Vintage View: Seductive Italian furniture

Kya de Longchamps explores some seductive Italian furniture by resonant design names, that was the height of fashion in the 1970s and which is now coming round again and is highly collectible.

Just before Christmas some highly unusual and high end pieces of late 1970s Italian-made furniture appeared at auction at Lynes & Lynes auction house in Cork.

Rare lots in an Irish market, and described as made in the “style of Romeo Rega”, the sideboard, étagère, and dining set were ostentatious and clearly beautifully made.