Kartell More Dining and Entertaining
Italian
The Italian design giant Kartell transformed plastic from the stuff of humble household goods into a staple of luxury design in the 1960s. Founded in Milan by Italian chemical engineer Giulio Castelli (1920–2006) and his wife Anna Ferrieri (1918–2006), Kartell began as an industrial design firm, producing useful items like ski racks for automobiles and laboratory equipment designed to replace breakable glass with sturdy plastic. Even as companies like Olivetti and Vespa were making Italian design popular in the 1950s, typewriters and scooters were relatively costly, and Castelli and Ferrieri wanted to provide Italian consumers with affordable, stylish goods.
They launched a housewares division of Kartell in 1953, making lighting fixtures and kitchen tools and accessories from colorful molded plastic. Consumers in the postwar era were initially skeptical of plastic goods, but their affordability and infinite range of styles and hues eventually won devotees. Tupperware parties in the United States made plastic storage containers ubiquitous in postwar homes, and Kartell’s ingenious designs for juicers, dustpans, and dish racks conquered Europe. Kartell designer Gino Colombini was responsible for many of these early products, and his design for the KS 1146 Bucket won the Compasso d’Oro prize in 1955.
Buoyed by its success in the home goods market, Kartell introduced its Habitat division in 1963. Designers Marco Zanuso and Richard Sapper created the K1340 (later called the K 4999) children’s chair that year, and families enjoyed their bright colors and light weight, which made them easy for kids to pick up and move. In 1965, Joe Colombo (1924–78) created one of Kartell’s few pieces of non-plastic furniture, the 4801 chair, which sits low to the ground and comprised of just three curved pieces of plywood. (In 2012, Kartell reissued the chair in plastic.) Colombo followed up on the success of the 4801 with the iconic 4867 Universal Chair in 1967, which, like Verner Panton’s S chair, is made from a single piece of plastic. The colorful, stackable injection-molded chair was an instant classic. That same year, Kartell introduced Colombo’s KD27 table lamp. Ferrierei’s cylindrical 4966 Componibili storage module debuted in 1969.
Kartell achieved international recognition for its innovative work in 1972, when a landmark exhibition curated by Emilio Ambasz called “Italy: The New Domestic Landscape” opened at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. That show introduced American audiences to the work of designers such as Gaetano Pesce; Ettore Sottsass, founder of the Memphis Group; and the firms Archizoom and Superstudio (both firms were among Italy's Radical design groups) — all of whom were using wit, humor and unorthodox materials to create a bracingly original interior aesthetic.
Castelli and Ferrieri sold Kartell to Claudio Luti, their son-in-law, in 1988, and since then, Luti has expanded the company’s roster of designers.
Kartell produced Ron Arad’s Bookworm wall shelf in 1994, and Philippe Starck’s La Marie chair in 1998. More recently, Kartell has collaborated with the Japanese collective Nendo, Spanish architect Patricia Urquiola and glass designer Tokujin Yoshioka, among many others. Kartell classics can be found in museums around the world, including MoMA, the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. In 1999, Claudio Luti established the Museo Kartell to tell the company’s story, through key objects from its innovative and colorful history.
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Creator: Kartell
Set of 4 Kartell Jellies Espresso Cup in Pink by Patricia Urquiola
By Kartell, Patricia Urquiola
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The Jellies Family, which heralded a new way of perceiving tableware by using transparent products moulded with various relief patterns, has been expanded to include new elements suc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Kartell More Dining and Entertaining
Materials
Plastic
Kartell Trama Carafe in Pinkish by Patricia Urquiola
By Kartell, Patricia Urquiola
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The Trama tableware collection is a complete dinner set inspired by Japanese pottery with its characteristic and highly refined textures in natural...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Kartell More Dining and Entertaining
Materials
Plastic
Kartell Trama Carafe in Light Blue by Patricia Urquiola
By Patricia Urquiola, Kartell
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The Trama tableware collection is a complete dinner set inspired by Japanese pottery with its characteristic and highly refined textures in natural...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Kartell More Dining and Entertaining
Materials
Plastic
Set of 16 Kartell Trama Wine Glasses in Light Blue by Patricia Urquiola
By Patricia Urquiola, Kartell
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The Trama tableware collection is a complete dinner set inspired by Japanese pottery with its characteristic and highly refined textures in natural earthy colours and matt finishes. ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Kartell More Dining and Entertaining
Materials
Resin, Plastic
Set of 16 Kartell Trama Water Glasses in Pinkish by Patricia Urquiola
By Patricia Urquiola, Kartell
