Franco Albini Furniture
Italian, 1905-1977
While working under the polymath Gio Ponti — arguably the most important figure in 20th-century Italian modernism — furniture designer Franco Albini nurtured a love for modern forms combined with traditional craft techniques.
Albini is widely known for working with organic materials such as rattan and cane for his chairs and other seating, but he also played a pivotal role in the Italian rationalist movement of the early 20th century, which saw architects and furniture makers applying a strict emphasis on geometry in their work. Rationalists drew on Ancient Roman architecture but rejected ornament, much in the way that Le Corbusier and celebrated Bauhaus figures such as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe had in their modernist furniture.
Albini received his degree in architecture from the Polytechnic University of Milan in 1929, and, in 1931, he founded his practice in Milan, where he tackled workers’ housing and other reconstruction projects. A gifted urban planner, he also developed the Palazzo Bianco, Palazzo Rosso and Tesoro di San Lorenzo museums in Genoa. While Albini is revered for his Margherita chair — a Triennale Milano award winner created for Bonacina in 1951 — he also collaborated with manufacturers Poggi and Cassina in the 1940s on seating, tables and more that embodied his artistic vision. Of that mid-century work, the one piece that perhaps best captures this vision is the iconic Luisa chair.
With its cherry red upholstery and sinuous wooden legs that seem to float aboveground, the Luisa is a genuine masterpiece. It is also a testament to Albini’s perfectionism, as it endured several prototypes — including one made by Knoll in the late 1940s — and took approximately 15 years to design. Poggi launched the final version of the armchair in 1955, earning Albini the prestigious Compasso d’Oro from Italy’s Association for Industrial Design. It is produced today by Cassina. Albini named the chair for someone who likely saw the process firsthand: his personal secretary of two decades, Luisa Colombini.
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Creator: Franco Albini
Rare Mahogany 'TL2' Cavalletto Table / Desk by Franco Albini for Poggi, Italy
By Franco Albini, Poggi
Located in London, GB
A rare mahogany version of the Cavaletto or TL2 table designed by the great neo-rationalist designer, Franco Albini. Designed in 1950 for manufacturers Poggi...
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1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Franco Albini Furniture
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Steel
Oak Side Table by Franco Albini
By Franco Albini
Located in East Hampton, NY
Franco Albini, side table Model TN6 "Cicognino", Italy, 1952
Measures"
Overall height: 31.5"
Height to the tabletop: 16".
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Mid-20th Century Italian Franco Albini Furniture
Materials
Wool
Mid-Century Franco Albini Round Mirror in Rattan and Wicker, Italy 1970s
By Franco Albini
Located in Roma, IT
Magnificent French Riviera style round mirror fully made in hand-woven wicker and curved rattan. This beautiful piece was designed by the mastery of Franco Albini and produced in in ...
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1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Franco Albini Furniture
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Bamboo, Wicker, Cane, Rattan, Mirror
Table TL22 - Franco Albini for Poggi with Artistic Intervention by Alberto Tonni
By Franco Albini
Located in Milano, IT
The one we propose is the iconic TL22 table designed by Franco Albini in 1958 and produced by Poggi but which, having come to us in the 21st century, is reinterpreted and modernized ...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Franco Albini Furniture
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Brass
Franco Albini Midcentury Brazilian Dining Chair jacaranda and fabric
By Forma Brazil, Franco Albini
Located in Barcelona, ES
Franco Albini (1905-1977)
Six dining chairs with arms (Price per chair)
Manufactured by Forma Brazil
Brazil, 1950s
Solid jacaranda wood and fabric
Measurements
58 cm x 55 cm x 77 ...
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Mid-20th Century Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Franco Albini Furniture
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Upholstery, Jacaranda
Franco Albini Oval Bamboo and Rattan Mirror, Italy, 1950s
By Franco Albini
Located in New York, NY
Franco Albini oval bamboo and rattan wall mirror, Italy, 1950s. This chic and iconic Italian mid-century mirror is intricately hand-woven with bamboo and rattan, then stained and lac...
