Late 1940s Italian Coffee Table - Attributed to Guglielmo Ulrich
This tapered and meticulously executed mahogany and glass coffee table is attributed to Guglielmo Ulrich in the late 1940s. One of the key designers in the evolution of modern Italian design, Ulrich had by this point moved away from the excess of rare and novel materials that defined his earlier pieces and towards a renewed simplicity of form, still using excellent woods such as the stained mahogany seen here, occasionally embellished with gilded aluminium ‘Xantal’ hardware, as seen in the streamlined and lightly angled sabots that shoe each leg.
From these feet, the piece rises to a gently flexed, braced joint where the upper body of the table sits parallel across the lengthened cruciform footprint of the lower half, tapering to a delicately hooked point. A rectangular glass surface rests atop this, completing a piece that reflects the creativity that overcame the earlier decades of orthodox Rationalism and Novecento styles in Italy, unleashing imaginative and contemporary approaches to design that persist to this day.
Dimensions:
Height: 16.93 in (43 cm)
Width: 55.12 in (140 cm)
Depth: 18.9 in (48 cm)
Location:
Rancho Santa Fe, California
This tapered and meticulously executed mahogany and glass coffee table is attributed to Guglielmo Ulrich in the late 1940s. One of the key designers in the evolution of modern Italian design, Ulrich had by this point moved away from the excess of rare and novel materials that defined his earlier pieces and towards a renewed simplicity of form, still using excellent woods such as the stained mahogany seen here, occasionally embellished with gilded aluminium ‘Xantal’ hardware, as seen in the streamlined and lightly angled sabots that shoe each leg.
From these feet, the piece rises to a gently flexed, braced joint where the upper body of the table sits parallel across the lengthened cruciform footprint of the lower half, tapering to a delicately hooked point. A rectangular glass surface rests atop this, completing a piece that reflects the creativity that overcame the earlier decades of orthodox Rationalism and Novecento styles in Italy, unleashing imaginative and contemporary approaches to design that persist to this day.
Dimensions:
Height: 16.93 in (43 cm)
Width: 55.12 in (140 cm)
Depth: 18.9 in (48 cm)
Location:
Rancho Santa Fe, California
This tapered and meticulously executed mahogany and glass coffee table is attributed to Guglielmo Ulrich in the late 1940s. One of the key designers in the evolution of modern Italian design, Ulrich had by this point moved away from the excess of rare and novel materials that defined his earlier pieces and towards a renewed simplicity of form, still using excellent woods such as the stained mahogany seen here, occasionally embellished with gilded aluminium ‘Xantal’ hardware, as seen in the streamlined and lightly angled sabots that shoe each leg.
From these feet, the piece rises to a gently flexed, braced joint where the upper body of the table sits parallel across the lengthened cruciform footprint of the lower half, tapering to a delicately hooked point. A rectangular glass surface rests atop this, completing a piece that reflects the creativity that overcame the earlier decades of orthodox Rationalism and Novecento styles in Italy, unleashing imaginative and contemporary approaches to design that persist to this day.
Dimensions:
Height: 16.93 in (43 cm)
Width: 55.12 in (140 cm)
Depth: 18.9 in (48 cm)
Location:
Rancho Santa Fe, California
