Luxury lacquered Chinoiserie end Giorgio II beginning English Victorian style trumeau–secretaire with a flap

Luxury lacquered Chinoiserie end Giorgio II beginning English Victorian style trumeau-secretaire with a flap, hand-decorated. The excellence of products and the high-quality working process are the expression of the real 100% Made in Italy.

Model Description

Model Structure

The luxury lacquered Chinoiserie end Giorgio II beginning English Victorian style trumeau-secretaire with a flap is a real work of art. It has a structure with 2 overlapping bodies. The base has 3 huge drawers and 2 smaller in the upper part and the shelf. The top is arranged with 2 shutters, shaped in their final part, and everything is enclosed in a refined hexagonal cornice. The top is enriched by turned capitals, typical in English cabinetmaking of the time. The compartments inside the flap and the shelf are considerably arranged with some elegant shaped drawers, open shelving and a small door used as briefcases and jewellery compartments. The inner structure is refined, with simple and elegant lines not to weight the furniture down. The trumeau secretaire is supported by bracket feet.

Raw Material

The luxury lacquered Chinoiserie end Giorgio II beginning English Victorian style trumeau-secretaire with a flap is made of limewood, used in the original model too, which is ideal for the lacquering process:soft and solid fiber, it is stable over time, thanks to the absence of knots in limewood, whereas the handlers and pommels are bronze poured in casting moulds, like the original of the time. l

Manufacture

The structure of the luxury lacquered Chinoiserieend Giorgio II beginning English Victorian style trumeau-secretaire with a flap is assembled with tenons and mortise joints. The drawers on the base and inside the shelf are assembled with hand-crafted dove-tail joints. The elaborated shaping of the shutters' upper part is hand-crafted and the cymatium too has an elegant shape, by a particular mill reproduced by Vangelista Mobili 1960 with the same features and lines of the original furniture. The turned capitals are typical of English cabinetmaking in Giorgio II period. The Chinosierie lacquering is very important, thanks to the meticulous and accurate decorations. The background monochromatic lacquering is red and it has 9 layers of lacquer, one over the other, with a final thickness of 2 mm. Decorated with water-based temperas and fine brushes, the drawings show scenes of oriental life, exotic animals, flowers and arabesques, made by relief elements in pure gold leaf dating back to Ming dynasty (China, 12th-14th century). The decorations express the peculiarity and originality of the trumeau. The paintings are protected by transparent shellac established by brush and polished with sandarac ( a natural resin similar to honey dissolved in alcohol). Handlers, hinges and keys are crafted by hand, in bronze poured in casting moulds and keeping the same features of the original.

Size of the model in the picture

Available in size 102x58 base, 38 shelf x225h, the trumeau is crafted by hand and customizable for dimension, type of wood and lacquering, not being a mass-produced furniture.

Model History

Century of use

The luxury lacquered Chinoiserie end Giorgio II beginning English Victorian style trumeau-secretaire with a flap is a faithful reproduction of the first half 18th century, England.

Historical notes and mobile curiosities

The original model of this luxury lacquered Chinoiserie end Giorgio II beginning English Victorian style trumeau-secretaire with a flap dates back to the first half of 18th century, and it is currently in Decorative Arts Museum Accorsi - Ometto, in fact the trumeau was part of the famous antiquarian Pietro Accorsi's huge collection. Thanks to the passion, the experience and love for ancient arts, especially Venetian decorations with an oriental influence, Vangelista Mobili 1960 is proud to be the only artisanal company who has managed, with patience, devotion and manual technique, to recreate these elaborated decorations and Chinoiserie luxury lacquers. The trumeau is completely designed, handcrafted and lacquered in our art laboratory.