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'Delfi' Marble Dining Table by Marcel Breuer and Carlo Scarpa for Gavina, Italy

About the Item

This incredible 'Delfi' dining table designed by Carlo Scarpa and Marcel Breuer is composed of two sculptural Carrara marble bases and a matching thick rectangular marble top which has inset pins that fit into the bases to increase the stability and security of the table, produced in Italy by Gavina. The 'Delfi' table, which was part of the 'Ultrarazionale' collection, was born from a collaboration between two of the leading names in 20th century design. Carlo Scarpa, who designed 58 buildings and numerous furniture designs during his time, earning reputation for his mastery of detailing and bold use of materials. And Marcel Breuer, who built his name at the Bauhaus designing the Wassily and Cesca chairs, both became icons of mid-century design. The 'Delfi' table was designed around 1968 / 1969 and was based on a prior Rationalist model created by Marcel Breuer in the 1930s. The incredible architectural details of the two monolithic sculptured legs are reminiscent of classical Roman architecture, while the entirety of the design juxtaposes with Modern sensibility. This 'Delfi' white Cararra marble dining or conference table would work great in a Post-Modern, Mid-Century Modern, Space Age Mod, Scandanavian Modern or Danish Modern home or penthouse apartment but could also look fantastic in a Contemporary or Zen / Minimalism room. Also consider mixing it up in a Traditional, Transitional, Hollywood Regency, Classical or Art Deco room with a splash of juxtaposition. Would also be an apt choice in a commercial project such as a hotel lobby lounge or members club, creative design studio or high-rise executive office. MEASUREMENTS: H 29" x W 83" x D 34.75" Marble top thickness: 1.5" CONDITION: Excellent vintage condition with only very minor wear. Some small chips to the marble on the legs, mostly concentrated where the top meets the legs - these areas area not noticeable unless you are sitting underneath the table top. Also some minor chips to the bottom of the legs, also only noticeable upon close inspection. Top only has very light hard to see scratches. Overall the table is in excellent vintage condition and is extremely attractive and presentable and ready for immediate use in a high-end luxury location.

Creator:

Gavina (Manufacturer),Carlo Scarpa (Designer),Marcel Breuer (Designer)

Dimensions:

Height: 29 in (73.66 cm)Width: 83 in (210.82 cm)Depth: 34.75 in (88.27 cm)

Style:

Modern (Of the Period)

Materials and Techniques:

Marble

Place of Origin:

Italy

Period:

20th Century

Date of Manufacture:

20th Century

Condition:

Excellent vintage condition with minimal wear. See description for more details. Ready to be used immediately.

Seller Location:

Los Angeles, CA

Reference Number:

1stDibs: LU1330229836562

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Marcel Breuer

The architect and designer Marcel Breuer was one the 20th century’s most influential and innovative adherents of modernism. A member of the Bauhaus faculty, Breuer — like such colleagues as the architects Walter Gropius and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and the artists and art theoreticians László Moholy-Nagy and Josef Albers — left Europe in the 1930s to champion the new design philosophy and its practice in the United States.

Born in Hungary, Breuer became a Bauhaus student in 1920 and quickly impressed Gropius, the German school’s founder, with his aptitude for furniture design. His early work was influenced by the minimalist Dutch design movement De Stijl — in particular the work of architect Gerrit Rietveld. In 1925, while he was head of the Bauhaus furniture workshop, Breuer realized his signature innovation: the use of lightweight tubular-steel frames for chairs, tables and sofas — a technique soon adopted by Mies and others. Breuer’s attention gradually shifted from design to architecture, and, at the urging of Gropius, he joined his mentor in 1937 on the faculty of Harvard and in an architectural practice.

In the 1940s, Breuer opened his own architectural office, and there his style evolved from geometric, glass-walled structures toward a kind of hybrid architecture — seen in numerous Breuer houses in New England — that pairs bases of local fieldstone with sleek, wood-framed modernist upper floors. In his later, larger commissions, Breuer worked chiefly with reinforced concrete and stone, as seen in his best-known design, the brutalist inverted ziggurat built in New York in 1966 as the home of the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Breuer’s most famous furniture pieces are those made of tubular steel, which include the Wassily chair — named after Wassily Kandinsky and recognizable for its leather-strap seating supports — and the caned Cesca chair. Breuer also made several notable designs in molded plywood, including a chaise and nesting table for the British firm Isokon and a student furniture suite commissioned in 1938 for a dormitory at Bryn Mawr College. Whether in metal or wood, Breuer’s design objects are elegant and adaptable examples of classic modernist design — useful and appropriate in any environment.

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