Giovanni Offredi More Furniture and Collectibles
Italian, 1927-2007
Of his mid-century modern furniture designs, which marry minimalist simplicity with elegance and symmetry, Italian designer Giovanni Offredi once said: “Beauty should not be confused with appearance, since the latter is the superficial part of the form.”
Born in Milan, in 1927, Offredi did not pursue formal education as an architect, unlike many of his contemporaries in the first half of the 20th century. He also did not begin designing furniture until later in his career. His earliest known furnishings were commissioned by wealthy Milanese families in 1960.
It wasn’t until the late 1960s — when Offredi met Sergio Saporiti, owner of Italian furniture manufacturer and design shop Saporiti — that his furniture designs would become more prominent. In 1970, Offredi entered into a partnership with Saporiti, producing several innovative and modernistic furniture lines.
Among Offredi’s most notable pieces are the gently curving Wave chair, sofa and lounge chair, the Onda coffee table and the Paracarro dining room table, with its cylindrical concrete base, glass top and metal cross section. He also designed a series of credenzas and sideboards in lacquered wood, featuring a high gloss finish and bold colors.
Offredi enjoyed a successful collaboration with Saporiti throughout the 1970s. In 1984, he began a partnership with Italian cabinet and kitchen manufacturer Snaidero, designing modern kitchens. His final kitchen design, Kube, in 2006, featured streamlined forms, contrasting materials and colors and a recessed aluminum toe kick with a reflective mirror finish, which made the kitchen appear suspended above the ground. The kitchen won a Good Design Award from the Chicago Design Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design, in 2008. Offredi never had the opportunity to accept that prize — he died in 2007.
Although Offredi’s works are relatively obscure, they are sought out by in-the-know furniture collectors and enthusiasts worldwide.
On 1stDibs, discover a range of vintage Giovanni Offredi chairs, tables, case pieces and storage cabinets.
to
1
1
1
2
1
2
2
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
2
2
2
70
1,042
210
185
185
Creator: Giovanni Offredi
Chrome plated metal, steel
plastic 1980s bin
umbrella stand by G. Offredi
By Giovanni Offredi
Located in Varese, Lombardia
Set of chrome plated metal & steel bin and umbrella stand by G. Offredi for Bando Line. Very good condition: very light wear.
Dimension:
Umbrella stand: cm 45 h x 22 d
Bin: cm 35,5 h...
Category
1970s Italian Space Age Vintage Giovanni Offredi More Furniture and Collectibles
Materials
Steel, Chrome
2 Giovanni Offredi Saporiti Italia Birdseye Maple Nightstands Dresser Chest MCM
By Giovanni Offredi
Located in Dayton, OH
Iconic Mid-Century Modern Fratelli Saporiti Italian bedside dressers, nightstands or chests by Giovanni Offredi, circa 1970s. Made of high gloss birdseye featuring six drawers and tw...
Category
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Giovanni Offredi More Furniture and Collectibles
Materials
Maple
$4,550 Sale Price / set
30% Off
Related Items
Hickory White Satinwood Maple Regency Style 3 Drawer Nightstand Chest, a Pair
By Hickory White
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Hickory white satinwood maple regency style 3 drawer nightstand chest - a pair. Item features custom glass tops, inlaid edge, bun feet, beautiful wood grain, 3 dovetailed drawers, qu...
Category
Late 20th Century American Regency Giovanni Offredi More Furniture and Collectibles
Materials
Brass
$3,200 / set
H 32.5 in W 36 in D 19 in
Bertu Nightstands, Santa Fe Modern Nightstand, Maple
By Bertu Furniture
Located in Oak Harbor, OH
This Modern Nightstand - Santa Fe Collection is our newest design for 2025. It is made in the heart of Ohio with locally sourced wood. Each dresser is handmade in maple (or the wood ...
Category
2010s American Modern Giovanni Offredi More Furniture and Collectibles
Materials
Maple
Milo Baughman for Thayer Coggin Birdseye Maple and Brass Bedside Chests, Pair
By Milo Baughman, Thayer Coggin
Located in South Bend, IN
A gorgeous pair of Mid-Century Modern three-drawer nightstands or bachelor chests
By Milo Baughman for Thayer Coggin
USA, 1970s
Stunning birdseye maple, with brass plinth ba...
Category
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Giovanni Offredi More Furniture and Collectibles
Materials
Brass
$4,245 / set
H 26.13 in W 32 in D 18 in
Italian Mid-Century Nightstands, 1950 Maple
Located in Palermo, Sicily
Italian mid-century nightstands 1950 maple, pink mirror and glass shelf as, delizati elegant and current furnishing.
