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Pietro Chiesa

Cabinet

Fontana Arte
Italy, c. 1938
mirrored crystal, bronze, lacquered wood 34¼ h × 29½ w × 17 d in (87 × 75 × 43 cm)
estimate: $50,000–70,000
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Chest features four drawers. Impressed manufacturer's mark to each drawer 'FX'. Partial decal distributor's labels to side and drawer 'Dominici R Xan De Toledo 310 J Paulo JEI-6 160'.
provenance: Important Private Collection | Wright, Important Design, 9 June 2011, Lot 196 | Private Collection
exhibited: FontanaArte, House of Glass, 4 April - 31 July 2022, Le Stanze del Vetro, Venice

This work will ship from Wright in Chicago, Illinois.

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...art is creation, art is progress, art is to overturn the canon deemed certain, it is to achieve a new combination, unseen, and to reveal an unknown sensibility, and to substitute, for a belief in today, a belief in tomorrow.

Pietro Chiesa, Realtà, 1931

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