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Rare and Unique Aldo Tura Goatskin Coffee Table with Brass Planter Italy 1960's

About the Item

Rare and probably one of a kind planter coffee table in brass and brown lacquered goatskin by Milanese artist, Aldo Tura. Italy, circa 1960s. Exquisite, rare design. Aldo Tura was born in 1909, and established a furniture production house in Lombardy in 1939. Working between the idioms of Art Deco and Modernism he created singular, high-end furniture and accessories that were typified by rich materials, sculptural forms, and high-end, artisanal techniques. Tura's work has become highly collectible, especially examples with exotic finishes— like eggshell, goatskin, and parchment—in intense palettes of red, green, brown and yellow.

Creator:

Aldo Tura (Designer)

Dimensions:

Height: 13.78 in (35 cm)Width: 27.56 in (70 cm)Depth: 41.54 in (105.5 cm)

Style:

Mid-Century Modern (Of the Period)

Materials and Techniques:

Brass,Goatskin,Wood,Lacquered

Place of Origin:

Italy

Period:

1960-1969

Date of Manufacture:

circa 1960

Condition:

Wear consistent with age and use. Honest original vintage condition with patinated brass and wear consistent with age and use Fully detailed photo/video condition report is available upon request.

Seller Location:

bergen op zoom, NL

Reference Number:

1stDibs: LU930128456482

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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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