Furniture

A lovely hanging lamp by Stilnovo, with all the charm of the 1960s. The orange lampshade made of metal with the distinctive Stilnovo rectangular holes matches perfectly with the beig...

Very playfum and versatile Italian floor lamp by 1 of Italy's most famous designers. Joe Colombo designed this lamp in the 70's for 1 of Italy's be...

Rare set of 5 Stilnovo lights, newly rewired, Italy circa 1960, priced and sold per lamp/item. Nice set of 5 solide Perspex shades with bronzed brass fittings. The bulbs are deepl...

Model 852 table lamp A perfect example of Stilnovo's exploration in both shapes and materials during the Italian Fifties, this lamp presents a monolithic main frosted glass diffuser...

Massive cluster chandelier designed by Stilnovo with a diameter of 130 cm. Italian mid-century at its finest ! Its Minimalistic shape make it great for any midcentury or modern int...

Very nice and minimalistic floor lamp designed by Bruno Gatta and manufactured by Stilnovo, Italy 1950. The lamp stands tall on a Carrara marble base. A sleek black metal stem rises ...

Rare wall lamps designed by Bruno Gatta and manufactured by Stilnovo, Italy 1959. These lamps have a modernist shaped appearance with their white lacquered metal frame and opaline gl...

Elegante pendente in vetro acidato e satinato, coroncine in ottone traforato, etichetta del produttore. Stilnovo, Milano anni '50.

Chandelier in the Stilnovo style made of brass and lacquered metal. Opaline glass diffusers. Five lights, 1950s period Excellent condition with slight traces of time, fully functio...

Stilnovo Bruno Gatta Lamp Chandelier Opaline Glass 288 Large Black, Italy 1950- Dimensions are 35.5" x 35.5"x 43.3" Early vintage original large chandelier with 8 light sources desi...

Important triptych of pendant chandeliers designed by Bruno Gatta for the famous Milanese company Stilnovo, Italy circa 1950 (the company sticker still present) It is a rare and ref...

Purchasing this Vintage Wall Light consisting of two reflectors extending through the wall by Bruno Gatta for Stilnovo from the 1950s offers a unique opportunity to own a piece of de...

Mid-century modern Italian chandelier designed and produced by Stilnovo, Italy around 1950. The gorgeous oval-shaped opaline glass shade produces a soft ethereal glow, delicately su...