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The Trama tableware collection is a complete dinner set inspired by Japanese pottery with its characteristic and highly refined textures in natural...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Kartell More Dining and Entertaining
Materials
Resin, Plastic
Set of 16 Kartell Trama Wine Glasses in Crystal by Patricia Urquiola
By Patricia Urquiola, Kartell
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The Trama tableware collection is a complete dinner set inspired by Japanese pottery with its characteristic and highly refined textures in natural earthy colours and matt finishes. ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Kartell More Dining and Entertaining
Materials
Resin, Plastic
Kartell Trama Carafe in Smoke by Patricia Urquiola
By Kartell, Patricia Urquiola
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The Trama tableware collection is a complete dinner set inspired by Japanese pottery with its characteristic and highly refined textures in natural earthy colours and matt finishes. ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Kartell More Dining and Entertaining
Materials
Plastic
Set of 16 Kartell Trama Wine Glasses in Pinkish by Patricia Urquiola
By Patricia Urquiola, Kartell
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The Trama tableware collection is a complete dinner set inspired by Japanese pottery with its characteristic and highly refined textures in natural earthy colours and matt finishes. ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Kartell More Dining and Entertaining
Materials
Resin, Plastic
Set of 16 Kartell Trama Water Glasses in Crystal by Patricia Urquiola
By Patricia Urquiola, Kartell
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The Trama tableware collection is a complete dinner set inspired by Japanese pottery with its characteristic and highly refined textures in natural earthy colours and matt finishes. ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Kartell More Dining and Entertaining
Materials
Resin, Plastic
Kartell Trama Carafe in Crystal by Patricia Urquiola
By Patricia Urquiola, Kartell
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The Trama tableware collection is a complete dinner set inspired by Japanese pottery with its characteristic and highly refined textures in natural earthy colours and matt finishes. ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Kartell More Dining and Entertaining
Materials
Plastic
Set of 16 Large Kartell Trama Glasses in Light Blue by Patricia Urquiola
By Patricia Urquiola, Kartell
Located in Brooklyn, NY
A comprehensive line of glasses made from colorful and transparent PMMA plastic. The line's individuality is down to the fact that each model presents a different organic pattern tha...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Kartell More Dining and Entertaining
Materials
Resin, Plastic
Set of 16 Large Kartell Trama Glasses in Pinkish by Patricia Urquiola
By Patricia Urquiola, Kartell
Located in Brooklyn, NY
A comprehensive line of glasses made from colorful and transparent PMMA plastic. The line's individuality is down to the fact that each model presents a different organic pattern tha...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Kartell More Dining and Entertaining
Materials
Resin, Plastic
Set of 16 Large Kartell Trama Glasses in Smoke by Patricia Urquiola
By Patricia Urquiola, Kartell
Located in Brooklyn, NY
A comprehensive line of glasses made from colorful and transparent PMMA plastic. The line's individuality is down to the fact that each model presents a different organic pattern tha...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Kartell More Dining and Entertaining
Materials
Resin, Plastic
Set of 4 Kartell Jellies Espresso Cup in Green by Patricia Urquiola
By Kartell, Patricia Urquiola
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The Jellies Family, which heralded a new way of perceiving tableware by using transparent products moulded with various relief patterns, has been expanded to include new elements suc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Kartell More Dining and Entertaining
Materials
Plastic
Set of 16 Kartell Trama Water Glasses in Light Blue by Patricia Urquiola
By Patricia Urquiola, Kartell
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The Trama tableware collection is a complete dinner set inspired by Japanese pottery with its characteristic and highly refined textures in natural...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Kartell More Dining and Entertaining
Materials
Resin, Plastic
Set of 16 Kartell Trama Wine Glasses in Smoke by Patricia Urquiola
By Kartell, Patricia Urquiola
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The Trama tableware collection is a complete dinner set inspired by Japanese pottery with its characteristic and highly refined textures in natural earthy colours and matt finishes. ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Kartell More Dining and Entertaining
Materials
Resin, Plastic
Set of 16 Kartell Trama Water Glasses in Smoke by Patricia Urquiola
By Kartell, Patricia Urquiola
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The Trama tableware collection is a complete dinner set inspired by Japanese pottery with its characteristic and highly refined textures in natural...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Kartell More Dining and Entertaining
Materials
Resin, Plastic
Set of 16 Large Kartell Trama Glasses in Crystal by Patricia Urquiola
