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2. Italian Baroque interior design - Wikipedia

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   Italian baroque furnishing also had considerable Eastern influences. [4] Venetians, who at the time still held a vast sea empire, often imported rich fabrics and materials from other nations to enrich their furniture with eastern influences. Their furniture was chiefly sumptuous and luxurious, and included rich silks and green and gold lacquer. [4]

3. Italian design - Wikipedia

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   At first, in the early 1900s, Italian furniture designers struggled to create an equal balance between classical elegance and modern creativity, and initially, Italian interior design in the 1910s and 1920s was very similar to that of French art deco styles, using exotic materials and creating sumptuous furniture. However, Italian art deco ...

4. Italian Renaissance interior design - Wikipedia

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   Much furniture was also relatively grotesque (a French variation of the Italian word grottesco), often creating sculpted odd-looking gargoyles and monsters to make these items seem more amusing. [1] Caryatids became popular at the time, and were made out of marble (the rich people used them as legs to their dining tables).

5. Italian Rococo interior design - Wikipedia

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   Italian Rococo furniture was usually upholstered with rich and colourful fabrics, such as velvet and silk, and furniture was usually lacquered. [1] Furniture from Piedmont was typically very French in style, Lombardy produced more sober and wooden furnishings, Genoa was known for its rich fabrics and colourful styles, and Venice for its ...

6. Zanotta (company) - Wikipedia

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   Zanotta is an Italian furniture company particularly known for the iconic pieces of Italian design it produced in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s. These include the "Sacco" bean bag chair and "Blow", the first mass-produced inflatable chair. The company was founded in 1954 and has its main plant in Nova Milanese.

7. Italian Neoclassical interior design - Wikipedia

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   Italian Neoclassical furniture was loosely based on that of Louis XVI styles but was made unique by the usage of exaggeratedly shaped backs and necks which were recessed. [1] Armoires, or armadi made by the Venetians were more geometrically shaped than the Rococo ones, but were usually gilded in gold and silver, and had a few intricate details ...