Italian Designer, Coffee Table, Walnut, Italy, 1940s

A freeform glass, brass and walnut coffee or side table, designed and produced in Italy, c. 1940s.

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A marble and oak coffee table designed and produced by an American designer, United States, c. 1940s.  

A travertine, dark-stained wood and brass coffee table designed and produced in the US, c. 1940s.

A wooden coffee or side table designed and produced in Sweden, 1940s.

A walnut and beige travertine coffee table, designed and produced in Italy, c. 1950s.

Rectangular coffee table with two glass shelves with etched decorations and a wooden curved frame.

Italian round coffee table, 1940s. Dimensions: H= 51 cm; D= 61 cm.

Splendid Italian coffee table, Italy 1940s The piece was bought at a Guglielmo Ulrich designed Apartment. Milan, Italy The coffee table has brass feet and a brass inner frame on th...

Marvellous round coffee table in a fantastic old walnut. This fantastic piece was design by Osvaldo Borsani in the 1940s in Italy. The coffee table, fully made in a gorgeous walnut,...

Midcentury Italian design coffee table, 1940s.

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...