Seb Balance Coffee Table - Oak

The Seb Balance Coffee Table in Oak is 160cm wide, 75cm deep and 30cm high, with a boat-shaped top on an offset base. The top is wider than the base is long, so it reads as balanced rather than supported. At 30cm it sits very low.

Thirty centimetres is low for a coffee table and it is the reason this one looks the way it does. Below sofa seat height the table disappears from the sightline across a room, which makes a 160cm surface feel far less imposing than the dimension suggests.

The boat shape narrows at both ends, so a long table still leaves room to walk past at the corners. On a 160cm rectangle that is 10 or 15cm of walking room recovered.

The caveat is the height against a deep sofa. At 30cm, reaching a cup from a seat with a 60cm depth is a genuine lean, so this suits a firmer, shallower sofa better than a deep one.