MALE, STRONG, POWERFUL, AND YET ELEGANT...
IS PART OF THE FAMILY OF “THE FIREPLACES THAT NEVER HAVE TO ASK”...
A TIMELESS ELEGANCE, FROM WHICH IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO ESCAPE, EVEN FOR THOSE WHO DO NOT LIKE THE COLOR OF HELL, THESE, MORE OR LESS, ARE THE CONSIDERATIONS I MADE THE FIRST TIME I SAW IT, IN THAT COSTA RICAN YARD, IN SHORT, I FELL IN LOVE WITH IT IMMEDIATELY, AN UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER GIVEN ITS HAPPILY OVERPOWERING PERSONALITY.
You will see more of them, of “Griffe de Lion” fireplaces, even on our site, perhaps not in droves given their rarity and the much demand that takes them off the market, but I DOUBT that you could find a piece with this elegance of lines and this Beautiful Sobriety.
Because, at least in my opinion, it is precisely its Sobriety of decorative loading that makes the difference.
The “simple” moldings of the columns in place of the classical acanthus leaf, the bare (or smooth, if you prefer) surfaces of its front bars (usually otherwise covered with a “diamond-pointed” ashlar) create a kind of Virginian Beauty, not due to an excess of decorative load, but, indeed, from a kind of Naturalness.
ALL THESE WORDS WILL BE USELESS, INDEED, SUPERFLUOUS, IF YOU COME TO ADMIRE IT DE VISU, YOU TOO WILL FALL IN LOVE WITH IT LOST, AT ONCE, LIKE ULYSSES WITH THE SORCERESS CIRCE.
SAINT TROPEZ, 1830-50, PERFECT PRESERVATION, RESTORATION WITH MANUAL POLISHING (THOSE WHO BELIEVE THE ADJECTIVE “MANUAL”, COME WITH AN INSIDER AND YOU WILL REALIZE THAT WE, OF MACHINES IN GENERAL TRY TO DO WITHOUT).
