Classique Pedestal Coffee Table - Smoked Ash

The Classique Pedestal Coffee Table in Smoked Ash is a darkened ash veneer top on a central pedestal, 80cm across. The 35mm top is inset by 19mm and sits 365mm clear of the floor. The base measures 450mm.

Smoking ash darkens the timber without hiding it, so the grain stays fully legible while the tone drops well below raw ash. That is the finish to choose when the room already has pale timber in it and another light piece would simply disappear.

On a darker top the inset detail reads more strongly, because the shadow line around the rim has a deeper surface to fall on. The pedestal base carries the same finish, so the table is a single tone from floor to top. At 80cm it suits a compact seating arrangement; in front of a long sofa the proportion goes wrong and something larger is the better answer.