Living in New York, where close quarters are the norm, every room — regardless of the season — ends up feeling, shall we say, cozy. In small spaces, there’s no room to hide a poorly planned setup. Recently, at a dinner party in a friend's studio apartment, I found myself completely envious of her glossy white nesting coffee tables. They moved around like puzzle pieces as more guests arrived, then stacked together effortlessly when it was time to tidy up. Genius, I thought.
“I'd never considered them as a coffee table because my living rooms have always been small, and I assumed they’d eat up too much space,” admits Livingetc's interiors editor Emma Breislin. “But then a designer explained to me that they actually work wonders in tight spaces as you can spread them out when needed, making them more functional and less bulky than a single, large coffee table.”
