Items Similar to Alanda Square Coffee Table by Paolo Piva for B&B Italia, 1980s

Alanda Square Coffee Table by Paolo Piva for B&B Italia, 1980s

B&B Italia by Paolo Piva Alanda Glass Coffee Table, 1980s

Alanda Coffee Table by Paolo Piva, B&B Italia, c.1980

Iconic Alanda Coffee Table by Paolo Piva for B&B Italia

Alanda coffee table by Paolo Piva for B&B Italia, 1980

Want more images or videos?

Request additional images or videos from the seller

1 of 9

Alanda Square Coffee Table by Paolo Piva for B&B Italia, 1980s

About the Item

The Alanda coffee table, an iconic piece that inaugurated the 80s, is now a highly successful classic and refined vintage furniture complement. Our piece was produced in an Alanda table manner, kept in excellent condition and its glass has avoided getting noticeable scratches or chips. Alanda is one of the most typical design objects of a period with a wealth of strong and bold stylistic signs, often in a dialogue with architecture, reproducing its most attractive and characteristic elements in miniature. This piece is attributed to Paolo Piva, since there were many versions of this table, this is the version with a more particular workmanship.

Creator:

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

Dimensions:

Height: 11.82 in (30 cm)Width: 39.38 in (100 cm)Depth: 39.38 in (100 cm)

Style:

Modern (Of the Period)

Materials and Techniques:

Glass,Steel

Place of Origin:

Italy

Period:

1980-1989

Date of Manufacture:

1980

Condition:

Wear consistent with age and use.

Seller Location:

Puglia, IT

Reference Number:

1stDibs: LU4426138576132

View Invoice

Shop All B&B Italia

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.