This side table is Tuscan in derivation and probably dates from just after the end of the Great War when Lorimer went to Italy as architect to the Imperial War Graves commission. A similar centre table with moulded top and a smaller pair of side tables with platform stretchers were in Lorimer's own collection at Gibliston and remain in the family. The design for this table is recorded in the lower tracing of furniture designs for Balmanno.
See: Peter Savage, Lorimer and the Edinburgh Craft Designers, 1980, pg.69.