Bar Cart by Tjerk Reijenga for Pilaster

This beautiful coffee table was designed by Max Ingrand and manufactured by Fontana Arte in 1956. The elegant brass legs support the rectangle crystal...

This beautiful chest of drawers was designed by Alfred Hendrickx for Belform in the late 1950s. It has a Minimalist look with its handleless drawers and fine brass hairpin legs. Th...

In the 1950s, Pieter De Bruyne (1931-1987) joined the Belgian furniture designers who concentrated on modern social furniture. He was convinced that furniture, in addition to its aes...

This old original table lamp 600g was designed by Gino Sarfatti for Arteluce in 1966. This lamp is made of black lacquered aluminum and it has a support of a pouch made of black sky...

Willy Van Der Meeren designed the F1 armchair for Tubax in the early 1950s. This great armchair has a black lacquered frame and a wooden seat and back covered with shiny vinyl with a 1950s print. The two F1 chairs...

Willy Van Der Meeren designed the F1 armchair for Tubax in the early 1950s. This great armchair has a black lacquered frame and a wooden seat and back covered with shiny vinyl with ...

Dutch design of the 1950s, work for Pilastro by Tjerk Reijenga (designer and Dutch avant-garde architect since he only wants renewable materials for these creations! World famous, he...

An ebonized bar cart by Edward Wormley for Dunbar, USA, c.1960s. The cart features a white laminate flip top surface with a double sided caned door f...

1950's Italian bar cart/serving trolley by Cesare Lacca for Cassina, in mahogany stained maple, brass bottle holder, brass structural rods, brass hardware and caster wheels, with thr...

This classic Edward Wormley for Dunbar bar cart, circa 1960s, features a cork top with brass trim and the two lower platforms also w...

Bar cart with two removable trays and a large fixed square tray, solid stained mahogany with french polish, polished brass and glass. Can be completely dismantled. Design: Cesare Lac...

Wonderful Italian wood trolley with glass and brass finishes. It has a removable serving tray with brass and chrome finishes. This 1950s production is attributed to Cesare Lacca, has wonderful rounded lines and materials plus amazing brass finishes This serving table will add a fresh accent wherever you place it and it will work in a natural, bohemian, midcentury or contemporary ambience. 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...