Wooden dressing table / writing desk - Italy, 1940s

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...

Crafted in the 1940s by Danish cabinetmakers, the banana sofa is not only a staple of that era but also finds itself emulated in later trends. The sofa’s alluring organic curves form...

Angelo Mangiarotti’s (1921 – 2012) work as an architect and industrial designer was led by a belief that carefully respecting a material’s characteristics was imperative to developin...

Beautiful Italian Art Deco Mid-Century Modern desk writing table, in wood with elegant carved frame, curved sides and glass top highlighted by the two drawers with beautiful brass ha...

Beautiful Italian Art Deco Mid-Century Modern desk writing table, in wood with elegant carved frame sides and black glass top highlighted by the two drawers with the beautiful handle...

Wonderful Italian Rationalist Writing Desk from the 1940s This beautiful writing desk from the 1940s is a superb example of Italian Rationalist design. Showcasing the movement’s sig...

A large vintage teak table desk, writing table, dressing table or side table. Measures: 6 feet 2 ½”long, large The form of this table is extremel...