BH | Studio Falsterbo 7-Drawer Console Table

The long, narrow table that stands against a wall or behind a sofa came of age in the late eighteenth century, in English houses and in the Gustavian interiors of Sweden, where pale, light-filled rooms were lined with slim consoles for candles, books and sewing. Its descendants are the console tables we put behind sofas and in halls today.

This long, narrow console has seven drawers in two rows, four across the top and three below, each front faced in woven synthetic rattan with a small pull, for the small things a household collects. Beneath them an open shelf runs nearly the full length for shoes, baskets or a couple of favourite pieces, and four slim legs stand on non-marking pads. The case is a laminated engineered wood with a wood grain in Almond or Hazel. The top is rated to 194 lbs spread evenly, each drawer to 11 lbs and the lower shelf to 154 lbs.

Slim enough for an entry hall, a passage or the space behind a sofa, it gives a long room a place for lamps at either end, with board games, chargers and spare batteries out of sight in the drawers and baskets or shoes on the shelf below. In a bedroom it serves as a narrow dresser. Wood grain and light cane bring the easy, sunlit look of a beach house, lovely with sea-glass blues and a big shell on top.