It's a round three feet in diameter, three feet tall, wood, it has two smallish leaves on the side that I keep down except when people are eating with us, it has no sharp corners so it really wants to live in a family with small children. According to google images it has a pedestal base. It's light enough for me to pick up without cursing so I'm guessing it's not cheap ikea particleboard. At worst it's high-quality MDF, at best it's oak. My sweetie wants me to put it out on the sidewalk with a free sign on it because we really have no room for it... "No!" I said. "Why not?" "Because!"