UNOBTAINABLE (BECAUSE OF ITS “FABRIC”) FIREPLACE WHOSE LINES COME TO US FROM THE MAGICAL MOMENT OF EUROPEAN ART, THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE...
ITS BARBICAN LEGS, THE ELEGANT AS WELL AS DISCREET STRENGTH OF ITS ARCHITECTURE, THE CLEANLINESS OF ITS LINES, EVERYTHING TAKES US BACK TO THAT ERA AND TO THE “HOUSES” (FANTASTIC VILLAS, CASTLES, FORTRESSES AND SO ON..) OF THE MEDICIS, THE GONZAGAS, THE VISCONTIS ETC.
OBVIOUSLY, THIS FIREPLACE OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY PRODUCTION, RE-PROPOSES TO US THESE STYLES AND THIS ANCIENT ELEGANCE AFTER REVISITING THEM AND, ABOVE ALL, AFTER... “SHRINKING” THEM..
NINETEENTH-CENTURY RESIDENCES WERE BY THEN “MODERN” AND CONSEQUENTLY SMALLER AND LESS PRETENTIOUS THAN RENAISSANCE ONES, NOT TO MENTION THE FACT THAT THE PURCHASERS OF A FIREPLACE LIKE THE ONE I AM PRESENTING TO YOU WERE NO LONGER FLORENTINE PRINCES OR BANKERS, BUT MEMBERS OF THE EMERGING BOURGEOISIE...
IF YOU ARE NOT ANNOYED AT THE HISTORICAL NOTE AND HAVE READ ME SO FAR, IT MEANS THAT YOU ARE INTERESTED IN KNOWING AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE ABOUT THE FIREPLACE, JUST AS I LIKE TO EXPRESS AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE ABOUT THE FIREPLACES THAT I PRESENT EVERYTHING I KNOW, OR THAT STRIKES ME MOST, OR THAT SEEMS MOST IMPORTANT TO ME
HAVING SAID THAT WE COME TO THE NECESSARY TECHNICAL-LOGISTICAL INFORMATION ROUTINE:
THIS LOUIS PHILIPPE ROULEAU MANTEL (FROM THE "CURL" AT THE BASE OF THE FEET) COMES TO US FROM A PARISIAN DISMANTLING, IT WAS MADE BETWEEN 1840 AND 1860 IN BELGIUM (OR THEREABOUTS), IT IS IN PERFECT CONDITION OF PRESERVATION AND PATINA.
ITS PRICE IS PARTICULARLY LOW WHEN YOU CONSIDER THAT:
(A) ITS BLACK BELGIUM MARBLE IS NOW CATALOGED AMONG PRECIOUS STONES;
(B) FEMALE BUYERS AND THEIR ARCHITECTS/FURNISHERS, TO THE CRY OF “EITHER BLACK BELGIUM OR NOTHING!!!” ARE DRIVING THE PRICE OF ANY BLACK-COLORED FIREPLACE PAIR THROUGH THE ROOF;
(C) THE VERY DIFFICULT RESTORATIONS AND POLISHING (THE LATTER CAN ONLY BE MANUAL IF YOU DON'T WANT TO LOSE THE PATINA) ON THIS KIND OF MARBLE HAVE COSTS THAT ARE, PRECISELY, STELLAR;. THOSE WHO DON'T BELIEVE ME, ASK THE STONEMASON BELOW.
BUT THE CHARM OF THIS MARBLE IS UNPARALLELED AND THE PARISIAN STYLISM IS WELL WORTH A PUT (OF HAND TO BAG).
SIDE TIPS
As we males well know, our wives have no sense of humor.
Mind you, before they became “wives,” our women were smiling, nice, “companionable,” in short, very normal people with very normal humor.
Then, that inauspicious YES of ours made them, in a short span of time, caustic, always inc... oops... angry, serious beyond measure etc..
Personally I have found that an exception to these funereal and mulieval behaviors exists, and it is extrinsic with shrewd results when the wife's sarcasm is directed at the husband..
Let me give you an example.. Before she married me (a step I fortunately took at a good 40 years of age and after 17 years of engagement...), my wife compared me to Corrado Tedeschi, said I looked so much like him, in fact, according to her I was BETTER in that I was taller and physically better shaped.
After a few years of marriage, with Bersani coming to political prominence and the simultaneous uncovering of my temples, that was the new comparison.
And if Bersani could even fit, today, a few more years later I am obsessively mocked by her as a Jerry Scotti look-alike !!!
Does something like this happen to you too?
Yes!!!
Do you want to recover a little dignity towards your wife and friends who hear her ridiculing you all the time?
Buy her this splendid, most original, trendy, most elegant, most unusual, most precious Louis Philippe fireplace in most precious "NOIR FIN" marble (THAT'S HOW THIS MARBLE IS CALLED BY THE FRENCHES).
Your wife will sdilinquire (because her friends this time can only envy her) and look at you, at least for a week (let's not exaggerate, content with two/three days, it will already be a good result) AS A REAL MAN!!!
