Laccio Coffee Table

Overview

The Laccio Coffee Table (model 50T2) is the large table of Marcel Breuer's Laccio nesting pair, dated 1925 on Knoll's design-plan page, sheet and shop and 1924 in its April 2026 price list. Two steel loops form the legs and a flat top spans them; the smaller Laccio Side Table can nest over it.

Construction

• Top of durable satin-finish plastic laminate over an MDF core; the shop also offers solid marble with a glossy finish
• Frame in seamless tubular steel, 1" in diameter, polished chrome or ultra-matte powder-coated
• Four plastic glides snap into predrilled holes to protect floors
• A stamp with the Knoll logo and Breuer's signature marks the frame

Specifications

• W 53½" × D 19" × H 13½" (1359 × 483 × 343 mm)

Steel tube as a line in space

Knoll's page says Breuer used tubular steel to define lines in space, and that the effect shows beautifully in these simple nesting tables. It places the Laccio Tables beside his Wassily and Cesca chairs as critical to the story of twentieth-century design, and says the material revolutionized furniture construction.

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A bicycle and a macaroni remark

In an interview with a Knoll historian, Breuer recalled how a young architect friend explained that the handlebars of his first bicycle were made by bending steel tubes "like macaroni". That remark stayed with him while he was at the Bauhaus and set him thinking of bent steel tube as the frame for an elastic, transparent piece of furniture.