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Table designed by Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, Charlotte Perriand in 1928. Relaunched by Cassina in 1985. Manufactured by Cassina in Italy. Le Corbusier, Charlotte Perriand and P...

Barba Corsini 'Pedrera' Coffee Table in Black for Gubi The Pedrera coffee table was designed in 1955 by Barba Corsini for the loft space at La Pe...

Meret Oppenheim Traccia sculptural table Manufactured by Cassina in Italy. In 1971, Dino Gavino launched what he called “l’opera d’arte funzionale”, or functional artworks, in so doing inaugurating a new approach of furnishing where surreal objects were adapted for everyday use. This led to the creation of the Ultramobile collection. These pieces, that went beyond (ultra) furniture (mobile) engaged the imagination, complementing rational intelligence with a sense of wonder, where geometry interacted with fantasy. One of these pieces was the low table that the Swiss artist Meret Oppenheim designed in 1929 for Leo Castelli’s avant-garde gallery, dubbing it the “Bird Leg Table...

A design armchair with soft, generous contours, designed to bring home casual, sophisticated comfort that opens the door to new, freer lifestyles. The idea for this armchair that...

Table designed by Charlotte Perriand in 1952-1956. Relaunched in 2014. Manufactured by Cassina in Italy. Included as one of the tables en forme libre created between 1938 and 1939, the final design was developed in 1952 for the students’ rooms of the Maison du Mexique...

Dining set designed by Pierre Jeanneret circa 1950, relaunched in 2019. Manufactured by Cassina in Italy. Set consisting of 1x Dining Table, 4x Capitol complex Chairs and 4x Capi...

Bent desk by Gentner Design Dimensions: D 147 x W 63.5 x H 76 cm Materials: bronze, walnut wood A single metal sheet is bent creating the surface and sides, aptly giving the desk its name. The finish is darkened by hand through a proprietary solution and the drawers are made from solid walnut and veneered fronts. Perfect as a writing desk in any residential library or office or even as a concierge desk...

Amber LC10 outdoor table designed by Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, Charlotte Perriand in 1928. Relaunched by Cassina in 1985. Manufactured by Cassina in Italy. Le Corbusier, Cha...

Table designed by Charlotte Perriand in 1969. Relaunched by Cassina in 2004. Manufactured by Cassina in Italy. A coffee table in solid wood, extremely complex in terms of technol...

