The Best Glass Top Dining Tables
Glass has many advantages over tables made of other kinds of materials like wood or synthetics, but one its most outstanding features is the way it can look so modern as to be futuristic. It’s difficult for a metal table to look so fashion forward (and not many tables are made of mainly metal to begin with). Wood by its very nature tends to look traditional even when it has very clean lines. But glass can easily look extremely modern.
Glass Top Dining Tables – the Minimalist Style
One reason glass can look so futuristic is because it lends itself quite easily to a minimalist interpretation of furniture design. Take this futuristic minimalist glass top dining room table, for example. The table top itself is nothing but a shaped plane of sheer glass without frosting or decoration of any kind. The shape approaches an oval, but is rendered in an asymmetrical pattern to add visual interest and a hint of a future in which shapes are not delineated the same way as they are today. The pedestal echoes this feeling, being composed of several disparate shapes balanced against one another; nowhere is there any attempt at order or symmetry. And yet the whole effect is simple enough to be pleasing to the eye and to give an overall impression of stylish restraint executed to the extreme — the very essence of minimalism.
Glass Top Dining Tables – Minimalism Combined with Traditional Elements
Although it is simple for a glass top dining table to appear minimalist from top to bottom, another popular style is to maintain a futuristic look when it comes to the glass table top itself, yet add to that a pedestal which is highly elaborated and hearkens back to a distinct era in the design of home fashions. That approach can be seen in this glass top pedestal table. The glass top is so minimalist that it lacks even a beveled edge to the glass surface, but the pedestal is something straight out of France before the revolution — a sculptural work of art, highly detailed in every particular. The drama of this approach is further heightened by the fact that diners can see through the table top to admire the pedestal as artwork located directly below.
Glass Top Dining Tables – Contemporary Chic
A final approach in the futuristic use of glass tops for dining tables is to combine elements in such a way as to produce a style known as contemporary chic. Very modernist in nature, tables of this sort will feature a pedestal that looks like highly molded plastic, although in actuality much stronger construction materials are usually in evidence. This style is very reminiscent of the Monsanto “House of the Future” that was on display for many years at Disneyland in Anaheim, California. The idea is to stress the use of futuristic materials, and set them off with beautiful expanses of glass.
Whether you prefer contemporary chic, traditional elements, or true minimalism, glass top dining tables form an inherent part of all these styles.