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Hand Carved Wood Ashtray by Aldo Tura for Macabo, Italy, 1950s
By Aldo Tura, Macabo
Located in Rome, IT
Ashtray in hand carved wood by Aldo Tura for Macabo, Italy, 1950s. On the bottom the original
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Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Ashtrays

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Metal

Aldo Tura Carved Walnut Wood & Brass Bowl for Macabo, Italy, c.1970
By Aldo Tura, Macabo
Located in Costa Mesa, CA
Aldo Tura Carved Walnut Wood & Brass Bowl for Macabo, Italy, c.1970. This piece is signed with the
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20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls

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Brass

Aldo Tura, Pipe Shaped Parchment Tobacco Box, Macabo Italy 1950s
By Macabo, Aldo Tura
Located in Firenze, IT
Pipe shaped parchment and brass tobacco box designed by Aldo Tura Macabo Italy 1950s The box
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Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes

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Brass

Aldo Tura Ice bucket for Macabo Italy, 1950s
By Aldo Tura, Macabo
Located in Delft, NL
Aldo Tura Ice bucket for Macabo Italy, 1950s An Ice-bucket made of brass, plated (shows ware) with
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Mid-20th Century Italian Barware

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Brass

1960s Aldo Tura Sculptural Wood Bowl Stainless Steel Nutcracker Macabo ITALY
By Aldo Tura, Macabo
Located in Chula Vista, CA
1960s Aldo Tura Sculptural Wood Bowl with Stainless Steel Nutcracker Macabo ITALY Nutcracker tool
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Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls

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Stainless Steel

1970s Aldo Tura Design Ice Bucket by Macabo, Italy
By Aldo Tura
Located in Biella, IT
Aldo Tura design years 1960 ice bucket by Macabo Italy production the material is galvanic
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Vintage 1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Barware

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Stainless Steel

1950s Macabo Italian Midcentury Design Wood Ice Bucket
By Macabo
Located in Brescia, IT
Wood and paint leather Metal details Perfect condiction.
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Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Barware

Materials

Leather, Wood

Midcentury Bamboo Thermos Decanter Aldo Tura for Macabo, Italy, 1950s
By Aldo Tura, Macabo
Located in Rome, IT
Midcentury thermos decanter in bamboo and metal by Aldo Tura For Macabo Cusano Milanino. Made in
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Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Pitchers

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Metal

1940s Brass Covered Dish Lacquered Goatskin Aldo Tura for Macabo ITALY
By Aldo Tura, Macabo
Located in Chula Vista, CA
1940s covered dish in lacquered goatskin, parchment and brass. Aldo Tura made in Italy by Macabo
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Vintage 1940s Italian Mid-Century Modern Barware

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Brass

Black Parchment Thermos with Hieroglyphics by Aldo Tura for Macabo, Italy
By Aldo Tura, Macabo
Located in Bresso, Lombardy
Made in Cusano Milanino, near Milan, Italy, in 1960s. This thermos is made in painted parchment
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Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Bottles

Materials

Brass

1950s Wooden Monk Lamp by Aldo Tura Signed Macabo Italy Midcentury
By Aldo Tura, Macabo
Located in Rome, IT
plastic. On the bottom there is the inkstamp "Macabo Milano Cusanino Italy".
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Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps

Materials

Metal

Set of Barware Icebucket Shaker Aldo Tura for Macabo Italy 1950s
By Aldo Tura, Macabo
Located in Rome, IT
hand-carved wood with brass details. Made in Italy in the 1950s. Dimensions: - Big ice bucket
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Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Barware

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Metal, Aluminum, Brass

1950s Aldo Tura by Macabo Midcentury Italy Goatskin Carafe
By Macabo
Located in Brescia, IT
Carafe by Macabo Italy, 1950s. Painted goatskin, metal details "Macabo" marks impressed.
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Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Barware

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Brass

Malachite and Brass Cocktail Set by Aldo Tura for Macabo, Italy, 1960s
By Macabo, Aldo Tura
Located in Milan, IT
Rare bar set by Aldo Tura for Macabo. Malachite finish background with gold decorations and brass
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Vintage 1960s Italian Barware

