A rare commissioned marble table base designed and fabricated by Paul Puccio for a New York Upper East Side client signed and dated 1976.
The base is made from Marble Giallo Siena one of the most beautiful, prestigious and detailed marbles that are mined in Italy.
It is characterized by an amber background color is dark and heterogeneous due to the presence of grains with shades ranging from ivory white to light yellow to a reddish yellow ocher and very intense overall
Puccio Marble and Onyx was the leading go to fabricator of stone work and stone furniture in the greater New York design/decorator world for sixty years.
The family run busines was founded in 1950.
Paul Puccio was born in Sicily in 1934 and is an innovative marble designer who invented and patented a system enabling stone to be structurally fortified so as to create forms and designs never before possible in both Italy and the United States.
This base's strong geometric design is a wonderful example of the ingenuity and brilliance of Paul Puccio's artistry.
The marble casing was carefully removed and the steel armature was professionally cleaned and stabilized . The marble casing was then re-adhered. and the base looks like it did when it first left the Puccio stoneworks.
The glass tops shown in the photos measure, 24 x 48, 30 x 60 and 42 x 84" .