Aldo Tura Parchment Square Side Table on Chrome Legs

Name: Aldo Tura Parchment Square Side Table on Chrome Legs
Brand: Aldo Tura
Price: 1940.54 AUD
Availability: InStock
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About the Item

Simple and classical in its design this coffee table by Aldo Tura (1909-1963) sends the twist with the introduction of parchment on the tray of the table. The collection of colors in this parchment from walnut, mocha, peanut to cinnamon browns swirling through the surface of its layer. The table top is contrasted with it chrome surface of the legs and its patterned markings. Tura would use a range of unique materials such as eggshells, parchment, goatskin and wood veneers in his creations. His objects, often dyed or stained in the colors red, green, brown and yellow Little is known about the life of the Italian designer Aldo Tura. Tura founded his furniture production house in Lombardy in 1939. He had been experimenting with furniture and handcrafting tables, cupboards and lamps since the 1930's.

Creator:
Aldo Tura (Designer)
Dimensions:
Height: 23.63 in (60 cm)Width: 21.66 in (55 cm)Depth: 21.66 in (55 cm)
Style:
Mid-Century Modern (Of the Period)
Materials and Techniques:
Chrome,Goatskin,Wood
Place of Origin:
Italy
Period:
1970-1979
Date of Manufacture:
circa 1970
Condition:
Wear consistent with age and use.
Seller Location:
London, GB
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU1001525256882

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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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