By now, we all know the power that a pop of something red can do to a space. But in 2025, we've all grown a bit braver, and that touch of red has become a whole lot bolder. The 'Red Table Trick', as we like to call it at Livingetc, has become the hallmark of all the most luxurious interiors, and it only involves tweaking one thing.
It was our editor, Hugh Metcalf, who first spotted the interior design trend. "The red table has, all of a sudden, become ubiquitous in all of the most exciting projects that pass my desk," he told me. And as is so often the case as soon as someone points something out to you — I began to see it everywhere.
