Pier Luigi Colli Furniture

Stunning walnut dining table and six matching dining chairs by Pier Luigi Colli, handmade by the famed 'Fratelli Marelli' atelier in Cantu, Italy circa 1950. The dining table is ...

Fantastic Italian midcentury engraved mirror with gilt metal and glass. This fantastic item was designed by Pier Luigi Colli and made in Turin, Italy, during the 1950s for Cristal Ar...

Italian Mid-Century (1950s) low / coffee table frame constructed from pebble hand-hammered gilt iron with scrollwork designs and a stretcher base (missing inset glass or marble table...

This Large Sideboard by Pier Luigi Colli is an exquisite and iconic piece of furniture that exemplifies the craftsmanship and design aesthetics of the mid-20th century. Pier Luigi Co...

Italian Mid-Century (1954) buffet / console table with a wood cabinet featuring contrasting decorative wood veneers, 6 drawers with brass drawer pulls, topped with a green glass top ...

Italian midcentury (1950s) sideboard with a burled birch veneer, having two exterior cabinet doors with ribbon design brass door pulls and a scalloped carved edge, centering three dr...

Wonderful and huge floor mirror made by Pier Luigi Colli, about 1950, made in wood with pink murano glass A little less than 2 meters, so rare. ...

Elegant dining table designed by Pier Luigi Colli with finely carved and painted legs decorated with acanthus leaves. Dark red glass top. The same set ...

A vintage Mid-Century Modern Italian dining room table made of hand crafted Ashwood with a rich warm patina, designed by Pier Luigi Co...

An elegant floor lamp designed in the 1950s by Pier Luigi Colli. Its wood is finely lacquered, turned and carved. Brass details and original textile shade. Excellent vintage cond...

Large sideboard is entirely realized in oak wood, with four drawers on each side (for a total of eight drawers) and a central storage unit. Designed by Pier Luigi Colli Italian Manufacture from 1938 ca. To reconstruct the story of Pier Luigi Colli, we must take a leap back to the 19th century in Turin, a multifaceted city, in some ways controversial due to its austere and sometimes introverted character, but at the core of a creative drive: and if it is primarily known for its automobile industry, there was a time when Turin was at the height of fame also in the field of furniture and embroidery, thanks to the presence of two entrepreneurial realities. On the one hand there was the MIRAM (Italian Hand-Made Embroidery Manufacture) founded by Pietro Colli in 1850, specializing in gobelin fabrics and bandera embroideries. His daughter Teresa traveled between Italy and Paris to discover the latest trends in fabrics and embroidery, while her younger brother, Pier Luigi Colli (1895-1968), the star of this story, joined the company in 1921. Distinguishing himself for his enterprising personality and willing to continue his father's profession, Pier Luigi was known to his contemporaries as "the artist interior designer", and had no doubts about his future: he moved temporarily to Paris, where he attended L'Ecole des Beaux Arts Décoratives. The other great Turin manufacturer to be mentioned is Martinotti, founded in 1931 by Giuseppe Martinotti and supplier of fine furnishings for the Savoy court, pieces which were characterized by a typically 19th century eclectic style, generally made of exotic woods featuring ivory and tortoiseshell inlays: at that time, Martinotti represented the top of internationality, having even participated in the 1875 Philadelphia exhibition! The two brands' fate merged in 1902, a decisive year for Turin which, hosting the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative Art, became the cradle of the spread of the Liberty style in Italy. In the exhibition, Martinotti exhibited an elegant interior, in which all the textile parts, from the curtains to the seat upholstery, was made by Colli. It was in 1926 that Colli (MIRAM) finally acquired Martinotti, founding a laboratory where, from the savoir faire of the two companies, complete pieces of furniture were created and tailor-made for the customer, from the structure to its upholstery. Meanwhile, Pier Luigi Colli was living in Paris, the ideal place to be in 1925, when the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts brought him closer to the work of one of his putative fathers, the great French cabinet maker Jacques-Émile Ruhlmann (Paris, 1879 - 1933). Thanks to Paris, Pier Luigi intertwined contacts with the international beau monde, he started to import Lalique glass from France, while the Colli's clientele expanded and special commissions arrived, such as the creation of the Royal Train of the Savoy family made with Fiat, or the lecture hall in the University of Turin. The success of a brand is also measured by its openness to establishing collaborations with the great designers of its time, in the case of Colli resulting in important creative partnerships: from Gio Ponti, who relied on the brand for his Richard Ginori project in Rome, up to Carlo Mollino, who created with Colli the handrails of the RAI (national TV) auditorium and the windows of the Teatro Regio in Turin; also in Turin, the Morbelli architects collaborated with Colli for the furnishings of the RAI skyscraper, and the architects Gabetti Isola for the interiors of the Stock Exchange in Turin. In the 40s and 50s, having opened a branch in Rome, Colli was at the peak of productivity. The embroidery and textile section continued to be one of its strengths, keeping alive the relations with France and its great masters: among the inspirations were the geometric shapes of the fabrics of Ruhlmann's interiors, or the tactile carpets made by designer Mariod Dorn. And so, another Colli trademark become the "textured carpet...

A fine Italian bar credenza by Pier Luigi Colli. In oak, elm and lemon wood, comprising a central fall front bar cabinet, with cupboards and drawers. It has wonderful texture, with a...

Unusual and rare bar cabinet designed by Pier Luigi Colli. Features finely carved and painted legs decorated with acanthus leaves. Decorated front doors centered by a bar cabinet with mirror...

Hall furniture, elm and briarwood, finely carved with the theme of animals and forest . Exquisite combination of interior and exterior elm wood and elm briar. The style and themes of...

