Artie Buffet - Powder Blue

The Artie Buffet in Powder Blue pairs solid ash and ash veneer under a protective PU sealer, at 180cm wide. Behind four doors sit three compartments, each with one fixed shelf measuring 815mm wide, 410mm deep and 290mm high inside. The legs are slim, which keeps a long case looking light.

Powder blue on a dining room buffet is a real decision. It is soft enough not to shout, but it is still colour, and it will set the palette for the room rather than sitting neutrally behind whatever else you put there. If the walls and the table are quiet it works; if they are already doing something, it will compete.

The shelf openings are published in full, which is unusually specific: 815mm across and 290mm high. That is enough to know before you buy whether a stack of dinner plates or a tall decanter will actually fit, and it is a far better basis for a decision than the word ample. There is solid ash in the construction rather than veneer over board throughout, so the piece has real timber in it.