Elegant, Sober pair of double level Italian Mid-Century Modern / Rationalist School nightstands, end or side tables / nightstands in solid wood with 2 thick glass partitions on the upper level. The pieces resemble small rational inspired buildings.
Rational Architecture (Italian: Architettura razionale) thrived in Italy from the 1920s-1940s. In 1926, a group of young architects – Sebastiano Larco, Guido Frette, Carlo Enrico Rava, Adalberto Libera, Luigi Figini, Gino Pollini, and Giuseppe Terragni (1904–43) founded the so-called Gruppo 7, publishing their manifesto in the magazine Rassegna Italiana. Their declared intent was to strike a middle ground between the classicism of the Novecento Italiano movement and the industrially inspired architecture of Futurism.[5]:203.