Willy Rizzo

(Italian, 1928–2013)

Willy Rizzo was an Italian photographer and furniture designer known for his portraits of princes, princesses, playboys, and starlets in the 1950s and 60s. Born on October 22, 1928 in Naples, Italy, he began shooting portraits at the age of 12 and in 1948, he was hired by Paris Match magazine, for whom he photographed the likes of Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, Jane Fonda, Fred Astaire, Salvador Dalí, and Pablo Picasso, among others. He went on to launch a furniture line in Rome in 1966, inspired by Modernists such as Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier. His inaugural collection included steel-banded travertine dining tables and bronze table lamps, and today many of his pieces are exhibited in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. He became such a famous chronicler of the glamorous “jet set” of the 1950s, Rizzo was memorably immortalized as the paparazzo Walter Rizotto in Tintin creator Herge’s The Castafiore Emerald in 1963. He died on February 25, 2013 in Paris, France.

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Table de salle à manger de forme rectangulaire

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Table de salle à manger de forme rectangulaire

Sale Date: April 6, 2017

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Table basse de forme rectangulaire plaquée de...

Willy Rizzo

Table basse de forme rectangulaire plaquée de...

Sale Date: April 6, 2017

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Dresse

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Sale Date: February 21, 2017

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Enfilade

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Sale Date: February 21, 2017

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Table de salle à manger, 1970

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Table de salle à manger, 1970

Sale Date: February 17, 2017

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Table de salle à manger, 1970

Willy Rizzo

Table de salle à manger, 1970

Sale Date: February 17, 2017

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Coffee Table, 1970

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Coffee Table, 1970

Sale Date: January 23, 2017

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SIX CHAISES DE SALLE À MANGER

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SIX CHAISES DE SALLE À MANGER

Sale Date: December 18, 2016

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Table basse, 1970

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Table basse, 1970

Sale Date: December 13, 2016

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Marilyn Monroe, Beverly Hills, 1962

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Marilyn Monroe, Beverly Hills, 1962

Sale Date: December 12, 2016

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Brigitte Bardot, Saint-Tropez, 1958

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Brigitte Bardot, Saint-Tropez, 1958

Sale Date: November 3, 2016

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Kirk Douglas, Palm Springs, 1957

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Kirk Douglas, Palm Springs, 1957

Sale Date: October 20, 2016

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Pablo Picasso, Cannes, 1953

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Pablo Picasso, Cannes, 1953

Sale Date: October 20, 2016

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Oxford Gentleman, 1954

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Oxford Gentleman, 1954

Sale Date: October 20, 2016

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Gary Cooper, Beverly Hills, 1959

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Gary Cooper, Beverly Hills, 1959

Sale Date: October 20, 2016

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Carmen Rojas, 1955

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Carmen Rojas, 1955

Sale Date: October 20, 2016

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Rosella Hightower, 1951

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Rosella Hightower, 1951

Sale Date: October 20, 2016

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Illuminated bar table, 1970–1979

Willy Rizzo

Illuminated bar table, 1970–1979

Sale Date: November 1, 2016

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occasional table, 1970

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occasional table, 1970

Sale Date: October 20, 2016

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A BURR MAPLE AND EBONY BANDED COFFEE..., 1970–1979

Willy Rizzo

A BURR MAPLE AND EBONY BANDED COFFEE..., 1970–1979

Sale Date: October 4, 2016

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Table basse bout de canapé, plateau carré

Willy Rizzo

Table basse bout de canapé, plateau carré

Sale Date: September 14, 2016

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Sideboard, modèle dessiné, 1970

Willy Rizzo

Sideboard, modèle dessiné, 1970

Sale Date: September 14, 2016

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Dressoir, modèle dessiné, 1970

Willy Rizzo

Dressoir, modèle dessiné, 1970

Sale Date: September 14, 2016

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Table light, 1960

Willy Rizzo

Table light, 1960

Sale Date: September 21, 2016

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