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Price is the last information you should look for when approaching art design, collectible design or functional art. But seven gallerists shared the secret info for some iconic pieces that should be on your whish list even if you are not a collectible design collector. Industry experts know very well the value of this particular category of objects, but if you are new to the subject let us explain what it makes it so special.
Collectible is not consumeristic (unless you are a serial collector), and this makes it sustainable: you would think twice before discarding a piece of furniture that you gave value to. Limited editions are very much like art pieces: gesture, thought, consciousness, meaning, craftsmanship and time is what gives them shape. Handmade pieces are ethical and more human: and you can see this. Vintage design means bringing history and an epoch's philosophy within your living space: it tells you of ideals and stories that should be recounted today.
Objects can be powerful tools if they bring their creator’s adventures with them: you want to have magical objects in your living space. Collectible objects match with almost anything, no matter your style and taste. We called some of the finest collectible design galleries to come up with a wish list for these holidays: Maniera, Carwan Gallery, Nilufar, Gallery Fumi, Rossana Orlandi, Etage Projects and Galleria Rossella Colombari. Browse the gallery and start reconsidering your design ideas.

Lina Bo Bardi, Tripé, 1949 – Nilufar
The pair of Tripé armchairs by Studio d'Arte Palma, founded by Lina Bo Bardi and Giancarlo Palanti, is part of Nilufar Gallery's collection of rare objects. The armchairs designed by one of the greatest designers of the 20th century represent that Brazilian design that has the flavor of good living, at once warm and intellectual. The structure is made of tubular metal while the upholstery is in burgundy colored pony skin. Price 58.000€ each.
Courtesy Nilufar Gallery

Lina Bo Bardi, Tripé, 1949 – Nilufar
Courtesy Nilufar Gallery

Giancarlo Palanti, Tridente, 1948 – Nilufar
Also produced by Studio d'Arte Palma in São Paulo, this very rare Jaracanda wooden armchair, upholstered in Janet Yonati's fabric made of 100% Mohair velvet is the other side of Brazilian design that brings in the organicity of tropical woods and the lightness of light-colored fabrics. The Italian architect designed it just two years after arriving in São Paulo, a city he helped build. Price 54.000€
Courtesy Nilufar Gallery

Giancarlo Palanti, Tridente, 1948 – Nilufar
Courtesy Nilufar Gallery

Franco Albini and Franca Helg, Applique model 3052, year 1962 – Nilufar
Produced by Arteluce in black lacquered metal and opaline glass, this wall lamp is the result of the fortunate collaboration between two personalities who have made the history of Italian architecture and design. Rigorous and minimalist, the model 3052 tells us how the rationalist gesture was full of thought, spontaneity and at the service of a world to be rebuilt. Price 12.000€
Courtesy Nilufar Gallery. Photo Daniele Iodice

Franco Albini and Franca Helg, Applique model 3052, year 1962 – Nilufar
Courtesy Nilufar Gallery. Photo Daniele Iodice

Roberto Sironi, Delphi Chair, 2021 – Carwan Gallery
What you see is the reproduction in Rima marble (an artificial technique that became very popular at the end of the 19th century and that requires a very long and complex manual workmanship) of a Breccia Medicea marble whose texture and color were created by the designer himself. Delphi Chair is part of the Ruins series, a collection that combines fragments of industrial and ancient archaeology, returning representations of extinct marbles found in various archaeological sites around the world. The shape recalls the circular plan of the Temple of Athena at Delphi. Price: 9.500€
Courtesy Carwan Gallery

Roberto Sironi, Delphi Chair, 2021 – Carwan Gallery
Courtesy Carwan Gallery

Objects of Common Interest, Tube1, 2019 – Carwan Gallery
With dual offices in Brooklyn and Athens, Objects of Common Interest are Eleni Petaloti and Leonidas Trampoukis: in the last five years the studio has experienced a particularly fertile creative period and this wall lamp is a testament to that. It is part of the Tube Lights series - which includes floor, wall and suspension lamps - and is made of lime wood with an acrylic shade. The clean lines and spatial boldness betray the duo's architectural training: structural articulation, self-expression of matter and abstract simplicity are in fact some of the principles that guide their designs. Price: 9.500€
Courtesy Carwan Gallery. Image front lamp

