The 607 sideboard seen from the front: the three panels with the bunches of leaves in relief and the dentil band below the top

Antica Firenze · Credenze

Sideboard 607, polychrome Antica Firenze

Two meters fifteen, and the bunches on the front are modeled before they are painted

  • Item607
  • Dimensions215 × 54 × h 120 cm

On request

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

The piece

Three panels across the front, and on each of them a bunch of leaves modeled in relief before any color reaches it: you can tell from the shadow the leaves cast on the ground, which is not painted. The body is two meters fifteen long, with the plinth set back and the top projecting above a dentil band; at the feet the profile opens into two low volutes.

Antica Firenze is not a color, it is a way of finishing. The colors are natural and are sealed with wax, not varnish, so the surface stays matt and absorbs the light instead of sending it back. The difference shows over the years: wax can be gone over again, and the piece is as it was; synthetic varnish, once it starts to flake, has to come off completely before anything else can be done.

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 Antica Firenze, natural colors and waxes
Dimensions
215 × 54 × h 120 cm
The make-up
Mirror 1614, gold and white decapè finish, 162 × 108 cm.
Technique
Panels modeled in relief, hand-painted with natural colors and wax-finished.
Range
Antica Firenze
Item
607

The other photograph

The 607 sideboard in a room setting, under a gilded mirror: the relief panels, the bronze horse on the top and the herringbone parquet

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

Panels modeled in relief, hand-painted with natural colors and wax-finished. · Tavarnelle Val di Pesa · province of FI

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