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Creator: Paul McCobb
Creator: Carlo Scarpa
Paul McCobb Irwin Collection Black Lacquered Gentleman's Chest, Newly Refinished
Located in South Bend, IN
An exceptional Mid-Century Modern gentleman's chest of drawers By Paul McCobb for Directional and produced by Calvin Furniture, "Irwin Collection" USA, 1950s Black lacquered...
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1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Furniture

Materials

Mirror, Mahogany, Lacquer

Paul McCobb for Directional Midcentury Slipper Chair
Located in Countryside, IL
Paul McCobb for directional midcentury slipper chair. This chair measures: 25 wide x 25.75 deep x 31.5 high, with a seat height of 17 and arm height/chair clearance 24.5 inches ...
Category

1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Furniture

Materials

Upholstery, Wood

Paul McCobb 'Cache Desk Organiser' Wood and Steel by Karakter
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Storage unit designed by Paul McCobb in 1952. The foundation of the Cache series, part of Paul McCobb’s extensive Planner series, is a beautifully simplistic and easy table with ...
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2010s Danish Mid-Century Modern Furniture

Materials

Steel

12 Light Chandelier Designed by Carlo Scarpa for Venini, Signed Venini 2009/16
Located in Merida, Yucatan
12 Light chandelier designed by Carlo Scarpa for Venini , Model 99.37 in Murano Italy. This Chandelier originally designed in 1940 was manufactured in 2009. All the pieces are in ...
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1930s Italian Art Deco Vintage Furniture

Materials

Brass

Paul McCobb for Calvin Furniture Linear Group Buffet
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
USA, 1960s Mid-century buffet or sideboard designed by Paul McCobb for Calvin Furniture. Walnut, aluminum, and leatherette. The clean modern lines from the Linear Group...
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1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Furniture

Materials

Aluminum

Paul McCobb Dining Table with Brass Stretcher for Calvin
Located in Boynton Beach, FL
For you interest is a dining table designed by famed designer Paul McCobb. Produced by Calvin as part of the Irwin Collection. A round table with out the leafs and a larger dining ta...
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Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Furniture

Materials

Brass

McCobb Walnut and Brass Burnt Orange Sectional Sofa
Located in Miami, FL
All original Paul McCobb walnut and brass two piece sectional sofa from the designer's coveted Directional collection. The rare Mid-Century Modern set features: a model 5006-L left arm sofa; a model 5004-R right arm loveseat; set-in arm detail; original burnt orange wool fabric; walnut legs; brass stretchers. 100% original condition. The perfect seating arrangement to accent any decor! The couch measures approximately 77.5 in (196.85 cm) W x 34.5 in (87.63 cm) D x 32.5 in (82.55 cm) H. The settee measures approximately 51.5 in (130.81 cm) W x 34.5 in (87.63 cm) D x 32.5 in (82.55 cm) H. The two pieces can also be used together to create one long sofa measuring 129.75 inches (329.56 cm). The dimensions listed under Item Details are if the two pieces are used as a sectional with a square corner table...
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Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Furniture

Materials

Brass

Lounge Chair by Paul McCobb
Located in Dallas, TX
A rare lounge chair designed by Paul McCobb for Directional.
Category

1950s Vintage Furniture

Materials

Fabric

Pair of Paul McCobb Lounge Chairs
Located in Chicago, IL
Introducing a stunning pair of Paul McCobb Lounge armchairs, epitomizing the sleek elegance and sophistication of Mid-Century Modern design. These iconic chairs feature a sturdy mapl...
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1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Furniture

Materials

Upholstery

Mid-Century Mod Delfi White Marble Dining Table by Carlo Scarpa & Marcel Breuer
Located in Madrid, ES
Dining table mod. Delfi designed by Carlo Scarpa and Marcel Breuer for Gavina. Composed of two sculptural bases and a rectangular top 4 cm thick. Made in Carrara marble. Italy 1968. ...
Category

