Carlo Randoni - AN IMPORTANT SET OF NORTH-ITALIAN ROYAL RESTAURATION STOOLS

Date	Genoa, 1820-1821
Period	1750-1850
Medium	Carved, Gilt, Giltwood, Ivory, Lacca, Walnut
Gallery	Burzio

Description
Technical

In 1819 the Savoy Royal couple, Vittorio Emanuele I and Maria Tersa d'Asburgo Este bought the Grimaldi-Doria Tursi Palace as their principal Genoese royal residence, now it is the townhall of the city. As first architect of the court Carlo Randoni designed all the new furniture including this bench for the anti cappella room, it was probably executed in the two following years by the genoese sculptor Francesco Picasso. Surviving pieces of the same suite formerly part of Pisa collection until 1938 are now in the
Napoleonic residence of villa dei mulini, porto ferraio, Elba island; one sofa is still in the original Royal collections at
Stupinigi royal castle,Museo dell'Ammobiliamento, sala dei cimeli napoleonici, Turin and an other sofa has been recorded in the Fenice Opera theatre, Venice.

Date: Genoa, 1820-1821
Period: 1750-1850
Medium: Carved, Gilt, Giltwood, Ivory, Lacca, Walnut
Provenance: Grimaldi Doria Tursi palace, Savoy Royal Palace in Genoa, 1820-1821.
Pisa collection.
Anonymous European private collection.
Literature: Il mobile Impero in Italia, Enrico Colle, 1998, Milan, 260-261(concerning a sofa, six chairs and two open armchairs of the same suite now in the Napoleonic residence in Elba island)
Giuseppe Battista Piacenza e Carlo Randoni. I reali palazzi fra Torino e Genova. 1773-1831., Paolo Cornaglia, 2012, Turin, 227(with Randoni documents concerning the all suite)
Il mobile in liguria, Alvar Gonzalez Palacios, 1996, Genoa, 323(for a similar later related example still in the Royal palace in Genoa).
Categories: Furniture