Luxury hand-decorated chest in 18th Venetian Baroque style

Luxury hand-decorated chest in 18th Venetian Baroque style. The harmony of floral patterns surrounded by baroque subjects and the refined paintings are typical of Venetian furnishings dating back to the first half of 18th century.

Model Description

Model Structure

The luxury hand-decorated chest in 18th Venetian Baroque style has a clear line presenting an elevating plan. According to the customer's need, the chest is available also with a fixed plan and a frontal flap. The lower part and the sides are shaped by bracket legs.

Raw Material

The chest is made of solid spruce wood, which is ideal for chalk's application and widely used in 18th-century or handpainted furnishings.

Manufacture

The luxury hand-decorated chest in 18th Venetian Baroque style is handcrafted and assembled with interlocks whereas axes made of solid spruce wood are put together with a slot-in joint system stable over time. The most difficult and elaborated steps are lacquering and decoration. A semi-liquid mixture called gesso Bologna is applied with a brush, then the furniture is hand decorated with polychromatic water-based tempera. The refined decorations show floral and baroque patterns and the background colour is lobster red; we create this shade in our laboratory. The baroque drawings are saffron yellow coloured. Beige is the main colour inside the outline, and floral patterns are painted with a variety of very thin brushes, with almost real petals and blossoms. The decorations are antiqued with brown dust for an antiqued effect, whereas the craquelure (fine pattern of dense cracking in the exterior part of the furniture) makes the chest look old. The decorations are then fixed by shellac established with a brush and protected, both inside and outside, by French white beeswax.

Size of the model in the picture

Available in 4 sizes 70x37x50h. – 90x40x54h. –100x42x56h. – 110x45x58h., the chest is handcrafted and customizable for dimensions, colours and type of decorations.

Model History

Century of use

The original of this luxury hand-decorated chest in 18th Venetian Baroque style dates back to the first half of 18th century.

Historical notes and mobile curiosities

The original chest is currently in the salon, 1st floor, of the amazing Palazzo Loredan Vendramin Calergi in CAnnaregio's sestriere, Venice. During the pompous Repubblica Serenissima, it was vogue decorated furnooshings with floreal and baroque ornaments, detailed paintings of great visual impact. We have retrieved the original luxury hand-decorated chest in 18th Venetian Baroque style and we have reproduced the furniture with all the details, thanls to technical dimensinal drawings, tracked profiles and detailed pictures. The furniture is designed, hand-crafted and hand-painted in Vangelista Mobili 1960 art laboratory, 100% made in Italy.