Cesare Lacca Carts and Bar Carts
Italian, b. 1929
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.
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Creator: Cesare Lacca
Midcentury Cesare Lacca Wood Italian Bar Cart with Serving Trays, 1950s
By Cesare Lacca
Located in Roma, IT
Fantastic mid century wood bar trolley. It was produced by Cesare Lacca in Italy during 1950s.
This wonderful piece comes with two glass removable trays and an ergonomic bottle rack.
The lines of this piece make it perfect for a midcentury-style dining room or bar.
Born in Naples in 1929, Italian architect-designer Cesare Lacca created modernist furniture and metalwork throughout the 1950s. Though details of his personal life and professional training remain lost to history, there are sufficient surviving primary sources that document his many elegant designs in brasswork for which he is the best know and which fetch high prices from collectors.
Like many Italian designers in the 20th century, Lacca moved to Milan after World War II to launch his career. Before he was even 21 years old, his work was selected by a group of American curators for inclusion in the landmark exhibition Italy at Work: Her Renaissance in Design Today that toured 12 US museums between 1950 and 1953—the first major exhibition of Italian design outside of Italy. The exhibition showcased the best and brightest of Italian designers who had embraced modernist principles and rejuvenated traditional Italian crafts, like Carlo Mollino , Franco Albini, and Gio Ponti
In the exhibition catalogue, curator Meyric R. Roger’s spotlights Lacca's expert achievements in brass, noting “the variety and quality of his creations,” which “place him high among the architect-designers leading the current [Modernist] movement." Rogers adds, "The quality of his work...provide[s] all the decorative effectiveness needed without strain or exaggeration”.
Lacca designed a great many tea carts and serving trolleys in his career—which make up a large proportion of what is available on the vintage market today—as well as magazine racks and coffee tables. Lacca’s most iconic tea cart was manufactured by Italian brand Cassina and features sculpted beech, cedar, teak, or walnut with brass details, a glass tabletop, and a removable glass tray.
Lacca also designed high-backed lounge chairs, which were regularly featured in Arredoluce advertisements for Angelo Lelli’s lighting...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Cesare Lacca Carts and Bar Carts
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Brass, Metal
1950s Cesare Lacca Italian Midcentury Brass Wood Trolley Bar Cart
By Cesare Lacca
Located in Brescia, IT
Bar Cart by Cesare Lacca
Italy, 1950s
Brass and Wood
Removable trays and Bottle Rack
Excellent condition. Glass perfect.
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1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Cesare Lacca Carts and Bar Carts
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Brass
Small Table Bar Cart Design Cesare Lacca, 1960s
By Cesare Lacca
Located in taranto, IT
Splendid original bar trolley from the 1960s, production and design by cesare lacca, made of wood, probably cherry, with the usual brass inserts
It measures 95 cm in length, 45 cm...
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1960s Italian Vintage Cesare Lacca Carts and Bar Carts
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Brass
Midcentury Italian Bar Cart by Cesare Lacca Maple Wood Brass Parts, 1950s
By Cesare Lacca
Located in Palermo, Sicily
Midcentury Italian Bar Cart by Cesare Lacca maple wood brass parts 1950s.
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1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Cesare Lacca Carts and Bar Carts
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Maple
Vintage Walnut Cesare Lacca Tea Trolley Cart for Cassina
By Cesare Lacca, Cassina
Located in North Miami, FL
This is a wonderful parquet wood deigned bar cart/ tea trolley by Cesare Lacca for Cassina. The glass top level and wood lower level, along with wheels that roll easily. ALL Original...
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1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Cesare Lacca Carts and Bar Carts
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Glass, Walnut
Italian 1950s Cesare Lacca Wood and Brass Bar Cart Trolley with Drink Holder
By Cesare Lacca
Located in London, GB
An Italian 1950s Cesare Lacca wood and brass bar cart trolley with brass drinks holder.
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Mid-20th Century Italian Cesare Lacca Carts and Bar Carts
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Brass
Mid-century modern wood brass bar cart megazine rack by Cesare Lacca Italy 1950s
By Cesare Lacca
Located in Nicolosi, IT
Mid-Century Modern Italian Wood and Brass Bar Cart with Magazine Rack, Attributed to Cesare Lacca, 1950s
An elegant and sculptural tea or serving trolley, attributed to the design s...
