Classic dining room with a white table, teal velvet chairs, a carved sideboard and panelled walls, showing how a calm hand-carved dining room can feel

Opera by Francesco Pasi: a calm classic dining room

Opera by Francesco Pasi gives a classic dining room a table, chairs, sideboards and silver cabinets that all speak the same carved language. Here we show how to choose the table for the size of your room, how to dress the chairs, where the cabinets should stand and which finish sets the mood. Use it to arrive at a composition you can bring to us for a quote.

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Begin with the table and let its length decide the room

Choose the table first, because its length decides how every other piece in the dining room is placed. Opera offers three clear sizes to start from, and each one is carved by hand in the Veneto classical style. The Art. 3009 measures W 200 × D 115 × H 79 cm and extends to W 300 cm, a generous answer for a room that is used every day and sometimes filled with guests.

For a more intimate room we would look at the carved barrel-top table, 220 cm closed, with two 50 cm leaves to open when the evening grows. For a large salon there is the extendable rectangular table, 500 cm closed and also with two 50 cm leaves; it asks for a room where you can walk freely around it. Among the luxury dining tables we show, these keep the same carved language, so you can decide by proportion alone.

Tell us the size of your dining room and we will prepare a quote for your Opera composition.

Pair the chairs by their backs and dress them in fabric

Pick the chairs by the shape of their backs, then give them a fabric that suits the table. Opera offers the dining chair 3012, W 56 × D 60 × H 118 cm, and the Art. 3015 carver with a capitonné back, W 64 × D 60 × H 118 cm, which is a little wider and gives the head of the table a more generous seat.

An upholstered chair and an upholstered carver with capitonné backrest complete the family. On the 3012 and 3015 the fabric comes in the A, B or C ranges; on the last two, fabric A is offered and B and C on request. We like a carver at each end and the lighter chairs along the sides. The capitonné catches the light softly, and a velvet in a deep colour against a pale table gives the whole room its depth.

Ask Nobili Design for a quote on the table, chairs and sideboard you have chosen in Opera.

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Francesco Pasi gives Opera a hand-carved Veneto voice

Opera is made by Francesco Pasi, a maker whose pieces are made to order in Italy and carved by hand in the Veneto classical style. In a dining room this shows in the details you see up close: the uprights, the chair backs and the edges of the table carry the mark of a carver, and the eye keeps finding something new as you sit.

That is why Francesco Pasi furniture suits a classic room that wants to feel lived in rather than staged. Tables, chairs, sideboards and cabinets share the same finishes and the same carving, so you can add pieces over time and still read one hand across the room. Because every piece is made to order, the finish and the leaf decoration remain yours to decide.

Send us your preferred finish and leaf decoration, and we will quote the whole dining room with you.

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Sideboard and silver cabinet give the wall behind the table its calm

Set a sideboard along the longest wall and a silver cabinet beside it or at its ends, and the dining room gains a quiet backdrop for the table. Opera offers the shaped sideboard with the carved "B" decoration, 2 doors and 3 drawers, and a plainer one with flat doors and 2 doors. The silver cabinets come with the carved "B" and 2 doors, or with flat doors and 1 or 2 doors.

Choose the carved version if table and chairs are quiet in colour, and the flat doors if the chairs are already rich in fabric. The cherry veneer, the 29 mm cherry top and the 80 mm solid uprights give these pieces a visible weight, and the soft-close Blum runners make the drawers gentle to use. You will find more in our dining room ideas, where a carved sideboard stands against panelled walls.

Request a quote for your Opera dining room and we will suggest how to place each piece.

Finish and leaf decoration set the mood of the whole room

Decide the finish last, but think about it from the start, because it sets the mood of the dining room more than any other choice. Every Opera piece is offered in Luxury White, Cream, Hazelnut or Retro Walnut, and in 100 Gloss Ebony, Ivory, Taupe or White. Pale tones keep a room bright and let the carving cast its own shadows; Retro Walnut or Ebony make it deeper and more intimate.

Gold leaf or silver leaf can pick out the carving: gold warms Cream and Hazelnut, silver cools white and taupe. Keep one finish on table, chairs and cabinets, or change a single family of pieces for contrast. Care is simple: the maintenance kit that comes with every piece holds wax, a touch-up marker, a soft cloth and instructions, and the wood should stay away from direct heat. Compare Opera with other Italian dining room collections, then send us your room and we will shape the composition with you.

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The pieces of this article, with their details and the quote request, are shown below.

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