Bernini Furniture

This walnut veneered sideboard was designed by Silvio Coppola for Bernini in Italy in the 1960s. A nice detail is that the 2 outer drawers open in a rounding. Because of its shape it...

Rare coffee table/bar table produced in Italy in the 1960s by Bernini. The particular construction of this table allows it to be transformed from a normal coffee table into a contain...

Carlo Scarpa, 'Scuderia' Walnut Dining Table, manufactured by Bernini in 1977 Of solid walnut structure the grain of the wood is spectacular; with sculpted and canted corner legs a...

Carlo Scarpa “761” Table & 1934 "765" Chairs, Dining Set for Bernini, wood and leather, Italy, 1934. The model 761 square table by Carlo Scarpa reflects the architect’s refined ...

Chest of drawers/dressing table made of two adjustable compartments hinged together, which can be opened and closed as demonstrated on the photos. Made of solid wood and veneered ply...

Gaetano Pesce “543 Broadway” chair for Bernini, epoxy resin, stainless steel, gum, 1993 The eclecticism and genius of Gaetano Pesce are explicitly visible in his iconic "543 Broadwa...

Model 540 modular bookcase designed by Gianfranco Frattini for Bernini (ca. 1960s, Italy). Uncommon rosewood example composed of four vertical slatted-rails creating three bays inclu...

Silvio Coppola, Bernini, Italian Mid-Century Modern, Walnut, Sideboard or Buffet, Italy, 1964 A "Pranzo 602" modernist sideboard designed by Silvio Coppola for Bernini in Italy c. 1...

A remarkable interplay of architectural form and masterful joinery lies at the heart of this ‘Scaligera’ sideboard by Franco Poli for Bernini, crafted in Italy during the 1980s. Des...

Ico and Luisa Parisi vanity desk from Hotel Lorena, Grosseto manufacured by Ditta Bernini Italy, 1959-60 wood, mirrored glass and laminate Measures: H 75cm,110 x 45 cm ; total hei...

Rare writing desk model Sesamo 841 designed by Gianfranco Frattini for Bernini production circa 1982. Circular supporting structure in black lacquered iron top in precious black fold...

Spectacular mod 611 dining table by Italian designer Silvio Coppola (1920-1986) for Bernini in walnut. It is remarkable for its structure, very graphic, for its quality of execution ...

Ico and Luisa Parisi vanity desk from Hotel Lorena, Grosseto manufacured by Ditta Bernini Italy, 1959-60 this desk is very rare because this is the large version of the desk and...

Beautiful table designed by architect Silvio Coppola and produced by Bernini. Of considerable ingenuity is the mechanism that allows the central part of the table to rise. Equipped w...

Italian midcentury modern design walnut console coffe table o sofa table with five drawers designed by Gianfranco Frattini and producede by Bernini from 1960s with manufacturer’s adh...

Mid-Century Modern Dining Table 611 by Silvio Coppola for Bernini, 1966

Hardwood writing desk designed by Gianfranco Frattini and produced by Bernini, Italy. The desk features a removable top part with extra drawers and storage compartments. This desk ca...

Walnut writing desk model 804 designed in 1961 by Gianfranco Frattini for Bernini, Italy. Tambour top that hides small drawers and a pull out leather writing surface. Front side with...

Behold the exquisite craftsmanship of the small sideboard or cabinet, a testament to the visionary design of Gianfranco Frattini and the masterful production of Bernini, Italy, in 19...

In this listing you will find a spectacular and exceptionally rare Mid Century Modern Desk designed by Gianfranco Frattini and manufactured by Bernini. The table is done in rosewood....

Set of four 1934 756 chairs in walnut wood and cushions in leather, designed by Carlo Scarpa and produced by Bernini in the 1970s. Initially designed for Scarpa’s own Venetian house...

Joe Colombo for Bernini 'Combi Center' storage cabinet, walnut, aluminum, metal, Italy, 1970s The 'Combi Center' mobile trolley, designed by Joe Colombo for Bernini in the 1970s, is...

A beautiful Midcentury rosewood writing desk by an Italian design icon, Gianfranco Frattini for Bernini was made in Italy in 1957. This sleek proportioned desk is model 530 and featu...

Very rare and elegant small desk by gianfranco frattini for bernini by opening the drawer the jalousie cover at the back opens. very special piece.

