Furniture brand SEM started as a spin-off from Milanese brand Spotti and now has an exceptional reputation of its own. Working with acclaimed furniture designers, including Valentina Cameranesi Sgroi, Vormen and Elisa Ossino, SEM creates personalized and finely crafted solutions for modern living.
During the 1950s, large furniture manufacturers often had difficulty providing customized, high-quality furniture while producing other products on a mass scale. SEM originated from that demand and has evolved to complement Spotti and offer simple, functional and highly ergonomic furniture for both work and home environments.
SEM, which stands for Spotti Edizioni Milano, has attracted a wide range of talent to design its furniture collections. Pivot, named for a hingeless door mechanism in its cupboards, is a design by Giacomo Moor, named as Elle Decor Italia’s Best Young Designer of 2016. Futuraforma, designed by architecture and interior design team Marcante-Testa, is a sophisticated collection featuring the Duale table, the Genio chandelier and the Magico carpet.
Italian architect Hannes Peer lent his expertise to the Paesaggio collection, which features notable designs like the Nuvola armchair, the Alea dining chair, the Petali table lamp and the Butterfly table. Peer’s Butterfly console tables and other tables are a meeting between architecture, design and engineering to produce a complex and organic form that catches the eye.
SEM displayed collections at Milan Design Week in 2018 and 2019 and with AD France’s AD Intérieurs in 2019. SEM also expanded the Paesaggio collection during the 2021 FuoriSalone, Alcova, in Milan.
On 1stDibs, find a collection of SEM tables, seating, lighting and more.
Gold Contemporary Rectangular Table, Glass Top and Gold-Plated Aluminium Legs
By Paolo Rizzo, SEM
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Sem Gold collection, rectangular table with glass top: extra light transparent glass or smoke grey transparent glass (12 mm thick). Plated aluminium legs finished in 24-karat polishe...
Aluminum, Gold
Contemporary Tailor Made Gomito L Chair, Handcrafted Folded Leather Backrest
By vormen, SEM
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Lounge armchair made with a thin and elegant hand-welded steel frame whose curvature supports the precious leather, folded and sewn to act as a backrest and the same time as an armre...
Steel
Contemporary Sculptural Geometric Marble Vase Magnetico, Italian Manufacture
By Valentina Cameranesi (VCS), SEM
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Geometric sculptural vase in Sodalite marble, Simultanea Collection. Centripetal, centrifugal, and movement forces are channeled into stone forms, and rotation on the axis becomes a ...
Marble
$6,751 / item
Sem In Sync Collection Collage Coffee Table by Zaven
By Studio Zaven, SEM
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Collage is a family of furniture “accessories” built in wood with natural veneers coated in different colors. The faintly visible presence of the wood’s veins transforms the object i...
Wood
Gold Contemporary Chest of Drawers, 24-Karat Polished Gold-Plated
By Paolo Rizzo, SEM
Located in Brooklyn, NY
SEM Gold collection, chest of six drawers. Verdemare lacquered wooden structure, gloss finish. Lining of drawers in ochre mohair velvet. Available more colorway variants. External sh...
Steel, Gold
Contemporary Table Check Surface Texture Printed, Bauhaus-Inspired Structure
By Elisa Ossino, SEM
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Round table made in black Valchromat. Alpi sand oak wooden surface. Printed texture available in different colors: Pink, red, sky, grass, black. Metallic ...
Iron
Contemporary Geometric Sculptural Marble Vase Bolide, Italian Manufacture
By Valentina Cameranesi (VCS), SEM
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Geometric sculptural vase in Botticino marble, Simultanea collection. Centripetal, centrifugal, and movement forces are channeled into stone forms, and rotation on the axis become a ...
Marble
Contemporary Tailor Made Gomito Chair, Handcrafted Folded Leather Backrest
By SEM, vormen
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Armchair made with a thin and elegant hand-welded steel frame whose curvature supports the precious leather, folded and sewn to act as a backrest and the same time as an armrest. Available in red, blue, black structure as per the full-grain leather backrest in Havana, natural and black which is destined over time to soften and accommodate the anatomy of the body...
Steel
Contemporary Small Table Check Surface Texture Printed, Bauhaus-Inspired
By Elisa Ossino, SEM
Located in Brooklyn, NY
A round small table made in black Valchromat. Alpi sand oak wooden surface. Printed texture available in different colors: pink, red, sky, grass, black. M...
Iron
Contemporary Sculptural Geometric Marble Vase Simultaneo, Italian Manufacture
By Valentina Cameranesi (VCS), SEM
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Geometric sculptural vase in Rosa Carnico and Verde Carnico marble, Simultanea collection. Centripetal, centrifugal, and movement forces are channeled into stone forms, and rotation ...
Marble