Poggi Furniture

The Italian architect and designer Franco Albini designed these two so-called ‘night stands’, model ‘CD 31’, for Poggi, using walnut veneer. The bedside tables have a drawer, an open...

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...

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.

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

The TL 22 Cavalletto table, designed by Franco Albini for Poggi Pavia in 1955, is a stunning example of midcentury Italian design. Featuring a minimalist, elegant structure, the tabl...

"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...

Large handmade ceramic vase, produced in Italy between the late 1940s and early 1950s by the prestigious ceramic factory CE AS of Albisola, Italy. The vase is hand-decorated on both ...

Vintage dresser model CS49 by Vico Magistretti for Poggi Productions, Italy 1970s dresser model CS49 is an original design dresser created by Vico Magistretti (Milan, 1920-Milan, 200...

Mb 48 Case piece by Franco Albini for Poggi. Capable modular piece to be used standing alone or connected to more elements of the same project.

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

Cicognino coffee table entirely made in teak wood designed by Franco Albini in 1952 and firstly produced by the Italian company, Poggi Pavia from the 1950s. The Cicognino coffee t...

This set is composed by one chest of drawers and one cabinet. They were designed by Vico Magistretti and produced by Poggi, circa 1970. They can be used as a separate units or as a u...

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

Franco Albini 832 “Luisa” chair for Poggi, wood and leather, Italy, 1953 Originally designed in 1939 and refined through multiple iterations, the 832 “Luisa” chair reached its final...

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

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...

Franco Albini "T22" Desk for Poggi, wood, Italy, 1958 Designed in 1958, the “T22” desk is one of Franco Albini’s rarest and most sophisticated works for Poggi. Characterized by its ...

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...

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

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...

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...

Walnut wood table model TL 58 designed by Marco Zanuso for Poggi Italy in 1974. Bibl.: Giuliana Gramigna Repertorio del Design Italiano1950-2000 Allemandi 2011 pag. 224 Some marks ...