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Place of Origin: Italian
1970s Vintage Italian Murano Venini Venetian Art Glass Ice Bucket Blue and White
By Venini, Murano Glass Sommerso
Located in North Hollywood, CA
1970s Vintage Venini Murano Light Blue White Clear Wine Cooler Ice Bucket Made in Italy.
handcrafted Italian Murano Venini venetian art glass ice bucket .
This is a delicate blown Murano art glass ice bucket.
It has a flared shape from the base to the rim.
It is a light sea blue color glass with white vertical lines and many small bubbles in the glass, the imperfection in the glass is due to the handcrafted blown glass.
Vintage hand blown Venini Murano martini ice cube glass container in light blue, white and transparent wine cooler, ice bucket
Hand-made in Italy 1970-80.
No Hallmark no signature.
Italian Murano art glass ice bucket.
Measures from handle to handle: 6.5 inches.
Diameter Top is 5.5 inches.
Dimensions: Height: 5 in (12.7 cm)Width: 6.5 in (16.51 cm)Depth: 5.5 in (13.97 cm).
Add a beautiful touch of Italian Mediterranean art...
Category
Late 20th Century Post-Modern Italian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Art Glass, Blown Glass, Murano Glass
Alessi for Delta Airlines Set of Four Wine Juice Glasses Italy
By Alessi
Located in Chula Vista, CA
AMBIANIC presents
Alessi for Delta Airlines Modern Set of Four Wine Juice Gasses Italy
4.25 h x 2.75 diameter
Preowned original vintage
Refer to images.
Category
2010s Modern Italian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Glass
Table Box mechanical musical movement and miniature fired enamel Salimbeni
By Franco Salimbeni, Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Large rectangular table box with concave corners, with mechanical musical movement with 3 different motifs by the Swiss company Reuge S.A. in 925/1000 sterling silver gold plated wit...
Category
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
20th Century Italian Solid Silver Gallery Tray on Silver Stand
By Schiavon Argenterie
Located in VALENZA, IT
Rectangular barocco tray shaped with high edge and oval holes for handles. It has been placed on 4 small feet
The tray is completely handmade by Fantappiè e Castrucci
Silversmiths...
Category
Early 20th Century Baroque Italian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Silver
$19,073 Sale Price
20% Off
Murano Barovier Style Vanity Tray with Etched Mirror and Twisted Glass Rope
By Barovier
Located in Prato, Tuscany
We kindly suggest you read the whole description, because with it we try to give you detailed technical and historical information to guarantee the authenticity of our objects.
Iconic vanity tray with handles; the rectangular top is a mirror with rounded corners and has been skilfully ground with stone wheels from underneath depicting a courtship scene showing a courtly couple dressed in all their finery in a landscape or formal garden with architectural elements creating a complete and lively image; the upper edge of the mirror is decorated with a glass cord...
Category
Mid-20th Century Rococo Revival Italian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Brass
Corteo Porcelain Set of 12 Dinner Plates Made in Italy
By Vito Nesta
Located in ROCCAVIVARA CB, IT
The triunphant entrance of a Sultan into a conquered city is the theme of these collection in which all the plates are part of the same image, connected amongst them and telling one ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other Italian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
Opinion Ciatti Ptolomeo Vino Vertical Wine Rack Large
By Opinion Ciatti, Bruno Rainaldi
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Ptolomeo Vino is the bottle holder version of Original Ptolomeo, the famous free-standing bookshelves designed by Bruno Rainaldi, winner of the Compasso d’Oro 2004 and soon became an icon of contemporary design. A glass of our favourite wine and that book that we are engrossed in. Very often our moments of greatest relaxation are imagined in the company of a good book and an excellent glass of wine. Launched at the 2018 Salone del Mobile, Ptolomeo Vino becomes the “summa” of this suggestive idea, representing the transformation of the famous Original Ptolomeo bookshelf...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Italian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Steel
Ashtray by Flavio Poli for Seguso, Sommerso Glass, Murano, Italy, 1960
By Flavio Poli
Located in BARCELONA, ES
Superb ashtray by flavio poli for seguso, designed and produced in italy in the 1960s.
