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RODA Plein Air dining tables and Batyline chairs
Michael Anastassiades designed RODA Plein Air for eating outside. The family is mostly tables, in long rectangles, a large square and two lower versions, joined by an armchair and a lounge chair in Batyline mesh. The lines are spare and the joints almost vanish. Within RODA patio furniture, this is the collection to study when the table will be the center of the terrace.
Outdoor dining tables
Tables drawn in one line
Anastassiades works in the space between fine art and industrial design, and Plein Air carries that restraint outdoors. Each table stands on a slim aluminum frame. Where the leg meets the frame of the top, the joint is close to invisible, so the outline of the table runs without a break from one foot, across the top and down to the other. Seen from across a lawn, it looks drawn with a single pen stroke.
Tops come in matt gres or wavy glass. Gres is a dense porcelain stoneware that stands up to sun and does not stain easily, offered here in sand, mole and lead. The wavy glass, available on the deeper tables and the square one, has a rippled surface in fern, navy or paprika. Frames are powder coated aluminum in smoke or milk, and aluminum will not rust beside a pool or on a coastal deck.
The longest tables run about 110 inches in two depths, 31 1/2 or 39 3/8 inches. The next size down is about 86 3/4 inches long. A square table of 59 1/8 inches gathers a group around one center, and a 59 1/8 by 31 1/2 inch table suits a smaller balcony. Two low tables, square and rectangular, drop to about 26 3/4 inches for a relaxed meal taken from lounge seating.
The chairs rely on tension. Batyline mesh is stretched across a powder coated stainless steel frame so tightly that the seat seems to hang in the air, and a hydro-draining cushion adds comfort without holding water. The armchair sits at dining height, the lounge chair lower and wider. Both share the smoke or milk frames of the tables. It is Italian outdoor furniture with very few parts, each of them in plain view.
Legs that meet the top almost without a joint
The family
RODA Plein Air, piece by piece
Eight tables and two chairs, all on the same smoke or milk frames.
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Dining tables, W 86 1/2 x D 31 1/2 x H 29 1/4 in
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Dining tables, W 86 1/2 x D 39 1/4 x H 29 1/4 in
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Dining tables, W 110 1/4 x D 31 1/2 x H 29 1/4 in
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Dining tables, W 110 1/4 x D 39 1/4 x H 29 1/4 in
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Dining tables, W 59 x D 59 x H 29 1/4 in
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Dining tables, W 59 x D 31 1/2 x H 29 1/4 in
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Dining tables, W 59 x D 59 x H 26 3/4 in
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Dining tables, W 59 x D 31 1/2 x H 26 3/4 in
Let's talk priceArmchair 059
Chairs, W 22 x D 24 x H 32 in
Let's talk priceLounge chair 068
Lounge chairs, W 24 3/4 x D 26 x H 28 3/4 in
Sizes and materials
Plein Air at a glance
Sizes and structure come from RODA's product sheets. Finish charts and the fact sheets come with your quote.
- Plein Air
- 10pieces in the family
- 8dining tables
- 1chairs
- 14frame and top finishes
- 15cushion fabrics
- 1991the year RODA began
Dimensions and structure
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Table 003
Dining tables
- Size (W x D x H)
- W 86 1/2 x D 31 1/2 x H 29 1/4 in
- Structure
- Powder coated aluminum
- Top
- Matt stoneware (gres)
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Table 004
Dining tables
- Size (W x D x H)
- W 86 1/2 x D 39 1/4 x H 29 1/4 in
- Structure
- Powder coated aluminum
- Top
- Gres or wavy glass
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Table 005
Dining tables
- Size (W x D x H)
- W 110 1/4 x D 31 1/2 x H 29 1/4 in
- Structure
- Powder coated aluminum
- Top
- Matt stoneware (gres)
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Table 006
Dining tables
- Size (W x D x H)
- W 110 1/4 x D 39 1/4 x H 29 1/4 in
- Structure
- Powder coated aluminum
- Top
- Gres or wavy glass
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Table 007
Dining tables
- Size (W x D x H)
- W 59 x D 59 x H 29 1/4 in
- Structure
- Powder coated aluminum
- Top
- Gres or wavy glass
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Table 008
Dining tables
- Size (W x D x H)
- W 59 x D 31 1/2 x H 29 1/4 in
- Structure
- Powder coated aluminum
- Top
- Gres
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Low table 607
Dining tables
- Size (W x D x H)
- W 59 x D 59 x H 26 3/4 in
- Structure
- Powder coated aluminum
- Top
- Gres or wavy glass
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Low table 608
Dining tables
- Size (W x D x H)
- W 59 x D 31 1/2 x H 26 3/4 in
- Structure
- Powder coated aluminum
- Top
- Gres
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Armchair 059
Chairs
- Size (W x D x H)
- W 22 x D 24 x H 32 in
- Structure
- Powder coated stainless steel
- Cushions
- Hydro-draining
- Backrest
- Batyline
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Lounge chair 068
Lounge chairs
- Size (W x D x H)
- W 24 3/4 x D 26 x H 28 3/4 in
- Structure
- Powder coated stainless steel
- Cushions
- Hydro-draining
- Backrest
- Batyline
Finishes RODA lists for Plein Air
Structure, MetalSmoke, Milk
Top, GresSand, Mole, Lead
Top, Wavy GlassFern, Navy, Paprika
Support, BatylineGray, Sand, Olive, Navy, Ginger, Sky
Cushion fabrics15 outdoor fabrics, among them Allegro, Bouquet, Dew, Eco, Fine
Catalog photographs
RODA Plein Air on real terraces
Designer
Michael Anastassiades
Michael Anastassiades studied civil engineering before industrial design at the Royal College of Art, and his work is held by the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Plein Air shows the same economy of material he brings to his lamps and objects.
More about Michael Anastassiades
Also listed under Outdoor chairs.
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RODA Plein Air for your room
Tell us the table size and top you want, how many chairs, and how many people usually sit down to eat.
- Who replies: a person in Chicago, by email, within one business day, 9am to 6pm Central time, Monday to Friday.
- What you get: a written price per piece, finish and fabric options, and the lead time confirmed with the factory.
- What it costs you: nothing, with no account and no newsletter.