Frankfurt - Tables

A very elegant hand carved oak console table, writing desk or dressing table, France, circa 1910-1920. A very good quality piece with molded edges and carved detailing on cariole leg...

Coffee table manufactured in Italy by Fontana Art, Model 1774, designed by Max Ingrand, circa 1958. The base is from curved blackened iron with solid brass profiles attached to the l...

Italian late 19th century Louis XVI style giltwood console table and mirror. The table is finely hand carved in precise detail o...

Set of two small chairs and a table by Charles Dudouyt, probably 1940s, solid oak, seats in rye straw, reupholstered after the original. Measures: Chairs: height: 64 cm, seat height...

Gio Ponti was a true Italian „renaissance men“, meaning: fluent in many arts. A painter, an architect (of international fame with the design of the ‚Pirelli Tower‘ in Milan), a desig...

the experimentables. what comes to your mind when asked about italian design? many people might first think of „elegance“, or „modernity“. but how about „bold“, „futuristic“ and „experimental“? from our point of view, italian designers in the 20th century have often been drivers of progress, with advanced technical ideas, or the bold use of industrial manufacturing methods. one of the most versatile of them was (and is) gaetano pesce, *1939 in la spezia. as an artist and architect, urban planner and industrial designer he literally „made“ everything. from the ‚organic building‘ in osaka to the offices of chiat/day advertising agency in new york. he often experimented with industrial materials unseen in furniture making, starting with the famous ‚golgatha‘ chair for cassina (1972), formed from one piece of moulded fibreglass, cloth and polyester resin. his works can bee seen in museums all over the world, from milan to miami, from chicago to beijing. pesce always had one thing in mind: humanity. “i like beauty full of mistakes because we are human. perfection is for machines, it is obsolete, gone,” he once said. and you can feel it in his organic, innovative, warm, sometimes imperfect and often witty designs. he tries to bridge art and design and to always make a statement about and for society. his iconic ‚up“-flat-pack-armchair for c&b italia (now b&b italia) recently celebrated its 50th jubilee. also called „la mamma“ the connected chair and stool could be seen as a mother-and-child-combination – or as a „ball-and-chain“ that ties women to their traditional role in a household. in 1995 he designed the „triple play“ series of resin tables. we have two available in different size and heights: this table is the smaller and lower one shows a cartoonish face with moustache on a yellow background, also on steel rod legs, here with black feet (stamped underneath with manufacturer’s mark „fish...

fun to work with. postmodernism has many manifestations: philosophical, sociological and cultural. but we are particularly interested in its impact on architecture and design. the re...

the versatile classic, designed by george nelson in 1954, was initially produced in 2 sizes with black or white legs and table plates made from chipboard, the edge of the table cover...