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Run a hand across vein-cut travertine and the layers may move in pale bands like a shoreline seen from above. On a honed face, small pores interrupt the light just enough to keep the surface quiet. That is an appropriate starting point for a long travertine console table<\/strong> against a plaster wall, but the slab still had several questions to answer.<\/p>\n The answer is not simply \u201cchoose the warmest beige.\u201d Decide how the layers run, which pores remain open, what the hand should feel at the edge, how the narrow top is supported, and how close the piece sits to the wall. A console is restrained furniture. Every unresolved detail becomes visible.<\/p>\n