Tura Milano
Vintage 1960s Italian Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Wood, Parchment Paper
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Barware
Brass
Vintage 1960s Italian Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Parchment Paper
Vintage 1960s Italian Dining Room Tables
Wood, Parchment Paper
Vintage 1960s Italian Sideboards
Goatskin
Vintage 1970s Italian Hollywood Regency Cabinets
Glass, Mirror, Goatskin
Vintage 1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Serving Bowls
Goatskin
Vintage 1960s Italian Hollywood Regency Dry Bars
Brass
Vintage 1960s Italian Hollywood Regency Dry Bars
Brass
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Nesting Tables and Stacking Tables
Goatskin, Mahogany
Vintage 1960s Italian Side Tables
Brass
Vintage 1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Goatskin
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Console Tables
Brass
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Side Tables
Brass
Late 20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
Parchment Paper
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Platters and Serveware
Brass
Vintage 1950s Italian Pitchers
Wood
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Pitchers
Metal
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Pitchers
Chrome
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Barware
Silver Plate
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Barware
Brass
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Barware
Brass
Vintage 1960s Italian Hollywood Regency Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Brass
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Tableware
Walnut
Vintage 1960s Italian Hollywood Regency Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Brass
Vintage 1960s Italian Hollywood Regency Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Brass
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Night Stands
Goatskin
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Brass
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Wine Coolers
Metal
20th Century Italian Pitchers
Metal
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Parchment Paper, Wood
Vintage 1960s Italian Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Wood, Parchment Paper
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Serving Tables
Brass
Vintage 1960s Italian Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Wood, Parchment Paper
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls
Goatskin, Wood
Late 20th Century Italian Hollywood Regency Dry Bars
Brass
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Serving Pieces
Brass
Vintage 1960s Italian Barware
Brass
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Goatskin
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern More Dining and Entertaining
Brass
Vintage 1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Serving Bowls
Metal
Vintage 1970s Italian Hollywood Regency Nesting Tables and Stacking Tables
Goatskin
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern More Desk Accessories
Goatskin
Vintage 1960s Italian Nesting Tables and Stacking Tables
Vintage 1970s Italian Hollywood Regency Barware
Brass
Vintage 1960s Italian Card Tables and Tea Tables
Brass
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Brass
20th Century Italian Abstract Sculptures
Goatskin, Wood
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Brass
Vintage 1970s Italian Hollywood Regency Nesting Tables and Stacking Tables
Goatskin
Vintage 1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Dry Bars
Brass
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Card Tables and Tea Tables
Brass
Vintage 1950s Italian Nesting Tables and Stacking Tables
Wood
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Brass
Vintage 1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes
Goatskin, Wood
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Brass
20th Century Italian Hollywood Regency Tobacco Accessories
Brass, Chrome
Vintage 1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Ashtrays
Metal
Vintage 1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Barware
Metal, Chrome
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Dry Bars
Metal
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Aldo Tura for sale on 1stDibs
One of the most enigmatic and polarizing figures to emerge in Italian design, Aldo Tura is an outlier in the world of mid-century furniture. The designer’s glamorous bar carts, coffee tables, cabinets and more resist categorization and draw inspiration from Art Deco, Art Nouveau, Baroque, Surrealist and modernist styles.
Tura moved through distinct phases in his career in terms of aesthetics, influences and finishes, rendering his life’s work exciting and diverse. Despite these phases, he held a singular devotion to one material: lacquered goatskin. Tura established a furniture production house in 1939 in Lombardy, and some of his early work focused on tables, decorative lamps and more. He later expanded to bar furnishings like rolling carts, cabinets and complementary barware accessories like ice buckets and cocktail shakers. The eccentric, gleaming and luxe surface of lacquered goatskin was a constant, along with eggshell, parchment and leather.
By the 1950s, Tura had begun to use hand-painted figural panels on the surface of cabinets, serveware (such as carafes) and other pieces. He even replicated famous works by artists like Monet and Bruegel the Elder and art from the Middle Ages, sometimes playfully embedding the paintings on cabinets shaped like oversize books. Even though he had a favored color palette of rich chocolate browns and deep emeralds, his style remained consistently hard to define.
Tura was unlike most of his Italian contemporaries but held a similar reverence for the nation’s traditional craftsmanship and artisanal techniques. He never followed the growing trend of mass-produced, industrial furniture and stuck to creating small, meticulously handcrafted collections. This principled choice means that today, a Tura piece is a rare and highly coveted collectible. The Tura firm continues to operate in Brianza, promoting Italian craftsmanship and the eclectic materials embraced by their namesake designer.
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