Made in 18th-century England, this small side table is built in the joint stool tradition, with turned baluster legs, a shaped apron, and a box stretcher running around the base near the floor. These were made by hand in the English joiner's workshop, put together with mortise-and-tenon joints to serve as both seating and small tables. The box stretcher at the bottom did double duty, holding the legs square and keeping feet off a cold stone floor. The top has worn through its dark finish to the bare wood beneath, the surface of a piece used for nearly three hundred years. Sylvie places it beside a bed as a nightstand, the small dark table that anchors a corner of a room.
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