Product description
Minoru Yamasaki, the architect of the World Trade Center in New York, designed this coffee table and used it in his Bloomfield Hills, MI, home and in the Montgomery Ward Headquarters (his only skyscraper in Chicago), both of which were completed in 1972.
Glass and chromed metal
15 x 48 x 47 1/8 in. (38.1 x 121.9 x 119.7 cm)
Estimate: $3,000-4,000
Provenance:
Montgomery Ward Headquarters, Chicago
Literature:
Minoru Yamasaki, A Life in Architecture, New York, 1979, pp. 190-192 (for an illustration of the model in Yamasaki's own home in Bloomfield Hills, MI)