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Saarinen Tulip High TablesDesigned by Eero Saarinen, 1957

Eero Saarinen vowed to address the "ugly, confusing, unrestful world" he observed underneath chairs and tables - the so-called

"slum of legs." A five-year design investigation led him to the revolutionary Pedestal Collection, introduced in 1958.

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FEATURES

Eero Saarinen's pedestal collection includes dining, coffee and side tables.

The Knoll logo is located on the underside of the base. A nameplate with the KnollStudio logo and the signature of Eero Saarinen is

also located on the underside of the top or on the top support plate.

CONSTRUCTION

Top: Bevel-edged satin smooth laminate, lacquer, acrylic stone, marble or veneer.

Marble coated with transparent polyester to avoid useassociated stains.

Acrylic Stone is a solid surface material made of aluminium hydroxide, acrylic resin and natural pigments. The aluminium hydroxide

gives the product a particular strength, the quality of the acrylic resin ensures cleanliness suitability for contact with food, water

resistance and colour stability over time.

Base: Original Saarinen design. Heavy moulded cast aluminium. Black and white bases are protected with Rilsan.

FINISHES

Tables are available in white laminate, coated marble in a wide range of colours and veneer. Top in acrylic stone for outdoor use.

Base finish is available in black and white.

Dimensions

SAARINEN TULIP HIGH TABLES

ROUND DINING TABLES

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Small Round 91 cm 72 cm 3-4

Medium Round 107 cm 72 cm 4

Medium Round 120 cm 72 cm 4-5

Large Round 137 cm 72 cm 4-6

Large Round 152 cm 72 cm 6-8

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Saarinen Table - 244cm Oval 244 cm 137 cm 73 cm

Height may vary of one cm whether the top is laminate, veneer or lacquer, marble and acrylic.

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Product Story Designer

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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