Veneto,area,and,the,history,fu DIY Veneto area and the history of furniture tradition
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In the furniture field,Veneto area is reckoned at the national level like the cradle of woodfurniture, appreciated all around Europe since the Eighteen Century; as ademonstration of the international interest for art wood furniture from Veneto,is the fact that during the decadence ofthe Republic of Veneto, nearly the entire production of furniture of that timewas sold back to European buyers. A peculiarity ofthe Venetian furniture is the fact thatit was not, in any case, related to acourt style, as in Venice there wasnt a proper court and indeed the Doge andother aristocratic used to bring their own furniture in the Ducale Palace or inthe other public buildings at the time that they were elected, nevertheless itis also true that the monasteries in Veneto (like Saint Justine in Padua, theFrari and Saint George in Venice), the big cathedrals (Treviso, Verona) andlater on the Seminars, developed their own different styles. The city with themost ancient furniture tradition is certainly Padua: in Petrarch residence atArquà there are some among the most ancient furniture ever realized in theVeneto tradition, which are of the same age as a sacristy closet, still nowconserved in the Scrovegni Chapel and which dates back to the 1300; the secondhalf of the Fifteen Century has experiences an increase in the furnitureproduction, caused by the growth of the trade with the East and by the stay ofsome artists from Florence in the Veneto area, like Paolo Uccello and Donatello,who diffused the renaissance style in Padua area and in the surrounding areas. Then the taste forinlay, engraving and the prestigious aesthetical styles begun to spread over, first in furniture forreligious buildings and then also in furniture for domestic use, becoming verycommon in the cities of Padua, Vicenza, Venice and Treviso; news story of thattime say that in Venice There is no person so poor that it cannot buy walnutchests and beds. Seventeenth Centurywas the year of the great success and of the acknowledgement of Venetofurniture creation even outside regional borders and was also the year of theorders by the rich bourgeoisie and by the Italian and European nobility:Mantua dukes for example asked theirambassador to find just made-in-Venice furniture for their Palace. Also the increasingimportance of the feminine figure, pushed Veneto furniture industry to designand realize some furniture expressively dedicated to womens world, as bathroomaccessories, toilette furniture, small writing boards etc. ; then the fall ofthe Republic of Veneto had some recoils even on the furniture industry and oncorporations. 900 in Veneto ischaracterized by a new producing method, that is the industrial furnitureproduction: laboratories were often medium- small sized and that allowed to theold-school craftsmen to start again the production of the furnitureexcellence from Veneto. Article written by SerenaRigato
Veneto,area,and,the,history,fu