December 12, 2006 It is not often that we see a product of exquisite beauty, ingenious design, and made from extraordinary materials that scores 10 from 10 on the usefulness scale. This is such a product. David Fletcher is a bespoke furniture manufacturer If you like to host large dinner parties but don't have an especially large family you may be interested in this project. Instructables user falk designed and built a formal dining table that can comfortably seat ten but folds down to the size of a sofa table. Hayneedle offers the Meco Mission Style Expanding Dining Table for $294.98 with free shipping. That's $185 off list and the lowest total price we could find. It is 40" x 30" and can expand up to 72" long. Get the DealNews Select newsletter for a daily TreeHugger has seen its fair share of transforming tables, but in our quest for objects that allows us to get more from less, this one offers a new trick. Rather than folding down or folding up (?), this one splits right down the middle, adding surface If you like to host large dinner parties but don’t have an especially large family you may be interested in this project. Instructables user falk designed and built a formal dining table that can comfortably seat 10 but folds down to the size of a couch A dining table that can extend The streamlined but solid Branch Bench can pull up to a table or be moved to offer extra seating elsewhere ($499, www.hivemodern.com). More from The Washington Post Company’s coming: Is your house hospitality-ready? .
But the episode is as much a love story as a chef’s story, showing how Bottura’s wife took him to art museums as a young man, expanding his the virtues of farm-to-table and the vices of modern mass-consumption dining (“not great ingredients Walter Zesk was a Philosophy major at Wesleyan; Seth Wiseman studied both Building Science and Industrial Design at Appalachian State U. Eventually the two gravitated towards getting Masters of Architecture Degrees at RISD, where they presumably met, and El Camino Real, Owen Kamihira's Tex-Mex bar-restaurant in Liberties Walk in Northern Liberties, is expanding next door The seven-barrel brewery has a 220-seat dining room and a bar offering more than 30 styles on tap, including nitro and cask varieties. This cool design by Con Form Lab is more than just your average expanding dining table. An exercise that takes the craft of simple joinery and fuses it with the modern and precise technology of CNC milling, the Sullivan/Barnes dining table is a beautiful .