Set of four 1960s Italian bentwood chairs in the style of Carlo Ratti

Pair of Italian-made dining or bedroom chairs from the 1950s. Ritapezzate in purple chenille. In excellent condition, solid and sturdy.

Small Italian-made wall spot from the 1960s, black lacquered metal and brass details, adjustable.

Italian-made corner bar-stereo cabinet from the 1960s. Side space underneath for vinyl storage, interesting top shape suitable for accommodating Hi-Fi playback systems, storage spac...

Italian sliding-gate cabinet from the 1960s. Functioning and sliding mechanism. Black lacquered metal base. four interior shelves. Original key, working lock.

Sideboard designed by Paolo Tilche and produced by Arform, italy '60. Rare version with central space to accommodate a seat, ideal as an entryway or bedroom cabinet. Rear finished, ...

Italian-made armchair from the 1950s in the style and formed productions of Gio Ponti. Elegant frame with curvilinear progression of the back legs that accompany the backrest, which...

This Italian chair model was designed in the 1950s by Carlo Ratti for Industira Legni Curvati Lissoni and is made of bentwood and black lacquered metal legs. The rounded shapes and t...

Four original chairs in curved multilayer teak and beech wood, mid-century Italian design in the Carlo Ratti style.

Carlo Ratti for Industria Legni Curvati, set of four dining chairs, plywood with a teak fineer and metal, Italy, 1970s. Elegant set of Italian dining chairs with metal frame and ply...

Two beautiful original Carlo Ratti bentwood chairs, manufactured by his company Industria Legni Curvati, based in Lissone, Milan. New upholstered with a two-tone fabric.

Set of four dining chairs with a frame in black lacquered metal and seat in curved plywood, attributed to Carlo Ratti and produced by Società Compensati Curvati in the 1950s. In Italy, at the beginning of the XX century, industries of curved solid wood arose under license of Michael Thonet, and through the International Exhibitions the processing of curved wood became more and more widespread. The Expo of the first decade was also attended by the wood manufacturers of Monza, while in 1905 Otto Helzer, in Switzerland, patented wooden structures in curved laminated, whose strength was equivalent to those in steel. The Ratti brothers of Monza took their cue from the solid wood laminate to create furniture that, instead of wooden elements, used sheets of wood. The brothers Ratti, Carlo and Mario, also began to follow the young artistic avant-gardes (cubism, futurism and abstractionism). The mastery of wooden sculpture influenced Carlo in the design and realization of furniture of fine neo-plastic artistic workmanship and decò, receiving honors from the Prince of Piedmont Umberto di Savoia. In 1919, in Milan, the first Lombard Exhibition of Decorative Arts was set up (later to become the Triennale) and the Ratti brothers exhibited their furniture in solid wood but also in curved panel with a new system of curvature, the one in Telo. The canvas system was developed by the Ratti brothers with the help of a friend, Cesare Cantù. They developed an elastomer bag in which the mould was inserted with the panel to be bent and, closing it with clamps, the air inside was removed, thus making the panel adhere to the mould. Carlo and Mario found in the Telo system a means by which they could make objects and furniture in the three spatial directions with large surface curvatures, without limits of thickness and minimum radii of curvature. In 1921 in Stuttgart the first Salone del Mobile was inaugurated and the Fratelli Ratti of Monza made itself known internationally by presenting solid wood furniture and also furniture in load-bearing plywood, flanked by furniture with framed and interchangeable covers. The Expo became meeting places to verify and present the novelties in the furniture and industrialization sector and, with the development of Industrial Design, the first architects joined in the design of the furniture industries. The Ratti Brothers, in the various international and national exhibitions, also presented incredible objects in their realization with the system in Telo. After 1930 Carlo and Mario produced many containers for radio and folding chairs for cinema but in 1939 they divided and in Monza Mario remained who, with his sons Antonio and Angela, formed the Società Compensati Curvi...

This set of six Italian dining chairs was designed by Carlo Ratti in the 1950s. The seat shell is made of several bentwood elements with straight breaking edges in the area of the a...