Dining table mod. ‘Samo’ by Studio Simon. Series ‘Ultrarazionale’. Italy, 1970. Made of granite. Literature: Giuliana Gramigna, Repertorio 1950-2000, Allemandi, Torino, 2003, p.180. Excellent vintage condition. The Samo table was designed in 1970 by the project office of Studio Simon. Carlo Scarpa was the brand's artistic director, and the Venetian architect's style inspired the shapes of this table. Born in Venice on June 2nd, 1906, Carlo Scarpa began working at a very early age. Only a year after he had first qualified as an architect in 1926, he began working for the Murano glassmakers Cappellin & Co. in a consultative capacity; from 1927, he began to experiment with the Murano glass, and this research not only gave him excellent results here but would also inform his progress for many years to come. Between 1935 and 1937, as he entered his thirties, Carlo Scarpa accepted his first important commission, the renovation of Venice’s Cà Foscari. He adapted the spaces of this stately University building which stands on the banks of the Grand Canal, creating rooms for the Dean’s offices and a new hall for academic ceremonies; Mario Sironi and Mario De Luigi were charged with doing the restoration work on the frescos. After 1945, Carlo Scarpa found himself constantly busy with new commissions, including various furnishings and designs for the renovation of Venice’s Hotel Bauer and designing a tall building in Padua and a residential area in Feltre, which are all worth mention. One of his key works, despite its relatively modest diminished proportions, was the first of many works which were to follow in the nineteen fifties: the [bookshop known as the] Padiglione del Libro, which stands in Venice’s Giardini di Castello and shows clearly Scarpa’s passion for the works of Frank Lloyd Wright. In the years which were to follow, after he had met the American architect, Scarpa repeated similar experiments on other occasions, as can be seen, in particular, in the sketches he drew up in 1953 for villa Zoppas in Conegliano, which show some of his most promising work. However, this work unfortunately never came to fruition. Carlo Scarpa later created three museum layouts to prove pivotal in terms of how 20th century museums were to be set up from then on. Between 1955 and 1957, he completed extension work on Treviso’s Gipsoteca Canoviana [the museum that houses Canova’s sculptures] in Possagno, taking a similar experimental approach to the one he used for the Venezuelan Pavilion at [Venice’s] Giardini di Castello which he was building at the same time (1954-56). In Possagno Carlo Scarpa was to create one of his greatest ever works, which inevitably bears comparison with two other museum layouts that he was working on over the same period, those of the Galleria Nazionale di Sicilia, housed in the Palazzo Abatellis in Palermo (1953-55) and at the Castelvecchio in Verona (1957- 1974), all of which were highly acclaimed, adding to his growing fame. Two other buildings, which are beautifully arranged in spatial terms, can be added to this long list of key works that were started and, in some cases, even completed during the nineteen fifties. After winning the Olivetti award for architecture in 1956, Scarpa began work in Venice’s Piazza San Marco on an area destined to house products made by the Industrial manufacturers Ivrea. Over the same period (1959-1963), he also worked on renovation and restoration of the gardens and ground floor of the Fondazione Querini Stampalia in Venice, which many consider being one of his greatest works. While he busied himself working on-site at the Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Carlo Scarpa also began work building a villa in Udine for the Veritti family. To shed some light on the extent to which his work evolved over the years, it may perhaps be useful to compare this work with that of his very last building, villa Ottolenghi Bardolino, which was near to completion at the time of his sudden death in 1978. Upon completion of villa Veritti over the next ten years, without ever letting up on his work on renovation and layouts, Scarpa accepted some highly challenging commissions which were to make the most of his formal skills, working on the Carlo Felice Theatre in Genoa as well as another theatre in Vicenza. Towards the end of this decade, in 1969, Rina Brion commissioned Carlo Scarpa to build the Brion Mausoleum in San Vito d’Altivole (Treviso), a piece he continued to work on right up until the moment of his death. Nevertheless, even though he was totally absorbed by work on this mausoleum, there are plenty of other episodes which can offer some insight into the final years of his career. As work on the San Vito d’Altivole Mausoleum began to lessen from 1973, Carlo Scarpa began work building the new headquarters for the Banca Popolare di Verona. He drew up plans that were surprisingly different from the work he was carrying out at the same time on the villa Ottolenghi. However, the plans Carlo Scarpa drew up, at different times, for a monument in Brescia’s Piazza della Loggia commemorating victims of the terrorist attack on May 28th, 1974, make a sharp contrast to the work he carried out in Verona, almost as if there is a certain hesitation after so many mannered excesses. The same Pietas that informs his designs for the Piazza Della Loggia can also be seen in the presence of the water that flows through the Brion Mausoleum, almost as if to give a concrete manifestation of pity in this 20th century work of art. Carlo Scarpa has put together a highly sophisticated collection of structures, occupying the mausoleum’s L-shaped space stretching across both sides of the old San Vito d’Altivole cemetery. A myriad of different forms and an equally large number of different pieces, all of which are separate and yet inextricably linked to form a chain that seems to offer no promise of continuity, rising up out of these are those whose only justification for being there is to bear the warning “si vis vitam, para mortem”, [if you wish to experience life prepare for death] as if to tell a tale that suggests the circle of time, joining together the commemoration of the dead with a celebration of life. At the entrance of the Brion Mausoleum stand the “propylaea” followed by a cloister which ends by a small chapel, with an arcosolium bearing the family sarcophagi, the main pavilion, held in place on broken cast iron supports, stands over a mirror-shaped stretch of water and occupies one end of the family’s burial space. The musical sound of the walkways teamed with the luminosity of these harmoniously blended spaces shows how, in keeping with his strong sense of vision, Carlo Scarpa could make the most of all of his many skills to come up with this truly magnificent space. As well as a great commitment to architectural work, with the many projects which we have already seen punctuating his career, Carlo Scarpa also made many equally important forays into the world of applied arts. Between 1926 and 1931, he worked for the Murano glassmakers Cappellin, later taking what he had learned with him when he went to work for the glassmakers Venini from 1933 until the 1950s. The story of how he came to work on furniture design is different, however, and began with the furniture he designed to replace lost furnishings during his renovation of Cà Foscari. The later mass-produced furniture started differently, given that many pieces were originally one-off designs “made to measure”. Industrial manufacturing using these designs as prototypes came into being thanks to the continuity afforded him by Dino Gavina, who, as well as this, also invited Carlo Scarpa to become president of the company Gavina SpA, later to become SIMON, a company Gavina founded 8 years on, in partnership with Maria Simoncini (whose own name accounts for the choice of company name). Carlo Scarpa and Gavina forged a strong bond in 1968 as they began to put various models of his into production for Simon, such as the “Doge” table, which also formed the basis for the “Sarpi” and “Florian” tables. In the early seventies, other tables that followed included “Valmarana”, “Quatour” and “Orseolo”. While in 1974, they added couch and armchair “Cornaro” to the collection and the “Toledo” bed...

Lebeau wood and marble table by Patrick Jouin Manufactured by Cassina in Italy Lebeau Wood is an evolution of the iconic and innovative Lebeau table. While the original's dimension...

Rare Angelo Mangiarotti Eros marble table. 1971 manufactured by Skipper, Italy. 72.5cm high, 66cm x 44cm... "happiness comes from correctness.“, by Angelo Mangiarotti, architect, designer and professor, born in Milan in 1921. Perhaps because as a visiting professor in Chicago in the mid-1950s he met not only Frank Lloyd Wright, but also Walter Gropius and Mies Van der Rohe. But maybe it just describes his profound architectural understanding of construction and materiality that always influenced his design. And precision is an essential component of his series of “eros” tables developed for skipper in 1971. They consist only of a marble slab and also made of marble column feet that “slot” into prefabricated openings through their conically shaped upper end. The weight of the slab stabilizes the structure like the end stone of a vault. Due to the pure marble...

Beautifully designed vintage 1980s steel and glass Modern coffee table by Kaizo Oto. Produced by Design Institute of America, the coffee tab...

Side table designed by Franco Albini in 1953. Relaunched in 2008. Manufactured by Cassina in Italy. Dubbed Cicognino, or “little stork”, this iconic design, is clean-cut and refi...

Table designed by Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, Charlotte Perriand in 1929. Revisited by Perriand in 1984, and relaunched by Cassina one year later. Manufactured by Cassina in Ital...

Outdoor coffee table that invites companionship, designed for days of outdoor fun lived in the lap of comfort, surrounded by the warmth of natural wood and design elegance. A sophis...

Lebeau wood and marble table by Patrick Jouin Manufactured by Cassina in Italy Lebeau Wood is an evolution of the iconic and innovative Lebeau table. While the original's dimens...

Table designed by Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, Charlotte Perriand in 1928. Relaunched by Cassina in 1985. Manufactured by Cassina in Italy. Le Corbusier, Charlotte Perriand and...

Table designed by Charlotte Perriand in 1937. Relaunched in 2019. Manufactured by Cassina in Italy. The first model of this historic design low table was crafted in 1937 for Charlotte Perriand’s studio in Montparnasse. The first example of this table was made in 1937 for Charlotte Perriand’s Parisian studio in Montparnasse. The structure of the base of the Table à plateau...

Lebeau Wood Table by Patrick Jouin Manufactured by Cassina in Italy Lebeau Wood is an evolution of the iconic and innovative Lebeau table. While the original's dimensions and outli...

Lebeau wood low table by Patrick Jouin. Manufactured by Cassina in Italy. In 2017, Patrick Jouin and Cassina partnered to produce the Lebeau Wood table, an updated solid wood ver...

Set of Three Linde Freya Tangelder Fluid Joinery Glass Side Table by Cassina FOCUSED ON TRANSPARENCY Linde Freya Tangelder’s experimentation with free-form shapes combines glass an...

"Lesson in originality and sobriety in design". The philosophy of Frank Lloyd Wright, the prestigious North American architect that marked a generation. With his work he influenced g...

A stylish, minimalist outdoor armchair designed for the younger generation that invites the spontaneity typical of a day to be enjoyed outdoors. In 1967, Afra and Tobia Scarpa craf...

Sengu Dining Table designed by Patricia Urquiola. Manufactured by Cassina (Italy). LIGHT-HEARTED POETRY A design dining room table inspired by the ritual reconstruction of Japanese shrines, a contemporary piece that celebrates light-hearted cheer through dialog between different materials. Sengu Table...

Lebeau wood table by Patrick Jouin Manufactured by Cassina in Italy Lebeau Wood is an evolution of the iconic and innovative Lebeau table. While the original's dimensions and ou...

A Pierre Chapo T21D oak dining table, French, 1970-80s. By repute purchased directly from the designer himself. Oak, with five legged base, in good, untouched and original conditi...

Table designed by Le Corbusier in 1959. Relaunched in 2018. Manufactured by Cassina in Italy. This table is part of a faithful reproduction of a student room in the Maison du Brésil...

Charlotte Perriand Black Lacquered Wood and Marble Rio Table Manufactured by Cassina FUNCTIONALITY AND BEAUTY The historic Rio design low table combines uncommon beauty and utmost functionality in an asymmetrical structure that, over time, has proven itself to be a true interior decor work of art. The low table by Charlotte Perriand is composed of six segments of different radius, arranged in a circle but offset from one another to create an uneven outer border in solid wood with a hole in the center, envisioned as a spatial center of gravity. Thanks to Cassina’s outstanding artisan skills, the model from 1962 has been reissued in its original form, alternating the use of oak with inserts in Viennese cane, with versions in stained or natural wood with elements in white or black marble. TOP Solid oak frame with transparent matt finish with hand-woven Rattan mesh. BASE Solid oak with transparent matt finish. EDGE Outer edge in solid steam bent oak. Currently available in just one size, the Rio low table...

Dining table in two sizes included among the free-form tables designed by Charlotte Perriand between 1938 and 1939. A sinuous, elegant piece whose organic, asymmetrical shape lends t...

Bliss side table by Gentner Design Dimensions: D 35.5 x W 35.5 x H 58.5 cm Materials: polished stainless steel The stainless steel table is reflective of those ever so fleeting glim...

Lebeau wood low table by Patrick Jouin. Manufactured by Cassina in Italy. In 2017, Patrick Jouin and Cassina partnered to produce the Lebeau Wood table, an updated solid wood ver...

Sengu Dining Table designed by Patricia Urquiola. Manufactured by Cassina (Italy). LIGHT-HEARTED POETRY A design dining room table inspired by the ritual reconstruction of Japanese ...

Pierre Chapo, dining table 'Aban T35B', elm, France, 1960s This small dining or writing table in solid elm is designed by master woodworker Pierre Chapo. The restrained design as we...

Table designed by Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, Charlotte Perriand in 1935. Relaunched by Cassina in 1985. Manufactured by Cassina in Italy. Designed by Le Corbusier, Charlotte ...

Table designed by Franco Albini in 1954. Manufactured by Cassina in Italy. This table/writing desk, designed by Franco Albini consists of two trapezoidal planes, one smaller than th...

Table designed by Pierre Jeanneret circa 1950, relaunched in 2019. Manufactured by Cassina in Italy. The inclusion of the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2016 has aroused great intere...

A design puff with soft, generous contours, designed to bring home casual, sophisticated comfort that opens the door to new, freer lifestyles. The idea for this puff that changed t...

Sengu Coffee Table designed by Patricia Urquiola. Manufactured by Cassina (Italy). AN ASIAN INVITATION Asian-inspired, this design coffee table by Patricia Urquiola is a domestic architecture enhanced by the layering of different materials. The system of primary and secondary oval beams that supports the top of this table, ideal for a modern living room, draws upon the ritual reconstruction of Japanese shrines to define an elegant piece of furniture with Far-Eastern fascination. Supported by a solid wood base, the rectangular or round top is available in extra-clear glass, smoked glass or marble. BASE In solid wood: Canaletto walnut, natural oak or oak stained black. TOP Transparent extra-clear or smoked glass, or marble: white Carrara, Grigio Carnico, Verde Alpi, Rosso Levanto, Calacatta Gold, or Nero Marquina, with matt finish. Inspired by Asian influences ‒ a theme that often recurs in the Cassina collections ‒ and especially by the ritual reconstruction of Japanese shrines through the use of different materials, like the other pieces in the Sengu family, the Sengu Coffee Table, designed by Patricia Urquiola, is envisioned as an exquisitely layered and sophisticated home architecture. The base, crafted with a grid of primary and secondary oval solid wood beams, echoes the shapes found in the Sengu Sofa...