This murano glass ashtray was hand-cut from the so-called "sommerso" technique of the italia...
Category
1960s Hollywood Regency Vintage Italian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Murano Glass
Lenci " Madonna of Peace" Ceramic 1950 Italy
By Lenci
Located in Milano, IT
Ceramic Lenci..." Our Lady of Peace"
Category
1950s Other Vintage Italian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Ceramic
20th Century Italian Sterling Silver Handmade Triptych Mirror Baroque revival
By Arval Argenti Valenza
Located in VALENZA, IT
This Italian Baroque style Sterling Silver mirror is fully hand embossed and chiselled on silver sheet by hand. The two side mirrors are attached by silver hinges.
4.600 grams.
Ita...
Category
1960s Baroque Vintage Italian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Sterling Silver
20th Century Made in Italy Sterling Silver Horse and Knight Armour
By Argenteria Etruria
Located in VALENZA, IT
Horse in black lacquered resin with a sterling silver armor with Russian 14th century knight in sterling silver armor with golden and enameled details.
Category
1980s Medieval Vintage Italian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Sterling Silver
$1,159 Sale Price
20% Off
Light Blue Murano Pulegoso Bowl
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Vintage Italian light blue Murano glass bowl carefully hand blown with small bubbles inside the glass using pulegoso technique / Made in Italy, c...
Category
20th Century Mid-Century Modern Italian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Murano Glass
$480 Sale Price
40% Off
Exclusive 'Sturgeon' Centrepiece
By Braganti
Located in Milan, IT
This sumptuous piece is entirely made in silver and will enrich a dining table or entryway with its superb craftsmanship and sophisticated details. This centerpiece is specifically d...
Category
2010s Other Italian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Silver
$45,540 / item
Large Murano Glass Centerpiece By Cenedese & Albarelli, 1970s
By Cenedese & Albarelli
Located in Palermo, IT
Large Murano glass centerpiece by Cenedese & Albarelli, 1970s
Purchased and stored, it is intact and in excellent condition. Signed wit...
Category
1970s Vintage Italian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Murano Glass
20th Century Italian Solid Silver Cutlery Set 101 Pieces "Cellini"
By Ricci Argentieri
Located in VALENZA, IT
New complete cutlery set 101 pieces in solid silver "Seashell" CELLINI by Ricci Argenteria Alessandria - Italy.
The service is composed as follows:
N ° 36 Table...
Category
2010s Other Italian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Silver
Coaster Barware White Carrara Marble Majolica Pattern Handmade Italy Collectible
By Pieruga Marble, Barberini & Gunnell
Located in Ancona, Marche
The Amalfi coaster inspired by the pattern of Majolica tiles represents all the Mediterranean flavor made of sea, sun, lemons and carefree laughter.
Coaster in polished White Carrara...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Italian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Carrara Marble
Topkapi I Porcelain Plate by Les Ottomans
By Les Ottomans
Located in Milan, IT
This exquisite porcelain plate is part of the Topkapi series, inspired by its namesake palace in Turkey that in the 15th century served as the main residence and administrative headq...
Category
2010s Italian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
$115 / item
Umberto Zannoni Grey Ceramic Vase with Squiggles, Signed
By Umberto Zannoni
Located in Milano, IT
Splendid ceramic vase signed Umberto Zannoni Faenza of fine Italian manufacture Zirardini in the 1950s. Signed, Original Label.
The marvellous vase has a round base from which the b...
Category
1950s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Ceramic
$575 Sale Price
20% Off
1950s Hand Blown Murano Clear Glass Organic Shaped Centerpiece
Located in Barcelona, ES
Elegant hand blown clear Murano glass centerpiece with organic design. Italy, 1950s.
