Nightstand in Grey Titanium Travertine and Smoked Oak by Lebanto

Titanium travertine over a base of solid oak gives the Tinos its balance. It is a small, low table scaled for the side of a bed, built from two materials that warm to each other rather than compete.

Titanium travertine shares the layered, sedimentary character of its Roman cousin in a cooler register, its banding running from silver through to charcoal rather than warm beige. It reads as grey and contemporary, a travertine at home in monochrome and pared-back rooms. The oak answers in kind: solid European oak smoked to a near-black brown, its grain still legible beneath the finish, so the travertine and oak read as two tones of a single warmth. Each top is cut from the block it came from, so no two of these Titanium travertine and oak nightstands share the same figure.

The oak does the work of holding the stone up. Two solid oak boards interlock at right angles into a cross-leg base, one passing cleanly through the other, the joinery left in full view as the piece's single gesture of craft. Stone meets wood with nothing worked in between them.

Quiet and composed, the Titanium travertine and oak nightstand holds a room without demanding it, as at ease beside a bed as anywhere. The Tinos is an Italian nightstand made to order in Cantù, in Lombardy's long-established furniture district, drawn from full-slab stone, solid timber, and premium Italian glass.