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.
Cesare Lacca Sculpted Brass Coffee Table
By Cesare Lacca
Located in St.Petersburg, FL
An elegant Cesare Lacca brass coffee table. Sculpted, solid brass base with cutouts, original green tinted glass. Classic Italian 1950s style that fits in any decor and setting. This...
Brass
Coffee Table with Magazine Rack Design Cesare Lacca in Brass and Wood, 1960s
By Cesare Lacca
Located in taranto, IT
Very rare original 1960s magazine rack living room table designed by cesare lacca and made in the usual mix of brass and wood, like the famous bar trolleys Excellent condition, as shown in the photos, perfect and stable, destined to last over time with the immortality of its exclusive and always current design Very rare, unique in the world for sale! It will be delivered without glass, the couriers...
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...
Brass
Coffee Table with Magazine Rack in Teak Wood, Italy 1960s
By Ico Parisi
Located in Roma, IT
Stunning coffee table with a side magazine rack made in teak wood. Produced in Italy in the 60s in the style of Ico Parisi. The wood grain of the top are simply amazing and the parti...
Brass
$1,600
H 29.25 in Dm 20 in
Cesare Lacca Style Stainless Steel & Round Glass Tripod Side Table, Italy, 1950
By Cesare Lacca
Located in Miami, FL
Minimalist and elegant Mid-Century Modern side, end or drink table attributed to Cesare Lacca and designed in Italy in the 1950s. It is made of stainless-steel has a polished finish ...
Stainless Steel
Coffee Table Made In Rosewood Of Danish Design From 1960s
Located in Lejre, DK
This rosewood coffee table is a beautiful example of Danish design from the 1960s. The table exudes a timeless elegance and is in nice used condition, which reflects its quality and ...
Rosewood
$1,597Sale Price|25% Off
H 27.56 in W 27.56 in D 20.08 in
Vintage Moebius Coffee Table by Cesare Lacca, Italy, Mid-20th Century
By Cesare Lacca
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Moebius Coffee Table is an original design furniture realized in the mid-20th century. Wood, Brass and Glass. Mahogany wood.
Glass, Wood
$4,542
H 27.17 in W 18.12 in D 25.99 in
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...
Brass
1960s Cesare Lacca Drinks Trolley
By Cesare Lacca
Located in Florence, Tuscany
A fully restored walnut and brass 1960s drinks trolley by the designer, Cesare Lacca. This wonderful trolley has beautifully repolished brass work and two glass surfaces for glasses ...
Brass
$2,899
H 16.74 in W 47.64 in D 17.72 in
Midcentury Coffee Table with Magazine Rack in Teak Wood, Italy 1960s
By Ico Parisi
Located in Roma, IT
Gorgeous coffee table with a side magazine rack made in dark teak wood, it was produced in Italy in the 60s in the style of Ico Parisi. The wood tone of the top is simply amazing ...
Brass
Cesare Lacca, Bar Cart, Wood, Brass, Glass, Italy, 1950s
By Cesare Lacca
Located in High Point, NC
A dark-stained wood, brass and glass bar cart designed and produced by Cesare Lacca, Italy, c. 1950s. Dramatic patina brass. Minor cracking on wood handles consistent with age and u...
Brass
Midcentury Bar Cart by Cesare Lacca Italy
By Cesare Lacca
Located in Albano Laziale, Rome/Lazio
An unusual all original midcentury oval bar cart by Cesare Lacca, Italy. Made in stained lacquered beech and brass with a design typical for Lacca even though this particular design ...
Brass
$2,840
H 31.89 in W 37.41 in D 18.9 in
Midcentury Bar Cart by Cesare Lacca, Beech & Glass, Italy, 1950s
By Cesare Lacca
Located in Albano Laziale, Rome/Lazio
An original two tiered midcentury bar cart by Cesare Lacca, Italy. Made in stained lacquered beech in a design typical for Lacca. Featuring wo tiers in clear glass surrounded by stai...
Glass, Beech
Cesare Lacca, coffee table
By Cesare Lacca
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Rare coffee table by Cesare Lacca for Fontana Arte, Italy circa 1950. Basement in gilt brass and rectangular top in glass.
Brass
Midcentury Teak Bar Cart by Cesare Lacca, Italy, 1950s
By Cesare Lacca
Located in Saarbruecken, DE
Midcentury bar cart by Cesare Lacca, Italy, 1950s. Frame ebonized, tabletop teak wood. Restored surface. New glass top.
Teak
Italian Bar Cart by Cesare Lace for Fratelli Reguitti 1950s
By Cesare Lacca, Fratelli Reguitti
Located in Byron Bay, NSW
Wonderful Italian wood trolley with glass and brass finishes. It has a removable serving tray with brass and chrome finishes. This 1950s production is attributed to Cesare Lacca, has...
Brass
Italian Bar Cart by Cesare Lace for Fratelli Reguitti 1950s
By Fratelli Reguitti, Cesare Lacca
Located in Byron Bay, NSW
Wonderful Italian wood trolley with glass and brass finishes. It has a removable serving tray with brass and chrome finishes. This 1950s production is attributed to Cesare Lacca, has...
Brass
Food Trolley by Cesare Lacca
By Cesare Lacca, Cassina
Located in IT
Walnut wood and glass shelves tray by Cesare Lacca for Cassina. Conservative restoration - original wheels. Measures 43 x 81 x 68 cm.
Wood, Glass
Italian Modern Martini Table in The Manner of Cesare Lacca
By Cesare Lacca
Located in Long Island City, NY
A three legged Italian Modern “Martini” side table in the manner of Cesare Lacca with a leather top and a brass ring holder. Measures: 24” H x 16.5” W Shelf: 15.35” H.
Brass
Midcentury Italian Bar Cart by Cesare Lacca
By Cesare Lacca
Located in Westport, CT
An Italian bar cart designed by Cesare Lacca during the 1950s, featuring a X-shaped structure in brass with red lacquered wood holding two glass inset shelves and finishing on covere...
Brass
Italian Vintage Round Marble Table by Cesare Lacca, 1950s
By Cesare Lacca
Located in Paris, FR
A 20th century vintage circular coffee or side table designed by Italian master Cesare Lacca circa 1950s and composed of a pink marble tabletop and his distinctive structure made of ...
Marble, Brass