BH | Studio Kenmare Pedestal Side Table

Eighteenth-century tea tables often had a raised rim around the top, so that cups and saucers could not slide off when the table was carried or brushed past. Set that tray-like top on a single central pedestal, a support that frees the edge for knees and chairs, and you have one of the most sensible small tables ever devised.

This is the tall, slender version. A small round top with a raised lip sits on a short neck above a solid drum base that widens like a bell toward the floor. It is made from solid hardwood, stained an even Jet or Chestnut that still lets the grain read as a fine texture, and it is rated to hold 200 lbs, so a heavy potted plant or a stone lamp is no trouble. The small footprint makes it useful in apartments and tight corners, and it arrives fully assembled.

Stand it beside a sofa as a place for a drink and the remote, or at the side of a bed with a lamp and a phone. As a plant stand it lifts a fern or a snake plant up into the light, and the lip keeps small things from rolling off, so it works by a bath too. In either finish it gives a modern room a strong little silhouette, especially beside a white bouclé chair or against a sage green wall.