We have owned this table for a couple of years now. Looks like it's from the 60s perhaps... certainly very similar to the old eames coffee tables. Once painted (most probably by students) a cheap black... I have stripped the paint (first with paint stripper... but got a better result with orbital sander and different grades of sandpaper) and tried to restore it to something more alike it's original state. Very satisfying. At first I fooled myself into thinking this could be a new hobby... but looking back I have chosen the simplest shaped object... anything more complicated would make me wince.