Ancien Parquet Cocktail Table
About this piece
A floor, more or less, has been promoted to a table.
The Ancien Parquet Cocktail Table is contemporary, with a scrubbed walnut top on a steel base, finished in wax. Parquet, the old art of laying wood in geometric patterns, usually stays underfoot in grand houses, and a cocktail table raises it to hold drinks and books in front of a sofa. Here the boards meet in a radiating square, running toward the corners and center, with small inset patches and faint marks across the pale surface. A slim dark steel frame forms an open box below, braced on the diagonal. Fifty-four inches square and 17.75 high.
Feet on the table are, for once, historically defensible.








