Dining Table Base Pedestal

Dining Table Base Pedestal

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Saarinen Dining Table - 42" Round

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Saarinen Dining Table - 42" Round

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Eero Saarinen 1957

With the Pedestal Collection, Eero Saarinen resolved the "ugly, confusing, unrestful world" underneath tables and chairs. The collection is a defining accomplishment of modern design and a timeless addition to your home—a true classic. 42" table seats 4-5 people.

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• 42" Table seats 4 armchairs (26") or 5 armless chairs (20")
• 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
• Base includes attached sub-top, tabletop attaches to sub-top with three screws
• 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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Dimensions

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  	w	h	top thickness	weight	seats (20" / 26" chair)
  Laminate	42.25"	28.25"	1"	58 lbs	5/4
  Stone	42.25"	28.25"	.75"	125 lbs	5/4
  Veneer	42.25"	28.25"	1"	63 lbs	5/4

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47" Table Shown

Form follows function with an elegant base originally conceived to offer more leg room and less visual noise.

Many different shapes are equally logical—some ugly, some exciting, some earthbound, some soaring.

– Eero Saarinen

Luxurious marbles, veneers and texture-less laminates, all with the highest quality abrasion-resistant finishes, create an elegant surface for working or dining.

• Product Story
• Designer

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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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