Stripped of its old finish, the oak has gone pale and dry, and the whole table sits low and long the way the oldest French ones do. It was found in Avignon, originally made in the 20th century in solid oak, with a trestle base braced by a single low stretcher. That stretcher was meant to be pegged rather than glued, so the table could be pulled apart and carried from one room to the next, the way it was first done in monastery refectories. Sylvie sets it in front of the longest sofa and lets it hold everything at once, the books and the coffee and the flowers from that mornings market.
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