Natural Mahogany and black-tinted Ash, mother-of-pearl and metal inlays.
Total width 170 cm., height 195 cm.
Carlo Bugatti
A screen composed of four panels divided into two background paintings with a different treatment: the lower part in natural wood, the upper stained black. The outer panels are less wide than the inner ones. The open double-jointed hinges give the doors alternate closure, providing stability without the use of bearing feet.
The diagonal decorative band is marked by two double chasing threads in aluminium which frame a line of rhombi in mother-of-pearl; the central part bears a floral theme made up of a sinuous stem in aluminium sheet, studded with elliptic leaflets, dividing into two twigs, each crowned by a mother-of-pearl flower in a different design.
In the reconstruction, the measurements were taken through the graphic straightening of the only photograph existing, a series of proportional verifications and a comparison with the measurements of other historical screens and others still being produced. The image of a high screen was obtained, probably designed to divide large rooms in the home. Thanks also to the aid of a real-scale model, it was decided to make it smaller in size to suit its collocation in a contemporary home. The doors were produced in veneered multi-layer in Honduras mahogany (lower part) and black-stained ash wood (upper part), subsequently wax-polished.
The decoration was deduced from an enlargement of the photograph in real scale, following its geometric patterns.
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