One Large Table: Between Dining and Living

A large table in a mountain dwelling. The tabletop is a single solid wood slab, three and a half to six meters long, with either a live edge or a straight cut edge, and its thickness is visible; the legs are black steel plate or A-frame supports. It serves simultaneously as a dining table, a work desk, and a table for puzzles and maps, so there are always things on it: a lamp, a few books, a rough pottery bowl. It is paired with mismatched chairs and a long bench.
Avoid: using a matching dining table and chair set, clearing the tabletop to make it look like a display home, using slender table legs, making the table too short to seat a group of people.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一張山居的大桌。桌板是一整塊三米五到六米長的實木,邊緣保留樹皮線或是切齊的直邊,厚度看得出來;桌腳是黑鋼的板狀或 A 字形支架。它同時是餐桌、工作桌與放拼圖和地圖的桌子,因此永遠有東西在上面:一盞燈、幾本書、一個粗陶碗。配的是不成套的椅子與一張長凳。避免:使用成套的餐桌椅組、把桌面清空做成樣品屋、使用細瘦的桌腳、把桌子做得太短坐不下一群人。