Moving to a new place that will have a second living room of sorts. Been contemplating getting two Eames lounges, and one, possibly two, smallish end tables. If we go with one, it will sit between the chairs, and if we go with two, they will live on the left side of the left chair and the right side of the right chair, respectively. 

I’ve gone so far as to mock up the room with AI to get a sense of how it will look. (Unfortunately, the rug,  turns out to be a piece of crap; a flimsy 3mm of flat woven dye sublimated polyester chenille. It’s a shame really because I love the look of it and I can’t find anything that approximates it.) 

I tried adding a couple of end tables that I liked into the image, but (free) AI isn’t great at understanding proportion or scale without a ton of prompts, so I gave up trying. But it got me thinking about the table height.

The first time we went into a Herman Miller store to test drive the chair, they had a very low wire base table next to the chair, and my wife and I both kind of chuckled at how low the table was.

I haven’t been able to find official measurements of the armrest, but it would seem like a standard 18 inch to 20 inch table height would be too tall, given how low the chair is. At the same time, the low Herman Miller table seems too low. 

If you have a table next to your chair, how high is it? Do you reach upward to set a drink down, or downward? I feel like 15 inches is probably the sweet spot, but finding a 15 inch high side table has been challenging.

Ideal height for a drink/end table next to an Eames lounge chair?