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Osvaldo Borsani Center Tables

Italian, 1911-1985

With his stylish and technically innovative furniture, Osvaldo Borsani helped change the face of Italian design in the 1950s and ’60s. His sofas and chairs, featuring deeply upholstered seating and adjustable position settings, have an aura of optimism and efficiency that still seems fresh and lively today.

Born in the commune of Varedo in northern Italy’s Lombardy region, Borsani studied at the Brera Academy in Milan — the same school attended by such luminaries as designer Piero Fornasetti and artist Lucio Fontana — as well as the Polytechnic University of Milan. Borsani first worked for his father’s furniture-making firm, Arredamenti Borsani, an atelier influenced by the more expressive and curvaceous wing of Art Deco design.

By 1953, when, along with his twin brother, Fulgenzio — the pair also created this visionary mid-century villa — Borsani opened the furniture company Tecno, his design sensibilities had evolved toward furnishings with strong, simple forms enhanced by mechanical innovations, as with the P40 adjustable armchair (1953). Borsani would be the firm’s lead designer for 30 years, while fostering work by Vico Magistretti, Carlo di Carli, Robin Day and others.

Similar to Gio Ponti in the earliest years of his career, Borsani first created designs marked by lush and buoyant lines: tables with voluptuous curved legs, sofas with undulating backrests. But Borsani’s best-known and most novel pieces date from Tecno’s initial furniture lines: the adjustable D70 sofa, which folds open to make a daybed, and the P40 recliner. The latter — now included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Victoria & Albert Museum — is an articulated lounger with a back, seat and leg rest that can be moved into 486 different positions. Not only is it extremely comfortable, it is also enduringly chic.

Find a collection of vintage Osvaldo Borsani tables, dining chairs and other furniture on 1stDibs.

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Osvaldo Borsani Blond Walnut Center Table, Coffee Table, Italy 1940s
By Osvaldo Borsani
Located in Roma, IT
Marvellous round coffee table in a fantastic old walnut. This fantastic piece was design by Osvaldo Borsani in the 1940s in Italy. The coffee table, fully made in a gorgeous walnut,...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Art Deco Osvaldo Borsani Center Tables

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Italian Modern Table By Osvaldo Borsani
By Vittorio Dassi, Osvaldo Borsani, Ico Parisi, Gio Ponti, Paolo Buffa
Located in Houston, TX
Italian Modern Table By Osvaldo Borsani. This stylish Italian mid century table is constructed of rosewood with a beautifully designed brass base. Our versatile round table can be us...
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1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Osvaldo Borsani Center Tables

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Brass

Osvaldo Borsani & Eugenio Gerli for Tecno Oval Dining Table in Marble
By Tecno, Osvaldo Borsani, Eugenio Gerli
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Osvaldo Borsani and Eugenio Gerli for Tecno, dining table 'T102', lady onyx marble, brass-plated steel, Italy, 1964 The designers Borsani and Gerli created an outstanding piece of furniture together that deserves a prominent place in one's living room. Designed for Italian manufacturer Tecno, this dining room table originates from 1964. The tabletop owns its intricate appearance due to the lady onyx marble with its expressive grey veins alternated by pink hues. In addition, the brass base carries a concave construction that gently remind of organic occurring dynamics. Osvaldo Borsani (1911-1985) was an Italian designer and architect, raised by a family of fine furniture makers in Varedo. At the age of 16, he joined his father’s furniture shop, the Atelier di Varedo, which was fully engaged in designing and furnishing homes inspired by the Italian Art Deco movement. The designer of the atelier was the Italian architect Gino Maggioni (1898-1955) who was known for his Viennese Jugendstil orientation of the early 20th century. In the 1930s, he graduated from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera and Politecnico di Milano, where he studied Fine Arts and Architecture respectively. In 1932, the family company was renamed ‘Arredamenti Borsani’ and opened its first studio in Milan. During this period, he encountered Avant-Garde artists of various artistic disciplines like Lucio Fontana (1899-1968), Agenore Fabbri (1911-1998), Aligi Sassu (1912-2000), Roberto Crippa (1921-1972), Fausto Melotti (1901-1986), Arnaldo Pomodoro (1926-) and Giò Pomodoro (1930-2002). These collaborations resulted in the creation of furniture and interior design projects with a high-level of craftsmanship and artistry. In 1953, Borsani founded together with his twin brother Fulgenzio Borsani ‘Tecno’, a design and manufacturing company that produced items based on mechanical innovations and refined technicality. The ‘P40’ adjustable lounge chair (1953) has become the ideological manifesto of Borsani's Tecno program, and still remains the best known, exemplary piece in the Tecno catalogue. Other iconic works that were produced by Tecno were created by Gio Ponti (1891-1979), Vico cham...
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1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Osvaldo Borsani Center Tables

