Italy Decorative Baskets

Tutti Frutti II basket - Matt white Basket in soft resin designed by Gaetano Pesce in 1995 for Fish Design collection. Additional Information: Material: Soft resin Colours: M...

Midcentury squared Plant Holder or Basket in rattan and bamboo by Vivai Del Sud. Made in Italy in the 1970s. Vivai del sud, Gabriella Crespi and Arpex were the three leading design...

Stripe basket - Clear dark ruby, blue Basket in soft resin designed by Enzo Mari in 2011 for Lezioni by Enzo Mari collection. Additional Information: Materi...

Tutti Frutti I basket - Clear blue, silver Basket in soft resin designed by Gaetano Pesce in 1995 for Fish Design collection. Additional Information: Material: Soft resin Col...

Oval brass faux bamboo magazine rack or basket by Bottega Garda, Italy, 1970s. On the bottom the signature is still engraved "Made in Italy". Bott...

Fontana Arte was launched in 1932 with a mission to develop products with a more artisanal feel. The Italian design company's offerings range from stained glass to furnishings and li...

This exquisitely round basket is part of the Demetra collection and offers sturdy yet elegant storage for magazines, media, and more. This elegant piece is made entirely of handwoven...

Tutti frutti II basket - matt orange, gold Basket in soft resin designed by Gaetano Pesce in 1995 for Fish Design collection. Additional information: Material: Soft resin Col...

Ogiva basket - clear fuchsia, bronze Basket in soft resin designed by Gaetano Pesce in 1995 for Fish Design collection. Additional information: Material: Soft resin Colours: ...

Net basket - Clear cobalt blue, clear orange Basket in soft resin designed by Enzo Mari in 2011 for Lezioni by Enzo Mari collection. Additional Information: Material: Soft resin Col...

Ogiva basket - clear lilac and silver Basket in soft resin designed by Gaetano Pesce in 1995 for Fish Design collection. Additional information: Material: Soft resin Colours:...

The anchorage teapot, was originally designed by Peter Shire in 1982. The Teapot is in brass with plated silver, and is also available in solid 925 silver. Prices may vary for the st...

Tutti Frutti II basket - Clear blue, clear fuchsia Basket in soft resin designed by Gaetano Pesce in 1995 for Fish Design collection. Additional Information: Material: Soft re...

Tutti Frutti II basket - Matt orange, gold Basket in soft resin designed by Gaetano Pesce in 1995 for Fish Design collection. Additional Information: Material: Soft resin Col...

Niche is a basket made from willows harvested in Vicenza area, Italy. Mario Brocchi is the maker who grows and weaving this natural material, extremely as flexible when it's wet as ...

Part of the Demetra series, this tall basket is made of high quality, durable, eco-friendly handwoven leather and features a lid of the same color. This ve...

Midcentury wonderful round basket with lid in rattan, wicker and brass in the style of Vivai Del Sud. Made in Italy in the 1970s. Vivai del sud, Gabriella Crespi and Arpex were...

Lovely Pinetti round wash clothes holder, part of Almeria collection. Four different water resistant sizes fixed at the end with chrome pins. The woven...

Net basket - Clear ruby, amber Basket in soft resin designed by Enzo Mari in 2011 for Lezioni by Enzo Mari collection. Additional Information: Material: Soft resin Colours: Clear ru...

Circle basket - clear aqua, matt turquoise Basket in soft resin designed by Enzo Mari in 2011 for Lezioni by Enzo Mari collection. Additional information: Material: Soft resin Colou...

Ogiva basket - clear, amber Basket in soft resin designed by Gaetano Pesce in 1995 for Fish Design collection. Additional Information: Material: Soft resin Colours: Clear, am...

Beautiful 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern basket or container, perfect in any next to a sofa or in a bedroom as pillow or blanket storage as well as in any bathroom as bathrobe and ...

Ogiva basket - matt white, clear amber Basket in soft resin designed by Gaetano Pesce in 1995 for Fish Design collection. Additional Information: Material: Soft resin Colours...

Tutti Frutti I basket - Matt green And yellow Basket in soft resin designed by Gaetano Pesce in 1995 for Fish Design collection. Additional information: Material: Soft resin ...

Tutti Frutti II basket - Clear blue, clear fuchsia Basket in soft resin designed by Gaetano Pesce in 1995 for Fish Design collection. Additional information: Material: Soft re...

Tutti frutti II basket - matt red Basket in soft resin designed by Gaetano Pesce in 1995 for Fish Design collection. Additional information: Material: Soft resin Colours: Mat...

Part of the Almeria collection this Pinetti hand-woven basket made with eco-friendly washable and resistant material suitable also for outdoor use. Perfect for shoes holders...

