Art Deco, Italian Exceptional Bar Cabinet by Guglielmo Ulrich

Name: Art Deco, Italian Exceptional Bar Cabinet by Guglielmo Ulrich
Brand: Guglielmo Ulrich
Rating: 5 (6 reviews)

About the Item

Cabinet in mahogany with doors with brass banding. The doors fold and slide back to reveal the interior. The legs in sabre form are typical of the work of Ulrich. Provenance Galerie Philippe Deneys, Bruxelles. Bibliography: Guglielmo Ulrich by Luca Scacchetti Guglielmo Ulrich was born in Milan in 1904, the son of Albert and Luisa Battaglia. Of a noble family of Danish origin, he attended the Brera Accademy, and after a two-years course, he graduated in architecture at Milan. He finished his studies at Politecnico di Milano in 1927, and soon became a seminal figure in the world of Italian design. He was an architect, a designer and a painter, and his work played a formative role in what we recognise today as Italian style. It was not long before Guglielmo Ulrich's name became synonymous with innovative and impeccably accomplished work. Ulrich reinvented traditional 18th and 19th-century sophistication in a form combining contemporary comfort and panache.

Creator:
Guglielmo Ulrich (Designer)
Dimensions:
Height: 55.12 in (140 cm)Width: 55.12 in (140 cm)Depth: 16.54 in (42 cm)
Style:
Mid-Century Modern (Of the Period)
Materials and Techniques:
Wood
Place of Origin:
Italy
Period:
1940-1949
Date of Manufacture:
circa 1940s
Condition:
Refinished.
Seller Location:
London, GB
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU985614066762

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Guglielmo Ulrich

Furniture designer Guglielmo Ulrich was born in Milan to a family with Danish origins. After completing his studies at the Brera Academy, the Scuola Speciale di Architettura and the Polytechnic University of Milan in 1927, Ulrich’s status quickly rose in high-society circles, as he’d gained a reputation for creating elegant interiors for a range of commercial and private clients. Architecture and furniture design in Milan was evolving during the era owing to industrialization, and Ulrich’s modernist work was seen as fresh and forward-looking.

In 1930, Ulrich established the furniture company ARCA — which was short for Arredamento Casa — with colleagues Attilio Scaglia and Renato Wild. Together they created a platform for Ulrich’s designs, which were quite different from the typical furnishings found in Europe at the time.

Ulrich favored simple lines — tapered table and chair legs, lean silhouettes — and the graceful contours of his console tables and dining chairs are representative of an endeavor to streamline neoclassical forms. He created luxurious but practical furniture and home accessories that featured an emphasis on craftsmanship as well as an integration of exotic materials such as ebonized wood, opaline glass and green marble. Ulrich’s designs were very much in line with what we now know as the Art Deco style, which was officially introduced to the world in 1925 at Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes in Paris. He collaborated with legendary architect and designer Gio Ponti on designs for a hotel property in the late 1930s and co-edited Ponti’s revered Domus magazine with Milanese architect Melchiorre Bega.

By the 1950s, Ulrich was firmly established as one of the most influential Milanese designers, having a hand in designing homes, commercial properties and more. In 1961, he won the Fiera di Trieste award for his lightweight Trieste chair, a seat that shared common ground with Ponti’s iconic Superleggera chair and was produced by Saffa.

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