GX1993.206.1-2

Unità di misura: cm; Altezza: 117; Larghezza: 61; Profondità: 53

legno di noce- intaglio

Ettore Zaccari devoted himself to cabinet-making from a very young age and, after attending the Brera Academy of Fine Arts and the Scuola Civica d'Arte del Castello Sforzesco, opened a workshop in Milan on Via Pisacane, whose activity continued after his death in 1922. This armchair was exhibited in 1923, paired with another identical one, in the dining room presented in the Lombard section at the 1st Monza Biennale. This dining room, which was awarded a diploma of honour, was executed by the Zaccari workshop, which also designed the upholstery and wall decorations in a style that looked to the tradition of Renaissance furniture but also to the lesson of French furniture makers, in particular Maurice Dufrène, in the exuberant and dense carving decoration of polished wood. Black polished walnut armchair. The large and animated decoration of the backrest is delimited by a sequence of vertical lines ending in two gilded scrolls.