ART OBJECTS

“Artists are players whose masterpiece is the game they win”
André Malraux

In the history of curiosity, antiques and collecting, there is no boundary between art and craftsmanship. Modest and unknown Florentine goldsmiths chiseled objects that today are attributed to Cellini while others, judged great artists by their contemporaries, thirty years after their death are considered good craftsmen and nothing more.

Nowadays we consider “art objects” those works of artistic production that we cannot include in an exclusive typology. Some examples can be considered objects composed of multiple materials or those with a curiosity character. Each of them corresponds to a more or less large niche of amateurs and collectors whose passion is fueled by the search for mostly rare or precious objects that accompany the desire to know and safeguard the past or to “live” it through a beloved object.

The antiques market in the digitalized world is developing around collections of these exceptional objects that combine today’s needs with the ever-present taste of the era in which they were created.

The latest aesthetic trends inspired by a minimalist spirit have enhanced the beauty of these works that cut across the different sectors of the art and antiques market, such as furnishings and rare objects that become spectacular where their actual value is diluted in the aesthetic one. Furnishings, objets de vertu, silver, bronzes, paintings, porcelain, but also ivories, jades, corals created by the masters of the past in Italy, France, the United Kingdom, Flanders, Spain and Russia.