Arturo Pani has been called the Jean Royère of Mexico. Like the adored French master of the mid-20th century, Pani won an upper-class clientele who appreciated the vivacity and exuberance he brought to interiors. His specialty was using new materials to reinterpret traditional stylings — the sensuous curves and arabesques of the Rococo; stately neoclassical motifs — for a modern context. Pani's work is a thing apart: at once theatrical and distinguished, playful and grand.
Pani was born to splendid settings. His father was Mexico’s ambassador to France, and both Pani and his brother Mario, a noted architect of the International style, would study at the prestigious École des Beaux Arts in Paris. Pani made his name in the late 1930s by designing lavish interiors that belied the austere facade of his brother’s new Hotel Reforma in Mexico City. Mexico’s affluent class welcomed Pani’s technique for juxtaposing Mario’s sleek modernist architectural envelope with voluptuous decor. His style became known as the “Acapulco look” in the 1930s, when Pani became the blossoming Pacific resort’s decorator of choice to the jet set. Pani’s own Acapulco villa would become a favorite backdrop for the society photographer Slim Aarons.
Though Pani frequently created furniture along the strict, geometric lines associated with mid-century modernism — and did, on occasion, produce pieces with wildly flowing futuristic lines — his signature designs were those that offered an idiosyncratic, spare-yet-sumptuous take on historical forms.
Pani’s favorite material was wrought iron, usually gilded. With it, he produced tables with elaborate sheaf-of-wheat bases, or scrolling baroque supports; chairs with frames made of iron rods bent to suggest the sinuous seatbacks and cabriole legs of Louis XV pieces; or — jumping a stylistic generation forward — designs with Louis XVI elements such as arrows and chevrons. Pani’s work has again become chic. As you will see on these pages, like few others, Arturo Pani had a true sense of drama. Virtually everything he designed is a showstopper.
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$15,000 / set
Set of Three Amazing Tables Designed by Arturo Pani
By Arturo Pani
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
We offer these set of bronze side tables and center table designed by Arturo Pani circa 1950s, the designer used patinated bronze in contrast with glass and antiqued églomisé...
Brass
$15,000 / set
Set of Three Amazing Tables Designed by Arturo Pani
By Arturo Pani
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
We offer these set of bronze side tables and center table designed by Arturo Pani circa 1950s, the designer used patinated bronze in contrast with glass and antiqued églomisé mirror ...
Brass
$6,500 / set
H 24.25 in W 27.75 in D 23.75 in
Midcentury Modern Arturo Pani Side Tables in Bronze Mexico
By Arturo Pani
Located in Chula Vista, CA
Midcentury Modern Arturo Pani Modern Side Tables in Bronze Mexico 24.25 h x 23.75 x 27.75 Glass area 21.5 x 21.5 x x.25 thick Original vintage condition ...
Bronze
$1,750
H 14.75 in W 59 in D 26.5 in
1970s Mid Century Onyx & Brass Coffee Table by Arturo Pani for Muller
By Muller of Mexico, Arturo Pani
Located in North Hollywood, CA
This striking coffee table was designed by Arturo Pani, renowned for his luxurious approach to modern design. The oval onyx mosaic top is composed of beautifully arranged stone piece...
Onyx, Brass
Arturo Pani Style Iron and Brass Round Dining Table
By Arturo Pani
Located in Hanover, MA
Vintage modernist five tapered leg round garden table made of patinated cast and forged iron with brass sabots and embellishments and a 60 inch round glass top 3/4 inch thick. Space...
Brass, Wrought Iron
Rare and Fantastic Polished Brass Cobra Coffee Table by Arturo Pani
By Arturo Pani
Located in Pasadena, CA
Rare coffee table by Arturo Pani, 1960s. The table is supported on all four sides by fantastic cobra heads at the upper corners, the serpent's bodies extending to the floor and conne...
Brass
Abalone, Onyx, and Gold Leaf Side Table by Arturo Pani
By Arturo Pani
Located in Dallas, TX
Designed by famous Mexican artist Arturo Pani (1915-1981), this coffee or cocktail table features cross sections of cream and copper colored onyx stone floating in a sea of gold leaf...
Onyx, Gold Leaf
Arturo Pani Solid Brass Cocktail Table
By Talleres Chacon, Arturo Pani
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
An original coffee table by furniture designer Arturo Pani, made in Mexico in the early 1950s, does not include glass. Special treatment was given to the brass to leave it almost as ...