Originally designed by Carlo Scarpa in 1935 and produced for the first time by Bernini in 1980, the Bookcase Model 795 perfectly embodies Scarpa’s architectural approach to furniture. The design features two vertical steel uprights with adjustable feet and wall mounts, supporting eight solid walnut shelves that gradually decrease in depth from bottom to top. The height is adjustable from 290 to 300 cm, emphasizing Scarpa’s fascination with precision mechanics and structural balance. Although conceived decades earlier, this bookcase anticipates the modular and architectural systems that would later define postwar Italian design, such as Franco Albini’s LB7...

Franco Poli Table “Cangrande” in Walnut for Bernini, Italy 1970s A superb solid walnut wood table with a lovely beveled crystal top with sandblasted frosted bands by Italian designe...

522 model rectangular dining table in Palo Santo, designed by Gianfranco Frattini for Bernini. A timeless table with an iconic design, perfectly crafted in a very noble wood.

Pair Bedside tables model 554 designed in the 1950s by Gianfranco Frattini for Bernini. I comodini sono in legno esotico con particolari colori e venature fiammate Condition: the n...

Model 504 highboard designed by Gianfranco Frattini for Bernini in 1960, early production. This piece belongs to Frattini’s important early collaboration with Bernini and represents...

Pair of chairs mod 543 Brodway Chrome-plated steel frame with epoxy seat and back. Spring-suspended feet with rubber base. Original brand mark. Prod. Bernini, Italy, 1993 Designed b...

Storage unit from the Combi Center series, stackable element system with wooden frame, aluminium sliding panels and light level with perspex diffuser. Mahogany wood, aluminium, mirro...

Mid-century modern walnut wood chest of drawers with metal details from the 1960s. Designed by Gianfranco Frattini and manufactured by Bernini. Crafted from solid wood with a rich, n...

Silvio Coppola for Bernini, set of 6 dining chairs, stained wood, black leather, Italy, 1960s This set of chairs was designed by Silvio Coppola for Bernini in the 1960s. These chair...

Carlo Scarpa “761” Square Table for Bernini, wood, Italy, 1978 Designed in 1978 by Carlo Scarpa for Bernini, the model 761 square table reflects the architect’s late and most distil...

Gaetano Pesce “543 Broadway” chairs for Bernini, epoxy resin, stainless steel, gum, 1993, set of six. The eclecticism and genius of Gaetano Pesce are explicitly visible in his iconi...

Astonishing Model 302 dining table designed by Angelo Mangiarotti and made by Bernini in Milan, Italy  in 1959. This specific table is the biggest version of the Model 302, with a la...

Gaetano Pesce “543 Broadway” chairs for Bernini, epoxy resin, stainless steel, gum, 1993, set of four. The eclecticism and genius of Gaetano Pesce are explicitly visible in his icon...

Rare and unusual desk designed by Gianfranco Frattini for Bernini. By pulling the desk top out you open the rolltop. This desk cabinet has a lot of storage space, 10 drawers at the f...

Raro Mobile Vetrina "Castelvecchio" disegnato da Franco Poli per la Ditta Italiana Bernini anni ’80. Struttura in legno tinto nero e vetro con particolare apertura delle ante later...

This model 530 secretaire desk, designed in 1957, earmarks the beginning of a most successful collaboration between Italian designer Gianfranco Frattini and the acclaimed furniture m...