Large size.
Clear hand-blown glass with elongated shape and elegant and clean design.
It will be ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Italian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Art Glass, Blown Glass, Murano Glass
$1,581 Sale Price
20% Off
Collection of Seven Cenedese Murano Glass Birds
By Cenedese
Located in Palm Springs, CA
An assembled collection of seven birds (swans, ducks, geese, your call) by Antonio da Ros for Cenedese in the scavo technique. Four large birds, two small birds and one medium. The l...
Category
20th Century Mid-Century Modern Italian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Murano Glass
$4,800 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Italian Designer, Ashtray, Brass, Italy, 1950s
Located in High Point, NC
A brass ashtray designed and produced in Italy, c. 1950s.
Category
1950s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Brass
1980s Minimalist Silver Plated Ice Bucket attributed to Teghini Firenze
By Teghini
Located in Aci Castello, IT
This 1980s Minimalist silver-plated ice bucket attributed to Teghini Firenze is an elegant and functional piece of barware, designed with a sleek, modern aesthetic. The bucket is cra...
Category
Late 20th Century Mid-Century Modern Italian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Silver Plate
Murano Glass Bullicante "Green" Bowl Element Shell Ashtray Murano, Italy, 1970s
By Flavio Poli, Alessandro Mandruzzato
Located in Kirchlengern, DE
Article:
Murano glass bowl, ashtray element
Origin:
Murano, Italy
Decade:
1970s
This original glass shell bowl was produced in the 1970s in Murano, Italy. An ...
Category
Late 20th Century Mid-Century Modern Italian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Murano Glass
Mid Century Blue Artistic Twisted Vase, Europe, 1960s
Located in 05-080 Hornowek, PL
Blue twisted vase in amazing organic shape. Produced in 1960s.
Glass in perfect condition. The vase looks like it has just been taken out of the box.
No jags, defects etc. The outer...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Italian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Glass
Beautiful large Etched Murano Glass Mirrored Tray by Barovier, Italy, 1980s
By Ercole Barovier
Located in Nuernberg, DE
Created by Ercole Barovier, this piece is a beautiful Italian serving or vanity table tray edged in Murano glass rope that is embedded with blue. Done ...
Category
1980s Hollywood Regency Vintage Italian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Mirror, Wood, Murano Glass
Murano Glass Vase Mid Century Red / Orange, Italy, circa 1960/70
By Murano Glass Sommerso
Located in Lichtenberg, AT
Colorful large mid-century Murano glass vase out of the famous glass art workshop Sommerso in Venetia/ Italy. Artfully made around 1960/70 this decorative, beautifully shaped glass v...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Italian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Murano Glass
Picture Frame two tone for oval photo Salimbeni
By Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Rectangular external frame with inward corners for oval photo, in 925/1000 gold-plated sterling silver with two-tone translucent enamel on guilloche. Borders and ornaments in French ...
Category
1960s Louis XVI Vintage Italian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
$5,010 / set
Antonio da ros, Sasso Vase
By Antonio da Ros
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Stunning Antonio da Ros, Sasso vase by Cenedese
Italy, c. 1960's
Great Colors
A strong early example.
Category
1960s Vintage Italian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Glass
20th Century Italian Sterling Silver Inkstand, hHandicraft made in Italy
By Mario Vallè
Located in VALENZA, IT
The inkwell, rectangular in shape, was completely handmade obtained from a silver plate and finely embossed and chiseled with scrolls and flowers, typical of the Italian Baroque of t...
Category
Late 20th Century Baroque Italian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Sterling Silver
Vincenzo Nason Murano Art Glass Green Blue Bird Paperweight Figurine
By Vincenzo Nason & Cie
Located in Barcelona, ES
Eye-catching Murano glass bird sculpture by Vincenzo Nason, Italy, 1970s.
Green, blue and clear glass with beautiful hues when light go...
