SG-Lewis Lamp Table: telling the chrome tables apart

This shelf holds four tables with overlapping names, the same quoted size and very similar descriptions, and that is genuinely confusing when you are trying to buy one. The SG-Lewis Lamp Table is the one with four sleek legs on a polished chrome frame, listed at 50 x 50 x 55cm, with the top offered in marble or ceramic. Here is what separates it from its neighbours, using nothing but what the listings say.

The four near namesakes, side by side

All four quote 50 x 50 x 55cm. So the size is not the decision; the decision is legs against a pedestal, and chrome against gold. If you want legs and cool metal, this is the listing you want, and the Lewis Lamp Table is its closest relation, with the difference stated as tapered rather than sleek legs. That is a shape difference best judged from the photographs on each page.

What four legs give you here

Legs at the corners put the load at the outside of the footprint, which suits a lamp with a heavy base better than a narrow central column does, and they leave the middle of the floor clear so the table can stand over the foot of a sofa. The thing to watch is the floor itself: four separate feet want four level points. Across the bound edge of a rug or on a settled floorboard one foot can end up carrying less than the others, and the table will feel loose when it is not. Site it fully on the rug or fully off.

The envelope in a real room

A 50cm width is about a sofa arm plus a little, so the table does not narrow a walkway at the end of a two or three seater, and it fits most alcoves deep enough to take a table at all. The last figure is the height: the Lewis listing states 55cm outright for the same trio of numbers, which is the best evidence of how to read them, though it is worth confirming with the shop if you are working to a tight gap. Fifty-five centimetres puts the top around arm height on a standard sofa, which is where a reading lamp wants to be.

What the page leaves open

No specification rows are held against this product. That means no weight, no load figure, no note on whether the frame arrives fitted to the top, and no care instruction for the marble option. The marble or ceramic choice also has no selector at the basket, so name the top you want when you order and ask the shop to confirm it. Those gaps are real and they are better asked about than guessed at.

Where to go next

Compare it against the SG-Chelsea Lamp Table if the pedestal shape appeals, or the Venice Lamp Table for a different look at the same end of the sofa. The full shelf sits in Side & Lamp Tables, with the taller surfaces for a hall in Console Tables. This is a piece the shop supplies, so ask for current timings when you order; delivery is free within 50 miles of our Glasgow store and £50 beyond.

When you have settled on legs and chrome, the SG-Lewis Lamp Table page carries the photographs, which are the only way to judge the leg shape against its near namesake.