In a French country house, a long dining table like this stood at the center of the kitchen for decades, every meal that mattered laid down its length and every conversation that lasted shaped around it. Found in Avignon but originally from Lyon, this French farm dining table is built in pale oak with a thick plank top, three drawers running across the apron, four turned baluster legs joined low by an H-stretcher, and small turned feet at the floor. Farm tables from the Lyonnais countryside were known across France for their heft and their honest joinery, the wood thick enough to take a century of knives and elbows and the legs turned in the kitchen-furniture tradition that ran through the region for two hundred years. Sylvie sets it in a kitchen with a bench down one side and chairs along the other, laid for a lunch that runs into the afternoon.
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