Oberon Crescent Entertainment Units

The Oberon Crescent Entertainment Unit in Smoked Ash is 210cm wide, 45cm deep and 45cm high, with rounded corners and a smoked ash veneer. Four doors open onto four compartments, each shelved except the ends. It ships fully assembled.

A smoked finish does something a stain cannot. The process darkens the timber from within rather than colouring the surface, so the grain stays legible under the depth of tone and the piece reads as timber rather than as painted board, which matters most on a long, plain front.

Dark and low is a useful combination under a wall-mounted screen. The unit recedes when the television is on and holds the wall when it is off, where a pale unit does the opposite and draws the eye to the equipment sitting on it.