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Furnitures and objects, decorated with this technique, propose the charm of the ancientness being realized today. Considering that these objects (dated '500 '600 '700) are rare on the market and however they reach prohibitive prices for the most greater part of the people, we think that this system of inlay can worthily integrate in that type of furnishing. The experience acquired in the restauration and the passion for the art of the great Teachers of the last centuries, as they daily see the works, has sustained Roberto Benedetti and Luciana Zanchini in the developing of the patented technique.

 
piano della scrivania in fase di realizzazione


Desk during the realization.

 

Everything begins with the challenge to find a system to create new furnitures that propose at all the charm of the ancient style, avoiding the mere falsification... 

The first glance comes from the "Commesso Fiorentino", technique of decoration of the XVI° century (the works of maximum expression of this art are visible to the the workshop of the Hard Stones and to the Chapels MEDICEE in Florence), with which were plane inlays of marble with colored marbles.

Then the intuition from the decorated furniture to MARQUETERIE, technique with which in the XVIII century forniture were decorated with appreciated woods. The furniture of greater merit are those decorated by Joseph Maggiolini. 
Therefore the research of a possible fusion of the two techniques to get complements of I furnish of great charm. 

The most remarkable characteristics of this procedure in compararion with the traditional decorations, are: 

LIGHTNESS 
the marmoreal thickness of just 3 mm doesn't makes them heavy, so a piece of furniture is of easy transport; 

ELASTICITY
the marble is fixed on a wooden support that reduces the bumps and it avoids the fragmentation in case of falls; 

IMPERMEABILITY' AND EASY MAINTENANCE 

ENDURANCE 
because of the hardness of the used materials; 

EASY RESTAURATION 
light grazes, easily repairable, are just  the maximum damage that can be verified.

Chest with golden bronze and leges n marble by Joseph Maggiolini with drawings of A. Appiani; 
  Elegant XVIII sec. - Milan, Real villa. - 
Photo from  CONOSCERE GLI STILI DEI MOBILI 
MOBILI INTARSIATI - GORLICH editore Milano


THE ENDLESS COLORS OF THE MARBLES AND OF THE OTHER USED MATERIALS ALLOWS TO PERFORM ANY SKETCH OR OBJECT, ALSO ACCORDING TO THE SUGGESTION OF THE CLIENTS






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