{"id":421485,"date":"2024-11-01T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-01T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/?p=421485"},"modified":"2024-11-05T12:16:45","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T17:16:45","slug":"giovan-battista-mitri-chimney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/giovan-battista-mitri-chimney\/","title":{"rendered":"End Your Quest for Fire with This Handmade Majolica Chimney"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignfull size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/furniture\/building-garden\/fireplaces-mantels\/giovanni-battista-mitri-majolica-chimney-fireplace-1965\/id-f_42030602\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"950\" height=\"633\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Modernab-Giovanni-Battista-Mitri-Chimney-horizontal-resized-950x633.jpg\" alt=\"Giovanni Battista Mitri majolica chimney with fireplace, 1965, offered by Modernab\" class=\"wp-image-422104\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Modernab-Giovanni-Battista-Mitri-Chimney-horizontal-resized-950x633.jpg 950w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Modernab-Giovanni-Battista-Mitri-Chimney-horizontal-resized-525x350.jpg 525w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Modernab-Giovanni-Battista-Mitri-Chimney-horizontal-resized-120x80.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Modernab-Giovanni-Battista-Mitri-Chimney-horizontal-resized-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Modernab-Giovanni-Battista-Mitri-Chimney-horizontal-resized-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Modernab-Giovanni-Battista-Mitri-Chimney-horizontal-resized-1400x933.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Modernab-Giovanni-Battista-Mitri-Chimney-horizontal-resized.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/furniture\/building-garden\/fireplaces-mantels\/giovanni-battista-mitri-majolica-chimney-fireplace-1965\/id-f_42030602\/\">Giovanni Battista Mitri majolica chimney with fireplace, 1965, offered by Modernab<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While it might remind you of one of those ubiquitous backyard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/buy\/outdoor-chiminea\/\">chimineas<\/a>, or their <em>Jetsons<\/em>-era counterpart, the conical <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/buy\/fireplace-malm\/\">Malm fireplace<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/creators\/giovanni-battista-mitri\/furniture\/\">Giovanni Battista Mitri<\/a>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/furniture\/building-garden\/fireplaces-mantels\/giovanni-battista-mitri-majolica-chimney-fireplace-1965\/id-f_42030602\/\">1965 majolica chimney<\/a> is something else entirely: a masterful merging of Paleolithic imagery and contemporary craft that pulsates with primal life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of perhaps 10 made by the Italian ceramist, the example being offered on 1stDibs by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/furniture\/style\/mid-century-modern\/\">mid-century design<\/a> purveyor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/dealers\/modernab-gallery\/\">Modernab<\/a> was commissioned for the living room of the Palazzo Bollani in Venice, near where Modernab is based. A private home at the time, the palazzo was later converted into an exhibition and conference center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mitri (born in 1915 and known to friends as Giobatta) appears to have made various versions of the chimney after opening his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/furniture\/dining-entertaining\/ceramics\/\">ceramics<\/a> studio in Venice in the 1940s \u2014 around the time that a vast trove of cave paintings was discovered in Lascaux, France. Renderings of animals similar to those at Lascaux cavort above the yawning firebox of the Modernab piece, which was hand built in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/furniture\/material\/terracotta\/\">terracotta<\/a> and finished in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/furniture\/material\/majolica\/\">majolica<\/a>\u2019s characteristic tin-enamel glaze.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/furniture\/building-garden\/fireplaces-mantels\/giovanni-battista-mitri-majolica-chimney-fireplace-1965\/id-f_42030602\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"950\" height=\"633\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Modernab-Giovanni-Battista-Mitri-Chimney-closeup-resized-950x633.jpg\" alt=\"Giovanni Battista Mitri majolica chimney with fireplace, 1965, offered by Modernab\" class=\"wp-image-422111\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Modernab-Giovanni-Battista-Mitri-Chimney-closeup-resized-950x633.jpg 950w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Modernab-Giovanni-Battista-Mitri-Chimney-closeup-resized-525x350.jpg 525w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Modernab-Giovanni-Battista-Mitri-Chimney-closeup-resized-120x80.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Modernab-Giovanni-Battista-Mitri-Chimney-closeup-resized-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Modernab-Giovanni-Battista-Mitri-Chimney-closeup-resized-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Modernab-Giovanni-Battista-Mitri-Chimney-closeup-resized-1400x933.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Modernab-Giovanni-Battista-Mitri-Chimney-closeup-resized.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Mitri decorated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/furniture\/building-garden\/fireplaces-mantels\/giovanni-battista-mitri-majolica-chimney-fireplace-1965\/id-f_42030602\/\">the piece<\/a> with animals incised into the clay and rendered in bas-relief in a prehistoric style.