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Place of Origin: Italian
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
Six Mauro Manetti Silver Plate Animal Heads Stirrup Goblets Cups, Made in Italy
By Mauro Manetti
Located in Miami, FL
Six Mauro Manetti silver plate animal heads stirrup, goblets, cups, made in Italy.
We have the Hunting collection of a German shepherd, Labrador, deer, rabbit, donkey, boar.
All ma...
Category
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Metal, Silver Plate
Cassetti, Large Sterling Silver Box, Jewelry/ Decorative, with Wood Lining
By Cassetti
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Beautiful large sterling silver box by Cassetti, marked. Nice wood lining.
Category
Late 20th Century Post-Modern Italian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Sterling Silver
Champagne Bucket Wine Cooler Vase Vessel Imperial Green Marble Collectible Italy
By Barberini & Gunnell, Pieruga Marble
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
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
$1,575 Sale Price
20% Off
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
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
$240 Sale Price / item
25% 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
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
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
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
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
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
$4,992 / set
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
Murano Green Italian Art Glass Forato Vase
Located in Barcelona, ES
Mid-Century Modern green and white Murano Art glass Forato vase with pulled details. Italy, 1950s.
Monumental Mid-Century Modern organic shaped green Mura...
Category
20th Century Mid-Century Modern Italian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Glass, Art Glass, Blown Glass, Murano Glass, Sommerso, Opaline Glass
$1,236 Sale Price
20% Off
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
$1,214 Sale Price / item
25% Off
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
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
Flavio Poli Murano Sommerso Triangular Art Glass Bowl / Ashtray, Blue & Yellow
By Flavio Poli
Located in Barcelona, ES
Flavio Poli Seguso Faceted Decorative Bowl or Ashtray in Murano Glass
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Sommerso faceted Murano glass triangul...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Italian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Glass, Art Glass, Sommerso, Murano Glass
$563 Sale Price
20% Off
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
"Rettangolare" Leather Tray Designed by Oscar Maschera
By Oscar Maschera
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Rettangolare" is a leather tray, designed and manufactured by Oscar Maschera. Genuine Italian leather vegetable tanned. This tray has two different colors: one for the inside and th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Italian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Leather
Complete set of Vintage Piero Fornasetti Love Coasters in Original Box
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Minneapolis, MN
Here is a very nice set of vintage LOVE coasters by the great Piero Fornasetti from the 1950s. There are eight coasters, each with a different phrase on the subject of love.
The co...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Italian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Ceramic
Murano Glass Vase Mid Century Green/ Yellow, Italy, circa 1960/70
By Murano Glass Sommerso
Located in Lichtenberg, AT
Fantastic looking, large Mid-Century Murano Glass Vase out of the renown glass art workshops of Sommerso in Venetia. Artfully made in Italy around 1960/70 this lovely shaped glass va...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Italian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
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
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
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
$1,384 Sale Price
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
Large Murano "Bullicante" Blown Glass Fan Flower Vase by Barovier, Italy 1950s
By Ercole Barovier
Located in Roma, IT
Magnificent rostrato and "bullicante" mouth-blown crystal Murano glass vase made by Ercole Barovier in Italy during the 1950s. In spectacular condition, not missing a single spike, w...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Italian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Glass, Art Glass, Blown Glass, Murano Glass
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
1970s Large Vintage Mid-Century Modern Italian Bamboo and Brass Bowl or Dish
Located in Landau an der Isar, Bayern
Large circular Mid-Century Hollywood Regency Crespi style round bowl or dish made in Italy, circa 1970s. Made of weaved / woven rattan / wicker and bamboo with a patinated brass rim ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Hollywood Regency Italian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Brass
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
Anatomica, Porcelain Hand with Submarine decoration by Vito Nesta
By Vito Nesta
Located in Milano, Lombardia
This striking sculpture is part of the Anatomica series by Vito Nesta, featuring decorative objects with simple and essential anatomical shapes characterized by bold, contrasting col...
Category
2010s Italian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
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
Dervishes Porcelain Dinner Plate by Vito Nesta for Les-Ottomans
By Vito Nesta
Located in ROCCAVIVARA CB, IT
Contemporary dinner plate 'Dervishes' designed by Vito Nesta for Les-Ottomans, a magical trip in an ottoman world made of exotic animals and characters such as dervishes, dancers, so...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other Italian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
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
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
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
Vintage Murano Seguso White Swan Glass Sculpture
By Archimede Seguso
Located in North Miami, FL
This lovely and graceful Italian Murano vintage Seguso glass swan is white triple cased; white with clear on the outside. The lines of the feathers are abundant throughout. The beak ...
Category
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Glass, Blown Glass
20th Century Italian Solid Silver Potiche
By Arval Argenti Valenza
Located in VALENZA, IT
800 solid silver potiche.
Completely handmade this "lidded vase" has been embossed with scrolls which make it typically in the Baroque style.
Masterfully executed, this vase among superlative embossing has been knurled, i.e. tapped thousands of times with a very small hammer, making the embossing evident and creating a perfect chromatic contrast.
The lid has the same design and workmanship.
