BK-Roma Lamp Table: a two-leg base and a 50cm ceramic top

Two legs is the whole character of this table. The BK-Roma Lamp Table is listed at 50 x 50 x 55cm and sets its ceramic top on two substantial legs, which the listing says are there for stability as much as for the look. Almost everything else on the shelf beside it uses four legs or a central pedestal, so it is worth thinking about what a two-leg base wants from your floor.

What two legs ask of the floor

The listing says the table stands on two substantial legs and stops there. It does not describe their shape, so whether each one is a long bar foot or a narrower upright is not recorded, and that is the detail which decides how the table sits on your floor. It matters because a long foot has to bridge any change in level: across the bound edge of a rug or on deep pile it can sit proud at one end, where four small points are more likely to find four separate levels. The photographs are the place to look, and the shop can confirm it.

Either way, plan to have the table fully on a rug or fully off it rather than half and half. What the listing does commit to is that the two legs are there for stability as much as for the look. There is no figure behind that, so read it as a description of the design rather than a rating, and treat the top as what it is on any side table of this size: somewhere for a lamp, a book and a glass.

The top and the height

The top is ceramic, and the listing describes it as resisting everyday wear. That is the supplier's wording, not a tested figure, and no thickness or weight is recorded anywhere on the page.

The three size figures are given unlabelled. Read alongside the Lewis Lamp Table, which quotes the same numbers and states its height as 55cm, the pattern on these square tables is top first and height last. Check it with the shop if you are working to the centimetre. A 55cm height suits sitting-up reading beside a sofa; it is on the tall side next to a low-slung modern seat, where the top can end up above the arm and look like a step rather than a table.

Where the listing stops

No specifications are held against this product: no weight, no loading, no note on whether the legs arrive fitted, and no colour or finish named for the legs at all, so the photographs are the only guide to those. Those are all reasonable things to ask before you commit, and the shop can answer them. We will not fill them in with a guess here.

The alternatives on the same shelf

If the two-leg base is the part you are unsure about, the BK-Milan Lamp Table is listed at the same 50 x 50 x 55cm with the same ceramic top on a four-leg cross pedestal, which is the easier base to live with on a rug. For a round top at the same quoted height there is the Chelsea Lamp Table, which pairs a chrome frame with a circular pedestal top. The full shelf is in Side & Lamp Tables, and the taller surfaces for a hallway sit in Console Tables.

Before you order

Measure the gap at the end of your seat, check your floor at that exact spot, and compare the 55cm height against your sofa arm. This is a supplier line rather than one of our own pieces, so ask for current timings at the point of order. Delivery is free within 50 miles of our Glasgow store and £50 beyond. The BK-Roma Lamp Table page has the photographs of the leg shape, which is the detail worth looking at closely.