Category
20th Century Mid-Century Modern Italian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Art Glass, Blown Glass, Murano Glass
Murano Glass Sky Blue Carafe and Glasses
By Alberto Donà
Located in Austin, TX
Set of six Murano glass cups and matching carafe. This set is made entirely of hand-blown glass on the island of Murano outside of Venice, Italy. They feature a transparent glass wit...
Category
2010s Modern Italian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Murano Glass
$1,462 Sale Price / set
25% Off
SIGNED Oball Murano Pink & Blue Glass Organic Ashtray Bowl
By Atelier Oball
Located in Bolton, GB
Here is a wonderful large and very heavy (2kg unpacked) Venetian pink & blue glass organic shaped ashtray bowl. Made on the island of Murano, near Venice, Italy, by the Oball glasswo...
Category
Late 20th Century Mid-Century Modern Italian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Glass, Art Glass, Blown Glass, Murano Glass
Set of 12 Venetian / Murano Green Glass Bowls & Underplates with Gold Inclusions
By Salviati
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine, large set of Venetian glass bowls and underplates.
Attributed to Salviati.
In lime green (almost uranium colored) glass with gold foil inclusions throughout.
With crimpin...
Category
20th Century Mid-Century Modern Italian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Glass, Art Glass, Murano Glass
Set of 12 Salviati Venetian / Murano Glass Wine Goblet Stems with Black & Gold
By Salviati
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine set of 12 Venetian or Murano glass wine goblets.
Attributed to Salviati
In clear glass with gold foil inclusions throughout.
Each bowl supported by a fluted black & gold knop, a baluster stem, and a wafer foot.
Simply a wonderful set of Venetian glass goblets...
Category
20th Century Mid-Century Modern Italian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Art Glass, Blown Glass, Murano Glass
Opinion Ciatti Ptolomeo Vino Vertical Wine Rack Small
By Opinion Ciatti, Bruno Rainaldi
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Ptolomeo Vino is the bottle holder version of Original Ptolomeo, the famous freestanding bookshelves designed by Bruno Rainaldi, winner of the Compasso d’Oro 2004 and soon became an icon of contemporary design. A glass of our favourite wine and that book that we are engrossed in. Very often our moments of greatest relaxation are imagined in the company of a good book and an excellent glass of wine. Launched at the 2018 Salone del Mobile, Ptolomeo Vino becomes the “summa” of this suggestive idea, representing the transformation of the famous Original Ptolomeo bookshelf...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Italian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Steel
1930 Angelo Biancini SCI Italian Ceramic Sculpture Red Pottery Fishes
By Angelo Biancini, S.C.I. Laveno
Located in Brescia, IT
Earthenware Fishes sculpture
Mod. 1511
Angelo Biancini
SCI Laveno 1938
Excellent condiction
literature: Angelo Biancini tra Faenza e Laveno: ceramiche 1937-1940.
Category
1930s Art Deco Vintage Italian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Ceramic
Ettore Sottsass per Olivetti Synthesis Posacenere verde "Sistema 45", Italia 70s
By Olivetti, Ettore Sottsass
Located in Naples, IT
Grande posacenere in ABS nero, Ettore Sottsass per Olivetti Synthesis, serie Sistema 45, 1973.
Oggetto iconico del rivoluzionario sistema di mobili per ufficio Synthesis 45, presenta...
Category
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Plastic
Vintage Round Italian Colorful Hand Painted Ceramic Majolica Fruit Platter
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
A colorful jewel toned polychrome majolica platter decorated with various embossed fruits such as peaches, grapes, tomatoes, pears and various green foliage. It has been hand painted...
Category
20th Century Renaissance Italian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Ceramic, Paint
$280 Sale Price
20% Off
Goddess E11, Woman's Moorish Head, Handmade in Sicily Vase, Size S Monochrome
By Mosche Bianche
Located in San Miniato PI, IT
The Collection
This collection offers ideas for contemporary décor through sophisticated revelations of art bound to the tradition of ceramics of Caltagirone, objets d’art that co...