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Giovanni Offredi More Furniture and Collectibles
Materials
Brass
$768 Sale Price / set
64% Off
H 26.38 in W 23.63 in D 13 in
1950
s Metal Umbrella Stand
By Mathieu Matégot
Located in Bern, CH
Vintage 1950's Umbrella Stand. Constructed of white powder coated perforated metal with brass accents. With black metal base. Manufacturer is unconfirmed, although believed to be of...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Giovanni Offredi More Furniture and Collectibles
Materials
Metal, Brass
American Cherry and Birdseye Maple Stand, Circa 1815
Located in Charleston, SC
American Cherry and Birdseye Maple two drawer stand with the original wood knobs, recessed side panels, decorative cross hatching, and terminating on spiral bulbous ringed legs. Earl...
Category
1810s American American Colonial Antique Giovanni Offredi More Furniture and Collectibles
Materials
Birdseye Maple, Cherry, Pine
MCM Black Nightstands Styled After Dorothy Draper
By Dorothy Draper
Located in Chula Vista, CA
AMBIANIC presents
In the style of Dorothy Draper Black Sculptural Nightstands
21 h x 14.88 w x 16.38
Preowned original vintage condition
Refer to images listed
Delivery to LA PS OC
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Giovanni Offredi More Furniture and Collectibles
Materials
Wood
Founders Jack Cartwright Mid Century Modern Yellow Nightstand Chest Maple Chrome
By Founders Furniture Company
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Founders Jack Cartwright Mid Century Modern Yellow Nightstand Chest Maple Chrome. Item features the original label and serial number, 4 dovetailed dr...
Category
17th Century Mid-Century Modern Antique Giovanni Offredi More Furniture and Collectibles
Materials
Maple, Paint
$595
H 28 in W 20 in D 15.5 in
Pair of Modern Linen Chest, Nightstands, Dressers, Walnut, Custom American
Located in Manhasset, NY
Pair of modern linen chest, nightstands, dressers, walnut, custom American.
Custom quality pair of three drawer modern decorative cabinets. Each on floating sides, hand wrapped in l...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Giovanni Offredi More Furniture and Collectibles
Materials
Linen
$3,500 / set
H 29.5 in W 30 in D 19 in
Umbrella Holder Stand with Bamboo Design, circa 1980s
Located in New York, NY
A white glazed ceramic umbrella holder stand with bamboo design, circa late-20th century, 1988. Piece can also double as a tall vase. Measureme...
Category
Late 20th Century American Chinoiserie Giovanni Offredi More Furniture and Collectibles
Materials
Ceramic
Italian Coat Umbrella Stand Chrome and Black Plastic by Lucchi for Velca, 1970s
By Paolo Orlandini, Roberto Lucchi, Velca Legnano
Located in Roma, IT
Wonderful Mid-Century modern coat stand made in chrome-plated steel and black abs plastic. This stylish object was designed by Paolo Orlandini and Roberto Lucchi for Velca in Italy d...
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Giovanni Offredi More Furniture and Collectibles
Materials
Steel
$837
H 63.39 in Dm 17.72 in
Baker Furniture Mid-Century Modern Birdseye Maple and Ebonized Bedside Chests
By Brian Palmer, Baker Furniture Company
Located in South Bend, IN
A gorgeous pair of Mid-Century Modern four-drawer chests or nightstands
By Brian Palmer for Baker Furniture
USA, 1970s
Birdseye maple drawer fronts, with ebonized cases and ...
Category
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Giovanni Offredi More Furniture and Collectibles
Materials
Chrome
$3,595 / set
H 30.75 in W 18 in D 19.75 in
Previously Available Items
Room Divider, Coatrack, Model “Tegolo” by Giovanni Offredi, Italy 1970
By Giovanni Offredi
Located in Hellouw, NL
Giovanni Offredi's "Tegolo" is a remarkable blend of form and function, created in 1970 for MC Selvini. Known for pushing boundaries in design, Offredi brought innovation to daily ob...
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Giovanni Offredi More Furniture and Collectibles
Materials
Plywood
H 48.82 in W 43.31 in D 7.88 in
Tegolo screen by Giovanni Offredi for MC Selvini, 1970, Italy
By Giovanni Offredi
Located in TOURS, FR
Rare Tegolo screen by Giovanni Offredi for MC Selvini, Italy
Model created in 1968 and produced in different colors
3 independent pieces in bent ash plywood, that can be used as a s...
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Giovanni Offredi More Furniture and Collectibles
Materials
Ash, Plywood
Giovanni Offredi Vintage Wood Coat Rack, Italy, 1970s
By Giovanni Offredi
Located in Ceglie Messapica, IT
Vintage wood coat rack designed by Giovanni Offredi. An elegant 1980's curved cherry wood coat rack stand. Made in Italy piece of design. In ver...
