With today's continual focus on interior design, coffee tables continue to play a focal point in the world of furniture.
Many of today's furniture come in a wide range of designs, ranging from the more traditional styles, with a antiquity effect, to a more unique design, with a more modernist feel as well as many including storage.
This wide range of coffee tables has meant that today's items are made from a wide range of materials.
Wood remains the key material that many coffee tables are made from.
Used in both traditional tables, as well as modern designed tables.
Many of the high end wooden tables are made using traditional woods, such as oak, chosen for its unique and unrepeatable look, as well as its durability and strength.
Other woods are often used including solid Asian hardwood, many of which come with a Maple Veneer.
In addition, maple finished items, many manufacturer use Pine, Ash, Cedar, moreover, many of the woods often come with a range of finishes, for example a cherry finish.
Because of the various types of wood, and the many available finishes that each type of wood can have, it still remains one of the most popular materials.
Much of the wood used to create the wooden furniture come from specialised, renewable wood plantations, which specialise in creating more durable, stronger strength wood, with fewer natural problems, such as knots.
However, in recent years, interior design has moved towards creating a more modernised feel to homes and this has also affected the materials used to create Coffee Tables, for example, more tables are created using metal, glass and plastic than ever before.
Whilst glass has often been included in traditional wooden tables, in recent years more and more items are being made prominently from glass.
Much of the glass remains thick, with a minimum thickness of 6mm, much of the glass used in these tables are both internationally made whilst also being manufacturer by traditional British glass companies, who have been supplying the glass for furniture pieces for generations.
Moreover, many of the glass tables come is more unique, modernised designs, coming in a variety shapes such as opal, as well as many come available in step-up and U-shape designs.
As with glass, much of the modern styled furniture uses a great deal of metal, with many of the glass tables having metal features, as opposite to wooden characteristics.
Many of the metals used include steel and chrome, both of which come brushed and polished.
Moreover, many of metal aspects of coffee tables are often available with different pigmentations, such as black or red.
Much of the metals are sourced from both the UK and abroad.
Furthermore, with the increase of home improvement in the UK, often resulting in extensions and conservatories being built, it has seen the rise in wicker and rattan, often used as part of conservatory furniture.
Wicker and rattan coffee table feature, glass and metal and come in a wide range of designs.
Wicker and Rattan is available in both natural and synthetic material, Wicker is created using hard woven fibers, made from materials of plant origin but plastic fibers are also used.