Category
2010s Modern Italian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Enamel
$241 Sale Price / item
25% Off
Vintage Italian FERRARI Chrome Brass Ice Bucket Wine Cooler
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Impressive mid size chrome and brass plated champagne cooler, ice bucket, wine cooler or SPUMANTIERA as they say in Italy. It was made in Italy in the 1980’s by a company called Italesse in Trieste...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Italian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Metal, Brass, Chrome
Champagne Bucket Wine Cooler Vase Vessel Imperial Green Marble Collectible Italy
By Pieruga Marble, Barberini & Gunnell
Located in Ancona, Marche
Luxurious and big Champagne bucket sculpted by hand from a solid block of Imperial Green marble. Polished finishing.
Champagne bucket dimension:...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Italian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Rose Quartz
Barovier Toso Murano Swirl Gold Flecks Orange & Red Art Glass Bowl
By Barovier&Toso
Located in Barcelona, ES
Eye-atching Murano glass bowl in vibrant red and shades of orange. Attributed to Barovier e Toso, Italy, 1950s.
It has a beautiful stripped decoration, controlled bubbles, aventurin...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Italian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Gold Leaf
Mid-Century Modern Iron and Brass Floor Ashtray with Shelf Production Italia 60s
Located in Palermo, IT
Rare in its kind floor ashtray. Circular base with steel plate, supports a brass tube with circular shelf with images of various flags. On top the waxtray with the enamel container a...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Italian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Brass, Iron
Formia 1990s Vintage Italian Green Murano Glass Cactus Plant with White Flower
By Formia Murano
Located in New York, NY
1990 Italian highly collectible glass cactus plant of limited edition, entirely handcrafted in Murano, signed Formia, with modern Minimalist design, in a lifelike organic Modernist shape in overlaid moss green Murano glass highlighted with prickles in relief, and decorated with a white glass flower...
Category
1990s Organic Modern Italian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Gold
Midcentury Small Murano Glass Bowl
By Murano Glass Sommerso
Located in Waddinxveen, ZH
Stunning colored in two shades of purple small Murano glass bowl in a beautiful stylish shape.
Category
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Murano Glass
Bitossi Aldo Londi Rimini Blue Ceramic Set of Vase, Ashtray and Candleholder
By Bitossi, Aldo Londi
Located in Barcelona, ES
A beautiful handmade Rimini blue glazed ceramic set of three pieces. Designed by Aldo Londi and manufactured by Bitossi, Italy, 1960s.
The set is comprised by a round ashtray, a bott...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Italian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Ceramic, Pottery, Terracotta
ISIDE I17, Man's Moorish Head, Handmade in Sicily, 2021, Colorful, Size L
By Mosche Bianche
Located in San Miniato PI, IT
The collection
This collection offers ideas for contemporary décor through sophisticated revelations of art bound to the tradition of ceramics of Caltagirone, objets d’art that comb...
Category
2010s Modern Italian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Enamel
$1,218 Sale Price / item
25% Off
Murano Art Glass Bowl
By Ars Murano
Located in Guaynabo, PR
This is a Murano Art Biomorphic Glass Bowl. It depicts a heart shaped glass. It is white color in the back and in the front, its upper side is red...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Italian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Art Glass
Lebanon, Coffee Set with Six Contemporary Porcelains with Decorative Design
By Vito Nesta
Located in Milano, Lombardia
In Lebanon collection a different landscape depicts the local coasts, ruins, and architecture in black and white, with a sophisticated rim decoration that showcases blueprints of tra...
Category
2010s Italian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
Midcentury Cubic Chromed Steel, Wood and Glass Dry Bar, Italy 1970s
By Willy Rizzo
Located in Roma, IT
Unique midcentury cubic dry bar in lacquered ash wood, mirrored steel and glass dry bar with hidden wheels. This gorgeous Willy Rizzo style dry bar was produced in Italy during the 1970s.
