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design movementsOne Edge Grain Ply top on ten legs, one from each design style, nine centuries apart

Our Take on Nine Centuries of Design Styles

Gothic to Japandi: what each design style is actually about, which of our tables fits, and who's to say anyway.

The Folde dining table with grey legs and six chairs round it, showing how the chairs sit between the legs

Dining Table Size Guide: How to Choose a Table That Fits

There's no right number of centimetres per person. Here's how to work out your own - and why the sizes we list are ranges.

The Folde dining table with a Poplar Edge Grain Ply top and dark painted legs

Things to Think About When Buying a Dining Table

Buying a dining table usually starts with the obvious questions: size, seats, shape. Important, yes - but they're rarely what people notice once the table arrives and real life begins. If you're co...

The Grainline dining table with a Meranti Edge Grain Ply top on Baked Cherry painted legs

Dark Wood Dining Tables: Meranti, Mahogany and the Alternatives

Most dark wood dining tables are walnut, dark oak or stained timber. Ours are Meranti - a wood the timber trade has been calling mahogany for decades. It isn't. Here's what it is instead.

bespokeCorner of a Birch Edge Grain Ply oval top on a stainless steel leg, the layers showing along the curved edge

Edge Grain Ply: Why Most Sheets Never Make the Cut

Edge Grain Ply shows the inside of the sheet - so everything a sheet usually hides is on show. Why most sheets never make the cut.