Ooh la la! Discovered in Villeneuve-lès-Avignon, this 19th-century French farm table is built on an X-trestle base, the oldest form of country table construction in Europe. Two pairs of crossed legs are pegged at the X, joined by a single horizontal stretcher between them, and the long plank top sits across the trestles without nails or screws. The form goes back to medieval France and country joiners kept making them this way through the 19th century, because the construction was strong, simple, and built from any timber a village had. Sylvie places it in the kitchen lined with mismatched chairs, the meeting place in the heart of the home where the day always ends up.
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