Italian, 1950s Lacca Style Magazine Rack

This lovely vintage Italian wall mounted brass and mirror hat and coat rack - featuring brass hooks that slide along the lower rack for larger hanging items. The brass mirror is on ...

This is the largest mirrored coat rack in the style of Fontana Arte with glass and brass. Features 4 original glass discs to hang coats, the rack above for hats and 3 brass hooks for...

Richly designed, this wall-mounted coat rack with etched glass and reverse painted in gold. All original - brass and thick glass.

Magazine stand designed by Jacques Adnet and manufactured in his own atelier, France, 1950. The magazine stand has a solid frame and is accented by handstitched red leather. The stan...

This amazingly unique wall mounted hat rack made from turned wood and brass with dowel top shelf and brass hooks for coats and scarves. This one...

Beautifully aged top with decopage lacquer, all original. Extremely rare and sculptural these knife-edge amorphic shaped tables with crackle lacquer top designs (vintage and origi...

Born Naples in 1972 Italian architect designer Cesare Lacca created modernist furniture and metalwork throughout the 1950s This unusual magazine rack is constructed of mahogany and b...

A beautiful and lovely shaped Italian midcentury newspaper stand / magazine rack from the 1950s by Cesare Lacca. Made of mahogany and black wood with nice brass details. In good cond...

Wonderful midcentury lacquered wood magazine rack. It was designed by Cesare Lacca produced in Milan, Italy, during the 1950s. It is both elegant and functional, as wood and brass a...

Mahogany wood and brass details Excellent condition Measures: H 70 x 52 cm.

Wonderful magazine rack in black lacquered beech wood with removable mid-century shelves. Cesare Lacca designed this amazing piece and was produced in Milan, Italy during the 1950s. This item is fantastic because it is both stylish and functional, as the black lacquered wood structure blends wonderfully with the brown shelves creating a striking mid-century balance and can be folded in order to easily carry it. This piece is perfect for a mid-century library or living room and will complete any project with its striking lines. Born in Naples in 1929, Italian architect-designer Cesare Lacca created modernist furniture and metalwork throughout the 1950s. Though details of his personal life and professional training remain lost to history, there are sufficient surviving primary sources that document his many elegant designs in brasswork for which he is the best know and which fetch high prices from collectors. Like many Italian designers in the 20th century, Lacca moved to Milan after World War II to launch his career. Before he was even 21 years old, his work was selected by a group of American curators for inclusion in the landmark exhibition Italy at Work: Her Renaissance in Design Today that toured 12 US museums between 1950 and 1953—the first major exhibition of Italian design outside of Italy. The exhibition showcased the best and brightest of Italian designers who had embraced modernist principles and rejuvenated traditional Italian crafts, like Carlo Mollino, Franco Albini, and Gio Ponti In the exhibition catalogue, curator Meyric R. Roger’s spotlights Lacca's expert achievements in brass, noting “the variety and quality of his creations,” which “place him high among the architect-designers leading the current [Modernist] movement." Rogers adds, "The quality of his work...provide[s] all the decorative effectiveness needed without strain or exaggeration”. Lacca designed a great many tea carts and serving trolleys in his career—which make up a large proportion of what is available on the vintage market today—as well as magazine racks and coffee tables. Lacca’s most iconic tea cart was manufactured by Italian brand Cassina and features sculpted beech, cedar, teak, or walnut with brass details, a glass tabletop, and a removable glass tray. Lacca also designed high-backed lounge chairs, which were regularly featured in Arredoluce advertisements for Angelo Lelli’s lighting...

Magazine Rack Mid-century Italian Design Cherry and glass Cesare Lacca 1950s.