Couldn't love this more. Wanted it to complement two club chairs in a small library sitting area, and it's perfect for fitting two mugs of something hot or glasses of something brown and bourbon-y (!). It's HEAVY—very sturdy, very solid!—and there's slight shading in the metal, so while not 100 percent black, it's 99.8 percent black (with a little copper-ish shading beneath). A wonderful piece.