Materials

Brass

Bras and Parchment Cocktail Set by Aldo Tura for Macabo, Italy, 1960s
By Macabo, Aldo Tura
Located in Milan, IT
Bar set by Aldo Tura for Macabo. Parchment cover with brass details. Size refers to the ice bucket.
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Vintage 1960s Italian Barware

Materials

Brass

Aldo Tura by Macabo Midcentury Italy 1950s Green Malachite Goatskin Carafe
By Macabo
Located in Brescia, IT
Carafe by Macabo Italy, 1950s Green goatskin, metal details "Macabo" marks impressed.
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Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Barware

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Brass

Copper and Wood Thermos Decanter Pitcher by Aldo Tura, Macabo, Italy, 1950s
By Macabo, Aldo Tura
Located in Rome, IT
Thermos/decanter/pitcher by the Italian Aldo Tura for Macabo made of colored (red, green and black
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Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Pitchers

Materials

Copper

Wood Box Bowl by Aldo Tura for Macabo Italy 1950s Art Deco
By Macabo, Aldo Tura
Located in Rome, IT
for Macabo Cusano Milanino. Made in Italy, circa 1950. On the bottom the original stamp can be seen
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Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes

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Metal

Aldo Tura Midcentury Goatskin and Brass Thermos Decanter for Macabo, Italy 1950s
By Aldo Tura, Macabo
Located in Roma, IT
wonderful item in Milan, Italy, during the 1950s for a Macabo production. The piece shows fantastic
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Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Pitchers

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Metal, Brass

floor ashtray design aldo tura for macabo italy 1950
By Aldo Tura
Located in taranto, IT
rare floor ashtray designed by aldo tura for macabo Cusano Milanino, about 1952. made in goat skin
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Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Ashtrays

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Parchment Paper

Hand Carved Wood Mill Table Lamp Ashtray by Aldo Tura Macabo, Italy, 1960s
By Macabo, Aldo Tura
Located in Rome, IT
Table lamp with ashtray by Aldo Tura for Macabo (signed on the bottom) in the shape of a mill in
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Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps

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Metal

Aldo Tura Decorative Bar Set in Carved Wood and Brass, Macabo, Italy 1950s
By Aldo Tura, Macabo
Located in Roma, IT
by Macabo in Milano, Italy during the 1950s. The set consist of a pitcher, 6 glasses and a bowl
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Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Barware

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Metal, Brass

Stylized Dolphin Lamp in Opaline Grass and Wood, Aldo Tura Macabo, Italy, 1950s
By Aldo Tura, Macabo
Located in Rome, IT
carving on this particular lamp would be impossible to do on a larger scale. Signed with Macabo, Cusano
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Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps

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Brass

Hand Carved Wood Monk Table Lamp by Aldo Tura for Macabo, Italy, 1950s
By Macabo, Aldo Tura
Located in Rome, IT
plastic. On the bottom, there is the ink stamp "Macabo Milano Cusanino Italy".
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Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps

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Metal

Wood Orphan Child Lantern Table Lamp by Aldo Tura for Macabo, Italy, 1950s
By Aldo Tura, Macabo
Located in Rome, IT
broken and has a hat that resembles the alpine hat. Signed with Macabo, Cusano Milanino, Italy on the
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Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps

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Brass

Vintage Turned Beech and Parchment Thermos / Jug by Aldo Tura for Macabo, Italy
By Aldo Tura, Macabo
Located in Bresso, Lombardy
Made in Italy, 1960s. It is made in turned beech, parchment, brass and silvered glass. This jug
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Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Bottles

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Brass

Large Parchment and Brass Pipe Shaped Box by Aldo Tura for Macabo, Italy, 1950s
By Aldo Tura, Macabo
Located in Milan, IT
Pipe shaped box by Aldo Tura for Macabo. Parchment covered piece with brass and ash wood details
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Vintage 1950s Italian Tobacco Accessories

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Brass

Set Barware Bar Green Goatskin and Brass by Aldo Tura for Macabo, Italy 1960s
By Aldo Tura, Macabo
Located in Rome, IT
brass by Aldo Tura for Macabo. Made in Italy in the 1960s.
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Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Barware

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Metal, Brass

Elephant Table Lamp Hand Carved Wood and Copper Aldo Tura for Macabo Italy 1950s
By Macabo, Aldo Tura
Located in Rome, IT
engraving "Macabo Milano Cusanino Italy".
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Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps

