Cesare Lacca On Sale
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Glass, Walnut
Vintage 1960s Italian Carts and Bar Carts
Copper
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Brass
Vintage 1950s Mid-Century Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Brass
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Magazine Racks and Stands
Brass
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Brass, Metal
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Magazine Racks and Stands
Brass
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Sofas
Brass
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Serving Tables
Brass
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Magazine Racks and Stands
Brass
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Magazine Racks and Stands
Brass
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Brass
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Cut Glass, Wood
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Magazine Racks and Stands
Glass, Wood
People Also Browsed
21st Century and Contemporary Unknown Art Deco Carts and Bar Carts
Marble
2010s Mexican Art Deco Carts and Bar Carts
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Mid-Century Modern Chandeliers and...
Brass
2010s Mid-Century Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Benches
Fabric, Velvet, Lacquer, Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Mid-Century Modern Flush Mount
Metal, Brass
Mid-20th Century Swedish Mid-Century Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Teak
21st Century and Contemporary Brazilian Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Asian Mid-Century Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Iron
Mid-20th Century Brutalist Dry Bars
Mirror, Resin, Wood
Vintage 1950s German Mid-Century Modern Stools
Metal
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Dressers
Wood
2010s American Mid-Century Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Brass
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Brass
2010s American Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Cut Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Danish Mid-Century Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Steel
Recent Sales
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Walnut
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Softwood
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Wall Mirrors
Brass, Steel
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Brass
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Mahogany
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Side Tables
Aluminum
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Brass
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Brass
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Brass
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Glass, Beech, Walnut
Vintage 1950s Italian Carts and Bar Carts
Brass
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Brass
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Glass, Wood
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Sofas
Velvet
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Armchairs
Brass
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Magazine Racks and Stands
Brass
Vintage 1940s Italian Mid-Century Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Brass
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Brass
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Brass
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Brass
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Magazine Racks and Stands
Brass
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Glass, Walnut
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Brass
Vintage 1950s Italian End Tables
Mahogany
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Side Tables
Brass
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Brass
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Brass
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Metal
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Serving Tables
Brass
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Brass
Vintage 1950s French Mid-Century Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Glass, Mahogany
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Brass, Metal
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Brass
Vintage 1950s Italian Carts and Bar Carts
Brass
T...
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Console Tables
Marble, Brass, Wrought Iron
Cesare Lacca On Sale For Sale on 1stDibs
How Much is a Cesare Lacca On Sale?
Cesare Lacca for sale on 1stDibs
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.
On 1stDibs, find Cesare Lacca tables, racks and stands, seating and more.
A Close Look at Mid-Century Modern Furniture
Organically shaped, clean-lined and elegantly simple are three terms that well describe vintage mid-century modern furniture. The style, which emerged primarily in the years following World War II, is characterized by pieces that were conceived and made in an energetic, optimistic spirit by creators who believed that good design was an essential part of good living.
ORIGINS OF MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGN
- Emerged during the mid-20th century
- Informed by European modernism, Bauhaus, International style, Scandinavian modernism and Frank Lloyd Wright’s architecture
- A heyday of innovation in postwar America
- Experimentation with new ideas, new materials and new forms flourished in Scandinavia, Italy, the former Czechoslovakia and elsewhere in Europe
CHARACTERISTICS OF MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGN
- Simplicity, organic forms, clean lines
- A blend of neutral and bold Pop art colors
- Use of natural and man-made materials — alluring woods such as teak, rosewood and oak; steel, fiberglass and molded plywood
- Light-filled spaces with colorful upholstery
- Glass walls and an emphasis on the outdoors
- Promotion of functionality
MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGNERS TO KNOW
- Charles and Ray Eames
- Eero Saarinen
- Milo Baughman
- Florence Knoll
- Harry Bertoia
- Isamu Noguchi
- George Nelson
- Danish modernists Hans Wegner and Arne Jacobsen, whose emphasis on natural materials and craftsmanship influenced American designers and vice versa
ICONIC MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGNS
- Eames lounge chair
- Nelson daybed
- Florence Knoll sofa
- Egg chair
- Womb chair
- Noguchi coffee table
- Barcelona chair
VINTAGE MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE ON 1STDIBS
The mid-century modern era saw leagues of postwar American architects and designers animated by new ideas and new technology. The lean, functionalist International-style architecture of Le Corbusier and Bauhaus eminences Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius had been promoted in the United States during the 1930s by Philip Johnson and others. New building techniques, such as “post-and-beam” construction, allowed the International-style schemes to be realized on a small scale in open-plan houses with long walls of glass.