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1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Franco Albini Furniture
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Bamboo, Rattan, Mirror
20th Century Franco Albini Pair of TN6 Cicognino Coffee Tables in Wood, 50s
By Poggi, Franco Albini
Located in Turin, Turin
An iconic design with a refined and essential taste, which in its playful form evokes a reassuring feeling of familiarity. Franco Albini created the table by reducing its structure t...
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1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Franco Albini Furniture
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Wood
Franco Albini TL3 Table For Cassina
By Franco Albini
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Franco Albini TL3 Table For Cassina
A design table with an innovative take-apart concept for which architect Franco Albini uses the strut component,...
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2010s French Mid-Century Modern Franco Albini Furniture
Materials
Wood
Franco Albini Franca Helg Table Lamp Model 524 Arteluce, 1963
By Franca Helg, Franco Albini
Located in Roosendaal, Noord Brabant
Stunning large table lamp model 524 designed by duo Franco Albini and Franca Helg and manufactured by Arteluce, Italy 1963. This beautiful geometric table lamp is made of several lay...
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1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Franco Albini Furniture
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Chrome
Franco Albini for Poggi circa 1950, Folding Chair
By Franco Albini
Located in Wargrave, Berkshire
Franco Albini for Poggi, Italy, circa 1950. A folding chair of wooden construction in completely original untouched vintage condition.
Mech...
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1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Franco Albini Furniture
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Wood
Franco Albini Table 840 Stadera Wood and Steel by Cassina
By Franco Albini, Cassina
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Table designed by Franco Albini in 1954.
Manufactured by Cassina in Italy.
This table/writing desk, designed by Franco Albini consists of two trapezoidal planes, one smaller than th...
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2010s Italian Mid-Century Modern Franco Albini Furniture
Materials
Steel
Mid-Century Modern Small Sideboard MB15 by Fanco Albini for Poggi, Italy, 1950s
By Franco Albini
Located in Brussels, BE
Mid-Century Modern Small Sideboard MB15 by Fanco Albini for Poggi, Italy, 1950s
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1950s Vintage Franco Albini Furniture
Materials
Wood
Franco Albini Mahogany mid-centry Italian Table Model TL-22 produced by Poggi
By Franco Albini
Located in Barcelona, ES
Franco Albini & Franca Helg.
Dining table model no. TL22.
Manufactured by Poggi,
Italy, 1958.
Mahogany.
Measurements:
180.3 cm x 104.1 cm x 73 H cm.
70.98 in x 40.98 in x 28.74 in.
Literature:
Giuliana Gramigna, Repertorio 1950/1980, Milan, 1985, p. 123.
Franco Albini, was born in 1905 and died in 1977. He spent his childhood and part of his youth in Robbiate in Brianza, where he was born. Albini, as an adolescent moved with his family to Milan. Here he enrolled in the Faculty of Architecture of the Polytechnic and graduated in 1929. He started his professional activity in the studio of Gio Ponti and Emilio Lancia, with whom he collaborated for three years. At the 1929 International Exhibition in Barcelona (where Gio Ponti curated the Italian pavilion and Mies van der Rohe realized that of Germany) and in Paris where, as Franca Helg recounted, he had the opportunity to visit the studio by Le Corbusier.
In those three years, the works he carried out are admittedly of the twentieth century imprint. It is the meeting with Edoardo Persico that marked a clear turning point towards rationalism and the approach to the group of editors of "Casabella". The partly ironic and partly very harsh comments of the Neapolitan critic to a series of drawings, made by Albini for the design of some office furniture, caused him a great disturbance. “I spent days of real anguish - Albini recalls - I had to answer all the questions. I also had a fever, a large and long fever. "
The meted provoked Albini to openen a professional studio in via Panizza with Renato Camus and Giancarlo Palanti. The group of architects began to deal with public housing by participating in the competition for the Baracca district in San Siro in 1932 and then building the IFACP neighborhoods: Fabio Filzi (1936/38), Gabriele D'Annunzio and Ettore Ponti (1939).
During this period, Albini also worked on his first villa (Pestarini), which Giuseppe Pagano, architect and critic of the time, presented as follows: “This coherence, which the superficial rhetoric of fashionable jugglers calls intransigence, and which is instead the basis of understood between the fantasy of art and the reality of the craft, in Franco Albini, it is so rooted that it transforms theory into a moral attitude ".