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Copper

1960s Aldo Tura Goatskin and Bronze Ice Bucket Macabo Italy
By Aldo Tura
Located in Chula Vista, CA
Italy circa 1960s. 15.5 H x 8 in diameter, 19.5 tall with handle. Light scuff on one side of lacquer
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Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Barware

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Bronze

1950s Aldo Tura Macabo Fancy Red Thermos Pitcher Carafe Goatskin & Brass
By Aldo Tura, Macabo
Located in Chula Vista, CA
Red Carafe Aldo Tura Macabo Italy 1950s Red Thermos Carafe Pitcher in Goatskin. Brass lidded top
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Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Barware

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Brass

Italian Recipe Cocktail Shaker by Macabo
By Macabo
Located in Bath, GB
A rare designer recipe cocktail shaker, Italian in origin by Macabo and dating to circa 1940
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Vintage 1940s Italian Art Deco Barware

Materials

Gold Plate, Silver Plate

Italian Recipe Cocktail Shaker by Macabo
Italian Recipe Cocktail Shaker by Macabo
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Mid Century Ice Bucket by Macabo Milano, Italy
By Macabo
Located in Albano Laziale, Rome/Lazio
An elegant Classic ice bucket with lid by Macabo Milano, Italy in silver guilt metal. Stamped
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Barware

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Metal

Mid Century Ice Bucket by Macabo Milano, Italy
By Macabo
Located in Albano Laziale, Rome/Lazio
An elegant classic ice bucket with lid by Macabo Milano, Italy in silver guilt metal. Stamped in
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Barware

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Metal

1960s Stunning Ice Bucket by Aldo Tura for Macabo. Made in Italy.
By Macabo
Located in Milano, IT
1960s Stunning Ice Bucket by Aldo Tura for Macabo. Made in Italy. The item is in excellent
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Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Barware

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Metal

1950s Stunning Ice Bucket in by Aldo Tura for Macabo, Made in Italy
By Macabo
Located in Milano, IT
1950s Elegant and gorgeous mid-century ice bucket by Aldo Tura for Macabo. Made in Italy
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Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Barware

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Metal

Italian thermos by Aldo Tura for Macabo, 1960s
By Aldo Tura, Macabo
Located in Palermo, PA
Italian thermos by Aldo Tura for Macabo, 1960s. Dimensions: H= 35 cm; W= 18 cm; D= 10cm.
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Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Pitchers

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Brass

1940s Aldo Tura Macabo Tobacco Pipe Container Lacquered Goatskin Brass Italy
By Aldo Tura, Macabo
Located in Chula Vista, CA
Aldo Tura by Macabo circa 1940s Italy Refined tobacco pipe container with unique cap. Compartment
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Tobacco Accessories

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Brass

Italian Handmade Maple Leaf Shaped Centerpiece, Aldo Tura for Macabo, 1950s
By Macabo, Aldo Tura
Located in Roma, IT
signed by Macabo on the back and it was probably designed by Aldo Tura in the 1950s in Italy. This
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Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes

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Wood, Birch

Aldo Tura for Macabo Milano Italy Wood Walnuts Thermos Decanter, 1950s
By Aldo Tura, Macabo
Located in Rome, IT
Thermos/decanter by the Italian Aldo Tura made of hand-carved wood and metal in a walnuts shape
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Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Pitchers

Materials

Metal

20th Century Italian Wooden Flask By Aldo Tura For Macabo c.1960
By Macabo, Aldo Tura
Located in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
An Aldo Tura wood flask crafted for Macabo, Cusano Milanino, made in Italy around the 1960s. This
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20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Barware

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Metal

Mid-Century Wooden Italian Ice Bucket by Aldo Tura for Macabo
By Macabo, Aldo Tura
Located in Casteren, Noord-Brabant
A chic mid 20th century Italian teak wooden thermal ice bucket by Aldo Tura for Macabo, Circa 1950
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Vintage 1950s European Mid-Century Modern Barware

Materials

Copper

1940s Aldo Tura for Macabo Carafe Pitcher Lacquered Goatskin and Brass Italy
By Macabo, Aldo Tura
Located in Chula Vista, CA
Aldo Tura made in Italy by Macabo circa 1940s Goatskin Parchment and Brass lovely vintage CARAFE
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Barware

