Around the Table
How to host Thanksgiving for twelve
Twelve people, one table, one oven. A calm plan for the biggest dinner of the year, from the week before to the last slice of pie.
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At The Table
Stories about gathering, recipes for long evenings, homes worth spending time in, and the people around the table.
New stories every month. Share yours, and it may end up here.
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Around the Table
A recipe for a long evening: peka at home
In Croatia, some of the best dinners are cooked slowly under an iron bell. Here is our home version of peka, made in a Dutch oven while your guests settle in.
Around the Table
The unwritten rules of a good table
No phones face up. Whoever cooks doesn't clean. The rules nobody says out loud, but every good table follows.
Around the Table
The dinner that grew, unexpectedly
You planned for six. By nine o'clock there were eleven. On the best kind of evening: the one you didn't plan.
In the Home
The Thanksgiving table, set three ways
Six, eight or twelve: the same table, three different evenings. How to set each one so it feels generous, never crowded or empty.
In the Home
How much room does a dining table need?
The rule designers use, in inches and centimeters, and what it means for your dining room, whether you seat four or twelve.
In the Home
Morning ritual: the table before the guests
The best mornings don't need much. Coffee, light through the window and a table with nothing on it yet.
In the Home
How to care for an oiled oak table
Oiled oak asks for very little: a damp cloth, a coaster now and then, and a fresh coat of oil when it needs one. Here is how.
The Makers
Inside Tvin: working oak since 1913
A sawmill by the forest, a furniture factory, a century of makers. The story of the workshop in Virovitica where every Accordion Table is made.
The Makers
Slavonian oak: why slow-grown wood lasts
Winemakers have trusted it for centuries. What makes the oak of eastern Croatia so dense, so stable and so good to live with.
Accordion Table receives the D&D Award 2025
On 3 December 2025 in Zagreb, Accordion Table was recognised with the D&D Award, one of Croatia’s established design awards celebrating outstanding interior and product design, organised by...
Accordion Table wins the BIG SEE Product Design Award 2025
In 2025, shortly after its launch, Accordion Table received its first international recognition — the BIG SEE Product Design Award. Organised by BIG SEE, the award celebrates creative...