The Fairford Round — a solid limed oak drum on a slightly recessed rubberwood plinth, 80cm across and just 40cm high — the coffee table where the shape itself is the entire story.
The Fairford Round takes a form most coffee tables complicate with legs, stretchers or trays — a single continuous cylinder of limed oak, the drum body rising uninterrupted from the floor to the surface. The same pale, whitened-grain finish that runs through the Fairford dining collection keeps the table light in the room despite its generous 80cm footprint, the open oak texture catching side light and reading as a soft, tactile surface from across the sofa. No skirt, no apron, no drawer — the shape itself is the entire design.
What sets it apart
The detail that makes it different
The detail that makes the Fairford Round feel considered rather than merely simple is what happens at the floor — a rubberwood plinth set slightly inside the diameter of the drum, creating a fine shadow gap around the base that makes the cylinder appear to hover a few millimetres above the floor. Without this recess the table would read as a solid block; with it, the drum has lift and the silhouette has proportion. At 40cm high it sits low and generous, a proper coffee table rather than a taller side table pressed into service, and at 80cm wide the round footprint holds a tray, a stack of books and a cup of coffee without ever looking crowded.