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Brass

Aldo Tura for Macabo Cusano Carved Bowl
By Macabo, Aldo Tura
Located in Byron Bay, NSW
Aldo Tura for Macabo walnut basket centrepiece hand carved wood and brass, Italy, 1950s.   
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Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Decorative Baskets

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Wood

Aldo Tura for Macabo Walnut Bowl Basket Centrepiece Wood and Brass, Italy, 1950s
By Aldo Tura, Macabo
Located in Rome, IT
Aldo Tura for Macabo walnut basket centrepiece hand carved wood and brass, Italy, 1950s.
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Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Centerpieces

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Metal, Brass

Aldo Tura for Macabo Milano Italy Thermos Decanter in Wood, Chrome and Wicker
By Macabo, Aldo Tura
Located in Rome, IT
Aldo Tura for Macabo Milano, Italy honeycomb motif decanter made of wicker, wood and chrome. Wooden
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Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Pitchers

Materials

Chrome

20th Century Italian Carved Wood Flask By Aldo Tura For Macabo c.1960
By Macabo, Aldo Tura
Located in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
An Aldo Tura wood flask crafted for Macabo, Cusano Milanino, made in Italy around the 1960s. This
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20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Barware

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Metal

20th Century Italian Carved Wood Tray By Aldo Tura For Macabo c.1960
By Macabo, Aldo Tura
Located in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent
An Aldo Tura wood tray crafted for Macabo, Cusano Milanino, made in Italy around the 1960s. This
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20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls

Materials

Wood

Vine or Champagne Cooler by Aldo Tura for Macabo
By Aldo Tura, Macabo
Located in Vienna, AT
Wood and aluminue vine or champagne cooler. Made in the 1960s by Aldo Tura for Macabo Cusano, Milan
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Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Wine Coolers

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Aluminum, Brass

Aldo Tura Carafe, Tray and Glasses Set for Macabo, 50s
By Aldo Tura, Macabo
Located in Catania, CT
Original vintage condition with evident trace of age and use. Labeled.
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Serving Pieces

Materials

Wood

Silver Plated Brass Mid-Century Modern Candleholders by Aldo Tura for Macabo
By Aldo Tura, Macabo
Located in Varese, Lombardia
Pair of silver plated brass candle holders designed by Aldo Tura for Macabo in the late 1940s
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Vintage 1940s Italian Mid-Century Modern Candlesticks

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Silver Plate, Brass

1950s Mid-Century Modern Wood Table Lamp and Smoking Set By Aldo Tura for Macabo
By Aldo Tura, Macabo
Located in Aci Castello, IT
A wood and brass table lamp designed by Aldo Tura and manufactured by Macabo in the Fifties, the
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps

Materials

Brass

1960s Macabo Cusano Aldo Tura Wood Nut Bowl Nutcracker Milan Italy
By Aldo Tura
Located in Chula Vista, CA
Macabo Cusano designer Aldo Tura Carved Wood Nut Bowl with Nutcracker Milan, Italy 1960s 12.5 L x
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Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Serving Bowls

Materials

Wood

1960s Macabo Cusano Aldo Tura Carved Wood Serving Dish Milan Italy
By Aldo Tura
Located in Chula Vista, CA
Macabo Cusano Aldo Tura Carved Wood Basket with Brass Handle Milan Italy 1960s 12 L x 7.75 W x 6
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Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Serving Bowls

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Brass

Italian Green Leather and Brass Decanter by Aldo Tura for Macabo
By Aldo Tura
Located in Troy, MI
Barware decanter designed by Aldo Tura for Macabo features a leather-wrapped vessel with a
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Barware

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Metal, Brass

Vintage Italian Ice Bucket and Draining Spoon by Macabo, circa 1950
Located in Bath, GB
draining spoon. The underside is where the mark for Macabo Cucina can be found and "Made In Italy
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Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Barware

Materials

Silver Plate

1960s Stunning Ice Bucket by Aldo Tura for Macabo, Made in Italy
By Aldo Tura
Located in Milano, IT
1960s Stunning Ice Bucket by Aldo Tura for Macabo. Made in Italy. It's in excellent condition and
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Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Barware

