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Platner High Table

Designed by Warren Platner, 1966

In 1966, the Platner Collection captured the "decorative, gentle, graceful" shapes that were beginning to infiltrate the modern vocabulary. The iconic pieces are created by welding hundreds of curved steel rods to circular frames, simultaneously serving as structure and ornament.

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  • Platner High Table designed by Warren Platner, 1966

Details

FEATURES

Ideal for any lounge, residence, or office.
Available as dining table, side or coffee table.

 

CONSTRUCTION

Frame features vertical steel wire rods welded to circular horizontal and edge-framing rod. Nickel finish with clear lacquer protection or painted bronze metallic.
Base features a clear plastic extrusion ring that creates a smooth bottom surface.

 

FINISHES

Polished Nickel or metallic bronze base. Clear or bronze glass and marble top. 

Dimensions

 
PLATNER HIGH TABLE

Dining table dimensions are 152cm Diam x 70cm H.
Dining table dimensions are 180cm Diam x 70cm H.


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With his experience in the firm of Eero Saarinen and Associates, it is not surprising that the mantel for the second generation of pedestal and wire furniture fell on the creative shoulders of Warren Platner. Reflecting a dramatic shift in cultural values, modernism became more expressive in the 1960s. Platner felt there was an opportunity to merge the competing aesthetics of the time.

“I began to think about what I thought furniture, specifically a chair, really might be, starting with the philosophy that it isn’t going to be aggressively technological, or aggressively handicraft…I, as a designer, felt there was room for the kind of decorative, gentle, graceful kind of design that appeared in period style like Louis XV, but it could have a more rational base instead of being applied decoration…I thought why separate support from the object. Just make it all one thing. Starts at the floor and comes up and envelops me, supports me…What I wanted to achieve was a chair that, number one, was complementary to the person sitting in it, or to the person in the space between the wall and the chair — what the chair did for the person in respect to the scale of the person and the space.”

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Warren Platner studied architecture at Cornell University. Following his work with legendary designers Raymond Loewy, Eero Saarinen and I. M. Pei, he immersed himself in the creation of steel wire furniture, devising the method and tooling to produce the lounge chair in the line as well. Notable among his residential and commercial projects are the Georg Jensen Design Center and the Windows on the World restaurant in the World Trade Center, both in New York City.