Furniture

Paul McCobb for Directional Designs, lounge chair, model 1322, walnut, fabric, 1950s. A design Paul McCobb model 1322 dating back to the 1950s. The quintessential design features o...

Architectural Dining Table - Carlo Scarpa Table - Marble Table Set of two table bases in black marble, designed by Italian architect Carlo Scarpa for Cattelan Italia. The two legs a...

Beautiful Paul McCobb Planner Group three drawer dresser in tobacco maple finish with brass knobs solid maple. In original vintage condition, with no alterations. Very beautiful desi...

Venini Murrine Romane bowl in multicolor by Carlo Scarpa. Numbered Edition. These Murrine are called “roman” due to their graphic signs and because they...

Carlo Scarpa Frame Signed VENINI

Stylish small bookcase for the Planner Group designed by architect and furniture designer Paul McCobb. Great to use in a children's room to keep all their books within reach for the...

Wonderful little set...Mid-Century Modern square dining or game table with four chairs designed by Paul McCobb / Planner Group line for Winchendon Furniture. The table and chairs ret...

Murano Glass Ceiling Light by Carlo Scarpa for Venini, Italy, 1940s. A hand-blown ribbed Murano glass orb suspended by a few brass rings with a beautiful patina. This light has a sin...

Gorgeous Mid Century two piece shelving system by Paul McCobb and part of the “Planner Group” manufactured by Winchendon in the 1950s. Original maple wood shelves and black wrought i...

Carlo Scarpa (1906- 1978) was an Italian architect and designer heavily influenced by the history of Venetian culture, materials and landscape. in 1926 obtained his diploma of Profes...

A vintage large drum cylindrical shaped Poliedri chandelier. Pale green, blue and clear color Poliedri glass components on one silver lacquered metal structure designed by Carlo Sc...

2 Pitchers In Sterling Silver Hand-hammered, plain body flanked by an arcuate handle and a pouring spout located at 3/4 of the body. Dimensions: Vermeil interior pitcher height 22.5...

Rare and wonderful 1950s set of four stackable fiberglass gray chairs know as Origami Chairs. Designed by Paul McCobb for St John Seating Corporation, USA.. McCobb designed these mol...

Paul McCobb for Calvin Linear Mid Century Walnut and stainless steel full headboard This headboard measures: 54 wide x 1.25 deep x 36.25 in...

Cornaro two-seater sofa, designed by Carlo Scarpa and manufactured by Studio Simon in 1974. Made of Iroko wood, foam, and azure chenille velvet. Excellent vintage condition. Born in Venice on June 2nd, 1906, Carlo Scarpa began working very early. 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 was 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 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 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 incredible 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 renovating and restoring the gardens and ground floor of the Fondazione Querini Stampalia in Venice, which many consider one of his greatest works. While he worked on-site at the Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Carlo Scarpa also began building a villa in Udine for the Veritti family. To shed some light on how much his work evolved over the years, it may be useful to compare this work with that of his very last building, villa Ottolenghi Bardolino, which was near 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, plenty of other episodes can offer some insight into the final years of his career. As work on the San Vito d’Altivole Mausoleum began to lessen in 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 carried out simultaneously 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, arising 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 that ends by a small chapel, with an arcosolium bearing the family sarcophagi, the central 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 his many skills to come up with this truly magnificent space. As well as an outstanding commitment to architectural work, with the many projects 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 a couch and armchair, “Cornaro,” to the collection and the “Toledo” bed...

American Mid-Century walnut 20-drawer dresser with iron T-bar drawer pulls resting on six thin iron legs. (PAUL MCCOBB FOR WINCHENDON FURNITURE).  

This stunning vintage dining table is a true masterpiece of mid-century design. Crafted from rich mahogany and solid brass, it was designed by the iconic Paul McCobb for Calvin Furni...

Paul McCobb for Directional Mid Century Bleached Mahogany and Cane Dining Chairs - Set of 4 Each chair measures: 17.75 wide x 21 deep x 36 inches high, with a seat height/chair clea...

A walnut and cane lounge chair designed by Paul McCobb. Fully restored.

Pair of Paul McCobb planner group side or occasional table. A rectangular solid planked maple top sits atop classic splayed dowel legs. Versatile size, clean lines, lovely minimalist...

Gorgeous oval shaped table by Carlo Scarpa in cream travertine marble. Italy, 1970's "Argo" center or dining table designed for the Ultrazionale" collection Single pedestal with w...

Mirror measures: 47" x 17". Dresser is 60" wide, 18.25" deep and 33" tall. Paul McCobb Dresser and Mirror. A sophisticated restoration has been performed on two pieces and both are listed separately. This pieces provided a contrast between the black lacquer and the birch elements and brass knobs. An uncommon element to this suite is the seldom seen original Paul McCobb mirror...

Iconic side table designed by Paul McCobb for his "Planner Group" line that he collaborated for Winchendon Furniture Co. in the United States circa 1950s. An iconic design featuring ...

A fine Italian Mid Century Modern glass "Mezza Filigrana" vanity mirror designed by, Carlo Scarpa for Venini. The mirror frame is internally decorated with pink lattice decoration an...

Iconic dining table with oval top model 'Samo' designed by Carlo Scarpa in 1970 and produced by Simon; in white saccaroid marble.

The original executive high wing back desk chair on casters designed by Paul McCobb. Feel free to request a delivery rate and we will do our best to search for the most reasonable q...

