Marshall Studios Tables

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...

A Mid-Century Modern custom ordered table designed by husband and wife duo Jane and Gordon Martz of Marshall Studios in Veedersburg, Indiana. Produced during this 1960s, this walnut ...

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Beautiful neutral tones on this high quality petrified wood side table or pedestal. It’s fascinating how Mother Nature produces these stunning 40 million year old petrified teak logs...

Step back in time and infuse your living space with the timeless elegance of this vintage mid-century coffee table by Martz for Marshall Studio, circa 1960s. Designed by the renowned...

Niels Bach designed, Mid Century solid teak oval side or coffee table with pedestal base. In very good original condition with visible ...

Extra long rectangle coffee table by Gordon and Jane Martz for Marshall Studios. The table top is inlaid with olive and taupe square ceramic tiles and the frame and legs are solid wa...

Vintage two-tier wood and steel rolling printers bindery cart. Features swivel castors and bubble joints. Overall dimensions: 40 1/2" in width, 27 1/2" in...

Mid century biomorphic mosaic tile table. Biomorphic kidney shape with abstract green, orange, black & yellow tiles & brass surround. Tapered splayed brass capped legs are removable.

Long oval coffee table by Gordon & Jane Martz for Marshall Studios. The table top is inlaid with black and white square ceramic tiles. The frame...

A pupil of Diego Rivera, Genaro Alvarez is one of the most famous mosaic artist producing some of the most celebrated midcentury designs in Mexico. He mixed Mexican smalti and semipr...

Mid-century green & white tile top drinks table, style of Gordon & Jane Martz USA, circa 1960s Of circular form with inset square and rectangular mosaic green and white porcelain...