Tambour Accent Table, Travertine

There is a quality that belongs to ribbed surfaces, the vertical or horizontal lines that give a cylinder its rhythm, its shadow, its quality of architectural intention rendered in stone. The Tambour accent table in Travertine carries that quality across a compact ribbed column and flat disc top in warm travertine. The vertical ribbing of the column catches light along its raised lines with a precision that the smooth column form cannot achieve, the surface animated by the quality of the light around it, always more interesting than the hour before. At forty-six centimetres, it serves beside a reading chair or at the end of a bed with the warm, ribbed authority of classical detail made entirely domestic.