Borsani ? desk  

predictor double pedestal desk
the desk pictured is part of the "predictor" line from the 1960's and designed by george reinoehl (not quite a household name in today's designer/label conscious world). stow davies did sold a osvaldo borsani designed table produced originally in italy by tecno. the "predictor" is a good looking line of office furniture particularly those gravity defying stilletto like legs and floating table/desk tops. stow davies is known mainly for producing what is classified as "grand rapids modern" catering to a high end clientele but with conservative tastes. stow davies also made convincing and identical pieces (good and well made knock offs) of the polished steel base tables by florence knoll.
i cannot remember exactly the title of the book by author leslie pina for schiffer books. she devoted a chapter on stow davies office furniture featuring the predictor line and others.

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I believe the book is Fifties Furniture.

A friend
just looked in his copy of that book and reported it in there with no attribution. Perhaps a different book?

Not seen that configuration before...
These come in a variety of configurations. A friend has a 6ft desk with drawers on a single side and a 6ft credenza in the same configuration.
I had one some time ago - 6ft desk with an 8ft credenza. Even had a drawer for a dictaphone. Was awesome and huge, but alas I live in the Bay Area where space comes at a hefty price.
Is your's 8ft in length? Seems much bigger than those I have seen. Either way, great find on your end. Hope you have space to enjoy it 🙂

Source
Minimoma, After a reread I see you did not say the attribution was in the Pina book. Where did you get your info?
teakhound, it is 6' 4"

not from the leslie pina book
i got my stow davies desk over 20 years ago and at the time the only source for reference or identification on vintage modern furniture was to look at an old book on office furniture systems or the manufacturer's catalog binder or some magazine publication like interiors or arts and architecture magazine that featured what was new at the time and in those days these references were available at the local public library. i am quite sure that if someone searches for "stow davies predictor desk", something reliable or reputable will most likely show up in the search and identify the desk in question as not by borsani.
this history link about stow davies furniture company seems to be legit.
http://www.furniturecityhistory.org/company/3852/stow-and-davis-furnitur...

Thanks folks
I guess I will have to keep looking. I will let you know if/ when I pin it down.
Anyone else?

have fun with the research
as i mentioned in the earlier post, the stow and davies "predictor" desk in question as good looking as it is, by the time it came out in the mid-1960's,
stylistically, the design is already over a decade late (compared to george nelson's e.o.g. line for herman miller in the late 1940's or florence knoll in the early 1950's and other works of well known designers like borsani). borsani will never do anything backwards and his desks, like most good italian desk design in the 1950's are more sculptural and not as stiff and formulaic as the stow and davies "predictor" line. also, the office furniture design in the mid 1960's has already evolved into the cubicle system (like herman miller's action office). borsani's (with eugenio gerli) all white office system for his own firm tecno, the "graphis" designed in 1968 is purely geometric in form (like sottsass work and other designers) typical of the 1960's italian design (or anti-design).
as for stow and davies, the closest thing the company had ever done to have some kind of pedigree is when in 1936, the metal office furniture company (later renamed steelcase) sub-contracted to stow and davies the racetrack shape or oval desk/work station wood tops for the furniture of the offices of the s.c johnson administration building in racine, wisconsin designed by frank lloyd wright.
i do have the reference/source for the desk identification(just refraining from spoon feeding too much resources) and i think doing good old fashioned research is actually good for the (design enthusiast) soul.

Wow!
Rather than pointing out the things I think are wrong with your latest post minimoma, I will leave it to you to do the research. And to help keep you from a perhaps obvious but wrong direction of study, it is not because you did not answer my question when you could have.