TUSCAN TABLE WITH SOLOMONIC LEGS

Material: Walnut wood

This exquisite side table, crafted from walnut, creates a play of contrasts between the understated elegance of the tabletop and the rationality of the crossbar, in contrast to the ornate, helically carved legs, which serve a structural, not merely expressive, function. They reflect the taste for Solomonic columns of the High Baroque, exemplified by Bernini's baldachin in St. Peter's Basilica, and echo the more Mannerist forms of antiquity, such as the Tripod of Delphi.