Mid-Century Calacatta Marble Dining Table by Vittorio Dassi, Italy, 1950s

Spectacular table designed by Vittorio Dassi, a prestigious Italian designer active in the middle of the last century. Made of mahogany wood with an oval Calacatta marble top. Simple structure, with a single foot that supports, in the central area, the envelope. This lampshade foot is made of carved and lacquered mahogany, which gives it great sumptuousness. Its shape flares towards the ground, emphasizing the grooves. It rests on a marble base, oval in shape, which matches the upper part. Under the top, wooden structure again. with its unique features and meticulous attention to detail, this table is a testament to Vittorio Dassi’s innovative vision and artistic sensibility. Perfect as a dining table,

About Vittorio Dassi (1893 – 1973)

Vittorio Dassi was a post-war and contemporary Italian artist who was born in 1893. Dassi’s furniture, made between the 40s and 50s of the 20th century, is distinguished by the choice of precious woods such as rosewood, cherry, ash and walnut, often decorated with inlaid panels and crystals signed by great glass masters. Elegant in design, and without losing functional quality, its furniture can be combined with the refined style of Gio Ponti, with whom Vittorio was linked by important collaborations after taking over from his father in the Dassi Mobili Moderni company in Lissone.

Among the most important projects of the factory is, in fact, the creation of the furniture for the rooms of the Royal Hotel in Naples, designed by Ponti in the mid-1950s, a period that marks Dassi’s turning point towards forms more schematics and teak wood for the production of modular furniture.

In general, Italian modernist designers continued to be deeply attached to and influenced by their artisanal tradition. But its contribution to the definition of modernism was also decisive and above all because it was defined by a considerable dose of liberalism.

artistic. The aesthetic diversity within the town itself was great: pieces like this 1960s steel and rosewood desk by Gianni Moscatelli for Formanova seem to marry Danish and Dutch elements; while the legendary Gio Ponti created designs in oak, mahogany and ant that exude an exquisitely Italian sensibility; and again, Vittorio Dassi’s mid-century desks, with their contrasting materials and shapes, illustrate another new Italian modernist characteristic.

Designer: Vittorio Dassi
Style: Mid-Century
Materials: calacatta marble, mahogany wood
Period: 1950s
Country of origin: Italy
Good condition according to its age and use
Overall dimensions: 77 x 134 x 91 cm.
Envelope dimensions: 134 x 91 cm.
Oval base dimensions: 83 x 68 cm.