The Renaissance Dining Set: A Table Fit for a Manor
There are dining rooms where you eat, and dining rooms where you sit down to a meal. A Renaissance-style set creates the second: the table becomes an event, and dinner a ritual. Carved solid wood, columns and the gravity of the pieces bring into the home something of the solemnity of a manor. At Martello, these sets are among the most imposing pieces we house.
What defines the Renaissance style
The Renaissance brought back into furniture the order and grandeur of antiquity. A set in this style is known by its dark solid wood — oak or walnut — its rich carving, twisted columns, relief panels and a solid, settled silhouette. Nothing fragile, nothing thin. It is furniture made to impress and to last for centuries, not seasons.
What a complete set includes
A Renaissance dining set usually gathers a massive table, a row of matching high-backed chairs, a vitrine for the good service and often a low buffet for storage. Together they fill the room with a coherent language — the same wood, the same carving, the same weight — that cannot be reconstructed by buying separate pieces.
Why it is worth buying as one
The charm of a set lies precisely in its unity. The pieces were conceived to stand together, and that harmony is hard to imitate by combining objects from different sources. By buying the set, you receive a whole, coherent room from a single decision — and you avoid the hunt, sometimes for years, for the piece that fits exactly with the others.
How to make it feel alive, not a museum
The risk of grand furniture is coldness. The antidote is contrast and everyday life. Set it on a warm rug, add soft textiles on the chairs, put fresh flowers and a chandelier that lights warmly. Use it — a table where people often eat is alive; a protected one is a sad decor. Combine it with a discreet modern element so it does not look like a reconstruction.
Care
Dust the carvings with a soft brush that reaches into the relief. Feed the whole set with the same wax twice a year, so the wood ages evenly. Protect the tabletop with mats for hot dishes. Keep the pieces away from strong radiators and direct sun, which dry and crack solid wood.
Every piece in our dining sets is a unique piece, with its own carving and wood. Discover them in the dining room category and in the rest of our catalogue, then come and sit at the table at the Martello showroom in Nimoreni, Ialoveni. We deliver throughout Moldova and Romania.