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Metal

Midcentury Italian Handmade Birch Wood Maple Leaf Shaped Centerpiece, 1950s
By Macabo, Aldo Tura
Located in Roma, IT
this piece during 1950s for Macabo. This piece is special as it has a curved maple tree leaf shape
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Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes

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Wood, Birch

1950s Aldo Tura by Macabo Midcentury Italy Goatskin Carafe with Label
By Aldo Tura
Located in Brescia, IT
Carafe by Aldo Tura, Italy, 1950s. Ivory goatskin and metal details.
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Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Bottles

Materials

Goatskin

Italy 1940s Aldo Tura Goat Skin, Brass and Wood Tobacco Container, Pipe Shape
By Aldo Tura, Macabo
Located in Roma, IT
, Italy for Macabo, Cusano Milanino.
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Vintage 1940s Italian Mid-Century Modern Tobacco Accessories

Materials

Brass

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Macabo Italy For Sale on 1stDibs

Find many varieties of an authentic macabo Italy available at 1stDibs. Each macabo Italy for sale was constructed with extraordinary care, often using metal, wood and brass. Your living room may not be complete without a macabo Italy — find older editions for sale from the 20th Century and newer versions made as recently as the 20th Century. A macabo Italy is a generally popular piece of furniture, but those created in Mid-Century Modern, Hollywood Regency and Modern styles are sought with frequency. Many designers have produced at least one well-made macabo Italy over the years, but those crafted by Aldo Tura and Macabo are often thought to be among the most beautiful.

How Much is a Macabo Italy?

The average selling price for a macabo Italy at 1stDibs is $613, while they’re typically $228 on the low end and $4,538 for the highest priced.

Aldo Tura for sale on 1stDibs

One of the most enigmatic and polarizing figures to emerge in Italian design, Aldo Tura is an outlier in the world of mid-century furniture. The designer’s glamorous bar carts, coffee tables, cabinets and more resist categorization and draw inspiration from Art Deco, Art Nouveau, Baroque, Surrealist and modernist styles.

Tura moved through distinct phases in his career in terms of aesthetics, influences and finishes, rendering his life’s work exciting and diverse. Despite these phases, he held a singular devotion to one material: lacquered goatskin. Tura established a furniture production house in 1939 in Lombardy, and some of his early work focused on tables, decorative lamps and more. He later expanded to bar furnishings like rolling carts, cabinets and complementary barware accessories like ice buckets and cocktail shakers. The eccentric, gleaming and luxe surface of lacquered goatskin was a constant, along with eggshell, parchment and leather.

By the 1950s, Tura had begun to use hand-painted figural panels on the surface of cabinets, serveware (such as carafes) and other pieces. He even replicated famous works by artists like Monet and Bruegel the Elder and art from the Middle Ages, sometimes playfully embedding the paintings on cabinets shaped like oversize books. Even though he had a favored color palette of rich chocolate browns and deep emeralds, his style remained consistently hard to define.

Tura was unlike most of his Italian contemporaries but held a similar reverence for the nation’s traditional craftsmanship and artisanal techniques. He never followed the growing trend of mass-produced, industrial furniture and stuck to creating small, meticulously handcrafted collections. This principled choice means that today, a Tura piece is a rare and highly coveted collectible. The Tura firm continues to operate in Brianza, promoting Italian craftsmanship and the eclectic materials embraced by their namesake designer.

Find authentic vintage Aldo Tura furniture today on 1stDibs.

A Close Look at Mid-Century Modern Furniture

Organically shaped, clean-lined and elegantly simple are three terms that well describe vintage mid-century modern furniture. The style, which emerged primarily in the years following World War II, is characterized by pieces that were conceived and made in an energetic, optimistic spirit by creators who believed that good design was an essential part of good living.

ORIGINS OF MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGN

CHARACTERISTICS OF MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGN

MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGNERS TO KNOW

ICONIC MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGNS

VINTAGE MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE ON 1STDIBS

The mid-century modern era saw leagues of postwar American architects and designers animated by new ideas and new technology. The lean, functionalist International-style architecture of Le Corbusier and Bauhaus eminences Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius had been promoted in the United States during the 1930s by Philip Johnson and others. New building techniques, such as “post-and-beam” construction, allowed the International-style schemes to be realized on a small scale in open-plan houses with long walls of glass.