But it is above all in the context of the exhibitions that the Milanese master experienced his compromise between that "rigor and poetic fantasy" of which Pagano speaks, coining the elements that became a recurring theme in his . The opening in 1933 of the new Triennale headquarters in Milan, in the Palazzo dell'Arte, was an important opportunity to express the strong innovative character of rationalist thinking, a gym in which to freely experiment with new materials and new solutions, but above all a "method". "Cultivated as a communication laboratory, the art of setting up was for the rationalists of the first generation what the perspective had been for the architects of humanism: the field open to a hypothesis of space that needed profound reflections before landing the concreteness of the construction site ".
Together with Giancarlo Palanti, Albini on the occasion of the V Triennale di Milano set up the steel structure house (with R. Camus, G. Mazzoleni, G. Minoletti and with the coordination of G. Pagano), for which he also designed the 'furniture. At the following Triennale of 1936, Persico dided, together with a group of young designers gathered by Pagano in the previous edition of 1933, Franco Albini took care of the preparations of the home exhibition. The setting up of Stanza per un uomo, at that same Triennale, allows us to understand the acute and ironic approach of Albini, as a man and as a designer: "Celebrating the beauty of mechanics was the imperative to which, for example, the surprising displays by Franco Albini who managed, in the subtle way of a refined and rarefied style, to sublimate their practical content in the metaphysics of daring still lifes: flying objects which marked in the void refined frames and metal intricacies the nodes of a fantastic cartography where industry finally became art free from purpose ".
That same year Albini and Romano designed the exhibition of the Ancient Italian Goldsmithery: vertical uprights, simple linear rods, designed the space. A theme, of the "flagpole", seemed to be the center of the evolution of production and the creative process. The concept is reworked over time, with the technique of decomposition and recomposition typical of Albinian design: in the preparation of the Scipione Exhibition and contemporary drawings (1941) the tapered flagpoles, on which the paintings and display cases were hung, are supported by a grid of steel cables; in the Vanzetti stand (1942) they take the V-shape; in the Olivetti shop in Paris (1956) the polished mahogany uprights support the shelves for the display of typewriters and calculators.
The flagpole is found, however, also in other areas. In the apartments he designed, it is used as a pivot on which the paintings can be suspended and rotated to allow different points of view, but at the same time as an element capable of dividing the spaces. The Veliero bookcase...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Franco Albini Furniture
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Mahogany
Italian Wicker Lounge Chair Designed by Franco Albini for Bonacina, Italy 60s
By Franco Albini
Located in Lucija, SI
Boho rattan Lounge Chair designed by Franco Albini in Italy in the '60s.
Amazing mid century rattan shell-shaped armchair. These piece were produced in Italy during 60s and the desig...
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1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Franco Albini Furniture
Materials
Bamboo, Wicker, Rattan
Franco Albini Cavalletto Table, Black Stained Wood by Cassina
By Franco Albini, Cassina
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Table designed by Franco Albini in 1950. Relaunched in 2008.
Manufactured by Cassina in Italy.
This table, with its minimal lines and an extremely light look, underscores the extens...
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2010s Italian Mid-Century Modern Franco Albini Furniture
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Metal
Pair of AM/AS Franco Albini chandeliers for Sirrah 1960's chrome version
By Sirrah, Franco Albini
Located in Milano, MI
Pair AM/AS series pendant lamps, with mirror steel shape and inside of lampshade enameled in matte white. Designed in the 1960s by Franco Albini for Sirrah. The lamps are in excellen...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Franco Albini Furniture
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Chrome
Franco Albini Split Reed ottoman or pouf
By Franco Albini
Located in Ferndale, MI
Lightweight and airy appearance sturdy and stable . . Split reed ottoman/pouf with solid maple legs that extend from floor to top of seat . Very nice original condition . Recently ac...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Franco Albini Furniture
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Rattan, Reed
Table lamp model “524" by Franco Albini, Italy, 1952
By Franco Albini
Located in Barcelona, ES
Table lamp model “524”
Made in collaboration with Franca Helg
Manufactured by Arteluce
Italy, 1952
Openwork Perspex in a chrome frame
Measurements
41 Ø cm x 47h cm.
