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The Estuary
260 × 105 × 76 cm — seats 8
From £2,200NOVEMBER DELIVERY
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Estuary bench, included.
Six seater dining tables — and what “seats six” actually means
Six is the number most dining rooms are bought around, and it is the number most furniture listings are vaguest about. A table described as a six can mean two quite different things: six places laid at a squeeze, elbows in, or six places with room to lean back. The gap between them is often a whole size and several hundred pounds, so this page answers it twice — the smallest size of each piece that will take six at all, and the smallest size that is offered as six outright.
For immediate delivery: Four pieces in the collection seat six at one of their sizes, the least expensive of them at £1,440 and the most at £3,200. Each is a finished object, in stock in the UK, delivered and assembled within 48 hours. Nothing is made to order and nothing is paid to enquire.
The arithmetic behind six places
A place setting wants roughly 60 cm of table edge — that is a plate, a glass, cutlery either side and enough air not to be handling somebody else’s knife. Six places divide evenly between the two long sides, so each side carries three of them: 3 × 60 cm, or 180 cm of usable length a side. That sum is where every seat count on this site starts.
It is a floor, not a recommendation. The shortest table here offered as a six at all measures 200 × 90 cm — 20 cm longer than the arithmetic demands — and the catalogue still labels it “Seats 4–6”, because the last centimetres either side of a place setting are the ones you actually feel. Nothing is called a flat six until 215 × 100 cm.
Six at a closer gathering
The smallest size of each piece whose own label admits six. For several of them, six is the top of that label rather than the start of it — which is the truth, and the sizing guide on every product page says it in as many words: a versatile size seats four comfortably, or six for a closer gathering. If six is an occasional Sunday rather than a daily habit, this is the column to buy from.
| TABLE | SIZE | SEATS | PRICE |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Estuary | 200 × 90 cm | Seats 4–6 | £2,200 |
| The Tempest | 200 × 90 cm | Seats 4–6 | £2,200 |
| The Riverbed | 215 × 100 cm | Seats 6 | £2,400 |
| The Ravine | 220 × 100 cm | Seats 6 | £1,440 |
Six with room to spare
The smallest size of each piece whose label begins at six — where six is the number the size is sold as, not the number it will stretch to for one evening. Everyone gets the elbow room the label assumes, serving dishes have somewhere to live, and nobody is asked to hold their arms in.
| TABLE | SIZE | SEATS | PRICE |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Estuary | 250 × 100 cm | Seats 6–8 | £3,200 |
| The Tempest | 250 × 100 cm | Seats 6–8 | £3,200 |
| The Riverbed | 215 × 100 cm | Seats 6 | £2,400 |
| The Ravine | 220 × 100 cm | Seats 6 | £1,440 |
Where a piece appears at the same size in both tables, it is because that piece is sold in one fixed footprint and that footprint is already labelled a six — there is no tighter option to squeeze into and no larger one to grow towards.
Why a live edge table seats fewer than its length suggests
On a factory rectangle, all four sides are sawn straight and all four take a chair — one at each end, and the seat count goes up accordingly. A live edge top is not built that way. The two long sides are where the tree’s own outline runs, and the ends are the narrow cut faces: irregular, often tapering, and the part of the table where the edge is best seen. Chairs go on the long sides only. The ends are left open.
That costs two places. A conventional table of the same length would claim eight where these claim six, and the difference is not modesty — it is where the chairs physically are. It also explains why the ends need no clearance at all: nothing is pulled out there, so the table can sit closer to a wall or a window on its short axis than the long-side rule would suggest. An end is where a host stands, or where the serving dish goes.
How much room a six seater needs
Allow at least 90 cm on each long side, so a chair can be pushed back and stood up from without meeting a wall or a sideboard. That is the figure the sizing guide has always given and it is the one to measure with. At six places these tables are 90 to 100 cm across, so the wall-to-wall span the room has to give up is 270 to 280 cm.
Along the length, be less anxious. With no chairs at the ends you need only enough to walk past, and in a narrow room the honest move is often to take the length and lose the width — the table gets longer, the clearance stays intact. Before committing, put masking tape on the floor at the size you are considering and leave it there for a weekend. It settles the question faster than any diagram, and it costs nothing to be wrong.
