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Lino Sabattini Tables

Italian, 1925-2016

Lino Sabattini was the preeminent figure in modern Italian silver and metalware design. His expansive and diverse body of work is marked by its strength and boldness, whether in dynamic forms that suggest the thrust and power of Italian Futurist art and design or light and curvaceous biomorphic serveware and decorative objects

Sabattini was largely self-taught as a designer. Born in the northern Italian town of Correggio, he learned metalsmithing techniques while working in the studio of a maker of brass tableware. He also served as an apprentice of sorts to the expatriate German ceramist Roland Hettner, who taught Sabattini about fluidity of form and showed him how shapes derive from the behavior of materials.

At age 30, Sabattini opened a studio in Milan, and his work quickly came to the attention of Gio Ponti, who decided to publish it in Domus, the Italian design legend's influential design and architecture magazine. Ponti also arranged for Sabattini’s creations to be included in a 1956 exhibition of contemporary Italian design in Paris. The principals of Christofle, the revered French silverware maker, were so impressed that they hired the young designer as the firm’s artistic director, a post he held until 1963. Sabattini, who would also go on to design ceramic wares for Rosenthal, returned home to open Argenteria Sabattini in Bregnano, a company still in business today.

A designer with a questing curiosity and ever-evolving aesthetic sensibility, Sabattini couldn’t be pinned down to one particular style. His best-known work, the Como coffee and tea service of 1956, has an elegant, attenuated and energetic form; his Stairs coffee and tea service (1971), meanwhile, is a clever group of simple columnar shapes in stepped heights, which nest together in a compact arrangement. Other Sabattini pieces have dramatic angles, or sweeping, wing-like flourishes, or consist of perforated ovoids somehow reminiscent of sculptures by Brancusi. In any style, Sabattini produced objects of singular fascination.

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Creator: Lino Sabattini
Vintage Tray and Bucket Ice Lino Sabattini Italy 1970, 2 Pieces
Vintage Tray and Bucket Ice Lino Sabattini Italy 1970, 2 Pieces

Vintage Tray and Bucket Ice Lino Sabattini Italy 1970, 2 Pieces

By Lino Sabattini

Located in Biella, IT

Lino Sabattini Italy design years ’60’70 tray and bucket ice in silverplate. All signed.

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Lino Sabattini tables for sale on 1stDibs.

Lino Sabattini tables are available for sale on 1stDibs. These distinctive items are frequently made of metal and are designed with extraordinary care. Many of the original tables by Lino Sabattini were created in the mid-century modern style in italy during the 1970s. If you’re looking for additional options, many customers also consider tables by C&B Italia, Dal Vera, and Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni. Prices for Lino Sabattini tables can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — on 1stDibs, these items begin at $2,075 and can go as high as $2,885, while a piece like these, on average, fetch $2,480.