ORGANIC DESIGN COMPETITION CASE GOODS COFFEE TABLES

DATE - 1941

In their submission in the Case Goods category for the Organic Design Competition at the Museum of Modern Art in 1941, Charles Eames and Eero Saarinen included two different coffee tables. 

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The one that made it into production, briefly, along with some of the Organic Design seating and the other case goods, was a three-legged table, which Bloomingdale’s marketed as the Tri-Ang Table. It had only three legs, one in each of its three corners. Its three-sided top had gently molded corners. The more radical of their two coffee table designs seems to have wholly stumped the capability of the furniture companies of its era. The drawings and small scale model of it show a table with a top molded of one piece plywood with a top that folds gently underneath itself on two sides to form two shelves. On the original entry panel, this one was presented simply as “End Table.”

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