The phrase "accent table" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a small table that serves as a decorative piece in a room, often used to display items or enhance the decor.
Example: "The living room was beautifully styled with an elegant accent table that held a vase of fresh flowers."
Alternatives: "decorative table" or "feature table".
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In fact, the man who first dared to dream that the name Bogart might someday call to mind a leather accent table, as well as that misty airport goodbye with Ingrid Bergman, operates thousands of miles from the furniture gulch of North Carolina and the deal-making madness of Los Angeles.
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Guests settled into the modern furniture — white leather sofas and geometric accent tables — balancing small plates of artichoke antipasti, salumi and ravioli on their knees.
Goldman — a former executive producer of the New York City Opera who is the incoming president of the board of the Glimmerglass Opera and who is consulting on a new opera house in Athens — bought the place as it was, complete with the modular living room seating, and dining and accent tables by Maria Pergay.
Christine Miele, a co-owner of Regeneration Modern Furniture in SoHo (38 Renwick Street; 212-741-2102), who has been amassing modernist brass pieces like accent tables and lamps for years in anticipation of a brass moment, said that in general, slick, modern design seems to be less appealing now to her more sophisticated customers.
Once you have a great sofa anchoring your living room, you can add oodles of interest by mixing in inexpensive side chairs and accent tables.
The suites are furnished with with rustic wood accent tables, gilded light fixtures, and white and black custom tiled bathrooms offer illuminated mirrors, walk-in showers with floor to ceiling glass doors, and marble vanities with earthy wood elements.
