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Large and important French Secretaire.
Impressive piece of furniture of excellent cabinetry.
Externally, the cabinet looks like a cabinet with drawers and a large door finely inlaid in walnut and amaranth on a light background of elm wood that covers the entire cabinet.
The style is the French "cappuccino" style.
Inside there is the secretaire with the lowering door that serves as a desk.
The wood used to cover the drawers and the internal structure is ash.
Never restored, it needs small interventions of general revision and cleaning.
Provenance: France
Measures: height cm 188 width cm 105 depth cm 55
Rif. 10304.
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