"I'm surprised they don't take an
occasional table with them, as well."
| Splash out on a sofa too, and even an
occasional table if you have space.
A sofabed and a coffee or
occasional table with storage are easy options.
Ikea's Docksta tulip dining table, PS130 from www.ikea.com, is perfect for this look and you'll find a reproduction tulip
occasional table for just PS180 at Ikon M, www.ikonm.com Leaf it out POP in a suitably patterned throw and a couple of cushions and you'll be well on the way to creating your retro-inspired look.
Johannes Leiacker's unit set contrasted a downstage playing area, empty except for the
occasional table and chair, with a festive candelabra-lit party upstage in which Marks dinner-jacketed court celebrates the king's wedding behind a sometimes-drawn-open curtain.
A small pile of books on a coffee table or
occasional table is a cosy touch in a room, and even magazines, with their covers facing outwards, can have impact lined up next to each other on a shelf.
4 Be brave and eschew traditional decorating rules: keep cards grouped together on an
occasional table, piano top or hall table, rather than stringing them higgledy-piggledy on the wall.
Wooden floors, walls and doors have been given a lick of paint in a dense shade, providing the ideal backdrop for the fluorescent pink spray-painted
occasional table. Team this up with an assortment of junk-shop lamps, interesting artwork and whimsical wallpaper and the room becomes a talking point This living room really comes alive with its combination of pendant, floor lights and candelabras.
I'm trying to imagine what Gray and Perdy's child might be like - if it takes after its parents it'll be so wooden Katie will be able to use it as an
occasional table.
Creep
occasional table by Susan Bradley in powder-coated steel, its crisp geometry embellished with delicate laser-cut leaves.
The sale is extraordinary and ranges from remarkable vases from the best French designers including Lalique, to silver and enamel 1930s powder compacts and there is an extraordinary
occasional table in the surrealist style circa 1934 (it shows a plaster hand supporting a glass disc and is worthy of exhibition in a museum).