Everywhere I look

is this dashing black lacquer and steel table by Jansen...

in the entrance hall-cum-dining room of Pierre and Suzy Delbeée's Avenue Foch apartment (see more courtesy of the Aesthete here)

this kitchen in France, 1950s...

in the dining room of the Prince and Princess Michelangelo Caetani...

and today, in the living room of decorator Sandra Nunnerley courtesy of NY Social Diary

Four very different rooms and it looks smashing in all of them. Now that's good design.