The 591 wardrobe against the wall: almost three metres of front, the panelled doors and the vine scrolls engraved at the corners

Classico · Armadi a battente

Wardrobe 591, antique white with engraved decorations

Two meters ninety-five, and the decoration is cut in, not painted

  • Item591
  • Dimensions295 × 68 × h 256 cm

On request

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Designed, built and finished inside the workshop, in Tavarnelle Val di Pesa.

The piece

The decoration is not painted over the lacquer: it is cut into it. On the doors the scrolls are gouged out of the wood and then gone over in umber and silver, so what you see is a groove that catches the light on one side and stays dark on the other. Close up you can feel it; from across the room it looks like a drawing.

Cutting is the opposite of painting: a wrong stroke cannot be covered, because the wood taken away does not come back. On a front of two meters ninety-five the motif repeats at the corners of every panel, and every repeat has to have the same depth, or the first shaft of sunlight will show which one was done last. Sixty-eight centimeters deep, and two meters fifty-six tall.

How it is made

The finish is the craft: lacquer and gold leaf are the two steps almost everyone subcontracts, and here they stay in house.

Finish
Antique white with umber and silver detailing
Dimensions
295 × 68 × h 256 cm
Technique
Decoration cut into the wood by hand and gone over in umber and silver, on an antique white lacquer.
Range
Classico
Item
591

The other photograph

The decoration close-up: the vine scroll engraved in the wood and gone over in silver above the moulding of the door

The workshop

L'ARTES

An art furniture workshop in Sambuca, founded in Firenze, in San Frediano, in 1968 by two young artisans trained by the masters of woodcarving. The whole cycle stays inside: the drawing, the unfinished piece, the lacquering, the decoration and the hand gilding. Three lines — Classico, Contemporary and Antica Firenze — and every piece built to the measurements of whoever orders it.

The whole catalogue L'ARTES

Decoration cut into the wood by hand and gone over in umber and silver, on an antique white lacquer. · Tavarnelle Val di Pesa · province of FI

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