Commode - Wood - 4 solid wood drawers

Some pieces of furniture hardly need elaborate introductions: they speak for themselves. This solid wood chest of drawers (probably walnut) is one of them. Four large drawers follow one after another with that natural proportion that belongs to post-war Venetian craftsmanship — an era when things were made with future generations in mind, not the next season. The style harks back to the popular Louis-Philippe tradition, the current filtered from grand nineteenth-century cabinetmaking into provincial workshops, simplifying the lines without losing dignity. The result is a piece free of excess, where the walnut itself — its amber color, its lively grain — takes center stage. Arte Povera in the noblest sense: essential, honest, made to last. The piece has been restored by a master craftsman, with that care that does not transform but respects. The original patina has been preserved, and with it everything time has written on this furniture in seventy years of life. There are some marks, as is right — and the photographs, which have priority and are indisputable in assessing the object’s real condition, document it faithfully. In particular, there are traces of woodworm in the lower parts of the structure, visible in the attached photos. NB Not shipping outside continental Europe.