What to do when you've got a beloved family coffee table that's just too small for your space? If you're designer Darryl Carter, you build a second table around it.
In Carter's new "The Collected Home: Rooms With Style, Grace, and History," co-written with Trish Donnally and released Tuesday by Clarkson Potter, the designer recalls a client whose father had made a small table under the tutelage of the great George Nakashima. When the table was pulled out of storage, Carter says, it was clearly not the right scale for its intended new home.
