The Lucca Range: Living and Dining Furniture, Size by Size

Lucca is one of the smaller ranges here: fifteen listings, almost all of them for the living room and the dining room. That makes it an easy range to plan with, because there is one of most things rather than four, and every piece carries its size on its product page. This guide goes through what the range covers, what each piece is listed at, and the measurements that decide whether it works in your room.

What the Lucca range covers

• Dining: the 1.1m Round Extending Dining Table, the 1.2m Extending Dining Table and the Cross Back Chair.
• Living room: three TV units (X-Large, Small, Corner), a Coffee Table, a Lamp Table, a Nest of 2 Tables, a Console Table and a Low Bookcase.
• Storage: the Large Sideboard, the Small Sideboard and the Mini Sideboard.
• Bedroom: the Bedside 3 Drawer.

Dining: the round table is the one to look at twice

The 1.1m Round Extending Dining Table is listed at 110/150 x 110 x 78cm — a 110cm circle that opens out to 150cm. In a square room, or any room where the table sits in a walkway, a round top is the easier shape: no corners at hip height, no head of the table, and a circle gives everyone a diagonal view of everyone else. The 1.2m Extending Dining Table is the rectangle, listed at 120/150 x 85 x 78cm. Both stand at 78cm, so they take the same chair.

How many people fit is decided by chair width, not by the length of the table. The Lucca Cross Back Chair is listed at 46 x 49 x 105cm, so two chairs along one side need 92cm of table edge and three need 138cm before you allow any gap between them. On the 150cm setting that means two a side in comfort and a third only at a squeeze, with the ends taking the overflow. Allow roughly 75cm of clear floor behind each chair so it can be pushed back and sat in — which is usually what limits a small dining room, rather than the table itself.

The chair has one choice worth understanding before you order, and the range records it plainly: built chairs have wooden seats, KD chairs have fabric seats. ("KD" is the trade abbreviation for knock-down.) A wooden seat wipes clean and will take a tie-on cushion if you want one; a fabric seat is softer to sit on and asks more of you to keep clean. The chair is listed here in its KD form, so ask us to confirm the version if the seat matters to you.

The TV wall

Three units, and a wide gap between the two straight ones.

Unit	Listed size	Notes
X-Large TV Unit	180 x 40 x 50cm	A full run of wall
Small TV Unit	92 x 40 x 50cm	Just over half that width
Corner TV Unit	80 x 40 x 65cm	Sits across a corner; the tallest of the three

Measure the wall before the television. The step from 92cm to 180cm is a big one, and a unit that is narrower than the screen above it looks like a mistake from across the room. Then measure the feet of the television rather than its screen size, because a stand's feet often sit close to the outside edges of the panel and they have to land on the 40cm depth. The corner unit is worth picturing before choosing: at 65cm it stands 15cm taller than the others, so it raises the screen, and it takes more out of a corner than its 80cm width suggests. Some of the Lucca size lists also mention a 120cm large unit — ask us if that is the width you need. And check the socket position before you settle on a wall.

Sideboards: three widths, one height

The Large Sideboard is 137 x 40 x 81cm, the Small Sideboard 97 x 40 x 81cm and the Mini Sideboard 70 x 35 x 80cm. Because they are all about 80cm high they sit at the same line on a wall, so two in one room read as a pair rather than as a mismatch.

The Mini is the one for a hall: 70cm wide and, more to the point, 35cm deep instead of 40cm. In a narrow space it is depth you are short of, not width — every centimetre out from the wall is a centimetre off the walkway. Whichever width you choose, leave clear floor in front for the doors, beyond the depth of the carcase itself.

The small tables and the bookcase

Four of the living-room pieces share a 50cm height: the Coffee Table at 90 x 55 x 50cm, the Lamp Table at 55 x 55 x 50cm, and the Nest of 2 Tables at 54 x 37 x 50cm. That shared height is why they work together — a coffee table and a lamp table at different heights look accidental, at the same height they read as one level across the room.

The nest is the piece for a small sitting room: two surfaces at 54 x 37cm when people are round, one footprint when they are not. The Console Table at 85 x 34 x 70cm and the Low Bookcase at 80 x 32 x 90cm are the two shallow pieces, at 34cm and 32cm deep, which is what makes either of them liveable along a route people walk. A low bookcase has a second use as well: at 90cm high its top is a surface, for a lamp or a plant, in a room where a tall bookcase would feel like a wall.

What Lucca does not cover

Worth saying plainly, because it saves you looking. Apart from the Bedside 3 Drawer (47 x 37 x 62cm), Lucca is a living and dining range: there are no Lucca wardrobes, chests of drawers, dressing tables, bed frames or display cabinets.

If you want those, the Torino range is the wider one, and it shares several of Lucca's dimensions exactly — the coffee table at 90 x 55 x 50cm, the lamp table at 55 x 55 x 50cm, the console at 85 x 34 x 70cm, the low bookcase at 80 x 32 x 90cm and sideboards at 137cm, 97cm and 70cm wide. So a space measured for a Lucca piece takes its Torino equivalent. They are separate ranges, though: compare the photographs on each product page before you put them in one room.

Seeing it in Glasgow

Sizes on a page only get you so far — how heavy a sideboard looks on a wall, or how a chair feels to sit in for an evening, is something to judge in person. Our store is in Glasgow, and delivery is free within 50 miles of it and £50 beyond. Before you order, measure the narrowest point on the route in: the front door, the turn in the hall, and the doorway of the room itself. Lucca sits alongside the rest of our dining tables, sideboards and cabinets and TV units if you want to compare it with another range.

Before you order

• The width of the wall, before the width of the television.
• Your television's feet against the 40cm depth of the TV units.
• Chair width multiplied by the seats you want, against the table edge.
• Roughly 75cm of clear floor behind each dining chair.
• Depth, not just width, for anything going in a hall or a walkway.
• The narrowest turn on the way in.