BH | Studio Llandeilo Fluted 4-Door Media Console

The low cabinet for music and broadcasting was a mid-century invention: radiograms and record consoles of the 1950s and 1960s gave the living room a long, low piece of furniture to gather round. Today it holds a screen instead, but the shape and the job are much the same.

This console has a long top and four doors. The pair in the middle are plain and smooth in a mid walnut wood-grain finish, while the two outer doors are fluted, grooved in fine upright lines, and both end sections angle in a little towards the wall. The top is long enough to take a large television with room to spare at each end, and it is rated to hold 110 lbs. Straight legs lift the middle section about six and a half inches, so a vacuum fits underneath. Behind the doors are four compartments for streaming boxes, games consoles and controllers, and four holes at the back lead the cords away. Assembly is required.

Put it under a big screen in a family room for movie nights, with plants and framed photographs at either end and the remotes and games behind the doors. In a bedroom or a den it works as a long, low cabinet for a smaller television, books and a record player, and in a dining room it is a slim buffet. The fluted wood looks warm and mid-century with a tobacco leather chair and a wool rug.