The Contract
Whenever Pointy Shoes desires a piece of furniture from 1958, she scours Craigslist, and voila, the furniture forces from on high provide her with whatever she was looking for at a great price. Our newest friend is a Eames coffee table with the contract base.
This is most important – the contract base. While searching the internets, we found that the universal base is most common today and while it may match the Aluminum Group chairs, it simply is not for us (even though Broken Thumbs’ favorite chair in the whole world is the Eames Aluminum Group Task Chair).
Marble was not Pointy Shoes’ first choice in a tabletop material but after mulling it over, we decided that marble would add a nice texture to our living room.
When we bought the table, we saw a glimpse of a “water ring” but figured that we could just wipe it down. It was indeed covered in a layer of filth but after cleaning the top off, the water rings stubbornly refused to disappear; In fact, after cleaning, three new water rings revealed themselves to us.
Despite this, we are satisfied with our purchase. It beat going to a vintage furniture store, that may take its name from a popular Swedish box store, that was unable to come through on our reserved Eames laminate table, after putting it on hold for 9 weeks in advance.
This table met its doom when the refinisher was unable to refinish it properly resulting in a bad patch job and unmentioned price hike, not to mention the run around we received on the phone before we uncovered the grisly remains of what was once a proud Eames table.
We’re really glad we did not get the horrible-chop-shop-Frankenstein-hollow-shell of a table sold at the unnamed vintage furniture retailer that may take its name from a popular Swedish box store.
The downside to this new table is that it’s another piece of furniture that makes the worst bits of our living room look even worse. We really need to get a new rug and couch.
