Found in Avignon, this low 20th-century table is the one a room ends up gathered around, the surface that collects the books, the coffee, and the flowers over the course of a day. A single thick plank forms the top, set on four turned legs that splay outward and are braced low by a curling iron bar running from side to side. That iron bar is the whole trick, holding the splayed legs steady so a top this heavy could rest on them without a single wide joint, a southern way of building tables that traveled up through France. Sylvie sets it in front of a low sofa with a stack of books and a vase of flowers at one end, the middle left open for everything else.
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