1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Furniture

Materials

Carrara Marble

Paul McCobb Perimeter Group Walnut Leather Side Table
Located in Baltimore, MD
Spectacular 1960s rare mid-century end/ side table designed by Paul McCobb for Winchendon Furniture Company, 1960s "Perimeter Group". Features an oval shaped top in beautifully grain...
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1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Furniture

Materials

Leather, Walnut

Mid-century Paul McCobb Calvin Line Leather Walnut Cabinet
Located in Miami, FL
Mid-century Paul McCobb Calvin Line Leather Walnut Cabinet Offered for sale is a Mid-Century Modern cabinet designed by the iconic designer Paul McCobb. This cabinet is for the high...
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Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Furniture

Materials

Leather, Walnut

Paul McCobb For Planner Group Maple Dining Table
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Model 1522, maple dining table by Paul McCobb for Planner Group, Winchendon, is iconic midcentury design that never goes out of style. The table can accept leaves but no leaves are p...
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Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Furniture

Materials

Maple

Angelo Mangiarotti "Castore" Marble Dining Table by Karakter
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Table designed by Angelo Mangiarotti Castore is a glass and marble table by Italian architect, sculptor and designer Angelo Mangiarotti. Designed in 1975 for Sorgente dei Mobili,...
Category

2010s Danish Mid-Century Modern Furniture

Materials

Steel

Paul Mccobb Desk for Calvin
Located in Pawtucket, RI
Rare architectural walnut and stone desk designed by Paul Mccobb for Calvin Furniture in the early 1950's. The left hand pedestal features a slide out work surface, a small drawer...
Category

1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Furniture

Materials

Stone, Brass

Paul McCobb Set of Two Mid-Century Iron Stools with New Leather Upholstery
Located in La Teste De Buch, FR
Set of 2 Mid-Century Modern iron stools by Paul McCobb. Newly reupholstered as they originally were, with no-sag springs, foam and a thick vintage ...
Category

1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Furniture

Materials

Iron

Paul McCobb Mid-Century Connoisseur Side End Table
Located in Countryside, IL
Paul McCobb Connoisseur midcentury side end table. This side table measures: 32 wide x 26 deep x 24.25 inches high. All pieces of furniture can be had in what we call restored ...
Category

1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Furniture

Materials

Brass

Large Paul McCobb Aluminum and Vitrolite-Milk Glass Coffee Table Midcentury
Located in Pemberton, NJ
Very nice and exceptional coffee table was designed by Paul McCobb with vitrolite glass top. This glass has not been made since the late 1940s or early 1950s. No chips were found in ...
Category

1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Furniture

Materials

Aluminum

Paul McCobb "Planner Group" Dresser
Located in Dallas, TX
Timeless mid-century modern 6 drawer dresser designed by Paul McCobb for Winchendon Furniture, circa 1950s. Maple wood construction sits on a b...
Category

1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Furniture

Materials

Iron

Paul McCobb Winchendon Planner Group Blonde Desk with Orange and White Drawers
Located in Ferndale, MI
Paul McCobb designed desk for Winchendon Furniture in Mass. Part of the large Planner group collection Introduced in the early 1950s. Planner group being a collection of modular furn...
Category

Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Furniture

Materials

Maple

Paul McCobb Mid-Century Modern Sculpted Walnut Armchairs, Newly Restored
Located in South Bend, IN
An exceptional pair of Mid-Century Modern armchairs or club chairs By Paul McCobb for Calvin Furniture USA, 1950s Elegant sculpted walnut frames, with upholstered seats. ...
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1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Furniture

Materials

Upholstery, Walnut

Paul McCobb Side Tables #8712 with Original Vitrolite Tops
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Rare pair of Paul Mccobb side tables retaining the original white "carrera glass" tops. Part of the Irwin Collection by Calvin Furniture Co.. McCobb em...
Category

1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Furniture

Materials

Vitrolite, Mahogany

Paul McCobb for Winchendon Maple Spindle Back Lounge Chair
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Mid-Century Modern, low profile, lounge chair by Paul McCobb for Winchendon features a deep seated, black lacquered maple frame with spindle back and newly upholstered cushions in se...
Category

Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Furniture

Materials

Fabric, Maple

'Delfi' Marble Dining Table by Marcel Breuer and Carlo Scarpa for Gavina, Italy
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This incredible 'Delfi' dining table designed by Carlo Scarpa and Marcel Breuer is composed of two sculptural Carrara marble bases and a matching thick rectangular marble top which h...
Category

20th Century Italian Modern Furniture

Materials

Marble

Paul McCobb for Pomona Tile Manufacturing Company American Triangular Table Lamp
Located in New York, NY
Mid-Century American (1950s) table lamp in triangular form from the Distinguished Designer Series featuring an extended silver metal stem plus three functioning light switch sockets ...
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20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Furniture

Materials

Metal

Paul McCobb for Planner Group Midcentury Nightstand
Located in Countryside, IL
Paul McCobb for planner group midcentury nightstand. This nightstand measures: 22.25 wide x 14.25 deep x 23 inches high. All pieces of fu...
Category

1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Furniture

Materials

Chrome

Model 795 Bookcase by Carlo Scarpa for Bernini
Located in Brooklyn, NY
More than just a bookcase but rather a small architectural masterpiece that is the focal point of any space, the Model 795 bookshelf (sometimes called the “Serie 1935” or “Liberia 19...
Category

Late 20th Century Mid-Century Modern Furniture

Materials

Metal

Midcentury Paul McCobb #1561 5 Drawer Desk Blonde Maple Finish Brass Pulls
Located in BROOKLYN, NY
Beautiful Paul McCobb Planner Group #1561 double pedestal 5 drawer desk blonde maple finish Brass knobs solid maple. Desk is in original vintage conditio...
Category

Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Furniture

Materials

Brass

Paul McCobb for Directional Lounge Chairs and Ottoman, C. 1950s
Located in Westport, CT
A lounge chair and ottoman designed by the Iconic Paul McCobb for Directional, maple legs fully restored and refinished in medium walnut. Reupholstered in grey chenille. Other d...
Category

Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Furniture

Materials

Chenille, Maple

Paul McCobb, Irwin Collection for Calvin Wall Unit Hutch Credenza
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Mid-Century Modern, two piece, walnut and brass, wall unit hutch credenza by Paul McCobb for Calvin Furniture, Irwin Collection features a bottom crede...
Category

Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Furniture

Materials

Brass

Paul McCobb for Directional Midcentury Occasional Lounge Chairs, Pair
Located in Countryside, IL
Paul McCobb for Directional midcentury occasional lounge chairs - pair. Each chair measures: 24.75 wide x 21 deep x 29.5 inches high, with a seat height of 17 and arm height/chair...
Category

1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Furniture

Materials

Upholstery, Wood

Carlo Scarpa and Hiroyuki Toyoda for Simon Gavina Large Table
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Carlo Scarpa and Hiroyuki Toyoda for Simon Gavina, conference table, fabric top, chromed steel, Italy, design 1973 Elegant conference table was initially designed by Carlo Scarpa in...
Category

1980s Italian Post-Modern Vintage Furniture

Materials

Chrome, Brass, Steel

Paul McCobb Dining Chairs Set of Six Refinished & Reupholstered
Located in Atlanta, GA
Set of Six Mid Century Dining Chairs, designed by Paul McCobb for Calvin Furniture's Directional Line, American, circa 1950s. These chairs are currently being refinished and reuphols...
Category

1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Furniture

Materials

Upholstery, Wood

Paul McCobb 'Cache' Dining Table by Karakter
Located in Berlin, DE
The price given applies to the table with 180cm width. The price for the larger version in 260cm is 5.900€. Table top in oak veneer, frame in steel. Finish: Lacquered tabletop, powder coated frame Beautiful Dining Table for The Cache series, part of Paul McCobb’s extensive Planner series. The Table can be complemented by a matching Cache Series Desk organizer and a Console table (both pieces are listed, too). A prominent figure in American mid-century design, Paul McCobb conceived the Planner series in the 1950s, a modular furniture series that brought modern design into middle-class American households. The aesthetic attribute of McCobb’s design is sleek and unadorned and at the same time warm and approachable. With its versatility and purity of form, the Planner series became one of the most successful commercial furniture...
Category

