Mario Gottardi (2013-2004)

Modernist table in cherry with wooden frame and glass top on two brass supports, container with storage compartment and a drawer.

Italian Manufacturing ca. 1950.

Mario Gottardi was born in Venice in 1913 and graduated in architecture in Milan in 1939. His career began in Venice, his hometown, with restoration work including Palazzo Mocenigo and Palazzo Contarini on the Grand Canal. In 1951 he renovated the interiors and created the furnishings of the famous Hotel Bauer in Venice and in 1958 he collaborated on the urban planning of Piazzale Roma. He designed and built numerous villas and won, at different times, competitions for the ships Cristoforo Colombo (1953), Leonardo da Vinci (1958), Michelangelo (1962), for which he created the furnishings. In 2013, an exhibition of his sketches and preparatory drawings was set up at the Salone d’Onore of the Triennale di Milano.

Walnut coffee table with a thick beveled glass top and a wooden base with four elegantly shaped legs.

Italian manufacture, ca. 1950.

Ignazio Gardella/Luigi Caccia Dominioni

Pair of brass coffee tables with two cloth-covered shelves. Azucena production, 1955.

Bibl.Azucena production catalog

Splendid low table with four shaped wooden legs, a thick crystal top, and an elegant lattice-structured undertop with a geometric design for a striking visual lightness.

Attributed to Gio Ponti, made around 1955.

Small, rare side table in chrome-plated metal and red Bakelite, featuring an oval top and two wheels.

Italian manufacture, circa 1930.

Pair of small tables in scratched oak.

Italian manufacture, circa 1940.

Pair of modernist bentwood stools, fully veneered. The continuous structure, characterized by smooth, essential lines, forms both the legs and the seat.

Italian manufacture, circa 1940.

Gianfranco Frattini (1926-2004)

Rare coffee table with four drawers and two shaped vertical uprights.

Bernini manufacture, 1957.

Gianfranco Frattini Large coffee table with wooden top and uprights, thick glass with a central hole.

Made in Italy ca.1965.

Wooden serving trolley with double shelve and wave-shaped frame, pyramidal uprights, and brass wheels.

Attribution: Paolo Buffa, ca. 1950.

Paolo Buffa

Coffee table with crossbow shaped legs held by a brass tie rod and an onyx top. Thin crack on the top.

Serafino Arrighi Manufactory, 1950.

Pair of lacquered metal coffee tables with brass details, two tops: one in shaped metal and the other in cut glass.

Manufacture around 1960s.

Osvaldo Borsani

Pair of elegant coffee tables with a beveled glass top and truncated conical legs with brass tips, designed by Osvaldo Borsani in 1954.

Giuliana Gramigna, Osvaldo Borsani, De Luca Editore. Rome 1992, pp. 199, 235

Reissue by Officina Antiquaria

Gianfranco Frattini

Rare coffee table in bentwood finished in red aniline stain, featuring three turned legs and a bevelled glass top.

Manufactured by Cassina, circa 1965.

Manufacturer's label present.

Gaetano Borsani

Refined coffee table with saber-shaped legs in thuja burl.

Varedo Borsani atelier, 1940s

Manufacturer's trademark,

George Nelson (1908-1986)

Pair of large coffee tables with iron frames and beveled glass tops resting on small colored wooden spheres.

Herman Miller, USA, ca. 1950.

George Nelson was a leading figure in 20th-century American design, an architect, designer, and longtime creative director of Herman Miller.

In the 1930s, he lived for a period in Rome on a scholarship, coming into contact with Italian rationalist architecture and figures such as Gio Ponti. He was among the first to promote Italian design in the United States, helping to raise awareness of some of the most important 20th-century Italian architects and designers overseas.

His creations, from modular furniture to iconic wall clocks, remain symbols of the most elegant and innovative American modernism.

Coffee table with a splendid top made of "Breccia Medicea," also known as "Breccia Seravezza," from the Apuan quarries, with shaped wooden legs.

Italian manufacture, circa 1950s.

A large coffee table with an organically shaped solid wood top, featuring a prominent central cavity hand-sculpted with a dense hammered texture.

The elongated, aerodynamic shape interacts with the three slightly inclined conical legs, lending momentum and stability to the overall design. The contrast between the smooth surface of the top and the textured central cavity creates a refined balance between functionality and sculptural detail.

Scandinavian manufacture, circa 1950.