By Kartell, Patricia Urquiola
Located in Brooklyn, NY
A comprehensive line of glasses made from colorful and transparent PMMA plastic. The line's individuality is down to the fact that each model presents a different organic pattern tha...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Kartell More Dining and Entertaining
Materials
Resin, Plastic
Set of 4 Kartell Jellies Espresso Cup in Light Blue by Patricia Urquiola
By Patricia Urquiola, Kartell
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The Jellies Family, which heralded a new way of perceiving tableware by using transparent products moulded with various relief patterns, has been expanded to include new elements suc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Kartell More Dining and Entertaining
Materials
Plastic
Set of 4 Kartell Jellies Espresso Cups in Crystal by Patricia Urquiola
By Patricia Urquiola, Kartell
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The Jellies Family, which heralded a new way of perceiving tableware by using transparent products moulded with various relief patterns, has been expanded to include new elements suc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Kartell More Dining and Entertaining
Materials
Plastic
Kartell Jellies Carafe in Light Blue by Patricia Urquiola
By Kartell, Patricia Urquiola
Located in Brooklyn, NY
A comprehensive line of carafes made from colourful and transparent PMMA plastic. The line's individuality is down to the fact that each model presents a different organic pattern th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Kartell More Dining and Entertaining
Materials
Resin, Plastic
Kartell Jellies Carafe in Pink by Patricia Urquiola
By Kartell, Patricia Urquiola
Located in Brooklyn, NY
A comprehensive line of carafes made from colourful and transparent PMMA plastic. The line's individuality is down to the fact that each model presents a different organic pattern th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Kartell More Dining and Entertaining
Materials
Plastic
Set of 16 Kartell Jellies Flutes in Pink by Patricia Urquiola
By Patricia Urquiola, Kartell
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The Jellies family tableware line has been expanded to include new items designed especially for the Christmas holidays and for ringing in the new year, the ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Kartell More Dining and Entertaining
Materials
Plastic
Kartell Piazza Tray in Crystal by Fabio Novembre
By Fabio Novembre, Kartell
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Piazza is a tray which reproduces, to scale, the surfaces and geometrical features of the squares of Lecce, the designer’s native town.
Available in Crystal, Black and White.
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Kartell More Dining and Entertaining
Materials
Plastic
Kartell Piazza Tray in Black by Fabio Novembre
By Fabio Novembre, Kartell
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Piazza is a tray which reproduces, to scale, the surfaces and geometrical features of the squares of Lecce, the designer’s native town.
Available in Crystal, Black and White.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Kartell More Dining and Entertaining
Materials
Plastic
Set of 4 Kartell Medium Dune Trays in Crystal by Mario Bellini
By Mario Bellini, Kartell
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The semi-transparent material of these trays with internal sculpting varies in chromatic intensity and luminosity and projects a magical three-dimensional illusion onto the surface holding glasses and cups. Images fluctuate and flow in these trays. Like mountain streams, rivers of lava, fiery flames. Animated images of the caprices of wind and light. Like the waves on the sea, desert dunes or the shimmering reflections of silk. These rainbow-colored trays...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Kartell More Dining and Entertaining
Materials
Crystal
Set of 16 Kartell Jellies Flutes in Green by Patricia Urquiola
By Kartell, Patricia Urquiola
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The jellies family tableware line has been expanded to include new items designed especially for the Christmas holidays and for ringing in the new year, the ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Kartell More Dining and Entertaining
Materials
Plastic
Kartell Jellies Carafe in Crystal by Patricia Urquiola
By Patricia Urquiola, Kartell
Located in Brooklyn, NY
A comprehensive line of carafes made from colourful and transparent PMMA plastic. The line's individuality is down to the fact that each model presents a different organic pattern th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Kartell More Dining and Entertaining
Materials
Plastic
Kartell Piazza Tray in White by Fabio Novembre
By Fabio Novembre, Kartell
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Piazza is a tray which reproduces, to scale, the surfaces and geometrical features of the squares of Lecce, the designer’s native town.
Available in Crystal, Black and White.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Kartell More Dining and Entertaining
Materials
Crystal
Three New 1970's Bakelite Ashtrays by Kartell, Italy
By Kartell
Located in Weesp, NL
Three N.O.S. ( new old stock ) bakelite ashtrays produced by Kartell, Italy in the 1970's.
Bakelite , “phenol formaldehyde” , was invented in 1906 by the belgian Leo Baekeland (18...