2010s Danish Mid-Century Modern Furniture

Materials

Steel

Paul McCobb for Calvin Dining Table
Located in Atlanta, GA
Elegant Mid Century Dining Table, designed by Paul McCobb for Calvin Furniture's Directional Line, American, circa 1960s. The table expands from a 48" round to a 68" width oval with ...
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1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Furniture

Materials

Metal

Stunning Paul McCobb Credenza for Calvin Linear Group Cabinet, Classic Modernist
Located in Buffalo, NY
Stunning Paul McCobb credenza for Calvin Linear Group cabinet, Classic Modernist Design.. Beautiful figured walnut..Aluminum trim and details..Two sliding doors (bottom).. Three draw...
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1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Furniture

Materials

Aluminum

Beautiful Midcentury Brass Headboard by Paul McCobb for Calvin King
Located in BROOKLYN, NY
Beautiful Paul McCobb for Calvin Furniture bed headboard in wonderful vintage condition. finely crafted with brass frame with red upholstery details. Fits a King sized mattress. Bed ...
Category

Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Furniture

Materials

Brass

Paul McCobb Planner Group Midcentury 4 Drawer Dresser with Sliding Door Cabinet
Located in Countryside, IL
Paul McCobb planner group midcentury 4-drawer dresser with sliding door cabinet. The bottom measures: 36 wide x 18 deep x 42.25 inches hig...
Category

1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Furniture

Materials

Brass

Paul McCobb Night Stands Model #8712
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
An original pair of Paul Mccobb night tables. Bleached Mahogany and White Vitrolite glass tops. Calvin metal manufacturing tags. mahogany,brass with white carrara glass tops.
Category

