Gio Ponti Style Wooden Round Coffee Table, Italy, 1940s

Pair of impressive large hand carved table lamps manufactured in Italy in the 1950s. One represents an African woman carrying two water jars, while the second one depicts a Chinese m...

Brass floor lamp from the 1940s, possibly a prototype or a pre series model for the LTE1 lamp designed by Luigi Caccia Dominioni for Azucena in 1948. The lamp carries...

Glazed ceramic table sculpture lamp, Zanaga signature item in an edition of 20 pieces, dating from the 1950s. excellent condition, original lampshade. Measurements refer to ceramic l...

Pretty and elegant enameled metal table lamp with abstract decoration and colored perspex. Probably of Tuscan manufacture, it bears the name Regent on the elegant brown base.

Acrylic/wool blend rug, Dal Lago manufactory, Venice 1960s/70s. Informal decoration based on brown and beige, with yellow, black and white. Stock, never used, the carpet has been cle...

Murano glass lamp/vase, design by Carlo Nason, Mazzega production, 1970s. Large object composed of interlocking, smoky/amber-colored glass sectors and a filigree glass element. The l...

Round shaped coffee table with three legs, in walnut wood and brass details. Attribuited to Gio Ponti, Italian manufacture from the late 1940s to the early 1950s Gio Ponti was an icon of the modernist movement: the Italian designer, architect, artist and publisher contributed significantly to the worlds of architecture and design with his extensive work in fine furniture and ceramics, education, office and residential buildings, and everything in between. Giovanni, known as Gio Ponti was born in 1891 in Milan. It was there that he spent his childhood, and in 1921 he began to study architecture at the Politecnico di Milano. From 1923 to 1930 he served as the artistic director of the Richard-Ginori porcelain factory. In 1927, Ponti started his first architectural office, together with Emilio Lancia, and in 1928 he started the magazine Domus, which is still regarded as one of the most influential European magazines for architecture and design. He was also very influential during the period as a curator of the Milan Triennale. After his collaboration with Emilio Lancia had come to an end, upon completion of the Torre Rasini, he began to work as an architect together with the engineers Antonio Fornaroli and Eugenio Soncini...

Important sculptural wooden coffee table, with essential and elegant lines, in Gio Pointi style, coming from an important Italian house. 1950s

Italian 1930s Art Deco Two-Tier Round Wooden Coffee Table Attributed to architect Gio Ponti work for Domus Nova at La Rinascente, Milano A ...

Metal base and wood coffee table.

Two-level engraved wood and glass coffee table, it was designed in Italy during the 1950s in the style of Gio Ponti. It is made of a circular grooved wooden top that supports the fr...

This coffee table designed and manufactured in Italy in the Fifties exhibits several characteristic features of Ponti's design aesthetic and mid-century modern design principles. Gio...