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ceramist\u2019s pairing of prehistoric art and mid-century design still feels radical while at the same time utterly logical. What could be more appropriate for cave dwellers than a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/furniture\/decorative-objects\/vases-vessels\/\">vessel<\/a> designed to hold fire? And despite its sinuous form, the chimney is anything but slick \u2014 its sensuous, mottled surface betrays the mark of the artisan\u2019s hand. Even the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/furniture\/material\/iron\/\">iron<\/a> base that cradles the chimney manages to feel modern and primitive at the same time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s a real shout from the earth,\u201d observes Modernab founder Amedeo Bruscagnin. \u201cWhen I look at it, I feel something that reconnects me to the earth, to wide open spaces and to nature.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bruscagnin likens the form to that of a pregnant woman, one with a literal \u201cfire in her belly.\u201d Although he concedes that a buyer could still use the piece as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/furniture\/building-garden\/fireplaces-mantels\/\">fireplace<\/a>, he recommends \u201cinstalling it as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/art\/\">work of art<\/a>, as it was originally conceived \u2014 as something that brings great personality and distinctive craftsmanship to a room.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/furniture\/building-garden\/fireplaces-mantels\/giovanni-battista-mitri-majolica-chimney-fireplace-1965\/id-f_42030602\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"633\" height=\"950\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Modernab-Giovanni-Battista-Mitri-Chimney-vertical-resized-633x950.jpg\" alt=\"Giovanni Battista Mitri majolica chimney with fireplace, 1965, offered by Modernab\" class=\"wp-image-422108\" style=\"width:675px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Modernab-Giovanni-Battista-Mitri-Chimney-vertical-resized-633x950.jpg 633w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Modernab-Giovanni-Battista-Mitri-Chimney-vertical-resized-233x350.jpg 233w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Modernab-Giovanni-Battista-Mitri-Chimney-vertical-resized-80x120.jpg 80w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Modernab-Giovanni-Battista-Mitri-Chimney-vertical-resized-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Modernab-Giovanni-Battista-Mitri-Chimney-vertical-resized-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Modernab-Giovanni-Battista-Mitri-Chimney-vertical-resized-622x933.jpg 622w, https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Modernab-Giovanni-Battista-Mitri-Chimney-vertical-resized.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 633px) 100vw, 633px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/furniture\/building-garden\/fireplaces-mantels\/giovanni-battista-mitri-majolica-chimney-fireplace-1965\/id-f_42030602\/\">handmade terracotta chimney<\/a> sits on an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/furniture\/material\/iron\/\">iron<\/a> base.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mitri\u2019s reputation never extended much beyond Venice. There\u2019s little written about him, and the few examples of his work that can be found on the market are generally his exuberant animal sculptures and some of the monumental vessels he made in the decades prior to his death, in 2000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis guy was kind of an underdog, in that he\u2019s not as famous as other artists might be. He didn\u2019t produce a lot of pieces,\u201d says Bruscagnin, who believes that Mitri used the Palazzo Bollani commission to reflect on his career up to that point. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s like a celebration of life \u2014 <em>and<\/em> his artistic life,\u201d the dealer says.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<div class=\"interstitial-banner interstitial-banner-collection interstitial-container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"interstitial-content\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"interstitial-background-image\">\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/blogs\/the-study\/wp-content\/uploads\/Modernab-Oscar-Niemeyer-Alta-Lounge-Set-for-Mobilier-International-1971Set-of-2-1000x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-interstitial size-interstitial\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"container interstitial-text\">\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"interstitial-link-around-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/dealers\/modernab-gallery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"interstitial-heading\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tShop Modernab on 1stDibs\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"interstitial-subheading\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"gold-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.1stdibs.com\/dealers\/modernab-gallery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<span>View All<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While it might remind you of one of those ubiquitous backyard chimineas, or their Jetsons-era counterpart, the conical Malm fireplace, Giovanni Battista Mitri\u2019s 1965 majolica chimney is something else entirely: a masterful merging of Paleolithic imagery and contemporary craft that pulsates with primal life. 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