Single leaf door hand-decorated Ampezzano style cupboard with a drawer

Luxury single leaf door hand-decorated Ampezzano style cupboard with a drawer, decorations on solid spruce wood. The decoration settings is typical Venetian taste, from Cortina d’Ampezzo.

Model Description

Model Structure

This is a single leaf door hand-decorated Ampezzano style cupboard with a drawer and lateral shoulders. The elegant frames are typical from Belluno furnishing in the upper part under the cornice and in the lower part which separates the drawer from the door. The frame is supported by 4 shaped legs. Inside the cupboard, there are a shelf and a closet hanger, but it is possibile adding shelves used as a pantry.

Raw Material

The cupboard is made of steamed solid spruce, a special process: we put the wood in the oven, so that the colour change from green to straw yellow.

Manufacture

The single leaf door hand-decorated Ampezzano style cupboard with a drawer is painted with polychromatic temperas without “gesso Bologna” and applied on bare wood. In the middle of the single leaf door there is an agricultura scene from Belluno. This is a decoration by hand and it is bordered by polychromatic floral patterns. The corners of the leaf door bands are painted with dark green vegetal decorations; the upper band separates the cornice from the door and it is decorated with a repeated geometrical pattern limited by small flowers. The paint is established with a transparent shellac, so that the colour of decorations doesn’t change, then it is appied with a brush and coated with a perfumed virgin 96% beeswax.

Size of the model in the picture

Available in 125x54x192h., the item is completely customizable for sizes and decorations.

Model History

Century of use

This is an elegant and refined high quality replica of the original mid-seventeenth century model, from Ampezzo area.

Historical notes and mobile curiosities

The decoration setting of this single leaf door hand-decorated Ampezzano style cupboard with a drawer is typical from Belluno, where most of the furniture was manufactured in solid spruce or pine wood. The main decorations ordered by noble families were agricultural scenes painted in faded colours. It was in vogue, in that period, the trend to lighten the furniture with raised turned or saber-shaped legs.