Madrid - Desks

Italian Desk Veneered in Walnut Briar, Lombardy 17th century with ebonized profiles and large contrasting threads arranged to create shaped reserves; floor surmounted by a riser wit...

A French Directory era secretary desk, from the early 19th century, made of beautiful cherry wood, in a light tone with bronze handles and bronze keyholes as well. In their lower part they have a long drawer, and two smaller upper ones. When opening the lid, with a mechanism of lateral iron bars, we can see four other smaller drawers, two on each side, separated by a small walnut arch...

Eugenio Quarti 1867-1929 desk with twin table decorated with floral inlays Eugenio Quarti, "prince of cabinetmakers", was born in 1867 in Villa d'Almè, a small town in the province of Bergamo, to a family dedicated to wood crafts. Bruno Munari At the age of 14, his father sent him to Paris, where he worked as an apprentice in a cabinet-making workshop. At the end of the 1980s, dell'800 returned to Italy and settled in Milan, where he worked, for a short time, with Carlo Bugatti. In the same year, he will open his own workshop in via Donizetti. The first pieces of furniture they draw and produce are clearly derived from Bugattiana. Vittore Grubicy de DragonDal 1894, the year in which he participated in the international exhibition in Antwerp and in the international workers' exhibition in Milan, in 1898 Eugenio Quarti developed a personal idea of ??modernist furniture, thanks also to the spurs of Vittore Grubicy, freeing himself definitely from the stylistic heritage of Bugattian and find new ways to define a totally personal style. In the same year he participated in the Turin exhibition featuring predominantly dark wood modernist furniture decorated with "inlays" of metal, ivory, tortoise and mother-of-pearl; he is now totally free from the stylistic elements of the past, establishing himself as an artist with a unique and formed personality. Precious wood furnishings such as teak, mahogany, rosewood, maracaibo, walnut, natural or stained maple are enriched with subtle inlays, metallic strands and precious materials, distributed to follow and highlight profiles. Inside which decorative motifs of stylized plants or animals are inserted. In 1900 he participated in the international exhibition in Paris, where he received the coveted "Grand Prix" jury prize. Launched with undisputed success, he sees that his clientele is growing more and more within the aristocracy and upper bourgeoisie; The furniture produced is increasingly luxurious and very expensive. Once the workshop in via Donizetti remains, he opens a new one of 100 square meters in via Palermo, where he remains until 1904. From this moment on, Eugenio Quarti, who produces exclusively isolated pieces to be included in already finished furniture contexts, begins a production aimed at creating complete environments that are often complex and grandiose. At the end of 1904, Quarti moved to a new factory designed by Luigi Conconi, in Carlo Poma street. Here, gradually and in a typical business perspective of the moment, from the beginning to a production that establishes the objective of a progressive expansion of customers; He proposes, along with luxurious and precious furniture, also a more economical and mass production. From 1906 he introduced geometric elements in the decorations, light and dark chessboard inlays and hemispheres in wood or glass with a clear Viennese allusion. After the first decade of the century are the furniture for important Milanese houses and the Camparino bar in the Galleria Vittorio Veneto II, where, in 1923, he will replace the old furniture still linked to the Empire style with his furniture. A deep and significant restyling operation that he sees a close collaboration with Angiolo d'Andrea and Alessandro Mazzuccotelli. He died six years later, leaving the management of the company to his son Mario (1901-1974), who inherited the company from his father and restructured it. In the 30s of the 900s, the "Quarti - Mobili d'arte" will have about 200 employees. Undoubtedly, Eugenio Quarti, one of the great Italian cabinetmakers of the 20th century, worked with the most prestigious architects of his time. Giuseppe Sommaruga, Luigi Broggi, Alfredo Campanini, just to name a few. He also worked as a decorator, designing complete furniture for public and private buildings. It was he who designed the furniture for the Palazzo Castiglioni in Milan, the Villa Carosio in Baveno, the Grand Hotel and Casinò in San Pellegrino Terme, and the Hungaria Palace Hotel on the Lido in Venice. However, he also disdained less important orders such as the furniture for the Villa Mariani in Bordighera, the residence of the painter Pompeo Mariani...

Bargueño or litter bin in Italian style. Tortoiseshell, bone, wood. XVII century. Rectangular litter bin of uncovered sample slightly raised on circular legs, decorated with marquetry of simple geometric motifs on the top and the two sides (where, in addition, there are handles that still maintain part of their gilding), and with a front with three drawers (two smaller upstairs; all with key locks) decorated with pairs of tortoiseshell rectangles enhanced with bands of bone tinted with plant and geometric elements simulating four drawers in total. Note also the metal corner pieces (again, with traces of gilding), finished off with trefoil motifs. Compare, for example, with the litter bin in the National Museum of Decorative Arts from the 17th century, which is similar on both sides (although it has a central chapel); several very similar ones located in private Spanish collections (some called “Carlos II...

Original 1950 bureau made in solid teakwood with three drawers, extensible writing desk and a secreter close by a rounded folding door. Complimentary measurements: height to th...

19th century cylinder desk in Louis XVI style Marquetry, rich gilded bronze ornamentation. Three drawers in the belt. The office is ope...

High quality sideboard opening with three blackened wood doors, Boulle style tortoiseshell and brass marquetry, beautiful ornamentation of gilded bronzes. Napoleon III period. In a p...

Shell shaped nail for Spanish desks or Bargueños. Wrought iron, Second half 20th century, after 16th century models. 20th century, inspired by models from the 16th century. Multipl...

Desk/Consol attributed to Ico Parisi. Compass-shaped legs made of walnut and top covered with light blue melamine. Carved mahogany wood drawer with latch.

Castillian desk with pedestal. Walnut, wrought iron, etc. Spain, 17th century with restorations (after that date). Castilian Bargueño with foot of...

Bargueño or Toledo desk. Walnut, ebony, boxwood, bone, wrought iron fittings with other polychrome. Spain, 17th century. Rectangular desk or wastebasket of covered sample made of wo...

French Louis XVI secretaire desk in cherrywood with original white marble top, It has three drawers, one at the top and two at the bottom, on the front opens a table covered with ori...