16,14 Ø in x 18,5...
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1950s Italian Vintage Franco Albini Furniture
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Chrome
Franco Albini for Poggi Italian Cicognino Wood Side Table 1950s
By Poggi, Franco Albini
Located in Reggio Emilia, IT
Italian midcentury wood side table model TN6 Cicognino designed by Franco Albini and produced by Poggi Pavia in 1953, production Italy 1960s
Bibliography:
Domus 312 (November 1955),...
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1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Franco Albini Furniture
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Wood
20th Century, Franco Albini Sofa mod. DV33 for Poggi
By Franco Albini, Poggi
Located in Turin, Turin
Franco Albini (1905-1977) lived in Milan where he stuied Architecture at the Politecnico. He started his career at Gio Ponti's studio, with whom he collaborated before getting in tou...
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1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Franco Albini Furniture
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Fabric, Wood
Franco Albini 840 Stadera Wood and Steel Table for Cassina, Italy, new
By Franco Albini, Cassina
Located in Berlin, DE
Prices vary dependent on the model/finish of the table.
Table designed by Franco Albini in 1954. Manufactured by Cassina in Italy. This table/writing desk, designed by Franco Albin...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Mid-Century Modern Franco Albini Furniture
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Steel
Franco Albini PL19 Tre Pezzi Armchair for Poggi Pavia, Italy, 1960s
By Franco Albini
Located in Paris, FR
Armchair designed by Franco Albini (1905-1977) and Franca Helg Model n° PL19, 'Tre pezzi'
Lacquered metal, brass and recently eupholstered in white sheep wool skin.
Early original m...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Franco Albini Furniture
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Metal
Set of 2 Franco Albini, "Luisa" chairs, Production Poggi, Pavia
By Poggi, Franco Albini
Located in Wolfurt, AT
This set of two Italian chairs was designed by Franco Albini for Poggi in the 1950s. The "Luisa" model is a simple, timeless design and is made of walnut wood and red fabric on the b...
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1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Franco Albini Furniture
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Fabric, Wood
Vintage rattan footstool by Franco Albini, 1970s
By Franco Albini
Located in Bastia Umbra, IT
Vintage rattan footstool by Franco Albini, Made in Italy, 1970s.
This rattan and bamboo pouf can be used as a side table or as a footstool. Original from the 1970s. This piece is the...
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1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Franco Albini Furniture
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Bamboo, Rattan
20th Century Franco Albini Table Model TL2 "Cavalletto" in Wood for Poggi 1950s
By Poggi, Franco Albini
Located in Turin, Turin
Iconic table designed by the great Italian maestro Franco Albini in the 50s. The model is TL2 better known as "Cavalletto" (in english "Trestle") since it reminds of lightness and wi...
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1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Franco Albini Furniture
Materials
Metal
Franco Albini 1960 Rattan Cane & Bamboo Rocking Horse, Animal Sculpture Italy
By Franco Albini
Located in Miami, FL
Original Franco Albini Mid-Century Modern Rattan and Bamboo Rocking Horse, Animal Sculpture.
Rattan and bamboo rocking horse core with basket wea...
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1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Franco Albini Furniture
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Bamboo, Cane, Rattan
Dining Table by Franco Albini
By Franco Albini
Located in Shibuya-ku, 13
Italian architect and designer FRANCO ALBINI's spherical ottomans made of wicker and bamboo are his signature products, and many of you have probably seen them before. His use of org...
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1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Franco Albini Furniture
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Wood, Teak
Vintage Rare Bauhaus German Leather Armchair by Franco Albini for Tecta, 1950s
By Franco Albini
Located in Warszawa, Mazowieckie
This exceptionally rare chair with arms was designed by Franco Albini in 1933 and produced by Tecta during the 1950s. The frame is made of tubular chrome-plated steel but the seat an...
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1950s German Bauhaus Vintage Franco Albini Furniture
Materials
Chrome
Margherita Rattan Chair by Franco Albini, Bonacina Italy ca. 1950s
By Franco Albini
Located in Geneva, CH
Iconic mid-century design "Margherita" rattan chair by Franco Albini produced by Bonacina, Italy 1951
Beautiful patina, new cushion. Very good overall condition .
