Atlas Decagon Side Table - Monica Red Marble

The Atlas Decagon Side Table in Monica Red Marble is 48cm across and 48cm high, in marble, on a ten-sided base. The same dimension in both directions makes it read as a cylinder that has been cut rather than turned. At 48cm it sits at seat height beside a chair.

A coloured marble is a commitment. Red marble is not a neutral that recedes into a room; it is the thing you notice, which makes this a better piece beside a plain chair than in a room already full of pattern.

At 48cm across and 48cm high the proportions are square, so the table has no wrong orientation and reads the same from every seat in the room.

The caveat is honest. Marble is porous even when sealed, veining runs differently through every piece, and a small solid stone table is heavy enough to chip a tile if it goes over. It is a piece to place rather than to move.