Paul McCobb has been a bit of a dark horse in the world of Mid-Century Modern. Due to an early passing, McCobb didn't see the longevity of some of his modernist counterparts. But des...

A three (3) drawer chest of drawers designed by Paul McCobb, a part of the planner group nay Winchedon Furniture company. Splayed legs support the narrow drawers. Constructed of sol...

Here is an exquisite 1950's Venetian pink and white glass bowl, made with alternating stripes of lattice criss cross zanfirico filigree stran...

Restored Paul McCobb "Planner Group" drop leaf dining table with for Winchendon Modern with two additional leaves. At its smallest, the table is 36 inch by 54 inch table for four. Ea...

Paul Mccobb Calvin Group five-drawer chest (model 1003) manufactured by Directional Furniture (ca. early 1950s, USA). Composed of a stained mahogany chest with brass tear-drop pulls ...

Paul Mccobb Calvin Group eight-drawer double dresser / lowboy cabinet manufactured by Directional Furniture (ca. early 1950s, USA). Composed of a stained mahogany chest with brass te...

Pair of wall lights with four lightpoints,“Poliedri” model designed by Carlo Scarpa, edited by Venini. Composed by Murano crystal pieces over a structure made in white lacquer metal....

A very well crafted Honduran mahogany wood game table with folding extension top making a dining or larger table . The legs are in a dark contrasting mahogany with brushed brass cros...

Paul McCobb design six drawer dresser for his Planner Group series for Winchendon Furniture Company. Made from solid maple wood that has been professionally lacquered in a light Pist...

Set of 6 All original midcentury maple Paul McCobb Planner Group spindle back side chairs. Solid maple seat and curved back on tapered legs. Original vintage condition. Original blon...

Postmodernist pedestal table with Carrara marble sculpture base designed by Carlo Scarpa for Cattelan in Italy, 1970s. Measurements: Diameter 117 x H 73 cm Alberto Carlo Scarpa was...

Mid-Century Modern Paul McCobb Credenza/Media Console Offered is a vintage credenza designed by Paul McCobb for Planner Group. Features sliding doors and adjustable shelving inside....

Pair of Scarpa Venini Poliedri wall lights, clear and amber color Poliedri glass components on white lacquered structure ca.1960 All glass components are in very good condition.

Venini “Carlo Scarpa” Poliedri Murano glass iron brass, 1960, Italy.

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Vintage midcentury Paul McCobb single bookcase #1516 solid maple with original walnut finish on an Iron base. Beautiful bookcase by Paul McCobb circa 1950s Planner Group, single cent...

This is one of the best well crafted and tightly tailored pieces by the iconic designer Paul MCobb . Featuring brass pulls and leg structure contrasting with the dark mahogany and ha...

Glass shell with strongly iridescent surface designed by Carlo Scarpa in the 40ties. Acid signature Venini Murano Italy. Designed between 1942 and 1947 and produced before 1960.

A pair of medium walnut toned solid maple wood nightstands with a single drawer to each having brass pulls . Siting on conical legs which are in a higher profile to match todays matt...

Pair of wall sconces made of a painted metal structure from which hangs five stacks of two Murano glass blown pieces. One source of light per sconce. CARLO SCARPA (1906 – 1978) Car...

Iconico tavolo modello Doge disegnato da Carlo Scarpa e prodotto da Simon a partire dal 1968. Realizzato con struttura in acciaio con distanziali in ottone e grande piano in cristall...

Scarpa Carlo design for Venini Italy in years '30 wall lamp in glass and brass in perfect condition

Sculptural steel table - Carlo Scarpa dining table - Italian Collectible Design Beautiful, timeless and rare "Sarpi" dining table, designed in 1974 by architect Carlo Scarpa for Sim...

This uncommon design by Paul McCobb is classic mid-century modern design. With it's clean lines and splayed tapered legs, it is stylish but unpretentious. A generous seat makes it ve...

Paul McCobb Planner Group Mid Century Lowboy Dresser This lowboy measures: 48 wide x 18 deep x 33.5 inches high All pieces of furniture can be had in what we call restored vintage ...

Paul McCobb for Planner Group Mid Century Sliding Door Credenza This credenza measures: 60 wide x 18.25 deep x 25.5 inches high All pieces of furniture can be had in what we call r...

A gorgeous Mid-Century Modern petite server or bar cabinet By Paul McCobb for H. Sacks & Sons, "Connoisseur Collection" USA, 1950s Mahogany, with brass legs and hardware. Measure...

Paul McCobb for Planner Group Mid Century Maple Nightstands - Pair Each nightstand measures: 22 wide x 17 deep x 24 inches high All pie...

Suspension lamp model “Poliedri” designed by Carlo Scarpa and edited by Venini. Structure made of lacquered metal composed of unique pieces in Murano glass. Italy 1950s. Carlos Scar...

Bottiglia "A Bollicine" Carlo Scapa, Venini Italy, 1930 Bottiglia Art Deco in Vetro Murano verde. Raro oggetto. Originale degli anni 30 Perfette condizioni Bibliografia: "Carlo Sc...

Suspension lamp model “Poliedri” designed by Carlo Scarpa and edited by Venini. Structure made of lacquered metal composed of unique pieces in Murano glass. Italy 1950s. Carlos Scar...

Planner group side table by Paul McCobb for Winchendon Furniture.