1950s North American Vintage Furniture

Materials

Milk Glass

Carlo Scarpa Cognac Leather “Kentucky” Dining Chair for Bernini, 1977, Set of 5
Located in Vicenza, IT
Set of 5 mod. 783 “Kentucky” dining chairs, designed by Carlo Scarpa for the Italian manufacturer Bernini in 1977. Structure made from oak and walnut timber. Seats and backrest made from cognac leather. Excellent vintage condition. Carlo Scarpa designed this chair for the “Scuderia” series., the last project he made for Bernini. The architect took inspiration from the “shaker” movement. He designed the chair slightly inclined at the front. This feature allows you to swing backward (until you lean on a wall) and remain in balance. Born in Venice on June 2nd, 1906, Carlo Scarpa began working at a very early age. A year after he had first qualified as an architect in 1926, he began working for the Murano glassmakers Cappellin & Co. in a consultative capacity. From 1927, Carlo Scarpa began to experiment with the Murano glass, and this research not only gave him excellent results here but would also inform his progress for many years to come. Between 1935 and 1937, as he entered his thirties, Carlo Scarpa accepted his first important commission, the renovation of Venice’s Cà Foscari. He adapted the spaces of this stately University building that stands on the Grand Canal banks, creating rooms for the Dean’s offices and a new hall for academic ceremonies; Mario Sironi and Mario De Luigi were charged with doing the restoration work on the frescos. After 1945, Carlo Scarpa found himself constantly busy with new commissions, including various furnishings and designs for the renovation of Venice’s Hotel Bauer and designing a tall building in Padua and a residential area in Feltre, all worth mentioning. One of his key works, despite its relatively modest diminished proportions, was the [bookshop known as the] Padiglione del Libro, which stands in Venice’s Giardini di Castello and clearly shows Scarpa’s passion for the works of Frank Lloyd Wright. In the years which were to follow, after he had met the American architect, Scarpa repeated similar experiments on other occasions, as can be seen, in particular, in the sketches he drew up in 1953 for villa Zoppas in Conegliano, which show some of his most promising work. However, this work unfortunately never came to fruition. Carlo Scarpa later created three museum layouts to prove pivotal in terms of how twentieth-century museums were set up from then on. Between 1955 and 1957, he completed extension work on Treviso’s Gipsoteca Canoviana [the museum that houses Canova’s sculptures] in Possagno, taking a similar experimental approach to the one he used for the Venezuelan Pavilion at [Venice’s] Giardini di Castello which he was building at the same time (1954-56). In Possagno Carlo Scarpa was to create one of his most significant ever works, which inevitably bears comparison with two other museum layouts that he was working on over the same period, those of: – Galleria Nazionale di Sicilia, housed in the Palazzo Abatellis in Palermo (1953-55) – Castelvecchio in Verona (1957- 1974), all of which were highly acclaimed, adding to his growing fame. Two other buildings, which are beautifully arranged in spatial terms, can be added to this long list of key works that were started and, in some cases, even completed during the nineteen fifties. After winning the Olivetti award for architecture in 1956, Scarpa began work in Venice’s Piazza San Marco on an area destined to house products made by the Industrial manufacturers Ivrea. Over the same period (1959-1963), he also worked on the renovation and restoration of the gardens and ground floor of the Fondazione Querini Stampalia in Venice, which many consider one of his greatest works. While he busied himself working on-site at the Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Carlo Scarpa also began work building a villa in Udine for the Veritti family. To shed some light on the extent to which his work evolved over the years, it may perhaps be useful to compare this work with that of his very last building, villa Ottolenghi Bardolino, which was near to completion at the time of his sudden death in 1978. Upon completion of villa Veritti over the next ten years, without ever letting up on his work on renovation and layouts, Scarpa accepted some highly challenging commissions, working on the Carlo Felice Theatre in Genoa and another theatre in Vicenza. Towards the end of this decade, in 1969, Rina Brion commissioned Carlo Scarpa to build the Brion Mausoleum in San Vito d’Altivole (Treviso), a piece he continued to work on right up until the moment of his death. Nevertheless, even though he was totally absorbed by work on this mausoleum, there are plenty of other episodes which can offer some insight into the final years of his career. As work on the San Vito d’Altivole Mausoleum began to lessen from 1973, Carlo Scarpa started building the new headquarters for the Banca Popolare di Verona. He drew up plans that were surprisingly different from the work he was carrying out at the same time on the villa Ottolenghi. However, the plans Carlo Scarpa drew up, at different times, for a monument in Brescia’s Piazza della Loggia commemorating victims of the terrorist attack on May 28th, 1974, make a sharp contrast to the work he carried out in Verona, almost as if there is a certain hesitation after so many mannered excesses. The same Pietas that informs his designs for the Piazza Della Loggia can also be seen in the presence of the water that flows through the Brion Mausoleum, almost as if to give a concrete manifestation of pity in this twentieth-century work of art. Carlo Scarpa has put together a highly sophisticated collection of structures, occupying the mausoleum’s L-shaped space stretching across both sides of the old San Vito d’Altivole cemetery. A myriad of different forms and an equally large number of different pieces, all of which are separate and yet inextricably linked to form a chain that seems to offer no promise of continuity, rising up out of these are those whose only justification for being there is to bear the warning “si vis vitam, para mortem,” [if you wish to experience life prepare for death] as if to tell a tale that suggests the circle of time, joining together the commemoration of the dead with a celebration of life. At the entrance of the Brion Mausoleum stand the “propylaea” followed by a cloister which ends by a small chapel, with an arcosolium bearing the family sarcophagi, the main pavilion, held in place on broken cast iron supports, stands over a mirror-shaped stretch of water and occupies one end of the family’s burial space. The musical sound of the walkways teamed with the luminosity of these harmoniously blended spaces shows how, in keeping with his strong sense of vision, Carlo Scarpa could make the most of all of his many skills to come up with this truly magnificent space. As well as a great commitment to architectural work, with the many projects which we have already seen punctuating his career, Carlo Scarpa also made many equally important forays into the world of applied arts. Between 1926 and 1931, he worked for the Murano glassmakers Cappellin, later taking what he had learned with him when he went to work for the glassmakers Venini from 1933 until the 1950s. The story of how he came to work on furniture design is different, however, and began with the furniture he designed to replace lost furnishings during his renovation of Cà Foscari. The later mass-produced furniture started differently, given that many pieces were originally one-off designs “made to measure.” Industrial manufacturing using these designs as prototypes came into being thanks to the continuity afforded him by Dino Gavina, who, as well as this, also invited Carlo Scarpa to become president of the company Gavina SpA, later to become SIMON, a company Gavina founded eight years on, in partnership with Maria Simoncini (whose own name accounts for the choice of company name). Carlo Scarpa and Gavina forged a strong bond in 1968 as they began to put various models of his into production for Simon, such as the “Doge” table, which also formed the basis for the “Sarpi” and “Florian” tables. In the early seventies, other tables that followed included “Valmarana,” “Quatour,” and “Orseolo.” While in 1974, they added couch and armchair “Cornaro” to the collection and the “Toledo” bed...
Category

