Fran Hosken Service Cart

Culinar series flatware set of stainless steel designed by Carl Aubock III (1924-1993) and manufactured by Collini, Austria in 1979. A five piece service for eight composed of the fo...

Boat-shaped coffee table with beveled edges in silvered walnut by the team of German-born American architects Oscar Stonorov and Willo von Moltke, designed for the Museum of Modern Art's 1941 Organic Design in Home Furnishings competition, and produced in very small numbers by Red Lion Furniture of Pennsylvania. Per the MoMA catalog, “a design may be called organic when there is an harmonious organization of the parts within the whole, according to structure, material, and purpose. Within this definition there can be no vain ornamentation or superfluity, but the part of beauty is none the less great—in ideal choice of material, in visual refinement, and in the rational elegance of things internded for use.” The suite of furnishings designed by Stonorov and von Moltke---including a vanity, coffee table, dining set, bed, nightstand, and case pieces--won honorable mention at the seminal competition and received a preferred placement at the MoMA exhibition itself. The winning entries in the competition, which included the iconic seating and unit furniture by Charles Eames and Eero Saarinen, were showcased at eleven department stores across the country--notably Bloomingdale's and Kaufmann's--and were intended for serial production, but America's entry into WWII a month after the opening of the exhibition, along with higher than expected price points across the board meant that few pieces were actually made outside the ones initially sent to the participating department stores. This was especially true for the Stonorov and von Moltke suite, which wound up being among the most expensive items...

A perforated metal and wood bar / service cart with laminate top and rubber wheels rolling around on a steel tube frame. Franziska the designer studied Bauhaus design at Harvard under Gropius, Kepes, Moholy- Nagy and Breuer. This piece garnered wide acclaim from the design and furniture establishment as an important work displayed in museum competitions and featured in the trade publication Furniture Forum in the late 1940s. A hard to find and iconic piece of midcentury design manufactured by Hosken Inc...

1950s Mexico lovely vintage Modern Brass Service Cart by Arturo Pani. Body construction tubular brass. Original vintage wheels. Cart comes with new ...