60s Italian dining table marble by Vittorio Dassi

The furniture of Vittorio Dassi (1893-1973), made in the ’40s and ’50s, stands out for the choice of fine woods such as, cherry wood, ash and walnut, often decorated with inlaid panels and crystal signed by prominent master glassworkers. Vittorio was an Italian postwar contemporary design developer and was born in 1893. His work is as elegant and detailed and his work has became even more well known after his dead in 1973. All his work keeps one captured in mind because it is rare also a little mysterious but at the same time it is highly accessible because of the themes he sometimes used in his artistic inlays. Al his design, specially with in mind the production methods and craftsmanship of the years 1950-1970, is recognizable as Italian top design and has lots of unexpected detail in it.

Elegant in design without losing the functional quality, its furnishings are comparable to the the style of Gio Ponti, to whom Dassi was linked by important collaborations, after replacing his father in the company Dassi Mobili Moderni based in Lissone. Among the factory’s most important projects is in fact the realization of the furniture of the rooms of the Hotel Royal in Naples, designed by Ponti in the mid-’50s: this was a period that marked the turning point in Dassi’s practice towards more schematic forms and the employment of teak for the production of modular furniture.

This oval dining table has a timeless and amazingly beautiful marble table top and is carried by two rounded legs resting on a cast marble foot. Very rare and amazingly timeless object.