Essential Design 
26 September 2024
Essential Design 
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Pietro Chiesa

Occasional table

Fontana Arte
Italy, c. 1936
lacquered wood, rose-gold mirrored glass 20½ h × 45½ w × 27½ d in (52 × 116 × 70 cm)
estimate: $3,000–5,000
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Incised manufacturer's mark to stem of legs near top ‘FX’.
literature: Arredamento, Ulrich, fig. 1 illustrates similar example

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[A]rt 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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