Giuseppe Pagano Pogatschnig Coffee and Cocktail Tables
An accomplished architect, exhibition designer, furniture maker and magazine editor, Giuseppe Pagano Pogatschnig helped direct Italy’s rationalist architectural movement until his death near the end of World War II. Wounded twice and captured twice in World War I, Pogatschnig left military service to work as the editor and director of Casabella architecture magazine and went on to design the V Milan Triennale and VI Milan Triennale alongside fellow Italian architect Gio Ponti.
Originally born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, now modern-day Croatia, Pogatschnig studied Italian in Trieste before joining the Italian army to serve in the First World War. After that harrowing and traumatic experience, he became a founding member of the first Fascist Party in Parenzo. In 1924, he graduated from Turin Polytechnic with an architecture degree and began designing bridges, pavilions and buildings, including the Gualino office complex, in Turin. Nearing 1928, Pogatschnig began work on pavilions for the Turin International Exhibition.
Pogatschnig’s involvement in the V and VI Milan Triennales stand today as some of his greatest contributions to Italian architecture. He held full control over the design of the latter exhibition, in 1936, which led to the opportunity to design many of the interiors of the Italian Pavilion at the Paris Expo the following year.
Pogatschnig’s reputation as an architect and designer were overshadowed only by his outspoken nature as an editor. By 1942, he openly criticized the Italian regime and left the Fascist Party to join the resistance a year later. These activities led to his capture, imprisonment and escape from Brescia in 1944. Ultimately, Pogatschnig was recaptured, tortured and transferred across prisons to Austria’s Mauthausen concentration camp, where he died on April 22, 1945, less than a month before the end of fighting in Europe.
On 1stDibs, find vintage Giuseppe Pagano Pogatschnig seating, tables, and case pieces.
1940s Italian Art Deco Vintage Giuseppe Pagano Pogatschnig Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Beech, Bentwood
2010s Art Deco Giuseppe Pagano Pogatschnig Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Metal
1940s Czech Mid-Century Modern Vintage Giuseppe Pagano Pogatschnig Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Chrome
1940s Italian Art Deco Vintage Giuseppe Pagano Pogatschnig Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Cherry
1940s Italian Art Deco Vintage Giuseppe Pagano Pogatschnig Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Walnut
20th Century French Neoclassical Giuseppe Pagano Pogatschnig Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Marble, Bronze
2010s Polish Giuseppe Pagano Pogatschnig Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Marble, Steel
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Giuseppe Pagano Pogatschnig Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Wood
1940s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Giuseppe Pagano Pogatschnig Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Brass
2010s Polish Giuseppe Pagano Pogatschnig Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Marble
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Giuseppe Pagano Pogatschnig Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Wood
Mid-20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Giuseppe Pagano Pogatschnig Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Glass, Wood
2010s Mexican Mid-Century Modern Giuseppe Pagano Pogatschnig Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Leather, Glass, Hardwood
1940s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Giuseppe Pagano Pogatschnig Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Walnut
1940s Italian Minimalist Vintage Giuseppe Pagano Pogatschnig Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Wood