Italian Desks and Writing Tables

Vintage Dining Table , Italy 1950s A rare shaped 1950s vintage dining table, suitable for six people. Iron design structure and beige formi...

Mid-Century Modern TL2 Cavalletto desk/dining table by Franco Albini for Poggi, 1950s.

This Italian desk made of glossy lacquered maple wood with a light blue finish from the 1950s looks best free-standing in the room, as it has drawers and book shelves at both the front and the back. It has been carefully restored, however there are still slight signs of use at the edges and small scratches on the wood. You can find the two matching chairs here: Set of 2 chairs with Gio Ponti Fabric...

Beech desk, Italian design from the 60s/70s. Structure in black metal, front with three drawers. He can stand in the middle of a room. This desk has be...

Beautiful, unique desk, and sculptural desk designed by Angelo Mangiarotti. Angelo Mangiarotti (* February 26, 1921 in Milan; † June 30, 2012) was an Italian industrial designer and...

Mid-Century Modern Italian desk made of teak wood supported by a geometrical angled structure of black lacquered iron with brass details. The desk is compossed of front and lateral w...

Mid-Century Modern black foldable vintage writing desk "Platone" designed by Giancarlo Piretti 1969 Italy and produced by Anonima Castelli, Italy. The desk is framed with chromed ste...

Dan Johnson dining table and or Desk for Arch Industries Inc. Designed 1958, manufactured by Dan Johnson Studio, Rome Italy. Travertine Marble Top with wrought iron base and sheath ...

An exceptional Italian Mid-Century Modern Neoclassical Walnut Wood and Black Onyx glass console or writing table attributed to Paolo Buffa circa 1950. T...

Elegant Italian desk in leather and walnut wood, classic and very linear design for a desk from the middle of the last century. Top of the desk all covered in light brown leather, w...

Italian large desk from the 50ties Very unique design that offer a confortable and large table top.

Custom-made desk, oak, brass, metal, Italy, 1950s An Italian architect or furniture designer with great eye for proportions planned this free-standing, functional desk with two cor...

Writing or conference table with console designed by Gianni Moscatelli for Formanova, dated circa 1965. Chromed metal structure and mahogany veneer top. Formanova born from the c...

1960s Italian restyled desk table with matching Carlo Ratti chair set We carried out a complete restoration on this vintage Italian desk from the 60s and also some restyling opera...

Cavalletto or TL2 dining or working table designed in 1950 by italian architect Franco Albini, old Poggi edition. Wood construction with beveled edges tabletop and crossed legs with ...

Ico Parisi mahogany executive office desk by MIM Italy, 1950s in its original vintage condition with a beautiful patina.  

Rare italian desk, Giotto Stoppino for Bernini Italy, 1969 Rosewood and chrome metal Bibliography: G. Gramigna, 1950-1980 repertorio...

This desk with its chair was designed by the famous Italian design Vittorio Dassi, using teakwood, Italia, 1950s. The measurements indicated are for the desk only...

7-drawer desk by Osvaldo Borsani for ABV. Rosewood, maple, brass. Curved desk finished on both sides. A variant of an earlier model that originally covered in parchment and designed ...

Rare and unusual desk designed by Gianfranco Frattini for Bernini. By pulling the desk top out you open the rolltop. This desk cabinet has a lot of storage space, 10 drawers at the f...

Great design and exceptional rosewood quality for this directorial Italian desk. (Removable in 3 parts ) the top and two feet.  

A vintage Mid-Century modern Italian writing table made of hand carved Mahogany, designed by Gio Ponti and produced by Schirolli Mantova in good cond...

Beautiful Arco desk set by Olivetti, with the side table too very rare to find in this condition also the complete set Part of the "Arco" series, this sculptural piece features b...

Matteo Grassi "Metron" Boomerang shaped desk completely in leather, Italy 1970's Wooden top and metal base covered in dark cognac leather. Size...

A dining table, manufactured in Italy during the 1950s The structure is in black lacquered iron, with a light and ultra modern design, the feet are in brass and adjustable in hei...

Desk by Roberto Gabetti, Aimaro Isola and Guido Drocco, Italy, 1970s. Manufactured by Arbo. Limited series. Chromed metal, wood. Reference: F. Ferrari, Gabetti e Isola...

Architects Desk from the Eugenio & Ermenegildo Soncini Architecture Firm, Milan, Italy, 1940s. A tubular structure with a wood top and base protection. Adjustable inclination.

