design auction
29 July 2025
First half 2025 results
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The first half of 2025 closes with excellent results for Cambi Auction House, which records a total turnover of 21,025,000 euros, with 68 auctions held (of which 39 online) and more than 11,000 lots sold. A figure that confirms the auction house's solidity and ability to adapt to the dynamics of an ever-changing market.
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15 January 2025
Adolf Loos (Brno, 10 December 1870 - Kalksburg, 23 August 1933) was an Austrian architect, considered one of the pioneers of modern architecture. He was not only a forerunner of the work of 20th century masters such as Le Corbusier and Walter Gropius, but a true beacon in his time for his originality and his great autonomy from his contemporaries.
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9 June 2024
The most important semi-annual live auction in Cambi Auction House's number one department returns with the most prized Designer Design. A careful selection of rare and unpublished elements and objects of furniture, lighting, masterpieces signed by the most famous masters of Italian and international design.
Absolute protagonist of the auction and catalog cover, is lot 33, a rare chair by Carlo Mollino made for the Gallery of the Lattes Publishing House in Turin. This extraordinary work, dated 1951, features a curved and polished walnut plywood frame, resinflex technical fabric and brass metal details. Only four examples of this chair exist, with an archival number at the Casa Mollino Museum: CM 323-4. This chair is not only an example of high craftsmanship, but also a historic piece that embodies the innovation and elegance of postwar Italian design (Estimate: €80,000.00 - 120,000.00).
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One year after the centenary of Dino Gavina’s birth, Cambi Casa d’Aste presents the exclusive auction dedicated to the production of Gavina, one of Italy’s leading historical design furniture brands. Founded in the 1960s by Dino Gavina, one of the most important entrepreneurial figures in the Italian furniture and Design sector, the Gavina SpA company […]
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From October 7 to 22, 2023, on the occasion of the “ART COLORS DESIGN / Salvati e Tresoldi x Saporiti Italia” exhibition in the spaces of the ADI Design Museum in Milan, Cambi Auction House returns to collaborate with Saporiti Italia and presents a new timed auction dedicated to the creations of the two designers and in particular to their iconic Miamina chair.
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12 June 2023
An architect, designer, photographer, writer, pilot, and skier from Turin, Carlo Mollino was a multifaceted and out-of-the-box visionary artist who, thanks to his research and his continuous curiosity and experimentation, marked the history of architecture and design in Italy.
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9 May 2023
The Design Genius of Paolo Buffa
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Among the protagonists of the Live Auction "Design Properties," scheduled for Tuesday, May 16, 2023, at the Milan headquarters of Cambi Casa d'Aste: the flair and design ability of Paolo Buffa (1903-1970), a Milanese designer and architect active between the 1930s and 1960s, known for his design capable of blending neoclassical style with Art Deco motifs and modernist principles.
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8 March 2019
All the lots on cambiaste.com The Casa di Fantasia “My solution for this small home was a reversible play on inlays and visions so that when you look from the living room towards the bedroom, through doors and windows, everything seems to be made in Ferrarese root wood “à la Ponti” (naturalistic fantasy) […]
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