Table Tops | The Texture Edit
A Shift Towards Texture
As hospitality and commercial interiors become more tactile and experience-led, materials are starting to play a bigger role in how a space feels day to day.
In this edit, we take a closer look at a selection of textured table top surfaces, each offering a considered way to bring depth, character, and materiality into your next project.
Table Tops | Recycled Coffee
At first, coffee waste isn’t something you would instinctively associate with a refined table top. But when seen, it reveals a quiet sophistication.
The surface carries a natural richness; deep, roasted tones with a gentle, organic variation that shifts subtly across the plane. There is a warmth to it that feels familiar, almost comforting, like the depth of freshly ground coffee.
Up close, the texture has a softness, layered, tactile, and slightly imperfect in a way that feels intentional. It doesn’t rely on bold pattern or high contrast. Instead, it creates atmosphere through tone and materiality.
It is a surface that invites a second look and more importantly, a closer experience.
Pressed into a substrate of your choice, whether Birch Plywood, MDF, Chipboard, or Eco-Board, the material becomes as practical as it is expressive. It’s handmade in the UK, plastic-free, and made using a minimum of 70% recycled material, bringing a more considered approach to specification.
Coffee & Turmeric | Layered Warmth
Building on this, combining recycled coffee husk with turmeric introduces a more expressive warmth to the surface.
The addition of turmeric brings a gentle lift in tone, introducing golden, sun-warmed hues that sit within the deeper base of the coffee.
The result is a table top that feels layered and luminous, with subtle shifts in colour that reveal themselves over time and in changing light.
As you can see, there is a richness to it, but also a softness.
This material combination adds warmth without heaviness. Texture without being loud. And a sense of material honesty that feels increasingly important in hospitality design.
Timber Terazzo
Timber Terrazzo offers a different way of working with wood. It taking reclaimed offcuts and re-forming them into a durable, design-led surface.
Small fragments of wood are pressed with mineral powders into a smooth base, giving you the warmth and variation of wood, but with a more consistent, structured finish that works well in hospitality settings.
Up close, you see the detail. Slices of wood, adding depth and texture. Yet from a distance, the table top feels calm and cohesive. It is this balance that makes it so easy to work with, adding interest without overwhelming a scheme.
Ivory with Cedar & Walnut | Balanced Warmth
Within the timber terrazzo range, Ivory with warming Cedar & Walnut creates a soft, balanced palette, which has been used at a range of venues.
Set against a light ivory base, the warmer tones of cedar and the deeper notes of walnut create a gentle contrast, enough to give the surface definition, without feeling heavy.
It is a table top surface that works well across a range of interiors. Paired with natural materials, it enhances warmth. Set against stronger colours, it helps to ground the scheme.
Recycled Plastic: Circular Design
Recycled plastic offers a different kind of material story. One rooted in transformation.
What would otherwise be waste is reworked into a durable, design-led table top. The process brings a level of control and consistency, but still allows for variation to come through. You can see small flecks and fragments that give each piece its own character.
The result is a table top surface that feels clean and considered, but not flat. There’s texture there, just quieter. More about subtle detail than bold pattern.
Heron | Soft Contrast
Within this table top range, Heron takes a soft, neutral approach.
A blend of pale greys, off-whites, and gentle ochre tones creates a light, layered surface that feels easy to place within a scheme. There’s enough variation to add interest, but it remains calm, never competing with the wider design.
It’s a finish that works particularly well in spaces where you want materials to support the atmosphere, rather than define it.
Used at GAIL’s St Russell Street, Heron shows how this kind of surface can work in practice.
Paired with natural wood and softer green tones, it helps create a space that feels light, relaxed, and welcoming, while still holding up to the demands of a busy hospitality environment.
Woodio: Reused Wood
Woodio offers a different take on wood as it reworks real wood chips into a durable, design-led surface.
Made from a blend of aspen, spruce, and pine chips, sourced from certified forests and forestry side streams, the material is bound with a resin to create a 100% waterproof composite. The result is a surface that retains the warmth and familiarity of wood, but with the performance needed for high-use hospitality settings.
Up close, the texture becomes the defining feature.
Small wood chips are visible across the surface, giving it a natural, speckled appearance that feels tactile and grounded. There’s a softness to it visually, but with a robustness that makes it practical in everyday use.
Natural Finish | Refined Warmth
The natural finish, available to view in our showroom, is a particularly approachable expression of the material.
It is one that the team often refers to as the “sesame seed” table top, as it is rich, textured, and almost good enough to eat.
That sense of familiarity makes it easy to connect with, while still feeling considered and design-led.
The right table top doesn’t just sit within a space. It helps define how it feels.
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