Continuously tinkering, altering and improving
The Eames Contract Base Table Outdoor is based on the original design for the outdoor tables designed for the Miller House and subsequently offered by Herman Miller as part of the Aluminium Group. The Contract Base features the sturdy and distinctive cast aluminium cruciform shape shared by the original Aluminium Group Chairs.
Never ones to treat their work as sacred, Charles and Ray Eames were continuously tinkering with, altering and improving on their furniture designs for Herman Miller over the decades that we collaborated (just compare a DCM from 1946 and 1973). In 1964, as an evolution of the cast aluminium legs developed for the chairs and tables in Alexander Girard’s La Fonda del Sol restaurant, they set about updating the base of the Aluminium Group Chair. Utilising the same vocabulary, they also created what we now call the Universal Base. It’s been in production ever since.
We re-engineered the Eames Table Outdoor to stand up to all types of weather, replacing parts that weren’t suitable for outdoor use, adding durable powder coatings and offering a selection of four North American stone tops. We’ll leave it up to you to choose from all possible iterations of base height and colour, and tabletop stone and shape.
