Round Roman Travertine and Oak Coffee Table by Lebanto

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The Hirado is a Roman travertine and oak coffee table, a low table for the space in front of a … Read more The Hirado is a Roman travertine and oak coffee table, a low table for the space in front of a sofa in which a travertine top meets an oak base with nothing worked in between. Each material is left to read as itself.

Roman travertine is the stone of ancient Rome, formed in the mineral springs around Tivoli and used across the Colosseum and the colonnades of St Peter's Square. It carries a soft, creamy beige tone, its delicate linear veining and gently layered structure warmer and more understated than the marbles. The base answers in solid European oak, its honey-toned, open grain warming to the stone above so the travertine and oak settle into a single, considered pairing. Each top is cut from the block it came from, so no two of these Roman travertine and oak coffee tables share the same figure.

The oak does the work of holding the stone up. Two solid oak boards interlock at right angles into a cross-leg base, one passing cleanly through the other, the joinery left in full view as the piece's single gesture of craft. Stone meets wood with nothing worked in between them.

The Roman travertine and oak coffee table asks little of a room and gives it a centre, at home in front of a sofa. Like every Lebanto piece, the Hirado is made to order in Cantù, in the historic heart of Lombardy's furniture district, from a curated material palette of full-slab stone, solid timber, and premium Italian glass. See less