Saarinen Furniture Featured in InStyle Home&Design Profile on Tory Burch

The Fall 2016 issue of InStyle Magazine’s Home&Design supplement included a feature on the New York residence of fashion designer Tory Burch. Amidst the plush and layered decorations of the designer’s apartment in the Pierre hotel, a 78" oval Saarinen dining table with a white laminate top provides a counterpoint of modernist simplicity.

“The boys do their homework on the Saarinen table,” Burch told the magazine. For the upholstery for the matching Saarinen tulip chairs, Birch picked out an adaptation of a print by famed interior decorator Billy Baldwin, colored in his signature Matisse-blue. The print continues from the Saarinen chairs onto the walls of the dining alcove, tying mid-century design to Burch’s characteristically patterned style.

Launched in 1958, the dining table is one component of Eero Saarinen's timeless Pedestal Collection for Knoll, which reflected on a domestic scale his ongoing experiments in curved, organic design and cutting-edge manufacturing techniques.