Won an award at th...
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1950s Italian Vintage Franco Albini Furniture
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Upholstery, Wicker, Rattan
Pair of table lamps by Franco Albini for Sirrah, model Colibrì, Italy
By Franca Helg, Antonio Piva and Franco Albini, Sirrah, Franco Albini
Located in Argelato, BO
Rare pair of "Colibrì" model table lamps, designed by the famous Italian architect and designer Franco Albini together with Franca Helg and Paolo Piva for Sirrah, Italy, 1983.
This ...
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1980s Italian Modern Vintage Franco Albini Furniture
Materials
Plastic
Poltrona a dondolo Mid Century in bambù e rattan, Italia, anni '60
By Franco Albini
Located in Bastia Umbra, IT
Una bellissima poltrona lounge a dondolo italiana degli anni '60 in bambù, rattan e paglia di Vienna. Nello stile della "Rocking Chaise" di Franco Albini per Poggi.
Oggetto vintage i...
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1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Franco Albini Furniture
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Bamboo, Rattan
Armchair "Fiorenza" in Original Red Color, by Franco Albini in 1952 for Arflex
By Arflex, Franco Albini
Located in Wolfurt, AT
This pair of Italian "Fiorenza" armchairs was designed by Franco Albini for Arflex. The elegantly shaped wooden frame supports the furniture body, which is covered with the original ...
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1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Franco Albini Furniture
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Fabric, Wood
Franco Albini Cicognino Wood Side Table by Cassina
By Franco Albini, Cassina
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Side table designed by Franco Albini in 1953. Relaunched in 2008.
Manufactured by Cassina in Italy.
Dubbed Cicognino, or “little stork”, this iconic design, is clean-cut and refi...
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2010s Italian Mid-Century Modern Franco Albini Furniture
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Wood
Mid Century Bamboo Umbrella Stand Attributed to Franco Albini, Italian, 1970s
By Franco Albini, Vittorio Bonacina
Located in Richmond, Surrey
Italian Bamboo Umbrella Stand / Cane Stand Attributed to Franco Albini for Vittorio Bonacina, 1970s
Beautiful Italian bamboo umbrella stand attributed to Franco Albini for Vittori...
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1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Franco Albini Furniture
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Rattan
Arflex Fiorenza Armchair in Steelcut Red Fabric and Black Frame by Franco Albini
By Arflex, Franco Albini
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Symbol of comfort, Fiorenza armchair appears in Pirelli's 1950s advertisement as symbol of the foam rubber potential, considered at that time the mos...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Franco Albini Furniture
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Fabric
Early Franco Albini Pair of Oak "Luisa"/ N°48 Dining Chair by Knoll, ca. 1949
By Franco Albini
Located in Geneva, CH
Early pair of black naugahyde and oak N°48 chair by Franco Albini produced by Knoll between 1948 and 1952.
Good condition, 2 little damages on corners of the seat cushion ( picture ...
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1940s Italian Vintage Franco Albini Furniture
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Naugahyde, Oak
Set of Two Franco Albini Tre Pezzi Armchairs by Cassina
By Franco Albini, Cassina
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Armchair designed by Franco Albini in 1959. Relaunched in 2009.
Manufactured by Cassina in Italy.
In 1952, working with Franca Helg, his long-time assistant, Franco Albini designed ...
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2010s Italian Mid-Century Modern Franco Albini Furniture
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Metal
Mid-Century Modern Vintage Rattan Pouf Stool Franco Albini attr Italy, 1950s
By Franco Albini
Located in Vienna, AT
A mid century modern vintage rattan pouf or stool, which was designed attributed to Franco Albini. Italy 1950s.
The rattan pouf is very stable, although it looks like lightweight. F...
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1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Franco Albini Furniture
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Rattan
Set of Two Franco Albini Tre Pezzi Armchairs by Cassina
By Franco Albini, Cassina
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Armchair designed by Franco Albini in 1959. Relaunched in 2009.
Manufactured by Cassina in Italy.
In 1952, working with Franca Helg, his long-time assistant, Franco Albini design...