Sigve Knutson x RIMOWA, 2021 – Carwan Gallery
In this instinctive sculpture, the Norwegian designer (born in 1991) uses aluminum scraps from RIMOWA to give life to a new creature. The anodized aluminum is exactly what the luggage company uses for its iconic trolley cases, while the composition was made in a single round using only a riveting machine and a sheet metal cutter. Price 8,000€
Courtesy Carwan Gallery

Piero Fornasetti, Screen, 1953 – Galleria Rossella Colombari
Coming from a private collection in Turin, Italy, is this magnificent hand-lithographed lacquered wood screen, 203 x 320 cm high. A passe-partout object, this one by Piero Fornasetti represents an orderly natural chaos depicting colorful birds of all kinds. More than other creations of the Milanese artist-craftsman, this one returns that serene epiphany of creativity that has characterized his work. Price 36.000€
Courtesy Galleria Rossella Colombari

Piero Fornasetti, Screen, 1953 – Galleria Rossella Colombari
Courtesy Galleria Rossella Colombari

Carlo Mollino, Desk for Lattes publishing house, 1953-54 – Galleria Rossella Colombari
Between 1951 and 1954 Carlo Mollino designed an entire line of furniture for the offices of the Turin publishing house. What we see here is an example of a simple desk with strut legs and a drawer unit on one side made of wood, brass and fibrosil, 178 x 90 cm long and 77 cm high. Here we denote his organic and engineering figure in an object with an unmistakable signature. Price 140,000€
Courtesy Galleria Rossella Colombari

Carlo Mollino, Desk for Lattes publishing house, 1953-54 – Galleria Rossella Colombari
Courtesy Galleria Rossella Colombari

Angelo Lelli, Floor lamp, 1955 – Galleria Rossella Colombari
Produced by Arredoluce - founded by Lelli himself in 1947 - this 212 cm high by 35 cm in diameter aluminum, brass and metal floor lamp is the daughter of a golden age of Italian lighting design. The wire mesh openings throw very particular textures on the walls and tell us of a time when creative spontaneity found immediate outlet in industry and living. Price 30.000€
Courtesy Galleria Rossella Colombari

Angelo Lelli, Floor lamp, 1955 – Galleria Rossella Colombari
Courtesy Galleria Rossella Colombari

Studio Mumbai (Bijoy Jain), Dining Chair II Muga Silk, 2020 – Maniera
The Indian studio founded by Bijoy Jain in 2005 in addition to architecture is dedicated to the production of unique pieces made with high local craftsmanship and references to Indian and Western culture. This chair is made of Teak with Muga silk weave, a variety of precious wild silk with a cream-gold color, extremely durable and with shimmering reflections. The manufacture is extremely accurate and returns the love of the studio for the relationship between man and nature and the enhancement of the genius loci. Price 5.800€
Courtesy Maniera

Studio Mumbai (Bijoy Jain), Dining Chair II Muga Silk, 2020 – Maniera
Courtesy Maniera

Christoph Hefti, Swiss Mask, 2019 – Maniera
The Swiss multidisciplinary artist and designer has in his curriculum such names as Jean-Paul Gaultier, Dries Van Noten, Lanvin and Balenciaga. When not directly involved in fashion he delights us with design objects with mystical and vivid characters. This magnificent carpet, 168cm wide x 115, illustrates ancient legends of the Engadine, making the most of the expressive and tactile potential of wool and silk, hand-woven in Nepal. Price 12.500€.
Courtesy Maniera

Francesca Torzo, Ottomano Sample, 2020 – Maniera
An anomalous typology with curious proportions that draw the beholder in, making you want to sit on it. Not surprisingly, it is the result of the impeccable creativity of one of the best architects on the market today. Francesca Torzo, born in Padua in 1975, opened her studio in Genoa in 2008, and works away from the spotlight to protect the projects she creates with a small international team of young architects. The works are born from a deep knowledge of the cultural context in which they are inserted, hunting for visions of something that does not yet exist but that host the world we live in and its memory. The seat is made of walnut wood with foam and goose feather padding with silk velvet upholstery by l'Opificio. Price 9.500€
Courtesy Maniera

Francesca Torzo, Ottomano Sample, 2020 – Maniera
Courtesy Maniera

Manu Crotti, Tavolo Rugiada, 2018 – Rossana Orlandi
A unique piece made by superimposing layers of resin that enclose precious elements such as flowers, gems, objects, petals that represent memories and fragments of the artist's life in Crema. The effect is a rich and vibrant three-dimensional collage that has the charge of an ancient object. Price 40.000€
Courtesy Galleria Rossana Orlandi

