Willa Marble Coffee Table - Emperador Marble - Chocolate Oak

The Willa Marble Coffee Table in Emperador Marble - Chocolate Oak is 95cm square and 35cm high, with a marble top on a timber base. The colour names the stone first and the timber second. At 95cm square it suits a seating group approached from several sides.

Emperador is a dark brown marble with pale veining, which behaves differently from a white stone in a room. It reads as a solid dark surface from across the room and only shows its figure close up, so it grounds a seating group rather than drawing the eye.

At 95cm square and 35cm high the proportions are right in front of a standard sofa: low enough to see over, big enough for a tray and a stack of books.

The caveat is honest. Marble is porous even when sealed, and a coffee table is where wet glasses get put down without thinking. Rings will show, so coasters are doing real work here.