Vintage Dakota Jackson post modern Art Deco style executive partners desk featuring mahogany with leather insert and stainless steel frame. A V-Shape pattern veneer top with Black Leather inset. 2 pedestal cabinets below: each with 2 standard drawers and 1 file drawer, front and back. Polished Stainless Steel drawer pulls, post, floor plates, and arced trestle supporting desktop. DJ Chelsea Black Leather, Polished Polyresin finish. Dakota Jackson (born August 24, 1949) is an American furniture designer known for his eponymous furniture brand, Dakota Jackson, Inc.,[1] his early avant-garde works involving moving parts or hidden compartments,[2][3] and his collaborations with the Steinway & Sons piano company.[1] Jackson helped establish the art furniture movement in 1970s SoHo,[4][5] later becoming a celebrity designer in the 1980s.[6][7][8] His background in the world of stage magic helped him get his first commissions and is often cited as the source of his point-of-view.[6][9] Early life Dakota Jackson was born on August 24, 1949, and grew up in the Rego Park neighborhood of Queens, New York. Stage Magic Jackson's father, Jack Malon, was a professional magician.[10] Mr. Malon learned the trade from his own father, who studied stage magic in early 20th century Poland.[1] Jackson began studying magic at a young age and sometimes performed with his father.[11] Jackson's name, in fact, grew out of a road trip to Fargo, North Dakota.[11] Throughout his adolescence and into his early 20s, Jackson immersed himself in the world of magic.[2] In 1963, Jackson began to perform in talent shows at his junior high school, William Cowper JHS 73 (which is known today as The Frank Sansivieri Intermediate School),[12] and at children's birthday parties.[13] Jackson also began to build his own props, including large boxes for sawing a woman in half and small boxes from which doves would emerge in full flight.[11] Jackson acknowledges the importance of these early experiences with magic to his later career as a furniture designer: "The demands of performance taught me how to discipline myself to achieve aesthetic ends."[1][2][14] After Jackson graduated from Forest Hills High School in 1967, he continued performing as a magician, working in art galleries, night clubs, touring in the Catskills, and giving private performances at society events.[2][13][15] When he was 17, Jackson had studied with magician Jack London to learn the dangerous bullet catch trick.[16] "What appealed to me was the notion of doing things that appeared miraculous" Jackson once recalled.[6] "I was interested in spiritualism. I was interested in things like bullet catching, things that really challenged individual sensibilities, that were frightening, on the edge."[2] He didn't find the opportunity to perform the trick publicly until a decade later at Jackson's final professional performance as a magician.[1] It was documented in Andy Warhol's Interview (magazine), in a story titled "Dakota Jackson bites the bullet."[1][16] Jackson admits that he sometimes tires of references to his magician background, although he acknowledges it as an important part of his history.[2] The Downtown Arts Scene In the late 1960s, Jackson moved into a loft on 28th Street in Chelsea.[1][17] Jackson became part of the Downtown scene, a community of "artists, dancers, performers, and musicians" who moved to the neighborhood for the cheap rent and social life.[1][8][17][18] In October 1970, Jackson performed with the Japanese group Tokyo Kid Brothers at New York's La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club (also known as Café La MaMa) in a rock musical production called "Coney Island Play" ("Konī airando purē).[19] The show explored themes of cross-cultural communication and understanding[19] and was a follow up to the group's debut performance of "The Golden Bat" at La MaMa earlier that summer.[20][21][22] Jackson played the part of a "clever conjurer."[19] Over the next few years, Jackson became interested in minimalist dance and performed in the dance companies of Laura Dean and Trisha Brown.[2][15][23] Jackson credits his exposure to minimalism and minimalist dance in particular as having had a strong influence on his approach to design; in 1989, Jackson told the Los Angeles Times: For me the essential fineness of a design is in the idea, not the object itself ... In minimalism, the object is pared down to its basic meaning by stripping away all the excrescence ... —those elements that do not contribute to the pure idea.[24] Design career In the early 1970s, as he experimented with performance and dance, Jackson began branching out as a special effects consultant to other magicians, film producers, and musicians[2][23] such as Donna Summer.[6][9] The loft also gave Jackson an opportunity to apply his creativity and building skills: "These were times when lofts were not ... luxury condominiums. These were tough, tough raw spaces ... and we artists, bohemians, creative people, we created our environment. So I had to build".[17][25] Recognizing his skills as a builder, Jackson decided to shift away from performance and become a full-time maker.[1][15][17] He began making a variety of objects, including furnishings for other artists and magic boxes with hidden compartments for art collectors and galleries.[17][24] Jackson's social connections helped spread word about his work[15] and this led to his first commissions.[1] Early Commissions Desk for John Lennon by Dakota Jackson In 1974, Jackson's career as a designer began when Yoko Ono asked him to build a desk with hidden compartments for husband John Lennon.[26] "She wanted to make a piece of furniture that would be a mystical object; that would be like a Chinese puzzle," Jackson recalled in a 1986 interview published in the Chicago Tribune.[6] The result was a small cubed-shaped writing table with rounded corners reminiscent of Art Deco era style.[15] Touching secret pressure points opened the desk's compartments.[23] This commission helped build Jackson's reputation and allowed him to merge his experience as a magician and performer with his developing interest in furniture.[27] In 1978, a bed designed for fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg garnered Jackson even more notoriety.[8][10][28] [29] Called "The Eclipse", the bed was described in The New Yorker as "large, astounding, sumptuous, with sunbursts of cherry wood and quilted ivory satin at head and foot."[10] A lighting system positioned behind the headboard switched on automatically at sunset and spread out rays of light "like an aurora borealis,"[2][17] which grew brighter and brighter until turning off at 2 am.[23][30] Commissions like these continued to come in[8] and Jackson soon became known as a designer to the rich and famous.[30] Some of his other clients from this period included songwriter Peter Allen, Saturday Night Live creator and producer Lorne Michaels, Rolling Stone publisher Jann Wenner, and soap opera actress Christine Jones.[8] The American Art Furniture Movement and the Industrial Style In the late 1970s, Jackson was among a small group of artists and artisans producing and exhibiting hand-made furniture in New York.[5][31] Jackson and his peers were part of the "American Art Furniture Movement," a group sometimes called the "Art et Industrie Movement,"[32] named after the leading art furniture gallery of the era,[32] Art et Industrie, founded by Rick Kaufmann in 1976.[33] In a 1984 Town & Country article titled "Art You Can Sit On," Kaufmann said he created the gallery to "serve as a locus to the public for artists and designers creating new decorative arts."[31] The works on display were "radical objects" that drew from a number of fine art traditions, including "Pop, Surrealism, Pointillism and Dada [which were] "thrown together with the severe lines of the Bauhaus and the Russian avant-garde, mixed with Mondrian's color and filtered through a video sensibility—all to create a new statement."[31] The article described Jackson as a "ten-year veteran of the genre" and pointed to the "clean forms and quiet colors" of his furniture.[4] Jackson showed a variety of industrial-looking lacquer, metal, and glass works at Art et Industrie, including his Standing Bar (also known as the Modern Bar),[33] a lacquered cabinet that Jackson designed in 1978 for his wife (then-girlfriend) RoseLee Goldberg.[13] Other works from this period include the T-Bird Desk, Self-Winding Cocktail Table, and the Saturn Stool...

