Venetian commode of walnut brian root, shaped in a globet with hand carved legs

Luxurious hand-made reproduction of the original Venetian commode of the first half of the eighteenth century in Louis XV style located in the beautiful Palazzo Ca ‘Rezzonico in Venice, hand-inlaid in walnut, shaped in a globet.

Model Description

Model Structure

The structure of this precious dresser has two small upper drawers shaped like an urn and three drawers in the lower part. The furniture rests on high shaped legs carved in walnut and connected by a band with elegant lines according to the typical work in use in Venice in 1700. The commode is shaped like a "double rib" in both the front and the sides and finds its ideal location in luxurious bedrooms and exclusive entrances into important residences.

Raw Material

The chest of drawers is veneered with rare essences such as walnut and Ferrarese walnut, worked in open stain, with an exotic essence of bois de rose. The interior of the commode is made of vertical solid fir boards, a typical essence used by the Venetian cabinetmakers in the 18th century because it is particularly suitable for forming shaped structures.

Manufacture

The model is offered with a polishing in natural wood, which gives maximum prominence to the chromaticism of walnut root and the carved filet in bois de rose. The drawers are joined together with solid, handmade dovetail joints. Following the high-quality workmanship of the original artifact, the throat below the chest of drawers was shaped like a urn goblet typical of the Venetian Louis XV style and the cornices were molded with the vertical veining so-called "head", which gives more value. The legs of the model are carved hand inlaid. Even the handles reproduce the same characteristics as the original ones: they are in bronze, made with a lost wax mold, chiselled and polished by hand.

Size of the model in the picture

The commode is reproduced in the size cm. 160x61x98h. It can be reproduced and customized according to size and type of essences.

Model History

Century of use

The original artifact dates back to the first half of the eighteenth century and is located in the wonderful Palazzo Ca 'Rezzonico in Venice.

Historical notes and mobile curiosities

During a visit to the eighteenth-century Venetian Museum of Palazzo Ca 'Rezzonico, we were struck by a pair of important and luxurious chest of drawers shaped in a goblet with carvings of ferrarese walnut, rosewood and walnut, facing each other in the large dance hall. Wit the courtesy of the Superintendency of Fine Arts and the City of Venice, we have obtained permission to create a very detailed photo shoot, from which we set out to detect the dimensions of this important luxury furniture. Then we traced on all the offset plywood shapes and put ourselves to work also resuming the typical manifacture of that time in the Venetian shops.