Shaped Venetian bedside table with carved legs and precious inlays

Important and luxurious Venetian bedside table shaped in a globet in Baroque Louis XV style with carved legs inlaid with precious walnut from Ferrara.

Model Description

Model Structure

The bedside table is equipped with 3 drawers, the first of which is shaped in a globet. The lower part goes down flared and the remaining 2 drawers are embellished with a string in walnut essence. The bedside table is supported by 4 solid walnut legs shaped en cabriolet and carved by hand. The curly and shell carving with a central vegetal motif is typical of the Baroque Louis XV style furniture of the 18th century in Venice.

Raw Material

The interiors of the bedside cabinet are made of solid fir wood assembled with slats, i.e. vertical axes suitably shaped and glued to give the desired shape. The external part is covered by a 4 mm slab in precious essences of flamed walnut and a rare briar root of Ferrara walnut arranged in an open specular spot. The chalice cabinet is enriched with an inlaid thread in exotic wood of bois de rose. Its structure and the choice of its precious and rare essences reflect the production of the furniture of the Venetian workshops of the eighteenth century.

Manufacture

The complex construction and inlaid work done by hand, using the same working methods of the XVIII century, make this cabinet an artifact of the highest value. The bedside table is polished with natural products water based and slightly antiqued with stone, fixed with shellac spread like a brush and protected with 97% virgin beeswax. Vangelista Mobili 1960 is one of the few craft companies that reproduces this precious and exclusive Venetian cabinet, unique in its craftsmanship, in the choice of essences and in the attention to detail. We give our customers the opportunity to view the bedside table in our workshop and to chooce all the desired customizations, from the type of polishing to the model of the handles.

Size of the model in the picture

Made in the measure 57x35x77h the shaped bedside table can be customized by dimensions, essences and shades of polishing.

Model History

Century of use

The original bedside table is located inside the Ca 'Rezzonico Palace in Venice, home of the Museum of 18th century Baroque Venice.

Historical notes and mobile curiosities

One of our clients asked us to reproduce a pair of seventeenth-century Venetian bedside tables shaped in a goblet and inlaid in Ferrarese walnut briar. Thanks to the rare and prestigious book on Venetian furniture edited by Giuseppe Morazzoni, we started looking for a model that we reproduced using the photographic material present in the precious volume. The complex processing of the shape and the laborious inlay of walnut briarwood with fillet in bois de rose makes us particularly proud of this shaped bedside table that reproduces a very high-quality cabinet-making product.