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43"-79" Extendable Dining Table for 4-8, Black
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43"-79" Extendable Dining Table for 4-8, Black

Part of the Dining Tables collection
$278.99
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Black changes what a long table does to a room at night. A dark 78.7-inch oval absorbs light instead of reflecting it, so the top reads as a plane and everything on it, white plates, glass, candles, a bowl of fruit, is thrown into relief. In a bright room that is dramatic. In a dim one lit only from the ceiling corners, a dark top this large can read as a hole in the floor. The mechanism and the 350 lb rating are unchanged.

Finish
Black
Closed
43.3 in round
Extended
78.7 in oval
Base
Fluted pedestal

How it lives in the room

Fluted base in low light

Flutes only read as flutes when light crosses them. Lit from directly overhead the base looks like a plain black column and the detail is wasted. A lamp or a window to one side is what brings the vertical channels out, and it is worth choosing the position with that in mind rather than purely by walkway.

Dress a long dark top lighter

Pale placemats, a light runner, or metal and glass keep a 78.7-inch black surface from swallowing the room. Dark tableware on a dark top is the single combination that fails here, because at this length the eye needs something to break the plane up or the table reads as one unrelieved slab.

Dry the top after wiping

Black laminate shows every smear a damp cloth leaves, which is why dark tables look dirtier immediately after cleaning than before. A dry second pass with a separate cloth takes ten seconds and removes the problem completely. Over a top this size it is the difference between clean and almost clean.

Before you order

This title also names walnut at the end despite being the black finish, the same copy error carried across the family. Go by the images, and check the leaves match the main top in tone when they come out of the base.