Liisi Meronen Beckmann Ashtrays

A square white ceramic ashtray designed and manufactured by Fornasetti for Winston cigarettes, it features the famous woman's face that we see in many variations of her iconic illust...

The Vintage Stackable Tea Pot by Liisi Beckmann for Gabbianelli from the 1960s is a truly exceptional piece that embodies the epitome of mid-century modern design innovation. What se...

Amazing blue glazed (Rimini Blu) ceramic ashtray design by Aldo Londi and manufactured by Bitossi. Handcrafted in Italy with hand carved geometric design and in a glazed vibrant turquoise and cobalt blue, Italy, 1950s-1960s. Marked Italy at the back. Measures: 15 cm W x 15 cm D x 3 cm H ( 5,90 in W x5,90 in D x 1,18 in H ) About Bitossi (Manufacturer) Like a Fellini movie, the ceramics of this famed Italian company embody a creative spectrum that ranges from the playful and earthy to the high-minded and provocative. Based in Florence, Bitossi Ceramiche draws on craft traditions that date back to the 1500s. These find expression in the artisanal vases and animal figures by the firm’s longtime art director Aldo Londi, as well as the colorful, totemic vessels designed by the high priest of postmodernism, Ettore Sottsass. The company was incorporated by Guido Bitossi in 1921, though the family began making art pottery in the mid-19th century. In the 1930s, Londi came aboard, bringing with him a mindset that respected time-honored craft, yet looked also to the future. On the one hand, Londi’s perspective fostered the making of Bitossi’s popular whimsical animal figures, hand-shaped and -carved and finished in a rich azure glaze known as “Rimini Blue.” But with his other hand, Londi reached out to thoughtful, experimental designers such as Sottsass. Starting in the 1950s, some 20 years before he founded the Memphis Postmodern design...

Original and signed Mid-Century ashtray in a fantastic vibrant blue glazed ceramic (Rimini Blu). This amazing and rare piece is signed on the bottom and was designed by Flavia Monte...

Small 'Rimini blu', blue glazed terracotta ceramic squared ashtray. Design by Aldo Londi and manufactured by Bitossi. Italy, 1950s-1960s. Handcrafted in Italy with hand carved geomet...

Italian midcentury moderrn design white enameled ceramic ashtray centerpiece Barbados series designed by Angelo Mangiarotti for Danese Milano in 1964, marked Danese Milano Made in It...

The Ashtray designed by Mangiarotti for F.lli Brambilla is a distinctive and timeless piece that captures the essence of modernist design during that era, with its clean lines, minim...

Very elegant design in this ashtray by the well known artist/designer Aldo Londi.

Signed (on the back) "Fornasetti for Winston", ceramic ashtray or tray. Dimension: 18.5 X 18.5 cm width 6.5 cm diameter Fornasetti picture card: 6 cm.

Large vintage green Italian ceramic ashtray designed by Studio O.P.I. for Gabbianelli Ceramiche, made in Milan, Italy, circa 1970. Rare find in original box - new old stock item.

Outstanding 1960s Aldo Londi for Bitossi ceramic catchall or cigar ashtray. Imported and distributed in the United States by Raymor of New York. Featuring a large-scale low centerpiece bowl...

Ashtray produced in the 1960s by Bitossi, based on a design by Aldo Londi. This piece is a rare abstract fat lava glaze textured piece. A truly unique piece that will add style to yo...