GIUSEPPE PARVIS 1831-1909, Spectacular Oriental furniture GIUSEPPE PARVIS 1831-1909

Height 180 cm x Width 115 cm x Depth 51 cm

This spectacular piece of furniture of typical rectangular form divided into three levels, the bottom with two large rectangular drawers inlaid with bone, ebonized wood in the center with two Hispano-Moorish Revival horseshoe arches facing the top of the dresser, outlined with a openwork balustrade in mashrabiya style, upper part with two other decorated drawers. with applied decorations of ebonized wood, imitating Islamic architectural lattices and muqarnas ceilings, a balustrade on the side
Giuseppe Parvis (1831-1909) was an Italian cabinetmaker and furniture designer. He was born in a humble home in a rural area called Lomellina, in the Italian region of Piedmont, in 1831. Completed his studies at the Accademia Albertina in Turin, he moved to Paris to practice as sculptor and engraver. Growing impatient of the lack of his success and in need of a change, in 1859 he left Paris and moved to Cairo, Egypt, where he quickly built a reputation for himself as cabinetmaker, getting noticed and appreciated by the local governor Isma'il. His long-aimed international fame finally concretised with the Gold Medal won at the Universal Expositions in Paris in 1867, with his exotic design of the Egyptian pavilions, followed by further praises at the Expositions of Philadelphia in 1876, Milan in 1881 and Turin in 1884. Height 180 cm x Width 115 cm x Depth 51 cm