Venetian bureau secretaire in Louis XV style decorated with landscape of Venice.

Bureau secretaire writing desk with flap carved and hand decorated in the eighteenth century Venetian Baroque style. This artifact of great artistic value is the ideal luxury furniture for entrances, bedrooms, living rooms. The model is currently located in the prestigious Barbarigo Palace, to Venice.

Model Description

Model Structure

The structure of the secretary bureau is made with a flap and a lower drawer. The upper body is supported by 4 high and wavy legs, hand-carved in the shape of a hedgehog and connected by a band also carved and surrounded in its lower part by a refined cord. The desk is hand painted with floral and baroque decorations in gold leaf and Piazza San Marco is depicted in the central part of the flap. The elegant shape and the originality of the important decorations denote the constructive ability of the Vangelista Mobili 1960 company to produce true pieces of art.

Raw Material

The furniture is made of solid lime wood. The baroque are made in plaster, in relief and gilded with gold leaf.

Manufacture

The Venetian bureau secretaire with shaped legs is designed, built and decorated inside the Vangelista Mobili 1960 high cabinet-making workshop. The structure is reproduced with hand-shaped solid lime wood planks to give it the desired shape. The legs and the connecting band are hand-carved in the shape of a hedgehog, a typical workmanship of the furnishings in the eighteenth-century Venetian Baroque style. The bureau secretaire writing desk is hand-lacquered in polychrome with natural products, respecting the same working methods used in the Venetian workshops of the 18th century. Hand painted with floral and baroque decorations, the limelight features Piazza San Marco in Venice in its central part.

Size of the model in the picture

The secretary desk is produced in the dimension 80x 99 hx 43 (depth of the flap closed) or x 71 (flap open). Being a luxury furniture made and decorated by hand, it can be reproduced to measure for dimensions and decorative subjects.

Model History

Century of use

The flap desk decorated with a Venetian landscape is reproduced from the original model dating back to the mid-1700s, which is currently located in the prestigious Palazzo Barbarigo in Venice.

Historical notes and mobile curiosities

The Vangelista Mobili 1960 high cabinet-making workshop has been producing this prestigious furniture for over 50 years, reproducing it from a period artifact dating back to the mid-1700s, coming from the collection of the well-known Turin antique dealer Pasquale Falanga. The complex carving of the legs and the accurate decorations led it to be a piece of the highest artisan cabinet-making. This prestigious piece of furniture is also suitable for modern contexts as its uniqueness makes it unique and exclusive.