Solid wood dining tables — single slabs, in stock in the UK
A dining table is the piece of furniture a family actually lives on — twenty years of elbows, homework and long conversations land on this one surface. The tables in this collection are built for that arithmetic: solid timber through the full thickness, kiln-dried, sealed once, carrying grain a tree spent decades composing. Most tops are one slab from one tree; where two boards meet, they meet in the open, either side of a channel of dark resin — never under a veneer. And one table is not wood at all but solid marble, kept for the same reason: a material that is what it appears to be.
Everything on this page exists now. Each table is finished, photographed as itself and in stock in the UK, which is why it can be delivered and assembled in your home within 48 hours — and why the photographs are promises rather than suggestions. Choose it, reserve it without paying anything today, and two days later it is standing in its room.
Shop by material
Live edge
The full sweep — every wood table that keeps the tree’s own outline on both edges.
Suar wood
Java’s rain tree — dining-width slabs from a single trunk, honeyed amber grain in full flood.
Oak
Pale, straight-grained and quiet — oak for rooms that want calm rather than drama.
Walnut
Near-black heartwood against seams of bright sapwood — the darkest, most formal timber here.
Every dining table, in stock now
9 tables, none of them repeatable. The slab in each photograph is the slab that arrives.
The Estuary
260 × 105 × 76 cm — seats 8
From £2,850IN STOCK — 48HR DELIVERY
The Tempest
240 × 100 × 76 cm — seats 8
From £2,450IN STOCK — 48HR DELIVERY
The Cascade
240 × 95 × 76 cm — seats 8
From £2,995IN STOCK — 48HR DELIVERY
The Cataract
240 × 100 × 76 cm — seats 8
From £2,750IN STOCK — 48HR DELIVERY
The Riverbed
240 × 100 × 76 cm — seats 8
From £2,750IN STOCK — 48HR DELIVERY
The Highland
240 × 100 × 76 cm — seats 8
From £3,350IN STOCK — 48HR DELIVERY
The Ravine
200 × 100 × 76 cm — seats 6
From £2,350IN STOCK — 48HR DELIVERY
The Glacier
220 × 100 × 76 cm — seats 6
From £3,250IN STOCK — 48HR DELIVERY
The Rift
240 × 100 × 76 cm — seats 8
From £2,750IN STOCK — 48HR DELIVERY
Which size seats how many?
Every table here — wood or stone — is offered in the same six footprints. Match the length to the room first; the chairs follow.
| SIZE | SEATS | FROM |
|---|---|---|
| 180 × 90 cm | Seats 4 | £1,895 |
| 200 × 95 cm | Seats 4–6 | £2,195 |
| 220 × 100 cm | Seats 6 | £2,450 |
| 240 × 100 cm | Seats 6–8 | £2,750 |
| 280 × 110 cm | Seats 8 | £3,250 |
| 320 × 110 cm | Seats 10 | £3,850 |
Seat counts follow the live-edge rule: chairs sit along the two long sides and the narrow live-edge ends stay open. Prices shown are the suar scale, the collection's starting point — oak, walnut and marble come in the same six footprints on their own scales, priced size by size on each product page.
What makes a luxury dining table worth it
There are two ways to buy a dining table. One is to buy furniture: a design produced in thousands, cut from board, wrapped in a photograph of wood, priced to be replaced. The other is to buy an object that cannot recur — a top the tree composed over decades, cut once, finished once, standing in exactly one room in the world.
What the price buys is permanence. These slabs are kiln-dried to furniture moisture before a tool touches them, then sealed with a PU and melamine finish that closes the grain against spills and asks for no oiling, ever. A table like this is not redecorated away in five years; it is the fixed point the rest of the room learns to answer.
That is the difference between a statement table and a large piece of furniture. Furniture fills a space. A single slab explains it.
Here in the UK, assembled within 48 hours
Nothing on this page is made to order and nothing is waiting on a container. Every table is finished and in stock in the UK now, which is what makes the promise possible: delivered and assembled in your home within 48 hours, carried in by hand and set level in its place. Reserving costs nothing today.
If the new table displaces an old one, our trade-in takes it away in the same van the new one arrives in — credited against the price and passed on through charity and wood-recycling partners, never to landfill.
Solid wood dining table FAQs
How much does a solid wood dining table cost in the UK?
A genuinely solid one costs more than most tables sold under the name. Below roughly £1,000, “solid wood” usually means a thin veneer over MDF or narrow finger-jointed strips. A kiln-dried single slab at dining scale starts at £1,895 here for a 180 × 90 cm suar table and rises with length and species, up to £4,650 for a 320 cm walnut. The slab is most of the cost — wide, dry, furniture-grade timber is what you are paying for.
What is the difference between solid wood and veneer?
Veneer is a millimetre of real wood glued over chipboard or MDF; solid wood is the same timber all the way through. You can tell at the edge: on a solid top the grain flows over the corner and down the side in one continuous story, while veneer meets a hard seam or a banded edge. Solid wood can be sanded and refinished for decades; a veneer survives one careless scratch. Every table here is solid through its full thickness — nothing is wrapped.
Which wood is best for a dining table?
Honestly, species matters less than dryness and finish. Oak is the calm, hard-wearing choice; walnut is darker and more formal; suar is the only one of the three that grows wide enough to give a full dining top from one tree. Every slab we sell is kiln-dried and carries the same sealed finish, so the practical differences shrink to almost nothing — choose with your eyes, then check the width your room allows.
How long does delivery take?
Within 48 hours. Every table is already finished and in stock in the UK — nothing is made to order and nothing crosses an ocean after you pay. It arrives carried in by hand, is assembled and set level in its place, and the packaging leaves with the crew. If an old table needs to go, it leaves in the same van through our trade-in.
Can I see the exact table I am buying?
Yes — that is the point of the photography. Each table on this site is photographed as itself, not represented by a render or a sample of the species, so the figuring and the wander of the live edge you see in the pictures are the ones that arrive at your door. You can reserve the table you have chosen today without paying anything.