This very special fireplace should be seen in person and not through some daguerreotype, only then can its many fascinating features be best appreciated, the most important of which, for your possible greater knowledge, I will list below:
A) The whiteness of its most noble marble.. Which marble is nobler than the Carrara Statuario? Obvious answer: the Statuario Carrara Arabescato...Your wife will confirm this;
B) The fact that this fireplace is architecturally in the perfect Louis Philippe style, but it has some details (I will show them to you if you ever come to visit us), let's say “decorative” peculiar to the pencil of the architect who gave birth to it, who must have been, in addition to being imaginative, a little revolutionary;
C) Its measurements, DEFINITELY..ABUNDANT. You can check every Louis Louis Philippe fireplace mantel on our site and you will see that our fireplace is definitely wider (by about 40 cm) and taller (by about 20 cm) THAN ALL OF ITS BROTHERS. This is because, normally, Louis Philippe fireplaces (both the Modillons and the Palmettes, the two most important families) were mounted in small rooms (entrances and bedrooms) and therefore were carved in small sizes.
Someone (the buyer or the designer architect) decided (rightly) that this particular stylism should also have rich representatives and not just serfs.. I do not exclude that the historical moment in which our fireplace came into existence (the Belle Epoque, late 19th-early 20th century) influenced the birth of this mantel. IN THAT TWO DECADES IT SEEMED PERMISSIBLE, PERHAPS NECESSARY, CERTAINLY FUN, TO DO SOME CRAZY THINGS, FOR EXAMPLE, JUST THINK OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE EIFFEL TOUR, THE FIRST AND MOST IMPORTANT TECHNICAL-ARTISTIC MADNESS OF MODERN MAN.
ITS DATE OF BIRTH IS WITHIN THE TWO DECADES WE JUST TALKED ABOUT ABOVE, ITS DISCOVERY WAS IN A NINETEENTH-CENTURY PALACE IN NIZZA, ITS PRESERVATION IS IMPECCABLE, AND THE MAKEUP RESERVED FOR “HIM” BY OUR MAGICAL RESTORER MASSIMO (MASSIMO IN NAME AND IN FACT) HAS MADE IT A.. BEAUTIFUL WOMAN... THE ONLY THING WRONG IS ITS PRICE, TOO LOW TO BE TRUE.
