Go for wood tables—they’re the modern version of a farm table. Wood has a nice warmth to it; it makes everyone feel as though they’re gathering around a harvest table.
Tips
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Buy a Dining Table with Options
People so rarely have a sit-down meal that a true dining table is not always necessary; it’d be like a football stadium where you only play eight games a year. Do an eat-in kitchen table or…
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What Does Your Table Say About You?
Think about what you need the table for and how it fits your life. A dining room table can define the character of the home and family: A 12-foot table suggests you’re social—or very…
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Tables: Incorporate Storage
Pick something that either has really good lines—like a steel-frame coffee table—or a clear volumetric presence—like a piece with four solid wood sides. I like tables that have…
Articles
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Piegato Shelves
Folding furniture is often accused of being the worst of all resting places, associated as it is with the discomfort of cold lecture halls and strange relatives' holiday brunches. But just because…
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Dylan Gold's Cornered Table
Several weeks ago I was a member of the jury for a design competition sponsored by Design Within Reach. The call for entries asked emerging designers to submit furniture and lighting that paid as…
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Holy Table
To place items on a table: that's one way to go about it. However as of late, tables have been cropping up with the added—or subtracted, rather—element of a hole in the table's surface…
Products
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Dining Table
Dining tables serve a pretty fundamental function—–a place to consume our peas and carrots. But what if the meat and potatoes of your table occur beneath the flat surface? The latest…
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Shelving System
“I have always associated Aalto’s designs, which highlight the graciousness of plain wood, with square building blocks,” says designer Naoto Fukasawa. His birch-laddered modular…
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Adaptable Dining Table
Mixing and matching might not be the first thing that comes to mind when you’re deciding on a dining table, but Muuto’s mutable options allow for a fully customizable fixture. TAF…
Dwell Collections
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18 Dining Tables
Pull up a chair and feast on this collection of tables, prepared using only the freshest ingredients from our archives.
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Room & Board Finds
Last week I took a little bus trip down to San Francisco's Design District to have a peek at what's new, and fairly new, from mod furniture purveyor Room & Board. I met up with Joe Darling who…
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Table for Two
Whether you're planning an intimate tete-a-tete with a friend or just trying to sit down to a civilzed meal in a cramped space, sometimes you need a tinier table. Rather than tempting fate by…
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what about glass tables they are very nice
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