{"id":417876,"date":"2024-05-24T13:55:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-24T17:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/?p=417876"},"modified":"2024-05-24T14:16:19","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T18:16:19","slug":"osvaldo-borsani-marcello-piccardo-cabinet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/osvaldo-borsani-marcello-piccardo-cabinet\/","title":{"rendered":"Osvaldo Borsani\u2019s Elegant Cabinet Is Meant for Merrymaking"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/furniture\/storage-case-pieces\/cabinets\/osvaldo-borsani-cabinet\/id-f_34235462\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"950\" height=\"633\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hi-Res_Hero_Borsani_Cabinet-950x633.jpg\" alt=\"The front of a ca. 1945 Osvaldo Borsani bar cabinet next to a closeup of its painted doors\" class=\"wp-image-418487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hi-Res_Hero_Borsani_Cabinet-950x633.jpg 950w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hi-Res_Hero_Borsani_Cabinet-525x350.jpg 525w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hi-Res_Hero_Borsani_Cabinet-120x80.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hi-Res_Hero_Borsani_Cabinet-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hi-Res_Hero_Borsani_Cabinet-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hi-Res_Hero_Borsani_Cabinet-1400x933.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Hi-Res_Hero_Borsani_Cabinet.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/furniture\/storage-case-pieces\/cabinets\/osvaldo-borsani-cabinet\/id-f_34235462\/\">Osvaldo Borsani cabinet, ca. 1945, offered by Donzella Ltd.<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>By the time <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/osvaldo-borsani\/furniture\/\">Osvaldo Borsani<\/a> designed the 1955 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/tecno\/furniture\/\">Tecno<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/designs\/osvaldo-borsani-p40-chair\/\">P40 lounge chair<\/a>, the adjustable recliner with a Jet Age look for which he is probably best known, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/furniture\/origin\/italian\/\">Italian<\/a> architect had had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/introspective-magazine\/osvaldo-borsani-donzella\/\">a storied career<\/a> working in very different styles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe was a prodigy, highly regarded at an early age,\u201d says <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/dealers\/donzella-ltd\/\">Paul Donzella<\/a>, a Manhattan-based dealer of vintage modern <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/dealers\/donzella-ltd\/shop\/furniture\/\">furniture<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/dealers\/donzella-ltd\/shop\/furniture\/lighting\/\">lighting<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/dealers\/donzella-ltd\/shop\/furniture\/dining-entertaining\/ceramics\/\">ceramics<\/a>, who is currently offering an extraordinary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/furniture\/storage-case-pieces\/cabinets\/osvaldo-borsani-cabinet\/id-f_34235462\/\">Borsani World War II\u2013era mahogany bar cabinet<\/a> with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/furniture\/style\/art-deco\/\">Art Deco<\/a> leanings on 1stDibs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Furniture design was in Borsani\u2019s blood. A scion of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/villa-osvaldo-borsani\/\">the family<\/a> that owned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/arredamenti-borsani\/furniture\/\">Arredamenti Borsani Varedo<\/a> (ABV), a bespoke furniture manufacturer in Varedo, Italy, he began designing furniture in his teen years, winning a silver medal in 1933 at the Milan Triennial before he\u2019d even graduated from the Polytechnic University of Milan.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/osvaldo-borsani\/furniture\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"687\" height=\"950\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Donzell-Borsani-Cabinet-6R1A1424-687x950.jpg\" alt=\"1940s Osvaldo Borsani bar cabinet, offered by Donzella Ltd.\" class=\"wp-image-418464\" style=\"width:675px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Donzell-Borsani-Cabinet-6R1A1424-687x950.jpg 687w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Donzell-Borsani-Cabinet-6R1A1424-253x350.jpg 253w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Donzell-Borsani-Cabinet-6R1A1424-87x120.jpg 87w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Donzell-Borsani-Cabinet-6R1A1424-768x1061.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Donzell-Borsani-Cabinet-6R1A1424-675x933.jpg 675w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Donzell-Borsani-Cabinet-6R1A1424.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 687px) 100vw, 687px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/osvaldo-borsani\/furniture\/\">Borsani<\/a>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/furniture\/material\/mahogany\/\">mahogany<\/a> cabinet is decorated with tambour-like ridges on its sides.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Not every European designer of that era was of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/furniture\/style\/bauhaus\/\">Bauhaus<\/a> bent, Donzella points out. \u201cDesigners splintered off in different directions,\u201d he says. \u201cA lot of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/buy\/french-art-deco-furniture\/\">French Art Deco<\/a> people were producing work that was luxurious and intricate\u201d well into the 1940s, as was ABV.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The meticulously restored bar cabinet, made of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/furniture\/material\/mahogany\/\">mahogany<\/a> outside and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/furniture\/material\/maple\/\">maple<\/a> within, is composed of two demilunes, or half-moons, its gold-toned retractable doors fancifully decorated with butterflies, mythical creatures and figures in top hats and tuxes. \u201cThe sexy skirt,&#8221; Donzella says, &#8220;is one of my favorite elements,\u201d along with the tambour-like ridges on the sides. \u201cIt\u2019s so pretty \u2014 a top-tier, A-plus piece.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The painted doors were executed in layers by Marcello Piccardo, with whom Borsani worked on other, less elaborate pieces for ABV. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of movement and repeated pattern,\u201d Donzella says. &#8220;It feels like a joyful celebration.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/buy\/bars-and-bar-cabinet\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"784\" height=\"950\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Donzella-Borsani-Cabinet-6R1A1415-784x950.jpg\" alt=\"1940s Osvaldo Borsani bar cabinet, offered by Donzella Ltd., with its doors open\" class=\"wp-image-418468\" style=\"width:675px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Donzella-Borsani-Cabinet-6R1A1415-784x950.jpg 784w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Donzella-Borsani-Cabinet-6R1A1415-289x350.jpg 289w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Donzella-Borsani-Cabinet-6R1A1415-99x120.jpg 99w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Donzella-Borsani-Cabinet-6R1A1415-768x930.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Donzella-Borsani-Cabinet-6R1A1415-770x933.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Donzella-Borsani-Cabinet-6R1A1415.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 784px) 100vw, 784px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/furniture\/material\/maple\/\">maple<\/a> interior automatically lights up when the doors open.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>The cabinet is also an impressive technical achievement. \u201cYou have to open both doors at once,\u201d Donzella says. \u201cThere are wheel mechanisms inside, like a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/furniture\/decorative-objects\/clocks\/\">clock<\/a>. As soon as you move one, the other wheel is spinning, and the interior lights go on.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Only a handful of the cabinets were likely made, each with unique decoration. 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