Gubi: Where Scandinavian Heritage Meets Contemporary Glamour
Scandinavian design is usually praised for what it leaves out. Gubi is known for what it puts back in. Where the tradition reaches for restraint,
The dining table is the most social piece of furniture in the home. It is where families gather daily, where friends are hosted, where celebrations happen and decisions are made. In Singapore, where entertaining at home is a genuine part of how people live — and where the dining room often exists within an open-plan space that is visible from the moment a guest walks in — the dining table deserves more careful consideration than almost any other piece of furniture you will buy. The wrong table makes entertaining feel constrained. The right one makes it effortless. At Danish Design Co, we have been helping Singapore homeowners choose dining tables for nearly two decades, carrying collections from Fredericia, Carl Hansen & Son, Naver Collection, and other leading Scandinavian and European furniture makers. This guide covers everything you need to know to choose well.
The most common mistake when choosing a dining table for entertaining is beginning with the table itself rather than the room it will occupy. In Singapore, dining rooms — whether defined by walls or implied by an open-plan layout — tend to be compact by the standards of European or Australian homes. A table that seats ten in a generous European dining room can feel overwhelming in a Singapore condominium and render the space entirely non-functional for everyday use. The starting point must always be the room.
Measure the dining area carefully before considering any table. The minimum clearance between the edge of the table and any wall or furniture behind the chairs is 90 centimetres — enough for a person to sit comfortably, push back their chair, and stand without difficulty. In practice, 100 to 110 centimetres is more comfortable, particularly when guests are seated and others need to move around the table during service. Map this clearance onto your floor plan before settling on a table size, and you will immediately know the maximum dimensions you can work with.
For anyone who entertains with any regularity, the extending dining table deserves serious consideration. A fixed table is sized for one scenario — either your everyday household, or your maximum guest count, but rarely both with complete success. An extending table solves this by offering a compact everyday footprint that expands when needed, accommodating larger gatherings without requiring a table that dominates the room on the other 350 days of the year.
The best extending tables in the Scandinavian furniture tradition use concealed extension mechanisms that maintain the visual integrity of the table when extended — no visible joins, no change in leg position, no compromise to the design. Fredericia and Naver Collection both produce extending tables of this quality, and both are available at Danish Design Co Singapore. If you host four people on a Tuesday and twelve on Chinese New Year, an extending table is not a compromise — it is the correct choice.
The shape of the dining table affects not just how many people it seats, but the character of the gathering itself. Key considerations for an entertaining context include:
The dining table is subjected to more daily use than almost any other piece of furniture — meals, homework, work calls, gatherings. The material must perform under regular use while maintaining its appearance over time. The key options available at Danish Design Co include:
A dining table for entertaining is only as good as the chairs around it. For entertaining specifically, comfort matters as much as aesthetics — guests seated for a long dinner will notice quickly if the chairs are hard, too low, or poorly shaped. The best Scandinavian dining chairs — the Carl Hansen & Son CH20 Elbow Chair, the Fredericia Trinidad Chair, the GUBI 3D Chair — are designed for precisely this kind of extended seated use. They are comfortable over hours, not just minutes, and they are made to a standard that means they will still look and feel excellent a decade from now.
Consider also the practicalities of seating a larger number of guests: stackable or lightweight chairs that can be brought in from another room for larger occasions, or a bench on one side of a rectangular table that accommodates more people in less linear space than individual chairs allow.
In an open-plan Singapore home, the dining table is often one of the first things a guest sees on arrival. It is a design statement as much as a functional object, and it deserves to be chosen with that visibility in mind. The Semi Table by Naver Collection — with its distinctive ribbed sculptural base in solid walnut — is one of the most striking dining tables available in Singapore, a piece that reads as considered and original from across the room. The tables produced by Fredericia and Carl Hansen & Son take a different approach: they are the result of extraordinary craft applied to elemental forms, and their quality is evident to anyone who knows what they are looking at.
At Danish Design Co, our showroom at 100E Pasir Panjang Road displays dining tables from across our range in full scale, allowing you to assess proportion, material, and character in person before committing. Our team is available to advise on sizing, chair pairings, and how a specific table will work within your dining room layout.
We carry dining tables from some of the most respected names in Scandinavian and European furniture — Fredericia, Carl Hansen & Son, Naver Collection, and more — all available in our 12,000 sq ft showroom. Every table we carry is built to a standard that prioritises longevity, material quality, and design integrity. We do not carry disposable furniture, and we do not sell on trend. What we offer is the kind of considered, authoritative selection that makes choosing well straightforward, supported by a team with the knowledge to help you find the right table for your home, your entertaining style, and your life.
The dining table is the most social piece of furniture in the home. It is where families gather daily, where friends are hosted, where celebrations happen and decisions are made. In Singapore, where entertaining at home is a genuine part of how people live — and where the dining room often exists within an open-plan space that is visible from the moment a guest walks in — the dining table deserves more careful consideration than almost any other piece of furniture you will buy. The wrong table makes entertaining feel constrained. The right one makes it effortless. At Danish Design Co, we have been helping Singapore homeowners choose dining tables for nearly two decades, carrying collections from Fredericia, Carl Hansen & Son, Naver Collection, and other leading Scandinavian and European furniture makers. This guide covers everything you need to know to choose well.
Its highly modular design allows you to select from different sofa modules, transforming your seating arrangement to suit your needs. Available in both fabric and leather, this sofa embodies exquisite comfort with a minimalist Scandinavian design. Its a perfect blend of form and function, catering to those who appreciate understated elegance. stand out.
For a table used primarily for entertaining, allow a minimum of 60 centimetres of table width per place setting and 90 centimetres of clearance between the table edge and any wall or furniture behind the chairs. For most Singapore dining rooms, a table seating six comfortably for everyday use, with the option to extend to eight or ten for entertaining, is the most practical configuration.
For anyone who entertains guests beyond their everyday household size, yes. A quality extending table from Fredericia or Naver Collection maintains its visual integrity when extended — no visible joins or compromised design — and gives you the flexibility to host larger gatherings without a table that overwhelms the room during daily use.
For extended entertaining, choose chairs with a shaped or contoured seat, a back that provides genuine lumbar support, and a seat height between 44 and 47 centimetres.
Yes — mixing chair styles is a considered and increasingly popular approach in contemporary Singapore interiors. The most successful combinations maintain consistency in either material or colour while varying the form: for example, the same chair in two different finishes, or two different chair designs in the same timber.
Scandinavian design is usually praised for what it leaves out. Gubi is known for what it puts back in. Where the tradition reaches for restraint,
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