Materials developed for wartime use became available for domestic goods and were incorporated into mid-century modern furniture designs. Charles and Ray Eames and Eero Saarinen, who had experimented extensively with molded plywood, eagerly embraced fiberglass for pieces such as the La Chaise and the Womb chair, respectively.
Architect, writer and designer George Nelson created with his team shades for the Bubble lamp using a new translucent polymer skin and, as design director at Herman Miller, recruited the Eameses, Alexander Girard and others for projects at the legendary Michigan furniture manufacturer.
Harry Bertoia and Isamu Noguchi devised chairs and tables built of wire mesh and wire struts. Materials were repurposed too: The Danish-born designer Jens Risom created a line of chairs using surplus parachute straps for webbed seats and backrests.
The Risom lounge chair was among the first pieces of furniture commissioned and produced by legendary manufacturer Knoll, a chief influencer in the rise of modern design in the United States, thanks to the work of Florence Knoll, the pioneering architect and designer who made the firm a leader in its field. The seating that Knoll created for office spaces — as well as pieces designed by Florence initially for commercial clients — soon became desirable for the home.
As the demand for casual, uncluttered furnishings grew, more mid-century furniture designers caught the spirit.
Classically oriented creators such as Edward Wormley, house designer for Dunbar Inc., offered such pieces as the sinuous Listen to Me chaise; the British expatriate T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings switched gears, creating items such as the tiered, biomorphic Mesa table. There were Young Turks such as Paul McCobb, who designed holistic groups of sleek, blond wood furniture, and Milo Baughman, who espoused a West Coast aesthetic in minimalist teak dining tables and lushly upholstered chairs and sofas with angular steel frames.
As the collection of vintage mid-century modern chairs, dressers, coffee tables and other furniture for the living room, dining room, bedroom and elsewhere on 1stDibs demonstrates, this period saw one of the most delightful and dramatic flowerings of creativity in design history.
Finding the Right Tables for You
The right vintage, new or antique tables can help make any space in your home stand out.
Over the years, the variety of tables available to us, as well as our specific needs for said tables, has broadened. Today, with all manner of these must-have furnishings differing in shape, material and style, any dining room table can shine just as brightly as the guests who gather around it.
Remember, when shopping for a dining table, it must fit your dining area, and you need to account for space around the table too — think outside the box, as an oval dining table may work for tighter spaces. Alternatively, if you’ve got the room, a Regency-style dining table can elevate any formal occasion at mealtime.
Innovative furniture makers and designers have also redefined what a table can be. Whether it’s an unconventional Ping-Pong table, a brass side table to display your treasured collectibles or a Louis Vuitton steamer trunk to add an air of nostalgia to your loft, your table can say a lot about you.
The visionary work of French designer Xavier Lavergne, for example, includes tables that draw on the forms of celestial bodies as often as they do aquatic creatures or fossils. Elsewhere, Italian architect Gae Aulenti, who looked to Roman architecture in crafting her stately Jumbo coffee table, created clever glass-topped mobile coffee tables that move on bicycle tires or sculpted wood wheels for Fontana Arte.
Coffee and cocktail tables can serve as a room’s centerpiece with attention-grabbing details and colors. Glass varieties will keep your hardwood flooring and dazzling area rugs on display, while a marble or stone coffee table in a modern interior can showcase your prized art books and decorative objects. A unique vintage desk or writing table can bring sophistication and even a bit of spice to your work life.
No matter your desired form or function, a quality table for your living space is a sound investment. On 1stDibs, browse a collection of vintage, new and antique bedside tables, mid-century end tables and more .