Coffee Table
- Designer
- Frederick Wallace Dunn, American, 1905–1984
- Date
- c.1938
- Material
- Painted wood, pewter, leather, and brass
- Made in
- Saint Louis, Missouri, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Furniture
- Current Location
- On View, Gallery 132
- Dimensions
- 12 1/4 x 24 9/16 x 24 9/16 in. (31.1 x 62.4 x 62.4 cm)
- Credit Line
- Gift of William C. Sherman in memory of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas B. Sherman
- Rights
- © Frederick Wallace Dunn
- Object Number
- 221:1980
NOTES
This sleek, luxurious table combines unconventional materials for furniture—polished and engraved pewter, brass, and parchment or leather—with glossy black-painted wood. Its style is a blend of modern and traditional motifs. Concentric squares inside a frame with projecting corners engraved on the top evoke historical architectural forms with modern simplicity.