Patricia Urquiola Vidalenta Green Outdoor Coffee Table for Cassina
By Patricia Urquiola, Cassina
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
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Metal
Patricia Urquiola Vidalenta Green Outdoor Coffee Table for Cassina
By Patricia Urquiola, Cassina
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
We try to edit our photos to show all of our products as life-like as possible, but please understand the actual color may vary slightly from your monitor About the manufacturer: In...
Metal
$23,913 / item
Doge Large Dining Table by Carlo Scarpa for Cassina
By Cassina, Carlo Scarpa
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
We try to edit our photos to show all of our products as life-like as possible, but please understand the actual color may vary slightly from your monitor About the manufacturer: In...
Aluminum
Color Combination Wink Armchair by Toshiyuki Kita for Cassina
By Toshiyuki Kita, Cassina
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
We try to edit our photos to show all of our products as life-like as possible, but please understand the actual color may vary slightly from your monitor.11500 About the manufactur...
Upholstery
Color Combination Wink Armchair by Toshiyuki Kita for Cassina
By Toshiyuki Kita, Cassina
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
We try to edit our photos to show all of our products as life-like as possible, but please understand the actual color may vary slightly from your monitor.11500 About the manufactur...
Upholstery
Color Combination Wink Armchair by Toshiyuki Kita for Cassina
By Cassina, Toshiyuki Kita
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
We try to edit our photos to show all of our products as life-like as possible, but please understand the actual color may vary slightly from your monitor.11500 About the manufactur...
Upholstery
Color Combination Wink Armchair by Toshiyuki Kita for Cassina
By Toshiyuki Kita, Cassina
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
We try to edit our photos to show all of our products as life-like as possible, but please understand the actual color may vary slightly from your monitor.11500 About the manufactur...
Upholstery
Red Combination Wink Armchair by Toshiyuki Kita for Cassina
By Toshiyuki Kita, Cassina
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
We try to edit our photos to show all of our products as life-like as possible, but please understand the actual color may vary slightly from your monitor.11500 About the manufactur...
Upholstery
Patricia Urquiola Vidalenta Cream White Outdoor Coffee Table for Cassina
By Cassina, Patricia Urquiola
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
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Metal
$23,913 / item
Doge Large Dining Table by Carlo Scarpa for Cassina
By Carlo Scarpa, Cassina
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
We try to edit our photos to show all of our products as life-like as possible, but please understand the actual color may vary slightly from your monitor About the manufacturer: In...
Aluminum
$18,081 / item
Doge Large Dining Table by Carlo Scarpa for Cassina
By Carlo Scarpa, Cassina
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
We try to edit our photos to show all of our products as life-like as possible, but please understand the actual color may vary slightly from your monitor About the manufacturer: In...
Aluminum
$23,913 / item
Doge Large Dining Table by Carlo Scarpa for Cassina
By Cassina, Carlo Scarpa
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
We try to edit our photos to show all of our products as life-like as possible, but please understand the actual color may vary slightly from your monitor About the manufacturer: In...
Aluminum
$18,081 / item
Doge Large Dining Table by Carlo Scarpa for Cassina
By Carlo Scarpa, Cassina
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
We try to edit our photos to show all of our products as life-like as possible, but please understand the actual color may vary slightly from your monitor About the manufacturer: In...
Aluminum
$18,081 / item
Doge Large Dining Table by Carlo Scarpa for Cassina
By Cassina, Carlo Scarpa
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
We try to edit our photos to show all of our products as life-like as possible, but please understand the actual color may vary slightly from your monitor About the manufacturer: In...
Aluminum
$23,913 / item
Doge Large Dining Table by Carlo Scarpa for Cassina
By Cassina, Carlo Scarpa
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
We try to edit our photos to show all of our products as life-like as possible, but please understand the actual color may vary slightly from your monitor About the manufacturer: In...
Aluminum
Sculptural Sengu Dining Table by Patricia Urquiola for Cassina
By Cassina, Patricia Urquiola
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
September 2015 Patricia Urquiola nominated Art Director of Cassina. 15900 About the manufacturer: In a continuing dialogue between past, present, and future, Cassina has created the ...
Wood
Sculptural Sengu Dining Table by Patricia Urquiola for Cassina
By Patricia Urquiola, Cassina
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
September 2015 Patricia Urquiola nominated Art Director of Cassina. 15900 About the manufacturer: In a continuing dialogue between past, present, and future, Cassina has created the...
