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large Paolo Buffa demi-lune console, marble top, bronze details, three feet 1940
by Paolo Buffa , 1940
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Paolo Buffa 1940
Ref. 196
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- Category
- HISTORICAL AND MODERN FURNITURE
- Tags
- 1940, italian historical and modern furniture
- Brand
- Paolo Buffa
Description
important large and fine demi-lune shaped console designed by Paolo Buffa, circa 1940 ebonized walnut, bronze details and rare top "striato Carrara marble " three graceful saber-shaped legs finishing on brass sabots and joined by a sculptural stretcher important grissinato wood top handwork demi-lune Carrara striato marble top, owl's beak measures: height 89cm , 129x 35 cm ; marble top heigh: 3 cm very good original condition little signs on the marble In the 1940's the architect Paolo Buffa turned to 18th century Lombardian precedents, both from the Baroque and from the Neo-Classical era, distilling subtle variations cued to his singular Milanese market. This elegant console table embodies a Mannerist fusion of restrained classicism evident in the elongated legs accented by austere brass sabots and capitals, with a canted apron holding a undulating marble top clearly reminiscent of Baroque projecting cornices cf. R. Aloi, L'Arredamento Moderno, Milan, 1949, fig. 583 for a similar example; R. Rizzi, I mobili di Paolo Buffa, Cantù, 2001, p. 35.
walnut, brass, bronze, marble
Measures: height 89cm , 129x 35 cm ; marble top heigh: 3 cm
Additional information
- Dimensions
- height 89cm , 129x 35 cm ; marble top heigh: 3 cm






