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Mid-Century Modern Paolo Piva Glass Top and Metal Base Italian Coffee Table

About the Item

Rectangular coffee table designed by Paolo Piva for B&B, Italy, 1970s. Made of black lacquered metal structure geometric base and glass top. Paolo Piva: Born in Adria in 1950, he began studying at the faculty of architecture in Venice in 1968, specializing in research in the visual field. In 1970 he assisted in the realization of a project for a competition, the “wig 74”, held by the city of Vienna and took part in another competition for a monument to the resistance in the city of Modena. In 1973, he studied at the faculty of architecture in Venice under professor Carlo Scarpa and got hit degree with a thesis “Vienna from 1918-1934” which was supervised by professor Manfredo Tafuri. In 1975 he worked for the istituto di storia e architettura di Venetia and in association with the akademie für angewandten kunst of Vienna, organized a huge exhibition on Vienna during the socialist period. This exhibition gave birth to a similar one in 1980 in Rome called “red Vienna”. In collaboration with Manfredo Tafuri he prepared the catalogue for this exhibition and set out the display. In 1981 he designed the interior display of several chains of clothes shops. In 1983 he was a guest lecturer at p.d.c. In Los Angeles. In 1985 worked at the renovation of the “c. Jourdan” head office in Paris and in 1986 he worked at the renovation of “palace remer” in Venice. Since 1988 he is associate professor at the akademie für angewandten kunst in Vienna and since 1991 he is regular professor. In the field of Industrial Design he has collaborated with various companies in Europe and in the USA. Every item LA Studio offers is checked by our team of 10 craftsmen in our in-house workshop. Special restoration or reupholstery requests can be done. Lighting can be electrified to the required voltage. Every piece design of LA Studio or new production as they are made with natural materials or made by artisans they may vary in wood color, marble color or wood grain, etc. Take into account that the colors on the furniture may vary depending on the type of lighting and the type of screen from which you see the images. Bibliography Domus no. 541, December 1974

Creator:

B&B Italia (Manufacturer),Paolo Piva (Designer)

Dimensions:

Height: 9.85 in (25 cm)Width: 70.87 in (180 cm)Depth: 46.46 in (118 cm)

Style:

Mid-Century Modern (In the Style Of)

Materials and Techniques:

Glass,Metal,Lacquered

Place of Origin:

Italy

Period:

1970-1979

Date of Manufacture:

1970

Condition:

Seller Location:

Madrid, ES

Reference Number:

Seller: LA003001141stDibs: LU971820500622

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B&B Italia

In 1966, Piero Ambrogio Busnelli cofounded C&B Italia, a modern Italian furniture manufacturer, with Cesare Cassina in northern Milan. From the outset, Busnelli and Cassina set about recruiting the most talented modernists in Italy to conceive of creative furnishings manufactured in modern ways. In the early 1970s, the company split, with Cassina founding his own eponymous firm and Busnelli taking leadership of what became B&B Italia.

For decades, Busnelli cultivated relationships with the world’s best design talent, resulting in furniture pieces that remain iconic today — be they Gaetano Pesce’s outwardly curvaceous Up seating (made for C&B, reintroduced by B&B) or tables from industrial designer Paolo Piva, each more sophisticated than the next in their geometrically complex steel-tube bases. B&B Italia earned four prestigious Compasso d’Oro design awards: in 1979 for Mario Bellini’s Le Bambole, in 1984 for the Sisamo wardrobe system by Studio Kairos, in 1987 for Antonio Citterio’s modular Sity sofa and, in 1989, the first award given to a manufacturing company itself.

Other notable names who designed for B&B Italia over the course of its 54-year history include Patricia Urquiola, Naoto Fukasawa, Zaha Hadid, Ettore Sottsass and Vincent Van Duysen, to name a very few. And while these names bring star power to the B&B brand, in many cases, it was B&B Italia who helped usher in their celebrity, fostering a wave of design talent on the world stage.

The company’s forward-thinking vision manifested in its own headquarters, too: In 1972, B&B Italia tapped architects Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers to design a steel-framed, postmodern-style home for the brand, whose crisscrossing metal exoskeleton is reminiscent of the pair’s Centre Pompidou in Paris, which was built at roughly the same time. Now, B&B Italia manages a contract division and outdoor section as well as its residential arm, and it also controls production for Maxalto, a brand spun out with furniture designs by Antonio Citterio.

At 1stDibs, find a range of vintage B&B Italia furniture — including sofas, cocktail tables and more.