Luigi Brusotti Side Table Made in Milan, 1930

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Scroll down and click "view all from Seller" to see more than 400 other unique products. A unique old elm small table that can be used as a side table, bedside table or coffee table...

Scroll down and click "view all from Seller" to see more than 400 other unique products. Small table in old elm. Versatile complements with an original shape that can be used as a t...

An elegant glass and brass coffee or smoking table by Italian designer Luigi Brusotti, from the 1950s. With a circular glass top held by three glass legs connected by an ornate, d...

"Libeccio," Studio-Made side table. Solid cone base with removable carved tray-top that cantilevers. "Libeccio" refers to one of the 8 winds that blow through Sicily. These tables wi...

Our table was made of birch, solid and veneered, stained a rich brown, and topped off with a slab of Bohemian breccia marble. We date it to around 1928, and attribute the design to Fritz August Breuhaus de Groot, who coined the term Kultivierte Sachlichkeit (Cultured Objectivity) to describe his work, and distinguish it from the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) practiced by his contemporaries Walter Gropius, Mies van der Rohe, and Lily Reich. The table bears a passing resemblance to a considerably simplified, marble-topped ovoid one that he designed for his 1934 Berlin living room. Breuhaus was a man on the make. The first of his three marriages was to the daughter of an industrialist, who financed the building of luxury villas and workers’ housing designed by his son-in-law. In 1929, Breuhaus, the son of a dentist, added “de Groot” to his name, falsely linking himself to a distinguished family of painters. By then, he’d been fudging his academic record for years. That didn’t prevent a teaching appointment at the State University of Bavaria, which allowed him to add the prestigious “Herr Professor” prefix to his name. Yet he never followed through on the teaching — he was far too busy designing more luxury villas (commissions he accepted only if he could furnish them as well), and products for his own company, which included furniture, textiles, wallpapers, lighting, and fine silver. In addition to designing aircraft interiors for Lufthansa, and pullman railroad...