BH | Studio Dornoch Faux Marble Nesting Coffee Table Set

Fluting, a run of narrow rounded channels, has dressed fine furniture since the Regency, and it returned strongly in the 1930s, when cabinetmakers used it to soften long, plain fronts with light and shadow.

The set is two drums, a larger coffee table and a smaller, slightly taller side table, each ringed with upright wooden staves and capped with a round faux marble top in deep black, shot through with pale veining. The larger top lifts off to reveal a hidden storage well, a home for spare throws, board games, paperbacks and the remotes that otherwise vanish down the sofa. Pull the small table out as an extra surface when guests arrive, and slide it back alongside when they leave. The tops are rated to hold 176 lbs, the staves carry a warm chestnut-brown wood grain, and assembly is required.

Set the pair in front of a sofa, the larger carrying coffee, magazines and a tray of candles, the smaller a lamp or an evening cocktail. They work just as well in a home office seating corner or a lounge. Black marble with warm wood is a classic hotel-bar pairing: put it with a camel or cream bouclé sofa, a brass floor lamp and a big leafy plant, and the veining picks up any white in the room. This listing is for a set of two tables.