While often considered as an afterthought, well-chosen coffee and side tables for office and commercial spaces can create a sense of synergy in a room, connecting different areas, inviting collaboration, and offering flexible work nooks, occasional seating areas and doubling as the perfect laptop table.

Designer coffee tables

A plethora of options exists for designer coffee tables for the commercial setting, spanning everything from wooden coffee tables to the sleek glass coffee table, the more classic round coffee table and small coffee tables. Modern nesting tables are popular for commercial and office settings, offering more versatility for different configurations and uses as required. 

Choosing the best modern coffee tables for office spaces

The best coffee tables or side tables will be different for every space. The style will depend on the intended decor, colour scheme, materiality and uses of the tables themselves. Will they be used in a reception area for waiting for clients to perch a coffee on? Will they be used to display advertising or branding material, or to leave magazines for visitors to read?

Alternatively, they may be destined for the office space itself, to be used by employees as occasional, informal meeting areas, as laptop tables in flexible working spaces, or to draw together for larger meetings. 

Once the intended uses are defined, the next step to choosing the best pieces for your office is to consider materiality. Would a glass side table work best with the decor? Or would a timber/oak side table fit better with the intended aesthetic? Perhaps a metal side table would be the best fit for more industrial space, while a side table with drawers may be the preferred option for occasional use in the main office. A marble coffee table may be best suited to incite a sense of elegance, while a bespoke or designer coffee table, designed especially to work within an interior scheme could be the best option. 

Styling side tables

Coffee and side tables are generally some of the most versatile pieces of furniture in any space due to their ability to be easily moved and reconfigured to suit different uses so it pays to consider how a small table may work best in different settings within the same space. 

If you want the table to be a focus of the space, consider bold colour, material and texture that stands out from the rest of the decor. If the opposite is the case, a glass-topped table with a neutral finish that blends in with other pieces in the room can be the best option.