Italian Shelves

Born Naples in 1972 Italian architect designer Cesare Lacca created modernist furniture and metalwork throughout the 1950s This unusual magazi...

Lovely Mid-Century two tier wall shelf in bamboo and rattan. Vivai del Sud likely designed this beautiful piece in Italy in the 1970s. This structure is made in bamboo canes with the rectangular shelves made in wood and finished with woven wicker. The corners of the shelf are enriched by stunning hand-woven rattan wicker. The combination of the materials make this organic wall shelf...

Gino Sarfatti for Arteluce, display console, metal, glass, brass, Italy, 1970s Two vertical wall mounts in black metal hold a glass shelf. At the end of the fixtures two adjustable ...

Amazing mid-century bamboo and Rattan triangular corner bookshelf. Franco Albini inspired the design of this piece, produced in Italy during the 1970s. This piece is fantastic thank...

Mid-Century Modern Wooden Wall unit, in the style of Franco Albini, Italy, 1960s Height is modular. Lowest : 282,5cm

Fontana Arte , rare and elegant wall shelf, Nile green glass of great thickness, shaped and ground transparent. Sturdy brass supports of excellent workmanship. All you need are two e...

Mid Century Italian Bamboo Rattan Shelf C.1960 In good condition commensurate of age.

Adjustable Mid Century Modern Wall Unit in scandinavian style manufactured in Italy in the 1960 's. Dark veneered wood structure made by one sliding doors drawer, four elengatly re...

Nice and sculptural italian 1960’s shelf In rosewood. There is two doors With à Nice key.

Rattan corner shelf by Franco Albini for Bonacina, Italy 1960, made with bamboo canes and wavy edge. Very good condition.

A stunning Mid Century etagere constructed with varnished sycamore wood. This modular unit features three shelving modules and a central built-in console. The shelves are supported b...

Amazing midcentury triangular bamboo and rattan corner shelves. This fantastic piece was designed in Italy during the 1970s after Franco Albini. The triangular structure is in bam...

'Combi center' by Joe Colombo for Bernini, 1963

Bent Iron, welded and enameled, crystal glass Signed declaration of the Grandson, Alberto Paccagnini from January 2020 available. Carlo Paccagnini Studio, Milano, 1947-1953

Small teak shelf, 70's. Packaging with bubble wrap and cardboard boxes is included. If the wooden packaging is needed (fumigated crates or boxes) for US and International Shipping, i...

Extraordinary Mid-Century wall shelf in curved rattan, bamboo and wicker. This marvellous object was made in Italy in the 1960s and is attributed to the mastery of Franco Albini. Th...

Mid-Century Modern Italian Wooden Wall Unit, 1960s

Very pretty wall-unit that really dresses up a room.

Modular Italian shelving String style, with integrated desk. It is composed of a black lacquered metal structure with brass details that supports the adjustable shelves, a storage mo...

Excepptionnal brass and glass shelf, featuring five supported wooden shelves held by two glass blades at the ends, all securely connected and fixed by brass screws. The glass is eng...

Designer - Philippe Starck Producer - Baleri Italia Model - Mac Gee Wall Unit Design Period - Eighties Measurements - Width 99 cm x Depth 55 cm x Height 235 cm Materials - Metal Col...

LB7 bookcase, designed by Franco Albini and manufactured by Poggi in 1957. Modular bookstore composed by upholds, containers with flying and doors, shelve. The industrial standard for every product component allows permanent and different solutions, from the bearing structures to the elements. The structure does not need anchorages to the wall and can be placed in the middle of the space. This set is composed of 3 modules, ten shelves, and three containers. It is made of Rosewood, iron, and brass. Excellent vintage condition. Franco Albini was born in Robbiate in 1905, and after his childhood and part of his youth, he moved to Milan. He graduated at Politecnico of Milan, Faculty of Architecture, in 1929, and He collaborated for three years in Giò Ponti and Emilio Lancia’s office. He probably had his international contacts here, at The International Exposition of 1929 in Barcelona and Paris, where he visited le Corbusier’s office, as Franca Helg used to tell. Throughout these first three years, his works were undoubtedly related to XIXth Century. His meeting with Edoardo Persico marks an evident turnover towards rationalism and writers for “Casabella” magazine. Persico’s thoughtful and ironical comments on some of Albini’s drawings for office furniture caused him deep upsetting. “I spent days of real anxiety – tells Albini – I had to answer all questions. I had a long fever”. The new phase that the meeting provoked begins with opening his own first office at Via Panizza with Renato Camus and Giancarlo Palanti. The group of Architects starts taking care of social housing, participating in the competition for the Baracca neighborhood in 1932, and then realizing the Ifacp neighborhood: Fabio Filzi (1936/38), Gabriele D’Annunzio, and Ettore Ponti (1939). During those years, He also worked for his first private villa (Pestarini). It is mainly in the context of exhibitions that the Italian architect experiments the compromise between rigor and poetic fantasy that Pagano was talking about; He conceived all the elements that would become recurrent in all types of his work – Architecture, Interiors, Design. The 1933 opening of the new Triennale of Milano, in Palazzo dell’Arte, becomes an occasion to express the highly innovative character of rationalist thinking. In this place, to experiment with new materials and solutions, but most of all a “method”. Young rationalist architects cultivated the art of exhibiting as a communication lab, an open field to space solutions. Albini, with Giancarlo Palanti, sets the steel structure house (with R. Camus, G. Mazzoleni, G. Minoletti and coordination by G. Pagano) designing also its furniture. For the next Triennale in 1936, marked by Persico’s early death, Franco Albini, together with a group of young architects around Pagano, takes care of the exhibition of Dwelling, where he presented 3 types of lodgings. In the same year, Albini and Romano design the exhibition for Ancient Italian jewelry: vertical uprights, simple linear poles design space. This element is recurring in other works, like the Scipione exhibition (1941), Vanzetti stand (1942), and Olivetti shop in Paris (1956). The architectural space is readable through a grid, introducing a third dimension, the vertical one, with a sense of lightness and transparency. Upright is also used in design objects, such as the Veliero bookcase...

