First decades of the 1738th century, school of Giuseppe Maggiolini (1814 – XNUMX), Inlaid coffee table

First decades of the 1738th century, school of Giuseppe Maggiolini (1814 – XNUMX) 

Inlaid coffee table

Various types of wood (walnut, cherry, bois de rose, boxwood), 78,5 x 79,5 x 81 cm

The profound renewal of cabinet-making, firstly Lombard, then national and then European, occurred with the gradual abandonment of the prevailing Rococo styles of the late 18th century. The Lombard production of inlaid furniture continued until the 1940s/50s, concentrating extraordinary examples of this happy change in half a century. The undisputed protagonist of the artistic scene of neoclassical Milan was Giuseppe Maggiolini, the first cabinetmaker to be defined, by contemporary sources, as an artist. Already active at the end of the eighteenth century, Maggiolini soon set aside the repetitive rococo language thanks to his summons to the court of Ferdinand of Habsburg, archduke who settled in the Milanese city in the seventies. In this enlightened context Maggiolini had the opportunity to collaborate with the most up-to-date exponents of the artistic and architectural fields, engaged in the archducal construction sites of today's Palazzo Ducale in Milan and Monza.

The present, clearly of Lombard invention, reflects the incisiveness of Maggiolini's art: bold ornamental modules around a central octagon appear in a subtle play of sinuous symmetries. The perimeter plates inside the walnut veneer are enriched with phytomorphic scrolls elaborated in an alternation of flowers and lobed leaves; the presence of newts holding racemes in the largest segment and of dolphins with curled tails at the corners of the surrounding octagon contribute to visually centralizing the main composition, made up of flowers and radial racemes. The boxwood thread delimits the liveliness of the colors of the cherry wood and bois de rose, accentuating the preciousness of the artefact in vibrant alternation. The elegance of the table is increased by the spool-shaped legs, with a small nut to which a wavy leaf is connected, of evocative visual lightness. It is possible to compare the solutions devised by the present with the drawings from Maggiolini's workshop, now preserved in the Milanese Drawing Cabinet (but see also G. Beretti, A. González-Palacios, Giuseppe Maggiolini. Catalogo raisonné of drawings, Milan 2014).

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