Emmanuelle Simon builds the ORMA Dining Table from satin-varnished solid oak, then gives every edge a slow, rolling wave. The real trick is that it never commits to one shape.

Line the pieces up long and the table stretches past nine feet. Slide them into a new arrangement and it becomes a broader, squarer footprint of roughly seven by six feet. Either way, it seats eight to ten.

Most reconfigurable tables rely on hardware, like the extendable dining tables that grow panel by panel. This modular dining table relies on geometry instead. The waves look decorative until the pieces meet and the curves line up like a finished puzzle.

In the squarer setup, an open center appears. Leave it bare or fill it with a long, low arrangement.

Picture it in a hotel’s private dining room that hosts a board dinner one night and a chef’s table the next. Or in a members’ club, where the room changes shape more often than the menu. The table keeps up, and nobody sees it work.

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