The 415 sideboard against a light wall, with the curved front and the blue and brick scrollwork painted on the taupe ground

Antica Firenze · Credenze

Sideboard 415, dove gray, blue, and brick

Three colors on a single front: dove gray, blue and brick

  • Item415
  • Dimensions170 × 48 × h 103 cm

On request

Il prezzo si fa insieme al pezzo

Questo pezzo nasce su misura, e finché non si sanno le misure un prezzo non c’è. Scrivi qui che cosa ti serve: la richiesta arriva a Tuscany Market Hub, e la giriamo noi a L'ARTES.

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The request goes to Tuscany Market Hub, who pass it on to L'ARTES.

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

The piece

The front is curved, not flat: the doors follow a line that draws back at the center, and the top above them goes with it. It is the difference that costs most in the joinery, because a curved door cannot be cut from a flat board — it has to be built on the curve and then decorated over the curve, with the brush never finding a surface to rest on.

Over the dove gray of the ground run the hand-painted decorations, blue and brick, one scroll per door opening upwards and closing at the bottom. One hundred and seventy wide by one meter three high — the height of a surface to put things on, not of a dining-room sideboard. Natural colors and waxes: the wax goes into the wood instead of sitting on top of it, and years later it comes back to life by going over it again.

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
Polychrome in dove gray, blue and brick, natural colors and waxes
Dimensions
170 × 48 × h 103 cm
Technique
Shaped front, decoration painted by hand with natural colors and a wax finish.
Range
Antica Firenze
Item
415

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

Shaped front, decoration painted by hand with natural colors and a wax finish. · Tavarnelle Val di Pesa · province of FI

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