Benjamin Ripple Oval Dining Table - Black

The Benjamin Ripple Oval Dining Table in Black is the long version of the range at 280cm by 110cm. Two ripple-textured pillar bases hold an oval top in a matt black finish. It seats 8 to 10.

Black is the harder finish to place and the more rewarding when it works. A dark oval reads as a single solid shape in a room, so it needs either space around it or a deliberately light setting above and below it, a pale rug and a bright pendant, to avoid becoming a hole in the middle of the floor.

The compensation is that the ripple bases are at their most legible in black. Texture is read through shadow, and a matt dark finish gives the deepest contrast between the raised and recessed parts of the pattern, so the detail that is subtle on the timber colourways becomes the most obvious thing about this one.