They had us at hello. We’d love to say it was the charming host or the manicured curb appeal, but any time we walk into a home, our eyes go straight to the entryway table. It’s the one place where a tight, often utilitarian space reliably delivers a design moment – even if said moment comes with hanging dog leashes and scattered shoes.
A good one makes a splash despite all of that and more, some going about it more memorably than others – seen most recently in a colonial renovation by J Patryce & Co, where the architecture’s original ‘frilly’ details are offset by a sleek, low-slung entryway table that brings a bite to a traditional shell.
This season, brands like Anthropologie and Soho Home are ensuring no shortage of chicness, keeping the art of impression alive with verdant garden scenes rendered in canvas and undulating olive ash burl pedestals topped with Spanish-sourced Dark Emperador marble. And while we’re magpies for a good statement piece, a few names – like TOV Furniture, with drawers tucked beneath a high-gloss hunter lacquer finish – are catching our eye for their hidden storage, too, giving all those stray essentials a proper place to land.
You can style one in a sprawling estate, and you can style one in a studio apartment – no entryway is too small for one of these 24 major design moments.
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