Brass
$1,750
H 14.75 in W 59 in D 26.5 in
1970s Mid Century Onyx & Brass Coffee Table by Arturo Pani for Muller
By Muller of Mexico, Arturo Pani
Located in North Hollywood, CA
✨Elegant Onyx & Brass Coffee Table ✨ Designed by Arturo Pani for Muller, this exquisite coffee table features a stunning oval onyx top supported by four sturdy brass legs. The intri...
Onyx, Brass
Abalone, Onyx, and Gold Leaf Cocktail Table by Arturo Pani
By Arturo Pani
Located in Dallas, TX
Designed by famous Mexican artist Arturo Pani (1915-1981), this coffee or cocktail table features cross sections of cream and copper colored onyx stone floating in a sea of gold leaf...
Onyx, Gold Leaf
$4,048Sale Price|20% Off
H 31.5 in W 76.78 in D 35.44 in
Table designed by Osvaldo Borsani, produced by Fossati Attilio&Arturo from 1950
By Fossati, Attilio & Arturo, Osvaldo Borsani
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Dining table designed by Osvaldo Borsani, produced by Fossati Attilio&Arturo from the 1950s. Its structure is characterized by a unique and elegant shape, finished with brass feet. G...
Brass
Pair of Bronze Tables by Arturo Pani
By Arturo Pani
Located in Atlanta, GA
Designed by Arturo Pani and crafted by metal artisan circa 1950s, Model no 3026, these pair of bronze side table showcases the signature exuberance of the designer. Glamorous in its Hollywood Regency flair, the designer used patinated bronze in contrast with glass and antiqued églomisé mirror...
Bronze
Muller Onyx Top Coffee Table By Arturo Pani
By Arturo Pani
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Excellent Mexican coffee table by Arturo Pani. This coffee table has an oval top made of muller onyx. It also has curved brass legs. It is in a good condit...
Onyx, Brass
1950s Arturo Pani Sculptural Bronze Coffee Table Mexico City
By Arturo Pani
Located in Chula Vista, CA
1950s Arturo Pani Elegant bronze coffee table glass rectangle Refined Mexican Modernism Unmarked. Custom original piece Arturo Pani Mex...
Bronze
Arturo Pani Mid-Century Modern Designer Coffee Cocktail Table, 1950s
By Arturo Pani
Located in LOS ANGELES, CA
Arturo Pani Mid-Century Modern designer coffee cocktail table. Additional information: Materials: Mahogany Please Note that this item contains materials that are legally subjec...
Mahogany
Set of Two Side Tables Designed by Arturo Pani
By Arturo Pani
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
We offer these set of bronze side tables designed by Arturo Pani circa 1950s, the designer used patinated bronze in contrast with glass and antiqued églomisé mirror...
Brass
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H 28.25 in W 88.5 in D 40 in
1960s Mexican Modern Iron Dining Table with a Green Marble Top by Arturo Pani
By Arturo Pani
Located in San Marino, CA
This Mexican modern 1960s iron dining table with a green marble top by Arturo Pani features a gold rim around the tabletop, with a curved X-shape stretcher. The feet of the table fea...
Marble, Wrought Iron
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H 30 in W 120 in D 48 in
1960s Mexican Modern Black Metal with Bronze Dining Table by Arturo Pani
By Arturo Pani
Located in San Marino, CA
1960s Arturo Pani forged iron and brass dining table with laminate top. Polished brass edge-band and shell elements highlight the two supports. Seats 12 comfortably.
Bronze, Iron
Scroll Leg Mid-Century Modernist Table by Arturo Pani in Bronze and Églomisé
By Arturo Pani
Located in New York, NY
This important Mid-Century Modernist cocktail table was realized by the celebrated Mexican designer Arturo Pani, circa 1945. Pani represents one of the founders of Mexican Modernism,...
Gold Leaf, Bronze
Arturo Pani Studded Brass Cocktail Table
By Arturo Pani
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Arturo Pani patinated brass and mercury glass cocktail from Mexico circa late 1950s. This elegant two tiered example has studded sides lovely broken in brass and inset mercury glass.
Brass
Arturo Pani Brass Cocktail Table
By Arturo Pani
Located in San Juan Capistrano, CA
Arturo Pani Brass Cocktail Table.
Brass