
Mid-Century Modern Dry Bar/ Trolley by Cesare Lacca, Italy, 1950s
By Cesare Lacca
Located in Brussels, BE
Mid-Century Modern Dry Bar/ Trolley by Cesare Lacca, Italy, 1950s
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Dry Bars
Wood
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.
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Bar Cart " Mobilo PE03" by Cees Braakman for Pastoe, 1950s
By Cees Braakman, Pastoe
Located in Brussels, BE
Bar Cart " Mobilo PE03" by Cees Braakman for Pastoe, 1950s An admirer of Charles & Ray Eames' work for Herman Miller, he drew inspiration from the techniques and materials used to d...
Wood

1950s Cesare Lacca Italian Midcentury Brass Wood Trolley Bar Cart
By Cesare Lacca
Located in Brescia, IT
Bar Cart by Cesare Lacca Italy, 1950s Brass and Wood Removable trays and Bottle Rack Excellent condition. Glass perfect.
Brass

Vintage Walnut Cesare Lacca Tea Trolley Cart for Cassina
By Cassina, Cesare Lacca
Located in North Miami, FL
This is a wonderful parquet wood deigned bar cart/ tea trolley by Cesare Lacca for Cassina. The glass top level and wood lower level, along with wheels that roll easily. ALL Original...
Glass, Walnut

Cesare Lacca Mid-Century Modern Italian Walnut and Brass Bar Cart by Cassina 50s
By Cesare Lacca, Cassina
Located in Puglia, Puglia
This walnut and brass bar cart was designed by Cesare Lacca for Cassina in the 1950s. It features two removable trays and a front and rear bottom shelf for bottles. Completely restor...
Brass

Mid Century Wooden Bar Trolley with Removable Trays by Cesare Lacca, Italy, 1950
By Cesare Lacca
Located in Roma, IT
A trolley bar cart in the typical Italian style of the Mid-Century Modern Design. The design of this Bar Trolley is attributed to Cesare Lacca for the famous Italian furniture compa...
Brass

Vintage Cesare Lacca Bar Trolley for Cassina, Rosewood & Copper
By Cesare Lacca
Located in Oirlo, LI
Vintage bar trolley designed by Cesare Lacca for Cassina. This trolley was designed in Italy between 1950 and 1959. It is made of lacquered rosewood and patinated copper. The copper has traces of corrosion. The trolley still has two original glass "trays" and a bracket for bottles. The patina gives the trolley a beautiful vintage look. Caesar Lacca. Born in Naples in 1929, Italian architect-designer Cesare Lacca created modernist furniture and metalwork in the 1950s. While details of his personal life and professional training remain lost to history, there are plenty of surviving primary sources documenting his many elegant designs in copper - work for which he is best known and fetches high prices from collectors. Lacca designed a large number of tea carts and serving trolleys in his career - which make up a large part of what is available on the vintage market...
Copper
Wooden service trolley model 65 design by Ico Parisi, 1950s, Italy
By Ico Parisi
Located in Milano, IT
Wooden service trolley model 65 design by Ico Parisi, 1950s, Italy Solid wood frame, brass details and two removable beveled glass tops with integrated handles (the last shelf is woo...
Glass, Wood