Antique Coffee Table

Coffee tables never existed in the old farmhouses of Normandy, so the low tables that survive from that world were made for other work, or were long kitchen tables brought down to a new height for a new life. Found in Montpellier but originally from Normandy, this antique table carries a single drawer under a broad top, its surface worn dark and glossy by generations of hands, cups, and elbows. Normandy is apple country, the land of cider and Calvados, where farmhouse furniture was built heavy and practical to last through long, wet winters by the fire. Sylvie sets it in front of the sofa on a winter evening, a stack of old books at one end and a black clay jar of white lilies at the other, a small glass of Calvados left within reach.

 

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