Double Volume Coffee Table Silver

The Double Volume Coffee Table Silver designed by Willy Rizzo carries the eye of a man who spent his first career behind a camera, photographing Marilyn Monroe, Picasso and the jet set for Paris Match before turning, in 1966, to furniture. Rizzo brought a photographer’s instinct for glamour and proportion to Modernist forms inspired by Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier, building pieces sturdy enough to anchor a room and polished enough to catch the light like a portrait.

Rendered entirely in brushed, lacquered steel, this coffee table strips Rizzo’s double-volume silhouette down to a single cool material, letting form and proportion carry the design without the distraction of colour. Signed and numbered, it echoes the disciplined Modernist lines of Mies van der Rohe that first drew Rizzo away from photography and into three-dimensional design.