SG-Lewis Coffee Table: marble or ceramic, and does 120cm fit

The SG-Lewis Coffee Table is listed in one size only: 120 x 60 x 45cm. That is a full-length rectangular table rather than a small occasional one, so the first thing to settle is whether your seating has room for it. Everything below comes from the product listing itself, and where the listing is silent this post says so rather than filling the gap.

What 120 x 60 x 45cm does to a room

The listing prints the size as a single string, so we have set it out as it appears:

Coffee tables are usually written width x depth x height and this reads that way, but the listing does not label the figures. If the table has to fit an exact gap, confirm with the shop which number is which before you order.

• 120cm of length sits comfortably in front of a three-seat sofa or between a facing pair. Measure your sofa first: a table much longer than the seat it serves looks like it was bought for a different room.
• 60cm of depth is deep enough to put a tray down and still reach the far edge from a seated position, which matters if people sit on both sides of it.
• 45cm of height is the figure to compare against your own sofa seat height. Measure from the floor to the top of your cushion, under your own weight, and see how the two line up.
• Walkways. Decide the gap you want between the sofa front and the table edge, then measure the leftover route past it with a tape. A gap you can only sidestep through is the usual regret.

Marble or ceramic: what the listing says, and what it does not

The listing describes a slender four-leg frame in a gold finish and offers two top options: marble or ceramic. It calls the ceramic option durable, which is the supplier's own wording rather than a published test figure, so treat it as a description.

Several things a buyer usually wants are simply not in the listing, and we are not going to guess at them:

• whether the marble option is natural stone or a marble-effect surface, and if it is stone, whether the pattern in the photographs is the piece you would receive
• the thickness of the top, its weight, and whether the ceramic is a slab or a ceramic surface over a board
• how the gold finish is applied, and how to clean it
• whether the table arrives assembled or with the legs to be fitted

There is also no top-choice selector on the product page, so the top you want is something to state when you enquire rather than something you pick at the basket. Quote the code AWS-LEWIS096 and say marble or ceramic in the same message. The listing carries fourteen photographs. If the answer is that the marble top is natural stone, asking for a photograph of the actual piece is a fair request, because no two pieces of stone match.

One more point of honesty: the listing's opening line is about styling. Nothing in it states where the table is made or who makes it, and this post does not claim either. Ask the shop if that matters to you.

What it sits with

It is one of a wide group in coffee tables, and the nearest comparisons are worth putting side by side:

• the SG-London Coffee Table is listed at the same 120 x 60 x 45cm with the same two top options, but on a U-shaped pedestal base rather than four legs
• the Venice Coffee Table is the same length and height with a ceramic top on black legs, if gold is not the look you are after
• the Siena Coffee Table matches the size again with an oak effect top and black legs

Because all three share the first two figures, you can test the footprint once with newspaper or masking tape on the floor and the answer covers the whole shortlist.

Before you order, and on the day

• Measure the route in, not just the room: door widths, the turn at the top of a stair, and the narrowest point of a hallway.
• Check the floor. A four-leg frame concentrates its load on four small points, which is worth knowing on a soft carpet or a rug with a thick pile.
• Unwrap and look over the top before anything is signed for, edges and corners first.
• Ask the shop for the current lead time when you enquire, along with the top option.

Delivery is free within 50 miles of the Glasgow store and £50 beyond. If the size suits, the SG-Lewis Coffee Table product page has the full photograph set and the enquiry button, which is the quickest way to pin down the top and the finish.