Are you from Genoa and in keeping with tradition would you like to have your cake and eat it?!
(in short, would you like to spend little and have a lot?!)
Do you have a large room and need a fireplace more “on the big” than “on the small”?
It is not easy to solve this problem, as “big” fireplaces are usually also very rich in sculptural ornamentation and therefore very expensive.
My advice is to do as Mr. Mario Colombo (his name is Colombo, if he is not from Genoa..), a well-known international clothing industrialist (Colmar, Lacoste etc..), who, photographed in his Parisian mansion by the world's most prestigious furniture magazine (AD), has his elbow posed on the floor of a fireplace identical to this one, a classic and timeless Pompadour Galbé.
Here, I like this Monsieur Colombo because, perhaps, he could have bought a million dollar fireplace (as so many of his fellow industrialists would have done to make a vulgar display of wealth) and instead, demonstrating innate modesty and assured Good Taste, he preferred this model of light nineteenth-century baroque.
AND THIS IS FURTHER PROOF THAT THE POMPADOUR GALBÉ FIREPLACE, WHILE NOT LOADED WITH WHO KNOWS HOW MANY SCULPTURAL JEWELS, HAS ELEGANT AND CHARMING LINES. AT LEAST FOR THOSE CAPABLE OF UNDERSTANDING AND ENJOYING THEM.
Said fireplace has in our site a published price of less than € 4000… If you are really Genoese (by birth or by spirit it doesn't matter..) a little something at a discount you will be able to get it...in short, in the end this antique fireplace will cost you less than the poorest industrial production fireplace, and in addition you will be able to tell your friends that you own the same fireplace as “monsieur Lacoste..”
A Pompadour Galbè fireplace of this size is found once in a blue moon because in the nineteenth century it was fashionable to install it in bedrooms (perhaps for dynastic matters, since “Pompadour” was the name of the world's most famous mistress) and therefore its widths were, in the vast majority of cases, equal to or less than 125 cm, a measure considered unpassable for the bedroom “little room.”
Since I guess that our good Francesco is more alive and well than ever, if ever you are among the Genoese I speak of above, hurry to the purchase, it will be a really great and unrepeatable bargain for you!
Provenance Paris, Pietrasantina sculpture (therefore very Italian), period second half of the 19th century, excellent preservation, medium size and TODAY very adaptable to any interior.
