A dining table is the largest piece of furniture most people will ever buy and it will anchor every room it enters for decades. That is not a decision to make based on what photographs well or what was on offer. We think about this differently. A table that earns its footprint has to work at eight o’clock on a Wednesday when someone is doing homework at one end, and it has to hold its own on a Saturday night when the candles are lit and the good glasses are out. The materials have to age with some dignity. The proportions have to make sense for how a room actually flows. We have been looking at tables where the craft is visible, where marble is properly sealed, where solid wood is finished to last, where the joinery does not apologise for itself. These are pieces that justify the space they take up and then some.