Giancarlo Piretti White Plano Folding Table by Anonima Castelli 1970s

Round Plano folding table with die-cast aluminum base with wheels and table top in white polyurethane. Designed by Giancarlo Piretti and produced b...

Platone folding table or desk with structure in chromed steel and die-cast aluminum, table top in black ABS. Designed by Giancarlo Piretti and produced b...

Square table model Tema with structure in black lacquered wood and diagonal inserts in natural spruce on top. Designed by Vico Magistretti and produced by B&B, 1973, Italy. Lict...

Tobio table with base in wood covered with leather and table top in ground crystal with a decorative sandblasted frame. Designed by Tobia and Afra Scarpa ...

Round pedestal dining table model UFO with a base in brushed steel and tabletop in thick glass with a black enamel decorative circle. Designed by Luigi Saccardo and manufactured by Maison Jansen in the 1970s. Maison Jansen was a Paris-based interior decoration office founded in 1880 by Dutch-born Jean-Henri Jansen. From its beginnings, Maison Jansen combined traditional furnishings with influences of new trends including Anglo-Japanese style, the Arts and Crafts movement, and Turkish style. The firm paid great attention to historical research with which it attempted to balance clients' desires for livable, usable, and often dramatic space. Within ten years the firm had become a major purchaser of European antiques, and by 1890 had established an antique gallery as a separate firm that acquired and sold antiques to Jansen's clients and its competitors as well. In the early 1920s Jean-Henri Jansen approached Stéphane Boudin, who was then working in the textile trimming business owned by his father and brought him on board. Accounts of the arrangement vary. Speculation existed that Boudin was able to provide financial solvency to the prominent but capital-poor atelier. Boudin's attention to detail, concern for historical accuracy, and ability to create dramatic and memorable spaces brought increasing new work to the firm. Boudin was made director and presided over an expansion of the firm's offices and income. Not originally equipped with its own workrooms for producing furniture the firm began by relying upon antiques and the furniture contracted to outside cabinetmakers. By the early 1890s Maison Jansen had established its own manufacturing capacity producing furniture of contemporary design, as well as reproductions, primarily in the Louis XIV, Louis XVI, Directoire, and Empire styles. Throughout the firm's history, it employed a traditional style drawing upon European design, but influence of contemporary trends including the Vienna Secession, Modernism, and Art Deco has also appeared in Jansen interiors and in much of the custom furniture the firm produced between 1920 and 1950. Under Boudin's leadership, Maison Jansen provided services to the royal families of Belgium, Iran, and Serbia; Elsie de Wolfe, and Lady Olive Baillie's Leeds Castle...

Very rare dining table with a beautiful base in steel and an oval-shaped top in thick glass, designed by Vittorio Introini and manufactured by Saporiti in 1970s. Vittorio Introini...

White Platone Folding Desk by Giancarlo Piretti for Anonima Castelli, 1970s Designer - Giancarlo Piretti Producer - Anonima Castelli Model - Platone Folding Desk Design Period - Sev...

1970s die-cast aluminum, square top table in cream resin with foldable sectors rotating on a spring-loaded pin. By Giancarlo Piretti for Castelli. Made in Italy. Very rare original c...

Iconic folding table with white polycarbonate top with storage compartments and silver chromed metal legs. The table is named Plato, was designed by Giancarlo Piretti (Bologna - 1940...

Rare foldable side table designed by Giancarlo Piretti for Anonima Castelli. Very handy an desirable piece of furniture which adds a nice space age touch to your room. 1970s - Ital...

One of the most influential Italian designers of the twentieth century, Giancarlo Piretti’s chair designs – for which he is most celebrated – have sold millions worldwide. Piretti’s...

Article Details Award-winning folding table, model PLANO, by Giancarlo Piretti for Anonima Castelli from 1971. High-quality frame made of stainless steel and cast aluminium with a f...