Luxury Dining Room Furniture

Luxury dining room furniture is built for the long end of the evening, the hour after the plates are cleared when nobody wants to get up. A table with real weight, chairs that still feel good three hours in and a sideboard that keeps everything off the tabletop are what let that hour happen. This page gathers the dining pieces from the wider high end furniture range AURA carries.

You will find dining tables, dining chairs and benches, sideboards, buffets and display cabinets, in weathered wood, antique oak, gray birch, teak, live edge wood, and marble on wood or gold bases. For the darkest storage, our walnut sideboards are the place to look, many of them from Noir in walnut and walnut veneer, some with hand carved fronts, so read each listing for what sits under the finish.

Luxury dining tables, sized to the room

Dining tables here include a 30 inch marble round that seats two and a 120 inch table that seats twelve. The practical rule: leave about 36 inches between the table edge and the wall or the nearest piece, so a chair can pull out with someone walking behind it. Measure that clearance before falling for the length.

Round, oval or long dining tables

A round table puts everyone in one conversation and suits a square room. A long rectangle gives a narrow room its axis and more elbow room at the table. Oval sits between the two. Several tables here extend, including an 86 inch gray birch oval, so the everyday table can stay smaller than the holiday one.

Wood, marble, or both

Wood reads warm in lamplight and forgives wear. Marble reads cool and bright, which lifts a dark room, but it stains and etches, so it suits people who wipe as they go. A white marble top on a wood base, or black marble on teak, gives you both: stone where the light lands, wood where the eye rests.

Luxury dining chairs and the length of a dinner

Chairs decide how long people stay. Leather does much of the seating here: buffalo leather in black and brown, tobacco and chestnut leather, olive green leather with or without arms, and a quilted brown leather armchair. Charcoal and light gray linen high back chairs soften a hard room, and armchairs on casters roll back from the table without scraping the floor. The common mistake is choosing chairs from the photo and ignoring the arms. Arm chairs need more width, and six of them rarely fit a table sized for six side chairs.

Dining arm chairs at the ends only

A good compromise is arm chairs at the two ends and side chairs along the length. The table reads a little more formal, the host gets a place, and the room wins back the width.

A dining bench on one side

A bench along the wall side of a long table seats more people in less space and lowers the visual height of the room, since there are no chair backs to break the line. Antique oak and live edge benches here run long enough for a table that seats eight or more. Keep chairs on the open side, where people need to get in and out.

High end dining room furniture starts at the sideboard

The sideboard is where a dining room keeps its calm. Buffets and sideboards here include 55 inch pieces for a short wall and a 100 inch distressed black sideboard for a long one, and a long piece on the longest wall repeats the line of the table. The nuance most rooms miss: set the sideboard a shade darker than the table and it recedes at night, letting the table and the light above it own the room. If you would rather show the glassware than hide it, a glass display cabinet does the same job standing up, and the lit shelves become a second, softer light source at night.

Luxury dining room furniture sets, built piece by piece

Luxury dining room sets bought in a single order rarely manage that kind of balance. A modern luxury dining room comes together from a table, chairs that contrast with it and storage that sits just behind, each chosen for the same low light. Hang the pendant low enough to pool on the tabletop rather than the ceiling, dim it by half, and the room will look settled by the second dinner.