Wood
Sculptural Sengu Dining Table by Patricia Urquiola for Cassina
By Cassina, Patricia Urquiola
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
September 2015 Patricia Urquiola nominated Art Director of Cassina. 15900 About the manufacturer: In a continuing dialogue between past, present, and future, Cassina has created the ...
Wood
Sculptural Sengu Dining Table by Patricia Urquiola for Cassina
By Cassina, Patricia Urquiola
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
September 2015 Patricia Urquiola nominated Art Director of Cassina. 15900 About the manufacturer: In a continuing dialogue between past, present, and future, Cassina has created the ...
Wood
Sculptural Sengu Dining Table by Patricia Urquiola for Cassina
By Patricia Urquiola, Cassina
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
September 2015 Patricia Urquiola nominated Art Director of Cassina. 15900 About the manufacturer: In a continuing dialogue between past, present, and future, Cassina has created the ...
Wood
Sculptural Sengu Dining Table by Patricia Urquiola for Cassina
By Cassina, Patricia Urquiola
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
September 2015 Patricia Urquiola nominated Art Director of Cassina. 15900 About the manufacturer: In a continuing dialogue between past, present, and future, Cassina has created the ...
Wood
Sculptural Sengu Dining Table by Patricia Urquiola for Cassina
By Patricia Urquiola, Cassina
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
September 2015 Patricia Urquiola nominated Art Director of Cassina. 15900 About the manufacturer: In a continuing dialogue between past, present, and future, Cassina has created the ...
Wood
Sculptural Sengu Dining Table by Patricia Urquiola for Cassina
By Cassina, Patricia Urquiola
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
September 2015 Patricia Urquiola nominated Art Director of Cassina. 15900 About the manufacturer: In a continuing dialogue between past, present, and future, Cassina has created the ...
Concrete
Mexique Coffe Table PRO, by Charlotte Perriand for Cassina
By Charlotte Perriand, Cassina
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
About the manufacturer: In a continuing dialogue between past, present, and future, Cassina has created the I Maestri collection, revisiting furnishing designs by the 20th century’s...
Wood
Table À Plateau Interchangeable, by Charlotte Perriand for Cassina
By Charlotte Perriand, Cassina
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
About the manufacturer: In a continuing dialogue between past, present, and future, Cassina has created the I Maestri collection, revisiting furnishing designs by the 20th century’s...
Glass
Table À Plateau Interchangeable, by Charlotte Perriand for Cassina
By Charlotte Perriand, Cassina
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
About the manufacturer: In a continuing dialogue between past, present, and future, Cassina has created the I Maestri collection, revisiting furnishing designs by the 20th century’s...
Marble
Mexique High Table PRO, by Charlotte Perriand for Cassina
By Charlotte Perriand, Cassina
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
About the manufacturer: In a continuing dialogue between past, present, and future, Cassina has created the I Maestri collection, revisiting furnishing designs by the 20th century’s ...
Wood
Table À Plateau Interchangeable, by Charlotte Perriand for Cassina
By Charlotte Perriand, Cassina
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
About the manufacturer: In a continuing dialogue between past, present, and future, Cassina has created the I Maestri collection, revisiting furnishing designs by the 20th century’s ...
Glass
Table À Plateau Interchangeable, by Charlotte Perriand for Cassina
By Cassina, Charlotte Perriand
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
About the manufacturer: In a continuing dialogue between past, present, and future, Cassina has created the I Maestri collection, revisiting furnishing designs by the 20th century’s...
Marble
Paolo Deganello 'Aeo' Chair for the Archizoom Group by Cassina
By Cassina, Paolo Deganello
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
About the manufacturer: In a continuing dialogue between past, present, and future, Cassina has created the I Maestri collection, revisiting furnishing designs by the 20th century’s ...
Steel
Paolo Deganello 'Aeo' Chair for the Archizoom Group by Cassina
By Paolo Deganello, Cassina
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
About the manufacturer: In a continuing dialogue between past, present, and future, Cassina has created the I Maestri collection, revisiting furnishing designs by the 20th century’s...
Steel
Wink Armchair by Toshiyuki Kita for Cassina, Mid-Century Modern
By Toshiyuki Kita, Cassina
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
We try to edit our photos to show all of our products as life-like as possible, but please understand the actual color may vary slightly from your monitor.11500 About the manufactur...
