Poggi Furniture

Rare TL59 Table by Afra & Tobia Scarpa for Poggi, Italy, 1975 A striking and sculptural piece, this rare TL59 table was designed by Afra & Tobia Scarpa and produced by Poggi in Ital...

Modular bookshelf designed by Franco Albini in 1956 for Poggi Pavia. An exceptionally flexible bookshelf with various modular options, suitable to be placed against a wall or used as...

Rare Pair sideboard model "Mb15" by Franco Albini for Poggi. Perfect condition.

Modular bookcase model LB7 designed by Franco Albini for Poggi. Marked Poggi Pavia. An extremely flexible bookcase, with different modular options, suited to being against a wall or...

Modernist Italian Bookcase, designed by Franco Albini and Franca Helg for Poggi, Italy, circa 1950s. This library is believed to be Model LB7 or LB8 and is comprised of four uprights...

Italian Mid-Century Modern design credenza sideboard designed by Franco Albini and produced by Poggi Pavia from 1958, four doors with sliding shelves and a pull-out shelf / tray, sol...

Franco Albini, MB15 pair of sideboards for Poggi, Italy, 1957 The MB15 sideboard by Franco Albini shown in the images feature a refined and understated design, typical of the Italia...

Italian Mid-Century Modern design dining table designed by Franco Albini and Franca Helg and produced by Poggi Pavia from 1958 with veneered walnut top with elliptical shaped longer ...

Italian mid-century modern armchairs PL34 Franco Albini Franca Helg Poggi, 1966 Pair of armchairs model PL34 with wooden frame and fabric upholstery. The seat, backrest, and armrests...

Augusto Savini for Pozzi, set of four 'Pamplona' dining chairs, lacquered wood, fabric, aluminum, Italy, 1960s 'Pamplona' armchairs in red lacquered wood and red textured upholster...

Franco Albini (1905-1977) lived in Milan where he stuied Architecture at the Politecnico. He started his career at Gio Ponti's studio, with whom he collaborated before getting in tou...

Franco Albini, MB15 pair of sideboards for Poggi, Italy, 1957 The two MB15 sideboards by Franco Albini shown in the images feature a refined and understated design, typical of the I...

Pair of stunning high-back SD51 Golem chairs by Vico Magistretti for Poggi, 1969 Italy. This Post Modern chair plays on the Mid-Century Modern aesthetic of Carlo, Afra and Tobia Scar...

Elegant sideboard, model MB 51, designed by Franco Albini for Poggi Italy, 1950s Sophisticated and timeless, the MB 51 sideboard is an iconic piece designed by Franco Albini for the ...

A rare and early "PS16", cotton, cord and sycamore rocking chaise lounge designed by Franco Albini and produced by Poggi, Italy, 1950s-1960s. Seat Height (inches): 17.25"

The Golem chair, designed by Vico Magistretti for Poggi in 1973, is one of the most significant examples of Italian design from the 1970s. Magistretti, known for his ability to combi...

LB7 bookcase composed of a single module with shelves and a storage unit with two doors, made in veneered solid teak wood, and black lacquered metal details. Designed by Franco Alb...

