Arturo Pani, Dining or Conference Table
View Similar Items
Arturo Pani, Dining or Conference Table
About the Item
- Creator:Arturo Pani (Designer)
- Dimensions:Height: 29.53 in (75 cm)Width: 125.99 in (320 cm)Depth: 49.22 in (125 cm)
- Style:Mid-Century Modern (Of the Period)
- Materials and Techniques:Bronze,Silver Leaf
- Place of Origin:
- Period:
- Date of Manufacture:1950s
- Condition:
- Seller Location:Mexico City, MX
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU98603278912
Arturo Pani
Arturo Pani has been called the Jean Royère of Mexico. Like the adored French master of the mid-20th century, Pani won an upper-class clientele who appreciated the vivacity and exuberance he brought to interiors. His specialty was using new materials to reinterpret traditional stylings — the sensuous curves and arabesques of the Rococo; stately neoclassical motifs — for a modern context. Pani ‘s work is a thing apart: at once theatrical and distinguished, playful and grand.
Pani was born to splendid settings. His father was Mexico’s ambassador to France, and both Pani and his brother Mario, a noted architect of the International Style, would study at the prestigious École des Beaux Arts in Paris. Pani made his name in the late 1930s by designing lavish interiors that belied the austere facade of his brother’s new Hotel Reforma in Mexico City. Mexico’s affluent class welcomed Pani’s technique for juxtaposing Mario’s sleek modernist architectural envelope with voluptuous decor. His style became known as the “Acapulco look” in the 1930s, when Pani became the blossoming Pacific resort’s decorator of choice to the jet set. Pani’s own Acapulco villa would become a favorite backdrop for the society photographer Slim Aarons.
Though Pani frequently designed furniture along strict, geometric modernist lines — and did, on occasion, produce pieces with wildly flowing futuristic lines — his signature designs were those that offered an idiosyncratic, spare-yet-sumptuous take on historical forms. Pani’s favorite material was wrought iron, usually gilded. With it, he produced tables with elaborate sheaf-of-wheat bases, or scrolling baroque supports; chairs with frames made of iron rods bent to suggest the sinuous seatbacks and cabriole legs of Louis XV pieces; or — jumping a stylistic generation forward — designs with Louis XVI elements such as arrows and chevrons. Pani’s work has again become chic. As you will see on these pages, like few others, Arturo Pani had a true sense of drama. Virtually everything he designed is a showstopper.
- Jacobean Style Conference or Dining TableLocated in Sheffield, MAElizabethan Jacobean style oak refectory library table with heavily carved melon shaped gadrooned bulbous legs connected with stretchers. Use for dining table, library table, conference table, entry hallway, foyer or center hall table. 7.8 foot long, perfect for an English Tudor, French Country, craftsman or cottage home. This antique table will bring style and character to a modern or antique decor. Use the table to make a statement as a writing table, desk, work table, a dining table, harvest table, or farm table. Top may not be original. It has been refinished so that the entire table is in very good clean condition. Search terms: Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque Revival 8' or 8 foot table...Category
Antique Late 19th Century British Jacobean Conference Tables
MaterialsOak
- Italian Midcentury Dining or Conference Table, 1950sBy Gianfranco FrattiniLocated in Morazzone, VareseHugh wooden table with beautiful and particular details in the style of Gianfranco Frattini. Excellent craftsmanship in very good original condition with small signs of wear, please have a look to all pictures. More pictures are available. Could be used as conference table as well as big dining table...Category
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
MaterialsPlywood
- 1 Herman Miller Eames Conference or Dining TableBy Herman Miller, Charles EamesLocated in Pasadena, TX1 Herman Miller Eames 48" conference or dining table. Charles Eames was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1907. Ray Kaiser Eames was born in Sacramento, Cali...Category
21st Century and Contemporary North American Mid-Century Modern Conferen...
MaterialsAluminum
$1,400 / item - Clean Lined Modern Dining or Conference TableLocated in Atlanta, GAClean Lined Modern Dining Table, American, circa 1940's. It comes with it's two original leaves. With both leaves installed it measures...Category
Vintage 1940s American Dining Room Tables
MaterialsWalnut
$2,200 Sale Price60% Off - Vintage Round Pedestal Dining or Conference TableLocated in Sheffield, MAThe vintage round mahogany dining or conference table with carved border has a centre pedestal base with four splayed feet. The pedestal is in the shape of an octagonal urn. The apro...Category
Early 20th Century American Empire Dining Room Tables
MaterialsWood
- A Large French Mid-Century Dining or Conference TableLocated in Long Island City, NYWith an elm wood veneered top sitting on a black lacquered wood base with bronze sabots.Category
Vintage 1960s French Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
MaterialsBronze