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23/05/2014 4:14 pm  

hi there good people !

Please help me to ID this smoked glass coffee table.

Its a bulky sturdy piece - probably Italian, probably from the seventies 🙂

Pictures are not that great so here are a few specs !

Tubular metal, Chrome or steel?

glass is about 10mm thick

dimensions 105x60

and yeah...
hope it's very rare and collectable, PLEASE MAKE MY DAY 😀

Cheers!

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http://imgur.com/a/qS5BL#0


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23/05/2014 4:27 pm  

Here is another picture !
Hope that will clear some things up!
Will it?


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toomanychairs
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24/05/2014 3:34 am  

No clue on the ID, but...
the visible bolts on the legs suggest that it's not a rare or valuable piece. A fancy designer would've left those lines smooth.
That said, if you like it, put it in your living room! People love pets without pedigrees, and the same goes for furniture.


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24/05/2014 3:55 am  

Visible fasteners
aren't ALWAYS a sign of inferior work; sometimes they're part of the expression. Not sure how to read this piece. The structural form is odd, seeming to owe more to some notion of dimensional modularity than to common sense.


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24/05/2014 9:04 am  

SDR
I really enjoyed reading that post. Thank you.


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Robert Leach
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24/05/2014 4:07 pm  

agree with SDR
it belongs to a time (the late 60s/early 70s) when some designers started making furniture for themselves, rather than the design coming from manufacturing background.
Here in the UK Merrow Associates, Pieff, OMK, William Plunkett and others were using a small number of components and producing several different designs from those pieces.
So with small tweaks a coffee table base might become a dining table, a chair a sofa etc.
I'm sure a smaller version of this table exists with only the central part of the structure.


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24/05/2014 4:42 pm  

I am with you on this one SDR
I had the feeling that those imperfections might be a part of the work!
Not saying the table is perfect, but there was something that caught my attention !


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24/05/2014 4:54 pm  

Interesting thing to point out robert1960
yeah, now that I've made a google search on "Italian tubular smoked glass table" (probably should done that earlier)
I've seen a few simmilar looking designs!
So probably the table isn't what it could be in terms of rarity at least 🙂


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24/05/2014 11:12 pm  

Agreed
I actually agree with the commenters above. I should've tempered my original point: that the visible screw heads suggest, but do not confirm, that it's a pedigreed piece.
Not a bad table in the right room, especially if you picked it up off the curb or otherwise inexpensively.


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