It’s not often you see a whole article devoted to tables. But then it’s not often that you see tables that warrant an article.

Until now. Tables are mainly a means to an end when it comes to interior design and, unless they are round and have kings and knights sitting around them, no-one really cares. 

That’s why we have chosen 16 gob-smackingly-cool table designs to show you… so you’ll like tables more.

1. Remember when your mum told you not to suspend your chairs from the ceiling and swing on them? Well now you can on purpose with this swing dining table set. Just don’t swing and eat at the same time…

2. Encasing tree stumps in solid glass it a genius way of making a functional table and keeping the natural beauty of trees at the same time. These are amazing!

3. It looks like the moon but it’s a table! Need we say more?

4. This table is held up by amazing multicoloured shapes that create beautiful reflections and prisms to create a stunning kaleidoscope of colour in your room.

5. Created by Greg Klassen, these tables are designed to look like they have a river running through them and the look incredible.

6. Keeping the complex beauty of a cross-sectioned log, these tables have a rustic effect with the wood flowing elegantly into the metal body.

7. The legs of this table alone are amazing, let alone the huge amethyst in the centre which makes it look like something you’d find  in a fantasy princess’s castle.

8. This one’s just cool. It’s made from the recycled engine from a jet-powered plane!

9. This one’s certainly different… with a layer of real grass as the table surface, this table brings the picnic to your house.

10. Inspired by a beautiful mineral lake, this table would look beautiful as just a photo, let alone a functioning table.

11. This table combines an amazing blue water abyss surface and a topographic style body to create the illusion of an oasis in your house.