Oberon Crescent Marble Bedside - Satin Grey Travertine - Thyme

The Oberon Crescent Marble Bedside in Satin Grey Travertine - Thyme is 50cm square and 55cm high, with a stone top over a curved case. The colour names the stone first and the case finish second. At 55cm it clears the top of a deep mattress.

Bedside height is the measurement people regret buying wrong. Mattresses have grown deeper over the last twenty years and most bedsides have not, so a 50cm table beside a 60cm bed puts the lamp and the water below the mattress line. At 55cm this one is sized for a current bed.

A stone top on a bedside is doing real work rather than looking expensive. This is the surface that takes a glass of water every night, and stone does not ring or swell the way a timber top does.

The caveat is that stone is porous whatever the sealer. A glass left standing will eventually leave a mark, so a coaster earns its place here more than anywhere else in the house.