Designed for life’s moments of leisure, The Morning Table seamlessly blends organic aesthetics with modern functionality. Whether you’re savoring a morning coffee or winding down with an evening cocktail, this table embraces nature’s asymmetry and sustainable materials like aluminum, steel, white oak, recycled rubber, and a grounding rock base. Featuring a MagSafe holder from Nite Ize for iPhone 12 and newer models, it ensures your device is securely in place and easily accessible. The Morning Table transforms utility into an experience, adding a refined yet approachable touch to your everyday life. Discover more and see how it fits into your space.
Vanya Vitous is a junior studying Interior Design at Villa Maria College. The Morning Table was crafted with guidance from Professor Jesse Walp in fulfillment of the “Surface for a Purpose” project.
Part of the Furniture Design course, “Surface for a Purpose,” requires students to identify a need for a surface and designs the piece around that need. Vanya’s Morning Table of aluminum, steel, stone, white oak, and rubber. They cut, bent, drilled, tapped, and welded the steel, ground, drilled and sandblasted the stone, cut, routed, sanded, and polished the aluminum, milled, laminated, routed, and sanded the oak, and cut, sanded, and glued the rubber. The piece is multifunctional, holding a phone magnetically while having a small table surface that includes a built-in coaster for a mug of hot beverage.
