{"product_id":"tonneau-dining-table-in-rosewood-modernist-1960s-70s","title":"Tonneau Dining Table in Rosewood: Modernist, 1960s\/70s","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe boat-shaped table - tonneau, from the French for barrel - was a design problem solved in the middle of the twentieth century. Florence Knoll drew the first famous version for her own firm in the late 1950s; Eero Saarinen took up the shape soon after; Italian designers - Osvaldo Borsani, Marco Zanuso, Ico Parisi - built variations of their own. The logic was simple. Wider at the centre, narrower at the ends, the form opens the sightline across the table. Everyone can see everyone. A rectangular conference table puts people in rows; a tonneau puts them in conversation. The shape moved out of furniture studios and into the corporate boardrooms of the next two decades - Knoll's tables in particular became shorthand for the well-considered American office - and from there, eventually, into the houses of people who had grown tired of dining at a rectangle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis one is from that period. Just under four metres of richly figured rosewood, the top quarter-veneered to show the grain in book-matched panels; the surface flares from 84 centimetres at the ends to 121 at the centre. Two chrome pedestals - square columns rising from four-armed star bases with adjustable feet - hold the weight off the floor, the table reading as light as a four-metre piece of furniture can. It seats fourteen comfortably. It will seat sixteen if everyone is friendly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eIn original condition. Light marks to the top consistent with age and use.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eDimensions: H 0.76m × W 3.96m × D 1.21m (centre) tapering to 0.84m (ends)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eEnquire about this piece via the form below. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Leopard","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48986853605603,"sku":null,"price":6500.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0752\/5230\/2051\/files\/Screenshot_2026-05-18_at_12.29.35_pm.png?v=1779071679","url":"https:\/\/theleopard.com.au\/products\/tonneau-dining-table-in-rosewood-modernist-1960s-70s","provider":"The Leopard","version":"1.0","type":"link"}