Paolo Buffa Floating Console circa 1945

Published by the Museum of Modern Art, 1st edition, New York, 1945. Hardback, English text. This exhibition catalogue is the first critical monograph issued by MoMA on a photographer. It was published in conjunction with a planned series of one-man focal retrospectives to bring some of the prominent American and European photographers to the fore, and photography has since then entered the category of fine art as far as MoMA is concerned. A catalyst and legend among his peers and the photography world at large, Strand’s revelatory photography captures a subtle change of mood, a slipt-second thought; his ‘nature morta’ of a kitchen bowl...

Mobili di Ulrich by G. Morrazoni Milano, Luigi Alfieri, 1945. Excellent red cloth hardback with embossed gold title. 26 pages of text and 78 pages containing 133 photographs and 24 ...

A very rare and stunning Puiforcat Art Deco sterling silver olive spoon circa 1925. Finely executed with orientalist influenced cut out geometric pattern to the strainer and finished...

A Charles Dudouyt (1885-1946) French table, circa 1930. Strongly influenced by African art, these richly carved tables mark a move form Art Deco to the bold abstract forms of Picass...

Rosewood console table by Paolo Buffa, 40s.

A refined and architecturally elegant rosewood console by celebrated Milanese architect and designer Paolo Buffa. Long and precisely proportioned, this piece features Buffa’s hallmar...

An elegantly appointed Italian mahogany console table by designer Paolo Buffa; the spectacular shaped marble top rests on a gently curved apron comprising three drawers with delicate...

Console table attributed to Paolo Buffa featuring a scalloped edge c. 1950.