Aluminum End Table – Distressed Bronze, Nickel or Antique Rust

Three metal finishes on aluminum: Distressed Bronze, Raw Antique Nickel and Antique Rust. All three are treatments that imitate age rather than present a clean new metal, and Antique Rust is the most literal of them, reading as oxidized iron on a metal that does not actually rust.

Finish is what a metal table gets judged on, because the form is usually simple and there is no grain or veining to look at instead. A distressed or antiqued surface absorbs handling in a way a polished one does not: fingerprints and small scratches join the existing variation rather than standing out against a uniform field. Raw Antique Nickel is the brightest of the three and will register contact most readily.

One of these beside a dark sofa gives a room a hard reflective point without bringing in another wood tone. They also work as a pair at either end of a long seat.

• Material: Aluminum
• Finishes: Distressed Bronze, Raw Antique Nickel, Antique Rust