Blackened Wood & Brass Magazine Rack, Italian Mid-Century Modern, c.1950
Blackened Wood & Brass Magazine Rack, Italian Mid-Century Modern, c.1950
Blackened Wood & Brass Magazine Rack, Italian Mid-Century Modern, c.1950
Blackened Wood & Brass Magazine Rack, Italian Mid-Century Modern, c.1950
Blackened Wood & Brass Magazine Rack, Italian Mid-Century Modern, c.1950
Blackened Wood & Brass Magazine Rack, Italian Mid-Century Modern, c.1950
Blackened Wood & Brass Magazine Rack, Italian Mid-Century Modern, c.1950
Blackened Wood & Brass Magazine Rack, Italian Mid-Century Modern, c.1950
Blackened Wood & Brass Magazine Rack, Italian Mid-Century Modern, c.1950
Blackened Wood & Brass Magazine Rack, Italian Mid-Century Modern, c.1950
Blackened Wood & Brass Magazine Rack, Italian Mid-Century Modern, c.1950
Blackened Wood & Brass Magazine Rack, Italian Mid-Century Modern, c.1950
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Blackened Wood & Brass Magazine Rack, Italian Mid-Century Modern, c.1950
Blackened Wood & Brass Magazine Rack, Italian Mid-Century Modern, c.1950
Blackened Wood & Brass Magazine Rack, Italian Mid-Century Modern, c.1950
Blackened Wood & Brass Magazine Rack, Italian Mid-Century Modern, c.1950
Blackened Wood & Brass Magazine Rack, Italian Mid-Century Modern, c.1950
Blackened Wood & Brass Magazine Rack, Italian Mid-Century Modern, c.1950
Blackened Wood & Brass Magazine Rack, Italian Mid-Century Modern, c.1950
Blackened Wood & Brass Magazine Rack, Italian Mid-Century Modern, c.1950
Blackened Wood & Brass Magazine Rack, Italian Mid-Century Modern, c.1950
Blackened Wood & Brass Magazine Rack, Italian Mid-Century Modern, c.1950
Blackened Wood & Brass Magazine Rack, Italian Mid-Century Modern, c.1950
Blackened Wood & Brass Magazine Rack, Italian Mid-Century Modern, c.1950

Blackened Wood and Brass Magazine Rack, Italian, Mid-Century Modern, circa 1950

Blackened wood and brass magazine rack. Italian work. Mid-Century Modern. Circa 1950.

W. 41.5 cm × D. 19.5 cm × H. 48.5 cm

Réf : 50's-53189
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PRODUCT DETAILS

Période 1940–1950
Dimensions en CM 41.5 x 19.5 x 48.5 cm
Dimensions en INCH 16.34 x 7.68 x 19.09 inch
Style Mid-Century Modern
Matériaux Brass

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

Italian design in the decade following the Second World War produced some of its most inventive work within a context of material constraint and cultural renewal. In Milan and its satellite workshops, designers including Gio Ponti, Ico Parisi, and Paolo Buffa were developing a vocabulary that drew on both the rationalist rigour of pre-war Modernism and the warmth of the Italian craft tradition. Brass emerged as the definitive accent material of the period — fulfilling both functional and decorative roles, bridging the austere international idiom with a Mediterranean sensibility that refused to relinquish luxury even in the years of reconstruction.

The fundamental aesthetic proposition of this magazine rack is chromatic contrast: the blackened wood, ebonised to a deep uniform matte that suppresses the natural grain, and the polished brass fittings that catch and hold the light. Black absorbs; brass reflects. The dialogue between the two surfaces — one that seems to recede and one that advances — generates a visual dynamism far beyond the formal simplicity of the object. This bichromatic discipline is the signature of the Italian post-war interior, from the domestic commissions of the Milanese scuola to the lakeside resort hotels of the north.

The proportions (W. 41.5 × D. 19.5 × H. 48.5 cm) give the piece a slender verticality that reads well in a modern interior and betrays the Italian mid-century preference for objects that occupy space with confidence rather than insistence. The construction is precise and honest: wood works as structure, brass as both joint and ornament, and the coherence of the whole demonstrates the Italian craftsman’s understanding that material intelligence and formal clarity are, in the end, the same thing.

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