Unusual and rare bar cabinet designed by Pier Luigi Colli. Features finely carved and painted legs decorated with acanthus leaves. Decorated front doors centered by a bar cabinet with mirror...

A fanciful gilded iron coffee table with intricately hammered details, the apron with foliate and scroll motif and elegantly appointed cabriole legs, support the shapely exquisite ha...

Italian extendable dining table by Pier Luigi Colli, 1940s Measure: W 148-207 cm.

Italian hallway mirror Mid-Century Modern Pier Luigi Colli Beautiful sophisticated mirror designed by Pier Luigi Colli. The mirror beautiful details and is almost entirely handmade...

Fine Italian midcentury bed room set with a pair of nightstands and an elegant dressing with a marble top in excellent vintage condition. Designed by P...

This table was designed by Pier Luigi Colli. The construction has three large simplified but very decorative leaves that contain a small wooden tray in the center, the top in silk-screened glass...

This 1930s Italian bench is so over-scaled, and monumental in appearance, that it seems to have been made for the large room it was destined, rather than the comfort of a typical sitter. As such, it would function equally well as a low side table or a high cocktail table. We’ll allow the buyer to determine its use. The designer was Pierluigi Colli, and the fabricator Martinotti, the Turin furniture and interior decorating firm that was established in 1831, and exhibited at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition and the 1904 St Louis World’s Fair. Colli’s family owned a textile company that supplied Martinotti with upholstery fabrics, suggesting nepotism had something to do with his being hired as the firm's director in 1926. Nevertheless, he proved himself worthy as a designer and a businessman. Having studied in Paris at the Ecole des Arts Decoratifs, he befriended leading French designers, and arranged for Martinotti to retail Lalique glass and Jean Perzel lighting. In addition, the quality of their work, and Colli’s dedication to the modern design movement, prompted Carlo Mollino, Gio Ponti, and Gino Levi-Montalcini, among others, to have Martinotti fabricate some of their furniture. Colli’s claim to fame, however, is his own work as a designer, and his ability to master the vocabularies of every trend from Art Deco to midcentury modern. During the Great Depression, when nearly every nation floundered economically, fascist Italy...

Coat rack in mirror and glass featuring a beautiful iron frame with curlicues and four circular glass hooks by the Italian designer Pier Luigi Colli for Cristal Art. Made in Italy in...

Lounge chair by Pierluigi Colli, designed for his personal home in Turin, Italy 1950s, sculptural form, cherrywood legs, reupholstered in Lelievre cotton velvet, in chartreuse green,...

Extra large wood console by Pier Luigi Colli, Italy, 1950s.

It's a wood, brass and glass italian side table designed by Pier Luigi Colli, probably the original glass has been changed, it's in perfect conditions .The Coffee Table is a highly r...

Outstanding elegant dining set designed by Pier Luigi Colli. Composed by; - Dining table with finely carved and painted legs decorated with acanthus leaves. Dark red glass...

Masterpiece of the famous Italian designer Pier Luigi Colli.   

Chair by Pierre Luigi Colli Gold wrought iron chair and Red suede seat ( new fabric) Circa 1950 H132 x H seat 42 x l 38 x d 40 In very good vintage ...

Very elegant for the precious fabric with which they have been coated. Perfect marriage between two classic upholstery fabrics. Classic, but very elegant design. All covered in double combined brown fabric. Seat upholstered in fabric with geometric brown velvet, matching with a brown fabric for the backrest. While in the back part the backrest is always covered in fabric with geometric brown velvet; the back is straight, but has a slight rounding along the side. The four legs are made of ash wood and are polished with shellac. Wear consistent with age and use. Every item the warehouse Hannau Roma...

This immense table was designed by Pierluigi Colli in Turin, further on the Alps and the shady expanses of forests and rivers that make it up. The table is an absolute example of thi...

Masterpiece of the famous Italian designer Pier Luigi Colli. The same set is available the table, six chairs and the sideboard with the mirror.

This table has been designed by Pier Luigi Colli with brass feet ending with thin ribbons, and they support the round glass shelf. The brass construction has three large simplified but very decorative leaves that contain a small wooden tray...

Taste and Italian flavor for this typical sideboard of Pier Luigi Colli. Classic in his design but very refined in the process of working of the materials. The sideboard consists of...

Elegant 1950s Italy Mid-Century Modern pair of nightstands, La Permanente Mobili Cantù, by Pier Luigi Colli . All in wood of mahogany, solid and veneered, with golden brass fittings; top in lacquered glass. Wax polished. On request we can sell the cabinets separately Measures cm: H 59, W 64, D 36...

Table by Pier Luigi Colli, of the middle of the last century. Simple, linear but very elegant design. Starting from the table top, you can see that it is smooth well polished, venee...

Stunning pair of Italian Mid-Century Modern hand-hammered and gilt iron benches / stools / poufs / ottomans by Pier Luigi Colli. The pieces show a bold form united by a star form str...

A rare and Important pair of Italian Mid-Century hand carved walnut lounge chairs, club chairs or armchairs in a 'Modern Craftsman' style by the Italian architect, Pierluigi Colli (1...

Mid-century Italian extendable oak table by Pier Luigi Colli (Turin, 1895-1968). Tapered, turned and sculpted spindle legs with Art Deco influenc...

A mid century Italian sideboard / credenza by designer Pier Luigi Colli. Carved animal reliefs and spindle legs with Art Deco influences. Brass accents. ...

Outstanding and rare dining set composed by an elegant sideboard in ash and mahogany. A dining table with eight chairs, and the unique bar cabinet. Wanting the mirror is also availa...

Outstanding elegant dining set designed by Pier Luigi Colli. Composed by; - Dining table with finely carved and painted legs decorated with acanthus leaves. Dark red glass top. Di...