Pair of rare pendants each with opaline glass globe shades held by brushed aluminum and brass fittings suspended by cable and original brushed aluminum canopy. This iconic Stilnovo m...

We are very pleased to offer a set of three bar counter stools by renowned American furniture designer Dakota Jackson, circa the 1990s. He began his career in the 1960s and gained re...

beautiful brass floor lamp with marble base from the early 1950s.

Stilnovo Chandelier n 8 lights Color Glass 1950

Set of three rare modern wall sconces, each made of a brass structure and white opaline glass. Made by Stilnovo, Italy c. 1960's. *Rewired to fit US lighting standards *Doesn't inclu...

Large adjustable wall lamp model 2061 by Gaetano Scolari for Stilnovo 1954. Brass structure composed of a telescopic arm and a pulley system with a counterweight which allows to adj...

manufactured by Stilnovo c. 1970s, Italy. There is a very small crack where one of the knobs that attaches the shade to the base screws on, and one knob is missing. It is in otherwis...

Superb floor lamp by Stilnovo circa 1950. Composed by three white glass in cascade. The glasses are held by nices brass fixture. Nice base in Carrara Marble base.

A vintage Mid-Century modern Italian pair of wall lamps, lights made of hand crafted polished brass designed and produced by Stilnovo, in good condition. Each of the detailed appliqu...

Italian Mid-Century Modern design set of eight scones wall lamps produced by Stilnovo with structure and swiveling diffusers in brass and lacquered metal, Italy 1960s. In the phot...

Very nice Italian pendant fabricated by Stilnovo in the 1950s. A beautiful hand blown glass shade in milk glass combined with a brass and black metal body. Very good vintage condit...

Suspended ceiling light with three brass framed discs by Stilnovo.

STILNOVO - Model 8022 -An original lamp is in perfect condition , working, from the 1950s a model that was produced until the 1960s by Stilnovo. Studied in all details the metal diff...

Brass floor lamp and cast iron conical base covered with brass cap. Inside its fabric shade, it carries two E27 bulbs. Original label.

A twelve (12) light suspended chandelier by Stilnovo.

Eccezionale Lampadario/Plafoniera /Applique Stilnovo Ottone Metallo

Stilnovo ceiling pendant. Manufactured in the 1960s made of opaline glass and metal. Corded is enclosed in a metal rod but can be changed out for a fabric cord. Has one medium base s...

Wall Mounted Pendant Lamp designed by the renowned Italian designer, Gaetano Sciolari and produced by Stilnovo crafted with a combination of me...

Rare pair of wall lamps Mod. no. 2118 produced in Italy by Stilnovo in the late 1950s. It consists of a brass frame with sandblasted opaline white shade. Yellow Stilnovo label on the...

