VERY SMALL SANDSTONE FIREPLACE, ITALIAN "ARTE POVERA” STYLE, EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY PERIOD, EXCELLENT OVERALL PRESERVATION.
This specific fireplace, with its utmost Simplicity (which then is or should be the Essence of Arte Povera..) and with that very dignified air it has, moves me every time I pass in front of it, to a mixed feeling of respect and tenderness..
Simple and Just, like the fire he will contain once put in place, He needs no one and in respect to all to me seems to be an Example of the naturalness of life, when it is True and not contrived by nonexistent needs, or vain or haughty
AMONG THE SO-CALLED “APENNINE” MANTELS (BUT DON'T BLURT IT OUT TO OTHERS, THEY MIGHT TAKE OFFENSE) HE IS THE MANTEL I LIKE BEST AND I AM SURE YOU WILL LIKE HIM TOO, IF ONLY YOU GET A CHANCE TO LOOK AT HIS FACE.
