A Sunday roast, washed down with a glass of red wine and finished with an apple pie. The Roast dinner is surely one of Britain’s greatest institutions. On a typically wet, windy day, it is surely the roast dinner that puts the sun back into Sunday. The day of rest, a time to sit around with family and friends and enjoy the fact that you really don’t have an obligation do anything or be anywhere else other than at the dining table. Sedate and old fashioned in comparison with the flash-bang, blink and you’ll miss it speed of every day life. A good Sunday dinner is that enjoyable time when you can take your off the gas for a minute and transport yourself back to a simpler time…

This much-contrived introduction to today’s Tikamoon blog leads me onto an integral, but often forgotten part of the Sunday dinner experience – the chairs (Where would we be without them!) A set of modern dining chairs are a great way to spice up your dining room and breathe some new life into the social space. Tikamoon’s catalogue includes a variety of dining chairs that either rework and refresh traditional designs or constitute a completely new style. The Tikamoon collection plays with materials and structures. You can find chairs in oak, sheesham, mahogany, rattan, mango, teak and metal in the catalogue, in a diverse set of forms and designs.

When selecting the right chairs for your dining room we recommend to either, match them with your table in terms of wood type or colour, or go for a complete contrast. With modern chairs a contrast can make a particularly attractive arrangement if you balance dark and light colours against each other. Our main piece of advice though is to go for something that you connect with. Chairs that you can visualise around your dining table on a Sunday afternoon. Before long the members of your family will build up an affinity with a particular chair. It’s a nice feeling to know, “that’s my place,” at Sunday lunch.