Set of 5 mod. 783 “Kentucky” dining chairs, designed by Carlo Scarpa for the Italian manufacturer Bernini in 1977. Structure made from oak and walnut timber. Seats and backrest made from cognac leather. Excellent vintage condition. Carlo Scarpa designed this chair for the “Scuderia” series., the last project he made for Bernini. The architect took inspiration from the “shaker” movement. He designed the chair slightly inclined at the front. This feature allows you to swing backward (until you lean on a wall) and remain in balance. Born in Venice on June 2nd, 1906, Carlo Scarpa began working at a very early age. A year after he had first qualified as an architect in 1926, he began working for the Murano glassmakers Cappellin & Co. in a consultative capacity. From 1927, Carlo Scarpa began to experiment with the Murano glass, and this research not only gave him excellent results here but would also inform his progress for many years to come. Between 1935 and 1937, as he entered his thirties, Carlo Scarpa accepted his first important commission, the renovation of Venice’s Cà Foscari. He adapted the spaces of this stately University building that stands on the Grand Canal banks, creating rooms for the Dean’s offices and a new hall for academic ceremonies; Mario Sironi and Mario De Luigi were charged with doing the restoration work on the frescos. After 1945, Carlo Scarpa found himself constantly busy with new commissions, including various furnishings and designs for the renovation of Venice’s Hotel Bauer and designing a tall building in Padua and a residential area in Feltre, all worth mentioning. One of his key works, despite its relatively modest diminished proportions, was the [bookshop known as the] Padiglione del Libro, which stands in Venice’s Giardini di Castello and clearly shows Scarpa’s passion for the works of Frank Lloyd Wright. In the years which were to follow, after he had met the American architect, Scarpa repeated similar experiments on other occasions, as can be seen, in particular, in the sketches he drew up in 1953 for villa Zoppas in Conegliano, which show some of his most promising work. However, this work unfortunately never came to fruition. Carlo Scarpa later created three museum layouts to prove pivotal in terms of how twentieth-century museums were set up from then on. Between 1955 and 1957, he completed extension work on Treviso’s Gipsoteca Canoviana [the museum that houses Canova’s sculptures] in Possagno, taking a similar experimental approach to the one he used for the Venezuelan Pavilion at [Venice’s] Giardini di Castello which he was building at the same time (1954-56). In Possagno Carlo Scarpa was to create one of his most significant ever works, which inevitably bears comparison with two other museum layouts that he was working on over the same period, those of: – Galleria Nazionale di Sicilia, housed in the Palazzo Abatellis in Palermo (1953-55) – Castelvecchio in Verona (1957- 1974), all of which were highly acclaimed, adding to his growing fame. Two other buildings, which are beautifully arranged in spatial terms, can be added to this long list of key works that were started and, in some cases, even completed during the nineteen fifties. After winning the Olivetti award for architecture in 1956, Scarpa began work in Venice’s Piazza San Marco on an area destined to house products made by the Industrial manufacturers Ivrea. Over the same period (1959-1963), he also worked on the renovation and restoration of the gardens and ground floor of the Fondazione Querini Stampalia in Venice, which many consider one of his greatest works. While he busied himself working on-site at the Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Carlo Scarpa also began work building a villa in Udine for the Veritti family. To shed some light on the extent to which his work evolved over the years, it may perhaps be useful to compare this work with that of his very last building, villa Ottolenghi Bardolino, which was near to completion at the time of his sudden death in 1978. Upon completion of villa Veritti over the next ten years, without ever letting up on his work on renovation and layouts, Scarpa accepted some highly challenging commissions, working on the Carlo Felice Theatre in Genoa and another theatre in Vicenza. Towards the end of this decade, in 1969, Rina Brion commissioned Carlo Scarpa to build the Brion Mausoleum in San Vito d’Altivole (Treviso), a piece he continued to work on right up until the moment of his death. Nevertheless, even though he was totally absorbed by work on this mausoleum, there are plenty of other episodes which can offer some insight into the final years of his career. As work on the San Vito d’Altivole Mausoleum began to lessen from 1973, Carlo Scarpa started building the new headquarters for the Banca Popolare di Verona. He drew up plans that were surprisingly different from the work he was carrying out at the same time on the villa Ottolenghi. However, the plans Carlo Scarpa drew up, at different times, for a monument in Brescia’s Piazza della Loggia commemorating victims of the terrorist attack on May 28th, 1974, make a sharp contrast to the work he carried out in Verona, almost as if there is a certain hesitation after so many mannered excesses. The same Pietas that informs his designs for the Piazza Della Loggia can also be seen in the presence of the water that flows through the Brion Mausoleum, almost as if to give a concrete manifestation of pity in this twentieth-century work of art. Carlo Scarpa has put together a highly sophisticated collection of structures, occupying the mausoleum’s L-shaped space stretching across both sides of the old San Vito d’Altivole cemetery. A myriad of different forms and an equally large number of different pieces, all of which are separate and yet inextricably linked to form a chain that seems to offer no promise of continuity, rising up out of these are those whose only justification for being there is to bear the warning “si vis vitam, para mortem,” [if you wish to experience life prepare for death] as if to tell a tale that suggests the circle of time, joining together the commemoration of the dead with a celebration of life. At the entrance of the Brion Mausoleum stand the “propylaea” followed by a cloister which ends by a small chapel, with an arcosolium bearing the family sarcophagi, the main pavilion, held in place on broken cast iron supports, stands over a mirror-shaped stretch of water and occupies one end of the family’s burial space. The musical sound of the walkways teamed with the luminosity of these harmoniously blended spaces shows how, in keeping with his strong sense of vision, Carlo Scarpa could make the most of all of his many skills to come up with this truly magnificent space. As well as a great commitment to architectural work, with the many projects which we have already seen punctuating his career, Carlo Scarpa also made many equally important forays into the world of applied arts. Between 1926 and 1931, he worked for the Murano glassmakers Cappellin, later taking what he had learned with him when he went to work for the glassmakers Venini from 1933 until the 1950s. The story of how he came to work on furniture design is different, however, and began with the furniture he designed to replace lost furnishings during his renovation of Cà Foscari. The later mass-produced furniture started differently, given that many pieces were originally one-off designs “made to measure.” Industrial manufacturing using these designs as prototypes came into being thanks to the continuity afforded him by Dino Gavina, who, as well as this, also invited Carlo Scarpa to become president of the company Gavina SpA, later to become SIMON, a company Gavina founded eight years on, in partnership with Maria Simoncini (whose own name accounts for the choice of company name). Carlo Scarpa and Gavina forged a strong bond in 1968 as they began to put various models of his into production for Simon, such as the “Doge” table, which also formed the basis for the “Sarpi” and “Florian” tables. In the early seventies, other tables that followed included “Valmarana,” “Quatour,” and “Orseolo.” While in 1974, they added couch and armchair “Cornaro” to the collection and the “Toledo” bed...

