Bar Set in Carved Wood and Brass by Aldo Tura for Macabo, Italy, 1950s, Set of 8

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Beautiful bar set in carved wood and brass. This lovely set was designed by Aldo Tura and produced by Macabo … more Beautiful bar set in carved wood and brass. This lovely set was designed by Aldo Tura and produced by Macabo in Milano, Italy during the 1950s. The set consist of a pitcher, 6 glasses and a bowl. Fully hand-crafted with perfect proportions, this set is a great example of Mid-Century Italian organic design. An incredibly charming and unique bar set, perfect to enhance a Mid-Century style project. Pitcher Dimensions (cm): Width - 23 Depth - 16 Height - 28 Bowl Dimensions (cm): Width - 38,5 Depth - 16 Height - 18,5 Glasses Dimensions (cm): Diameter - 7 Height - 7 Born in 1909, Italian designer-maker Aldo Tura established his furniture production house in Lombardy in 1939. Working between the idioms of Art Deco and modernism, Tura created singular, high-end furniture and accessories that were typified by rich materials, sculptural forms, and high-end, artisanal techniques. Tura’s work has become highly collectable, especially examples with exotic finishes— like eggshell, goatskin, and parchment—in intense palettes of red, green, and yellow. Tura was one of the most unique design talents of the Italian midcentury. In the postwar years, as many furniture producers were adjusting their production methods toward mass production, Tura remained committed to slow, traditional hand craftsmanship. He favoured intricate, complex forms and labor-intensive processes that could never be replicated in a large-scale factory system. As a result, the number of works by Tura available on the vintage market remains limited. Today, Tura’s company continues to produce high-end, deco-esque furniture in Lombardy, but much information about Tura himself has been lost to history. The Brooklyn Museum in New York owns a handful of Tura designs that were originally exhibited in the 1950-1953 travelling exhibition Italy at Work: Her Renaissance in Design Today. This piece is attributed to the mentioned designer/maker. It has no attribution mark and no
official proof of authenticity,
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