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2010s Italian Mid-Century Modern Franco Albini Furniture
Materials
Metal
Franco Albini Rattan and Bamboo Wall Mirror, Italy 1960s
By Franco Albini
Located in Naples, IT
Italian rattan wall mirror by Franco Albini. The mirror has a complex weave of rattan in a series of horseshoe projections on the edge of the frame. There is a lovely aged patina on...
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1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Franco Albini Furniture
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Bamboo, Rattan, Mirror
Pair of rattan armchairs Margherita by Franco Albini for Bonacina, Italy, 1950s
By Franco Albini, Bonacina
Located in Milano, IT
Pair of armchairs model Margherita by Franco Albini for Bonacina, 1950s
Two specimens in two different colors, very good condition, slight signs of time.
After the war, Albini experi...
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1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Franco Albini Furniture
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Rattan
Franco Albini Round Bamboo and Rattan Mirrors, Italy, 1950s
By Franco Albini
Located in New York, NY
Franco Albini oval bamboo and rattan wall mirrors, Italy, 1950s. These chic and iconic Italian mid-century mirrors are intricately hand-woven with bamboo and rattan, then stained and...
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1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Franco Albini Furniture
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Bamboo, Rattan, Mirror
Franco Albini and Franca Helg 'AM1N' Opaline Glass Table Lamp in Chrome for Nemo
By Franca Helg, Nemo Lighting 1, Franco Albini
Located in Glendale, CA
Franco Albini and Franca Helg 'AM1N' Opaline Glass Table Lamp in Chrome for Nemo
Inspired by organic shapes, this table lamp features an onion-shaped diffuser executed in opal white...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Mid-Century Modern Franco Albini Furniture
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Metal
Mid-Century Modern TL2 Cavalletto Desk/Dining Table by Franco Albini for Poggi
By Franco Albini
Located in Brussels, BE
Mid-Century Modern TL2 Cavalletto desk/dining table by Franco Albini for Poggi, 1950s.
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1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Franco Albini Furniture
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Wood
Bar Cart / Serving Cart in Wood by Franco Albini for Poggi model cr-20, 1950's
By Franco Albini
Located in Milano, IT
Vintage Bar Cart - Mid-Century Modern Italian Design - Franco Albini Serving Cart - Vintage Collectible Furniture by Poggi 1950's
Rare, sought after and perfectly preserved "CR-20...
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1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Franco Albini Furniture
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Wood
Franco Albini Chair "47", 1949
By Franco Albini
Located in Berlin, DE
Elegant chair model "47" with renewed high quality woolen fabric, designed by Franco Albini in 1949 and manufactured by Knoll international, Belgium. Very elegant and rational design...
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1940s European Modern Vintage Franco Albini Furniture
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Steel
Pair of Mid-Century Modern Franco Albini White Wicker Ottomans, Stools or Poufs
By Franco Albini, Vittorio Bonacina
Located in St. Louis, MO
Pair of Mid-Century modern Franco Albini round wicker ottomans, stools or side tables painted in off white. Manufactured by Vittorio Bonacina, Italy. Paint appears to be original, so...
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1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Franco Albini Furniture
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Wicker
Franco Albini Desk for Knoll International, USA 1960
By Franco Albini
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A wonderful desk designed by Franco Albini and manufactured by Knoll International in the USA around 1960.
The unique frame of the table has chrome plated crossed legs on each side ...
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1960s American Vintage Franco Albini Furniture
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Metal
Brown Wire Ceiling Lamp by Franco Albini and Franca Helg for Sirrah
By Sirrah, Franco Albini, Franca Helg
Located in Milano, IT
Beautiful ceiling lamp designed by Franco Albini and Franca Helg in the 1950s for the fine Sirrah manufacture. Model AM4Z.
The lamp by Franco Albini is made of totally chromed metal...
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1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Franco Albini Furniture
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Metal
Ceiling Lamp Model Am4z by Franco Albini and Franca Helg for Sirrah
By Sirrah, Franca Helg, Franco Albini
Located in Milano, IT
Beautiful ceiling lamp designed by Franco Albini and Franca Helg in the 1950s for the fine Sirrah manufacture.
The lamp is made of totally chromed metal, the hat is a half sphere in...
