Galerie Philia Carts and Bar

Traditional style walnut rolling bar and serving cart accented with brass railing and handle. This bar cart is beautiful and functional. The inner top is inset with black granite all...

Wonderful Italian wood trolley with glass and brass finishes. It has a removable serving tray with brass and chrome finishes. This 1950s production is attributed to Cesare Lacca, has wonderful rounded lines and materials plus amazing brass finishes This serving table will add a fresh accent wherever you place it and it will work in a natural, bohemian, midcentury or contemporary ambience. Born in Naples in 1929, Italian architect-designer Cesare Lacca created modernist furniture and metalwork throughout the 1950s. Though details of his personal life and professional training remain lost to history, there are sufficient surviving primary sources that document his many elegant designs in brasswork for which he is the best know and which fetch high prices from collectors. Like many Italian designers in the 20th century, Lacca moved to Milan after World War II to launch his career. Before he was even 21 years old, his work was selected by a group of American curators for inclusion in the landmark exhibition Italy at Work: Her Renaissance in Design Today that toured 12 US museums between 1950 and 1953—the first major exhibition of Italian design outside of Italy. The exhibition showcased the best and brightest of Italian designers who had embraced modernist principles and rejuvenated traditional Italian crafts, like Carlo Mollino, Franco Albini, and Gio Ponti In the exhibition catalogue, curator Meyric R. Roger’s spotlights Lacca's expert achievements in brass, noting “the variety and quality of his creations,” which “place him high among the architect-designers leading the current [Modernist] movement." Rogers adds, "The quality of his work...provide[s] all the decorative effectiveness needed without strain or exaggeration”. Lacca designed a great many tea carts and serving trolleys in his career—which make up a large proportion of what is available on the vintage market today—as well as magazine racks and coffee tables. Lacca’s most iconic tea cart was manufactured by Italian brand Cassina and features sculpted beech, cedar, teak, or walnut with brass details, a glass tabletop, and a removable glass tray. Lacca also designed high-backed lounge chairs, which were regularly featured in Arredoluce advertisements for Angelo Lelli’s lighting...

This charming Scandinavian Modern teak serving table or bar cart has been designed and produced in Denmark, 1960s. It features beautiful handcrafted details, two trays and two drawe...

Rare 1950s Italian desgin serving bar cart. Made of beech wood equipped with two glass shelves and brass wheels for convenient movement. Perfect for serving drinks to your guests. Vi...

This walnut bar cabinet was manufactured by Directional in the 1960s and attributed to both Milo Baughman and Kipp Stewart due to stylistic attributes associated with both designers,...

This stylish vintage brushed metal bar cart, created in the Maison Jansen neoclassical style featuring two glass tiers with gallery surround fitt...

For FULL item description click on CONTINUE READING at the bottom of this page. Offering One Of Our Recent Palm Beach Estate Fine Furniture Acquisitions Of A Vintage Brass Rolling F...

Mid-Century modern bar cart designed by Jack Cartwright. Founders, maker. From the "Patterns" series, model 42190. Beautifully sculpted doors and concealed handles. An understated f...

A very interesting hand-painted antique alter table which would make a great bar. It’s made of pine and has the original paintwork which has som...

Midcentury bar cart by Cesare Lacca, Italy, 1950s. Frame ebonized, tabletop teak wood. Restored surface. New glass top.

An elegant 1950s bar cart, or drinks serving trolley, in the iconic style of the renowned Parisian interior decorating firm Maison Jansen. This eye-catching cart, with its duo of polished wood tiers and openwork brass galleries, has a neo-classical feel to its design, and features a wood and brass push handle...

This two-level, round bar table was made by the Swedish company IKEA during the 1970s. Its form refers to the designs of the Bauhaus school and the pre-war Art dèco style. The geomet...