We are in Paris, and we are faced with the stylistic courage of the first “designers” in History, who, placed between tradition and innovation, chose the... Futurism.
You must agree with me that it took a lot of courage to abandon the old, established and reassuring styles (we were in the era of Art Nouveau...), all aimed at curvilinear sinuosities and decorative embellishments, in order to seek the main line of an Elegance made of essentiality...
A little what happened to women's clothing (they went from very complicated lace to almost androgynous dresses..) and to the ever-feminine hairstyles, which went from wavy and baroque “heads” (like Scarlett O' Hara..) to Crepax's Valentina-like bob...
What many people don't know is that this movement originated in Italy, and it was always the Italians who refreshed it, just think of the successful participation of artists such as Balla, Depero and Prampolini in the 1925 Paris International Exposition, the same one that gave Art Deco its final legitimacy...
THIS FIREPLACE WAS CONCEIVED IN A PARIS STUDIO IN THE 1930S, BUT I LIKE TO THINK THAT THE SAME FIREPLACE CAN FIND ITS VERY JUST ITALIANITY IN ITS REFINED AND PRECIOUS MARBLE AND IN THE QUALITY OF THE MARBLE WORKMANSHIP ITSELF.
PARISIAN FIND, STYLISM ALSO PARISIAN, ITALIAN WORKMANSHIP, 1930S, EXCELLENT PRESERVATION, MEDICEAN BRECCIA MARBLE (THE QUARRY IS THAT OF SERRAVEZZA, IN ITS TIME OWNED BY COSIMO DE' MEDICI, HENCE THE NAME OF OUR MARBLE).
