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.
$8,920 / item
Sem In Sync Collection Collage Desk by Zaven
By SEM, Studio Zaven
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 Square Table, Smoke Glass Top and Gold-Plated Aluminium Legs
By Paolo Rizzo, SEM
Located in Brooklyn, NY
SEM Gold collection, square table with glass top: extra light transparent glass or smoke grey transparent glass (12 mm thick). Plated aluminium legs finished in 24-karat polished or ...
Aluminum, Gold
Gold Contemporary Square Table, Glass Top and Gold-Plated Aluminium Legs
By Paolo Rizzo, SEM
Located in Brooklyn, NY
SEM Gold collection, square table with glass top: extra light transparent glass or smoke grey transparent glass (12 mm thick). Plated aluminium legs finished in 24-karat polished or ...
Aluminum, Gold
Gold Contemporary Rectangular Table, Glass Top and Gold Plated Aluminium Legs
By SEM, Paolo Rizzo
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
Gold Contemporary Rectangular Table, Glass Top and Gold-Plated Aluminium Legs
By SEM, Paolo Rizzo
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
$1,750
H 27.56 in W 20.08 in D 23.23 in
Supernova, Recycled Cast Aluminum Contemporary Table Leg in Raw by Made in Ratio
By Brodie Neill, Made in Ratio
Located in London, GB
The contemporary supernova is a dynamic, self-levelling trestle cast entirely from entirely recycled aluminium in a fully sustainable closed-loop factory. Simple and versatile to ori...
Aluminum
$13,035 / item
H 29.53 in W 19.69 in D 51.19 in
Stacked Writing Desk in Cream Shagreen by R&Y Augousti
By R & Y Augousti
Located in New York, NY
The Paris based label has distinguished themselves since their launch, with their iconic use of shagreen mixed with brass and other exotic materials. All furniture is handcrafted by skilled artisans, ultimately making each piece unique, designed in Paris and produced in the Philippines. The stacked writing desk...
Shagreen Stingray
Writing Desk in Solid Walnut by Boyd & Allister
By Boyd & Allister
Located in Santa Fe, NM
This writing desk in solid walnut was originally made as a gift for my daughter on her 13th birthday. I designed it to be elegant, simple and timeless; something that could fit seaml...
Walnut
$4,771 / item
H 27.56 in W 27.56 in D 70.87 in
Supernova, Recycled Cast Aluminum Trestle Table Legs & Glass by Made in Ratio
By Made in Ratio, Brodie Neill
Located in London, GB
The contemporary supernova is a dynamic, self-levelling trestle cast entirely from entirely recycled aluminium in a fully sustainable closed-loop factory. Simple and versatile to ori...
Aluminum
$10,400 / item
H 46.46 in W 12.6 in D 33.86 in
Secrétaire Desk in Shagreen and Palmwood by R&Y Augousti
By R & Y Augousti
Located in New York, NY
The Paris based label has distinguished themselves since their launch, with their iconic use of shagreen mixed with brass and other exotic materials. All furniture is handcrafted by ...
Shagreen Stingray, Palmwood
Fine French Art Deco Rectangular Oak Dining Table
Located in Long Island City, NY
Rectangular top is supported by four legs with brass details and a dual arc-shaped base.
Brass
Kidney Shaped Desk in Walnut by Jonathan Field
By Jonathan Field
Located in London, GB
The kidney-shaped desk in solid walnut was designed and made for a client's bay window home study; it has three main drawers of different depths that run on fully extendable Blum run...
Walnut
Drexel Sandia Collection Jacobean Drop-Front Desk
By Drexel
Located in Chicago, IL
Drexel drop front desk from the Sandia Collection, circa 1960s. Interesting writing desk marrying the form of a Govenor Winthrop drop front desk with early English Jacobean...
Brass
Giorgio Collection Brazilian Rosewood Desk in Satin Finish
By Giorgio Collection
Located in New York, NY
Desk in Brazilian rosewood satin finish with one center pencil drawer +5 big full extension file drawers (2 in the right part and 3 in the left part). Brushed steel accents on the ba...
Rosewood
French 1950s Rectangular Solid Walnut Table
Located in Long Island City, NY
French Mid-Century rectangular solid walnut dining/writing table.
Walnut
$3,850
H 28.5 in W 59 in D 31 in
Vintage Desk With Burlwood Top in the style of Pace Collection, USA 1970's
By Pace Collection
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Introducing our exquisite Vintage Desk With Burlwood Top, inspired by the iconic Pace Collection from the 1970s in the USA. This stunning piece of furniture combines timeless eleganc...
Wood, Burl, Lacquer
$8,000
H 29 in W 53 in D 53 in
Philippe Starck Square Mahogany Dining Table M 'Serie Lang' for Driade Aleph
By Driade, Philippe Starck
Located in Hanover, MA
A stealth bomber-like sleek square book-matched ribbon mahogany veneer top dining table over four sharply angled polished cast aluminum legs, each having the signature and manufacturer's mark: Aleph by Starck. Designed by Philippe Starck in 1987 for Aleph France: a division of Driade, from the limited series Lang...
Aluminum