Varo Coffee Table - Travertine

The Varo Coffee Table in Travertine is a solid stone table measuring 120cm wide, 90cm deep and 38cm high, on four curved slab legs. The top is a rounded rectangle with a thick bullnose edge, in a pale cream travertine with the linear banding the stone is known for. It arrives in parts and is assembled in place.

Travertine is the palest option in this range and the one that asks least of a room. The banding runs in soft parallel lines rather than the branching veins of a marble, so the surface reads as texture rather than pattern and does not compete with a rug underneath it. On a pale floor the table almost disappears, which is exactly the point if the sofa is the thing you want looked at.

At 90cm deep this is a wide table rather than a long thin one, and that changes what it can do. Two people can put something down from opposite sides without reaching across, and a tray, a stack of books and a lamp can coexist on it rather than queueing. The 38cm height sits just below a typical seat, which is the comfortable relationship for putting a cup down without leaning forward.