Salvino Marsura Specchiera da tavolo

The Specchiera da tavolo, or table mirror, is defined by its two sinuating lines. Suspending the mirror either side, the lines begin with a flourish before sinking into a swerve, crossing over the other at the mirror’s base before looping back to hold the mirror’s gravity.

This adjustable oval table mirror is in good condition, with some patination reflective of its age. A new mirror has been fitted, treated with foxing by an artisan. 

Salvino Marsura (1938-2020) was an artisan metalworker. After learning his craft in the dynamic workshop of sculptor and ‘iron poet’ Toni Benetton, he spent more than 60 years producing sculpture, furniture, objects and memorials in his hometown of Treviso, Italy.

Marsura’s ironwork art and furniture relishes in the manual aesthetic of the forge, giving voice to the raw metal and the processes of its manipulation including sweltering heat, hammering, bending and welding. His distinctive hand marries elements of brutalism and traditional decorative arts.

H62 W42 D20cm 

SM83