Table: 2 dining tables pushed together or work

Good luck trying to buy a 12 seat dining room table... and yet having 12 for dinner happens fast when it’s your parents plus your sibling and his family plus your family... It is odd that the big-name furniture retailers (Restoration Hardware, Crate & Barrel, Room and Board, West Elm, etc) do NOT carry a huge dining table, YET they carry insanely ginormous ridiculously huge couches and chandeliers sized for gigantic hotel lobbies. Go figure! The solution to get a 12 seater dining table is either to go custom (go to a stone yard, pick a slab, find a metal works or carpenter that will creat a base), but that is expensive, daunting, and not such an easy path to follow, or, buy two identical tables and push them together. Looking at high-end Manhattan residential real estate listings, with its huge rooms, you can notice that in these spaces, 2 tables pushed together is exactly what they do. It is what I ended up doing too. Unwilling to go through a stone yard and figure out how to get a base made, and dissatisfied with buying the “next best thing” of a beautiful marble table for an eye popping price tag of $13,000, which still would only sit 10, I bought two Toulouse Carrara marble tables on I-beam legs. The table has two centered I beam legs which makes it even better than better than parson table legs as chairs can be places everywhere along the table rim. And by chairs, I mean larger arm chairs that give each dinner plenty of elbow room, not armless chairs the are placed so close it feels too packed in. Before buying 2 identical tables, I looked to see images of this solution to see if it “looked” okay. There weren’t many images, but there were some, plus I created screen-grabs from real estate listings. I was satisfied it was a workable solution, so I went for it. Glad I did: it is practical and seamless. By having stone tables, they are so heavy they are not going to push apart or start sliding away on their own, yet, by having felt under the leg, they can easily be pushed around to be arranged either side by side to make a square table for 10 or end to end to make a long table for 12. Or, they can be left parallel but separate to seat 6 each.
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Two Carrara marble tables pushed together
2 Neuvo Toulouse white Carrara marble tables pushed together, can seat 10 very comfortably. They could push together end to end making a long table so 12 can easily sit very comfortably. Chairs are by Sunpan Ikon in polished steel and white fake leather.
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