Saarinen Side Table by Knoll
Round Table Surface, 16" Wide
designed by Eero Saarinen
The Saarinen Side Table, a smaller and more portable version of the Dining Table design, is lovely, slight, modern, and impossibly elegant. Whether you're looking for a living room table or a bedside table, this version of the classic design will serve and serve well.
What's to Like:
The simple beauty of the table, to start with. Then add on a layer of legitimate classic design, with the cherry on top of Eero Saarinen's personal involvement. This line of tables all qualify for museum induction, and many have already found homes there. Oh yeah, and they can really hold up a lamp and a stack of magazines!
What's Not to Like:
As with all the tables in this series, their design is very specific, and therefore self selecting. They aren't going to fit in great with just any design scheme. But when they do fit in, they really make a statement.
Bottom Line:
This is a gorgeous addition to many living rooms, as long as they're ready for it. It's a legitimate all time classic, and a thrill to own.
The Eero Saarinen Side Tables are first and foremost pure tables. They are the work of an essentialist, boiling concepts and functions down to their invaluable attributes. The Saarinen Side Tables are effective and beautiful structures, but never showy or unnecessary ones. From Saarinen himself: "The underside of typical chairs and tables makes a confusing, unrestful world. I wanted to clear up the slum of legs." To accomplish this, the Saarinen Side Tables are on a pedestal, unencumbered by the "slum of legs," and easy to use for the whole family. The tables are available with veneer, laminate, or marble tops with a base in black, white or the new platinum 50th Anniversary finish.
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Eero Saarinen
Founded in 1938, Knoll has nurtured many of the most inspiring and iconic furniture designs of the last century. With an extensive collection of modern classic furniture for the home as well as cutting-edge office furniture with a focus on functionality as well as aesthetics, Knoll is at the forefront of how furniture interacts with us and affects us in our daily lives.
