bentwood rosewood base glass top coffee table attributed to plycraft?!  

I would be surprised if that were Plycraft. I just dont think Plycraft worked in Rosewood very often. If it were Walnut or Maple, or Birch, then there would be a higher likelihood of Plycraft.

If you have seen it in teak and rosewood, it is far more likely that it is Scandinavian in origin.

pics look like more contemporary-period Asian import

thanks Zephyr, I am going to post wood grain pics on mine...maybe its not rosewood. Never my strong suit.

objectworship...the two 'clean' pics are from someone else. I included them because I have never been able to find any pics or info on line prior and did not have a good shot of mine without clutter. I have owned this table for 18 years and bought it from a elderly gentleman downsizing in 2000 that bought it originally as first owner and had a house full of teak furniture. I am confident he did not buy it recently and/or from china. One of the pics is from a 2004 auction at TreadWay galleries referring to the piece as 1960s..... I am including pics of descriptions below. Which I understand are not necessarily truth but just a confirmation that I am not the first to believe these are forty or 50 year old tables. The other pic with the daybed in it is a version of the table in teak with 3 petals I have also owned.

thanks for looking

There are all kinds of crazy claims on Pinterest. I only look at it rarely and I often see wildly inaccurate attributions. Auction galleries also make claims that they don't necessarily believe. You can always count on them to name drop designers in order to get bidders interested and excited and then bid higher.

Most of what Pearsall produced is documented here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20130810102843/http://www.adrianpearsall.com...

Some people see bent plywood and automatically assume it must be either Pearsall or Eames, but lots of other designers and companies produced bent ply furniture, too.

I don't have any idea what they are and i've never even seen them before this, or at least they haven't registered on my radar! I will ask around, though. I have friends who might know something about them.

Hey Spanky, thanks so much for chiming in. I agree 100%. I am not a pinterest-er but sometimes when you research now that is what comes up as you chase info or attribution for a place to start an authenticity search.

Just to clarify, it was a Plycraft (style) attribution not Pearsall but do not think there is anything solid there at all.

I am posting closeups of wood grain in hopes of clarifying that.

warmest regards, L

whoops, trying pics again...no available end grain

no doubt now, definitely rosewood.

Right, sorry.

I showed your photos to a friend who knows way more than I do and he had never seen one, either.

Spanky, I am so glad you jumped in there! Thank you for sharing my pics...this has been a long mystery for me:)

Thanks again Zephyr

best regards,

L

LCA, sometimes you just gotta be patient. Someone could post the ID months or even years from now. It happens fairly regularly here and these threads never scroll off the board.

Not sure if this helps at all. Here is a similar one in plywood on 1stdibs.

https://www.1stdibs.com/furniture/tables/coffee-tables-cocktail-tables/v...

Since it looks very very much like Brazilian Rosewood we can say it is from before 1992. If there are any screw heads, it could help to know whether they are slotted or Phillips. I am guessing they are Phillips.

My guess would be that if it dates to the 1960s it is the very last seconds of the 1960s.

Does the table tend to show up in certain places more than others?