1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Furniture

Materials

Walnut, Leather, Plastic

Carlo Scarpa Venini Murano Signed Bollicine Gold Leaf Italian Art Glass Ashtray
Located in Kissimmee, FL
Beautiful antique Murano hand blown Sommerso clear bubbles in champagne or caramel color with gold flecks Italian art glass ashtray. Documented to Venini company, and created by mast...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Art Deco Furniture

Materials

Gold Leaf

Paul McCobb for Winchendon Furniture Co 'Planner Group' Maple Coffee Table
Located in New York, NY
American Mid-Century (circa 1950) 'Planner Group' maple coffee table with a rectangular top resting on four tapered dowel legs. (PAUL MCCOBB FOR WINCHENDON FURNITURE CO)
Category

20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Furniture

Materials

Wood, Maple

Paul McCobb for Bryce Originals Swivel Table Top Vanity Mirror, 1950s
Located in South Bend, IN
A rare and exceptional Mid-Century Modern swiveling table top vanity mirror By Paul McCobb for Bryce Originals USA, 1950s Black enameled steel, with...
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1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Furniture

Materials

Enamel, Steel

Paul McCobb for Bell & Howell Midcentury Hi Fi Radio Console
Located in Countryside, IL
Paul McCobb for Bell & Howell midcentury Hi-Fi radio console. This console measures: 72 wide x 19 deep x 34.75 inches high. All pieces of furniture...
Category

1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Furniture

Materials

Brass

Paul McCobb Calvin Linear Group Dresser, Chest, Commode, Mid-Century Modern
Located in Stamford, CT
Mid-Century Modern Chest by Paul McCobb (1917-1969) for Calvin Linear Group This walnut and aluminum chest having four center drawers with pulls. Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1950...
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Late 20th Century Mid-Century Modern Furniture

Materials

Metal

Paul McCobb Refinished Blond Maple Student Desk (model 1560)
Located in New York, NY
American Mid-Century blond maple student desk with a rectangular desktop supported on the left by two drawers with circular knob pulls resting on two short...
Category

20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Furniture

Materials

Wood, Maple

Carlo Scarpa Mid-Century Brown Walnut “Scuderia” Dining Table for Bernini, 1977
Located in Vicenza, IT
“Scuderia” dining table, designed by Carlo Scarpa and produced by the Italian manufacturer Bernini in 1977. Originally, Carlo Scarpa designed the table to restore the stable of Villa Valmarana in Vicenza in 1972. The table features a solid walnut structure. Available also five “Kentucky” dining...
Category

1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Furniture

Materials

Walnut

Set of 4 Dining Chairs by Paul McCobb for the Winchendon Furniture Co.
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Set of four dining chairs designed by Paul McCobb for the Winchendon Furniture (Planner Group) Co. Solid maple with a spindle supported backrest and signature inlay screw on each sea...
Category

1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Furniture

Materials

Wood

Carlo Scarpa & Marcel Breuer Naxos Marble “Delfi” Table for Studio Simon, 1969
Located in Vicenza, IT
Delfi” dining table, designed by Carlo Scarpa and Marcel Breuer and produced by the Italian manufacturer Studio Simon in 1969. Made of white Nax...
Category

