Tenure 20 ft (240") Boat-Shaped Conference Table with Panel Base, 60 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, so the width at the middle buys working room down the center, not extra 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 13 feet for this table. If nobody needs to pass behind a seated person, 36 inches from the table edge works, about 26 by 11 feet.

Yes. Each of the four wire troughs that join the base panels has 12 by 5 and 3/4 inches of clear space inside, room for a power strip and its brick, and the swing door on each panel lets you reach the plugs. The panels are hollow, with a 2 and 1/2 by 10 inch opening at the top and bottom, so cords pass down through them.

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

Its top is wider at the middle than at the ends, so both long sides curve out toward the middle. A boat narrows toward both ends, while a tapered top narrows from one end to the other. Next to a rectangle of the same length it seats the same number, with a softer, more formal outline and a slightly easier view of the people on your own side. Some catalogs write the shape as one word, boatshape.

Our 54-inch boat is 54 inches across at the middle and 44 at each end, and our 48-inch boat 48 and 42, so this top is 6 inches wider than the 54 at the middle and at the ends, and against the 48, 12 inches wider at the middle and 8 at the ends. Each long side curves in 5 inches here and on the 54, against 3 on the 48. Seat counts match at every length all three are made in. This top and the 54 stand on the same 30-inch-wide panels and start at 12 ft, while the 48 sits on 24-inch panels and also comes shorter.

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, mostly assembled pieces: the three top sections, five base panels and the four 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.