Adjustable Height Table and Two Chairs in Solid Birch

Table and chairs both adjust through three heights, which covers about eighteen months to six years on one set.

The Montessori idea behind this is simple enough to say in a sentence: a child who can reach a thing can choose it, and a child who can choose it will use it. That is why the bed is on the floor, the shelf is at knee height and the tower exists at all. It is not a style. Almost everything sold as Montessori furniture is a normal piece of furniture made smaller, and the test of whether it is the real thing is whether a two year old can use it without an adult, which is a question you can answer by watching rather than by reading a product page.

Specification

• Dimensions: table 600mm across by 400mm high, chair seat 200mm
• Age range: 18 months to 8 years
• Material: solid Baltic birch, pale and close grained, finished in a water based lacquer certified to BS EN 71 part 3
• Finish: water based lacquer or paint, certified to BS EN 71 part 3
• Load rating: chairs tested to 60kg, table to 40kg
• Standards: BS EN 12520 and BS EN 12521 for domestic furniture, finish to BS EN 71 part 3, and the tip test in BS 4875
• Edges and fixings: every exposed edge rounded to a 3mm radius, every fixing recessed and capped, and no pinch point anywhere a hand goes
• Assembly: flat packed, about 45 minutes for the set
• Weight: approximately 17.8 kilograms for the set
• Table height: adjustable through 340, 400 and 460mm
• Seat height: adjustable through 160, 200 and 240mm
• Chair back angle: 5 degrees, which is enough to lean on and not enough to tip
• Chairs weigh under 2 kilograms so a child can carry their own
• Wipeable finish, tested against the common household cleaners
• Matches the height ladder across the range

In the box

• One table
• Two chairs
• Felt pads for every foot with spares
• Corner caps
• A hex key and printed instructions

Assembly and safety

Flat packed with a hex key and printed instructions. Fittings are threaded steel inserts rather than screws into board, so it can be taken apart and rebuilt as the child moves rooms, which most of them will do twice. Every fixing is recessed and capped, and the caps are supplied in a small bag with spares, because one of them will be prised off and posted somewhere.

How long it lasts

This adjusts as the child grows rather than being outgrown. The heights are on the same ladder as the rest of the range, so a table set for a two year old today lines up with a chair bought for a five year old in three years, and the adjustment takes one adult about five minutes with the hex key that came in the box.