1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Furniture

Materials

Marble

Mahogany End Table by Paul McCobb for Calvin, Irwin Collection
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Mid-Century Modern, bleached mahogany, end table by Paul McCobb for Calvin, Irwin Collection features a leather top with brass trim, caned lower shelf and nickel plated brass pulls. ...
Category

Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Furniture

Materials

Brass

Linear Group Display Cabinet by Paul McCobb for Calvin Furniture, c. 1960s
Located in Deland, FL
The Linear Group was designed by Paul McCobb and manufactured by Calvin Furniture. Constructed from walnut, brass, and glass, the display cabinet is compr...
Category

1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Furniture

Materials

Walnut

Bookcase / Entry Table by Paul McCobb for Winchendon Planner Group, USA, c. 1960
Located in Deland, FL
This one of a kind book shelf is the perfect combination of classic design with a modern twist. Designed by the visionary Paul McCobb and produced by the Planner Group this book shelf has recently undergone a transformative transition from simple bookcase...
Category

1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Furniture

Materials

Maple

Paul McCobb Lounge Chair
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Paul McCobb lounge chair. Dark walnut frame was refinished and upholstery updated to a plush boucle. Additional photos available upon request. Would work well in a variety of int...
Category

1950s North American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Furniture

Materials

Bouclé, Walnut

Paul McCobb for Planner Group Dining Table in Maple
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Paul McCobb for Planner Group, dining table model 1522, maple, United States, 1950s Dining table ‘1522’ in maple by designer Paul McCobb. This model features blond maple wood that i...
Category

