AZ Desk by Guillaume Bouvet

Plywood is a brilliant material, and given it's strength and size, can create some very interesting designs.
Here is one neat example, the AZ desk by Guillaume Bouvet:

Colour and grain

Generally, when it comes to furniture design, you get either solid colour, or wood, but rarely a mix of both, and more rarely still, a good mix of the two.

Of course, it is possible, as this Oak outdoor setting by Scout Regalia shows:

Non-rustic flitch coffee tables

I like wood flitches, however, much of the furniture that gets made from them is painfully rustic, and I'm not a particular fan of rustic. These tables here a nice example of the opposite though: