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Gorgeous chandelier with handblown crystal teardrops and etched striped glass pendant bowl on a brass stem. Designed by the famed glass house Orrefors c. 1950.

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A pair of Murano glass table lamps featuring two black glass spheres and two clear amber smaller spheres combined together to form the stem of each lamp. They are enhanced with gilt ...

This stately rectangular table is made entirely of natural sheet steel, which has been specifically oxidized to stress the irregular black surfaces and characteristics of the raw mat...

Regency Hollywoodian dining table in the style of Maison Jansen, designed by the French designer Pierre Cardin in the 1980s. This large octagonal table...

Superb large Rosso Levanto marble dining table, 50" diameter. From Italy, retailed by Maurice Villency, circa 1970s. Has a wonderfully smooth finish with lots of clairty into the gra...

Marvellous midcentury armchairs with tubular steel structure and seats. "Lens" model was designed by Giovanni Offredi and produced for Saporiti, around 1968 in Italy. These items are made of a stunning new stain-resistant, fire-retardant petrol blue velvet. A magnificent and iconic set that will be perfect for a living room or study, thanks to the brightness of the chromed steel structure. These pieces are in amazing vintage conditions as shown in the photos. The shipping quote refers to the chairs shipped with the seating disassembled from the chrome base. Giovanni Offredi (born 1927, Milan–died 2007, Milan) was a prominent Italian furniture and product designer of the second half of the 20th century. As opposed to most of the other Italian furniture designers of his time, Giovanni Offredi was not an architect, nor did he start designing early in his professional career. Instead, Offredi partially fits the career path of some of the talented contemporary designers who pursue product design outside of a formal education in architecture. The earliest furniture design work known by Giovanni Offredi consists of exemplary furnishings made specifically for some of the wealthy families in Milan. Such is the case of the works done by Offredi for Casa C., in 1960, in Gorgonzola, a small town 14 miles from Milan. These works were designed with a surprisingly minimal simplicity and elegance, and they also clearly display a hallmark of his design work with the use of angular lines and exposed metal or wood frames—not unlike some of the modern Scandinavian design of the time. In the late 1960s, Giovanni Offredi met Sergio Saporiti, the owner of Italian design shop and furniture maker Saporiti, and in 1970, Offredi formalized a partnership with the furniture maker. This partnership would be long and successful and resulted in many furniture designs of distinct precision that were clearly modern and innovative and that went on to enjoy considerable commercial success. The most prominent furniture designs that Offredi made for Saporiti include the Paracarro table...

Circa 1970. We offer this Murano table lamp. Made in transparent Murano glass . Great vintage condition.

An elegant Italian 8-light beaded crystal chandelier.

This is an old Japanese winnowing basket's iron frame. Winnowing basket is a single-mouthed or round-plate-shaped folk utensils used for sorting, transporting, and drying grains. I...

This framed crane barkcloth fabric sample, produced by the Spectrum company around 1949, served as a showcase of mid-century design aesthetics. Displayed in rattan showrooms across t...

Stunning dining octagonal pedestal dining table by Willy Rizzo for Mario Sabot.

This chandelier is part of a limited series of 12 pieces designed keeping the eclectic style of the Milanese restaurants of the 1950s in mind. In this piece, a structure in rattan co...