Bottle Holder "Cannon" by Aldo Tura, 1950s

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Bottle Holder "Cannon" by Aldo Tura, 1950s

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Bottle holder "Cannon" is an original decorative object realized by the Italian designer Aldo Tura (Milan, 1909) in the 1950s. Made and created by Tura, Milan. Main materials: wood coated with red kid leather, clear lacquer and silver plated brass. Made in Italy. Mint conditions. Interesting bottle holder with a "cannon" shape realized in Italy by one of the Italian design masters. This excellent object is realized in wood with red leather, a clear lacquer and silver plated brass decorations. The wheels of the cannon are in fact made of brass. The artifact is completely realized in wood coated with a precious red leather and lacquer all-over the surface. The name of the famous Italian designer Aldo Tura, is synonymous with Classic, timeless design, craftmanship of the highest order, and elaborate manufacture of furniture items with a unique character. This artwork has been realized and created by Aldo Tura (Milan, 1909). Tura founded his own production company in 1939 in Lombardy. Working between the Art Deco and modernist style, Tura creates unique and luxury furniture and accessories, characterized by rich materials, sculptural shapes, and exclusive artisan techniques. Tura is part of the Italian talents of the Mid-Century. In the post-war years, while many producers are intent on adapting their production methods to the mass, Tura dedicated to slow and traditional craftsmanship. It favors intricate and complex shapes and labor-intensive processes, which cannot be replicated in a large-scale factory system. As a result, the number of Tura jobs available on the vintage market remains limited. Today, Tura's company continues to produce luxury furniture in Lombardy, but much information about Tura himself has been lost. The Brooklynn Museum in New York has several Tura designs that were originally exhibited between 1950 and 1953 at the exhibition Italy at Work: Her Renaissance in Design Today.

Creator:
Aldo Tura (Designer)
Dimensions:
Height: 6.5 in (16.5 cm)Width: 10.24 in (26 cm)Depth: 5.52 in (14 cm)
Materials and Techniques:
Brass,Leather,Wood,Silvered
Place of Origin:
Italy
Period:
1950-1959
Date of Manufacture:
1950s
Condition:
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Seller Location:
Roma, IT
Reference Number:
Seller: M-1110941stDibs: LU2698321469532

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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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