Aldo Tura Red Goatskin
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Barware
Metal, Brass
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Lanterns
Goatskin
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Goatskin
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Cabinets
Brass
Vintage 1960s Italian Hollywood Regency Carts and Bar Carts
Brass, Iron
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Goatskin
Vintage 1960s Italian Hollywood Regency Planters and Jardinieres
Brass
Vintage 1960s Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Goatskin
Vintage 1960s Italian Neoclassical Dining Room Tables
Goatskin
Vintage 1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Goatskin
Mid-20th Century Italian Hollywood Regency Carts and Bar Carts
Brass
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Brass
Vintage 1960s Italian Hollywood Regency Carts and Bar Carts
Brass
Vintage 1960s Italian Hollywood Regency Side Tables
Brass
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Bottles
Brass
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Goatskin, Lacquer
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Barware
Goatskin, Wood
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Barware
Metal, Brass
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Bronze
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Barware
Stainless Steel
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Metal, Brass
Vintage 1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Tableware
Sterling Silver, Stainless Steel
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Pitchers
Brass
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Side Tables
Goatskin, Beech
Vintage 1970s Italian Hollywood Regency Carts and Bar Carts
Goatskin
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Goatskin, Parchment Paper
Vintage 1960s Italian Hollywood Regency Side Tables
Brass
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Brass
Vintage 1960s Italian Hollywood Regency Barware
Goatskin
Vintage 1960s Italian Hollywood Regency Carts and Bar Carts
Brass
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Brass
Vintage 1970s Italian Ashtrays
Nickel
Vintage 1950s Italian Pitchers
Brass
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Nesting Tables and Stacking Tables
Goatskin
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Wine Coolers
Metal
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Goatskin
20th Century Italian Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Brass
Vintage 1950s Italian More Dining and Entertaining
Goatskin
Vintage 1960s Italian Hollywood Regency Console Tables
Brass
Vintage 1960s Italian Side Tables
Goatskin
Vintage 1960s Italian Hollywood Regency Dry Bars
Brass
Vintage 1950s Italian Hollywood Regency Platters and Serveware
Brass
Vintage 1960s Italian Hollywood Regency Barware
Brass
Vintage 1970s Italian Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Goatskin
Vintage 1970s Italian Hollywood Regency Tableware
Brass
Vintage 1970s Italian Post-Modern Beds and Bed Frames
Goatskin
Vintage 1960s Italian Hollywood Regency Nesting Tables and Stacking Tables
Goatskin, Mahogany
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Brass
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Jewelry Boxes
Brass
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Metal, Brass
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Barware
Brass
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Pitchers
Brass
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Serving Pieces
Brass
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Coat Racks and Stands
Brass
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Wine Coolers
Brass
Mid-20th Century Italian Hollywood Regency Serving Pieces
Brass
Vintage 1970s Italian Hollywood Regency Nesting Tables and Stacking Tables
Goatskin
Vintage 1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Planters and Jardinieres
Goatskin
Vintage 1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes
Goatskin, Wood
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Tableware
Brass
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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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