Elsie Bedside - Matt White Marble - Natural Ash

The Elsie Bedside is a compact marble-topped bedside on natural ash veneer, 45cm wide, 38cm deep and 50cm high. Its drawer runs on soft-close Hettich hardware, and the piece arrives fully assembled with an anchor kit included. The marble is honed and has not been UV-treated, so keep it out of direct sunlight.

Two details here are worth more than all the styling copy around them. The runners are Hettich, a named hardware maker rather than an unspecified fitting, and the piece ships with an anchor kit, which matters for a bedside a child might climb. Neither is glamorous and both are checkable.

The marble is honed rather than polished, and it has not been UV-treated. That is a genuine limitation stated plainly, and it means a bright north-facing bedroom is the wrong spot for this piece. At 14kg it is light enough to move on your own when you are vacuuming or changing the bed, which is not true of every stone-topped bedside. The 45cm width suits a narrow bed frame or a room where the walkway beside the bed is tight.