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.
Contemporary Sculptural Geometric Marble Vase Magnetico, Italian Manufacture
By SEM, Valentina Cameranesi (VCS)
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
Contemporary Geometric Sculptural Marble Vase Bolide, Italian Manufacture
By SEM, Valentina Cameranesi (VCS)
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 Geometric Sculptural Marble Vase Tray Bolide, Italian Manufacture
By Valentina Cameranesi (VCS), SEM
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Geometric vase tray in Arabescato marble, Simultanea collection. Centripetal, centrifugal, and movement forces are channeled into stone forms, and rotation on the axis becomes a vase...
Marble
Contemporary Geometric Sculptural Marble Vase Vortice Italian Manufacture
By SEM, Valentina Cameranesi (VCS)
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 become a v...
Marble
Contemporary Sculptural Geometric Marble Vase Simultaneo, Italian Manufacture
By SEM, Valentina Cameranesi (VCS)
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
$6,152
H 13.39 in Dm 6.3 in
Porcelain Ceramic & 18k Gold Sculptural Vase Italy Contemporary, 21st Century
By Andrea Salvatori
Located in London, GB
"TuttiTappi (Surprise!)", 2022, porcelain found object, earthenware and 18k gold Measures: H 34 x 16 cm Real 18K gold has been applied through third firing on the internal sculpt...
Gold
$4,375
H 10.63 in W 5.91 in D 5.91 in
Porcelain & Ceramic Sculptural Vase Italy Contemporary, 21st Century
By Andrea Salvatori
Located in London, GB
"TuttiTappi (Venus doppelgänger)", 2016, glazed earthenware and porcelain, measures: H 27 x 15 x 15cm Andrea Salvatori (Italy, 1975) is an internationally renowned visual artist w...
Ceramic, Porcelain
$10,588Sale Price|20% Off
H 18.51 in Dm 11.82 in
White 3D Printed Ceramic Sculptural Vase Italy Contemporary, 21st Century
By Andrea Salvatori
Located in London, GB
"Composizione 40100 #02" (In crescendo), 2019, glazed earthenware, measures: H 47 x 30 x 30cm Andrea Salvatori (Italy, 1975) is an internationally renowned visual artist working with the ceramic medium to realize often ironic and witty sculptures, sometimes involving a diverse selection of found objects, such as Murano glass vases, Meissen Porcelain miniatures or Ginori period ceramics sourced in flea markets around Europe. Salvatori’s works often begin with these items and proceed by the addition of elements masterfully created by the artist, generating an unexpected semantic shift. The result is unique, encompassing pop culture and kitsch aesthetics: a witty and effective way to turn reality upside-down and at the same time a powerful combination of exquisite craftsmanship and genuine irony. Andrea Salvatori was born on 3 of March 1975 in Faenza (Ra), Italy; he has graduated at the Istituto d’arte for Ceramic in Faenza in 1995, and he then graduated with a Degree in Sculpture at the Accademia di Belle Arti of Bologna in 2000. During his studies, Andrea learned the secrets of ceramics from the creative duo Bertozzi & Casoni having worked as an apprentice in their studio for many years at the same way as during Renaissance artists learned their practice with their Masters. Since 1997 he had several individual and collective exhibitions. In 2009 he won the first prize at the 56th edition of the prestigious Premio Faenza, the International Contest of Contemporary Art Ceramics, for which he classified second in the prior edition. In 2011 he classified second at the Sidney Myer Fund Australian Ceramic...
Ceramic, Majolica
Phytomorphic Sculptural Wooden Vase, 1960, Italy
Located in Brescia, Brescia
This striking phytomorphic sculptural wooden vase, crafted in Italy in the 1960s, embodies the elegance and organic beauty of mid-century Italian design. The vase features a unique, ...
Wood, Poplar
Post-Modern Italian Marble Vase
Located in San Diego, CA
Small post-modern Italian marble vase, circa 1980s. The vase is primarily a dark tan in color, but has cream, black and grey veining throughout. T...
Marble
Post-Modern Italian Marble Vase
Located in San Diego, CA
Small post-modern Italian marble vase, circa 1980s. The vase is primarily a dark green in color, but has black and grey veining throughout. The vase is in very good vintage condition...
Marble
$1,740 / item
H 10.63 in W 7.09 in D 1.97 in
Rolling Vase #2 by dAM Atelier Contemporary Italian Sculptural Travertine Bronze
By dAM Atelier
Located in San Paolo D'argon, BG
The Rolling Vase #2 is the result of the sculptural work made from our Atelier in order to generate a dialogue between two really different and contrasting materials. The Travertine ...
Travertine, Bronze
Post-Modern Italian Marble Vase
Located in San Diego, CA
Gorgeous post-modern Italian marble vase, circa 1970s. Striking tan, brown and cream fleck throughout the vase. The piece is in very good vintage...
Marble
Vintage geometric vase, Italy, 1960
Located in Torino, IT
Vintage geometric vase, Italy, 1960
Ceramic
DUO – Minimalist Sculptural Vase in Serpa Marble and Glass, Small
By Christian Haas
Located in Lisboa, Lisboa
With an unusual silhouette, this vase highlights the vertical and tricks the human eye. The bi-materiality is aesthetically appealing, but also has functional reasons: mouth-blown gl...
Marble
Saint-Louis Manufacture, Limited Edition "Jaipur" Vase, Contemporary
By Saint Louis
Located in PARIS, FR
Superb and very rare Saint-Louis Manufacture "Jaipur" vase. The green Jaipur vase is released in a limited edition of 250 pieces. During the twenty-eight days of production, five ar...
Crystal
Sculptural Italian Murano Glass Orb Vase, 1970s
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A beautifully minimal Murano glass vase formed as a rounded orb with a dramatically angled opening, showcasing the refined balance and fluidity typical of Italian glassmaking from th...
Murano Glass