Upholstery
Patricia Urquiola Vidalenta Green Metal Marble Outdoor Coffee Table for Cassina
By Cassina, Patricia Urquiola
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
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Metal
Patricia Urquiola Vidalenta Outdoor Coffee Metal and Marble Table for Cassina
By Cassina, Patricia Urquiola
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
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Marble, Metal
Lebeau Wood Table by Patrick Jouin for Cassina, Modern Design
By Cassina, Patrick Jouin
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
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Aluminum
Bramante Storage Cabinet by Japanese Architect Kazuhide Takahama for Cassina
By Kazuhide Takahama, Cassina
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
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Wood
Bramante Storage Cabinet by Japanese Architect Kazuhide Takahama for Cassina
By Kazuhide Takahama, Cassina
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
We try to edit our photos to show all of our products as life-like as possible, but please understand the actual color may vary slightly from your monitor About the manufacturer: In...
Wood
Bramante Storage Cabinet by Japanese Architect Kazuhide Takahama for Cassina
By Cassina, Kazuhide Takahama
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
We try to edit our photos to show all of our products as life-like as possible, but please understand the actual color may vary slightly from your monitor About the manufacturer: In...
Wood
Bramante Storage Cabinet by Japanese Architect Kazuhide Takahama for Cassina
By Kazuhide Takahama, Cassina
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
We try to edit our photos to show all of our products as life-like as possible, but please understand the actual color may vary slightly from your monitor About the manufacturer: In...
Wood
Bramante Storage Cabinet by Japanese Architect Kazuhide Takahama for Cassina
By Kazuhide Takahama, Cassina
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
We try to edit our photos to show all of our products as life-like as possible, but please understand the actual color may vary slightly from your monitor About the manufacturer: In...
Wood
Bramante Storage Cabinet by Japanese Architect Kazuhide Takahama for Cassina
By Kazuhide Takahama, Cassina
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
We try to edit our photos to show all of our products as life-like as possible, but please understand the actual color may vary slightly from your monitor About the manufacturer: In...
Wood
Bramante Storage Cabinet by Japanese Architect Kazuhide Takahama for Cassina
By Cassina, Kazuhide Takahama
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
We try to edit our photos to show all of our products as life-like as possible, but please understand the actual color may vary slightly from your monitor About the manufacturer: In...
Wood
Bramante Storage Cabinet by Japanese Architect Kazuhide Takahama for Cassina
By Cassina, Kazuhide Takahama
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
We try to edit our photos to show all of our products as life-like as possible, but please understand the actual color may vary slightly from your monitor About the manufacturer: In...
Wood
Bramante Storage Cabinet by Japanese Architect Kazuhide Takahama for Cassina
By Kazuhide Takahama, Cassina
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
We try to edit our photos to show all of our products as life-like as possible, but please understand the actual color may vary slightly from your monitor About the manufacturer: In...
Wood
Moncloud Sofa by Patricia Urquiola for Cassina, Modern Italian Design
By Cassina, Patricia Urquiola
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
About the manufacturer: In a continuing dialogue between past, present, and future, Cassina has created the I Maestri collection, revisiting furnishing designs by the twentieth centu...
Upholstery
Soriana Armchair by Tobia Scarpa for Cassina, Metal & Fabric, Italy
By Cassina, Tobia Scarpa
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
About the manufacturer: In a continuing dialogue between past, present, and future, Cassina has created the I Maestri collection, revisiting furnishing designs by the 20th century’s...
Metal
Puff Armchair by Tobia Scarpa for Cassina, Modern Italian Design
By Tobia Scarpa, Cassina
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
About the manufacturer: In a continuing dialogue between past, present, and future, Cassina has created the I Maestri collection, revisiting furnishing designs by the 20th century’s ...
Metal
Antella Dining Table by Japanese Architect Kazuhide Takahama for Cassina
By Kazuhide Takahama, Cassina
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
We try to edit our photos to show all of our products as life-like as possible, but please understand the actual color may vary slightly from your monitor About the manufacturer: In...
Wood
Antella Dining Table by Japanese Architect Kazuhide Takahama for Cassina
By Cassina, Kazuhide Takahama
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
We try to edit our photos to show all of our products as life-like as possible, but please understand the actual color may vary slightly from your monitor About the manufacturer: In...
Wood
Antella Dining Table by Japanese Architect Kazuhide Takahama for Cassina
By Cassina, Kazuhide Takahama
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
We try to edit our photos to show all of our products as life-like as possible, but please understand the actual color may vary slightly from your monitor About the manufacturer: In...
