Italian Midcentury Lacquered Goatskin Bar or Sideboard Designed by Aldo Tura

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Italian Midcentury Lacquered Goatskin Bar or Sideboard Designed by Aldo Tura

About the Item

A very elegant and hard to find sideboard and bar by the famous designer Aldo Tura. Italian designer and manufacturer Aldo Tura, born in 1909, opened his furniture company in 1939 in Lombardy. His works moved between Art Deco and Modernism. Tura created unique high-quality furniture and accessories characterized by quality materials, sculptural forms and luxurious artistic techniques. Tura's work has become a hugely popular collector's item, especially those featuring exotic details such as eggshell, goatskin. The midcentury bar is handmade out of lacquered goatskin and mahogany wood. The goatskin is painted, which gives the bar its special look and gives it an exotic feeling. The cabinet stands on strong mahogany wooden legs. It has two tall doors on the side, which can be opened with a key. The smaller middle door opens to the front. On the top at the right side, it has another drawer, which can be used for bottles. (On the inside there are stoppers, which are used as a safety device). The bar also has three holes in the back. (those holes were probably made by the previous owner to pull through cables for the music station). The bar was produced in Italy around 1950. Very rarely such bars are found and Aldo Tura only produced a limited edition of bars. The bar would make an eye-catching addition to any interior such as living room, family room, screening room or even in the office. It also perfectly fits in an hospitality or corporate location like a boutique hotel lobby, cocktail bar, members club or in a luxury boutique. Measurements: 88cm (H) x 158cm (W) x 40cm (D), 16cm (height of the legs) The bar is in good condition and was refurbished, however, it shows minor traces of age and use.

Creator:
Aldo Tura (Designer)
Dimensions:
Height: 34.65 in (88 cm)Width: 62.21 in (158 cm)Depth: 15.75 in (40 cm)
Style:
Mid-Century Modern (Of the Period)
Materials and Techniques:
Brass,Goatskin,Lacquer,Mahogany,Painted
Place of Origin:
Italy
Period:
1950-1959
Date of Manufacture:
1950s
Condition:
Wear consistent with age and use.
Seller Location:
Vienna, AT
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU1665210432873

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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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