Italian Console Tables

In the Hudson console, the light, slim and elegant design dialogues with the presence of precious materials and refined workmanship. An original aesthetic, with a timeless classic st...

Blockboard structure veneered by Mimetica. Top coated by Mimetica veneer. Engraved structure.

Elegant pair of Louis XV wall columns. Lacquered and gilded wood with floral carvings and central mask. The lacquered parts of a gray tending to light blue combined with the sculpte...

A pine and glass console table designed and produced by Enzo Testa for a residential commission, Bergamo, Italy, c. 1968. Dimensions: 35.5” H x 76.8” W x 13.8” D

Iconic, functional and aesthetical solution to enhance an entrance or as furnishing element of other housing and commercial contexts, the nuvola console table projects us in a dreaml...

The Pablina hand carved quartz stone console was created by the designer Leo Di Caprio after a research on the hidden Brazilian underground diversit...

This rare console is a special order for a rich private person in the middle of 70's. Pierluigi Spadolini (Florence, April 5, 1922 - Florence, June 8, 2000) was an Italian architec...

Sculptural iron base with thick glass top

Pair of Italian consoles with marble inset top.

Sicis is delighted to welcome you at ‘Home’. The classically inspired extent in contemporary plays an eclectic style, elegant and refined. Interiors express personality. A constant...

Sicis is delighted to welcome you at ‘Home’. The classically inspired extent in contemporary plays an eclectic style, elegant and refined. Interiors express personality. A constant...

Italian console four feet with characters trains arbaléte, marble with beak corbin, gilt with gold, condition of use, plan a restoration.

Transport yourself to the opulent elegance of 17th century Northern Italy with this exquisite pair of walnut demi-lune console tables. These remarkable pieces embody the defining cha...

Draga Obradovic founded her design studio in 2007 in the town of Como, Italy. Her multi-disciplinary practice specializes in unique works that blend colored resins, concrete, bronze...

Poured glass table, sandblasted and acid etched with hand silvered liquid precious metals, including 24 carat gold, floated on the surface. Cloud Console...

Among the most beautiful examples of hardstone artistry that have ever entered our collection, these important Grand Ducal pietre dure console tables are in a class all their own. Their powerful architectural elegance, impressive size and rarity make them two of the finest hardstone masterpieces ever created and quite possibly the greatest pair of pietre dure tables in existence. With their naturalistically rendered flowers and birds, these tabletop panels showcase the particularly fine quality craftsmanship of the Grand Ducal workshops in Florence during the first quarter of the 17th century. Grand Duke Ferdinando I de Medici, one of the most important personages in the annals of art history, established the Grand Ducal Workshop in 1588. The workshop specialized in the art of pietre dure developed from the ancient art of opus sectile, giving rise to the most luxurious and detailed examples of hardstone artistry ever produced. Its patrons were the Popes and Royals of Europe, and the quality of the objects produced in the workshop is without equal. Typically, because of the high level of workmanship the art form requires, pietre dure plaques were crafted in small sizes. The great majority of known examples of pietre dure are a fraction of the size of our grand tables. The combination of pietre dure and extensive use of other rare decorative hardstones such as lapis lazuli and pietra paesina or “ruin marble” meant that these tabletops were surely produced for a wealthy collector. The tables are further distinguished by their superbly carved bases by Andrea Brustolon, known as the “Michelangelo of wood.” Brustolon was a Venetian wood sculptor known for his exuberant and intricate Baroque furniture. His high Baroque style was influenced by his years studying in Rome, where he was exposed to the sculpture of Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Crafted in the early 18th century, these bases display Brusolon’s unmatched talent for both figural and foliate work, combining cupids, masks and oversized scrolling vines for a grand, ornate effect. Similar furnishings by Brustolon are held in museums worldwide, including the Victoria & Albert Museum, the National Museum of Scotland and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, while the Ca' Rezzonico Museum in Venice features an entire room dedicated to the sculptor. For approximately 150 years, these tables were part of the famed Stoneleigh Abbey collection owned by the Lord Leigh family. This renowned English country estate inspired Jane Austen to write Mansfield Park. Lord Leigh eventually sold the tables at Christie’s London in 1962, and the pair have stayed in the collection of the same Florentine family who purchased them from Christie's until we recently acquired them. Our tables are prominently pictured in the important Saul Levy book Il Mobile Veneziano del Settencento. The pietre dure plaques date circa 1625-1650. The decorative tops likely would have originally been sold with a pair of plain stone columns to display them, and Lord Leigh would have commissioned the custom bases from Brustolon circa 1714 when he added the impressive four-story fifteen-bay Baroque West Wing to Stoneleigh Abbey. A similar single Grand Ducal tabletop is in the United Kingdom’s National Trust Collection, and a smaller tabletop resides in Buckingham Palace. The flower and bird panels in our examples relate to the famous Badminton Cabinet...

Console by Marzio Cecchi, Italy, circa 1970, in painted metal and glass, one of three known examples made for the Helle Boutique in La Spezia, manufactured by Studio Most, Florence.

Attractive, rare Renaissance trestle table of typical, bold design and beautiful rich color. Provenance: Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC.