Claridge beige console table

A console is often the furniture we choose last, the one we place in a corridor or behind a sofa because you have to put something. The Beige Claridge Console is better than that. 140 cm long for 35 cm deep and 80 cm high, it has the exact proportions of a piece of furniture that we look as much as it is used. Its agillive golden beige lacquered iron structure, with these rounded corners features of the Claridge collection, gives it this silhouette that we recognize immediately when we know the range. The upper tray is reversible: travertine ceramic on one side, black glass on the other. 14 cm of total visible thickness of profile. Below, a low dark glass tray that serves as an additional storage or presentation area. 42 kg on the scale, made by hand, delivered without assembly. A high-end lounge or entrance console that is part of these pieces that one wonders, after a few weeks of life with them, how it was before.

A design that immediately attracts the look

The silhouette of the Claridge console is immediately legible: two lateral amounts of gold lacquered iron, connected at the top by the thick plate and downwards by the glazed tray, with these transitions rounded to the angles that soften what could have to be too rigid. Facing view, it looks like an architectural setting laid against the wall, almost like a golden window that would give on the void. Aside, the 35 cm profile reveals the actual thickness of the upper plateau, 14 cm in total, which gives it a visual presence much higher than that of a conventional console. The ancient gold finish is not uniform: it carries these slight variations of hue that betray work by hand, these places where the metal has been brushed differently, where the patina has landed with a little more intensity. This is precisely this controlled irregularity which gives the furniture its character. And the reversible tray, travertine ceramic or black glass according to the chosen face, adds a decorative layer that is rarely found on a console at this level of finish.

Why choose this model for your interior?

• Reversible travertine / black glass ceramic tray: Two atmospheres in a single piece of furniture. The travertine face for a warm and natural interior, the black glass face for something more graphic and more contrasted. We choose according to the season or the evolution of the room.
• 140 cm long for a real presence: At this size, the Claridge console structure a whole wall pan. It is not an accessory that we slide where it remains of the place, it is a room that we integrate in the composition of the piece from the start.
• 14 cm of visible tray thickness of profile: This detail changes the perception that has been from furniture from an angle. It gives it a visual plumb that the end-to-tray consoles of 2 or 3 cm can not claim.
• A golden beige lacquered iron structure made by hand: The rounded angles, the patinated finish, the slight variations of hue: as many details that do not get to the chain and which make all the difference in a demanding interior.
• A glazed lower tray for double use: neither drawer nor door. Just an open and visible space that allows to lay books, decorative objects, or let voluntarily empty for the light crosses. Each option works.

In which room install this console?

The entrance is his most obvious destination, and she excels there. Against a breathped white wall or natural coating, with a round or rectangular mirror above and some well-chosen objects on the travertine tray, it immediately creates this first impression that a well furnished corridor must produce: that of a thought interior, not assembled. Behind a sofa in a large living room, it also works very well as a sofa console, provided that the sofa is sufficiently far from the wall to leave it depth. What works particularly well with the ancient gold finish is to associate it with materials that also have heat: a clear oak flooring, a natural wool carpet, cordy cushions in terracotta tones or green sage. It is less good with very cold or very industrial interiors: its nature is hot-gold, not brushed steel. In black glass version, it can approach these more contrasting universes, but its structure always keeps this basic heat that the ancient gold finish gives it.

Technical characteristics

Materials

• Structure: Ancient golden beige lacquered iron
• Upper tray: travertine ceramic (reversible, black glass side on the other side)
• Lower tray: dark tinted glass
• Tray thickness: 14 cm (total)
• Manufacture: Handcraft (Handcrafted)
• Metal Maintenance Instructions: Provided

Dimensions

• Height: 80 cm
• Width: 140 cm
• Depth: 35 cm
• Thickness of the tray: 14 cm

Weight (kg)

• 42.36 kg
• Maximum load capacity: 70 kg

An ideal choice for an affirmed decoration

The Claridge Beige console belongs to this family of furniture that we never regret to have chosen. Not because she is perfect in the generic sense of the term, but because she has a point of view. Its ancient gold finish, its rounded angles, its reversible plateau: every design decision goes in the same direction, that of a warm, crafts, built to last visually as well as structurally. In ten years, the golden patina will still be there, perhaps slightly in depth with time, which will give it even more character. This is exactly the opposite chrome or brilliant lacquered finishes that get acherable and end up betraying wear. Claridge, she, lives well. And it's often the most honest argument that can be done to convince someone who still hesitates between several high-end consoles: which will still be beautiful in fifteen years? That.