Poggi Cabinets

Teak bachelor's chest or tall sideboard by Peter Hvidt and Orla Mølgaard-Nielsen for Søborg Møbelfabrik. This lovely pair of stacked cabinets have been well cared by their origin...

Rattan corner shelf by Franco Albini for Bonacina, Italy 1960, made with bamboo canes and wavy edge. Very good condition.

LB7 bookcase, designed by Franco Albini and manufactured by Poggi in 1957. Modular bookstore composed by upholds, containers with flying and doors, shelve. The industrial standard for every product component allows permanent and different solutions, from the bearing structures to the elements. The structure does not need anchorages to the wall and can be placed in the middle of the space. This set is composed of 3 modules, ten shelves, and three containers. It is made of Rosewood, iron, and brass. Excellent vintage condition. Franco Albini was born in Robbiate in 1905, and after his childhood and part of his youth, he moved to Milan. He graduated at Politecnico of Milan, Faculty of Architecture, in 1929, and He collaborated for three years in Giò Ponti and Emilio Lancia’s office. He probably had his international contacts here, at The International Exposition of 1929 in Barcelona and Paris, where he visited le Corbusier’s office, as Franca Helg used to tell. Throughout these first three years, his works were undoubtedly related to XIXth Century. His meeting with Edoardo Persico marks an evident turnover towards rationalism and writers for “Casabella” magazine. Persico’s thoughtful and ironical comments on some of Albini’s drawings for office furniture caused him deep upsetting. “I spent days of real anxiety – tells Albini – I had to answer all questions. I had a long fever”. The new phase that the meeting provoked begins with opening his own first office at Via Panizza with Renato Camus and Giancarlo Palanti. The group of Architects starts taking care of social housing, participating in the competition for the Baracca neighborhood in 1932, and then realizing the Ifacp neighborhood: Fabio Filzi (1936/38), Gabriele D’Annunzio, and Ettore Ponti (1939). During those years, He also worked for his first private villa (Pestarini). It is mainly in the context of exhibitions that the Italian architect experiments the compromise between rigor and poetic fantasy that Pagano was talking about; He conceived all the elements that would become recurrent in all types of his work – Architecture, Interiors, Design. The 1933 opening of the new Triennale of Milano, in Palazzo dell’Arte, becomes an occasion to express the highly innovative character of rationalist thinking. In this place, to experiment with new materials and solutions, but most of all a “method”. Young rationalist architects cultivated the art of exhibiting as a communication lab, an open field to space solutions. Albini, with Giancarlo Palanti, sets the steel structure house (with R. Camus, G. Mazzoleni, G. Minoletti and coordination by G. Pagano) designing also its furniture. For the next Triennale in 1936, marked by Persico’s early death, Franco Albini, together with a group of young architects around Pagano, takes care of the exhibition of Dwelling, where he presented 3 types of lodgings. In the same year, Albini and Romano design the exhibition for Ancient Italian jewelry: vertical uprights, simple linear poles design space. This element is recurring in other works, like the Scipione exhibition (1941), Vanzetti stand (1942), and Olivetti shop in Paris (1956). The architectural space is readable through a grid, introducing a third dimension, the vertical one, with a sense of lightness and transparency. Upright is also used in design objects, such as the Veliero bookcase...

Extraordinary midcentury Bamboo and Rattan rectangular wall shelf. This marvellous object was made in Italy in the 1960s and is attributed to the mastery of Franco Albini. This love...

A Franco-English 19th/20th Century Chinoiserie Style Two-Door Cabinet on Stand, the black-laquered top with parcel-gilt and painted Chinese decorations of villages and coastal scenes...

Italian bar cabinet from the mid 20th century. Sideboard of beautiful line and pleasant decor carved and veneered in walnut and burl wood. Rounded and curved bar cabinet...

Rare cabinet with highlighted details, made in teak and birch. Designed by Carl-Axel Acking for Nordiska Kompaniet, Sweden 1950s. A fine mid century vintage piece that pair well ...

Unearth the charm of a vintage file cabinet hailing from the early 20th century, an intriguing creation by an unknown French manufacturer. This exquisite piece carries the whispers o...

Mid-century G Plan teak sideboard. Can be used as a floating cabinet with the option of securing it to a wall or freestanding on the floor. Wall ...

20th Century Rustic Pine Cabinet A simply constructed pine cabinet with two doors and a central rail. A grey-ish painted wash gives creates a beautiful patina. Two porcelain knobs a...

Pair of vintage Danish teak cabinets 1960s Set of two matching teak cabinets with double sliding doors and each with one shelf. Can be used individually or together as a long low sideboard...

Midcentury amazing wall shelf or console in rattan and bamboo attributed to Franco Albini. Made in Italy in the 1960s.