Paolo Tilche Carts and Bar Carts

Wonderful Italian wood trolley with glass and brass finishes. It has a removable serving tray with brass and chrome finishes. This 1950s production is attributed to Cesare Lacca, has wonderful rounded lines and materials plus amazing brass finishes This serving table will add a fresh accent wherever you place it and it will work in a natural, bohemian, midcentury or contemporary ambience. Born in Naples in 1929, Italian architect-designer Cesare Lacca created modernist furniture and metalwork throughout the 1950s. Though details of his personal life and professional training remain lost to history, there are sufficient surviving primary sources that document his many elegant designs in brasswork for which he is the best know and which fetch high prices from collectors. Like many Italian designers in the 20th century, Lacca moved to Milan after World War II to launch his career. Before he was even 21 years old, his work was selected by a group of American curators for inclusion in the landmark exhibition Italy at Work: Her Renaissance in Design Today that toured 12 US museums between 1950 and 1953—the first major exhibition of Italian design outside of Italy. The exhibition showcased the best and brightest of Italian designers who had embraced modernist principles and rejuvenated traditional Italian crafts, like Carlo Mollino, Franco Albini, and Gio Ponti In the exhibition catalogue, curator Meyric R. Roger’s spotlights Lacca's expert achievements in brass, noting “the variety and quality of his creations,” which “place him high among the architect-designers leading the current [Modernist] movement." Rogers adds, "The quality of his work...provide[s] all the decorative effectiveness needed without strain or exaggeration”. Lacca designed a great many tea carts and serving trolleys in his career—which make up a large proportion of what is available on the vintage market today—as well as magazine racks and coffee tables. Lacca’s most iconic tea cart was manufactured by Italian brand Cassina and features sculpted beech, cedar, teak, or walnut with brass details, a glass tabletop, and a removable glass tray. Lacca also designed high-backed lounge chairs, which were regularly featured in Arredoluce advertisements for Angelo Lelli’s lighting...

Rare 1950s Italian desgin serving bar cart. Made of beech wood equipped with two glass shelves and brass wheels for convenient movement. Perfect for serving drinks to your guests. Vi...

Trolley Bar by Cesare Lacca Italy 1955 . The Bar Trolley is made of brass, wood and has glass tops , it was created for the modern and elegant home in the mid 1950s , it has wheels t...

A beautiful trolley table or tea cart made of a black painted metal frame with wicker shelves manufactured in midcentury in Austria, circa 1950. The wicker is in excellent condition. Wear of use on the metal particularly on the handles. The trolley is in the style of the wicker carts...

Such a great color on this Aldo Tura bar cart crafted from Tura's signature lacquered goat skin with gold tone hardware. This example features drop down sides that, when raised expan...

Midcentury bar cart by Cesare Lacca, Italy, 1950s. Frame ebonized, tabletop teak wood. Restored surface. New glass top.

Clear the stage because the Rock ‘n’ Roll Bar Trolley is here! With its swanky wheels inspired by industrial road rollers, no one twists and turns to your beats quite like this troll...

1960s Brazilian drinks trolley designed by Sergio Rodrigues. With removable and reversible trays. The top is divided in half and has white laminate on one side and wood finish on th...

Italian trolley designed by Cesare Lacca during the 1950s in wood. The lower shelf is equipped with a bottle holder, the upper shelf can be removed as a tray. Professionally restored.

Wonderful service bar trolley designed by the master of Italian design Ico Parisi together with his wife Luisa. The cart was produced by De Baggis in the 1950s in Italy. The wood qu...

- 27.5"h, 27"w, 16.5"d - Metal, wood, plastic - Removable top and bottom tray with handles - Condition: Excellent; light scratches to tray surfaces

Exceptionally beautiful and very high quality Italian bar trolley or tea trolley from the 1960s. Very nice detailed design and high-quality workmanship. Condition: Very good v...