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barrympls
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15/09/2009 7:15 pm  

How on earth did I win a Florence Knoll "T" angle coffee table (45x24x16) from 1952 in good condition with the old Knoll label on the underside for only $99.95????

I won it on eBay and can wait to get it! See? You CAN find bargains on eBay!


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barrympls
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15/09/2009 7:55 pm  

By the way
the Knoll book says it was in production 1952-1970. I have a Milo Baughman two-seater sofa and have been looking for the definitive retangular coffee table at a reasonable price for over a year...and this looks to be the one.


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15/09/2009 8:10 pm  

Yes
Now is a buyer's market.


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barrympls
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15/09/2009 8:34 pm  

Must be
the last similar table by Knoll sold for over 400 bucks. There was also a nifty Lewis Butler (or Florence Knoll) Knoll table on eBay about 2 years ago that was was the same type except for the top which was 1 panel in white formica and one in black. It sold for over 500 bucks and i was lusting after it....


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Fungus Mungus (USA)
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15/09/2009 10:27 pm  

Nice score!
Wow, that is a great price. That's the T-angle version, right? How much is that bad boy going to cost to ship? They're pretty heavy...I've got the 8' bench and boy is that heavy.
The library I work at has a walnut Knoll Butler coffee table in storage...used to be in the University Librarian's office. I've been lusting after it as well...she has no idea what she has. :/ Keep hoping it'll show up in campus surplus. That's where I got my T-angle bench. 🙂
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barrympls
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15/09/2009 11:37 pm  

Only $65.00
to ship to the nearest Greyhound Bus Terminal. That'll work...so the table for $164.95!
You can batcha bottom dollar that if it was for sale locally, it would sell for $400.00 or more, plus tax.


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barrympls
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06/10/2009 12:32 am  

Got it and it's perfect
it's a Knoll lamenated woodgrain top T angle coffee table #307 which was produced 1952-1970. Designed by Florence Knoll, it has the Knoll label on the underside and it's perfect for my Milo Baughman two-seater sofa.


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06/10/2009 1:10 am  

That table
would be at the top of a list for "easy-to-reproduce" pieces. A good local ironwork shop could make the frame, and a cabinet shop -- or the owner -- could make the top -- or four tops, for almost the same money, if less than 2 by 4 feet in size, as a 4 x 8 veneered MDF panel is the standard size available.
Piece of cake, as they say. Make four tables, sell three as "reproduction Knoll" and come out ahead of the game. But not if you must have "the real thing !
Anyway, it's a nice, and very versatile, coffee table. Or is it a cocktail table ?


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barrympls
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06/10/2009 9:31 am  

Coffee or cocktail
but probably not a tea table. I would prefer it to be natural wood, but I'm happy with it nonetheless.


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06/10/2009 7:30 pm  

i would have a piece of ...
i would have a piece of marble cut and really jazz it up. I saw one at the LA modern show and it was really cool. That brown laminate looks very commercial.


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barrympls
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07/10/2009 5:47 pm  

Thanks, Lloyd (LRF)
but I didn't want marble (the weight, the cost, the carpet being grey, etc.) I would've preferred walnut wood but it looks really nice in front of this rather jazzy sofa (and across from an Aalto Zebra fabric tank chair).
SDR: When I got to Greyhound to pick up the table, I was amazed at how heavyweight the metal frame is. Solid and none of the legs are bent...I doubt if it would be easy or affordable to reproduce that level of T angle iron quality.
Also, the formica top is solid, thick and strong too.


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