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Aldo Tura 1950s Mid-Century Bar Cart, Trolley or Stand in Brown Italian Goatskin

About the Item

Midcentury Modern vintage Italian 1950s bar cart, tea trolley or drinks stand by Aldo Tura, Milan. The brown colored and lacquered goatskin leather combined with gilded cast metal handles, rails and finals is perfect for any Mid-Century or Hollywood Regency collector of enthusiast. Perfect for serving your favourite drinks and cocktails. Fantastic for barware, it would also make a wonderful side table. Carefully disassembled and delicately cleaned, ready for use. Measures: Length 80 cm Width 40 cm Height to handle 73.7 cm Height to top shelf 65.5 cm Distance between the two shelves 47.7 cm. Please note some assembly will be required as the piece will be dismantled in order to insure its arrival in a safe condition.

Creator:
Aldo Tura (Designer)
Dimensions:
Height: 29.02 in (73.7 cm)Width: 15.75 in (40 cm)Depth: 33.67 in (85.5 cm)
Style:
Mid-Century Modern (Of the Period)
Materials and Techniques:
Goatskin,Metal,Cast,Dyed,Gilt,Lacquered
Place of Origin:
Italy
Period:
1950-1959
Date of Manufacture:
circa 1955
Condition:
Wear consistent with age and use. Surface scratches to the lacquer which can easily be seen in certain lights/angles. Wearing / fading to the gold plating on the two pulling handles and top edge trim. Some cracks to the lacquer on the edges. All very typical for these trolleys.
Seller Location:
Landau an der Isar, DE
Reference Number:
Seller: TURA-BROWN-CART-SMALL-WHEELS#21stDibs: LU1835348618612

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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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