"The table is the centre of the home. It's where we sustain ourselves with daily meals and gather to mark life’s milestones. Across its surface, we argue, gossip, laugh, and occasionally weep. It’s where we celebrate and where we mourn. We use it for occasions both celebratory and routine—from hosting fancy parties to the quiet tasks of arranging flowers or folding laundry.
 

Dutch priest and writer Henri Neuman suggested that when we sit down to eat or even perform mundane chores at the table we are participating in the ritual of being human. The table, he says, is 'one of the most intimate places in our lives. It is there that we give ourselves to one another…' and also that 'precisely because the table is meant to be an intimate place, it easily becomes the place we experience the absence of intimacy.'  

This exhibition is a study not of wooden surfaces and turned legs but a celebration of the human story that unfolds when we pull up a chair. "