1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Furniture

Materials

Maple

Carlo Scarpa Big “Poliedri” Chandelier in Murano Opaline Glass for Venini, 1958
Located in Vicenza, IT
“Poliedri” chandelier designed by Carlo Scarpa and produced by the Italian manufacturer Venini in, 1958. Made of opaline Murano glass. Born in Venice on June 2nd, 1906, Carlo Scarpa began working at a very early age. Only a year after he had first qualified as an architect in 1926, he began working for the Murano glassmakers Cappellin & Co. in a consultative capacity; from 1927, he began to experiment with the Murano glass, and this research not only gave him excellent results here but would also inform his progress for many years to come. Between 1935 and 1937, as he entered his thirties, Carlo Scarpa accepted his first important commission, the renovation of Venice’s Cà Foscari. He adapted the spaces of this stately University building which stands on the banks of the Grand Canal, creating rooms for the Dean’s offices and a new hall for academic ceremonies; Mario Sironi and Mario De Luigi were charged with doing the restoration work on the frescos. After 1945, Carlo Scarpa found himself constantly busy with new commissions, including various furnishings and designs for the renovation of Venice’s Hotel Bauer and designing a tall building in Padua and a residential area in Feltre, which are all worth mention. One of his key works, despite its relatively modest diminished proportions, was the first of many works which were to follow in the nineteen fifties: the [bookshop known as the] Padiglione del Libro, which stands in Venice’s Giardini di Castello and shows clearly Scarpa’s passion for the works of Frank Lloyd Wright. In the years which were to follow, after he had met the American architect, Scarpa repeated similar experiments on other occasions, as can be seen, in particular, in the sketches he drew up in 1953 for villa Zoppas in Conegliano, which show some of his most promising work. However, this work unfortunately never came to fruition. Carlo Scarpa later created three museum layouts to prove pivotal in terms of how twentieth-century museums were to be set up from then on. Between 1955 and 1957, he completed extension work on Treviso’s Gipsoteca Canoviana [the museum that houses Canova’s sculptures] in Possagno, taking a similar experimental approach to the one he used for the Venezuelan Pavilion at [Venice’s] Giardini di Castello which he was building at the same time (1954-56). In Possagno Carlo Scarpa was to create one of his greatest ever works, which inevitably bears comparison with two other museum layouts that he was working on over the same period, those of the Galleria Nazionale di Sicilia, housed in the Palazzo Abatellis in Palermo (1953-55) and at the Castelvecchio in Verona (1957- 1974), all of which were highly acclaimed, adding to his growing fame. Two other buildings, which are beautifully arranged in spatial terms, can be added to this long list of key works that were started and, in some cases, even completed during the nineteen fifties. After winning the Olivetti award for architecture in 1956, Scarpa began work in Venice’s Piazza San Marco on an area destined to house products made by the Industrial manufacturers Ivrea. Over the same period (1959-1963), he also worked on renovation and restoration of the gardens and ground floor of the Fondazione Querini Stampalia in Venice, which many consider being one of his greatest works. While he busied himself working on-site at the Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Carlo Scarpa also began work building a villa in Udine for the Veritti family. To shed some light on the extent to which his work evolved over the years, it may perhaps be useful to compare this work with that of his very last building, villa Ottolenghi Bardolino, which was near to completion at the time of his sudden death in 1978. Upon completion of villa Veritti over the next ten years, without ever letting up on his work on renovation and layouts, Scarpa accepted some highly challenging commissions which were to make the most of his formal skills, working on the Carlo Felice Theatre in Genoa as well as another theatre in Vicenza. Towards the end of this decade, in 1969, Rina Brion commissioned Carlo Scarpa to build the Brion Mausoleum in San Vito d’Altivole (Treviso), a piece he continued to work on right up until the moment of his death. Nevertheless, even though he was totally absorbed by work on this mausoleum, there are plenty of other episodes which can offer some insight into the final years of his career. As work on the San Vito d’Altivole Mausoleum began to lessen from 1973, Carlo Scarpa began work building the new headquarters for the Banca Popolare di Verona. He drew up plans that were surprisingly different from the work he was carrying out at the same time on the villa Ottolenghi. However, the plans Carlo Scarpa drew up, at different times, for a monument in Brescia’s Piazza della Loggia commemorating victims of the terrorist attack on May 28th, 1974, make a sharp contrast to the work he carried out in Verona, almost as if there is a certain hesitation after so many mannered excesses. The same Pietas that informs his designs for the Piazza Della Loggia can also be seen in the presence of the water that flows through the Brion Mausoleum, almost as if to give a concrete manifestation of pity in this twentieth-century work of art. Carlo Scarpa has put together a highly sophisticated collection of structures, occupying the mausoleum’s L-shaped space stretching across both sides of the old San Vito d’Altivole cemetery. A myriad of different forms and an equally large number of different pieces, all of which are separate and yet inextricably linked to form a chain that seems to offer no promise of continuity, rising up out of these are those whose only justification for being there is to bear the warning “si vis vitam, para mortem”, [if you wish to experience life prepare for death] as if to tell a tale that suggests the circle of time, joining together the commemoration of the dead with a celebration of life. At the entrance of the Brion Mausoleum stand the “propylaea” followed by a cloister which ends by a small chapel, with an arcosolium bearing the family sarcophagi, the main pavilion, held in place on broken cast iron supports, stands over a mirror-shaped stretch of water and occupies one end of the family’s burial space. The musical sound of the walkways teamed with the luminosity of these harmoniously blended spaces shows how, in keeping with his strong sense of vision, Carlo Scarpa could make the most of all of his many skills to come up with this truly magnificent space. As well as a great commitment to architectural work, with the many projects which we have already seen punctuating his career, Carlo Scarpa also made many equally important forays into the world of applied arts. Between 1926 and 1931, he worked for the Murano glassmakers Cappellin, later taking what he had learned with him when he went to work for the glassmakers Venini from 1933 until the 1950s. The story of how he came to work on furniture design is different, however, and began with the furniture he designed to replace lost furnishings during his renovation of Cà Foscari. The later mass-produced furniture started differently, given that many pieces were originally one-off designs “made to measure”. Industrial manufacturing using these designs as prototypes came into being thanks to the continuity afforded him by Dino Gavina, who, as well as this, also invited Carlo Scarpa to become president of the company Gavina SpA, later to become SIMON, a company Gavina founded 8 years on, in partnership with Maria Simoncini (whose own name accounts for the choice of company name). Carlo Scarpa and Gavina forged a strong bond in 1968 as they began to put various models of his into production for Simon, such as the “Doge” table, which also formed the basis for the “Sarpi” and “Florian” tables. 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