PORTHAULT DESIGN

You don’t typically go into the Porthault store in Highland Park Village looking for furniture, but we noticed a perfectly lovely custom table by Paul Mathieu, the Paris architect who designed the space. Long and lean and made even more graceful with cabriole legs, the dining table is completely overlaid with sterling silver with tiny stitch-like nailheads on the joints to make it less precious. What fun in seeing a surprise find like this–and there is another one for sale. Silver dining table, 77 x 25 x 30h, $10,000.