Italian
Centre Table, circa 1940s
£6,300
Auction: 28 April 2023 at 11:00 BST
Description
oak, marble, brass
Dimensions
77.5cm high, 300cm long, 99.5cm wide (30 1/2in high, 118 1/8in long, 39 1/4in wide)
Provenance
Provenance
Christie's London, 18th October 2017, lot 272.
Footnote
This extraordinary centre table is probably a one-off, and was presumably a custom-made design for a commercial office in the Turin area of Italy. It clearly references the anthropomorphic organic forms of the leading Northern Italian architects Carlo Mollino and Mario Federico Roggero, with a base designed to support the monumental marble top that creates a finished work of balanced forms, voids and dynamism. Although the designer of the current work is not identified, the highly crafted and sculptural nature of the work embodies the futuristic and aerodynamic creations of ground-breaking Italian design in the 1940s and 1950s.