1950 Cristal-Art MidCentury Italian Design Wood Glass Magazine Rack

Magazine Rack Italy, 1950 Wood Frame Brass Handle Cut glasses Very good condiction Italian manufacture of excellent manufacture

"Lira" Magazine Rack Gallotti Radice Italy, 1970 Smoked Curved Glass Chrome Metal Frame Glass in perfect condiction Excellet quality of manufacture

Mid-century magazine rack made in Italy in the 1950s

Lovely midcentury wood magazine rack. This fantastic item was produced in Italy during the 1950s and it is attributed to Ico Parisi. This piece is fantastic because of its luxurious materials: made of lacquered wood with glass side panels and visible brass screws finishes. A must-have for midcentury lovers in order to smarten a studio or an entrance hall. Ico Parisi was an Italian architect and designer. Born Domenico Parisi in 1916 in Palermo, Italy, he was involved in building construction and architecture in Como during his early adulthood. By the 1940s, Parisi took up filmmaking and began designing furniture in 1945, for which he would become most renowned. His designs are characterized by their Italian Mid-Century Modern aesthetic, constructed using soft woods often cut into boomerang-like shapes, augmented by metal slats and boldly colored upholstery. His most prolific period was the two decades that preceded 1965, when he married and formed a design team with his wife, Luisa Aiani, in 1948. He studied architecture between 1949–1952 under Alberto Sartoris...