Gio Ponti (1891-1979)

Rationalist-style walnut desk with a thick tempered glass top and a large drawer with side compartments.

Designed in 1939 for the Vetrocoke offices in Marghera, Venice.

Manufactured in 1939.

Gio Ponti Archive.

Paolo Buffa (1903-1970)

Small bedroom desk with sabre legs and a drawer in "grissinato" wood with a turned wooden handle.

Galdino Maspero manufacture, 1935.

Biblical R.Rizzi, The furniture of Paolo Buffa, p 16.

Very elegant desk entirely covered in parchment.

Four side drawers with ebonized wood handles.

Italian manufacture, 1940s

Ash center desk with tapered legs and two drawers with turned wood knobs.

Ash center desk with tapered legs

Giuseppe Scapinelli (1891–1982)

Wooden desk with a rectangular glass-covered top, featuring an asymmetrical structure with four drawers on one side and an open compartment on the other. Clean lines and balanced proportions, with a contrasting dark base.

Brazilian manufacture, 1950s.

Two-drawer oak desk with shaped wooden handles.

Italian manufacture, circa 1935.

Small burl maple center desk with three drawers. Chair in maple and burl maple.

Italian manufacture, circa 1930/40.

Elegant centerpiece writing table in fine wood veneer with four tapered legs and a drawer at the front.

Lombard/Emilian manufacture, Italy, ca. 1780.

Giò Ponti (1891-1979)

Desk in blond wood with brass tips designed and produced for the University of Padua and a few years later for the BNL of Milan.

Production I.S.A, Bergamo, 1949.

Luigi Olivieri

Rare modernist desk in walnut and blond maple with ground glass top and wooden band. Lacquered drawers with turned maple uprights and two doors on the sides.

1950's Italian manufacture.

Oak and white woven center desk with three drawers on one side.

Made in France, ca. 1960.

Silvio Cavatorta (1899-1957)

Elegant blond wood writing desk with two side drawers and magazine rack, original opaline glass top.

Cavatorta & Co., circa 1950.

Silvio Cavatorta's work is characterized by a minimalist style, the use of fine materials, and masterful craftsmanship, creating functional luxury. His furniture is characterized by a simple design and high-quality materials, free of unnecessary ornamentation, with handles either simple or integrated directly into the wooden frames.

Guglielmo Ulrich (1904 -1977)

Small refined desk with elegant shaped uprights, four drawers on one side, brass handles and ribbed wooden front.

Arca Manufacture, Milan, ca. 1940.

Paolo Buffa (1903-1970)

Elegant wooden desk with five drawers and turned wooden legs.

Certificate from the Paolo Buffa archive.

Manufactured by Galdino Maspero in 1940's.

Writing table in oak wood with drawers on both sides, brass tips and crystal glass top.

Italian manufacture 1950's.

Pierluigi Colli

Elegant walnut desk with shaped uprights and a scratched wood band and under-band.

Certificate of provenance, Colli, Turin, ca. 1940.

Center desk in walnut root and polished metal profiles, three drawers on the side with nice black bakelite handles.

Italian manufacture ca.1930.

Enzo Mari 1932 - 2020

Table model “Effe”

Manufactured by Simon in 1974.

Literature:
Metamobile 1973, Simon International catalogue, 1973, n.p.
Enzo Mari: Proposta per un’Autoprogettazione, exh. cat.,
Centro Duchamp, Milan, 1974, n.p.

Peter S. Stamberg, Instant Furniture, New York, 1976, pp. 21-24
Virgilio Verelloni, The Adventure of Design: Gavina, Milan, 1987, p. 150 (for a similar “ICS” table designed by Enzo Mari)
Renzo Orsini, Dino Gavina Ultrarazionale
Ultramobile, Milan, 1998, pp. 187-189
G. Gramigna - Repertorio del design italiano 1950-2000 2002, p. 240, Turin, Éditions Umberto Allemandi & C R. Pedio - Enzo Mari designer 2004, numbers 174 and 175, Bari, Italy, Éditions Dedalo

Desk in chromed tubular with drawers on the side and a thick ground glass top.

Manifactured by Colli Torino around 1930.

Franco Albini (1905-1977)

Center desk with dark wood drawers, polished steel square tube leg and tempered glass top.

Registered drawing from 1958.

Knoll international manufacturing 1970's

Corner desk with one drawer, newspaper holder, small cabinet and shelves. Original red top in perfect conditions.

Italian 1950's. manufacture.

Small central desk with two drawers on the front, open compartment and beautiful document holder on the top.

Italian manufacture, ca. 1960.
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Small writing desk in curved wood with side bookcase and cloth top.

Italian manufacture, 1940's.

Josef Hoffman, rare writing desk designed in 1905 ca. and manufactured by J.& J. Khon, Vienna. Beech stained to simulate mahogany, top with a dark red leather, brass handle and details.

Literature

E. Otllinger, Against the Grain, Bentwood furniture from the collection of Fern and Manfred Steinfeld, exh. cat., The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 1993, p. 85, fig. 54

G. Renzi, Il Mobile Moderno, Gebrüder Thonet Vienna, Jacob & Josef Kohn, Milan, 2008, pp. 202-203 for the desk