Italian Sofas

Discover the timeless Organic Modern elegance of the original 1970s Le Bambole Italian sofa set with beige woven wool upholstery in superb condition. A Mid-Century Modern Italian ma...

Mid century black leather and ebonized wood frame 2 seater 'bastiano' sofa designed by Tobia Scarpa and produced by Knoll. The design dates from 1962, this one was produced in the...

Camaleonda sofa, designed by Mario Bellini and manufactured by B&B Italia in 1972. The set features three modules with big backrest, and two modules with small backrest. Alpaca...

Mid-Century Modern Italian red brown coated bamboo sofa bed. This sofa bed comes with its original metallic bed net and needs a mattress of cm. 80 x 190 (about inch. 31.50 x 74.80)....

Cini Boeri for Knoll, three seater sofa, model 'Brigadier', leather, lacquered wood, Italy, designed in 1976. Architectural sofa model 'Brigadier' designed by Italian designer Cini...

Gae Aulenti 3 Seater Sofa for Knoll International, 1970. Original beautiful green leather.

Vintage black sofa "Piumino", designed by Jonathan De Pas, Donato D'Urbino and Paolo Lomazzi for Dall'Oca. Italy 1970 ca. Stunning original condit...

We have ONE brick red/cordovan leather sofa and matching armchair. Two pieces total. (The second sofa has been sold). Price shown is for the sofa and the chair together. An import...

This Maralunga 2 seater sofa comes from the first Cassina production (early Seventies) and has been recently upholstered with corduroy. Envelopin...

Gionathan De Pas, Donato D'Urbino, Paolo Lomazzi "Ipercubo 200" modular sofa for Driade, original cognac leather, Italy, 1970s, set of five. The most peculiar feature of the “Ipercu...

Nine Amanta Armchairs by Mario Bellini for C&B Italia, Italy 1973. Manufacturer label under the base. Plastic and padded leather. Very rare set manufactured by C&B, then replaced ...

Italian modern brown velvet and metal iconic Soriana sofa by Afra and Tobia Scarpa for Cassina, 1970s. Iconic sofa model Soriana, large, four seats or three comfortable seats, with ...

Postmodern Camaleonda seating elements by Mario Bellini for B&B Italia, 1970s. set of two C&B Camaleonda sofas in the original iconic orange fabric.The set is in fair vintage condit...

Soriana Three Seater Sofa for Cassina, Italy 1970s. Black Leather, original Cassina Label. Outstanding piece in near perfect condition, with origin...

Sofa designed by Vico Magistretti for the Cassina factory in the 1970s. The two-seater sofa is entirely upholstered in original fabric of the time in perfect condition, no rips or da...

Italian Mid-Century Modern three-seater sofa model Diesis by Antonio Citterio for B&B, 1970s Three-seater sofa model Diesis with armrests, with aluminum structure and padded cushion...

Italian modern grey-blue velvet five module sofa, 1970s Five-module sofa with seat made up of four twin-shaped modules without armrests and the fifth angul...

Vico Magistretti for Cassina, ‘Fiandra’ sectional sofa, leather, plastic, Italy, 1975 This subtle and modest sofa is designed by the Italian ...

Mario Bellini for B&B Italia, 'Le Bambole' sofa, brown patinated leather, Italy, 1972. This piece is one of the very rare prototypes or early editions, and still 100% original, read ...

Italian sofa, by Gianfranco Frattini for Cassina. The supple leather, in great condition, lends itself to the voluptuous form. This sofaa rests in a bent tubular...

Cini Boeri for Knoll, pair of love seats, part of the 'Gradual' set, black leather, fiberglass, Italy, 1970s. This pair of stunning black love seats w...

Iconic Mid-Century Modern Italian "Maralunga" two-seater sofa / armchairs by Vico Magistretti for Cassina. This sofa features the original knitted wool upholstery in ivory. Head /...

A three-seater black ABS plastic and white / light grey leather sofa, designed by Cini Boeri, and produced by Gavina, Knoll, 1970s. Backside features a built in shelf. 13.5” seat he...

Modern and lively 1970s three-seater sofa upholstered in a very dramatic and eye-catching floral fabric. The sofa is in very good condition, giving fresh and cheerful touches to mod...

Three-seater “Simone” sofa, designed and manufactured by Studio Simon in 1975. The structure is made of black lacquered wood. A black leather big seat completes the sofa. The m...

Mid-Century Modern Italian sofa by Luciano Frigerio, leather, 1970s.

Italian Lounge sofa in fine leather and Walnut Wood, Italy 1970s This Italian oversized lounge sofa from the 1970s is made of solid walnut wood and fine leather. This sofa has an el...

Vintage Armchair "Okay" realized by Adriano Piazzesi for Space Age, Italy, 1970s. Leather and steel. Very good condition. Adriano Piazzesi was a great Italian designer who oper...

Soriana Three Seater Sofa for Cassina, Italy 1970s. Black Leather, original Cassina Label. Outstanding piece in near perfect condition, with origin...

Afra & Tobia Scarpa, Soriana Sofas, Cassina, Italy, 1970s. Afra (1937-2011) & Tobia (1935-) Scarpa both studied at the Venice Institute of Architecture. Their pieces are exhibited i...

"Sistema 41" Giancarlo Piretti for Anonima Castelli 1974 Iconic Modular sofa 8 elements in orange velvet Black plastic base Upholstery original vintage (some stains on the velvet)...

A 1970s Italian sofa featuring a bamboo frame with a double arch back and cane detailing. This sofa has an impressive presence and was newly reupholstered in a beautiful white boucle...