Manu Crotti, Tavolo Rugiada, 2018 – Rossana Orlandi
Courtesy Galleria Rossana Orlandi

Jean Yves Lanvin, Block Coffee Table, 2020 – Rossana Orlandi
The coffee table designed by the great-grandson of Jeanne Lanvin (founder of the famous fashion house) is a tribute to matter, rare metals and graphic sign in a room and does not go unnoticed. Composed of shimmering blocks whose shape is borrowed from the raw marble of the quarries in Tuscany, it is made of polished brass and is 160 x 90 x 45 cm wide. Price: €48,000
Courtesy Galleria Rossana Orlandi

Jean Yves Lanvin, Block Coffee Table, 2020 – Rossana Orlandi
Courtesy Galleria Rossana Orlandi

Anotherview, Video Installation, 2017-ongoing – Rossana Orlandi
The project by Marco Tabasso, Robert Andriessen, Tatiana Uzlova is more valid than ever in times of quarantines and forced closures at home. Another view offers windows to be installed in the house in which a 24-hour video offers breathtaking views taken from enviable trips. One of them is the one on the herds of horses in the Camargue that live in the wild, filmed for a whole day on the banks of a swamp. Price from 25 to 40,000 €.
Courtesy Galleria Rossana Orlandi

Anotherview, Video Installation, 2017-ongoing – Rossana Orlandi
Courtesy Galleria Rossana Orlandi

Sabine Marcelis, Soap Table / Honey, 2018 – Etage Projects
The Dutch designer has created an entire collection that abstracts itself from any interior because of its resemblance to the texture of soap. Made of polyester resin with a matte finish, it is available in a variety of colors that recall the pastel colors typical of soaps. Etage proposes the table St. Moritz 322 x 122 cm long and 75 cm high that with its solidity and translucency legitimizes the use of a material that one day may no longer exist. Price 32.500€
Courtesy Etage Projects

Soft Baroque, Dancing Furniture, 2019 – Etage Projects
The duo composed of Nicholas Gardner and Saša Štucin uses design as a tool for research that is always in the balance between the conceptual and the everyday. This dancing chair is a critique of the static way we sit and is very fun to use: once seduced on it you can sway with circular movements of the hips generating an interactive object, dynamic and from which you hardly want to get up. Made of walnut wood. Price 8.000€.
Courtesy Etage Projects

Soft Baroque, Dancing Furniture, 2019 – Etage Projects
Courtesy Etage Projects

Jerszy Seymour, Sacred Mountain, 2019 – Etage Projects
The Berlin-based artist's situations, installations, and performances are ways to reconsider the way we inhabit the world, and thus reconsider the way we inhabit our minds, through play and playfulness. The Holy Mountain we see here is not Jodorowsky's film but an accumulation made of steel, paint, refrigerator, dishwasher, oven, stove and faucet. Price 60.000€
Courtesy Etage Projects

Max Lamb, Urushi Split Armchair (Black), 2021 – Gallery Fumi
The British designer, born in 1980, is one of the initiators of the primitivist aesthetic that has dominated the world of collectible design over the past decade. He works with raw materials of all kinds, from wood and metal to plastic and volcanic stone. The Urushi collection - which includes chairs, tables and storage furniture - is finished with Japanese Urushi lacquer from Wajima in Ishikawa Prefecture. The structure is obtained by cutting cypress using processing techniques that preserve the natural appearance of the wood. Price 40.600€
Courtesy Gallery Fumi

Max Lamb, Urushi Split Armchair (Black), 2021 – Gallery Fumi
Courtesy Gallery Fumi

Tuomas Markunpoika, Contra Naturam Coffee Table, 2021 – Gallery Fumi
Unique piece finished in Moroccan stucco Tadelak and with a steel core. The rounded shapes and the variability of shades make it a soft object to the sight and touch. The Finnish designer, famous for his Engineering Temporality collection, declares himself a disciple of Sottsass in this series of furniture in which the design is a representation of the journey and the instinctive gestures of living: simple stone-shaped masses become table tops that use ancient techniques - such as the Tadelak used in hammams - with contemporary materials such as fiberglass. Price 24.500€
Courtesy Gallery Fumi

Tuomas Markunpoika, Contra Naturam Coffee Table, 2021 – Gallery Fumi
Courtesy Gallery Fumi

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