Move Over, Birkin: The Coffee Table Is The New ‘It Piece’ To Invest In

Home is the new fashion. It now indicates social status just like clothes and accessories. This ideology has turned interiors and the objects within the home into potent forms of self-expression, much like wardrobes. Just like the ‘It-bag’, ‘It-furniture’ is taking the spotlight and becoming the ultimate extension of personal style. And at the forefront of this shift is the coffee table: once utilitarian, now the living room’s definitive ‘It-piece’. The new generation of designers is crafting bold, artful coffee tables that offer a fresh vision of luxury—one rooted in imagination, craftsmanship, and style. Design Pataki spotlights five visually striking coffee tables that exemplify this recalibrated vision of luxury, and whose design philosophy revolves around originality and authenticity.

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1. Modular Gaming System Table By CHIRMI

Is Your Coffee Table a Game or a Sculpture? In 2026, it’s both. A perfect embodiment of IT furniture, the ‘Modular Gaming System Table’ by Siddhant Bothra of CHIRMI, blurs the boundary between object and experience, reimagining the coffee table as an interactive, architectural artefact rather than a passive surface. Designed as a system rather than a single form, the table explores play, strategy, and spatial transformation, blurring the line between furniture, game, and sculptural art. The design is rooted in the idea of modularity and human interaction. Individual components can be reconfigured, moved, and engaged with, allowing the table to shift between a functional coffee table and a tactile gaming surface. This modularity encourages conversation, pause, and play, making the piece especially relevant for contemporary living spaces where furniture is expected to do more than one job. Equal parts furniture, game, and a sculptural statement, the table is crafted using solid natural wood, celebrating indigenous material sensibilities and craftsmanship while employing modern precision manufacturing. The finish and colour palette are kept restrained and tactile, allowing the natural grain and character of the wood to remain dominant.

2. SIERRA By Art Attaichi

Your sofa deserves a better partner. The SIERRA coffee table, conceptualized by Principal Designer Fainy Thakor of Art Attaichi, reads like a fragment of landscape brought indoors. Its form is inspired by the geometry of nature—riverbeds shaped by time, eroded terrain, and the softened edges of landscapes that have evolved through centuries of wind, water, and touch. Crafted from solid teak wood and brass, the table champions material integrity and longevity, using sustainable, indigenous materials that are meant to age rather than remain static. The teak base is meticulously hand-carved by master artisans, allowing the wood’s natural grain, knots, and tonal shifts to stay visible. Crowning it is a recessed brass surface, finished with a hand-developed patina that continues to oxidise and evolve, embracing ageing as a marker of memory, character, and lived-in beauty. Distinct in its interplay of mass and softness, SIERRA balances sculptural presence with functional clarity. No two pieces are identical, reinforcing its position not as a mass-produced object, but as a collectible ‘It-furniture’ for contemporary spaces.

3. Trametes Center Table by This And That

With a dash of style and a whole lot of flair, the ‘Trametes Center Table’ by This And That positions itself as IT furniture for contemporary living rooms. Part of the brand’s Forest collection, this blooming tablescape features an ancient and tribal aesthetic and draws inspiration from contemporary designs. Its surface reveals organic grain patterns and tonal variations, making each piece inherently one-of-a-kind. Crafted with precision from reclaimed teak wood, it is further enhanced with the inlay method in haldu, walnut, wenge, and sycamore. Its sleek and sturdy design makes it functional and versatile, with its spacious flat top and unflinching bottom to support the weight of the items kept on top. Trametes is as sturdy as it is functional and appeals to those who value clean lines, polished finish, and quintessential design. Sustainability never looked so stylish.

4. Scallop Centre Table By Studio Indigene

What makes the Scallop Centre Table by Studio Indigene an ‘It piece’ is not how it looks, but how it turns the idea of a center table into an interactive experience. Handcrafted entirely in reclaimed teak wood, its sculptural base is composed of rounded volumes that create a rhythmic surface. The table features softly contoured movable trays that can be positioned anywhere across this wooden terrain, allowing the user to continually reconfigure the table’s composition. As the trays move, each shift subtly reshapes the table’s presence in the room. This fluidity shifts the table between a tool of utility and an object of high sculptural expression. Despite its interactive nature, the table maintains a quiet sense of grandeur through its substantial physical mass and rich material depth.

5. Bloom 2.0 By MuseMART

A refreshed iteration of the original Bloom table by MuseMART, Bloom 2.0 is built around the idea of “Blurred Boundaries, Focused Values,” a philosophy translated visually through an intricate veneer artwork that unfolds across its surface. The table resembles a pixelated landscape, where thousands of small veneer blocks in muted greens, warm woods, soft greys, and flashes of red come together to form a layered, almost painterly composition. Crafted using over 3000+ individually stained veneer pieces, the surface feels both graphic and tactile, inviting closer inspection. The artwork itself is the result of a collaborative design challenge within the studio. It captures the balance between life’s noise and the guiding principles that help us navigate it. Anchored by a sculptural base and a circular cut-out that introduces depth and pause, Bloom 2.0 draws the eye, and its collectible quality firmly places it in the ‘It furniture’ category.