Cesare Lacca Serving Tables
Italian, b. 1929
Architect and designer Cesare Lacca is renowned for the modernist furniture he created during the 1950s. Made with materials like teak, glass and brass, his work continues to command great interest from mid-century modern collectors. His pieces have recently found their way onto some of the 21st century’s most trendy television and movie sets.
Lacca was born in Naples, Italy, in 1929. Like many Italian designers in the 20th century, he moved to Milan after World War II to launch his career. At the age of 20, he was selected by a group of American curators for inclusion in the 1951 landmark exhibition “Italy at Work: Her Renaissance in Design Today” at the Art Institute of Chicago. It showcased Italian designers who had embraced modernist principles and rejuvenated traditional Italian crafts, like Carlo Mollino, Franco Albini and Gio Ponti.
Lacca designed a dizzying array of tea carts and serving trolleys across his career, including magazine racks and coffee tables. Lacca’s most well-known piece is a tea cart — most commonly used as a bar cart — that Cassina manufactured. It features beautifully sculpted beech, cedar, teak and walnut with brass details, a glass tabletop and a removable glass tray.
This Lacca cart was featured as Don Draper’s office bar in his Manhattan advertising agency on several episodes of the wildly popular television show Mad Men, reinvigorating the interest of collectors. Several other Lacca pieces have been part of the set decorations in the television series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and the movie Being the Ricardos.
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Creator: Cesare Lacca
Midcentury Italian Bar Cart in Walnut and Glass, Cesare Lacca, Italy, 1960s
By Cesare Lacca
Located in Roma, IT
Stunning Mid-Century serving bar cart fully made in solid walnut wood. This fantastic cart was designed by cesare Lacca in Italy during the 1960s.
The straight simple lines and the ...
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Crystal, Metal
Cesare Lacca Midcentury Wood and Glass Italian Trolley Bar Cart, 1950s
By Cesare Lacca
Located in Roma, IT
Gorgeous midcentury bar cart in wood and brass with two removable crystal glass trays. This wonderful object designed by Cesare Lacca in Italy during 1950s.
This structure of this ...
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1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Cesare Lacca Serving Tables
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Brass
Cesare Lacca Walnut, Brass and Glass Bar Cart with Bottle Holder, Italy 1950s
By Cesare Lacca
Located in Roma, IT
Stunning midcentury bar cart with bottle holder in wood and brass with two removable trays in crystal glass and wood. This fantastic piece was designed by Cesare Lacca in Italy durin...
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1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Cesare Lacca Serving Tables
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Metal, Brass
20th Century Brown Italian Cassina Bar Cart - Walnut Tea Trolley by Cesare Lacca
By Cesare Lacca, Cassina
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A light-brown, vintage Mid-Century modern Italian bar cart made of hand crafted polished Walnut, designed by Cesare Lacca and produced by Cassina, enhanced by detailed wood carvings,...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Cesare Lacca Serving Tables
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Metal, Chrome
Cesare Lacca Walnut and Brass Bar Cart with Magazine Rack, Italy 1950s
By Angelo De Baggis, Cesare Lacca
Located in Roma, IT
Marvellous Mid-Century bar cart with magazine rack and bar cart. This wonderful piece was designed by Cesare Lacca and produced by De Baggis in Italy during 1950s.
This elegant maga...
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1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Cesare Lacca Serving Tables
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Crystal, Brass, Metal
20th Century Italian Cassina Walnut Bar Cart, Tea Trolley by Cesare Lacca
By Cassina, Cesare Lacca
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A light-brown, vintage Mid-Century Modern Italian bar cart made of hand crafted polished Walnut, designed by Cesare Lacca and produced by Cassina, enhanced by detailed wood carvings,...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Cesare Lacca Serving Tables
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Metal, Chrome
20th Century Italian Cassina Bar Cart, Serving Walnut Trolley by Cesare Lacca
By Cassina, Cesare Lacca
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A vintage Mid-Century Modern Italian bar cart made of hand crafted polished Walnut, designed by Cesare Lacca and produced by Cassina, enhanced by detailed wood carvings, in good cond...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Cesare Lacca Serving Tables
Materials
Metal, Chrome
Midcentury Cesare Lacca Wood Italian Bar Cart with Serving Trays, 1950s
By Cesare Lacca
Located in Roma, IT
Fantastic mid century wood bar trolley. It was produced by Cesare Lacca in Italy during 1950s.
This wonderful piece comes with two glass removable trays and an ergonomic bottle rack.
The lines of this piece make it perfect for a midcentury-style dining room or bar.
Born in Naples in 1929, Italian architect-designer Cesare Lacca created modernist furniture and metalwork throughout the 1950s. Though details of his personal life and professional training remain lost to history, there are sufficient surviving primary sources that document his many elegant designs in brasswork for which he is the best know and which fetch high prices from collectors.
