Midcentury Bamboo and Rattan Italian Rectangular Coffee Table with Glass Top

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Midcentury Bamboo and Rattan Italian Rectangular Coffee Table with Glass Top

About the Item

Elegant midcentury rectangular bamboo coffee table with rattan finishes and smoked glass top. This iconic Italian piece is attributed to the designer Tito Agnoli and the production of Bonacina and it is dated in between the 1960s. The delicate lines and the mix of materials make this item perfect for completing a midcentury living room project, and its materials and composition make it suitable both for inside and outside. Tito Agnoli was born into an Italian family, in Lima, Peru, in 1931. He came to Italy after the war. Trained as a painter (having studied with Sironi), in 1949 he enrolled in the Faculty of Architecture, where he graduated in 1959 and was assistant to Gio Ponti and to Carlo De Darli. However, even in the early Fifties, he was already carrying out an intense professional activity in the field of design. He has created projects for, among others, Arflex, Cinova, Lema, Matteo Grassi, Molteni, Montina, Oluce, Pierantonio Bonacina, Poltrona Frau, Schiffini, Ycami. Several times recommended for the Compasso d’Oro (Golden Compass) Award, in 1986 he won the Gold Medal at the Neocon in Chicago. Some of his pieces are kept in the permanent collection of the MoMa in New York. He died in Milan on February 2012. Long a secret resource of Europe’s most discerning decorators, Bonacina is a 128-year-old wicker furniture company north of Milan run by the founder’s grandson Mario, along with his wife and children. Most of the workers are locals who have been with the company for years, and who return home each afternoon for lunch. Men do the hot, physical work of bending the thick rods of rattan, and women do the weaving. The day I visited, Luigi Meroni, a Bonacina employee of 50 years, was making a coffee table, while two sisters, Cecilia and Rosa, were weaving chairs. In addition to the thousands of designs created over three generations — everything from a Classic armchair with a sunburst pattern designed by decorator Renzo Mongiardino to, more recently, a thin chaise resembling a bent sheet of metal created by Mario Bonacina — the company has collaborated with a number of other designers such as Gae Aulenti, Gio Ponti, Joe Colombo and Franco Albini. Most famous, perhaps, is the decades-long collaboration with Mongiardino, who created for the house, among other things, a collection of charming, old-fashioned chairs and settees with Italian doyenne Marella Agnelli for all of her properties, including those in St. Moritz, Rome, New York City and Marrakesh. (There’s an oft-told story that after Agnelli toured a nouveau riche American’s home, she remarked of her Hostess, ‘‘It will take her another lifetime to understand wicker.’’) It also hasn’t been difficult for contemporary designers and architects — including Peter Marino, Jacques Grange and Daniel Romualdez — to appreciate the company’s humble but elegant design; Bonacina’s grand sloping armchairs and spare, streamlined loungers can be found in Italian hotels like Le Sirenuse, Francis Ford Coppola’s Palazzo Margherita and Villa Feltrinelli.

Attributed to:
Bonacina (Manufacturer)Tito Agnoli (Designer)
Dimensions:
Height: 18.12 in (46 cm)Width: 47.25 in (120 cm)Depth: 18.12 in (46 cm)
Style:
Mid-Century Modern (Of the Period)
Materials and Techniques:
Bamboo,Glass,Rattan,Smoked Glass
Place of Origin:
Italy
Period:
Mid-20th Century
Date of Manufacture:
1960
Condition:
Wear consistent with age and use.
Seller Location:
Roma, IT
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU3067319620592