One large table: dining, work, and spread-out books

A large, multi-purpose table. The tabletop is a solid, thick slab of dark wood or matte stone, over 2.4 meters long, supported by slender metal legs. It serves simultaneously as a dining table, a workspace, and a surface for open art books. Therefore, there are always items on the table: a few open exhibition catalogs, an adjustable desk lamp, a rustic ceramic vase. It is paired with four to six mismatched chairs. Avoid: using a matching dining table and chair set, clearing the tabletop to create a showroom look, using a glossy tabletop that reflects light, making the table too small for anything but dining.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一張多用途的大桌。桌板是一整片厚實的深色木或霧面石材,長度超過兩米四,配細瘦的金屬腳;它同時是餐桌、工作桌與攤開畫冊的檯面,因此桌上永遠有東西:幾本攤開的展覽圖錄、一盞可調的桌燈、一個粗陶花器。配的是四到六張不成套的椅子。避免:使用成套的餐桌椅組、把桌面清空做成樣品屋、使用有光澤的桌面反射燈光、把桌子做得太小只能吃飯。