Rustic style furniture

The practice of carving migrated strongly in the first decade of the 20th century to other wooden furnishings: tables, frames, complete furnishings reinterpreted in a “rustic” Sardinian key (renowned, for their quality, those of the Fratelli Clemente Company in Sassari). Even the artistic ceramic tiles were sold together with the “traditional Sardinian” wooden frame.
The practice of carving migrated strongly in the first decade of the 20th century to other wooden furnishings: tables, frames, complete furnishings reinterpreted in a “rustic” Sardinian key (renowned, for their quality of execution, those of the Fratelli Clemente Company in Sassari). Even the ceramic tiles by artists such as Federico Melis, Nino Siglienti, Edina Altara, were marketed together with the “traditional Sardinian” wooden frame, made mostly by the Cau workshop in Cagliari. Of these frames, almost always dyed black, many have motifs taken from traditional cases. The second post-war period saw a decline in interest in the Sardinian cassa (also a victim of the widespread rejection of folklore), an attitude that favored the enormous demand for this artifact by the new tourist user who, often dismembering and dispersing it, has destined the carved part of the box to be re-functionalized as a door door, closet door, thermosiphone panel or mobile bar with a front flap (examples mainly found in Costa Smeralda).

Variants of some interest in the case, redesigned in the 1950s, are those left by the artist and designer Melkiorre Melis, with a front panel painted in colors in imitation of a fabric, and by the architect Ubaldo Badas, who proposes a model with elongated feet, shaped with typical post-war taste, and with relief drawings and carving on the front; a second model by Badas sees the direct replacement of the front panel, once carved, with a fabric with traditional designs. A curious insertion that, by reducing production costs, shifts the reflection to the analogy between woven and carved motifs. Eugenio Tavolara, in the 1950s, also proposed kitchen cutting boards ('tazeris') with one side with carved motifs, also trying to affirm, by recovering their shapes and patterns, the use of wooden stamps for bread ('pintaderas').

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6/9/2023 - 02:08