Found in Avignon, this early-20th-century French coffee table is built on the oldest table design there is, two shaped trestle legs joined by a single stretcher and locked together with a wedged peg you can still see. That joint is the whole trick of a trestle table, no glue and no nails, just a key driven through the tenon so the thing holds rock solid and still comes apart to move through a doorway. The form goes back to the long refectory tables of monasteries and farmhouses, here brought down to coffee-table height with the same honest carpentry and a thick, well-worn top. Sylvie sets it in front of a sofa with a stack of books and a bowl on top.
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