Italian mid-century stately wooden desk with glass top 1950s Sturdy multipurpose desk with eight symmetrical drawers, on either side. The glas...

An elegant oval shaped versatile console table which can easily become a desk and/or a small dining table Chrome rounded legs base. Measures: L 195cm W 70cm.

This stunning and impressive Italian executive desk with finished brass sabots and seven drawers.

Cute and stylish Italian midcentury modern desk, with a graceful chair, attributed to Paolo Buffa. This teakwood desk it is a splendid example of the Italian class design of 1950. B...

Wooden desk, with three drawers produced in Italy in the 60s by the Schirolli company based on a design by Giò Ponti, the desk is in good condition, it shows some signs of wear due t...

Mid-Century Modern Italian Desk, Wood and Glass, 1950s.

This geometrical writing desk has a sleek symmetry. This is formed by two large, rectangular storage compartments, together with four smaller compartments above. In between the compa...

Fabulous serving table with shelf below (20 x 9.75) which can be now used as a standing desk. Great design with brass inlay and sleek styling on wheels. Very well crafted. In origina...

Rare desk set by BBPR for Olivetti Synthesis, including a desk, a storage unit, an office chair, a lamp and a wastepaper basket storage unit: 76 x ...

This is a masterpiece of craftsman Italian work. By extracting the top desk, the shutter slides without effort and the front and the back will totally open. This beautiful desk has t...

Extraordinary iron desk, vinyl top, nice shaped legs. Six drawers and very nice sculptural back.

Sharply tailored mahogany writing or dining table with single side drawer and sculpted legs ending in brass sabots. Measure: Drawer is 20.5" deep and 19.25" wide.

A wonderful example of Italian design. This table is composed of lacquered wood, black glass top, and brass accents. It would make a wonderful desk as seen in the last photo. In very...

Beautiful large executive desk designed by Osvaldo Borsani, manufactured by Tecno Milano in Italy, circa 1950. This eye-catching desk has a unique design with the integrated drawe...

A vintage Mid-Century modern Italian dining room table made of hand crafted polished Rosewood, designed by Paolo Buffa and Serafino Arrighi in good condition. The rectangular conference table is composed with its original smoked black glass...

Marco Zanuso (1916-2001) A large and striking modernist dining table by Marco Zanuso, in polished walnut. With architectural double X-legs and a beautiful two-tone top, the pure, st...

Beautiful and neoclassical midcentury Regency Italian writing table or desk with its paired newly upholstered chair both supported by elegant turned and fluted legs ending with taper...

A rectangular, vintage Mid-Century Modern Italian writing table, desk made of hand crafted polished Walnut, composed with two drawers in the manner of Carlo Ratti, in good condition....

Charming desk from the characteristic Italian style of Ico Parisi. The table has a very clean line and architecturally a beautiful design. The wooden structure of the desk is comple...

By pulling the drawer the tambour roll top opens automatic. Then you can double the size of the writing surface.

Italian Mid-Century Modern wood top and steel base desk table by Formanova, 1970s Table desk with wood top with steel finish on the edge and solid ste...

This item is part of the private collection of Casey Godrie and is situated in his private house. Ask him for competitive shipping quotes. His incredible Dune Villa, Amsterdam Beach...

Desk by Hans von Klier in walnut wood with three drawers, a center leather writing section, and a inset storage space which includes two sliding walnut supply holders. The desk has a...

A vintage Mid-Century modern Italian freestanding writing table, desk set with two drawers and a stripped chair made of hand crafted Walnut, in good condition. The large table is com...

Glass top bamboo desk/table.

Desk by Giorgio Preti, Italy, 1950s. Designed for then CEO of the Banco di San Geminiano e San Prospero. Wood, brass. Examples provided with original sk...

