Coffee Table Styling

The coffee table is the hardest surface in the house to style, because it has to look considered while still holding a cup of tea and the remote. Get it right and the whole living room reads as finished.

The formula is more forgiving than it looks. Work in odd numbers and three heights. A stack of books as the base, something sculptural for height, a tray to corral the small things, and one living element, a stem or a plant, to stop it feeling like a display. Leave a third of the surface empty. That gap is what makes the rest look deliberate.

Our coffee table styling range brings together books, trays, vases, candles, sculptural objects and decorative bowls. Pull three or four pieces rather than twelve, and let the table still do its actual job.