Melchiorre Bega (1898-1976)

Rare coffee table with turned wooden legs and brass cross, very thick cut glass top.

Bega&C manufacturing, Bologna, 1950s.

Melchiorre Bega trained as an architect and later also became a designer. Well known in Italy and abroad for its functionalist and modern design, Bega rejected the Art Déco style that prevailed in that period. He works with highly professional specialized craftsmen with whom he creates hundreds of shops and showrooms for the big brands of the time such as Motta, Alemagna, Martini, Galtrucco and many others. In the early 1940s he directed the famous magazine "Domus" founded by his friend and colleague Gio Ponti.

After the second world war he realized his most important projects were the Axel Springer Building in Berlin and in 1957-59 the Galfa Tower in Milan, one of the first Italian skyscrapers of over 30 floors, recently restored.