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
$1,863Sale Price|20% Off
H 16.15 in W 47.25 in D 16.93 in
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
$1,190Sale Price|20% Off
H 26.78 in W 36.62 in D 18.51 in
Mid-Century Wooden Bar Cart by Cesare Lacca, Italy, 1950s
By Cesare Lacca
Located in Catania, CT
Sophisticated Italian bar cart designed by Cesare Lacca, crafted in the 1950s. The structure is made of beautifully shaped wood, showcasing Lacca’s signature organic lines and elegan...
Glass, Wood
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
$2,867
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
$4,599
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
$2,341Sale Price|20% Off
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
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
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
Italian Glass & Brass Coffee Table by Cesare Lacca, 1958
By Cesare Lacca
Located in Paris, FR
A 1950s Italian mid-century modern coffee table attributed to Cesare Lacca. Its organic, petal-shaped glass top rests on a sculptural base of four splayed lacquered metal legs, each ...
Metal, Brass
$1,164
H 50 in W 110 in D 50 in
Italian Avantgarde Walnut Coffee Table, Attributed to Cesare Lacca for Cassina
By Cesare Lacca, Cassina
Located in CULEMBORG, GE
Little is known about the illustrious designer Cesare Lacca: he was born in Naples in 1929 and he created modernist furniture and metalwork throughout the 1950s. He was part of the e...
Glass, Walnut
Cesare Lacca walnut and brass bar cart
By Cesare Lacca
Located in London, GB
Cesare Lacca walnut bar cart with brass hardware and two glass shelves C1950s Italy
Brass
Cesare Lacca Italian Drinks Table with Lava Top
By Cesare Lacca
Located in Red Lion, PA
Cesare Lacca table Brass with lava top from the Etna Volcano in Sicily A distinctive stylized brass finial or handle sits at the center of the table top, adding a functional and deco...
Lava, Brass
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 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
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