Table designed by Le Corbusier in 1958. Relaunched in 2010. Manufactured by Cassina in Italy. Organic and yet rational, this table was designed by Le Corbusier in 1958. Its disti...

Table designed by Charlotte Perriand in 1937. Relaunched in 2020. Manufactured by Cassina in Italy. The historic Rio design low table combines uncommon beauty and utmost functionali...

Linde Freya Tangelder Fluid Joinery Glass Side Table by Cassina FOCUSED ON TRANSPARENCY Linde Freya Tangelder’s experimentation with free-form shapes combines glass and colour to c...

Lebeau wood table by Patrick Jouin Manufactured by Cassina in Italy Lebeau wood is an evolution of the iconic and innovative Lebeau table. While the original's dimensions and outli...

Sengu Dining Table designed by Patricia Urquiola. Manufactured by Cassina (Italy). LIGHT-HEARTED POETRY A design dining room table inspired by the ritual reconstruction of Japanese shrines, a contemporary piece that celebrates light-hearted cheer through dialog between different materials. Sengu Table...

Table designed by Le Corbusier in 1959. Relaunched in 2018. Manufactured by Cassina in Italy. This table is part of a faithful reproduction of a student room in the Maison du Brésil...

Lebeau wood table by Patrick Jouin Manufactured by Cassina in Italy Lebeau Wood is an evolution of the iconic and innovative Lebeau table. While the original's dimensions and outli...

Brass swinging drink table by Gentner Design Dimensions: D 14 x W 14 x H 55.8 cm Materials: brass A table for your drink that is already a li...

Lebeau wood table by Patrick Jouin Manufactured by Cassina in Italy Lebeau wood is an evolution of the iconic and innovative Lebeau table. While the original's dimensions and ou...

Lebeau Wood Table by Patrick Jouin Manufactured by Cassina in Italy Lebeau Wood is an evolution of the iconic and innovative Lebeau table. While the original's dimensions and ou...

Table designed by Charlotte Perriand in 1972. Relaunched by Cassina in 2014. Manufactured by Cassina in Italy. Revolutionary as much as it is quite different from any other in terms...

Sengu Dining Table designed by Patricia Urquiola. Manufactured by Cassina (Italy). LIGHT-HEARTED POETRY A design dining room table inspired by the ritual reconstruction of Japanese shrines, a contemporary piece that celebrates light-hearted cheer through dialog between different materials. Sengu Table...

Lebeau wood table by Patrick Jouin Manufactured by Cassina in Italy In 2017, Patrick Jouin and Cassina partnered to produce the Lebeau Wood table, an updated solid wood version ...

Soriana limited edition Denim armchair by Afra & Tobia Scarpa for Cassina. A design armchair with soft, generous contours, designed by Afra and Tobia Scarpa in the 1960s to bring ...

Sengu Dining Table designed by Patricia Urquiola. Manufactured by Cassina (Italy). LIGHT-HEARTED POETRY A design dining room table inspired by the ritual reconstruction of Japanese shrines, a contemporary piece that celebrates light-hearted cheer through dialog between different materials. Sengu Table...

Table designed by Charlotte Perriand in 1970. Relaunched in 2023. Manufactured by Cassina in Italy. An ode to fine artisanal craftsmanship in the form of a table. Table Monta is the...

LC10 ivory outdoors table designed by Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, Charlotte Perriand in 1929. Revisited by Perriand in 1984, and relaunched by Cassina one year later. Manufacture...

Sengu Low Table designed by Patricia Urquiola. Manufactured by Cassina (Italy). DESIGN LOW TABLES A collection of three designer low tables by Patricia Urquiola in combination with ...

Doge Large Dining Table designed by Carlo Scarpa. Manufactured by Cassina (Italy) ULTRARATIONAL EMBLEM A sculptural structure that has become an emblem of Italian design, a trademar...

Table model La Rotonda designed by Mario Bellini in 1976. Manufactured by Cassina, Italy. A table with timeless design by Mario Bellini, who morphs the ...

Table designed by Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, Charlotte Perriand in 1929. Revisited by Perriand in 1984, and relaunched by Cassina one year later. Manufactured by Cassina in Ital...