Splendid three-seater sofa made in Italy in the 70s. The seat is very comfortable and supportive. The pads are still original and in very good condition. Original natural leather uph...

Italian modern Me too modular sofa by De Pas, D'Urbino and Lomazzi for Bonacina, 1973. Me Too model modular sofa with structure composed of two modules without armrests, the other t...

Mario Bellini "Le Bambole" living room set for B&B Italia, three-seater sofa and two armchairs, faux-fur, foam and metal, Italy, 1971, set of three. The search for a new shape for u...

Togo modular sofa, designed by Michel Ducaroy and manufactured by Ligne Roset in 1974. The set is composed of 2 modules. Purple cotton upholstery. Ex...

Comfortable two-seater sofa circa 1970s, Italian production by Doimo as indicated by the marks under the cushions. The sofa is upholstered and covered in light brown fabric, has two...

Elegant 70s/80s sofa of Italian production with removable cushions, headrest and armrests. It consists of three pieces, a single seat, a corner seat and a...

This monumentally sized modular 'Camaleonda' sectional living room set (fourteen pieces in total) by Mario Bellini for B&B Italia, each section signed with labels as can be seen in the photos. Included in the set are eight (8) full-sized seat sections, each is quite large and spacious which adds to the incredible comfort. And six (6) full-sized seat backs leaving two of the seat sections to be used as ottomans or free-floating seat elements to open the sectional to either side. This set has been previously professionally reupholstered with only light use and in very good condition. Designed by Mario Bellini in 1970 for C&B Italia, later produced after 1973 by B&B Italia after Piero Busnelli bought out Cassina and changed the name to B&B. This set consists of six sections labelled with C&B labels and two sections with B&B labels, meaning that most of this set was produced between 1970 and 1973 - the original production years of the Camaleonda, and making this set ideal for collectors and investors of art and design. *We have a large quantity of other Camaleonda elements (C&B Italia and B&B Italia examples, both in mohair fabric and in leather including some sets ready for reupholstery to a new fabric or leather of your choice) if you are looking for a larger set, contact us to discuss. MEASUREMENTS: *This is a modular set with fourteen (14) total pieces and can be configured in many ways as each seating section can be placed wherever you desire and the seat backs can be fixed to the seating elements where you want. You can configure as one large sectional sofa, three-seat couch with loveseats...

Divano componibile vintage anni '70 formato da un set di quattro sedute ampie e comode, produzione italiana in pelle e camoscio. Design fine ed elegante, si presta ad ogni occasio...

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...

Modern and lively 1970s two-seater sofa upholstered in a very dramatic and eye-catching floral fabric. The sofa is in very good condition, giving fresh and cheerful touches to moder...

Alberto Rosselli Set For Saporiti 'Confidential', Italy 1970s Incredibly rare full set of one armchair, loveseat and a three seater sofa + extra extra rare ottoman by Alberto Rossel...

This "Okay" Sofa is an original design furniture piece realized by Adriano Piazzesi for Space Age, Italy 1970s. Dimensions: L 210 cm. H 80 / P 90 H Seat 38 cm Very good condition. A...

Italian modern black leather Three-seater sofa by Gastone Rinaldi for Rima, 1970s Three-seater sofa with seat and backrests padded and covered in black faux leather. The legs and the...

Two-seater “Simone” sofa, designed and manufactured by Studio Simon in 1975. The structure is made of black lacquered wood. An azure velvet big seat completes the sofa. The min...

Camaleonda sofa, designed by Mario Bellini and manufactured by B&B Italia in 1972. The set features seven modules with backrest (four big modules and three small ones) and one armre...

Italian modern caramel leather three seating Piumino sofa by De Pas, D'Urbino and Lomazzi, 1970s. Piumino model sofa with internal structure in foamed fo...

Adriano Piazzesi Italian 1970's sofa; the whole with channel and tufted upholstery, the sides and back are curved and covered in a warm brown Italian leather. The sofa is constructed...

Pianura sofa, designed by Mario Bellini and manufactured by the Italian brand Cassina in 1970. The set is composed of six modules. It features an an...

The Environ One Sofa by Ennio Chiggio for Nikol International, 1970, is a rare vintage piece of furniture that exemplifies the best of Mid-Century Modern desi...

“Camaleonda” sofa, in red cotton upholstery, designed by Mario Bellini and manufactured by B&B Italia in 1972. Fully restored and reupholstered in Italy. The sofa is very comfo...

"Okay" Vintage Armchair by Adriano Piazzesi. Realized for Space Age in 1970s. Leather and steel. Very good condition. Adriano Piazzesi was a great Italian designer who operate...

Sectional sofa, fabric, Italy, 1970s This exceptional sofa stands as a prime example of postmodern design, characterized by its unconventional form and bold, angular shapes culminat...

Afra and Tobia Scarpa for Cassina midcentury italian leather sofas - pair. Each sofa measures: 64 wide x 32.5 deep x 27 inches high...

An original and very rare Mario Bellini Le Mura modular sofa (can also be used as two chairs), made by Cassina, Italy, 1970s. Two large seating element...

Sofa "Simone" Designed by Kazuhide Takahama for Studio Simon in the 1970s. Original upholstery in emerald green velvet and structure in polyester lacquered wood, glossy black. Ta...

Beautiful corner sofa designed in the 1970s, of fine Italian manufacture. The sofa is angular as you can see and is made entirely of black alcantara. There are 7 seat cushions and 7...