Alvino Bagni Furniture

1960s Italian cube lamp in ceramic silver and gold - Ceramiche Zaccagnini.

Alvino Bagni for Raymor vase, ceramic, orange, green, brown, signed. Tall cylinder vase with a subtle textured sand glaze of bright orange, gree...

Substantial Italian Modern Marcello Fantoni for Raymor Brutalist Bronzed Metal and Walnut Table Lamp. Featuring a sculptural and welded, torch cut Bronzed metal, branch like, organic...

Pi-Dou is the re-edition of the eponymous vase created by Florentine ceramist Alvino Bagni, who designed it shortly after visiting the Pompidou Centre in the late 1970s. The vase is ...

Designer: Alvino Bagni. Importer: Raymor. Period or model: Mid-Century Modern. Specs: Pottery Condition: This Alvino Bagni Italian Pottery canister...

Alvino Bagni was a great artisan and Florentine ceramist. His studio, opened in 1946 in Lastra a Signa in the province of Florence, wrote the history of Tuscan ceramics with its extr...

Alvino Bagni Vase, Ceramic, Blue, Pink, Signed. Handsome vase with classic hourglass form and minimally decorated with three incised bands at the neck. The body is glazed in a rich i...

Bitossi, for Raymor 'Cityscape' Lamp, Italy, C. 1960s This iconic Bitossi lamp, imported by Raymor in the 1960s, is a testament to Italian craftsmanship and design. It highlights t...

ANRI "Universum" Space Age Walnut and Maple Chess Set A strikingly modern "Universum" or Space Age chess set made in Italy by ANRI. The set is contained in a finely crafted wooden case with brass hinges and a brass clasp. Inside the case, two separate felt-lined compartments cradle the chess pieces. The chess pieces are crafted from kiln-dried white maple and black walnut. They are nicely carved and lightly weighted. The entire set is in excellent condition. The chess pieces were designed by Arthur...

Alvino Bagni for Raymor vase, ceramic, brown, beige, earth tones, signed. Chunky medium scale organic gourd form vase with a pinched neck, sloped shoulders, and footed base. Signed on the underside with a Raymor label which reads: 4437 BAG. Alvino Bagni was born in Lastra a Signa, Italy, in 1919, and from a young age he began to take an interest in ceramics, which was an important industry at the time in the area around Signa, Lastra a Signa and Montelupo (Florence). Thanks to the teachings of an elderly artist, Torello Santini, he got a job in the workshop of Arnaldo Pugi’s ceramics factory in Ponte a Signa. After the Second World War, Pugi gave Bagni the financial support to help him open his own workshop. And with 3,500 plates bearing the slogan “I like Ike” (produced for the electoral campaign of Dwight D. Eisenhower, who became 34th US president in 1953) the story of Ceramiche Bagni began. Alvino took several family members with him, first and foremost his wife Gina, who accompanied him throughout his career. The fifties and sixties were fundamentally important for the Bagni company, which succeeded in establishing privileged relations with a number of important names in American design and business, including Raymor (N.Y.) and Rosenthal, for whom he created extremely modern items for that time. In 1970 the company moved to a larger, more modern factory, where it was able to take business up a gear. Here Alvino surrounded himself with highly-skilled collaborators and artists, such as E. Borgini, M. Mannori, R. Buti, M. Santonocito, and many others, with whom he achieved a perfect balance between material, technique and aesthetics. By 1980 the factory had as many as 100 employees, and was renowned for its high-quality artistic production, elegant objects and its use of new and experimental techniques. As the working world changed, becoming increasingly globalized and open to new competition, the company found itself in difficulty. Tied as it was to its “artisanal” approach, it struggled to withstand the excessive drop in prices… despite all his efforts to save his employees and his factory, in 1990 it closed for good. However, in ’93 he was back in the game with the new venture Nuove Forme...

A 1960s import from Italy, this tall Bitossi Vase was designed by Alvino Bagni and has a shouldered form with a fine craquelure creamy glaze on the bottom topped with a textural impressed conical head and mouth in matte glaze in green and mustard shades. Probably imported by Raymor, this mid-century mod vase...

Rare flying saucer shaped vase created by Alvino Bagni for Raymor, Italy vase with floral motif. Piece measures 6" by 9" and is signed A, Raymor, Italy. In very good vintage 1960's -...