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Homes & Gardens
Homes & Gardens
Julia Demer

Hold the coffee table, designers say you should fill your spaces with tiny tables instead – and I have picked the best designs for fall 2025

Marika Meyers Studio for “Forest Hills” - Photography by Stacy Zarin Goldberg.

If the coffee table is the responsible older sister, the cocktail table is the younger, cooler one with better taste in shoes. Physically, she's tiny, but she makes an impression – and in 2025, she’s everywhere. Designers are scaling down with this furniture trend, delivering sculptural, small-scale tables that serve just enough purpose to justify their beauty. CB2’s got them. Joon + Loloi too. And fellow magpies certainly won’t sleep on the crystal confections from Reflections Copenhagen.

But why the hubbub? And realistically, how many cocktail tables can one room take before it starts resembling a showroom?

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