The important knob was made with the fusion technique to then be screwed and therefore detachable for cleaning the vase.
When it comes to potiche vase...
Category
Late 20th Century Baroque Italian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Silver
Savona Italian Tin Glazed Polychrome Painted Pottery Syrup Jar
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
An antique Italian hand painted Savona tin glazed syrup jar inscribed AQUA DE PIANTAGNE dating from the early 18th century, the rounded earthenware jar stand...
Category
Early 18th Century Baroque Antique Italian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Pottery
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
Porcelain Friars Salt and Pepper Set by Deruta Fratelli Niccacci
By Deruta
Located in Rome, IT
The set consists of three different sized Franciscan monks in porcelain.
It has its original "Deruta fratelli Nicacci" stamp on the bottom.
Category
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Ceramic
Italian Hand Painted Red Chinoiserie Ice Buckets 1950’s
Located in Hastings, GB
A superb pair of hand painted and crafted metal Ice Buckets, 1950’s Italian, painted with chinoiserie scenes, and palm tree tops.
30cm Height, 21cm Width, (17.5cm Width excluding ...
Category
1950s Chinoiserie Vintage Italian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Metal
Italian Cigar Ashtray, circa 1965
By Bitossi
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Cigar Ashtray attributed to Bitossi
marked Italy on the bottom, circa 1965
great color, glaze and patina
some loss of glaze through out which just more Bohemiam character
Category
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Pottery
Italian Moorish Royal Blue and Gold Crystal Drinking Glasses
By Moser Glassworks
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Set of 2 royal blue and gold handblown Moorish crystal cobalt blue drinking glasses.
Use them for or any hot or cold drink.
Elegant, classic barw...
Category
20th Century Moorish Italian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Glass
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
Pair of Huge Ceramic Shelf Brackets, 1960s Vintage
Located in taranto, IT
Pair of huge Italian-made ceramic vases from the 1960s, made of red and gold polychrome ceramic, with relief motifs, perforated at the top and bottom for the positioning of glazing b...
Category
1960s Vintage Italian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Ceramic
Marcello Fantoni Abstract Ceramic Vase with Leather
By Marcello Fantoni
Located in Miami, FL
A cylindrical vase by Marcello Fantoni.
It is ceramic partially enveloped in leather. The leather creates a reveal for a stylish woman to appear looking out directly at the viewer....
Category
1960s Vintage Italian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Ceramic, Leather
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
Bitossi Aldo Londi Rimini Blue Ceramic Set of Vase, Ashtray and Candleholder
By Aldo Londi, Bitossi
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
1970S Mid-Century Modern Fake Tortoiseshell Lucite and Brass Octagonal Tray
By Guzzini
Located in Aci Castello, IT
An octagonal serving tray designed and manufactured in Italy by Alberto Sordi, the tray is in good conditions overall with normal signs of use and age and brass in original patina. T...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Italian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Brass
Mushroom Handpainted in Italy Dinner Plate
By Bertrando Di Renzo
Located in ROCCAVIVARA CB, IT
Italian craftsmanship meets Les-Ottomans in this beautifiul mushroom collection of handpainted plates
The charme of the woods on your table in a un...
Category
2010s Italian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Ceramic
GIO PONTI - Richard Ginori - PITTORIA DI DOCCIA - 10 Piatti in porcellana - 1929
By Richard Ginori, Gio Ponti
Located in Milano, IT
GIO PONTI - Richard Ginori - Pittoria di Doccia .
10 piatti in porcellana del 1929.
I piatti sono in perfetto stato, bellissimi anche per decorare una parete .
Il prezzo...
Category
1920s Art Deco Vintage Italian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Porcelain
Hand-blown Murano Glass Grey Sculpture Signed by Loredano Rosin '1936-1992'
By Loredano Rosin
Located in Florence, Tuscany
Il Tuffatore is an important hand blown Murano glass sculpture by Loredano Rosin (1936-1992). Il Tuffatore, literally translated as, 'The Diver' is a Murano glass sculpture in deep g...
Category
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Glass, Blown Glass, Art Glass
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
"Dario" Leather Tray with Handles Designed by Oscar Maschera
By Oscar Maschera
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Dario" is a leather tray, designed and manufactured by Oscar Maschera. Genuine Italian leather vegetable tanned. This tray has two different colors: one for the inside and the other...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Italian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Leather
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
Midcentury Serving Tray Lucite, Wicker & Brass Christian Dior Style, Italy 1970s
By Christian Dior, Dior Home
Located in Rome, IT
Midcentury amazing hexagonal serving tray or centerpiece in lucite, wicker and brass in the style of Christian Dior Home.
Made in Italy in the 1970s.
Great accessory for any ...
Category
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Metal, Brass
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
Vintage Blue and Yellow Sommerso Murano Glass Vase attr. to Flavio Poli, Italy
By Flavio Poli
Located in Bresso, Lombardy
Made in Italy, 1960s.
This vase is made in Sommerso Murano glass, which has been hand blown with three different colors: transparent, yellow and blue.
It is a vintage item, therefor...
Category
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass
Materials
Murano Glass, Sommerso
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