Magnetically-joined furniture doesn't have a very long commercial history. We first saw Eveline Pieters' Green Tuna Design brand and Joene Verschuren's BARkwadraat table in 2011, and Benjamin Vermeulen's Geometry line in 2013, both of which made use of magnets; but neither appears to actually be for sale, or at least, they don't have websites with shopping links.

Now, however, a Chicago-based furniture design collective called Dock 312 is producing and actively selling a line of magnetically-joined endtables. 

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Called the Artesian line, each piece consists of  bamboo ply elements that are joined together via slots, with the connection firmed up by embedded magnets; a piece of glass then forms the top. They'll ship flat, and assembly looks to be virtually idiot-proof: