Marc Berthier Ozoo Desk for D.A.N. Paris, France, 1967

Guiseppe Pagano (1896-1945) and Gino Levi Montalcini (1902-1974) designed this distinctive desk and chair in 1929 for influential financier Riccardo Gualino’s Palazzo Gualino in Turi...

Cast bronze, low-iron glass, iron and polished stainless steel. The bronze cast of a found wood fragment appears held in an assemblage of rigidity and lightness. The structure is an interplay of rationalist ironwork and fine, almost ethereal polished steel rods. The piece is part of Held Absence, Grace Prince’s largest furniture collection to date addressing a long-held fascination with absence and fragility. The pieces develop the designer’s free, gestural approach into six assemblages in bronze, steel and wood. Designed exclusively for Béton Brut, the works emerged from a period spent living in a traditional house just north of Kyoto. The collection is handmade to order in 12 weeks. Grace Prince (born in London, 1992) is a multidisciplinary designer based between Zürich, Milan and London. A graduate of Central Saint Martins, she worked as the assistant designer to Vincenzo De Cotiis...

Prisunic editions was both a manufacturer and retailer founded in France during 1968. The company’s aim was to revolutionise the furniture industry within France offering the consumer a cutting edge product and retail experience. Prisunic editions sold its futuristic designs often from moulded plastic and fiberglass through a catalogue. Their approach was guided by a desire to create impactful design that was affordable to the masses. Their project attracted highly regarded designers from across Europe such as Marc Held, Gae Aulenti and Terence Conran. This chair’s form is very much a consequence of the moulding process employed. The chairs soft undulating curves are not an aesthetic decision per se but in fact the result of engineering. The chair is in good structural and cosmetic condition with minor signs of use and sits like a dream with our Marc Berthier Ozoo desk...

The Kaïdo lounge chair designed by Hong Kong born Kwok Hoï Chan is inspired from a fictional alphabet borrowed from Chinese calligraphy. Hoï Chan emigrated to Europe where in France ...

Oozoo Marc Berthier desk for D.A.N. Paris, France, 1960s. Glass fibre and hazelnut lacquered resin. Piece attributed to the above designer/maker. It has no hallmark or proof of authenticity, but is documented in design history...

Very nice Olive Green Coffee Table . made of Fiberglass . Design by Marc Berthier manufactured by Prisunic France 1970s . Normal wear and tear . some paint loss on one side . ''see...

“Historically, travelling theatres such as the Commedia dell’Arte or that of Mo- liere’s company performed in public squares, on a “stage” made of floorboards set on trestles, known in Italy as Piccolo Teatro, or small theatre. Thus, Teatro trestle is the archetype for the adjustable trestles used with drawing boards...

This elegant coffee table came from an Italian villa decorated with numerous designer pieces from the 1960s and 1970s. Many pieces by Tobia Scarpa and Fontana Arte especially. The ta...