Marolo Side Table

Name: Marolo Side Table
Brand: S.T,N.E.
Price: 319000 JPY
Availability: InStock

Since middle school, I had been fascinated by the idea of “outdoor life,” and naturally I was drawn to the kingfisher.

There is a grappa called Marolo that features a kingfisher on its label. One day I spotted it at a shop and bought it on impulse, drawn to the simple black-line illustration on a white background. It was the first bottle of grappa I had ever purchased.

Later, when I was deciding what to name this table, my eyes fell on that bottle.

In that moment, I knew it had to be MAROLO.

With its limestone top and brass base, the table recalls cafés in Italy or France. Naming it after an Italian grappa felt like the perfect fit. And when I place the bottle and a glass on it, the pairing feels just right.

Even the table’s round shape connects in a playful way: if you soften the word “Marolo” into “Maru-lo,” it almost echoes maru—the Japanese word for “round.”

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The limestone itself has origins dating back 160 million years, to the Jurassic period, when the supercontinent Pangaea was splitting apart. Sometimes it even holds fossils. To use such an ancient material casually as a side table, and to rest a grappa glass on it, feels like a quiet luxury—as if you’re gazing into the vastness of time.

At the base, a 10mm-thick piece of solid brass anchors it gently in the present. Perhaps that is why, while photographing it, I realized how easily this small, simple table complements anything. Modest, yet undeniably present.

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