The wheeled bar cart's four sides are in mirrored chromed steel, while the top is in dark smoked glass. It moves thanks to four hidden wheels, and the structure is veneered black lacquered oak.
A design masterpiece that will become a cult furniture element in a midcentury bar or living room.
Italian designer and photographer Willy Rizzo (1928-2013) first came to prominence in the 1960s as both a chronicler of and participant in La Dolce Vita, the glamorous, jet set lifestyle enjoyed by many international celebrities and socialites in the postwar era. While photography was Rizzo's first love, in the 1970s he developed a passion for interiors and launched a second successful career as a luxury furniture designer.
Rizzo was born in Naples in 1928 but moved to France early. After expressing an interest in photography at the age of 12, Rizzo's mother gifted him an Agfa Box camera; soon he was shooting portraits of his classmates at Paris's Istituto Statale Italiano Leonardo Da Vinci.
In the 1940s, Rizzo began his career as a photojournalist, working for several French publications, including Ciné Mondial, Point de Vue, and Image du Monde. In the aftermath of the Second World War, Rizzo notably covered the Nuremberg Trials and travelled to Tunisia for Point de Vue to photograph the conflict in North Africa, later published in Life Magazine. As his reputation grew, he was hired by France Dimanche to take portraits of the rich and famous at flashy events like the Cannes Film Festival. Rizzo's charm won the trust of royalty, dignitaries, and movie stars, allowing him to capture these public figures in unusually candid moments.
Hoping to advance his career further, Rizzo travelled to New York with Black Star Agency in 1947 to photograph American starlets. When he returned to Paris two years later, he was invited to join Jean Prouvost’s newest publication in colour, Paris Match, as head photographer—a position that he held for 20 years and, along the way, sparked a new culture of celebrity photographers who were as intriguing and fashionable as their subjects.
In 1959, he became the artistic director of Marie Claire and collaborated with other fashion magazines, such as Vogue.
Throughout his career, Rizzo photographed dozens of stars, including Brigitte Bardot, Maria Callas, Salvador Dalí, Marlene Dietrich, Jane Fonda, Gene Kelly, and Gregory Peck, as well as striking up close friendships with famous personalities like Coco Chanel, Christian Dior, and Jack Nicholson. In 1962, Rizzo famously captured some of the last moments of Marilyn Monroe’s life on film before tragically committing suicide a few weeks later.
In 1968, Rizzo married Italian actress Elsa Martinelli, and the pair relocated to Rome. It was here that Rizzo began his work in furniture design, starting with his newly-leased, run-down Roman apartment. Just for personal use (at first), Rizzo created a series one-of-a-kind pieces inspired by modernist icons, such as Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier. But as his glitterati friends—Rodolfo Parisi, Gigli Rizzi, Franco Rapetti, Salvador Dalí, Brigitte Bardot, and the like—became admirers of his work, Rizzo was flooded with design commissions.
Rizzo went on to furnish apartments for Italian aristocracy in the Palazzo Borghese and Palazzo Ruspoli that same year and quickly earned an international reputation as a designer to the rich and famous. In response to ever-growing demand, he launched his own Tivoli-based company dedicated to contemporary furniture design handmade in lux materials such as wood, marble, stainless steel, brass, and wild boar. Over time, his team of eight grew to 150, and he was able to open shops in France and throughout Europe, as well as in New York, Miami, and Los Angeles.
With an emphasis on clean lines and geometric forms, Rizzo's tables, chairs, and accessories combined contemporary shapes with traditional materials—in contrast to many of his contemporaries, like Ettore Sottsass and Vico Magistretti, who were popularizing plastic, foam, and other synthetics in furniture production. Rizzo's most successful designs are many low, box-like tables in granite, metal, glass, or burled wood, often embellished with brass or chrome accents or built-in liquor cabinets or trays. Two examples of his most celebrated designs include the Alveo Coffee Table (1970s) for Mario Sabot and the circular Yin Yang Coffee Table...
