A sober and elegant French bedside table in the Napoleon III style. It has three comfortable drawers of equal size on the front, the front is shaped and surrounded by a gold wire frame; the round drawer knobs and the guards at the ends of the legs are made of brass. Also made of burnished brass is the refined railing that protects the marble top; the four legs are tapered downwards and have grooves along the body; the entire table is made of oak, a wood that for its characteristics of strength and resistance is used for the construction of fine and durable furniture; the black varnish makes it exclusive and personal. The marble used for the top is a 'Bianco Gioia Venato' from Carrara; Carrara marble is a type of marble that is extracted from quarries in the Apuan Alps in the area of Carrara (Italy), universally known as one of the finest marbles in the world. It is one of the varieties of the famous pietra viva, and it is no coincidence that all the greatest sculptors and artists in history (Michelangelo, Donatello, Bernini, Canova) created their most famous works with this excellent variety of marble, whose hues are so elegant as to seem almost ethereal. The bedside table was produced in the Napoleon III style between 1880 and 1885 by a craftsman's workshop in the French town of Liffon-le-Grand, located in the Vosges department in the Grand Est region. The Napoleon III style echoes the more serious and austere forms of the First Empire. However, the Eclecticism that characterised the period made it more graceful, refined and elegant, reflecting and well representing the socio-cultural and economic period that France was experiencing at the time. The object has been hand-treated using ancient restoration techniques by our team of craftsmen and is in excellent condition. It measures 39 cm wide, 28 cm deep, 73 cm high. For all our shipments we use special packaging materials (custom-made wooden crates, polystyrene, etc.) for maximum protection and safety of the objects.
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SILVER Seller in Prato, Italy