LB7 bookcase, designed by Franco Albini and manufactured by Poggi in 1957. Modular bookstore composed by upholds, containers with flying and doors, shelve. The industrial standard for every product component allows permanent and different solutions, from the bearing structures to the elements. The structure does not need anchorages to the wall and can be placed in the middle of the space. This set is composed of 3 modules, ten shelves, and three containers. It is made of Rosewood, iron, and brass. Excellent vintage condition. Franco Albini was born in Robbiate in 1905, and after his childhood and part of his youth, he moved to Milan. He graduated at Politecnico of Milan, Faculty of Architecture, in 1929, and He collaborated for three years in Giò Ponti and Emilio Lancia’s office. He probably had his international contacts here, at The International Exposition of 1929 in Barcelona and Paris, where he visited le Corbusier’s office, as Franca Helg used to tell. Throughout these first three years, his works were undoubtedly related to XIXth Century. His meeting with Edoardo Persico marks an evident turnover towards rationalism and writers for “Casabella” magazine. Persico’s thoughtful and ironical comments on some of Albini’s drawings for office furniture caused him deep upsetting. “I spent days of real anxiety – tells Albini – I had to answer all questions. I had a long fever”. The new phase that the meeting provoked begins with opening his own first office at Via Panizza with Renato Camus and Giancarlo Palanti. The group of Architects starts taking care of social housing, participating in the competition for the Baracca neighborhood in 1932, and then realizing the Ifacp neighborhood: Fabio Filzi (1936/38), Gabriele D’Annunzio, and Ettore Ponti (1939). During those years, He also worked for his first private villa (Pestarini). It is mainly in the context of exhibitions that the Italian architect experiments the compromise between rigor and poetic fantasy that Pagano was talking about; He conceived all the elements that would become recurrent in all types of his work – Architecture, Interiors, Design. The 1933 opening of the new Triennale of Milano, in Palazzo dell’Arte, becomes an occasion to express the highly innovative character of rationalist thinking. In this place, to experiment with new materials and solutions, but most of all a “method”. Young rationalist architects cultivated the art of exhibiting as a communication lab, an open field to space solutions. Albini, with Giancarlo Palanti, sets the steel structure house (with R. Camus, G. Mazzoleni, G. Minoletti and coordination by G. Pagano) designing also its furniture. For the next Triennale in 1936, marked by Persico’s early death, Franco Albini, together with a group of young architects around Pagano, takes care of the exhibition of Dwelling, where he presented 3 types of lodgings. In the same year, Albini and Romano design the exhibition for Ancient Italian jewelry: vertical uprights, simple linear poles design space. This element is recurring in other works, like the Scipione exhibition (1941), Vanzetti stand (1942), and Olivetti shop in Paris (1956). The architectural space is readable through a grid, introducing a third dimension, the vertical one, with a sense of lightness and transparency. Upright is also used in design objects, such as the Veliero bookcase...

The Golem chair, designed by Vico Magistretti in 1973, is an iconic piece of Italian design. Characterized by clean lines and geometric shapes, the Golem stands out for its bent wood...

PL19 also known as Tre Pezzi armchair with black enameled steel tube structure, upholstered in white Mongolian goat wool. Designed by Franco Albini & Franca Helg for Poggi, Pavia...

TN6 Coffee Tables by Franco Albini for Poggi, 1953, Set of 2

Rare vitrine - storage unit model Lb65 by Marco Zanuso for Poggi. Glass shelves three doors featuring Carabottino wood frame. An apparently simple piece, mastery assembled by Poggi.

The Golem chair, with a high backrest in lacquered wood, was born, as Magistretti states, from the desire to pay homage to the designer Mackintosh, after vis...

Rare suite of six “Luisella” chairs by Franco Albini for Carlo Poggi, Pavia, Italy 1955. Teak and cotton fabric. After working for some 15 years on several prototypes of the model, Italian designer, architect and urban planner Franco Albini (1905-77) completed what is considered a masterpiece: the Luisa armchair, with armrests, and Luisella, the chair without armrests. The final teak version was put into production by Carlo Poggi in 1955. The Luisa is often compared to the equally minimal and robust Leggera chair, designed by architect and designer Giò Ponti, with whom Albini apprenticed after graduating in architecture from Milan's Polytechnic University in 1929. Albini's blend of functionalism and style earned him numerous awards, including the 1955 Compasso d'Oro, a prestigious Italian prize for excellence in industrial design. (Award created by Gio Ponti in 1954). It is also in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The Luisa chair, with armrests, is still produced by Cassina. The Luisella chair, without armrests, is no longer produced. The chairs has been bought by the first owner together with a Chelsea Table by Vittorio Introini for Saporiti that we have also in stock at the Galleria...

Pair of wooden sideboards designed by Vico Magistretti for Poggi Pavia. These Vico Magistretti's sideboards designed for Poggi Pavia are iconic pieces that combine functionality and ...

Desk with shaped top from the "TL 22" series, wooden structure, italian manufacture from the 1950s, crafted by Poggi and designed by Franco Albini. This office desk stands out with ...

MB84 chest of drawers by Roberto Poggi for Poggi. Capable walnut piece with four drawers and brass details.

A rare pair of stools by Architects Franco Albini and Franca Helg. Made for the Marlborough Gallery in Rome, Italy, 1962. Expertise by Fondazione Franco Albini is available. Two pai...

