Name: Jenny
City: Houston
State: TX
Country: USA
Comment:
I am helping a lovely creative lady find a dining room table for her breakfast room. She has 3 kids, wants something “nobody else has” and has a contemporary taste. Whatever it is, it has to be durable. She has white marble in her kitchen and grey stained wood floors and white walls. She likes chrome.
Help. I think you like these colors too. What do you think? I have showed her so much already.
Vicente Responds:
It’s hard to find something nobody else has seen. It’s easier to find something that looks wonderful. I love Saarinen tables. They’re classic and they always work. Try designing something for her. It doesn’t sound like that’s what she’s looking for, but give it a try. Or you could find a fragment of architecture that you could put a top on, or have a modern top designed to go on top of an antique table base. Good luck!
#1 by Karena on May 2, 2010 - 2:28 pm
Great tips Vicente. I love the idea of combing an architectural fragment with a cool modern top.
Karena
Art by Karena
#2 by Suzanne Lasky on May 3, 2010 - 2:03 am
Warm it up with distressed rustic woods that the kids can’t wreck as it will only get more interesting and beautiful with wear and tear. Keep the modern edge white leather chairs with chrome nailheads and chrome finish legs.
Just some thoughts.
#3 by Rachel on May 3, 2010 - 6:05 pm
My parents have a marble table top that was sitting around for 20 years until a friend made a stainless steel base for it. It seats 8. So how about finding a big piece of marble that goes with the kitchen marble, and having a restaurant supply store make a base? My parents’ base is a simple hexagon. Thought of it because you mentioned chrome.
#4 by The Designer Insider on May 4, 2010 - 10:39 pm
My own dining table has an unfinished mahogany base with a more modern green marble slab top. And I have owned it for 25 years. Still love it today! Mixing the old with the new makes me happy and hopefully makes my clients happy. Great idea Vicente, she needs to mix it up!
#5 by melissa on May 17, 2010 - 12:56 pm
Sounds like she is looking for a piet hein -designed super-ellipse “span leg” table, still manufactured by fritz hansen – the extending version which seats from 4-6 at its smallest to 10 at its largest. Beautiful oval design, white melamine top so extremely family friendly, chromed legs and banding around the table top – ticks all your boxes…
and a design classic