Fabulous painted wooden decorative boxes from the early 1920s Rustic Chic period, made in Italy. The boxes are small and are useful for organizing and arr...

Tutti Frutti I basket - Matt green and yellow Basket in soft resin designed by Gaetano Pesce in 1995 for Fish Design collection. Additional information: Material: Soft resin ...

Tutti frutti II basket - matt white Basket in soft resin designed by Gaetano Pesce in 1995 for Fish Design collection. Additional information: Material: Soft resin Colours: M...

Tutti frutti I special basket - clear blue, dark ruby Basket in soft resin designed by Gaetano Pesce in 1995 for Fish Design collection. Additional information: Material: Soft...

This masterfully hand-woven basket belongs to our iconic Almeria collection. Made of eco-friendly leather, that is washable, resistant to light and water, it's suitable for indoor an...

Extremely elegant and versatile, part of the Almeria series. Made with eco-friendly, washable and resistant regenerated leather this oval basket is perfect as a wood holder, in a living room or as shoes or towel basket...

Penelope collection now has its own wash clothes holder. Perfect also for sunglasses and sunscreen, the resistant and waterproof leather joined with the ...

Solid 800 Silver Kovsh completely ceased and embossed by hand. A medallion depicting a two-faced Royal eagle was placed in the centre of the bowl. On the handle there is a frieze wor...

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“Gino’s never at home. He spends all his time mending things in homes around his village. Everyone knows Gino, and even if sometimes they’d like to spend a little time with him, without his tools and his jobs to get on with, he dashes off and disappears, like the sun and the moon.” Gino is a tidy inspired by the tool bags...

Ideal to keep small towels tidily stored in readiness for guests. Our rigid wash cloth holder is entirely made with a genuine and water-resistant calf leat...

Sterling silver basket in oblong shape. The basket was made entirely by hand starting from a sheet of 925 sterling silver and then embossed and chiseled with a design depicting a wic...

A new collection joined the Pinetti family. Euclide with its geometric look is an elegant stool crafted with wood structure and entirely covered in recycled leather. This lovely sto...

Bread or fruit basket in 800 silver. The basket was made by shaping and welding silver wires together and on an oval base. The handle of the basket was also made with silver wire. Th...

"Carol" is a leather bag, designed by Claude Bouchard and manufactured by Oscar Maschera. It looks like the archetype of a paper bag made in leather. Genuine Italian leather vegetabl...

Baskets made using a weaving technique. Strips and bands of leather follow each other and bind together to shape the object. Available in the round (large and small), rectangular a...

A mid-century plexiglass basket made in Italy in the sixties in perfect conditions. This Italian basket made from green and pink plexiglass and brass is a s...

We feel Mexican! Made with eco-friendly, washable, and resistant regenerated leather, the traditional Mexican Sombrero hat becomes a unique magazin...

Baskets made using a weaving technique. Strips and bands of leather follow each other and bind together to shape the object. Available in the round (large and small), rectangular a...

Bookenders is a decorative object realized by Piero Fornasetti, in 1950s.  Metal structure with velvet parts, some parts damaged. 20 x 15 x 13 cm. Good conditions, some yellowing ...

An elegant and innovative take on an ordinary object of functional decor, this paper bin is entirely upholstered with Malaga bonded leather showcasing a versatile taupe. Fashioned of...

Hand Pierced Sterling Silver Centerpiece. Impressive jatte, handcrafted in Milan - Italy in the artisan workshop of the silversmith Malagola. The shape of the body is modelled, edged...

Baskets made using a weaving technique. Strips and bands of leather follow each other and bind together to shape the object. Available in the round (large and small), rectangular...

