Luxury Entryway Furniture
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Luxury entryway furniture has about four seconds to work. That is how long it takes to open the door, step in and read the room, and in that time a console, a mirror and the light between them tell a guest what kind of house this is. A luxury entryway is rarely large. It is the room where one piece carries the most weight per square foot.
What stands here should agree with the rest of your high end furniture, because the foyer is a preview, not a separate thought. This page gathers console tables, entryway benches, mirrors, chests and cabinets, along with the smaller things that finish a wall.
Luxury entryway furniture starts with one long line
Most entries are built around a console. It gives the wall a horizon, a place for keys and a lamp, and a reason to pause. Walnut on black metal is the calm choice for a dark hall. Among our walnut console tables, the Zurich pairs ebony walnut with iron in small, standard and XL lengths, and the Novie sets dark walnut on a matte black frame in two sizes.
A luxury console table in stone reads cooler
Marble and travertine change the temperature of a hall. The 60-inch white travertine console on an oak base goes soft and chalky under lamplight. The Tilden comes in black or white marble. The 52-inch beige marble console on a brass base is the one that glows at night, because the brass catches whatever light you give it.
Depth is the mistake, not width
The common error is buying for width and forgetting depth. A console a few inches too deep pinches the path from the door and makes everyone turn sideways. Measure the clear walk first, then take the widest piece that leaves it alone. The 42-inch narrow marble console on a copper frame suits exactly this kind of hall.
The entryway bench, and the mirror above it
Leather, wood or concrete
An entryway bench is where the house slows down. Leather softens with use and darkens where hands rest, and the leather benches here run from 52 to 59 inches. Wood benches come in black, natural and walnut, and the 75-inch black reclaimed pine bench is long enough to run the length of a wall. The 68-inch black concrete bench is the odd one out: cool, heavy and very good against a limewashed wall. If shoes need hiding, the 59-inch upholstered storage benches open for it.
Hang the entryway mirror for the person, not the table
Mirrors make up the largest share of this page, from framed wall mirrors in gold, bronze, silver and black metal to full-length floor mirrors. The Ambella reeded mirror in walnut and the wavy mirror in antiqued brass sit well above a console. The nuance most guides skip: a mirror by the door is a light fixture. Hang it at the height of a face and where it catches the lamp, and the entry gets a second glow without a second bulb.
Storage for a modern luxury entryway
Chests and cabinets do the work a console cannot. Ambella's 42-inch tapered chest in walnut, the Overton burl chest and the tall William and Mary cabinet in a walnut-color hand wax give a hall closed drawers without the look of a closet. Choose one when the entry is also where mail, dog leashes and gloves end up. Choose a console when it is not.
Keep the tones in the same family as the rooms beyond. Foyer furniture that argues with the living room makes both look smaller. A walnut chest in the hall, walnut in the next room, and the house reads as one idea from the door.
High end entryway furniture after dark
A foyer is seen most at night, on the way home. Plan for that. A small lamp on the console, warm bulbs, a mirror to double it, and a darker wall behind so the wood and stone carry the light instead of the paint. Walnut deepens, brass warms, marble goes quiet. That is the first impression worth designing, and it happens every evening.