Travertine Coffee Table
Travertine Coffee Table
Travertine · tone
| Form | Travertine Coffee Table |
| Finish | Honed |
| Color tone | — |
| Thickness | 16 / 18 / 20 / 30 mm |
| Origin | France |
| Indicative price | Indicative FOB: quoted against form, top thickness, leg construction and quantity. Send a plan size, a finish and a destination port for a real figure. |
A low slab read from above rather than across, which changes what matters: on a horizontal top the eye is looking down at the cut face, so the vein runs across the piece in one direction and the underside is as visible as the top.
Specification
- Sizes: 900×500, 1200×600, 1400×700 mm
- Top thickness: 20 mm standard; 30 mm for a cantilevered top with a recessed base
- Base: Recessed plinth so the top appears to float; or a full slab leg
- Finish: Honed or polished; matte reads too soft on a horizontal surface
- Fill state: Unfilled or filled; filled is the easier surface to ring-proof
- Weight: Quoted with the piece
How this one behaves
A coffee table is specified the wrong way almost every time, because it is judged on the top and the underside is where the money and the problems are. A 20 mm slab on a recessed plinth reads as floating, which is the look most people are after, and it needs the top to be supported along a full perimeter frame rather than on four points.
The reason the underside matters more here than on a dining table is viewing angle. A dining table is read from the side, where you see the edge. A coffee table is read from above, so you see the cut face across the whole top and, at a low seating position, you see the underside. On an unfilled piece that underside is the open-vein face and it should be finished, not left sawn.
Honed and polished both work. Matte does not, on a horizontal surface at eye level from a sofa — it reads as unfinished rather than as soft. Unfilled is the more beautiful surface and needs a sealer; filled is easier to keep looking new and slightly quieter in tone.
No photograph of this form yet. We have not photographed a coffee table in travertine, and putting the dining table photograph here would make two products look identical when the buyer is comparing exactly the thing that differs.
Ordering and supply
25-40 working days to FOB. Furniture is scheduled around the top slab, and a set of tables shares one cutting slot rather than three. Send a plan size, a finish and a destination port and we will come back with an FOB quotation, normally within three working days.