Elsie Bedside - Matt Ocean Marble - Natural Ash

The Elsie Bedside in Matt Ocean Marble - Natural Ash is a stone-topped bedside on timber veneer, 45cm wide, 38cm deep and 50cm high. The case curves at the front, so the drawer face reads as part of the form rather than a panel set into it. It suits a narrow bedside wall.

At 45cm wide this is the narrow Elsie, and narrow is the whole point. A bedside only has to hold a lamp, a glass and whatever you are reading, and anything wider starts competing with the bed for the wall.

Stone on timber is a pairing that works because the two materials disagree. The stone is cool and closed, the veneer is warm and open-grained, and each stops the other from dominating the corner of the room.

The caveat is the top. Honed stone is porous and it is the surface a water glass sits on every night, so a coaster is doing real work here rather than being decorative.