This drawleaf dining-table on 'Lorimer Gothic' legs is the best known design of the architect's Gothic period furniture (circa 1900-1905) although tables of this type were made throughout his career. The original was designed for the dining-room at Melville Street. In 1903 Lorimer wrote to R.S.Dods describing the original table: "in half Gothic and half Dutch manner being made with twisted legs and ends that pull out to make it longer" and in a letter of February 1904 he added "bacon and eggs taste tip-top off it" and at only 27.1/2" wide "there's grand opportunities for a little innocent food flirtation". A larger version was made for Gibliston at the same time as the present example and others of similar design for William Burrell's house in Great Western Terrace, Glasgow, for A.Y. Cameron at Kellie Castle, (now in the collection of the National Trust for Scotland) and for Cameron Corbett, formerly at Rowallan, Ayrshire