Join the coffee table revolution at Maldini.

It can be argued that a coffee table is simply a coffee table.

But it can also be argued that this often-overlooked piece of furniture is much more than simply the sum of its parts.

This is exactly how the design team at Arketipo, a luxury Italian-based furniture company, feels.

“Small tables are ‘balance’ in a world of imbalance,” says the team.

“Take a space, fill it with the objects you love, the objects that bring the room together and you start to create a personality; or you reflect your own. But in every room, there is a space for bridging identity, culture and design. Small tables have the unique power of letting other objects take a room, simultaneously making them functional and beautiful when selected with style at the front of the mind.

“Take the greatest living rooms in history, pop culture…your own life. What do they have in common? A place to rest your remote controls, books, a drink at the end of a hard day or just a place to simply put a beautiful bowl of flowers. They are the ubiquitous feature of living rooms all over the world and yet, they do not ask for our direct attention, they just have it.”

Statements of individual creativity as much as practical necessity, shop Arketipo’s iconic coffee tables, such as the Chimera coffee table by Dainelli Studio, Gino Carollo’s marble Moon Invaders tables and Mauro Lipparini’s Final Cut and Douglas coffee tables, at Maldini now.

“It is within designs like Mauro Lipparini’s that we see beauty is enshrined in function. These are simply not tables; calling it a simple low table is a disservice to something uniquely individual in design and execution.”

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