Side tables and lamps behave awkwardly in small apartments. The drink and book migrate from sofa to armchair throughout the day, but the lamp never seems to be where you need it, and the cable gets dragged across the floor. Most furniture still assumes a fixed layout, even though habits are much more fluid, especially in spaces where the same corner has to function as office, living room, and dining area by Thursday.
Grab & Glow is a portable side table with a clever twist. Its legs pass through the tabletop and continue upward to form a single handle. That handle is the thing you instinctively reach for when you want to move it, so the table, light, and whatever is on top travel together instead of you juggling a tray in one hand and a lamp in the other while trying not to trip over the cord.
Designer: Liam de la Bedoyere
The handle is also the light source. You loosen a small bolt at the edge, rotate the handle, and a hidden light flicks on at the curved end. The same tube that makes the table easy to carry becomes an arm that throws a pool of light onto the surface below, so the gesture of settling in somewhere new and turning on the lamp is literally the same motion, one twist.
The tabletop is a powder-coated metal disc with a slight lip that keeps books and glasses from sliding when you move it. The finish is built for everyday use, resistant to scratches and rings, so it can live next to a sofa, bed, or reading chair without feeling precious or needing coasters. The circular footprint keeps it compact, which matters when you’re threading it between furniture or tucking it under a desk.
Integrated cable management means the power cord runs neatly down one leg, held by discreet clips, and can be wrapped when you need to tidy up. A small cut-out on the tabletop rim lets the plug or a charging cable pass through without getting pinched, so you can route power to the lamp or a laptop without a tangle, even as the table moves around the room throughout the week.
A day with Grab & Glow might start with it acting as a coffee perch in the morning, a laptop stand by the sofa in the afternoon, and then a reading light by the bed at night. The height and handle make it easy to lift without bending much, and the light always ends up exactly where your book or keyboard is because it’s attached to the same object you’re already carrying from room to room.
Grab & Glow treats a side table less like a static piece of furniture and more like a personal tool you carry around the house. By letting the legs pierce the tabletop to become a handle and lamp, and by quietly solving the cable problem, it shows how a single structural idea can make flexible living feel less improvised and more designed, one grab at a time.
