Some tables are made to be passed down, and this 19th-century oak farm table from Villeneuve-lès-Avignon is one of them. The top is a thick single run of plank, and the four turned baluster legs are joined low by an H-stretcher. That stretcher near the floor was the working detail; it tied the legs together against decades of being leaned on and pushed around, and it gave whoever sat down somewhere to rest their feet on a cold stone floor. Sylvie sets it in a kitchen or dining room with a long bench down one side and chairs along the other, laid for a lunch that runs well into the afternoon.
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