10 seater dining tables — five places a side, in stock in the UK

Every seat count on this site rests on the same allowance: about 60 cm of table edge to a place. It is not a generous figure — it is a plate, a glass, cutlery and the width of a pair of shoulders, with elbows shared out between neighbours. Below it people eat with their arms tucked in. So a length is a seat count in disguise: take the length, divide by 60, and halve the answer, because nothing sits at the ends.

That last clause is the one that catches people out, and it is the rule the whole page turns on. On a live edge table the two narrow ends are where the tree’s own outline shows — the line the trunk drew, bark taken off, the contour beneath sanded and sealed — and they are left open on purpose. Chairs go on the two long sides only. A rectangle sawn square on all four sides can put a chair at each end, so at the same length it seats two more than a table here does; turned around, a live edge table has to be longer than a factory one to arrive at ten. That is the trade the edge asks for, and it is worth knowing before the tape measure comes out rather than after.

One caution about the 60 cm: it is per person, and chairs are where the sum quietly goes wrong. A dining chair with arms takes more width than a side chair does, and five of them along a side can stop being five. Measure the chairs before the room, or at least before the order — an edge like this one is unforgiving of a chair that turned out to be two centimetres wider than remembered.

The Estuary and The Tempest all arrive at ten on the same footprint and at the same price, £3,700. That is worth noticing, because it means the decision has stopped being a decision about size. What is left to choose between is the surface — Indonesian Suar — and the way each top is put together.

How the top is built is the other half of it, and no single word covers the page. The Estuary, The Tempest and The Cascade are one slab in the catalogue’s own terms — a single, unjoined width of timber. At this length it is the widest question worth asking, and the answer is never a matter of guessing from a photograph.

The Cascade sits above that at £4,200.

Allow about 90 cm on each long side, so a chair can be pulled right out and someone can pass behind it while it is occupied. That is this site’s own published figure and it has not moved. Across the room it settles the question quickly: 100 cm of table plus 180 cm of clearance is about 280 cm wall to wall, and 280 cm is the number to hold a tape measure against before anything else is decided.

The ends are easier, because nothing sits at them. The sizing guide gives them no clearance at all — the length to plan for is the table itself, 300 cm, plus however much room you want to walk past. It is the width of the room that tends to decide a ten-seater, not the length.

Where the room will not give that, the honest answer is a shorter table rather than a tighter squeeze. The eight-seater and six-seater pages run the same arithmetic at their own counts.

Not every table in the collection is offered across a range. Others are finished objects in a single form: one footprint, one price, no size to choose.

The Cataract, The Riverbed, The Highland and The Ravine are sold that way, which is why they are absent from the grid above: the single footprint they come in seats fewer than ten, and there is no larger version to move up to. Each is listed here with the size it is actually sold in, and with how its top is built.

• The Cataract — 240 × 100 cm, seats 8, £3,500 · One slab, sculpted fall
• The Riverbed — 215 × 100 cm, seats 6, £2,400 · One slab, resin-stilled fissures
• The Highland — 240 × 100 cm, seats 8, £1,920 · Live-edge boards, joined
• The Ravine — 220 × 100 cm, seats 6, £1,440 · Live-edge boards, joined

A table at this length is not something to wrestle through a hall alone, and nobody is asked to. Every piece here is finished and waiting in the UK rather than made to order, so an enquiry — with no payment taken — is answered with a delivery slot inside 24 hours and the table itself inside 48. It is carried in by hand, assembled where it will stand, set level, and the packaging leaves again.

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