BH | Studio Auray Rounded Media Cabinet

In the 1930s, streamlining moved from trains and ocean liners into the home, and sideboards and cabinets began to lose their corners. Curved ends made a long case easier to walk past and gentler on the eye, and the rounded buffet has stayed a dining room favourite ever since.

This low media cabinet has the same soft, rounded ends, carried on two circular plinths that keep it steady. Two roomy drawers sit at the centre for remotes, controllers and chargers, with a cupboard on each side behind soft-close doors and an adjustable shelf inside. Three cut-outs in the back, each with a cover, let cables pass through, so the cords from a wall-mounted television disappear. It is made from engineered wood with a smooth, matte wood-grain finish in Almond or Jet, and the top is rated to hold 200 lbs. At 71 inches long it sits comfortably under a large screen.

Place it under a wall-hung television in a family room, with games and remotes in the drawers and a low lamp and a plant on top, or use it in a bedroom as a long, low chest for sweaters. Its rounded ends keep a large piece from feeling heavy in a light, airy room. It suits a minimal or organic interior: pale oak floors, a bouclé armchair, linen curtains and a few pieces of hand-thrown pottery.