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Marble, Steel, Brass

Art Deco Pink Top Dining or Center Table Attributed. to Osvaldo Borsani
By Osvaldo Borsani
Located in Rome, IT
Rare Art Deco round pink mirrored top dining or center table resting on a finely shaped and inlaid leg on a round marble base. Attribution to Osvado...
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Mid-20th Century European Art Deco Osvaldo Borsani Center Tables

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Osvaldo Borsani for Tecno Italian vintage coffee table
By Osvaldo Borsani
Located in Baranzate, IT
Beautiful wood and brass side table designed by Osvaldo Borsani for Tecno. The coffee table has a round curved plywood top, brass frame reaching to a black marble base from Belgium. ...
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1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Osvaldo Borsani Center Tables

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Belgian Black Marble, Brass

Osvaldo Borsani Rare Dining or Center Table Model 7387
By Osvaldo Borsani
Located in New York, NY
Osvaldo Borsani for ABV Arredamenti Borsani Varedo rare dining or center table model 7387 with original beautifully grained circular marble top resting on sculptural dark stained mah...
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1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Osvaldo Borsani Center Tables

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Marble

Mid-Century Modern Italian T69 Round Table by O. Borsani and E. Gerli for Tecno
By Osvaldo Borsani, Tecno, Eugenio Gerli
Located in Prato, IT
Mid-Century Modern Italian "T69" table with round carrara marble top and gold and black aluminum saber legs by Osvaldo Borsani and Eugenio Gerli for Tecno. 1970s The marble top pres...
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1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Osvaldo Borsani Center Tables

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Carrara Marble, Aluminum

20th Century Osvaldo Borsani Wood and Glass Coffee Table by Arredamenti Varedo
By Atelier Borsani Varedo, Osvaldo Borsani
Located in Turin, Turin
Coffee table designed by Osvaldo Borsani in '40s. The table has a wooden structure and 2 tops, one in wood and one in glass. The shape of the table is mostly recatngular, for this re...
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1940s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Osvaldo Borsani Center Tables

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Glass, Wood

Borsani-Gerli by Tekno Round Glass and Metal Dinning Room Table, 1960
By Osvaldo Borsani
Located in Rome, IT
Elegant and essential glass table, with Italian design from the first half of the last century. Table of Tecno mod. T69, designed by Osvaldo Borsani and Eugenio Gerli. Table with gl...
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1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Osvaldo Borsani Center Tables

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Metal

Mid-Century Modern Vintage Glass Metal Dining Table Osvaldo Borsani Tecno, Italy
By Osvaldo Borsani, Tecno
Located in Vienna, AT
A Mid-Century Modern vintage dining table, which was designed by Osvaldo Borsani for Tecno, Italy, 1963. The base with curved legs was made of black lacquered cast aluminum with bru...
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1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Osvaldo Borsani Center Tables

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1960s Coffee Table Rectangular Solid Rosewood Top on a Brass Metal Base, Borsani
By Tecno, Osvaldo Borsani
Located in London, GB
A very beautiful elegant and modernist low occasional or coffee table. Solid rectangular rosewood top on a solid polished brass structure. Italian design by Osvaldo Borsani for Tec...
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1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Osvaldo Borsani Center Tables

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Brass

Center Table by Osvaldo Borsani, Italy, 1939
By Osvaldo Borsani
Located in New York, NY
Pearwood table with the top done in lattice work, the four out-splayed legs ending in cast bronze sabots. Original glass top. The piece has been restored to its original condition th...
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1930s Italian Vintage Osvaldo Borsani Center Tables

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Bronze

Osvaldo and Valeria Borsani Unique Revolving Occasional Table
By Osvaldo Borsani, Tecno
Located in Chicago, IL
Unique revolving occasional table by Osvaldo and Valeria Borsani for Tecno Provenance Ziuta Gerstenzang Akston (1901-1994) and Joseph James Akston (1895-1983), Palm Beach, Florida.
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Marble, Aluminum, Steel

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Osvaldo Borsani center tables for sale on 1stDibs.

Osvaldo Borsani center tables are available for sale on 1stDibs. These distinctive items are frequently made of metal and are designed with extraordinary care. There are many options to choose from in our collection of Osvaldo Borsani center tables, although gray editions of this piece are particularly popular. Many of the original center tables by Osvaldo Borsani 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 center tables by Angelo Mangiarotti, Romeo Rega, and Afra & Tobia Scarpa. Prices for Osvaldo Borsani center tables can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — on 1stDibs, these items begin at $1,001 and can go as high as $43,000, while a piece like these, on average, fetch $6,180.

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