mid-century legs

[jaredjennings]

I'm given to understand that the way a lot of pieces of Mid-Century Modern furniture had impossibly thin wooden legs is that the legs were built around steel rods. Perhaps the same could be done with plastic: a tapered plastic leg with a hole in the middle, around a piece of threaded rod screwed into a threaded insert. With due care, they could be removable for portability. The only downside I see is you need a decent amount of contact area with the desk to prevent slippage, so you'd have big knobby feet at the bottom of slender legs. It would be the furniture design equivalent of clown shoes.

I don't know if mid-century is where I'm headed with this thing, but by writing this down I won't have to remember it.