Alhambra Side Table

A creamy stone top, a dark wooden cage below, and two levels of rails for anyone who likes things orderly.

This Alhambra side table is contemporary, part of the Primitive Collection, in huali and limestone. Pairing a stone top with a hardwood base is a familiar device in Chinese furniture, where marble or stone panels were often set into wooden frames. Here the square limestone slab rests on a base of dark huali with round legs. Two tiers of rounded stretchers link the legs, the upper one tucked just under the top, the lower one about halfway down. The stone shows soft natural mottling. It is 21.75 inches long, 21.75 deep and 17 high.

Two of its siblings look exactly the same, and none of them seem to mind.