Found in the Netherlands by way of Spain, this 19th-century coffee table started its life as a Spanish farmhouse work table and was cut down at some point in the 20th century to the height it stands at now. The single long drawer across the front is carved with a chip-carved border, a chisel-and-gouge technique that Spanish country joiners used to decorate the simplest pieces, and the small turned wooden knob is original. The thick top is a single slab of chestnut, dark with age and scarred with the marks of the work it did for a hundred years before it was brought into a living room. Sylvie places it in front of a low sofa with a pair of old leather-bound books and a glass of red wine that catches the lamplight on a winter night.
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