Moreover Extension Dining Table — Walnut
A traditional Japanese house is not divided by walls but by fusuma — sliding panels that run in grooves and can be lifted out entirely. When a family needs a hall instead of two rooms, for New Year or a funeral or too many guests, the panels come away and the house simply becomes larger for the evening. Then they go back in. Nothing was built and nothing was stored.
This table works on exactly that principle. A hidden leaf butterflies out from inside the top, adding twenty-four inches in one movement — 60" becomes 84", or 80" becomes 104" — and folds back into itself when the evening is over. There is no leaf to carry up from a basement, no cupboard given over to storing a piece of table, no half-hour of assembly before people arrive. The table is the storage.
Closed, and this is the part that matters, there is no visible seam. Japanese joinery has always reserved its highest regard for the joint you cannot find — kakushi, the concealed connection, where the mechanism is real but invisible and the surface reads as a single piece of wood. Most extension tables announce themselves permanently with a line down the middle, so you look at the mechanism every day in exchange for using it twice a year. This one does not.
The proportions are lighter than they sound. The top is a single inch thick — half the slab of Blu Dot's heavier tables — with solid walnut legs squared off and set at the corners. It reads as a plane rather than a block, which is what lets a table this long stay calm in a room. In walnut the figure runs the full length and, once extended, continues across the leaf without interruption.
One useful measurement: there is 29" of clearance beneath. That is an inch more than most of the family, and it is the difference between armchairs sliding under and armchairs sitting outside the table edge. If you are pairing this with the Port Chair, whose arms sit at 28", it fits.
Capacity is honest on both models. The 60–84" seats four to six closed and up to eight extended. The 80–104" seats six to eight closed and up to ten extended. Thirty-seven inches wide, which leaves room for dishes down the centre.
It ships by freight and requires assembly, and it is heavy — plan for two people on the day and clear the route in. Made in the USA. Indoor use.
Specifications
|
60–84" model |
80–104" model |
| Closed |
60"L × 37"W × 30"H |
80"L × 37"W × 30"H |
| Extended |
84"L |
104"L |
| Seats closed |
4–6 |
6–8 |
| Seats extended |
up to 8 |
up to 10 |
- Self-storing butterfly leaf, 24"
- No visible seam when closed
- Top thickness: 1"
- Ground clearance: 29"H
- Wood top with walnut veneer, solid walnut legs
- Indoor use only
- Assembly required
- Freight delivery; heavy — two people recommended
- Made in the USA
- 5-year warranty
Care
Clean with a slightly damp, soft cloth and wipe dry with a quality wood furniture cleaner, following the grain. Keep out of direct sunlight: walnut fades under UV, and on an extension table this matters more than usual — if the leaf spends most of its life folded away while the rest of the top is exposed, the two will drift apart in tone. Extend it occasionally even when you do not need the space.
