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 have chiseled objects that today are attributed to Cellini, while others, judged as 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 character of curiosity. Each of them corresponds to a niche of enthusiasts and collectors, more or less large, 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 digital world is developing around collections of these exceptional objects, which combine today’s needs with the timeless 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 different sectors of the “art and antique” market, such as furniture and rare objects that become spectacular where their actual value blends into their aesthetic value. Furniture, objets de vertu, silverware, bronzes, paintings, porcelain, but also ivories, jades, corals created by the masters of the past in Italy, France, United Kingdom, Flanders, Spain and Russia.