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1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Cesare Lacca Carts and Bar Carts
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Brass
Bar cart by Cesare Lacca for Cassina – Italy 1948-50
By Cesare Lacca, Cassina
Located in Girona, Girona
Bar cart with two removable trays and a large fixed square tray, solid stained mahogany with french polish, polished brass and glass. Can be completely dismantled.
Design: Cesare Lac...
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1940s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Cesare Lacca Carts and Bar Carts
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Brass
Mid-Century Modern Bar Cart By Cesare Lacca, Solid and Stained Mahogany
By Cesare Lacca
Located in New York, NY
Mid-Century Modern Bar Cart By Cesare Lacca, Solid and Stained Mahogany- Italy.
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1940s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Cesare Lacca Carts and Bar Carts
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Mahogany
Trolley with magazine rack by Cesare Lacca
By Cesare Lacca, Angelo De Baggis
Located in Torino, IT
Trolley with magazine rack by Cesare Lacca.
Refined trolley with sinuous, soft stained walnut wood frame, brass details and curved, beveled glass shelves.
In the lower part it has ...
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1950s Italian Vintage Cesare Lacca Carts and Bar Carts
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Brass
False pair of bar carts by Cesare Lacca - Italy 1950
By Cesare Lacca
Located in Girona, Girona
False pair of bar carts (one with bottle holder) in polished brass and stained and french polished beech with original glasses.
Design: Cesare Lacca...
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1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Cesare Lacca Carts and Bar Carts
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Brass
Mid Century Italian Bar Cart by Cesare Lacca 1970
By Cesare Lacca
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This elegant mid-century bar cart, designed by Cesare Lacca in the 1970s, features a brass frame with sleek black accents and large, stylish wheels. The two-tiered design includes a ...
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1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Cesare Lacca Carts and Bar Carts
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Brass
Mid-Century Modern Bar Cart By Cesare Lacca, Solid and Stained Mahogany- Italy.
By Cesare Lacca, Cassina
Located in Girona, Girona
Bar cart with magazine rack and two removable trays. Solid and stained mahogany. French polish. Polished brass and glass.
Design: Cesare Lacca for Cassina.
Italy circa 1948-50.
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1940s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Cesare Lacca Carts and Bar Carts
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Brass
Mid-Century Modern Walnut and Brass Trolley by Cesare Lacca for Cassina, 1950s
By Cesare Lacca
Located in Brussels, BE
Mid-Century Modern Walnut and Brass Trolley by Cesare Lacca for Cassina, 1950s
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1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Cesare Lacca Carts and Bar Carts
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Wood
Ash cart with pull-out trays by Cesare Lacca 1950s
By Cesare Lacca
Located in Torino, IT
Ash cart with pull-out trays by designer Cesare Lacca.
Refined trolley with slender and very light structure with sinuous shapes made of ash wood with brass details.
The trolley ha...
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1950s Italian Vintage Cesare Lacca Carts and Bar Carts
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Brass
Small Mid-Century Modern Bar Cart & Magazine Rack by Cesare Lacca - Italy
By Cesare Lacca
Located in Girona, Girona
Small bar cart and magazine rack, stained solid mahogany, French polish. Removable tray, polished brass hardware and wheels.
Design: Cesare Lacca
It...
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1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Cesare Lacca Carts and Bar Carts
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Brass
Cesare Lacca Midcentury Italian Serving Bar Cart for Cassina, Italy 1950s
By Cassina, Cesare Lacca
Located in Roma, IT
Spectacular midcentury bar cart in a gorgeous mahogany wood. Designed by Cesare Lacca and produced by Cassina in Italy during the 1950s.
Fully original and in amazing conditions. ...
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1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Cesare Lacca Carts and Bar Carts
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Brass
Cesare Lacca carts and bar carts for sale on 1stDibs.
Cesare Lacca carts and bar carts are available for sale on 1stDibs. These distinctive items are frequently made of wood and are designed with extraordinary care. There are many options to choose from in our collection of Cesare Lacca carts and bar carts, although brown editions of this piece are particularly popular. Many of the original carts and bar carts by Cesare Lacca were created in the mid-century modern style in italy during the 20th century. If you’re looking for additional options, many customers also consider carts and bar carts by Ico Parisi, Aldo Tura, and Joe Colombo. Prices for Cesare Lacca carts and bar carts can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — on 1stDibs, these items begin at $863 and can go as high as $8,900, while a piece like these, on average, fetch $2,461.
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