Dining light has one job that has nothing to do with seeing your food: it has to be kind to the faces around the table.

Solid wood is a living material that moves with the humidity around it. A little seasonal attention keeps a table flat and a finish even for decades.

Square metres are fixed. The impression of space is not, and most of what changes it costs nothing but a rearranged afternoon.

A sofa is the single piece of furniture you will touch every day, so it is worth understanding what separates one that sags in two years from one that outlives the room around it.