Two pairs of maiolica baskets Antonio Ferretti Manufacture Lodi, circa 1770-1790 Maiolica polychrome decorated “a piccolo fuoco” (third fire). Measures: A) Height 3.54 x 6.69 x 9.84 in (9 x 17 x 25 cm); B) Height 3.93 x 7.48 x 11.02 in (10 x 19 x 28 cm). Total weight 4.85 lb (2.200 kg) State of conservation: A) One of the smaller baskets has some areas of restoration, the other slight chipping from use; B) One of the larger baskets is intact and the other shows a clearly glued break. The mold with which the baskets were forged simulates a wicker weave. The two larger works have high, vertical walls, with branch-shaped handles penetrating the weave. The painted decorations, small polychrome flowers applied only externally, highlight the points where the weaves intersect. The decision to leave the center of the basket devoid of decoration is highly unusual, but given the size and complexity of the shape, as well as the quality of the enamel, it is possible to hypothesize that it represents a precise choice in manufacturing or for a particular client. The two smaller baskets have small, twisted handles and, on the outside, reproduce more decisively the characteristic wicker weave, obtained through thin molded lines. The interior exhibits a rich, typical decoration of naturalistic flowers: a bunch centered around a main flower and secondary stems accompanied by small “semis”. The exterior of these works is also adorned with small little flowers where the weaves intersect. The size and morphological characteristics of the baskets confirm their attribution to the Lodi factory of Antonio Ferretti between 1770 and 1790, during its most successful period; by this point his original reworking of the "Strasbourg" decoration, known as "old Lodi", had achieved great fame even outside Italy. This decorative choice represented a strong point of the Lodi factory, which established itself thanks to the vivid nature of the colors made possible by the introduction of a new technique perfected by Paul Hannong in Strasbourg and which Antonio Ferretti introduced in Italy. This production process, called “piccolo fuoco” (third fire), allowed the use of a greater number of colors than in the past; in particular, the purple of Cassius, a red made from gold chloride, was introduced. Its use allowed for many more tones and shades, from pink to purple. The Ferretti family had started their maiolica manufacturing business in Lodi in 1725. The forefather Simpliciano had started the business by purchasing an ancient furnace in 1725 and, indeed, we have evidence of the full activity of the furnaces from April of the same year (Novasconi-Ferrari-Corvi, 1964, p. 26 n. 4). Simpliciano had started a production of excellence also thanks to the ownership of clay quarries in Stradella, not far from Pavia. The production was so successful that in 1726 a decree of the Turin Chamber came to prohibit the importation of foreign ceramics, especially from Lodi, to protect internal production (G. Lise, La ceramica a Lodi, Lodi 1981, p. 59). In its initial stages, the manufacture produced maolicas painted with the “a gran fuoco” (double fire) technique, often in turquoise monochrome, with ornamentation derived from compositional modules in vogue in Rouen in France. This was also thanks to the collaboration of painters like Giorgio Giacinto Rossetti, who placed his name on the best specimens next to the initials of the factory. In 1748 Simpliciano made his will (Gelmini, 1995, p. 30) appointing his son Giuseppe Antonio (known as Antonio) as universal heir. After 1750, when Simpliciano passed away, Antonio was directly involved in the maiolica factory, increasing its fortunes and achieving a reputation on a European level. Particularly important was the aforementioned introduction in 1760 of the innovative “a piccolo fuoco” (third fire) processing, which, expanding the ornamental repertoire with Saxon-inspired floral themes, could commercially compete with the German porcelains that had one of its most renowned offerings in the naturalistic Deutsche Blumen. Antonio Ferretti understood and promoted this technique and this decoration, proposing it in a fresher and more corrective version, less linked to botanical tables...

Stunning Italian modern antique decorative object in the shape of a bicycle. As shown in the photo it can be used as a magazine rack or h...

This Italian vintage set of decorative lidded bowls in the shape of pineapple will brighten your table. Stylish Mid-century Modern ice bucket and sugar bowl or candy box clad in a naturalistic silvered metal finish, manufactured in 1970 circa in the style of Mauro Manetti, Florence. The largest container is an ice bucket, so useful for ice cubes and even ice cream or sorbet, the cold is guaranteed by the internal removable tin liner, frozen for a long time as the lid sits tight on the bucket. The smaller pineapple, fitted with a removable blue glass vase can be used as a decorative candy box, sugar bowl or ashtray or trinket case...

Bookenders is a decorative object realized by Piero Fornasetti, in 1950s.  Metal structure with velvet parts, some parts damaged. 20 x 15 x 13 cm. Good conditions, some yellowing ...

An oval papier machè basket hand-crafted in England in late 19th century, it's decorated in the middle with a cavalier on a horse.

Midcentury beautiful squared basket or magazine rack in bamboo, rattan and smoked mirror in the style of Vivai Del Sud. Made in Italy in the 1970s. Vivai del sud, Gabriella Crespi ...

This bowl is a handmade studio work from Gullaskruf glass manufacturer in Sweden. It has a swivel pattern in two tones and is signed Gullaskruf at the base. It has a small production...

Ravello is a minimal bathroom collection ideal for any setting. The rigid cylindrical main volumes are rendered softer by the smooth decorative rounded edges, while the finest Italia...

Paper basket in openwork steel. When you look at the top view of the Tip Top series, all the triangles have the same size. In 3D these triangles have been stretched, which creates a...

Kastle green large bowl by Purho Dimensions: D40 x W30 x H14cm Materials: Glass Other colours and dimensions are available. Purho is a new protagonist of made in Italy design ,...