Offered across a scale, or in one fixed form
Not every piece is chosen from a range. Two of the tables here are sold in a single fixed footprint — cut from the material that existed, with no other size behind it. The rest are offered across a scale, so the same top can be had tight or roomy at six places. How each top is actually built is listed beside it, in the catalogue’s own words. That column is not decoration: the pieces here are not all built the same way, and a single blanket claim would be wrong about several of them.
| TABLE | OFFERED IN | BUILT | SIX FROM |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Estuary | Four sizes | One slab | £2,200 |
| The Tempest | Four sizes | One slab | £2,200 |
| The Riverbed | One fixed size | One slab, resin-stilled fissures | £2,400 |
| The Ravine | One fixed size | Live-edge boards, joined | £1,440 |
The price in the last column is that piece’s smallest six, not its smallest size — anything sold across a scale starts lower still, at a footprint that seats fewer. Every option is on the product page.
Every table that seats six
Each piece is photographed individually, because each one is individual. The card price is that piece’s starting price across all its sizes; choose six on the product page and the figure follows the size you pick.
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The Tempest
240 × 100 × 76 cm — seats 8
From £2,200NOVEMBER DELIVERY
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Estuary bench, included.
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The Riverbed
215 × 100 × 76 cm — seats 6
£3,000£2,400IN STOCK — 48HR DELIVERY
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The Ravine
220 × 100 × 76 cm — seats 6
£1,800£1,440IN STOCK — 48HR DELIVERY
Immediate delivery, carried in by hand
None of these tables is made to order; each is finished and waiting in the UK. Enquire with nothing to pay, and a delivery slot is confirmed within 24 hours: the table is carried in by hand, assembled where it will stand, set level, and every scrap of packaging leaves again.
Choose the delivery option shown on your piece. November pre-orders arrive in November with free UK delivery; in-stock purchases use our normal delivery service. We confirm availability and timing with your enquiry.
Six seater dining table FAQs
What size dining table seats 6?
Work along one long side and allow about 60 cm of edge per place setting. 3 places a side is 180 cm of table, doubled to 6 because chairs sit on the two long sides only — the live edge ends stay open. That is the floor, not the answer: the smallest size in this collection offered as a six at all is 200 × 90 cm, 20 cm longer than the sum asks for, and it is still labelled “Seats 4–6”. The smallest size offered as a six outright is 215 × 100 cm. Between those two numbers sits the difference between six people and six comfortable people.
How much space do I need around a 6-seater?
Allow at least 90 cm on each long side so chairs can be pulled out comfortably. The ends need no clearance, because nothing is pulled out there. The tables on this page are 90 to 100 cm across, so the wall-to-wall measurement to check is 270 to 280 cm — mark it on the floor with tape before you decide anything else.
Can a 6-seater seat more at a push?
The seat labels already carry the honest answer. Where a size reads “Seats 4–6”, six is the top of its range — the number it will take, not the number it is sold as. Where a size reads “Seats 6–8”, six is the bottom of the range and there is room in hand. Nothing here extends: there is no leaf and no mechanism anywhere in the collection, so the number you can seat is the number the edge can hold. A chair can always go at an end for one evening, but the ends are the narrowest and least regular part of a live edge top, which is why they are never counted as places.
Should I buy the tight size or the roomier one?
Count the meals, not the guests. If six sit down on an ordinary Tuesday, buy the size labelled a flat six and stop thinking about it. If four eat most nights and six happens at Christmas, the smaller size is the better table for the other fifty-one weeks — and the tighter sitting is the point of Christmas anyway. The only case for going up two sizes rather than one is a room that can take it and a habit of hosting.
Are your 6-seater tables in stock?
November pre-orders arrive in November with free UK delivery. For immediate delivery, choose the in-stock option on the product page. Your piece is carried in by hand, assembled and set level, and the packaging is taken away. Enquiring takes no payment; availability and the delivery slot are confirmed with you.