Mid Century Modern 1950s Brass Glass Bar Cart Italian Design Trolley

Beautiful Hollywood Regency trolley from the late 1960s early 1970s. This elegant and very stylish gilded bar cart features two push handles, three tiers with glass top and for an ex...

Stunning Italian organic shaped coffee table with marble top and tapered brass legs from the 1950s. The kidney bean shaped marble top sits on a black steel base. The brass legs are a...

Stylish, classy and elegant Italian Mid-Century Modern brass and glass bar trolley. The trolley will be shipped overseas in a custom made wooden crate. Cost of transport to the US is crate included. Italy is a world trendsetter, and has produced some of the greatest furniture designers in the world, such as Achille Castiglioni, Gio Ponti, and Ettore Sottsass. Italian interior design in the 1900s was particularly well-known and grew to the heights of class and sophistication. At first, in the early 1900s, Italian furniture designers struggled to create an equal balance between classical elegance and modern creativity, and at first, Italian interior design in the 1910s and 1920s was very similar to that of French Art Deco styles, using exotic materials and creating sumptuous furniture. However, Italian Art Deco reached its pinnacle under Gio Ponti, who made his designs sophisticated, elegant, stylish and refined, but also modern, exotic and creative. In 1926, a new style of furnishing emerged in Italy, known as "Razionalismo", or "Rationalism". The most successful and famous of the Rationalists were the Gruppo 7, led by Luigi Figini, Gino Pollini and Giuseppe Terragni. There styles used tubular steel and was known as being more plain and simple, and almost Fascist in style after c. 1934. After World War II, however, was the period in which Italy had a true avant-garde in interior design. With the fall of Fascism, birth of Republic and the 1946 RIMA exhibition, Italian talents in interior decorating were made evident, and with the Italian economic miracle, Italy saw a growth in Industrial Production and also mass-made furniture. Yet, the 1960s and 1970s saw Italian interior design reach its pinnacle of stylishness, and by that point, with Pop and post-modern interiors, the phrases "Bel Design" and "Linea Italiana" entered the vocabulary of furniture design. Ever since the late 1970s and early 1980s, some equipment began to be logoed by notable Italian fashion houses, such as Prada, Versace, Armani, Gucci and Moschino. Examples of Classic pieces of Italian furniture include Zanussi's rigorous, creative and streamlined washing machines and fridges, the "New Tone...

This unusual mid century bar cart was made in France in the 1960s - please take a look at all the pictures to see a close up on the finials and detail on the metal work. The glass is slightly smoked and the brass patina is more of a silver than gold. The height of the glass top shelf is 64.5cm and the height of the lower shelf is 22cm high. A great midcentury decorative and practical piece. Style using a midcentury cocktail shaker...