CategoriesFurniture and Lighting
Console
A narrow table made to stand against a wall, once fixed on carved brackets beneath a mirror and now common in halls and living rooms.
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About
In architecture a console is a scroll-shaped bracket, and the earliest console tables were just that: a marble slab fixed to the wall and held up at the front by one or two carved supports, with no legs at the back. Baroque and Palladian interiors paired them with tall mirrors between windows, and William Kent's gilt console tables rest on spread eagles. Later versions stood free on four legs. Modern designers have made consoles in lacquer, steel, glass and stone, keeping the shallow depth that lets them stand in a passage. Look at the finish of the back and sides, which reveals whether a piece was made for a wall.
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