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Aldo Tura Mid-Century Bamboo and Metal Italian Thermos for Macabo, 1950s

Name: Aldo Tura Mid-Century Bamboo and Metal Italian Thermos for Macabo, 1950s
Brand: Aldo Tura, Macabo
Price: 609.11 USD

About the Item

Mid-Century bamboo thermos by Aldo Tura for Macabo. This wonderful serving piece was produced in Cusano Milanino, Milan, Italy in the 1950s. This article will allow you to serve your guests in an elegant and original way is perfect for a mid-century living room or a modern dining room. Born in 1909, the Italian designer-maker Aldo Tura founded his furniture production house in Lombardy in 1939. Working between the idioms of Art Deco and Modernism, Tura has created unique and high-end furniture and accessories characterized by fine, sculptural forms, and high-end craft techniques. Tura's work has become highly collectible, particularly examples with exotic finishes - such as eggshell, goatskin and parchment - in intense palettes of red, green and yellow. Tura was one of the most unique Italian mid-century design talents. In the postwar years, as many furniture manufacturers were adapting their production methods to mass production, Tura remained engaged in slow, traditional craftsmanship. He favored intricate, complex shapes and labor-intensive processes that could never be replicated in a large-scale factory system. As a result, the number of Tura's works available on the vintage market remains limited. Today, Tura’s company continues to produce high-end, deco-esque furniture in Lombardy, but much information about Tura himself has been lost to history. The Brooklyn Museum in New York owns a handful of Tura designs that were originally exhibited in the 1950-1953 travelling exhibition Italy at Work: Her Renaissance in Design Today.

Creator:

Aldo Tura (Designer),Macabo (Manufacturer)

Dimensions:

Height: 9.06 in (23 cm)Width: 5.12 in (13 cm)Depth: 7.09 in (18 cm)

Style:

Mid-Century Modern (Of the Period)

Materials and Techniques:

Bamboo,Glass,Metal

Place of Origin:

Italy

Period:

1950-1959

Date of Manufacture:

1950s

Condition:

Seller Location:

Roma, IT

Reference Number:

1stDibs: LU3067326861962

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Aldo Tura

One of the most enigmatic and polarizing figures to emerge in Italian design, Aldo Tura is an outlier in the world of mid-century furniture. The designer’s glamorous bar carts, coffee tables, cabinets and more resist categorization and draw inspiration from Art Deco, Art Nouveau, Baroque, Surrealist and modernist styles.

Tura moved through distinct phases in his career in terms of aesthetics, influences and finishes, rendering his life’s work exciting and diverse. Despite these phases, he held a singular devotion to one material: lacquered goatskin. Tura established a furniture production house in 1939 in Lombardy, and some of his early work focused on tables, decorative lamps and more. He later expanded to bar furnishings like rolling carts, cabinets and complementary barware accessories like ice buckets and cocktail shakers. The eccentric, gleaming and luxe surface of lacquered goatskin was a constant, along with eggshell, parchment and leather.

By the 1950s, Tura had begun to use hand-painted figural panels on the surface of cabinets, serveware (such as carafes) and other pieces. He even replicated famous works by artists like Monet and Bruegel the Elder and art from the Middle Ages, sometimes playfully embedding the paintings on cabinets shaped like oversize books. Even though he had a favored color palette of rich chocolate browns and deep emeralds, his style remained consistently hard to define.

Tura was unlike most of his Italian contemporaries but held a similar reverence for the nation’s traditional craftsmanship and artisanal techniques. He never followed the growing trend of mass-produced, industrial furniture and stuck to creating small, meticulously handcrafted collections. This principled choice means that today, a Tura piece is a rare and highly coveted collectible. The Tura firm continues to operate in Brianza, promoting Italian craftsmanship and the eclectic materials embraced by their namesake designer.

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