A three-tier ash wood shelving unit or console with a columnar support with brass details, resting on a brass plinth. Italy, circa 1970 Size: 32 1/4" high x 55 1/4" wide x 9 1/2"...

A Mid Century bamboo and rattan three-tier Italian étagère (shelves) dating from the 1960s. In excellent condition commensurate of age.

This rare and very functional shelf with drawers and compartments made of teak is in the style of the time. Similarities with the design of Charles Eames and Osvaldo Borsani are rec...

Postmodern shelving unit produced in Italy around 1980. The white and yellow lacquered wooden frame can be folded completely . In good condition with some scratches and greyish paint...

Elegant living room furniture forming a library or shelf, structure in ebonized wood and gilded brass. In the upper part the uprights with engaged columns are terminated by capitals...

A very stylish 1950s Italian shelving system. This robust and solid shelving system or bookcase, consists of ten adjustable teak shelves that rest on metal and brass brackets. The sh...

Franco Albini wall unit for Cassina, c.2010s Italy. This modular shelving system, first designed in the 1950s, was relaunched in 2008 and feat...

Chrome tubular shelf with metal clamps from S.B.E., 1960s. Lattice shelving with tubular elements connected by clamps. Measure h280x250x55 available with...

A console shelf with drawers in carved wood and colored glass, Italian manufacture from the 1950s, designed by Osvaldo Borsani and produced by ABV Arredamenti Borsani Veredo, Milan. ...

Exclusive mid century wall unit made from wood and black metal legs. It consists of a lowboard with 4 drawers, 2 doors and on top of that we have a bar compartment and another two d...

Italian modern travertine and smoked glass consolle, 1970s Console with lateral structures in travertine, with any grooves present on all sides, with two shelves of different depths ...

Striking quality and simplicity on this pair of chrome plated steel and .5" thick smoke glass, the side poles unscrew to place in the wall and screw back to cover the screws, the bea...

Antique Piedmontese wardrobe with two doors, with movable shelves, original, shabby white, shallow. Size cm: 124 + 12 frame x 41 x 221 height Age:...

Midcentury Rectangular wall mirror with shelf, split reed, bamboo, rattan, Italy, 1960s. This eyecatching mirror with storage drawers was handcrafted with bamboo cane and rattan. It...

1970s original production Componibili storage units in bright primary yellow by Anna Castelli for Kartell, Beylerian, ltd. 5-tier stack with sliding doors on casters. Includes: (2)...

Golden wall shelf with six smoked glass shelves, Italy, 1960s We also have a larger but slightly larger shelf from this series. A shelf floor has a small chip on the edge 

Italian tassel wall shelf with three shelves. Painted finish on shelves, iron frame.

A pair of small brass wall consoles designed and produced in Italy, 1940s.

Mid-Century Modern "Lb7" Bookcase by Franco Albini for Poggi, Italy, 1950s Height is adjustable

Beautiful mid-century triangular corner bookshelf made in bamboo, rattan and wicker. This lovely French Riviera style bookshelf was produced in Italy during the 1970s. This charmin...

A sizeable burl wood shelf or console designed and produced in Italy, 1930s.

Elegant pair of shelves of library in chrome metal attributed to Banci Italy 1970 Glass shelves Size is Height 183 cm for one and 163 cm for the second

Pair Decorative Brass Smoked Glass 4 Tier Shelves Vitrines Etageres Displays

Pair of Vintage Maison Jansen Neoclassical style brushed steel and brass etageres with glass shelves. Each etagere has five shelves including top.

Pair of Mid Century Modern Tall & Narrow Chrome & Glass Etageres MINT!

Jean Nouvel "Less Library Shelf" for Unifor Sp.A., Italy, 1994. Minimal pultruded and welded steel. Designed to represent the archetypal shelf, the Less Library is an exercise in pur...

Mid-Century Modern Large Wall Unit by Poul Cadovius for Royal System , 1950s

Toilet set in bevelled crystal and chrome-plated metal designed by Max Ingrand and produced by Fontana Arte in the 1970s. The set is composed by two single soap holders, four differ...

Wall unit designed by Ico Parisi 1958 for MiM, Rome. All shelves are adjustable in height and also has moveable stands for books which are adjustable. The unit is designed to lean on...

A stunning mid 20th Century Italian modular wall unit consisting of four cupboards and shelves. This wall unit features adjustable cupboards, draw...

Very nice, decorative rattan shelf in very good condition, Italy, 1950s.

Guglielmo Pecorini, wall shelf unit, walnut, Italy, design 1954, production 1950s Adjustable unit consisting of a wall construction and two shelves. This piece is designed by Italia...

A rare versatile piece of mid 20th Century Italian furniture, this free standing wall unit can also be used as a room divider. Desi...

Gorgeous French Riviera wall shelf in curved rattan, bamboo and wicker. This unique item was made in Italy in the 1960s in the style of Franco Albini. This stunning organic wall shelf...

Mid-Century Shelve by Roberto Pamio and Renato Toso for Stilwood, Italy, 1970s

Vintage Postmodern Design Slender Glass & Metal Wall Rack / Display Shelves. Made in Italy, 1980's. Three long glass shelves with triangular shaped metal constructed supports. Airy a...