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Saarinen Side Table - 20" Round

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Construction and Details
  • Tabletops:
    • Laminate: Satin smooth laminate; beveled edge
    • Marble: Transparent polyester coating with polished or satin finish beveled edge
    • Vetro Bianco: 93% fused quartz with polished, nonporous, scratch-resistant surface; beveled edge
    • Slate: Natural cleft slate; beveled edge
    • Veneer: Cathedral grain veneer over medium density fiberboard; solid wood beveled edge
    • Chrome: Steel top with chrome plating; curved edge
  • Top attaches to base with threaded rod
  • Base is heavy molded cast aluminum with white or black paint
  • The KnollStudio logo and signature of Eero Saarinen are stamped into the bottom of the base or underside of the table top (varies by model)
Sustainable Design and Environmental Certification
  • Certified Clean Air GOLD
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With the Pedestal Collection, Eero Saarinen vowed to eliminate the "slum of legs" found under chairs and tables with four legs. He worked first with hundreds of drawings, which were followed by ¼ scale models. Since the compelling idea was to design chairs that looked good in a room, the model furniture was set up in a scaled model room the size of a doll house.

Drawing on his early training as a sculptor, Saarinen refined his design through full scale models, endlessly modifying the shape with clay. “What interests me is when and where to use these structural plastic shapes. Probing even more deeply into different possibilities one finds many different shapes are equally logical—some ugly, some exciting, some earthbound, some soaring. The choices really become a sculptor’s choice.”

Saarinen was assisted by Don Petitt, of Knoll’s Design Development Group, who introduced several ingenious methods of model making. Together with a Knoll design research team, they worked out the problems arising in production. Full scale models became furniture and, with family and friends acting as “guinea pigs,” the furniture was tested in the dining room and living room of the Saarinen house in Bloomfield Hills.

 

 

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