The pleasure of the art collector lies in an omnivorous thirst for knowledge that settles work after work, year after year. Taste is thus subject to a process of stratification and refinement that transforms it into a garden of private ideas that wander freely in search of a new object that absorbs all the desires for beauty that art can offer.
Over the course of two decades, Clemente Ferrari loved and mastered the Genoese tradition of cabinet-making of the Eighteenth century. It was a century of transition between Baroque and Rococo, where the influences and trends coming from France and England – nations linked to the “Lantern” by centuries-old and consolidated commercial relations – led to the production of objects of excellence in terms of compositional creativity, naturally elegant and balanced. This is why the production of this century is an example of unparalleled originality.
His touch, that of a refined connoisseur, can be seen in the veneered folding chest in inlaid purple wood with a double-profile structure decorated with the typical heart pattern in bois de rose. It is also visible in the six armchairs in walnut wood, carved with natural motifs in relief, seat and backrest in red and gold damask. Belonging to the same period and with the same plastic impact, two torch-holders in carved, laquered and gilded wood, with five flames supported by a crested newt in the round, resting on a rocky base. A console in carved gilded wood with shaped top in green marble, perforated front band centred by a female head and struts topped by winged, anthropomorphic female figures.