Willy Rizzo Style, Burl Wooden Coffee Table Square with Brass Base, Italy, 1970s

Fantastic midcentury brass and Formica laminate side table. This wonderful piece is inspired by Willy Rizzo and was designed in Italy in the 1970s. This amazing item has brass fin...

Fantastic midcentury coffee table in briarwood and metal. This wonderful item is inspired by Willy Rizzo and was designed in Italy during the 1970s. This incredible item has steel...

Fantastic and large mid-century low table in brass and white formica laminate. This wonderful piece is inspired by Willy Rizzo's production and was designed in Italy during the 1970s...

Midcentury squared coffee table in white Botticino marble and steel bottles or objects holder. This outstanding item was designed in Italy during the ...

Elegant midcentury smoked glass, brass and chrome squared coffee table. This amazing piece was designed by Romeo Rega in Italy during the 1970s. This coffee table, thanks to the c...

Elegant brass, chrome and smoked glass square coffee table. Romeo Rega designed this elegant coffee table during the 1970s in Italy. The unique combination of straight and pure lines with superb materials, makes this item a go-to for Italian midcentury lovers. This piece smoked glass top will add seductive elegance to a midcentury living room or a studio. Measures (cms): width - 70 depth - 70 height - 40 Romeo Rega is born in Rome on 10 October 1925, third of six children, born and raised in the Trastevere district, in the heart of Rome. In 1943 , at the age of 18, he joins the army as a driver, a position that he holds for the next two years. In 1945, the year of Liberation, he comes into contact with whom he himself calles “the Master”, an excellent blacksmith and forger, from whom he learnes the art of iron. This way he starts his path after his father Piero, also a craftsman. Nine years later he gets married and opens a small shop in Via della Pelliccia, in the Trastevere district. Here he starts to work wrought iron, discovering himself capable of inventing, designing and realizing gates, railings and iron furniture. He is 27 years old when, in 1957, he enrolls in the Albo provinciale delle imprese artigiane (Provincial Register of Craft Enterprises) and opens his first workshop in Vicolo della Frusta 6, where he collaborates with talented masters of wrought iron and forging. At this point arrives the first important order: the design and manufacturing for Cinecittà of the chariots for the American colossal film Ben-Hur, which will be published in 1959. He stays in Vicolo della Frusta until the end of the 1960s, a period in which he dedicated himself to his favorite activity: the design of his own pieces and the relations with people. Among his clients there are personalities from the world of cinema and entertainment, such as Marcello Mastroianni, Renato Rascel and his wife Giuditta Saltarini, Massimo Ranieri. In 1970 he met the filmmaker Massimo Saraceni who encouraged him to broaden his entrepreneurial horizons. The 1970s represent a real revolution for the Italian culture, here start the “golden years” of design. In this roaring context, Romeo manages to apply with creativity the traditional methods usually used to process forging and wrought iron to new industrial materials such as brass, steel and perspex. This is how the famous “Romeo Rega” brand is born, and the serial production of his furniture starts in Vicolo Pian due Torri, in the Magliana district of Rome. The “four-rod” tables, the “Z-shaped” consoles...

A sculptural 1970s coffee table attributed to Willy Rizzo. This table features a lacquered burl wood veneer with beautiful graining and subtle brass detailing. It has a two-tier top ...

This stunning square Alveo coffee table is guaranteed to be the focus of attention when you entertain guests in your living room. Following the glamorous mid-century look of other cl...

Rare coffee table by Willy Rizzo. The table features a fantastic solid brass arrow motif embedded in travertine. The inlay also runs to the base of the legs. The top is 4 cm thick.

A square French two-tiered low side tables with chrome and gunmetal finish metal and smokey glass tops. By Willy Rizzo* for Linea Flaminia. From the estate of Mrs. C.Z. Guest (Mrs. W...

Burl coffee table style of Willy Rizzo with a metal insert to the center and floating on a metal base. The metal insert was originally used to hold bottles.  

Rare and absolutely fantastic coffee table by Willy Rizzo. The table has a fantastic solid brass arrow pattern built into the travertine. The inlay also runs in the base of the legs....