Carlo Ratti Furniture

Four dining chairs designed in 1950s by Carlo Ratti and produced by Industria Legni Curvati, Italy. Plywood seat with black lacquered metal frame. Signed.

Pair of armchairs realized is an italian production, designed by Carlo Ratti in 1960s. Measures: Maximum backrest height 80 cm, Seat height 44cm, Seat width 50cm, Seat depth 48cm...

This very refined dining table was designed during the 1950s by Carlo Ratti and manufactured by the late Italian furniture company Lissoni. Let's start with the legs. The brass feet ...

Set of four Lulli dining chairs with black painted steel legs, back, and seat in curved and shaped veneered wood, designed by Carlo Ratti for ILC Lissone in 1950s. In Italy, at th...

Smaller dining-room table with typical graceful Italian shapes. The table has somewhat flat and tapered legs and a V-shaped construction in metal and wood. Some nice details can be f...

Set of 6 Italian Designer chairs from the 1950s by Carlo Ratti Boomerang model in their original condition, iron legs and finished in brass, or...

We fully restored this set by adding new small pieces of veneer (where needed) to all the chairs and lacquering them three times. More than 10% of the veneer had to be replaced. The ...

Elegant dining table with romantic steel base. The top has been lacquered and is quite shiny and in very good condition. The shape of the top is slightly tapered towards the sides. T...

Set of 4 chairs designed by Carlo Ratti and produced by the Compensati Curvi Company (Monza - Italy) in the 1950s. Shell in curved wood with original faux leather seat. The chairs ha...

Set of four chairs designed by Carlo Ratti. Structure in black painted metal, seat and backrest in hot bent teak and brass screws.

Highly elegant pair of armchairs designed by Carlo Ratti and manufactured by Industria Legni Curvati, Italy 1950s. These visually appealing armchairs have a very nice and extraordina...

Carlo Ratti chairs.

Set of six dining chairs with backs and seats realized in curved veneered plywood and legs in black lacquered metal, designed by Carlo Ratti and manufactured by Industria Legni Curvati (Lissone, Italy) in the 1950s. In Italy, at the beginning of the XX century, industries of curved solid wood arose under license of Michael Thonet, and through the International Exhibitions the processing of curved wood became more and more widespread. The Expo of the first decade was also attended by the wood manufacturers of Monza, while in 1905 Otto Helzer, in Switzerland, patented wooden structures in curved laminated, whose strength was equivalent to those in steel. The Ratti brothers of Monza took their cue from the solid wood laminate to create furniture that, instead of wooden elements, used sheets of wood. The brothers Ratti, Carlo and Mario, also began to follow the young artistic avant-gardes (cubism, futurism and abstractionism). The mastery of wooden sculpture influenced Carlo in the design and realization of furniture of fine neo-plastic artistic workmanship and decò, receiving honors from the Prince of Piedmont Umberto di Savoia. In 1919, in Milan, the first Lombard Exhibition of Decorative Arts was set up (later to become the Triennale) and the Ratti brothers exhibited their furniture in solid wood but also in curved panel with a new system of curvature, the one in Telo. The canvas system was developed by the Ratti brothers with the help of a friend, Cesare Cantù. They developed an elastomer bag in which the mould was inserted with the panel to be bent and, closing it with clamps, the air inside was removed, thus making the panel adhere to the mould. Carlo and Mario found in the Telo system a means by which they could make objects and furniture in the three spatial directions with large surface curvatures, without limits of thickness and minimum radii of curvature. In 1921 in Stuttgart the first Salone del Mobile was inaugurated and the Fratelli Ratti of Monza made itself known internationally by presenting solid wood furniture and also furniture in load-bearing plywood, flanked by furniture with framed and interchangeable covers. The Expo became meeting places to verify and present the novelties in the furniture and industrialization sector and, with the development of Industrial Design, the first architects joined in the design of the furniture industries. The Ratti Brothers, in the various international and national exhibitions, also presented incredible objects in their realization with the system in Telo. After 1930 Carlo and Mario produced many containers for radio and folding chairs for cinema but in 1939 they divided and in Monza Mario remained who, with his sons Antonio and Angela, formed the Società Compensati Curvi...

Set of 4 dining chairs manufactured in Italy during the 1950s The frame is made of solid and high quality mahogany wood. The original beige skai upholstery is in pur condition. ...

Pair of 50's bentwood chairs Designer Carlo Ratti.

Set of four Carlo Ratti chairs. These chairs were made in the 1960's in Italy. They were produced by Legni Curva. They feature a plywood shell with a black metal base. ...

Mid century italian chair by Carlo Ratti beech wood, oak wood, black suede leather , steel , brass . We have carried out a complete restoration along with some light restying on thi...

Vintage Dinner Chairs is an original design furniture item realized by Carlo Ratti in the 1950s. A set of six chairs for Legni Curvati realize...

Carlo Ratti for Industria Legni Curvati, set of twelve dining chairs, plywood with a teak fineer and metal, Italy, 1970s. Elegant set of Italian dining chairs...

Very rare and beautiful Italian 3-seat bench by Carlo Ratti, 1950's. It is made of 3 molded teak seats supported by black steel legs, accented with brass hardware. Designed w...

An icon of Italian design this chair in curved wood by Carlo Ratti, 1955.

Two beautiful original Carlo Ratti bentwood chairs, manufactured by his company Industria Legni Curvati, based in Lissone, Milan. New upholstered with a two-tone fabric.

Set of six chairs designed by Carlo Ratti. Black lacquered metallic structure, seat and back in teak wood.

This set of a table and six Italian dining chairs was designed by Carlo Ratti in the 1950s. Both, the chairs and the matching table were manufactured by the company Industria Legni C...

Set of six chairs designed by Carlo Ratti. Black lacquered metallic structure, seat and back in teak wood.

Rare and large grouping of early Carlo Ratti molded plywood chairs ; seat height, tapered iron leg and interesting strap hinge detail on the back. All in original condition. Avantgar...

Six chairs in curved teak plywood, legs in reinforcing steel. Good conditions.

Set of two Italian chairs designed by Carlo Ratti, circa 1960.

Two beautiful original Carlo Ratti chairs, manufactured by his company Industria Legni Curvati, based in Lissone, Milan.

Bar cart Carlo Ratti curved wood mid-century Italian design.

Carlo Ratti original chairs mid-century bentwood Italian design.

Set of six bentwood chairs - Design by Carlo Ratti, Italy, 1950s. The chairs have black lacquered metal legs and are overall in original con...

Italian plywood side chair designed by Carlo Ratti and manufactured by Legni Curva, Italy, 1950. The chair has a very nice curved shape and the plywood shell is supported by a black ...