Italian mid-century modern wooden double bed by Franco Albini for Poggi, 1960s Double bed with a wooden structure. The headboard has a rounded profile, while the footboard is rectang...

Franco Albini (1905-1977) lived in Milan where he stuied Architecture at the Politecnico. He started his career at Gio Ponti's studio, with whom he collaborated before getting in tou...

This classic table, model 'TL22', was designed by the two Italian designers Franca Held and Franco Albini for Poggi in 1958. The shape is named after the so-called boat shape. The co...

A rare mahogany version of the Cavaletto or TL2 table designed by the great neo-rationalist designer, Franco Albini. Designed in 1950 for manufacturers Poggi...

Pair of sideboards mod. MB55 Wood veneer frame with leather top. Prod. Poggi, 1960s Small defects and marks due to use.

Set of two "Model PL19" chairs, designed by Franco Albini, manufactured by Poggi Pavia, Italy. The chairs have a lacquered metal frame and are upholstered with red velvet. Literat...

Italian midcentury modern design little credenza sideboard "MB48" model designed by Franco Albini and produced by Poggi with stained walnut wood and brass details, made in Italy 1960...

Mid-Century Modern black Lacquered wooden dining chairs Golem by Vico Magistretti, Italy 1969. Nice set of 4 dining chairs „Golem SD51“ designed by Vico Magistretti for Poggi in 1969...

Rare of walnut sideboard model "Mb15" by Franco Albini for Poggi. Perfect condition.

PL19 also known as Tre Pezzi armchair with black enameled steel tube structure, upholstered in black Mongolian goat wool. Designed by Franco Albini & Franca Helg for Poggi, Pavia...

This exquisite Cicognino side table, designed by Franco Albini and produced by Poggi Pavia in the 1970s, is a timeless piece of Italian design. Crafted from high-quality wood, this t...

Franco Albini (1905-1977) lived in Milan where he stuied Architecture at the Politecnico. He started his career at Gio Ponti's studio, with whom he collaborated before getting in tou...

An iconic design with a refined and essential taste, which in its playful form evokes a reassuring feeling of familiarity. Franco Albini created the table by reducing its structure t...

This rare, beautifully crafted dining table made out of solid wood is lacquered black. The round top is made of rosewood veneered.

Introducing a masterpiece of furniture design from the 1970s: the model SD57 chair designed by renowned Italian designer Marco Zanuso. This chair is a perfect combination of elegance...

Franco Albini "T22" Desks for Poggi, wood, Italy, 1958, set of 2 Designed in 1958, the “T22” desks are among the rarest and most refined creations by Franco Albini for Poggi. Define...

An Italian model MB 51 sideboard designed by Franco Albini for Poggi. Made of solid teak with a minimalist design and sharp lines.

A refined example of mid-century Italian design, this Cicognino coffee table was designed by Franco Albini in the 1950s. The table features a sculptural base crafted from elegantly c...

Pair of SD51 Golem chair by Vico Magistretti for Poggi. Sinuous long backrest, lacquered frame and leather covering. A third single piece available

MB15 large sideboard with four-door panels in wood, designed by Franco Albini in 1956 and produced by Poggi, Pavia. The MB15 sideboard showcases a clean and solid design characteriz...

Set of 6 stunning high-back SD51 Golem chairs by Vico Magistretti for Poggi, 1969 Italy. This Post Modern chair plays on the Mid-Century Modern aesthetic of Carlo, Afra and Tobia Sca...

Rare and important desk model Stadera designed by Franco Albini for the Poggi manufacture, in 1959. Model 840. Made of noble wood for its shelf, the desk is the perfect modernist ele...

Italian modern black bedside tables by Ico Parisi for Poggi, 1970s Pair of bedside tables with wooden drawers. The top with rounded corners is in black leather. On the front there ar...

Italian modern black wood and leather chairs Golem by Vico Magistretti for Poggi, 1970s Pair of chairs model Golem with rounded seat, covered in black leather. The structure is in bl...

Franco Albini & Franca Helg for Poggi, Italian Mid-century Wooden Rocking Lounge Chair Model PS16 Manufactured by Poggi, Pavia, Italy. Together with a certificate of authenticity ...

PL19 or Tre Pezzi armchair with frame in black lacquered tubular steel, seat and back in padded red fabric. Designed by Franco Albini and Franca Helg in 1959 for the Nuove terme Lui...

