WARNING: This fireplace is currently at our warehouse in Campagnola Emilia, (RE). It will be assembled and viewable at our showroom in Correggio (RE), via Fosdondo n° 90 from 05/15/2025 on.
For you to better understand the stylism of this fireplace I think it is only fair to tell you about the creator of this “tubular” mantel, a revolution in its time.. To be precise, I will recall that this line of “tube sectioned at its center” was invented by our Salvator Rosa to frame his paintings while later the success of such a frame was HUGE especially in the “mirror and mantel frames” sector.
Our hero's name is Salvator Rosa and he was born in the first half of the 1600s in that of Naples.. Very soon he became famous for his paintings (ranging from the bucolic to the horrific to the warlike, a series of representations, considering the time, more than courageous, “daredevil..” But painting was only one of the paths of this incredible “painter.” He was also a good (when you have passion you are also good) engraver, a successful writer also and especially in the satirical novel, even a stage actor.. His fame as an excellent painter took him to Rome and Florence, cities in which he was hailed by the most important families such as the Brancaccio and Medici families.. But our Salvator could not bear these vassal affections, He was a free man in every sense and when his fame crossed the Alps he even refused invitations from the Emperor of Austria, from Queen Christina of Sweden and even from the most important patron in the world, THE KING OF FRANCE.
And it was precisely France that made the mantel that our Rosa had designed for his paintings become world famous: Parisian architects were designing the most beautiful “house” in the world (the palace of Versailles) and, verify to believe, almost all the fireplaces in this little house (1264 fireplaces heated it embellishing it) have their own fireplace (the place where wood is burned) pleasantly “circulated” by the “tubular mantel” of the extravagant, incredible Neapolitan artist and inventor.
This same mantel had a great diffusion in France starting from the mid-nineteenth century (from about 1840), when some chimney manufacturer decided to make that “tube” THE real frame of the fireplace, thus was born our Boudin, and it was born precisely with this design “carre' ‘ (square) but then it was also produced with a lowered arch or with ’sguanci” (curves) at the corners in the top of the mantel itself... If you take a look at our site in the Louis XIV section, you will easily spot the various interpretations of this very Italian (and even Neapolitan) invention...
THE CARRÉ MODEL IS THE MOST SOUGHT-AFTER (PERHAPS BECAUSE IT IS THE MOST CLASSIC..) AND THAT IS WHY IT COSTS A LITTLE MORE THAN THE OTHER BOUDIN MODELS. THE MANTEL I PRESENT HERE WAS CARVED FROM A PARTICULARLY CANDID “JOY-WHITE” MARBLE, ITS AGE IS RIGHT (1840-60), ITS PRESERVATION PERFECT (PARTLY BECAUSE THESE STRUCTURES ARE OF SIGNIFICANT THICKNESS, DECISIVELY MORE IMPORTANT THAN ALMOST ALL OTHER ANTIQUE CHIMNEYS ON THE MARKET), ITS RECOVERY HAPPENED IN THE LAND OF BEAUJOLAIS, LYON AREA.