Materials developed for wartime use became available for domestic goods and were incorporated into mid-century modern furniture designs. Charles and Ray Eames and Eero Saarinen, who had experimented extensively with molded plywood, eagerly embraced fiberglass for pieces such as the La Chaise and the Womb chair, respectively. 

Architect, writer and designer George Nelson created with his team shades for the Bubble lamp using a new translucent polymer skin and, as design director at Herman Miller, recruited the Eameses, Alexander Girard and others for projects at the legendary Michigan furniture manufacturer

Harry Bertoia and Isamu Noguchi devised chairs and tables built of wire mesh and wire struts. Materials were repurposed too: The Danish-born designer Jens Risom created a line of chairs using surplus parachute straps for webbed seats and backrests.

The Risom lounge chair was among the first pieces of furniture commissioned and produced by legendary manufacturer Knoll, a chief influencer in the rise of modern design in the United States, thanks to the work of Florence Knoll, the pioneering architect and designer who made the firm a leader in its field. The seating that Knoll created for office spaces — as well as pieces designed by Florence initially for commercial clients — soon became desirable for the home.

As the demand for casual, uncluttered furnishings grew, more mid-century furniture designers caught the spirit.

Classically oriented creators such as Edward Wormley, house designer for Dunbar Inc., offered such pieces as the sinuous Listen to Me chaise; the British expatriate T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings switched gears, creating items such as the tiered, biomorphic Mesa table. There were Young Turks such as Paul McCobb, who designed holistic groups of sleek, blond wood furniture, and Milo Baughman, who espoused a West Coast aesthetic in minimalist teak dining tables and lushly upholstered chairs and sofas with angular steel frames.

As the collection of vintage mid-century modern chairs, dressers, coffee tables and other furniture for the living room, dining room, bedroom and elsewhere on 1stDibs demonstrates, this period saw one of the most delightful and dramatic flowerings of creativity in design history.

Finding the Right Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass for You

Your dining room table is a place where stories are shared and personalities shine — why not treat yourself and your guests to the finest antique and vintage glass, silver, ceramics and serveware for your meals?

Just like the people who sit around your table, your serveware has its own stories and will help you create new memories with your friends and loved ones. From ceramic pottery to glass vases, set your table with serving pieces that add even more personality, color and texture to your dining experience.

Invite serveware from around the world to join your table settings. For special occasions, dress up your plates with a striking Imari charger from 19th-century Japan or incorporate Richard Ginori’s Italian porcelain plates into your dining experience. Celebrate the English ritual of afternoon tea with a Japanese tea set and an antique Victorian kettle. No matter how big or small your dining area is, there is room for the stories of many cultures and varied histories, and there are plenty of ways to add pizzazz to your meals.

Add different textures and colors to your table with dinner plates and pitchers of ceramic and silver or a porcelain lidded tureen, a serving dish with side handles that is often used for soups. Although porcelain and ceramic are both made in a kiln, porcelain is made with more refined clay and is more durable than ceramic because it is denser. The latter is ideal for statement pieces — your tall mid-century modern ceramic vase is a guaranteed conversation starter. And while your earthenware or stoneware is maybe better suited to everyday lunches as opposed to the fine bone china you’ve reserved for a holiday meal, handcrafted studio pottery coffee mugs can still be a rich expression of your personal style.

“My motto is ‘Have fun with it,’” says author and celebrated hostess Stephanie Booth Shafran. “It’s yin and yang, high and low, Crate & Barrel with Christofle silver. I like to mix it up — sometimes in the dining room, sometimes on the kitchen banquette, sometimes in the loggia. It transports your guests and makes them feel more comfortable and relaxed.”

Introduce elegance at supper with silver, such as a platter from celebrated Massachusetts silversmith manufacturer Reed and Barton or a regal copper-finish flatware set designed by International Silver Company, another New England company that was incorporated in Meriden, Connecticut, in 1898. By then, Meriden had already earned the nickname “Silver City” for its position as a major hub of silver manufacturing.

At the bar, try a vintage wine cooler to keep bottles cool before serving or an Art Deco decanter and whiskey set for after-dinner drinks — there are many possibilities and no wrong answers for tableware, barware and serveware. Explore an expansive collection of antique and vintage glass, ceramics, silver and serveware today on 1stDibs.