French Farm Table

The table a whole farmhouse lived around. Found in Le Mans and made in the early 20th century, it carries a thick plank top on four heavy turned legs, joined low by a stretcher and stripped back to a soft, pale wood. The farm table was the one piece a French household truly lived around, where the family ate, worked, rolled out pastry and settled the accounts, and the low stretcher gave somewhere to rest your feet off a cold stone floor. Sylvie would put it in the kitchen or dining room and let it do everything, dinners and homework and long lunches that never quite end.