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1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Franco Albini Furniture
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Metal
Ceiling Lamp by Franco Albini, Model 4023
By Venini, Franco Albini
Located in Berlin, DE
The Italian architect and designer Franco Albini designed this pendant lamp made of mouth-blown opal and flashed glass in warm gray, known as model 4023, for Venini in 1955. The fixt...
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1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Franco Albini Furniture
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Metal
Table Lamps "AM/AS" by Albini, Helg, Piva for Sirrah
By Sirrah, Franco Albini, Antonio Piva, Franca Helg
Located in Milan, IT
Beautiful table lamps model "AM/AS" by Franco Albini, Franca Helg, Antonio Piva.
Opaline glass and chrome frams can be changed with their universal terminal.
Two pieces available, p...
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1960s Italian Vintage Franco Albini Furniture
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Opaline Glass
Chrome, Glass Floor Lamp "AM/AS" by Albini, Helg, Piva for Sirrah, Italy 1960s
By Antonio Piva, Franca Helg, Franco Albini, Sirrah
Located in Milan, IT
Imposing floor lamp model "AM/AS" by Franco Albini, Franca Helg, Antonio Piva.
Milky glass shades can be changed with their universal terminal.
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1960s Italian Vintage Franco Albini Furniture
Materials
Chrome
Franco Albini's Mini Desk for Knoll 1970's
By Franco Albini, Knoll
Located in Milano, MI
The writing table designed by Franco Albini for Knoll consists of a chromed steel frame, a black-stained oak drawer unit that has two drawers on one side and a compartment on the oth...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Franco Albini Furniture
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Chrome
Italian Wall Coat Rack by Franco Albini Rattan and Bamboo 1960's
By Franco Albini
Located in VILLEURBANNE, FR
Porte manteau Italien de Franco Albini datant des années 1960's
Modèle mural en bambou et rotin composé de 2 patères
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1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Franco Albini Furniture
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Bamboo, Rattan
FRANCO ALBINI per POGGI Sedia pieghevole
By Poggi, Franco Albini
Located in Baranzate, IT
Sedia pieghevole con struttura in legno massello. Seduta e schienale in legno compensato.
Prod. Poggi, Italia, 1952
Bibliografia Catalogo esibizione, Franco Albini & Franca Helg Desi...
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1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Franco Albini Furniture
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Wood
Franco Albini Cicognino Coffee Table in Teak Wood by Poggi Pavia 1970s Italy
By Franco Albini, Poggi
Located in Montecatini Terme, IT
Cicognino coffee table entirely made in teak wood designed by Franco Albini in 1952 and firstly produced by the Italian company, Poggi Pavia from the 1950s.
The Cicognino coffee t...
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1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Franco Albini Furniture
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Teak
Rare No. 48 Armchair by Knoll International
By Franco Albini
Located in Munich, DE
Designed by Franco Albini and made by Knoll International.
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1950s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Franco Albini Furniture
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Wood
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Franco Albini furniture 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 Franco Albini furniture, although brown editions of this piece are particularly popular. We have 173 vintage editions of these items in-stock, while there is 21 modern edition to choose from as well. Many of the original furniture by Franco Albini were created in the mid-century modern style in europe during the 20th century. If you’re looking for additional options, many customers also consider furniture by Marco Zanuso, Paolo Buffa, and Arflex. Prices for Franco Albini furniture can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — on 1stDibs, these items begin at $209 and can go as high as $58,000, while a piece like these, on average, fetch $5,981.
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- What is rattan material?1 Answer1stDibs ExpertFebruary 13, 2024Rattan is one of the materials used to make wicker furniture and other furnishings. It comes from a plant that grows in hot, tropical regions of Africa, Asia and Australia. The quick-growing plant has a bamboo-like inner material that gets removed and fashioned into cane. Stalks of rattan (whose name derives from the Malay “rota”) are dense, steamable and bendable, which is why it lends itself to curvaceous designs and infinite creative uses in a way bamboo does not. Pieces of rattan furniture were welcomed indoors in the mid-20th century, and over time the medium has been put to use by giants of modernism such as Josef Hoffmann, Thonet, Jean-Michel Frank and Donald Deskey. Shop a wide variety of rattan furniture on 1stDibs.
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