Like many Italian designers in the 20th century, Lacca moved to Milan after World War II to launch his career. Before he was even 21 years old, his work was selected by a group of American curators for inclusion in the landmark exhibition Italy at Work: Her Renaissance in Design Today that toured 12 US museums between 1950 and 1953—the first major exhibition of Italian design outside of Italy. The exhibition showcased the best and brightest of Italian designers who had embraced modernist principles and rejuvenated traditional Italian crafts, like Carlo Mollino , Franco Albini, and Gio Ponti
In the exhibition catalogue, curator Meyric R. Roger’s spotlights Lacca's expert achievements in brass, noting “the variety and quality of his creations,” which “place him high among the architect-designers leading the current [Modernist] movement." Rogers adds, "The quality of his work...provide[s] all the decorative effectiveness needed without strain or exaggeration”.
Lacca designed a great many tea carts and serving trolleys in his career—which make up a large proportion of what is available on the vintage market today—as well as magazine racks and coffee tables. Lacca’s most iconic tea cart was manufactured by Italian brand Cassina and features sculpted beech, cedar, teak, or walnut with brass details, a glass tabletop, and a removable glass tray.
Lacca also designed high-backed lounge chairs, which were regularly featured in Arredoluce advertisements for Angelo Lelli’s lighting...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Cesare Lacca Serving Tables
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Brass, Metal
Mid-Century Modern Italian Bar Cart by Cesare Lacca, Italy, 1950
By Cesare Lacca
Located in Renens, CH
Beautiful bar cart designed by Italian designer Cesare Lacca and made in Milan (Italy) around 1955.
The bar cart is made in dark lacquered, with beautifully designed brass wheels...
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1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Cesare Lacca Serving Tables
Materials
Glass, Wood
Cesare Lacca Tee Coffee Wood, 1940, Italy
By Cesare Lacca
Located in Milano, IT
Cesare Lacca tee coffee wood, 1940, Italy.
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1940s Italian Other Vintage Cesare Lacca Serving Tables
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Wood
CESARE LACCA Glass Bar Cart
By Cesare Lacca
Located in Hawthorne, CA
A sculpted lacquered dark wood bar cart with glass shelving designed by CESARE LACCA. Mid-Century Modern design that fits neatly and elegantly in your home decor. MWM DESIGN INTERIOR...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Cesare Lacca Serving Tables
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Cut Glass, Wood
Cesare Lacca Mid-Century Modern Wood Magazine Rack and Bar Cart, 1950s
By Cesare Lacca
Located in Roma, IT
Amazing Mid-Century Modern wood magazine rack and bar cart. This wonderful piece was designed in Italy during 1950s by Cesare Lacca.
This item is in a magnificent vintage condition,...
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1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Cesare Lacca Serving Tables
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Brass
Vintage Ebonized Beech Serving Cart by Cesare Lacca with Oriental Print, Italy
By Cesare Lacca
Located in Bresso, Lombardy
Made in Italy, 1950s.
It features an ebonized beech frame, two glass shelves (one with an oriental paint under it) and brass casters.
This is a vintage item therefore it might show s...
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1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Cesare Lacca Serving Tables
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Brass
Unique White Cesare Lacca Tea Trolley or Bar Cart for Cassina, Italy 1950s
By Cesare Lacca, Cassina
Located in bergen op zoom, NL
Unique white lacquered tea trolley or bar cart by Cesare Lacca for Cassina
In my opinion the white lacquer is period correct from when it was ...
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1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Cesare Lacca Serving Tables
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Glass, Walnut
Cesare Lacca Bar Trolley with Movable Tray Wood Brass, 1950, Italy
By Cesare Lacca
Located in Milano, IT
Cesare Lacca bar trolley with movable tray wood brass, 1950, Italy.
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1950s Italian Other Vintage Cesare Lacca Serving Tables
Materials
Wood
Cesare Lacca Elegant Rolling Cart with Glass Top, 1970s
By Cesare Lacca
Located in New York, NY
Rolling serving cart in lacquered mahogany with glass by Cesare Lacca (Italy) for Cassina, American, 1970s. This cart is very stylish and beautifully made.
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1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Cesare Lacca Serving Tables
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Mahogany, Glass
Mid-Century Modern Serving Trolley by Cesare Lacca
By Cesare Lacca
Located in Brussels , BE
Mid-Century Modern serving trolley by Cesare Lacca.
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1950s Italian Vintage Cesare Lacca Serving Tables
Materials
Glass, Wood
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Cesare Lacca serving tables for sale on 1stDibs.
Cesare Lacca serving tables are available for sale on 1stDibs. These distinctive items are frequently made of wood and are designed with extraordinary care. There are many options to choose from in our collection of Cesare Lacca serving tables, although brown editions of this piece are particularly popular. Many of the original serving tables by Cesare Lacca were created in the mid-century modern style in italy during the 20th century. If you’re looking for additional options, many customers also consider serving tables by and Aldo Tura. Prices for Cesare Lacca serving tables can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — on 1stDibs, these items begin at $1,223 and can go as high as $5,200, while a piece like these, on average, fetch $2,181.
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