Giovanni Michelucci, Set of Four Wood Side Chairs, Italian Modernism, 1919

Set of four early modernist side chairs attributed to Giovanni Michelucci (1891-1990), the Italian architect best known for the Santa Maria Novella railway station and the Chiesa dell'Autostrada. The attribution is supported by comparable examples illustrated in D. L. Bemporad, Giovanni Michelucci: Gli arredi degli anni giovanili (S.P.E.S., Florence, 1999), p. 91. Constructed in solid walnut with a small enamelled metal triangular inlay set into each backrest. Exposed tenon joinery articulates the structural vocabulary of early Italian rationalism. The chairs sit at the threshold of Michelucci's transition from arts-and-crafts vocabulary toward the rigour of his later modernist work. Dimensions: H 99 × W 47 × D 48 cm; seat height approximately 45 cm. Materials: Walnut, enamelled metal inlay. Condition: Very good - light restoration completed (clean and thin protective coat applied; preventive treatment on the wood). Exposed tenon joinery intact. Sold as a set of four. The pricing is for the whole set.