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Gold Butterfly Coffee Table

gold butterfly coffee table from graham and green
gold butterfly coffee table from graham and green

Now I sense this one might be controversial but it can be good to shake things up a bit. Either that or all the sun at the weekend has turned my head, but, I rather like this gold butterfly coffee table. Now before you all start shouting, it’s a question of how you style it.

It doesn’t have to sit on a soft rug and be all flowers and pastels. Imagine, instead, some floorboards. Plain and simple. A couple of sofas – perhaps on dark grey velvet and one in leather – tan perhaps. A range of cushions in black and white, ivory and natural textiles. A large plant – let’s go for a fiddle leaf fig. Now then, add this coffee table with its delicate gold butterflies that look like they have been suspended in mid-air in the middle.

See? I like it. If you have a girly moment you just need to make sure you balance it. Give it a bit of edge with some more masculine colours or shapes and it works.

Of course, you could totally put it on a soft rug in a room with blush pink walls. I still think it would need some black to anchor it – perhaps a light fitting – and then it could work really well. I see it in my fantasy dressing room…

What do you think? It’s from Graham and Green and costs £375 but if it’s going to be the show off piece in the room then you can spend a bit more, especially if you think you will love it for ever. And if you don’t think that then you shouldn’t be buying it. Or anything.

 

Kate Watson-Smyth

The author Kate Watson-Smyth

I’m a journalist who writes about interiors mainly for The Financial Times but I have also written regularly for The Independent and The Daily Mail. My house has been in Living Etc, HeartHome and featured in The Wall Street Journal & Corriere della Sera. I also run an interior styling consultancy Mad About Your House. Welcome to my Mad House.

1 Comment

  1. I’m SHOUTING BECAUSE I LOVE IT!!!! It’s round, it’s gold, it’s small, and it has butterflies–would look so perfect if placed in the right setting like the one you described.

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