Found in Villeneuve-lès-Avignon and originally from Lyon, this 20th-century French coffee table was cut down from a long farmhouse table to live closer to the floor. The three drawers across the front were once for kitchen knives, ladles, and the linens that came out before every meal, and the steel cup pulls and brass keyhole escutcheon are original to the piece. The top is a single wide slab of oak, marked with the soft scars of a hundred years of working life: knife cuts, ring stains, the spots where a hot pot was set down without thinking. The turned legs hold the case high enough off the floor for a basket of magazines or a sleeping dog underneath. Sylvie places it in front of a long sofa with a stack of books, a small plate for olive pits, and the lamp turned on low.
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