Play Pretend Princess

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Untitled

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Princess Alyssabeth’s Belated Birthday

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The Big Bad Wolf

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The End of Alice
“The Alice in all of us dies sometime. From personal experience, the Alice in all my friends were stabbed to death the moment they got breasts. Breasts suck.”

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The Snow White Dilemma
“I hung up all those apples today during a thunder storm.”

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Butterfly Effect

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Alice Saw Some Shiny Things
“So down, down she fell.”

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Alice in Wonderland
Inspired by the shirt she’s wearing, purchased at Downtown Disney.

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Impossible Things

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Untitled
“Green grass grows all around all around and the green grass grows all around.”

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Spirited Away

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Get Back In Your Book, Belle
Beauty and the Beast edition.

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I act like a child.
In her fort.

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Seven Fragile Things

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Natural Disasters
“The snow melted, and there was fog, so Thy Cornrows looked so mystical today…”

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Covet: Gatsby Horn Ring by Finn Jewelry

Gatsby Horn Ring by Finn, $1,400
finnjewelry.com

Designer Spotlight: Bone Sculptures by Celia Nkala of Perception Park

I first learned about Parisian-based sculptor/designer Celia Nkala’s line from Perception Park from a post I wrote for Design Milk. Instantly smitten (with her work and her… she’s so pretty), I struck up an email correspondence. She told me a bit about what prompted her to sculpt and work with bones and even sent me a two necklaces (made out of dog teeth!) to see how they’d play in the American market. Last week, she emailed me with photos of new creations, this time around, done in black.

Vertebrae Vase

The Ossements collection was inspired by a real human hip bone that Celia found in a flea market in Brussels about a year-and-a-half ago. She says, “I was fascinated while the others were disgusted.”

To make it more “acceptable,” she sculpted the shape in porcelain. The Iliac bone was the first sculpture she had ever created. She borrowed a human skeleton from the anatomy department of a medical university to use as a model for the other pieces, which include vertebrae and sacrum.

She recently introduced shiny black versions of several of the works. Here is a sampling:


Vertebrae Votives

Iliac Bones in Enameled Porcelain

Sacrum in Enameled Porcelain

Rib Cage Sculpture in Enameled Porcelain

Celia is holding a real human hip she found in Belgium; the catalyst for the collection.
The horizontal bits on the vertebra vase are actual bones. Nkala found a stock of cow’s sphenoid bones (the cow’s last vertebra) by chance in a Chinese shop in Paris, and bought the entire stock. She says, “I discovered that earthenware biscuit is visually similar of the bone material, so I have associated them directly with ceramics.”
The annotated diagram above shows that the vertical section is a piece of enameled porcelain, and the horizontal vertebrae are real animal sphenoid bones.
 Celia sent me two dog tooth pendants. I wear them all the time, and show them off at every opportunity. Definitely a conversation starter.  A dentist mom at a potluck said she wasn’t sure they were definitely dog teeth, so I wore them to the vet when it was time for Oakley’s check up. (Oakley is my very sweet cat.) She confirmed, they’re definitely dog teeth. (Not that I doubted you Celia!)  Do you guys like them? They’re not available commercially yet, and I know Celia would appreciate any input.

Animal Sphenoid Bone Keychain   |   Coccyx Pendant   |   Bony Pelvis Tote
Vertebrae votives all stacked up.