Pier Luigi Colli Coffee and Cocktail Tables

This large Art Deco Pier Luigi Colli coffee table made in solid carved figured ashwood is sure to add an element of Italian modernism to any living room. It was designed and produced...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Made in Italy, 1950s. This coffee table features a brass and varnished metal frame and a glass top. It is a vintage item, therefore it might show slight traces of use, but it can be...

Coffee table with carved wooden and gilded brass structure, transparent glass top, designed by Pier Luigi Colli, 1950s. CONDITION: In good condition, m...