Architect and designer Cesare Lacca is renowned for the modernist furniture he created during the 1950s. Made with materials like teak, glass and brass, his work continues to command great interest from mid-century modern collectors. His pieces have recently found their way onto some of the 21st century’s most trendy television and movie sets.
Lacca was born in Naples, Italy, in 1929. Like many Italian designers in the 20th century, he moved to Milan after World War II to launch his career. At the age of 20, he was selected by a group of American curators for inclusion in the 1951 landmark exhibition “Italy at Work: Her Renaissance in Design Today” at the Art Institute of Chicago. It showcased Italian designers who had embraced modernist principles and rejuvenated traditional Italian crafts, like Carlo Mollino, Franco Albini and Gio Ponti.
Lacca designed a dizzying array of tea carts and serving trolleys across his career, including magazine racks and coffee tables. Lacca’s most well-known piece is a tea cart — most commonly used as a bar cart — that Cassina manufactured. It features beautifully sculpted beech, cedar, teak and walnut with brass details, a glass tabletop and a removable glass tray.
This Lacca cart was featured as Don Draper’s office bar in his Manhattan advertising agency on several episodes of the wildly popular television show Mad Men, reinvigorating the interest of collectors. Several other Lacca pieces have been part of the set decorations in the television series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and the movie Being the Ricardos.
On 1stDibs, find Cesare Lacca tables, racks and stands, seating and more.
1950s Italian Occasional Table in the Style of Carlo Mollino
By Carlo Mollino
Located in Hanover, MA
1950s Italian modernist three leg table made of mahogany stained beechwood and an asymmetric glass top which is roughly the shape of a heart or a guitar pick. Two insect-like arms re...
Mahogany
Magiscope Optic Glass Magazine Table
By Beyond Gorgeosity, Feliciano Béjar
Located in Hanover, MA
Custom crafted by our own master metalsmith in our workshop/studio is this stylish occasional table which fuses our favorite design elements of leather wrapped brass bamboo. The op...
Brass
Rare Angelo Ostuni Round Cocktail Table
By Angelo Ostuni
Located in Hanover, MA
Chic round coffee table by Angelo Ostuni. Angular black enameled aluminum frame with brass embellishments. Attached round glass top is pierced and capped with four round brass caps.
Brass
Italian 2 Tier Cocktail Table After Ico & Luisa Parisi
By Ico & Luisa Parisi
Located in Hanover, MA
Magnificent cocktail table attributed to Ico & Luisa Parisi. Two-tier with curled ends supported by sharp angled legs in form of an inverted "V" with brass tapered sabots and dainti...
Brass
Umberto Mascagni Dining Table
By Umberto Mascagni
Located in Hanover, MA
Handsome Italian modern dining table produced in Italy mid-1950's. by Umberto Mascagni of Bologna and imported to the UK by I. Barget Ltd. then retailed through Harrods among other s...
Aluminum, Brass
French 1950's Bi-Level Cocktail Table by Angelo Ostuni
By Angelo Ostuni
Located in Hanover, MA
French modernist coffee table with two tiers of tempered glass supported by geometrically asymmetric cast aluminum frames with brass fitting...
Mid-Century Modern Side Table Attributed to Fontana Arte
By Fontana Arte
Located in London, GB
Unusual side table with brass and glass base and thick glass top.
Brass
Giuseppe Scapinelli side table made in Brazil 1950
By Giuseppe Scapinelli
Located in Roosendaal, Noord Brabant
A highly rare and elegant side table designed by Brazilian-Italian designer Giuseppe Scapinelli in the 1950s, this piece is a striking example of mid-century Brazilian design infused...
Brass
Italian Mid Century Modern Murano Glass Side Table
Located in Red Lion, PA
This elegant piece is consistent with an Italian Mid-Century Modern brass and glass tripod side table, often referred to as a gueridon or drinks table. It is characterized by its min...
Brass
Vintage Italian midcentury end table thick glass top by Giuseppe Ostuni
By Giuseppe Ostuni
Located in Milano, IT
Mid Century Side table in Brass and Glass modernist - Italian Design 50's The piece, preserved in very good original condition, is a wonderful and sculptural side table by Italian d...
Cut Glass
60's glass and steel living room side table Italian design
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Coffee table with nickel-plated brass metal frame and glass top with machined bodo. The coffee table is in excellent condition with one screw replaced (visible in photo), and the gla...
Steel
Italian Modern Dining Table Designed By Mario Gottardi For Roncoroni Cantu
By Mario Gottardi, Cantu
Located in Houston, TX
Italian Modern Dining Table Designed By Mario Gottardi For Roncoroni Cantu. Offered is an Italian mid century modern dining table or center table with a sculptural base, splayed legs...
Fruitwood