Franco Albini & Franca Helg. Dining table model no. TL22. Manufactured by Poggi, Italy, 1958. Mahogany. Measurements: 180.3 cm x 104.1 cm x 73 H cm. 70.98 in x 40.98 in x 28.74 in. Literature: Giuliana Gramigna, Repertorio 1950/1980, Milan, 1985, p. 123. Franco Albini, was born in 1905 and died in 1977. He spent his childhood and part of his youth in Robbiate in Brianza, where he was born. Albini, as an adolescent moved with his family to Milan. Here he enrolled in the Faculty of Architecture of the Polytechnic and graduated in 1929. He started his professional activity in the studio of Gio Ponti and Emilio Lancia, with whom he collaborated for three years. At the 1929 International Exhibition in Barcelona (where Gio Ponti curated the Italian pavilion and Mies van der Rohe realized that of Germany) and in Paris where, as Franca Helg recounted, he had the opportunity to visit the studio by Le Corbusier. In those three years, the works he carried out are admittedly of the twentieth century imprint. It is the meeting with Edoardo Persico that marked a clear turning point towards rationalism and the approach to the group of editors of "Casabella". The partly ironic and partly very harsh comments of the Neapolitan critic to a series of drawings, made by Albini for the design of some office furniture, caused him a great disturbance. “I spent days of real anguish - Albini recalls - I had to answer all the questions. I also had a fever, a large and long fever. " The meted provoked Albini to openen a professional studio in via Panizza with Renato Camus and Giancarlo Palanti. The group of architects began to deal with public housing by participating in the competition for the Baracca district in San Siro in 1932 and then building the IFACP neighborhoods: Fabio Filzi (1936/38), Gabriele D'Annunzio and Ettore Ponti (1939). During this period, Albini also worked on his first villa (Pestarini), which Giuseppe Pagano, architect and critic of the time, presented as follows: “This coherence, which the superficial rhetoric of fashionable jugglers calls intransigence, and which is instead the basis of understood between the fantasy of art and the reality of the craft, in Franco Albini, it is so rooted that it transforms theory into a moral attitude ". But it is above all in the context of the exhibitions that the Milanese master experienced his compromise between that "rigor and poetic fantasy" of which Pagano speaks, coining the elements that became a recurring theme in his . The opening in 1933 of the new Triennale headquarters in Milan, in the Palazzo dell'Arte, was an important opportunity to express the strong innovative character of rationalist thinking, a gym in which to freely experiment with new materials and new solutions, but above all a "method". "Cultivated as a communication laboratory, the art of setting up was for the rationalists of the first generation what the perspective had been for the architects of humanism: the field open to a hypothesis of space that needed profound reflections before landing the concreteness of the construction site ". Together with Giancarlo Palanti, Albini on the occasion of the V Triennale di Milano set up the steel structure house (with R. Camus, G. Mazzoleni, G. Minoletti and with the coordination of G. Pagano), for which he also designed the 'furniture. At the following Triennale of 1936, Persico dided, together with a group of young designers gathered by Pagano in the previous edition of 1933, Franco Albini took care of the preparations of the home exhibition. The setting up of Stanza per un uomo, at that same Triennale, allows us to understand the acute and ironic approach of Albini, as a man and as a designer: "Celebrating the beauty of mechanics was the imperative to which, for example, the surprising displays by Franco Albini who managed, in the subtle way of a refined and rarefied style, to sublimate their practical content in the metaphysics of daring still lifes: flying objects which marked in the void refined frames and metal intricacies the nodes of a fantastic cartography where industry finally became art free from purpose ". That same year Albini and Romano designed the exhibition of the Ancient Italian Goldsmithery: vertical uprights, simple linear rods, designed the space. A theme, of the "flagpole", seemed to be the center of the evolution of production and the creative process. The concept is reworked over time, with the technique of decomposition and recomposition typical of Albinian design: in the preparation of the Scipione Exhibition and contemporary drawings (1941) the tapered flagpoles, on which the paintings and display cases were hung, are supported by a grid of steel cables; in the Vanzetti stand (1942) they take the V-shape; in the Olivetti shop in Paris (1956) the polished mahogany uprights support the shelves for the display of typewriters and calculators. The flagpole is found, however, also in other areas. In the apartments he designed, it is used as a pivot on which the paintings can be suspended and rotated to allow different points of view, but at the same time as an element capable of dividing the spaces. The Veliero bookcase...

This elegant desk is an Italian piece totally hand made in walnut by masters craftemenship. The lacquered top in walnut has a fine grey lacquer and they are visible the wood fibers u...

A beautiful and rare desk in the style of Franco Albini. It is made from a wooden crossed structure with a chrome-plated rod. A studded octagonal top is covered with red "panno Lenci...

Gigi Sabadin dining table, Emme Italy, 1970s, beechwood The table show smart architectural lines and well-considered use of materials, which are clearly visible in the little det...

Dassi small desk rosewood Mid-Century Modern brass minimal scultural 1950s Italian. Colored glass top with gold decorations on the edge. Perfectly rest...