Cesare Lacca Building and Garden Elements
Architect and designer Cesare Lacca is renowned for the modernist furniture he created during the 1950s. Made with materials like teak, glass and brass, his work continues to command great interest from mid-century modern collectors. His pieces have recently found their way onto some of the 21st century’s most trendy television and movie sets.
Lacca was born in Naples, Italy, in 1929. Like many Italian designers in the 20th century, he moved to Milan after World War II to launch his career. At the age of 20, he was selected by a group of American curators for inclusion in the 1951 landmark exhibition “Italy at Work: Her Renaissance in Design Today” at the Art Institute of Chicago. It showcased Italian designers who had embraced modernist principles and rejuvenated traditional Italian crafts, like Carlo Mollino, Franco Albini and Gio Ponti.
Lacca designed a dizzying array of tea carts and serving trolleys across his career, including magazine racks and coffee tables. Lacca’s most well-known piece is a tea cart — most commonly used as a bar cart — that Cassina manufactured. It features beautifully sculpted beech, cedar, teak and walnut with brass details, a glass tabletop and a removable glass tray.
This Lacca cart was featured as Don Draper’s office bar in his Manhattan advertising agency on several episodes of the wildly popular television show Mad Men, reinvigorating the interest of collectors. Several other Lacca pieces have been part of the set decorations in the television series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and the movie Being the Ricardos.
On 1stDibs, find Cesare Lacca tables, racks and stands, seating and more.
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Cesare Lacca Building and Garden Elements
Brass
18th Century and Earlier French Louis XVI Antique Cesare Lacca Building and Garden Elements
Bronze
Mid-20th Century French Cesare Lacca Building and Garden Elements
Cast Stone
1950s Italian Hollywood Regency Vintage Cesare Lacca Building and Garden Elements
Porcelain
Early 19th Century Victorian Antique Cesare Lacca Building and Garden Elements
Brass
Mid-20th Century Italian Neoclassical Revival Cesare Lacca Building and Garden Elements
Cast Stone
Mid-20th Century European Mid-Century Modern Cesare Lacca Building and Garden Elements
Bamboo, Wicker, Cane, Rattan
Mid-20th Century French Cesare Lacca Building and Garden Elements
Wicker, Rattan
1880s Art Nouveau Antique Cesare Lacca Building and Garden Elements
Brass
Early 20th Century European Cesare Lacca Building and Garden Elements
Brass
19th Century Early Victorian Antique Cesare Lacca Building and Garden Elements
Brass
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Cesare Lacca Building and Garden Elements
Cane, Fruitwood
1960s American Hollywood Regency Vintage Cesare Lacca Building and Garden Elements
Brass, Steel
1950s Italian Vintage Cesare Lacca Building and Garden Elements
