Postmodern Black Ebonized Beech Serving Cart in the Style of Ico Parisi, Italy

Made in Italy, 1950s. It features an ebonized beech frame, two glass shelves (one with an oriental paint under it) and brass casters. This is a vintage item therefore it might show s...

Made in Italy, 1950s. This beech and durmast wall-mounted console table features a brass handle. It might show slight traces of use since it's vintage, but it's been recently relacqu...

Black lacquer polyhedron rolling bar cart in style of Ico Parisi. This spectacular bar cart leaves nothing to the imagination. The chrome casters glide easily leading to a lower shelf having a triangular base with chrome mounts and hardware. The whole supporting a polyhedron shaped bar which opens on all ends to display an absolutely stunning leather (Ostrich) designed area to rest your drinks and wine bottles. This movable dry bar cabinet was originally designed by M. Vuillermoz in the 1960s. Three of the elements on the top half of the polyhedron shape can be opened to access the contents of the inside as well as provide as smaller trays. The Ostrich interior provides two levels of holders for bottles, glasses...

Stunning midcentury beech wood, glass and brass bar cart. Cesare Lacca probably designed this fantastic piece in Italy during the 1960s. This item is extremely elegant thanks to its curved brass handle and the composition of its structure: two tiers, the top in crystal glass and the bottom in chestnut wood. Four little wheels, made of brass, complete this astonishing cart. The combination of the different materials result in an amazing contrast. This charming bar cart perfectly suits a midcentury living room or a bar project. Measures in cm: Depth 49 Width 85 Height 66 Born in Naples in 1929, Italian architect-designer Cesare Lacca created modernist furniture and metalwork throughout the 1950s. Though details of his personal life and professional training remain lost to history, there are sufficient surviving primary sources that document his many elegant designs in brass—work for which he is best know and which fetch high prices from collectors. Like many Italian designers in the 20th century, Lacca moved to Milan after World War II to launch his career. Before he was even 21 years old, his work was selected by a group of American curators for inclusion in the landmark exhibition Italy at Work: Her Renaissance in Design Today that toured 12 US museums between 1950 and 1953—the first major exhibition of Italian design outside of Italy. The exhibition showcased the best and brightest of Italian designers who had embraced modernist principles and rejuvenated traditional Italian crafts, like Carlo Mollino , Franco Albini, and Gio Ponti In the exhibition catalogue, curator Meyric R. Roger’s spotlights Lacca's expert achievements in brass, noting “the variety and quality of his creations,” which “place him high among the architect-designers leading the current [Modernist] movement." Rogers adds, "The quality of his work...provide[s] all the decorative effectiveness needed without strain or exaggeration”. Lacca designed a great many tea carts and serving trolleys in his career—which make up a large proportion of what is available on the vintage market today—as well as magazine racks and coffee tables. Lacca’s most iconic tea cart was manufactured by Italian brand Cassina and features sculpted beech, cedar, teak, or walnut with brass details, a glass tabletop, and a removable glass tray. Lacca also designed high-backed lounge chairs, regularly featured in Arredoluce advertisements for Angelo Lelli’s lighting...