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.
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20th Century, Gio Ponti for Cassina pair of Wooden Gueridòn
By Cassina, Gio Ponti
Located in Torino, Piemonte
An eclectic personality, from his early days he was active in the fields of architecture, painting, graphics and set design. He graduated in architecture from the Milan Polytechnic i...
Metal
$3,850 / set
H 30 in Dm 19.5 in
Mid-20th C. Pair of Louis XV Style Ormolu-Mounted Gueridons/Sidetables
Located in Morristown, NJ
A charming and highly decorative pair of Louis XV style occasional or side tables, crafted in the 20th century with elegant parquetry tops framed by pierced brass galleries. Raised o...
Metal, Brass, Ormolu
Pair Of Neoclassical Style Bronze Gueridon Tables for Restoration
Located in Bridgeport, CT
The pair with fine traditional Campaign form having Bronze Strap frames with the legs terminating in a delicately rendered Paw foot. The Stone tops in a deep black with good color d...
Stone, Bronze
$1,680Sale Price|20% Off
H 18.9 in W 29.53 in D 29.53 in
Gio Coffee Table Ponti ''tripod'' of the 1950s 20th century
By Gio Ponti
Located in Palermo, IT
This coffee table designed by Giò Ponti embodies the timeless elegance and innovation of 20th-century Italian design. Featuring a tripod frame with a central key holder support in pa...
Brass
Early 20th century Mahogany and white marble Gueridon table
Located in Malton, GB
This is a very elegant, high quality early 20th century Gueridon table. Classic in its design with a rich mahogany base and white marble top highlighted with a brass gallery. Overall...
Mahogany
$1,256Sale Price|30% Off
H 19.5 in W 24.5 in D 24.5 in
Early 20th C. Louis XVI Walnut & Marble Top Galleried Bouillotte Gueridon Table
Located in Germantown, MD
An Early 20th Century Louis XVI Style Walnut and Marble Top Galleried Bouillotte Low Gueridon Table brass cup feet. Measures 24.5" in width, 24.5" in depth, 19.5" in height.
Marble, Metal
$12,500 / set
H 21 in W 20 in D 20 in
Fine Pair of French Bronze and Malachite Directoire Gueridons Mid 20th Century
Located in Dallas, TX
A fine pair of early to mid 20th century French gilt bronze and malachite topped gueridon cigarette tables.
Malachite, Bronze
$27,000 / set
H 27 in Dm 15 in
Pair of 20th Century Jean Michel-Frank Design Iron Guéridons Tables by Comte
By Comte S.A., Jean-Michel Frank
Located in North Miami, FL
Pair of mid-20th century wrought iron guéridon tables designed by Jean Michel-Frank for the company Comte S.A. By: Jean-Michel Frank, Comte S.A. Material: metal, iron, wrought iron,...
Metal, Iron, Wrought Iron, Sheet Metal
French Neoclassical Gueridon Table Mid-20th Century
Located in Kilmarnock, VA
Elegant French-style gueridon or center table executed in the neoclassical taste, featuring finely cast swan-form brass supports, a blackened and reeded tripod base, paw feet, and a ...
Brass, Bronze
20th Century Guéridon by Maison Jansen
By Maison Jansen
Located in Paris, FR
A guéridon by Maison Jansen, made for the Hotel George V in Paris. Tripod base with double colonnettes in solid stainless steel and gilded brass; top ...
Travertine, Brass, Stainless Steel
$3,360Sale Price / set|20% Off
H 29.14 in Dm 19.69 in
Pair of French Walnut Gueridon Tables, 19th Century
Located in LA CIOTAT, FR
A charming pair of 19th century French occasional, or side, tables in walnut. These beautifully polished and supremely practical 'guéridon' tables each feature a one-piece circular t...
Walnut
Lebanese Copper Gueridon, Early 20th Century
Located in Isle Sur La Sorgue, Vaucluse
Finely-wrought copper gueridon from Tripoli, with an elegant stem base, and a decorated top. Stamped on the rim of the base.
Copper
20th Century, Italian Bronze Planter or Gueridon
Located in IT
20th century, Italian bronze planter or Gueridon Measures: cm W 56 x maximum diameter 51 x H 90. H on the floor of the wide 81 cm This refined planter was made in Italy, in Naples, towards the Early 20th Century in the style of «Retour d'Egypte». It consists of a tripod structure in finely chiselled gilded bronze and lacquered in tones. Each leg originates with scroll decorations and phytomorphic elements with golden details, supported by a sphinx with hairstyle, tail and golden wings. This sits on a curvilinear and wavy element decorated with golden ramage and a man’s head with a long beard of classic taste. The legs end with an injured foot and rest on a tripartite base that connects them. In the middle of each leg there is a bronze junction with curls and volutes that converges towards the others in the center, where a vertical element contributes to the momentum and gracefulness of the whole. The basin of the planter is in lacquered tin, with gold edges and reserves. The rising part of the tub has some holes that allow the breathability of the space. This tripod is inspired, with variations, to a famous model of the brothers Luigi and Antonio Manfredini, active in Milan at the beginning of the nineteenth century, financed by the viceroy of Italy Eugenio de Beauharnais, adopted son of Napoleon Bonaparte, for the opening of the real manufacture of Eugenia. The Retour d'Egypte style was widely echoed in France and Europe and originated from General Bonaparte’s military campaign in Egypt in 1799. The fashion of the Egyptians had already in Italy found a previous interpreter in the engraver Giovan Battista Piranesi, but the vast diffusion that also had in the furniture the Egyptian ornament...
Metal, Bronze