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Giovanni Offredi More Furniture and Collectibles
Materials
Wood
Coat Hanger Design Giovanni Offered for Crassevig, 1970s
By Crassevig, Giovanni Offredi
Located in taranto, IT
Rare coat hanger designed in the 70s by giovanni offeredi, entirely made of bent ash, very light and ultra-resistant
Size cm. Approximately 170 ...
Category
1970s Vintage Giovanni Offredi More Furniture and Collectibles
Materials
Ash
Mid Century Giovanni Offredi Saporiti Italia Modern Leather King Wave Bed MCM
By Giovanni Offredi
Located in Dayton, OH
"Iconic Mid-Century Modern Fratelli Saporiti Italian king size ""Wave"" bed by Giovanni Offredi, circa 1970s. Made of leather featuring steel frame with low profile padded box springs.
Provenance : Jerome Schottenstein Estate, Columbus Ohio. Jerome was was an American entrepreneur and philanthropist, co-founder of Schottenstein Stores Corp. The Schottenstein family were Lithuanian immigrants who began an extensive business Empire in the late 19th Century. Schottenstein Stores owns stakes in DSW and American Signature Furniture; American Eagle Outfitters, retail liquidator SB360 Capital Partners, over 50 shopping centers, and 5 factories producing its shoes and furniture. It also holds an ownership interest in American Eagle Outfitters, Wehmeyer in Germany, Cold Stone Creamery and The Mazel Company.
Since 1950, Saporiti Italia produces some of the most sophisticated and advanced pieces of furniture of the history of Italian design.
There is a leit motiv in all the company's creations: each new piece is history in itself. Catching time off balance and anticipating the future are both the Challenge and the vocation of Saporiti Italia. Each item created and constructed by the company is slightly ahead of its time and it is destined to last, both in form and function, until the next era.
The company, founded in 1950 by Mr. Sergio Saporiti and still under control of the Saporiti family, has contributed to the creation of milestones in the history of Italian design.
During these decades of fast growing economy and fast changing social environment, Saporiti Italia set its particular international and avant-garde style.
The first pieces of furniture of the Saporiti of the times were clearly influenced by emerging Scandinavian design, but with a special touch of Italian elegance in the use of finishing and materials. In 1965 Sergio Saporiti started a fruitful and “scientific” collaboration with one of the masters of Italian architecture and design of all times: Alberto Rosselli.
Together they created a series of pieces of furniture – the Jumbo chair...
Category
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Giovanni Offredi More Furniture and Collectibles
Materials
Leather
H 30.5 in W 79.5 in D 92 in
Coat Hanger by Giovanni Offredi for Crassevig, 1970s
By Giovanni Offredi
Located in Brussels, BE
Coat hanger by Giovanni Offredi for Crassevig, 1970s.
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Giovanni Offredi More Furniture and Collectibles
Materials
Wood
Pair of Giovanni Offredi Postmodern Nightstands or Bedside Tables for Saporiti
By Saporiti, Giovanni Offredi
Located in Miami, FL
Postmodern nightstands or bedside tables rendered bird's-eye Maple drawer fronts and tops with an inset matte black case or frame and oval plinth...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Post-Modern Giovanni Offredi More Furniture and Collectibles
Materials
Wood, Birdseye Maple, Paint
H 19.5 in W 28.75 in D 21.5 in
Pair of Saporiti Italia Swivel-Top Night Stands
By Saporiti, Gianni Offredi, Giovanni Offredi
Located in Houston, TX
Pair of swivel top night stands by Saporit Italia. Tables are in a high gloss birdseye maple. Two deep drawers provide ample storage while a swivel shelf creates an excellent space f...
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Giovanni Offredi More Furniture and Collectibles
Materials
Birdseye Maple
Giovanni Offredi more furniture and collectibles for sale on 1stDibs.
Giovanni Offredi more furniture and collectibles are available for sale on 1stDibs. These distinctive items are frequently made of wood and are designed with extraordinary care. There are many options to choose from in our collection of Giovanni Offredi more furniture and collectibles, although brown editions of this piece are particularly popular. If you’re looking for additional options, many customers also consider more furniture and collectibles by Romeo Rega, Bernhard Rohne, and Mario Bellini. Prices for Giovanni Offredi more furniture and collectibles can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — on 1stDibs, these items begin at $6,500 and can go as high as $6,500, while a piece like these, on average, fetch $6,500.
Creators Similar to Giovanni Offredi
Still Thinking About These?
All Recently ViewedMore Giovanni Offredi Furniture
Giovanni Offredi Seating
Giovanni Offredi Tables
Giovanni Offredi Case Pieces and Storage Cabinets
Giovanni Offredi Lighting
Giovanni Offredi Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Giovanni Offredi Dining Room Tables
Giovanni Offredi Lounge Chairs
Giovanni Offredi Sofas
Giovanni Offredi Tables
Giovanni Offredi Dining Room Chairs
Giovanni Offredi Chairs
Giovanni Offredi Desks and Writing Tables