Contemporary Designs

June-July 2026

Quarter Demi-Lune Console Table

Design - Nick Justinian

The Quarter Demi-Lune Console Table is inspired by French ceramicist Emmanuel Boos, and is based on dropped porcelain forms to create buckled-form convolutions. In this design, I feature a console table that is supported by two carved limestone bases. It features 3/4"-thick glass mounted on four brass standoffs. The left base shows three corner divots on the edge to catch the light as if they are nibbles off the edge.

Canova Waterfall Console Table

Design - Nick Justinian

The Canova Waterfall Console Table is inspired by the physics and engineering principles of buckling convolutions, much like those seen in distortions or morphed layers of the earth after earthquakes. In this piece, 3/4" thick glass is mounted on brass standoffs and supported by two stele carved marble bases. The twists and drapery-like chiton forms are reminiscent of Antonio Canova's sensually carved and poetic figurative works, and may include gold leaf details. Although, suited for scanning and additive-manufacturing in specific materials, this carved marble version features four options of stone:

Thassos White Marble

A pure, pristine, and brilliant white marble with a crystalline structure that reflects light beautifully. It is almost entirely devoid of veining and monochromatic. The soft highlights and deep shadows of the buckling bases will read exactly like raw, smooth clay.

Carrara Marble (Statuario)

For a lighter gray background with subtle, feathery grey veining, Statuario historically is favored by sculptors for its fine grain and relative ease of carving of intricate details. The gentle grey shadows inherent to the stone naturally accentuates the deep creases and folds.

Sivec Marble (Macedonian White)

A fine-grained, exceptionally white marble with a highly uniform appearance and an almost translucent quality —Sivec transforms beautifully under a chisel and can take an incredibly fine, satin finish. The slight translucency gives the stone a "soft" depth that mimics the surface quality of wet or moist porcelain.

Bianco Pentelico (Pentelikon Marble)

An historic white marble with a warm, slightly off-white or cream undertone and a very fine grain —Pentelico introduces a faint warmth in material that enhances the "organic" feel of the clay form for design. Its fine grain holds crisp edges and deep folds suited to the concept.

The Leaf Side Table

Design - Nick Justinian

The Leaf Side Table features a carved Carrara marble top with patterns of ornamental stainless steel leaves mounted on an Atomic-style stand of satin-finished 304L stainless steel. The satellite tapered legs are threaded and screwed in place at the base. This work serves as an artistic statement on the sanctity of life amidst a nuclear contentious world.

Carved Black & Red Lacquer Tabletops

Design - Nick Justinian

Traditional Japanese Black or Red Lacquer Tabletops carved and polished to feature serene undulating wave-like effects. DIA. 48-60". Each is edge-banded in solid walnut stock with cerused grain, featuring vertically crossbanded contrasting stripes along the perimeter. Custom colors and edge banding designs are available.

Carved White Lacquer Tabletop with Reeded Edge

Design - Nick Justinian

A modern White Lacquer Tabletop carved and polished featuring a serene undulating wave-like effect. DIA. 48-60". Edge-banded in a reeded gray and black walnut-trim along the circumference.

Carved Magenta Lacquer Tabletops with Candy-Pop Color Edges

Design - Nick Justinian

DIA. 32-44" - Coffee Table or Occasional Table Tops

Carved Magenta Lacquer Cabinet

Design - Nick Justinian

H42", Crossbanded in Satinwood and Bubinga.

Faux Ordnance Console Table

Design - Nick Justinian

The Ordnance Console table features a 3/4"-thick glass top mounted on top of two weighted lower center-of-gravity, metal bomb-style columns with fins.

The Wave Console Table

Design - Nick Justinian

The Wave Console Table features a formed, 12ga. painted sheetmetal top mounted on two oversized sabot-bases, one in a gold-finish herringbone pattern, and the other in a bronze of the same with three epoxy-white stripes.

The Wave Glass Console Table

Design - Nick Justinian

The Wave-Glass Console Table features a formed,10mm thick, tempered glass top that is standoff-mounted on two oversized sabot-bases, each in a gold-finish herringbone pattern.

USA250 Semiquincentennial Coffee Table

Design - Nick Justinian

As our nation celebrates its historic Semiquincentennial, a tribute to the enduring ideals of liberty, strength, and defense of our freedoms and way of life for future generations, is merited.

This coffee-table design is a commemoration and celebration of the many pieces of America that makes this country special to me. I present this Federally-themed table design. It features a three-colored geometric red and blue fused-glass top with white glass stars along its perimeter, and is mounted over a Space-Age style, elegant stand of satin finished, 304L stainless steel. Laser engraved below it are the words,"...liberty, strength, and the defense of our freedoms for future generations..." In the center, is an enameled or cloisonné made emblem that may be thermally set into the glass, allowed to be set slightly proud and then polished to a desired sheen.

AI and Production Remarks: Using Generative-AI to create images of designs can sometimes create remarkable and unintended results from unrestrained prompts. In this glass tabletop layup-design, "recursive geometric tiling" was generated in the first result. "This is a process of substitution tiling where complex shapes or patterns are generated by iteratively dividing or replacing the original shapes with smaller, scaled-down versions of themselves. This mathematical technique creates highly structured, self-similar fractals and beautiful aperiodic tessellations," according to sources.

Using a metal die-frame that is positioned in place and later lifted, and made along a .dxf pattern of the outlines of the fractal array, a series of hot pours of colored glass can be added into each partitioned cavity, each a different color (red or blue according to the desired design). When the glass layup is completed and slightly cooled, the heated die frame is lifted, and the final fused slab assembly is then reheated and melted in place onto a clear, thicker glass-substrate on the reverse side.

A drawing below represents this layout:

Details for the table base:

Federally Themed, Fractal Table Top

Design - Nick Justinian

Of various gemstones inlaid or using 1" glass with printed industrial materials applied in églomisé.

The Auditions Side Table

Design - Nick Justinian

The Auditions Side Table features various table-top materials, such as, spalted wood tops with live edges, white quartz with dichroic glass pieces, Andes Black granite and others over cylinder-drum bases that are cladded in herringbone patterns of polished and satin-finished, 304L stainless steel.

Option Details:

The Cloud Side Table

Design - Nick Justinian

The Cloud Side Table features a 3/4"-thick glass top with a polished pencil-edge mounted over a Space-Age style stand of satin finished, 3D-printed, 304L stainless steel, shown here in a graphite patina.

The Églomisé Cloud Side Table

Design - Nick Justinian

The Églomisé Cloud Side/Coffee Table features a multi-colored, epoxy-resin cast of reverse-painted marbling beneath a 3/4"-thick glass or acrylic top with a polished pencil-edge, mounted over a Space-Age style stand of a satin finished, 3D-printed, 304L stainless steel base.

About

Nick Justinian is the former Design Director for The Manheim Companies, Manheim-Weitz Galleries in Dallas, Texas under David Sutherland for David Sutherland Showrooms, Inc. He possess over three decades of furniture design experience and is a master craftsman in fine furniture and custom finishes.

Working with AIA architects, ASID interior designers, and other A&D professionals nationwide, he provided bespoke designs and new customs based on that firm’s catalog-showroom articles, and collectively served dozens of their national showrooms to the trade, including Holly Hunt (k/n/a Miller/Knoll through acquisition), McGannon & Associates, Ainsworth-Noah, and interior design firms across the country for worldwide hospitality projects and high-end residential.

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