Pedestal Tables: The Practical and Stylish Choice
There’s something intrinsically interesting, innovative and unique about a pedestal table. Originally seen as a staple of Victorian and Regency interiors, this single leg table – often referred to as both a column table and a pedestal table – has become a core part of modern and minimalist interior design styles today. Designed to create a practical and aesthetic alternative to traditional four-legged tables, pedestal tables offer a fresh twist on a classic style, bringing space, simplicity and style to our dining rooms.
The Benefits of Pedestal Dining Tables
Whether your dining table is designed for cosy date nights, family dining or big festive occasions, a pedestal table can be a great option for your home.
- Easier cleaning: Without needing to dodge around awkward table legs and complicated frames, this simple single leg table offers easier floor cleaning, even in those tricky and hard to reach spots under the table.
- A lighter feel: One of the biggest appeals, visually, of a column table is the addition of light and space in your dining room. The single leg style invites natural lighting in, rather than blocking it out, making your entire room feel airier and expansive.
- Extended seating: Through intelligent design choices, the pedestal table also offers flexible and extended seating – without four bulky legs taking up excess leg room and seating positions around the table. As the pedestal leg is in the center of the table, seats can be arranged around the circumference without obstacle, meaning all of your family and friends can dine with you in comfort.
- The round table effect: Although pedestal and column tabletops can come in a range of shapes, the ancient concept of ‘the round table’ still fits. The idea of equality, warmth, open conversation, inclusive socialisation and an unrestricted welcome are all shared within pedestal table designs – making them an inviting and appealing design for many family homes.
Easily customisable and effortlessly contemporary, our collection of pedestal tables at Milola is broad and varied – with designs to suit both classic and modern interior styles. From the visually stunning COLUMN Table to the high end and luxurious LEIF Ceramic Table, we’ve put together a selection of our favourite pedestal tables, with styles to suit every taste and every home.
1. COLUMN Dining Table - Artisan
Strong, solid and sturdy, the impressive COLUMN Round Table is a beautifully structural piece to add to your home. Finished in warm toned woods with a smooth pedestal leg that transitions softly from a square to a circle, it’s a unique touch that adds depth and creativity to this seemingly minimalist design. With plenty of room for tucked in chairs and dining guests, the single leg design creates natural space beneath the tabletop, balancing solidity and size perfectly with minimalism and style.
Available in a range of sizes to suit your specific dining space, this Artisan piece can be customised for intimate dining in smaller spaces or enlarged for family dining and group occasions.
2. MERI Ceramic Table – Milola
For those seeking a glamourous, high-end feel for their dining spaces, the MERI Ceramic Column Table is a beautiful addition to any elegant dining room. With a smooth, sweeping oval tabletop finished in glossy ceramic, the single steel leg offers a secure and sturdy base and creates a stunning visual contrast in the overall design.
Whether styled in a crisp white ceramic or a grounded basalt grey, the bespoke shape of this table and the clean flared pedestal leg make it a naturally eye-catching table for your home.
3. LEIF Ceramic Table – Milola
A naturally versatile pedestal table, the LEIF Ceramic Dining Table brings a more contained and cosy feel to our dining spaces, kitchens and breakfast nooks. With a circular ceramic tabletop and steel flared leg, it retains the elegant, premium feel of the MERI Table, but offers a more intimate and relaxed dining experience for your family and friends to enjoy.
With a range of colours and materials to choose from, it’s a beautifully customisable piece – one that can work well in both contemporary and traditional interior styles.
4. #33 Extendable Column Table – Skovby
A true icon of Danish design, the Skovby #33 column table is a staple of any Nordic or Scandi-inspired home. Hidden beneath a stripped back and refined appearance, this simplistic design conceals layers of innovative extension mechanisms, with a hidden turntable offering extra seating capacity and extended length with a few simple turns. The singular column leg helps to create extra leg room beneath the tabletop and adds to the clean silhouette of this traditional Danish design.
Timeless and transformative, the Skovby #33 table is a useful, inspired and creative choice to add depth, intelligence and style to your home.
5. PIVOT Dining Table - Artisan
A truly beautiful and eye-catching design, this unique twist on a classic pedestal dining table delivers architectural expression and rustic simplicity all in one. Transforming the traditional column table form into something impactful and artistic, the hollowed-out central leg design invites light and space to become a core part of your dining space – with a solid circular tabletop that’s perfect for everyday dining.
Available in a number of different woods and finishes, this innovative PIVOT Table by renowned designer Micheal Schneider is a standout piece from the Artisan collection, and one that can make a real difference to your dining space.
6. #116 and #117 Extendable Pedestal Tables – Skovby
An unconventional approach to the pedestal table, the Skovby tables – 116 and 117 – offer a bold re-imagining of traditional dining table designs. Retaining the standout singular leg, the boatshaped tabletops can bring a softer, rounded feel to your dining spaces, with an elongated oval column leg for impressive sturdiness and support.
Extendable and innovative, these Danish-inspired tables offer a more geometric and grounded design, creating a table that feels naturally multipurpose – whether used in a meeting room or a dining room.
Shop Pedestal Dining Tables with Milola
You can discover our full range of solid wood and ceramic dining tables online. All of our tables can be customised in your favourite material and adjusted in size, so if you find a style you like but would like to chat to Charlotte to customise your perfect piece, then please contact us and we'd be more than happy to help. You can also order free wood swatches online using our swatch ordering tool to try the materials in your home, before you buy.
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