Luigi Caccia Dominioni (1913-2016)

Two low living room tables in lacquered wood with thick glass tops in Nile green. A custom made piece lacquered in English green.

Azucena Manufactory, 1962.

Elegant low table in blonde teak with nice thin legs and brass tips. Black opaline glass on top.

Italian manufacture, 1950's

Elegant polychrome wood coffee table with inlays across the entire surface and a rosette at the center of the top featuring an inlaid eagle. Partially turned central leg with four shaped spokes resting on a quatrefoil base.

Made in Northern Italy, Charles X period, ca. 1830.

Pair of wood and brass coffee tables with thick glass tops.

Italian manufacture, ca. 1955.

Carlo Hauner (1927-1996)

A rare low table with a central base and compartments for objects, bottles, glasses, and an ice bucket covered in vinyl leather, all enclosed by double-sided lacquered wooden trays and a central burnished metal lid with brass handles and a glass top.

"Forma" factory, ca. 1960.

Carlo Hauner was a key figure in postwar European modernism, active in Italy and Brazil. Born in Italy to an Austrian family, he brought with him a cosmopolitan vision that soon led him to Brazil, then the beating heart of modernism. There, he met Martin Eisler, and together they founded "Forma," a creative workshop that would become the most important designer furniture company in Brazil and later open an office in Italy. Today, his works are considered among the finest expressions of international modernism, sought after by collectors and galleries for their timeless elegance.

Elegant parchment-covered wooden coffee table with stained and shaped wooden legs.

Italian manufacture, circa 1940.

Finn Juhl (1912 - 1989)

Model 531/45 coffee table in solid teak. This stunning piece features Finn Juhl's distinctive raised lips, adding a touch of elegance and functionality to the design. It can also be used as a display table to place your favourite items. Designed in 1958, labelled and produced by France & Daverkosen.

Pair of shaped wooden coffee tables with travertine tops.

Made in Italy, custom-made.

Two elegant shaped marble coffee tables.

Italian manufacture, custom-made.

Small curved wood trolley with two wood and glass shelves.

Austrian manufacture, ca. 1920.

Gio Ponti

Oak wall coffee table with a cut glass top and a wooden top.

Italian manufacture, ca. 1950.

Two rattan, raffia, and leather coffee tables.

Italian-made, circa 1970s.

Oak coffee table with crosspiece, four tapered legs, and a cut glass top.

Attributed to Gio Ponti, ca. 1950.

Pair of silver-plated wood tables with silver leaf and mecca.

French manufacture, Art Deco period, ca. 1930.

Wrought iron coffee table with a copper-green patinated finish and a Verde Alpi marble top.

French manufacture, Art Deco period, ca. 1930.

Bar cart with two tray-like shelves in cut glass and brass with turned wood details.

Italian manufacture, circa 1950.

Vittorio Dassi (1893-1973)

Pair of organic shaped coffee tables with marble top and base.

Manufactured by Dassi Turin, ca.1930/40s.

Vittorio Dassi, a key figure in the renewal of Italian design in the 1930s, collaborated with luminaries such as Franco Albini and Giò Ponti. Taking over the family business in 1933, Dassi introduced revolutionary visions that reshaped furniture design in Italy, pioneering the use of unexplored materials and forms.

Guglielmo Pecorini

Small rare container unit in scratched oak with printed fabric door and ground glass top.

Manufactured in the 1930s.

Luigi Caccia Dominioni

Pair of low tables in chromed metal with greyblue glass top,

Azucena, Italy 1970's.

Pair of coffee tables with painted metal top.

Italian manufacture around 1960s.

Gio Ponti (1891-1979)

A blond wood coffee table with three shaped spokes with tapered legs and brass tips, a thick cut crystal top with an elliptical triangular shape.

Italian manufacture, ca. 1950.

Living room table in imitation bamboo wood with turned and burnished brass corners. Two shades in ground smoked glass.

Italian 1970s manufacture.

Silvio Cavatorta (1887-1960)

Pair of bedside tables with front drawer, walnut and goat skin.

Manufacturer's label, Cavatorta Roma, 1950s.

Rare wooden table.

Italian Rationalism, manufacture ca.1920.

Small storage unit with compartments and central leg in polished metal.

Italian manufacture, 1960's.

Romeo Rega (1904-1968 )

Low table in brass and burnished glass.

Manufacturing Rega & Co. Rome, 1970ca.

Pair of elegant coffee tables with a beveled glass top and truncated conical legs with brass tips, designed by Osvaldo Borsani in 1954.