Iconic pendant lamps designed by the fonder of Stilnovo ''Bruno Gatta'' 1954 Italy. Model 288 Matt black aluminum shade and ceiling plate. Opaline glass. Solid Brass fittings, all or...

A pair of good quality wall sconces manufactured by the STILNOVO company, in the 1950s-60s. Made in ITALY.

Stilnovo is founded in Milan by Bruno Gatta in 1946. In December 1946 Stilnovo made its first appearance in Domus, where two table lamps and a brass tray were published. In 1949 Brun...

50s 60s Stilnovo lamp light bauhaus mid century sheet metal Design 60s 50s Object: ceiling lamp Manufacturer: Condition: good - vintage Age: around 1950-1960 Dimension...

Stunning 1960s wall light, designed by Stilnovo, with black enamelled triangular support on a circular backplate, each side with knuckle joint fitted a coloured acrylic shade, one ye...

Italian Mid-Century Modern design Stilnovo pendant lamp model 1104, eliptical white satin glass diffuser and brass stem, 1950s Please note that the lamp is original of the period an...

Italian Mid-Century pendant by Stilnovo with a frosted glass diffuser and black and white shade. One light source. Condition: Excellent vintage condition, minor wear consistent with...

Very nice and typical Italian shaped floor lamp by Stilnovo, Italy 1950. The floor lamp has a round white marble base and a brass arm with counterweight for the balance. The shade i...

Ceiling light by Stilnovo. Designed and manufactured in Italy, circa the 1950s. Double-tiered black enameled shade holders are offset on a brass pendant stem. The diffusers are made ...

1960s Stilnovo pendant with an elliptical frosted glass shade. The three stems on top converge in a large main stem. Holds three candelabra sockets. Condition: Excellent vintage co...

Rare Stilnovo pendant lamp in brass, diffusers in murano colored glas 1950. This suspension lamp is made with three Murano glasses of 50 cm each, one more glass and marked with the ...

The Set of 10 Ocean Chairs by Dakota Jackson of New York is a stunning embodiment of contemporary luxury and refined craftsmanship. Consisting of two armchairs and eight side chairs,...

Set of nine brass swiveling spots designed by Gae Aulenti and Livio Castiglioni for Stilnovo in the 1970s. The spots can be used as wall lamps and as ceiling lamps. The spots or pro...

Original Stilnovo chandelier or wall sconce, model 1036 created around 1950s in Italy. The central fixture holds up 7 arms in tubular metal in black enamel, keeping in place at their...

Stilnovo chandelier iron metal plexiglass, 1950, Italy.

An original Stilnovo desk lamp ,Model D. 4639..Patinated brassin black.Very good condition . Full fonction.Free package and shipping . Literature:"Aparecci per l'illumunazione: light...

Rare Stilnovo floor lamp, 1950s. Designed and manufactured in Italy. Patinated brass frame, red enameled metal shade, marble base. Lampshade adjustable in all directions. Fully funct...

An original pair of fully articulated original Stilnovo wall lamps.(marked Stilnovo).. Italy 1960 .Solid brass adjustable arms ,which could rotate and adjust to several positions a...

Early Stilnovo Flush Mount Ceiling Light, Carries three lamp bulbs. Italy 1940s

Pair of wall lamps for indoor and outdoor use Mod. '2165', 1960s Stilnovo. Frame in satin-finish aluminium, globe in satin-finish triplex opal Excellent condition

Stilnovo large brass and opal glass pendant chandelier, model 1129, Italy It is a chandelier that can surprise with its originality and refinement, produced in few examples and hard...

Ceiling lights by Gaetano Sciolari for Stilnovo. Designed and manufactured in Italy, circa 1950. Aluminum frame with anodized copper finish, featuring a unique etched spiral within t...

Rare Italian Stilnovo wall lamp in brass and opaline glass, Italy, 1950s

Coppia di lampade da tavolo in ottone e vetro opalino. Riportano il marchio della manifattura. Buone condizioni.

STILNOVO. Rare pendant lamp. Brass structure, opaline glass diffusers (double light) and colored plexiglass. Original decal. Stilnovo production from the 1950s