Wood
Sofa Soriana by Tobia Scarpa for Cassina, Modern Italian Design
By Tobia Scarpa, Cassina
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
About the manufacturer: In a continuing dialogue between past, present, and future, Cassina has created the I Maestri collection, revisiting furnishing designs by the 20th century’s ...
Metal
Asian Inspired Sengu Coffee Table by Patricia Urquiola for Cassina
By Patricia Urquiola, Cassina
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
September 2015 Patricia Urquiola nominated Art Director of Cassina. 15900 About the manufacturer: In a continuing dialogue between past, present, and future, Cassina has created the ...
Wood
Mid-Century Modern Woodline Armchair by Marco Zanuso for Cassina
By Marco Zanuso, Cassina
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
About the manufacturer: In a continuing dialogue between past, present, and future, Cassina has created the I Maestri collection, revisiting furnishing designs by the twentieth centu...
Leather, Wood
Trampoline Beige Marble Dining Table by Patricia Urquiola for Cassina
By Patricia Urquiola, Cassina
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
September 2015 Patricia Urquiola nominated Art Director of Cassina. 15900 About the manufacturer: In a continuing dialogue between past, present, and future, Cassina has created the ...
Concrete
Mid-Century Modern Mexique Table by Charlotte Perriand for Cassina
By Charlotte Perriand, Cassina
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
About the manufacturer: In a continuing dialogue between past, present, and future, Cassina has created the I Maestri collection, revisiting furnishing designs by the twentieth cent...
Metal
Asian Inspired Sengu Coffee Table by Patricia Urquiola for Cassina
By Cassina, Patricia Urquiola
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
September 2015 Patricia Urquiola nominated Art Director of Cassina. 15900 About the manufacturer: In a continuing dialogue between past, present, and future, Cassina has created the ...
Wood
Asian Inspired Sengu Coffee Table by Patricia Urquiola for Cassina
By Cassina, Patricia Urquiola
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
September 2015 Patricia Urquiola nominated Art Director of Cassina. 15900 About the manufacturer: In a continuing dialogue between past, present, and future, Cassina has created the ...
Wood
Furniture manufacturer Cassina is a prolific design house for more reasons than one: It not only owns the licenses to an exquisite collection of iconic chairs, sofas, tables and other pieces from the 20th and 21st centuries but also produces original works that are characterized by innovation and the finest Italian craftsmanship.
Cassina’s illustrious legacy includes being one of the first companies to bring industrial design to Italy in the 1950s. Founded in 1927 in Meda, Italy, by brothers Cesare and Umberto Cassina, the Italian manufacturing giant originally specialized in bespoke woodworking. In nearly a century since its founding, the company has shown incredible foresight about design trends and the evolution of technology.
In 1964, Cassina signed an exclusive licensing agreement to manufacture furniture by Le Corbusier and his collaborators — such as the LC4 chaise longue made with trailblazing French modernist Charlotte Perriand and Pierre Jeanneret — a move that would shape the future of the company. Cassina’s I Maestri collection is an ongoing initiative to restyle landmark designs from the 20th century, such as pieces by Gerrit Rietveld (the Red and Blue armchair from 1918), Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Erik Gunnar Asplund, Franco Albini and Frank Lloyd Wright. The company preserves the intentions and original styles of their designs but adds updated techniques, materials and processes — rendering them the best possible combination of past, present and future. The brand has also worked with contemporary icons like Zaha Hadid, Gio Ponti and Philippe Starck.
Cassina’s original designs are cutting-edge as well. They include pieces for everyday use, the development of which is guided by comfort and the marriage of Italian craftsmanship with industrial technology.
Some of Cassina’s pieces, both from its contemporary and I Maestri collections, can be found in the collections of museums like the Museum of Modern Art and the Vitra Design Museum. In 2014, the company became part of Haworth in its acquisition of Italian furniture group Poltrona Frau, and in 2015, Spanish designer Patricia Urquiola joined Cassina as its art director, leading the brand into its next century of inventive style.
Find a collection of new and vintage Cassina furniture on 1stDibs.
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
CHARACTERISTICS OF MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGN
MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGNERS TO KNOW
ICONIC MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGNS
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 celebrated 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.
Generations turn over, and mid-century modern remains arguably the most popular style going. 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.