Tenure 20 ft (240") Boat-Shaped Conference Table on 12-Inch Panel Bases, 54 Inches Wide, Seats 18-20

It seats up to 20 at 24 inches of width per seat along the two long sides, or 18 with more elbow room. The count comes from the length; the width at the middle adds working room down the center, not chairs.

Leave 48 inches from the table edge to every wall so chairs pull out and people can walk behind seated guests: about 28 by 12 1/2 feet for this table. If nobody needs to pass behind a seated person, 36 inches from the table edge works, about 26 by 10 1/2 feet.

Yes, in a trough: each of the three wire troughs between the bases has 12 by 5 and 3/4 inches of clear space inside, room for a power strip and its brick. Each base has a cord hole near its top on the side facing a trough, so cords pass from the base into the trough beside it.

Yes. Pick one to three power grommets on this page and choose whether they run across or along the table. The 2-outlet and 6-outlet grommets each take one connection plate, for network and phone jacks or for HDMI, VGA and audio. Power is picked with the order because the grommets are built into the top, not added to a finished table.

Its top is wider at the middle than at the ends, so both long sides bow out gently toward the middle. A boat narrows toward both ends, while a tapered top narrows from one end to the other. Catalogs also write the shape as one word, boatshape.

This top is 54 inches wide at the middle and 44 at each end, against 48 and 42 on the 48-inch boat, so each long side curves in 5 inches instead of 3. Both take the same number of bases and seat the same at every length both are made in; the bases under this top are 30 inches wide across the table, against 24 under the 48-inch top. At the same 48 inches from the table edge to the walls, the room needs to be 6 inches wider for this top, and the 48-inch top also comes in 8 and 10 ft.

Either long side. Each base has its door in one side panel, and the bases are turned at install so the doors face the side you choose, such as the side nearer your outlet.

The color of the top, unless you pick another laminate color for them on this page, at no charge. The other choice is silver metallic side panels, an add-on built with the table.

Sections over 96 inches cannot ship by freight, so a 240-inch top comes in three sections, each a two-person carry. They meet at two seams across the table in the room, and on woodgrain colors the grain will not line up perfectly across them.

It ships by freight on one or more pallets depending on size, securely wrapped, and arrives as a handful of large pieces: the boat-shaped top in three sections, four bases and the three wire troughs that join them, which go together in the room. It is not flat-pack furniture: there is no bag of screws and no pile of loose panels to build from.