Who designed this amazing Raymor table?  

no ideas and no comments?
If you think it's butt ugly or beautiful, feel free to say so.

It's really nice
and think how lovely it would look against a dark espresso stained floor or a white shag rug. Maybe Aldo Londi or another Italian? The marble makes me think Italian. Well worth 299, as long as it's sturdy and doesn't tip if you put anything heavy on that one corner.

Since you encouraged comments (yay OR nay)--
Nay.
I find it too "Italian Modern"-- which is to say: ostentatious in material, unnecessarily tricky in design.

It can't be too ostenatious
since Raymor was not known for luxury high priced furniture, and the marble base is hollow.

I agree with
Nay.
I agree with "unnecessarily tricky" in design. The materials are a bit fancy for me.

The fact that the marble base is hollow
(as opposed to solid), makes it more (not less) ostentatious.
Better to use a cheaper material, than to use a veneer of something "grand".

raymor......really?
it's got a cool 80's 90's cocaine vibe, but falls short of quality mid century design. don't you think?

Speaking of tricky Italian tables...
I've always had a soft-spot for this Carlo Mollino table.
The more I examine it, the more I find fault with it-- the base's got all this annoying "pseudostructure" going on, it's insanely & needlessly complicated.
Nonetheless, I'm guilty of liking it. Opinions?

The
table in the OP speaks to me of studio 54, cocaine and gold medallions....

Whatever
that means, Robert (what is OP)

original post?
original post?

Just for the record,
I did not buy it - someone else did - on eBay, mostly because I'm nervous about getting glass shopped across country.
I posted this because I'm intrigued by the off-center design, but I don't this table is any wackier than many of the glass-on-base designed in the 1960's and 1970's. There's plenty of coffee tables that i think are much more ugly than this one.
And, of course, I was interested as to whom designed it. Since Raymor was big on importing Italian stuff to the US, I assume that it was probably designed in Italy.
I would sure LOVE to see a book on Raymor published....they were surely an interesting company (they distrubited the Howard Miller/George Nelson clocks, the Bubble lamps, and the Italian Bitossi pottery, and lots of other interesting lines of decorative stuff.)

OP
means Original or Opening Post

That table belongs in this house.