Category
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Steel, Metal, Chrome
Round Box enamel light blue and black Salimbeni
By Salimbeni
Located in Firenze, FI
Round box in 925/1000 sterling silver gold-plated with translucent fired enamel on guilloché in a modern contemporary style. Dimensions: diameter cm. 7.5 height cm. 3.8, Weight g. 24...
Category
1970s Modern Vintage Italian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Gold, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Modern Hand Blown "Coral Triple Glass Upstand" Nature Sea Creatures Reef Ocean
By Simone Crestani
Located in Camisano Vicentino, IT
A Hand-Blown Glass Upstand by Simone Crestani
Coral Triple Upstand is one of the pieces from the Coral Collection.
This remarkable piece is inspired by the intricate beauty of cora...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Italian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Glass
Lefka N.1 Vase
By Claudia Frignani
Located in Milan, IT
Timeless elegance and masterful attention to details: these are the main features of this sophisticated vase in terracotta with a glossy white glaze and accordion-like decorations. T...
Category
2010s Italian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Ceramic
$3,945 / item
21th Century Italian Sterling Silver Console Miniature with Mirror
By Creazioni Sacchetti
Located in VALENZA, IT
Console miniature in 925 silver with mirror and marble top, wooden details.
This miniature was made in 925 silver with the fusion technique.
The supports under the top depict three...
Category
2010s Baroque Italian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Marble, Sterling Silver
$1,389 Sale Price
20% Off
Italian Hallmarked Gucci Silver-Plate Stirrup Cups 1970s
By Gucci
Located in Munich, DE
Set of three vintage Gucci silver plate stirrup cups have two ways and are in the design of a dog, deer and a fox. They actually flip over and can be used as barware and be conversat...
Category
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Silver Plate
Morbelli Porcelain “Scudo di AchilleWall Plates Worked with Pure Gold 1960 Italy
By Arte Morbelli
Located in Milano, IT
Morbelli Porcelain “Scudo di Achille“ wall plates worked with pure gold 1960 Italy.
Category
1960s Other Vintage Italian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
Mid Century White Poodle Dog Sculpture II, Italy, 1960s
Located in 05-080 Hornowek, PL
Painted ceramic, good original vintage condition.
Damaged leg - was repaired - shown on pictures.
Beautiful and unique decorative sculpture.
White Poodle Dog Sculpture was produce...
Category
20th Century Mid-Century Modern Italian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Ceramic
$67 Sale Price
20% Off
A sterling silver “hippo” lighter by Buccellati with blue stone eyes, 20th cent.
By Gianmaria Buccellati
Located in View Park, CA
A extraordinarily rare sterling silver hippopotamus lighter by Gianmaria Buccellati with blue stone eyes, 20th century. Exhibiting stunning and precise detail, this whimsical and yet...
Category
20th Century Mid-Century Modern Italian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Sterling Silver
20th Century Italian Sterling Silver Inkstand, baroque revival
Located in VALENZA, IT
Faithful copy of the writing service by the silversmith Pietro Rubini, Milan c.1775
The inkstand is composed of a shaped tray supported by 4 rocailles feet, modeled along the entire profile by finely embossed and chiselled volutes, leaves and shells.
Above the tray are two ink holders and two pen holders with spiral workmanship and highly embossed vegetable decorations.
A bell in the center of the object rests on a FASTIGIO pierced with flowering vines.
By Fiorentini, Argenterie di Milano - Italy
for ARVAL ARGENTI VALENZA
Italian silverware...
Category
Late 20th Century Baroque Italian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Sterling Silver
Elegant Trolley Italian Design
Located in Cantù, IT
Bar cart designed and made by Mice by Domenico Rugiano. The Cart is inlaid and is a vintage piece with brass-plated metal parts. A prestige piece.
Category
1940s Vintage Italian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Brass
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