The Roma Console Table — Travertine Arch — CharlesTed Home
Two arched apertures carved from a monolithic travertine-effect body — the Roma console that looks less like furniture and more like a fragment of architecture placed in a room.
The Roma is not a table with arched legs. It is a single monolithic form — a solid rectangular body from which two arched openings have been removed, leaving three structural columns and a flush top in a continuous travertine-effect surface that wraps every face including the curved interior of each arch. The result is a console that looks like it has been quarried rather than made, with the architectural presence of a Roman aqueduct pillar at domestic scale. At 98cm wide and 40cm deep it has excellent console proportions, and the warm sandy travertine-effect finish provides the neutral luxury tone that makes it work in virtually any interior.
What sets it apart
The detail that makes it different
The monolithic construction is the quality that makes the Roma genuinely sculptural rather than simply architectural-looking — the travertine-effect surface wraps continuously from the top surface down through the arched openings and to the floor, with no change of material, colour or finish at any transition. This seamless surface gives the table the quality of something cut from a single block rather than assembled from components, which is precisely what makes it read as an architectural object rather than a console table with an interesting base. The two arched apertures create visual lightness beneath the solid top — the negative space of the arches is as important to the design as the positive form of the body.
