Round Coffee Table with Lower Shelf, Walnut Tone

Anyone with a 3 year old in the house knows where the bruises come from, it is the corner of the coffee table, every time, right at the height of the child's forehead. So the first reason people pick this table is that it has no corner at all. The top is a full circle in a dark walnut brown and it stands on 3 wide legs that lean outward a little at the floor, more like a stool than a table, which is also why it never wobbles on an uneven floor, a 3 legged thing always finds its footing.

The second reason is underneath it. There is a round shelf down there, open on every side because of the way the legs are set and in most houses it fills up in the first week with:

• the newspapers nobody has thrown away yet.
• the remote and the set top box remote.
• magazines and the book that is half read.
• the children's colouring things.

That leaves the top free for the tea tray and people sitting on the sofa, on a chair pulled up, or on the floor with a cushion can all reach the middle of a round table equally, which a long rectangle never manages.

The Catch With The Angled Legs

The legs lean out, so the table takes up more floor at the bottom than the top suggests and somebody sitting very close will touch a leg with a foot now and then. In a narrow gap between the sofa and the TV unit, that is the thing to check.

Finish: dark walnut brown. Legs: 3, angled. Shelf: 1, round. Made in our Jodhpur workshop.