Watteeu Dining Room Sets

LB7 bookcase, designed by Franco Albini and manufactured by Poggi in 1957. Modular bookstore composed by upholds, containers with flying and doors, shelve. The industrial standard for every product component allows permanent and different solutions, from the bearing structures to the elements. The structure does not need anchorages to the wall and can be placed in the middle of the space. This set is composed of 3 modules, ten shelves, and three containers. It is made of Rosewood, iron, and brass. Excellent vintage condition. Franco Albini was born in Robbiate in 1905, and after his childhood and part of his youth, he moved to Milan. He graduated at Politecnico of Milan, Faculty of Architecture, in 1929, and He collaborated for three years in Giò Ponti and Emilio Lancia’s office. He probably had his international contacts here, at The International Exposition of 1929 in Barcelona and Paris, where he visited le Corbusier’s office, as Franca Helg used to tell. Throughout these first three years, his works were undoubtedly related to XIXth Century. His meeting with Edoardo Persico marks an evident turnover towards rationalism and writers for “Casabella” magazine. Persico’s thoughtful and ironical comments on some of Albini’s drawings for office furniture caused him deep upsetting. “I spent days of real anxiety – tells Albini – I had to answer all questions. I had a long fever”. The new phase that the meeting provoked begins with opening his own first office at Via Panizza with Renato Camus and Giancarlo Palanti. The group of Architects starts taking care of social housing, participating in the competition for the Baracca neighborhood in 1932, and then realizing the Ifacp neighborhood: Fabio Filzi (1936/38), Gabriele D’Annunzio, and Ettore Ponti (1939). During those years, He also worked for his first private villa (Pestarini). It is mainly in the context of exhibitions that the Italian architect experiments the compromise between rigor and poetic fantasy that Pagano was talking about; He conceived all the elements that would become recurrent in all types of his work – Architecture, Interiors, Design. The 1933 opening of the new Triennale of Milano, in Palazzo dell’Arte, becomes an occasion to express the highly innovative character of rationalist thinking. In this place, to experiment with new materials and solutions, but most of all a “method”. Young rationalist architects cultivated the art of exhibiting as a communication lab, an open field to space solutions. Albini, with Giancarlo Palanti, sets the steel structure house (with R. Camus, G. Mazzoleni, G. Minoletti and coordination by G. Pagano) designing also its furniture. For the next Triennale in 1936, marked by Persico’s early death, Franco Albini, together with a group of young architects around Pagano, takes care of the exhibition of Dwelling, where he presented 3 types of lodgings. In the same year, Albini and Romano design the exhibition for Ancient Italian jewelry: vertical uprights, simple linear poles design space. This element is recurring in other works, like the Scipione exhibition (1941), Vanzetti stand (1942), and Olivetti shop in Paris (1956). The architectural space is readable through a grid, introducing a third dimension, the vertical one, with a sense of lightness and transparency. Upright is also used in design objects, such as the Veliero bookcase...

Dining room set with round table and four matching chairs, solid elm, leather, France, 1970s This French dining set, constructed entirely from solid elm, exemplifies a 1970s blend ...

A striking round dining table crafted in Italy during the 1970s, evocative of the refined aesthetic associated with Osvaldo Borsani. The substantial thick top is made from richly vei...

Vintage MId-Century Modern Russell Woodard Spun Fiberglass Outdoor Dining Set Circa 1970s This set includes four Spun Fiberglass dining chairs with the original removable cushions a...

This 1970s vintage signed Lion In Frost Lucite sculptural base dining table and original tufted leather Lion Frost dining chairs make for a great ensemble. The glass can be a much larger one to put on at your end. The base is solid. It is now at 46" round diameter. This was a replacement glass top. The leather of cream colored is the original leather fabric from the time. These are very comfortable to sit in. The tubular lucite chairs...

Dining table designed by Umberto Mascagni of Bologna in the 1950s. The main body structure is in solid European wood, covered in brown veined vinyl and anodized aluminum. The legs ar...

A set of four dining chairs designed by Bernhard Pedersen & Son, manufactured in Denmark in the 1960s. The table comes from Denmark and was manufactured in the 1960s. The table has o...

Mid Century Modern Heywood Wakefield 8 Piece Dining Set The Mid Century Modern Heywood Wakefield 8 Piece Dining Set is a timeless representation of mid-century design excellence. Th...

Large round gueridon, which can be used as a dining table for six people, made of a trumpet shaped metal foot supporting a a carrara marble top

Round expanding table by Silvio Coppola. A very versatile table with a concealed folding leaf system that allows the table to go from 47" round t...

Onyx marble and metal dining table with rectangular shape and rounded corners. Black metal basement with four metal legs and brass tips. Onyx top with soft curves and great weight an...

USA and Italy, 1970s Round brass coffee table with X base and Italian marble top. In the style of Mastercraft or John Widdicomb. Excellent qu...