I am of the opinion that the Golden Gate Bridge is the most beautiful piece of infrastructure on the entire planet. It is perfect example that truly great design does not compromise on form nor function.

Dining tables have the challenge of maximizing table surface area while minimizing footprint - in other words, how many people can we feed in this room without knocking down a wall. I only have 6 feet by 3 feet to work with for the table top. That steered me to a trestle style base in order to eliminate the need for 4 legs on the corners. Yet it could not look to airy, it must be robust.

Whilst taking my dogs for a walk that afternoon it hit me. What if you flip the golden gate bridge upside down with the table top being where the road is. From there I pulled Joey Strauss’ original blueprints from the US Patent Office and scaled them down to fit my needs. I used a standard table top height of 28” which meant that my legs would be a exact 1:272 scale model of the towers. (The distance between towers is not to scale, as that would have resulted in a table about as long as a football field).