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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Nicky Rampley-Clarke

FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Best dining tables reviewed by an interiors editor - The Untold Story

From rectangular to circular, there’s a dining table for every space and taste - (Daisy Lester/Nicky Rampley Clarke/The Standard)

You heard it here first: the formal dining room is back. After years of open-plan living, we’re returning to the layouts of yesteryear, and with them, dedicated spaces for wining and dining.

As the popularity of dinner parties and home entertaining continues to gain momentum – a happy hangover, quite literally, from the pandemic – we’re going all-in (and all-out) on separate rooms for serving up veritable feasts for the senses.

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