East Hampton, NY
Details
- Dimensions
- 35ʺW × 16ʺD × 30ʺH
- Brand
- Aldo Tura
- Period
- 1960s
- Country of Origin
- Italy
- Item Type
- Vintage, Antique or Pre-owned
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- Materials
- Goat skin
- Condition
- Good Condition, Original Condition Unaltered, Some Imperfections
- Color
- Brown
- Condition Notes
- Perfect vintage condition Perfect vintage condition less
- Description
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This stunning 1960's bar cart by Italian designer Aldo Tura features two 2 level in brown dyed goatskin all supported …
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This stunning 1960's bar cart by Italian designer Aldo Tura features two 2 level in brown dyed goatskin all supported by brass supports and castors. The piece is signed TURA and is sold as a set with a magnificent red lacquered goatskin ice bucket and bottle opener. All pieces are in mint condition.
One of the most enigmatic and polarizing figures to emerge in Italian design, Aldo Tura designed glamorous bar carts, coffee tables, cabinets drawing inspiration from Art Deco, Art Nouveau, Baroque, Surrealist and modernist styles and held a singular devotion to one material: lacquered goatskin. Tura established a furniture production house in 1939 expanding to bar furnishings like rolling carts, cabinets and complementary barware accessories like ice buckets and cocktail shakers a few years later. The eccentric, gleaming and luxe surface of lacquered goatskin was a constant, along with eggshell, parchment and leather. By the 1950s, Tura had begun to use hand-painted figural panels on the surface of cabinets, serveware (such as carafes) and other pieces. Even though he had a favored color palette of rich chocolate browns and deep emeralds, his style remained consistently hard to define. Tura was unlike most of his Italian contemporaries but held a similar reverence for the nation’s traditional craftsmanship and artisanal techniques. He never followed the growing trend of mass-produced, industrial furniture and stuck to creating small, meticulously handcrafted collections. This principled choice means that today, a Tura piece is a rare and highly coveted collectible. less
East Hampton, NY
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