In the living room, guests gather on a matching ebony sofa and daybed from Hudson and a pair of Jorge Zalszupin lounge chairs. An Yves Klein coffee table—filled with the artist’s signature International Klein Blue pigment— provides a vivid burst amid otherwise organic tones. The walnut-and-bronze cabinetry is a custom design.

We are all bibliophiles and magazine-philes so Offi’s Embrace Media Table by John Green is perfect for extra storage. $299

The walnut coffee table in the living room is by Samuel Moyer.

Adrian designed the Basic coffee table.

The master bedroom has a sitting area with a Twilight sofa from Design Within Reach and Noguchi's Prismatic tables from Vitra. The pillows are upholstered with Missoni's Kew fabric.

Lalita stands in front of the coffee nook in the couple’s kitchen—one of several details that relates to their shared Brazilian heritage. Her childhood was split between São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, while Fabio grew up in São Paulo before moving to various cities around the world as part of his career in advertising.

Tyler and Brown’s living room is packed with furniture yet manages to avoid feeling cluttered. The coffee table is a Nelson Platform Bench from Herman Miller, and the low tables are Tablo Tables by Magnus Löfgren for Design House Stockholm. The Nørreskoven fireplace is from Cleanburn Stoves.

Ziesel’s coffee table, made in 1993, puts her swirling, whimsical themes in a different medium, available at Design Within Reach.

Linda Hutchins and John Montague hired Works Partnership Architecture to turn a former Portland, Oregon, warehouse and auto repair shop into a versatile live/work space.

An example of one of Nakashima’s most iconic designs, this large piece was crafted from walnut.

One-inch-thick slate clads the fireplace in the living room, which opens to a terrace. The reclaimed coffee table is by Scott Chambers.

Arroyo designed this slatted-wood coffee table in 1956.

Wired coffee table in gloss yellow and smoked gray glass by Phase, $1,450.

Fusion Coffee Table by BoConcept, $289 from boconcept.com/en-... Coated in a durable lacquer, this particle board living room table can withstand plenty of loving use.

Wisconsin. Misewell's approach to modern furniture-making prioritizes ease of assembly. Each leg of the walnut Conrad coffee table snaps effortlessly into a steel bracket, which is available in a range of colors.

The office houses the letter “U" as well as cameras.

The walnut Conrad coffee table's legs snap into a stamped steel bracket, which comes in powder-coated black, ivory, or this sunny shade of yellow ($1,150).

Dansk coffee table by Povl Eskildsen for Gloster, $1,545 A Danish designer who learned the ropes working in his father’s furniture factory brings a sleek Scandinavian touch to a line of outdoor pieces.

Noguchi Coffee Table (1944)A Herman Miller classic, modernist icon and Tumblr inspiration, this three-piece table is the epitome of simple, focused design. Initially made in 1939 for MoMA president A Conger. Goodyear, Noguchi’s work in ebonized walnut remains a touchstone. “Even the first table I made for Conger Goodyear was not exactly utilitarian,” he said. “I thought of it as sculpture that was a table. After all, you can say that the earth is a table. We feast upon it. You can also say that it is utilitarian, this earth.” Photo courtesy of The Noguchi Museum, New York.

Designed by John Green for Offi, the Embrace Media Table ($299) embodies the strength and simplicity inherent in molded plywood. Its two interlocking forms can be used together (as seen here) or separated to make two different storage/display surfaces.

Odilon coffee table and sofa by Marco Corti for NUBE. See it at Salone in Hall 7, Stand C27.

This coffee table retails for $200.

Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance’s Borghese coffee table has an abstract form that references pine trees in the Villa Borghese park in Rome.

Studio GormMinimalist plastic-and-wood Judd coffee table and Scene carpet, whose abstract shapes recall American highway landscapes seen from a car window.

EndGrain’s Ripple Coffee Table, shown here in cherry hardwood and glass, is a graphic representation of a the surface movement created by a ripple of water. Made up of cut squares of wood individually assembled back together, it is a good representation of the tension between natural and structure that often exists in Rupich’s work.

The sofa in the family room was designed by Helgerson with Magnifique fabric by Kravet. The 265 Wall Lamp is by Paolo Rizzatto for Flos, and the pine coffee table is from The Good Mod, a local shop in Portland.

The kitchen table.

The courtyard acts like an outdoor living room, where the Arnolds’ daughter, Josie, plays freely, safe from nearby traffic. The family dines here most of the year at the custom-designed wood-and-steel table. The picnic table set reappropriates the century-old eucalyptus tree that once grew on the site.

The living area features a Petrie sofa from Crate & Barrel and a Wassily chair by Marcel Breuer from Knoll. A vintage walnut coffee table by Lane Furniture sits atop a rug that the couple purchased at Weisshouse, a Pittsburgh home-furnishings store.

The Bigelows were very involved in the design process, having studied up on LEED before even approaching Butler Armsden with rough sketches. The stairway was one such detail of the project that the homeowners had a clear vision for: light wood to match the rest of the interior, deep treads, and a gradual rise to help with accessibility. Across the breezeway, a Flexform chaise, woven chair, and coffee table stand atop Forest Stewardship Council-certified hardwood floors.

A Nelson sofa sits on a handmade Persian Mahi rug in the living room.

“Walnut is everybody's favorite right now so I work with that a lot—and the smell of it when it's being cut is one of my favorite smells in the world, so that's fine with me. It's a delight to work with. The materiality of this table and the relationship of the brass to the walnut is really what drives this design.”

London-based design studio PINCH shows four new products in an old Milanese shoe shop, including the Nim coffee table in copper Jesmonite. See it at Via San Gregorio 40.

NOISEfest14 at the V&A 2014: Future Design Stars (September 16) The rush of discovering new talent is one of the London Design Festival's main draws. The Noise Festival, a charity set up to support and showcase emerging talent, asked design luminaries to hand-pick a new class of young talent. Curators will discuss their selections at a special event at the V&A on the 16th. The work of the new designers can be found at an outdoor exhibition across the capital on Sumner Street, Better Bankside. Above is the Luna Coffee table, featuring two removeable bowls, by 22-year-old Nottingham Trent graduate Bem Robinson.