About Bologna Design Gallery
Bologna Design Gallery is a venue entirely devoted to 20th-century design and applied arts. Sprung from the love of 20th-century craftsmanship and decor, the gallery is both a centre for research on the various proposals that have characterised Italian design and a workshop for the study and selection of unique pieces for the market, with a special focus on designers such as Gio Ponti, Ettore Sottsass, Max Ingrand, Gino Sarfatti, Franco Albini, Ico Parisi, Melchiorre Bega. The gallery s aim is to highlight the remarkable creative and artistic heritage of the past centu...Read More
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Featured Pieces
Mid-Century Italian Brass mirror in the style of Gio Ponti, 1950s
By Gio Ponti
Located in Argelato, BO
This mirror is an elegant example of mid-century Italian design dating back to the 1950s. It is a wall-mounted (or freestanding) piece with a brass frame featuring a distinctive deco...
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Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Wall Mirrors
Materials
Brass
Mid-Century Danish Wooden Sideboard, Finn Juhl Style, 1960s
By Finn Juhl
Located in Argelato, BO
This Mid-Century Modern sideboard is an elegant example of 1960s Scandinavian design.
Crafted from fine teak, with warm grain and rich brown tones, it features an asymmetrical struct...
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Vintage 1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
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Wood
Mid-Century Danish Wooden Sideboard, 1960s
Located in Argelato, BO
This mid-century sideboard is an elegant example of 1960s Scandinavian design.
Crafted from fine teak wood, it features a warm reddish-brown hue.
The structure is linear and minimali...
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Vintage 1960s Sideboards
Materials
Wood
Gino Sarfatti and Archimede Seguso Murano Glass Pendant Chandelier For Arteluce
By Gino Sarfatti
Located in Argelato, BO
This chandelier is model 2042/3, designed by Gino Sarfatti for Arteluce in 1963.
It is a three-light pendant with a minimalist and refined structure.
Three black cables of varying le...
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Vintage 1960s Mid-Century Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Metal, Brass
Set of 4 Wittmann Fledermaus Chairs by Josef Hoffmann (Customizable)
By Josef Hoffmann
Located in Argelato, BO
Set of four "Fledermaus" chairs (meaning "bat" in German), designed by Austrian architect and designer Josef Hoffmann in 1907.
Originally conceived to furnish the legendary Flederma...
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Antique Early 1900s Austrian Vienna Secession Chairs
Materials
Bentwood
2 Wittmann Fledermaus Chairs by Josef Hoffmann, Austria (Customizable)
By Josef Hoffmann
Located in Argelato, BO
Set di due sedie modello "Fledermaus" (che significa "pipistrello" in tedesco), progettato dall'architetto e designer austriaco Josef Hoffmann nel 1907. Originariamente concepito per...
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Antique Early 1900s Austrian Vienna Secession Chairs
Materials
Bentwood
Murano Sommerso Glass Vase, Att to Seguso, Italy, 1970s
By Archimede Seguso
Located in Argelato, BO
This vase, made around 1960 in a Murano furnace, belongs to the heavy, double-layered submerged family: a core of amber glass (from deep brown to pale honey) completely enveloped by ...
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Vintage 1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Murano Glass
Pair of post-modern sculptural wooden armchairs, Italy, 1970s
Located in Argelato, BO
These armchairs are a contemporary design piece with a strongly sculptural and minimalist aesthetic, clearly referencing Constructivism and the De Stijl movement (particularly the ge...
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Vintage 1970s Italian Post-Modern Armchairs
Materials
Wood
Elegant beech coffee table from the Viennese Secession, J.J. Kohn
By Jacob
Josef Kohn
Located in Argelato, BO
An elegant Viennese beech coffee table from the early 1900s, produced by J.J. Kohn.
The beech was steam-bent, stained a warm dark mahogany, and polished.
The four slender, slightly ...
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Antique Early 1900s Vienna Secession Side Tables
Materials
Beech
Midcentury Medea Armchair by Vittorio Nobili for Fratelli Tagliabue, Italy, 1956
By Vittorio Nobili
Located in Argelato, BO
La poltroncina Medea di Vittorio Nobili, prodotta da Fratelli Tagliabue nel 1955-56, è uno dei vertici assoluti del design italiano organico del dopoguerra.
Realizzata in un unico gu...
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Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Armchairs
Materials
Metal
Warren Platner for Knoll Coffee Table in Steel and Glass
By Warren Platner
Located in Argelato, BO
The legendary coffee table designed in 1958 by Warren Platner for Knoll International.
An absolute icon of 1960s American modernism.
The base is a sculptural interweaving of hand-ben...
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Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Steel
Melchiorre Bega, Mid-Century Round Table with Marble Top
By Melchiorre Bega
Located in Argelato, BO
This table is one of Melchiorre Bega's most refined and rare creations, crafted in the early 1950s at the height of his Milanese modernist period.
The large circular top, cut from m...
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Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
Materials
Marble, Brass
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