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1970s Italian Vintage Kartell More Dining and Entertaining
Materials
Bakelite
Kartell Jellies Carafe in Green by Patricia Urquiola
By Patricia Urquiola, Kartell
Located in Brooklyn, NY
A comprehensive line of carafes made from colorful and transparent PMMA plastic. The line's individuality is down to the fact that each model presents a different organic pattern tha...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Kartell More Dining and Entertaining
Materials
Plastic
Set of 16 Kartell Jellies Flutes in Light Blue by Patricia Urquiola
By Patricia Urquiola, Kartell
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The Jellies family tableware line has been expanded to include new items designed especially for the Christmas holidays and for ringing in the New Year, the ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Kartell More Dining and Entertaining
Materials
Plastic
Set of 16 Large Kartell Jellies Glasses in Crystal by Patricia Urquiola
By Patricia Urquiola, Kartell
Located in Brooklyn, NY
A comprehensive line of glasses made from colorful and transparent PMMA plastic. The line's individuality is down to the fact that each model presents a different organic pattern tha...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Kartell More Dining and Entertaining
Materials
Resin, Plastic
Set of 16 Kartell Jellies Flutes in Crystal by Patricia Urquiola
By Patricia Urquiola, Kartell
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The Jellies family tableware line has been expanded to include new items designed especially for the Christmas holidays and for ringing in the new year, the ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Kartell More Dining and Entertaining
Materials
Crystal
Set of 16 Large Kartell Jellies Glasses in Green by Patricia Urquiola
By Patricia Urquiola, Kartell
Located in Brooklyn, NY
A comprehensive line of glasses made from colorful and transparent PMMA plastic. The line's individuality is down to the fact that each model presents a different organic pattern tha...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Kartell More Dining and Entertaining
Materials
Resin, Plastic
Kartell more dining and entertaining for sale on 1stDibs.
Kartell more dining and entertaining are available for sale on 1stDibs. These distinctive items are frequently made of plastic and are designed with extraordinary care. There are many options to choose from in our collection of Kartell more dining and entertaining, although gray editions of this piece are particularly popular. We have 1 vintage editions of these items in-stock, while there is 37 modern edition to choose from as well. Many of the original more dining and entertaining by Kartell were created in the modern style in italy during the 21st century and contemporary. If you’re looking for additional options, many customers also consider more dining and entertaining by Patricia Urquiola, Stefano Giovannoni, and Driade. Prices for Kartell more dining and entertaining can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — on 1stDibs, these items begin at $110 and can go as high as $560, while a piece like these, on average, fetch $400.
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Questions About Kartell More Dining and Entertaining
- What is the history of Kartell?1 Answer1stDibs ExpertFebruary 21, 2024The history of Kartell starts with an Italian chemical engineer named Giulio Castelli and his wife, Anna Ferrieri. The couple founded Kartell in Milan as an industrial design firm, producing utilitarian items like ski racks for automobiles and laboratory equipment designed to replace breakable glass with sturdy plastic. Even as companies like Olivetti and Vespa were making Italian design popular in the 1950s, typewriters and scooters were relatively costly, and Castelli and Ferrieri wanted to provide Italian consumers with affordable, stylish goods. They launched a housewares division of Kartell in 1953, making lighting fixtures and kitchen tools and accessories from colorful molded plastic. Buoyed by its success in the home goods market, Kartell introduced its Habitat division in 1963. Kartell achieved international recognition for its innovative work in 1972, when a landmark exhibition curated by Emilio Ambasz called "Italy: The New Domestic Landscape" opened at New York's Museum of Modern Art. Castelli and Ferrieri sold Kartell to Claudio Luti, their son-in-law, in 1988, and since then, Luti has expanded the company's roster of designers. On 1stDibs, explore a large selection of Kartell furniture.
- What is Kartell known for?1 Answer1stDibs ExpertMarch 22, 2022Kartell is known largely for producing contemporary furniture out of plastic. The Italian company, founded in 1949, helped elevate the material, proving that it was suitable for designer furniture. You can find a collection of Kartell furniture and decorative objects on 1stDibs.
- 1stDibs ExpertMarch 25, 2024How you clean Kartell plastic depends on the piece. Often, the best way to clean plastic furniture is with lukewarm water and mild dish soap. However, recommended cleaning methods vary. For the best results, refer to the manufacturer's care instructions that accompany your furniture. Shop a collection of Kartell furniture on 1stDibs.
- 1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022Kartell Louis Ghost chairs are made of lucite. Designed by Phillipe Starck for Kartell in 2002, this clear chair is crafted from a single piece of plastic, making it a beautifully elegant piece. On 1stDibs, find a range of authentic Kartell Ghost chairs from top sellers.