Photography by Kurt Manley
PRIVATE DINING
TRENDS
The most generous host does not need to leave home to prove it. Across these five rooms, the dining table becomes the evening's real centrepiece, built to hold conversation as much as food, each one proof that the best hospitality often happens behind a closed front door rather than a restaurant one.
Spanish studio Kilzi's Barefoot table takes its name literally, its walking, foot shaped legs planting themselves across the floor with quiet humour. Carved from solid timber and left with a soft, sculpted finish, it sits here beneath a wall of riotous colour, proof that a dining table can carry personality long before anyone has taken a seat.
Molecule Designs' Oak Field dining room turns formal without turning cold. A dark timber table sits beneath a beaded brass chandelier that trails across the ceiling in loose loops, surrounded by chairs upholstered in bold geometric print. Calla lilies rise from a run of glass vessels down its length, simple enough not to compete with everything happening around them.
Fromental's library glows overhead, its Rays of Plumeria wallcovering in Emerald Desires, a collaboration with Harris Reed, climbing wall to ceiling in a pattern that catches the light differently from every angle, met by a pierced brass pendant, a plaid banquette and a veined marble table that keeps the whole richly dressed room grounded rather than overwrought.
Styling by Navarra Design
Photography by Kurt Manley
At 60 Curzon, De Rosee Sa lines the wall in a grid of abstract prints, gathering woven chairs and a pale blue lacquered table beneath brass pendant shades shaped like folded leaves. A patterned rug in dusty rose anchors it all in quiet mid century rhythm, understated enough to let the art do most of the talking.
In Edinburgh, Jeffreys Interiors let a mural of interlocking blue and stone shapes take the lead across the far wall. Mustard velvet banquettes and Fornasetti print chairs gather close around the table, while a scatter of poppies and hydrangeas in ceramic vessels softens the room's otherwise confident geometry.
Five very different tables, one shared instinct: that the best entertaining happens closest to home, around a table chosen with as much care as the company invited to sit at it.
