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    Saarinen Table Lounge Height

    The Saarinen Lounge Height Table is a version of the iconic pedestal Dining Table at a lower 26” height. The table’s lower posture serves the contemporary need for less formal work. Its pedestal base and 26” height pair neatly with sofas, lounge chairs, and benching to support free-flowing activities. The Saarinen Lounge Height Table is offered in 36-inch and 42-inch diameters. Like its taller counterparts, it can be specified with a marble, granite, wood veneer, or laminate top with a base finished in black, gray, or white.

    Knoll Eero Saarinen Tulip Pedestal Chair history

    Product story

    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.

    Knoll Designer Eero Saarinen

    Eero Saarinen

    Born to world famous architect and Cranbrook Academy of Art Director Eliel Saarinen and textile artist Loja Saarinen, Eero Saarinen was surrounded by design his whole life. After meeting Florence Knoll at Cranbrook, Saarinen went on to design many of Knoll's most recognizable pieces, including the Tulip collection, the Womb chair, and the 70 Series of seating. In addition to these achievements, Saarinen became a leader of the second-generation modernists. 

    Additional Info

    Construction and Details
    • Tabletop features beveled edge
    • Top attaches to base with threaded rod
    • Tabletops available in a wide range of laminates, woods, marbles and granites
    • Base is heavy molded cast aluminum available with white, black or grey paint

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