important large and fine demi-lune shaped console designed by Paolo Buffa, circa 1940
ebonized walnut, bronze details and rare top “striato Carrara marble ”
three graceful saber-shaped legs finishing on brass sabots and joined by a sculptural stretcher
important grissinato wood top handwork
demi-lune Carrara striato marble top, owl’s beak
measures: height 89cm , 129x 35 cm ; marble top heigh: 3 cm
very good original condition
little signs on the marble
In the 1940’s the architect Paolo Buffa turned to 18th century Lombardian precedents, both from the Baroque and from the Neo-Classical era, distilling subtle variations cued to his singular Milanese market. This elegant console table embodies a Mannerist fusion of restrained classicism evident in the elongated legs accented by austere brass sabots and capitals, with a canted apron holding a undulating marble top clearly reminiscent of Baroque projecting cornices
cf. R. Aloi, L’Arredamento Moderno, Milan, 1949, fig. 583 for a similar example;
R. Rizzi, I mobili di Paolo Buffa, Cantù, 2001, p. 35.