dining table, chairs and bench for sale (set)

We're buying new stuff, and so I'm selling this set I bought in Chicago at John M. Smythe roughly 14 years ago. It's in remarkably good condition. It includes a trestle table with a center leaf for expansion, a center section for silver that's revealed when you pull the table open, 4 chairs with like-new, never-soiled upholstery on the seats (one bottom rung on one chair is slightly damaged, but could be sanded to repair), and a matching trestle-style bench. It's a true trestle design, and the dowels aren't simply ornamental, they're functional, working dowels. It's substantial, solid, and weighty. The color in these photos is true to the actual color. It's a lovely sort of honey color.

I'll be frank and say I love this set still and would love to keep it, but it's never been my husband's style (I brought it with me to the marriage, and I bought it primarily because it reminded me of a small dining set my Norwegian great grandmother brought with her to this country from Norway and handed down to my grandmother, not something my husband felt as warm and fuzzy about as I). On the other hand, you can be sure I'm getting something I love to replace it, so,...

Table, four chairs, matching bench, including delivery within reason, $1700; Or best offer, and you pick up. Because I can post only 3 pics per message, I'll post three here and three in the next:

the rest of the pics (interior section for silver, and chair detail)....

[Robin Garr]

Wow! Although we're not in the market for furniture, Colleen, I almost wish we were. Those pieces look beautiful to me!

Wow, Colleen, that set is gorgeous. I can see the resemblance to turn of the century (20th) Norweigian furniture. I have one Danish chair from that time era that I treasure. Like Robin, I am not in the market for furniture at this time, but I almost wish I were.
I was very happy to have you return to the forum a bit back. Are you back in the baking business yet?

Gayle

Wow, how beautiful! My mom and dad are looking for a new table...I'll pass your post along to them!

Thanks y'all. Now you're making me want to keep it even more.... Everybody who's ever seen it has loved it, and it was my first major furniture purchase in my adult, working life. I remember walking around John M. Smythe that day and looking and looking, and everything was sort of the usual thing. And then I walked by that set and stopped dead in my tracks and just gawked. And then I went back again and again to gawk. It was out of my price range, but I just yearned for it. Imagine my disappointment when my husband to be just shrugged and turned up his nose at the whole thing. I still keep thinking, "How could you not like it?" I'm glad to be reaffirmed here in my terrific good taste .

Gayle, I'm still on a baking hiatus, sort of. I've just baked my last batch of bread in the oven before we start to tear down. I didn't plan to, and in fact we'd planned to get things going well before now but my health has sort of taken over my life (which is a pain in the neck, and it makes me feel like a total slacker). But my beloved veterinarian is marrying this month and begged for bread for her wedding reception. I couldn't refuse. So for now, slackerdom''s sort of the life for me, but also working a bit on new cakes and also teaching myself some basics of prettier cake design. Which surprised me by being not as tedious as I'd feared. One of the nice things about that? I get to buy great books!