50s retro furniture
NEOSTYLES - FORGERIES - IMITATIONS First of all it is necessary to distinguish an explicit imitation, where by no neans there is the intent to deceive and forge from a fake clearly made to cheat. There is no doubt that the so called furniture "in style" are simply inspired to the antique and so they show such characteristics of unautenthicity, that get
not mixed up Furniture index
with the originals. The nature of wood, the valuable essences of the inlays, the use of plywood (for the invisible parts), the perfection of the inlaids, the presence of steel nails and of synthetic glues, the type of the tint and the polish Furniture index
made by
machineries or spraying: these are the characteristics that reveal the industrial execution of the furniture offered by furniture dealers at lower prices than the antique furnitures. Moreover other furniture are offered in television sales as "antique"., but really imported from under-developed countries. To this class
belong the furniture that repropose the fifteenth century florentine-tuscan style but also of Umbria, of Lazio and the venetian one even though there are imitations of other periods and Furniture index
of different areas. But if the same piece of furniture would be made by a capable craftsman, respecting the proportions, woods, the veneers and the original design, for instance to rebuild the side of a chest of drawers or the leg of a chair, with woods recovered from demolished furniture, only an expert would immediately recognise the
original from the Furniture index
imitation and often he himself would have to pause on details that taken singurarly can not be decisive but alltogether show a recent work.
NEOSTYLES - FORGERIES - IMITATIONS First of all it is necessary to distinguish an explicit imitation, where by no neans there is the intent to deceive and forge from a fake clearly made to cheat. There is no doubt that the so called furniture "in style" are simply inspired to the antique and so they show such characteristics of unautenthicity, that get
not mixed up Furniture index
with the originals. The nature of wood, the valuable essences of the inlays, the use of plywood (for the invisible parts), the perfection of the inlaids, the presence of steel nails and of synthetic glues, the type of the tint and the polish Furniture index
made by
machineries or spraying: these are the characteristics that reveal the industrial execution of the furniture offered by furniture dealers at lower prices than the antique furnitures. Moreover other furniture are offered in television sales as "antique"., but really imported from under-developed countries. To this class
belong the furniture that repropose the fifteenth century florentine-tuscan style but also of Umbria, of Lazio and the venetian one even though there are imitations of other periods and Furniture index
of different areas. But if the same piece of furniture would be made by a capable craftsman, respecting the proportions, woods, the veneers and the original design, for instance to rebuild the side of a chest of drawers or the leg of a chair, with woods recovered from demolished furniture, only an expert would immediately recognise the
original from the Furniture index
imitation and often he himself would have to pause on details that taken singurarly can not be decisive but alltogether show a recent work.
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