Etsy - LynxHollowAntiques Scarce Mid-Century Modern Italian Bar Cabinet Attributed To Osvaldo Borsani Circa 1950S
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Make a statement with this rare mid-century Italian modernist bar cabinet (sideboard buffet) attributed to legendary designer Osvaldo Borsani (Italy, 1911-1985), circa 1950s. Rosewood & maple, having a swan's neck pediment, glazed glass doors, interior mounted with artistic hand painted panel, two glass shelves, lower case with drop-front secretary desk style slant-front bar work surface, over double-door cabinet, rising on ebonized curved legs. Please note, at the time of writing this, we have a matching table available separately DIMENSIONS: (approx) 92.5 High, 35.5 Wide, 17.5 Deep ABOUT OSVALDO BORSANI: Osvaldo Borsani (born 1911, Varedo, Italy-died 1985, Milano, Italy) was an Italian designer & architect. Osvaldo Borsani was born into a family of artisan furniture makers. His father, Gaetano Borsani, owned a furniture shop, the Atelier di Varedo, where the 16-year-old Osvaldo first started to train. At the time, a designer working at the atelier was the architect Gino Maggioni, who influenced the early 20th century Jugendstil movement from Vienna & instilled in the young Borsani an appreciation for the arts & crafts & furniture making. Osvaldo Borsani studied Fine Arts at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan, graduating in 1931, he then studied Architecture at Politecnico di Milano, where he graduated in 1936. in 1933, two years before graduating as an architect, Borsani designed the Casa Minima project for the V Triennale di Milano (Milan Triennial), collaborating with Cairoli & Varisco's architects. This project earned him a silver medal for its Rationalist code & geometries, & he received positive reviews from the critic Edoardo Persico of Casabella magazine. in 1937, Osvaldo Borsani designed Villa Presenti in Forte dei Marmi, a seaside home in Tuscany where the Italian aristocracy & industrial elite often built their houses. It was a project that displayed the same rationalistic rigor as Casa Minima, but was softened with Mediterranean colors & materials. in 1943, Osvaldo designed & built his own house, the Villa Borsani, in Varedo, which, despite being conceptualized with strict Rationalist principles, assimilated objects & art of younger artists that conversed a more gentle approach to the human expression. The Villa Borsani project incorporated the work of artists such as Adriano Spilimbergo, Fausto Melotti, Lucio Fontana (who made the ceramic fireplace & the ceramic Madonna), & Agenore Fabbri (who made the bronze statue in the staircase). To this day, Villa Borsani has been preserved with most of its original furniture, & it remains in the hand of Osvaldo Borsani's family, along with extensive archives of his work. After Villa Borsani, Osvaldo continued to develop many projects for the Milanese bourgeoisie, always incorporating the same artist's work. He developed a particularly strong relationship with artist Lucio Fontana, a close friend since his time at the Accademia de Belle Arti di Brera. Borsani assigned Fontana to
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