Giuliana Gramigna, Osvaldo Borsani, De Luca Editore. Rome 1992, pp. 199, 235

Reissue by Officina Antiquaria

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Luigi Brusotti (1877-1959)

Elegant coffee table in thick cut glass in Nile green color with central bronze joint.

Manufacturing ca. 1940,

Two sets of coffee tables each composed of three modules in stained wood with arched legs and slatted tops.

Manufactured by Triconfort, France, ca. 1955.

Mario Sabot

Low table with two shelves in lacquered wood with central shaped bottle holder in brass.

Sabot production, Italy, 1970's.

Round coffee table in wood and Vienna straw with glass top.

Italian 1970s manufacture.

Osvaldo Borsani

Pair of elegant coffee tables with a beveled glass top and truncated conical legs with brass tips, designed by Osvaldo Borsani in 1954.

Giuliana Gramigna, Osvaldo Borsani, De Luca Editore. Rome 1992, pp. 199, 235

Reissue by Officina Antiquaria

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Large low table with herringbone rattan top and curved iron leg.

Italian manufacture, ca. 1950.

Ico Parisi (1916-1996)

Shaped wooden living room table with green Alps marble top.

Coming from a private property in Como, around 1955.

Roberto Aloi (1897-1981)

Wooden coffee table with hand-carved geometric design and iron structure.

Italian manufacture, ca. 1960.

Melchiorre Bega (1898-1976)

Rare coffee table with turned wooden legs and brass cross, very thick cut glass top.

Bega&C manufacturing, Bologna, 1950s.

Melchiorre Bega trained as an architect and later also became a designer. Well known in Italy and abroad for its functionalist and modern design, Bega rejected the Art Déco style that prevailed in that period. He works with highly professional specialized craftsmen with whom he creates hundreds of shops and showrooms for the big brands of the time such as Motta, Alemagna, Martini, Galtrucco and many others. In the early 1940s he directed the famous magazine "Domus" founded by his friend and colleague Gio Ponti.

After the second world war he realized his most important projects were the Axel Springer Building in Berlin and in 1957-59 the Galfa Tower in Milan, one of the first Italian skyscrapers of over 30 floors, recently restored.

Rare large coffee table with beautiful woven rush workmanship

Italian manufacture, 1950.
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Ico Parisi (1916 - 1996)

Pair of wooden bedside tables with ground glass top. One in blond walnut and the other in dark wood.

Gino De Baggis manufacture, Italy 1954.

Bibliography: R. Lietti, Ico Parisi. Catalog raisonné design 1936-1960, Silvana Editoriale, Cinisello Balsamo 2017, p. 503

Elegant low table with brass structure and thick moulded crystal glass top.

Italian manufacture, around 1970.

Piero Fornasetti (1913-1988)

Low table with wooden base and top in enamelled and painted metal.

Milan 1960ca.

Original brand stamp.

Very elegant Art Deco low table in rosewood with goat skin top.

France 1930's.

Ilmari Tapiovaara

Large low table in teak wood with top suspended on small brass cylinders. Prod. by La Permanente Mobili, Cantù, 1957.

Bibliography: Design experiences in Cantù, edited by G. Furlanis, A. Porro, A. Terraneo, s.e. Cantù 1986, p.55

Low table with wooden and slate top, one compartment under the central wooden top and two side shelves.

Italian manufacture around 1960s.

Elegant coffee table in turned iron and brass with black opaline glass top.

French manufacture, Maison Jansen around 1950.

Coffee table with decorated methacrylate top and four legs with brass ends.

France 1960s.

Elegant coffee table with polished wooden uprights and a parchment-covered top.

Production by Officina Antiquaria upon request.

Adjustable coffee table in mahogany.

Italian manufacture, 1950's

(Only one left)

Coffee table with opaline glass top and aluminum legs with brass ends.

Italian manufacture, around 1950.

Coffee table with metal with nice Cuban mahogany top.

Prod. Saporiti Italia, 1960's.

Luigi Caccia Dominioni (1913-2016)

"Casaccia" side table with four shelves and one drawer in polished wood.

Azucena manufacture, 1962.

Bibl. G. Gramigna, Repertorio del design italiano 1950-2000 per l'arredamento domestico Vol 1, Allemandi Torino 2023 p. 97

Low table with metal structure, brass riser and thick cut glass top.

Italian manufacture around 1960.