Wine tasting tables blend form and function, while remaining versatile pieces. A favored purchase of my youngest daughter for her home was a reproduction French wine tasting table. It's small in size, but big in character - raw, aged oak with hand joinery. She's currently using it as a living room side table, but it would also function nicely as a bedside table. A larger, … [Read more...]
Table Talk
I find myself obsessed with palmettes, globes and scrolling legs on metal base tables. Once I met an antique dealer who specialized in chairs. Just chairs. For me, it would be metal base tables, perhaps a hangover from my days as a restaurant critic. If left alone with furniture I’ll usually find a table I could buy, particularly an old one with a metal base and any one of … [Read more...]