Gae Aulenti Style Onyx 'Jumbo' Coffee Table

Gae Aulenti Jumbo coffee table for Knoll. Architect and designer Gae Aulenti's Jumbo coffee table is her most iconic creation made from honed white ...

An iconic coffee table designed by Gae Aulenti for Knoll International, crafted from exquisite Carrara marble and acquired in Europe during the 1970s. This piece epitomizes the refin...

Carrara marble "Jumbo" table by Gae Aulenti for Knoll International. Made in Italy circa 1960s.

Beautiful onyx marble cocktail table with Gae Aulenti style legs. A great looking table that stands out.

Iconic "Jumbo" coffee table by Gae Aulenti. All marble with square tabletop that is supported by four cylindrical legs, very elegant and minimalist design.

Beautiful "jumbo" marble coffee table designed by Gae Aulenti for Knoll International. Four solid columnar legs support square top with interlocking corners in black marble.

"Jumbo" coffee table by Gae Aulenti for Knoll, 1970s–80s, crafted from solid Rosso Verona marble with a square top and four cylindrical legs, exemplifying bold Italian postmodern des...

Beautiful design by Gae Aulenti for this marble coffee table. It is difficult to find this table in this colour. It is spectacular with its veins. There is the Knoll label on the env...

Gae Aulenti was a prolific Italian architect and furniture designer best known for transforming Paris’ Gare d’Orsay railway station into the Musée d’Orsay. Inspired by Le Corbusier, ...

The 'Jumbo' Carrara marble coffee table by the famed female Italian architect Gae Aulenti, (Italy, 1927-2012) made for Knoll. Literature: Gramigna, Giuliana. Repertorio Dell'Arredo Domestico 1950-2000 Allemandi: Torino, 2003, p. 111. Size: 14 1/2" high x 44 3/4" square just table top x 67" square total The iconic design constitutes a spectacular and grand square slab of Carrara marble with a total of six pieces including the sculpted and canted corner legs; It is one of the first tables where marble, a material removed for years from the world of furniture, makes its reappearance where the material in itself has a striking and expressive aesthetic and not used as a decorative element but used constructively according to its technological characteristics. One of Aulenti's most significant designs, an impressive and grand, yet minimalist and bold addition to any home interior. Gae Aulenti (born December 4, 1927, Palazzolo dello Stella, Italy–died December 31, 2012, Milan, Italy). Gae (or Gai) Aulenti was a prominent postwar Italian designer and architect who lent her fluid approach to media and material to some of the most important architectural and interior designs of the late 20th century. Aulenti attended Politecnico di Milano in the mid 1950's and established her design practice in the same city shortly after graduation. She rose to prominence while serving as the art director for Casabella, a leading avant-garde architectural journal of the era. It was during these early years that Aulenti’s unique design philosophy emerged, one that centered on the ultimate freedom of the designer from the limitations of practice to a singular medium. Rather than selecting one style and imposing it upon a space, Gae Aulenti believed instead that the space and its inhabitants should inform the design around them. What resulted was a body of work that spanned all realms. From smaller furnishings...