Writing desk model 807 designed in 1961 by Gianfranco Frattini for Bernini, Italy. Tambour top that hides small drawers and a pull out leather writing surface, ten drawers in the low...

this rare pair of bedside tables was produced by the famous Italian luxury furniture company Bernini in the late 1970s early 1980s nightstands bear the production mark on the inside ...

Pranzo ( Lunch ) is a cupboard clearly inspired by the Lombard cabinetmaking tradition in walnut wood, reflecting Silvio Coppola's essential approach to design; a design free from fl...

Modular furniture by Vittorio Introini for Bernini 1970s. In wood open-pore painted in unusual silver color, the modules are free-standing and can b...

The Model 522 table, designed by Gianfranco Frattini and produced by Bernini, is a refined piece crafted in wood. Featuring clean geometric lines, straight legs, and a round tabletop...

Chest of drawers designed by designer Fabio Lenci for the Bernini company. Rare chest of drawers with mirror, produced with high quality materials made of coated wood and steel deta...

Large midcentury modern design coffe table or sofa table designed by Theodore Waddell and produced by Bernini with featuring a sculptural solid wood base, the square glass top with r...

Vintage cabinet with exposed under-top drawers and hinged doors made of walnut veneer wood. Furniture in good overall condition with some signs of time as visible in photos.

This elegant Mid-Century sideboard, model 603, was designed by Silvio Coppola for Bernini around 1964 and exemplifies the refined craftsmanship of Italian modernism. Executed in beau...

1960s sideboard from the '503' series designed by Gianfranco Frattini for a Bernini production. Furniture that has benefited from a complete restoration in our workshops and can also...

An iconic set of six “Maia” dining chairs designed by Giotto Stoppino for Bernini, Italy, in the 1960s. These chairs are a beautiful example of Italian modern design, featuring sleek...

Scuderia dining room set, designed by Carlo Scarpa for the Italian manufacturer Bernini in 1977. Composed of 5 mod. 783 “Kentucky” dining chairs...

Beautifully restored mid century roll top desk. Italy c1960 Lovely warm patina to the wood. Leather writing surface, acrylic box tidys,

Gaetano Pesce “543 Broadway” chairs for Bernini, epoxy resin, stainless steel, gum, 1993, set of two The eclecticism and genius of Gaetano Pesce ar...

Carlo Scarpa 1934 "765" dining chairs for Bernini, black leather, Italy, 1934, set of 2 Initially designed for Scarpa's own Venetian house in 1934, this model came up to production ...

The table model 611 was designed in early '60s and it has with wooden frame and top with movable compartment and glazed ceramic storage elements, that can be used for sharing appetiz...

Square extensible walnut table designed by Silvio Coppola for Bernini production 1970s. The measurements of the open table become W 155 D 155 H 70.5 cm Graduated in Architecture fro...

In this listing you will find an exceptionally rare Mid Century Modern coffee table designed by Gianfranco Frattini for Bernini. The table is done in Zebrano wood and walnut, featuri...

Carlo Scarpa "765" dining chairs for Bernini, Black Leather, 1934, Set of 6 Initially designed for Scarpa's own Venetian house in 1934, this model came up to production only in 1977...