He's a successful designer of all sorts of items. I think this design might be a coffee table.
I would call him a stylist, rather than a designer. An industrial designer integrates functionality with aesthetics (and manufacturability, if they're really good). A stylist sticks a skin of a fashionable kind on top of the working parts. Newson styled a camera for Pentax which was universally panned for its ergonomics (and its toy-like looks) and only stayed in production for a year.