TL30 table with a round top in wood and a base in black lacquered metal, designed by Franco Albini and produced by Poggi in the 1950s. After spending his childhood and part of his youth in Robbiate in Brianza, where he was born in 1905, Franco Albini moved with his family to Milan. Here he enrolled in the Faculty of Architecture of the Polytechnic and graduated in 1929. He starts his professional activity in the studio of Gio Ponti and Emilio Lancia, with whom he collaborates for three years. He probably had his first international contacts here In those three years, the works carried out are admittedly of a twentieth-century imprint. It was the meeting with Edoardo Persico that marked a clear turning point towards rationalism and the rapprochement with the group of editors of “Casabella”. The new phase that that meeting provoked starts with the opening of the first professional studio in via Panizza with Renato Camus and Giancarlo Palanti. The group of architects began to deal with public housing by participating in the competition for the Baracca neighborhood in San Siro in 1932 and then creating the Ifacp neighborhoods: Fabio Filzi (1936/38), Gabriele D’Annunzio and Ettore Ponti (1939). Also in those years Albini worked on his first villa Pestarini. But it is above all in the context of the exhibitions that the Milanese master experiments his compromise between that “rigor and poetic fantasy” coining the elements that will be a recurring theme in all the declinations of his work – architecture, interiors, design pieces . The opening in 1933 of the new headquarters of the Triennale in Milan, in the Palazzo dell’Arte, becomes an important opportunity to express the strong innovative character of rationalist thought, a gym in which to freely experiment with new materials and new solutions, but above all a “method”. Together with Giancarlo Palanti, Albini on the occasion of the V Triennale di Milano sets up the steel structure house, for which he also designs the ‘furniture. At the subsequent Triennale of 1936, marked by the untimely death of Persico, together with a group of young designers gathered by Pagano in the previous edition of 1933, Franco Albini takes care of the preparation of the exhibition of the house, in which the furniture of three types of accommodation. The staging of Stanza per un uomo, at that same Triennale, allows us to understand the acute and ironic approach that is part of Albini, as a man and as a designer: the theme addressed is that of the existenzminimum and the reference of the project is to the fascist myth of the athletic and sporty man, but it is also a way to reflect on low-cost housing, the reduction of surfaces to a minimum and respect for the way of living. In that same year Albini and Romano designed the Ancient Italian Goldsmith’s Exhibition: vertical uprights, simple linear rods, design the space. A theme, that of the “flagpole”, which seems to be the center of the evolution of his production and creative process. The concept is reworked over time, with the technique of decomposition and recomposition typical of Albinian planning: in the setting up of the Scipio Exhibition and of contemporary drawings (1941) the tapered flagpoles, on which the paintings and display cases are hung, are supported by a grid of steel cables; in the Vanzetti stand (1942) they take on the V shape; in the Olivetti store in Paris (1956) the uprights in polished mahogany support the shelves for displaying typewriters and calculators. The reflection on this theme arises from the desire to interpret the architectural space, to read it through the use of a grid, to introduce the third dimension, the vertical one, while maintaining a sense of lightness and transparency. The flagpole is found, however, also in areas other than the exhibition ones. In the apartments he designed, it is used as a pivot on which the paintings can be suspended and rotated to allow different points of view, but at the same time as an element capable of dividing spaces. The Veliero bookcase...

"TL8" folding table with solid walnut wood frame and elliptical top paniforte surrounded by solid wood and plated. Designed by Franco Albini and Franca Helg and produced by Poggi in...

Franco Albini 832 “Luisa” armchair for Poggi, wood and leather, Italy, 1953, set of eight. Originally designed in 1939 and refined through multiple iterations, the 832 “Luisa” armch...

Sedie di Vico Magistretti prodotte da Poggi, in Italia, negli anni '60. Struttura in legno laccato marrone originale e sedute nuovamente ritappezzate in pelle di camoscio.

Pair of rare chest of drawers mod. Sammarcanda produced by Poggi based on a design by architect Vico Magostretti from 1969. Samarcanda is a system of freestanding drawers that can b...

Franco Albini 832 “Luisa” armchair for Poggi, wood and leather, Italy, designed in 1953, set of four. Originally designed in 1939 and refined through multiple iterations, the 832 “L...