Modernist display cabinet, circa 1900. Carved wood
Modernist display cabinet, circa 1900.
Carved wood, root veneer and leaded glass.
Measurements: 187 x 61.5 x 38 cm.
Modernist display cabinet made of wood and decorated with carvings, beautifully grained root veneer and leaded glass decorated with a beautiful and complex plant design. It has a classical, architecturally inspired structure, with chamfered corners decorated with corbels and columns, a base of cut-out skirts with a stepped top and a moulded frieze crowned with a small cornice.
It is a two-part piece of furniture, the smaller lower part serving as a pedestal for the upper part. This lower body has a door with its handle, decorated on the front with the aforementioned root veneer, in a rectilinear recess topped by a segmental arch. This door is flanked by two typically modernist corbels, carved with sinuous, flowing forms that evoke the organic without actually making it concrete. The upper body follows a similar pattern, although it is more developed at a decorative level. The door is closed by a stained-glass window that combines leaded glass plates of different colours and finishes: marbled, pressed, tinted glass in different shapes, with different colours, composing a floral design halfway between realism and abstraction. The handle of this door has a more complex design than the one below it, based on sinuous, flowing lines that form an asymmetrical pattern. On both sides of this body we see turned columns made up of several superimposed bodies, located on chamfered corners that protrude from the ground plan, creating protrusions in the line of union between the two bodies. Inside this upper body is an open space, with a mirror covering the back that would multiply the light and, with it, the play of light and colours of the stained-glass window.
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Modernist display cabinet, circa 1900.
Carved wood, root veneer and leaded glass.
Measurements: 187 x 61.5 x 38 cm.
Modernist display cabinet made of wood and decorated with carvings, beautifully grained root veneer and leaded glass decorated with a beautiful and complex plant design. It has a classical, architecturally inspired structure, with chamfered corners decorated with corbels and columns, a base of cut-out skirts with a stepped top and a moulded frieze crowned with a small cornice.
It is a two-part piece of furniture, the smaller lower part serving as a pedestal for the upper part. This lower body has a door with its handle, decorated on the front with the aforementioned root veneer, in a rectilinear recess topped by a segmental arch. This door is flanked by two typically modernist corbels, carved with sinuous, flowing forms that evoke the organic without actually making it concrete. The upper body follows a similar pattern, although it is more developed at a decorative level. The door is closed by a stained-glass window that combines leaded glass plates of different colours and finishes: marbled, pressed, tinted glass in different shapes, with different colours, composing a floral design halfway between realism and abstraction. The handle of this door has a more complex design than the one below it, based on sinuous, flowing lines that form an asymmetrical pattern. On both sides of this body we see turned columns made up of several superimposed bodies, located on chamfered corners that protrude from the ground plan, creating protrusions in the line of union between the two bodies. Inside this upper body is an open space, with a mirror covering the back that would multiply the light and, with it, the play of light and colours of the stained-glass window.
