In a small room a table has to earn its place, and this one does it by dropping both its leaves to stand slim against a wall, then opening into a full round whenever the room needs something in the middle of it. Found in Avignon and made in the 20th century, it carries a round top with a molded edge on two curving trestle ends, joined by scalloped stretchers and a long lower rail held fast by wooden wedges driven through each leg. Those wedges were the old trestle maker’s way of building without glue or nails, so the whole base could be knocked apart and moved with a few taps of a mallet. Sylvie loves it as an entryway table, or behind a sofa with one leaf folded down, a lamp and a stack of books along the top.
