1965 Emperador Marble Coffee Table by Davis Allen and Gordon Bunshaft for SOM Design Oddities It has some fine scratches

It has some fine scratches to the base and shade

Jens Risom Designs

and Juan Kurchan for Knoll

His minimalist and functionalist work has been influential to everyone from Steve Jobs to design students today

who was friendly with a Knoll executive throughout the 1960s and 1970s

1965 Emperador Marble Coffee Table by Davis Allen and Gordon Bunshaft for SOM Design Oddities It has some fine scratchesThis is a custom designed minimalist coffee table, featuring an impressive slab of fine Spanish Emperador Marble which is perched atop a welded and hand polished stainless steel frame. It was designed in ca. 1965 by Davis Allen and Gordon Bunshaft on behalf of the architectural firm Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill (SOM). Bunshaft was a leading force in the architecture and design world. Davis Allen worked closely with and under Bunshaft to execute