Wood

Dama

Being a timeless object, the draughts is hand-crafted in walnut and fir wood, with moulded checkerboard marquetry, pieces carved individually by hand and small drawer.

Falegnameria Castangia|Siamanna
Pannello La magnolia

The elegant floral pattern reinterprets the delicate volumes of magnolia flowers with technical virtuosity.

Cesare Cabiddu|Villanovaforru
Panca Costera

With its soft lines, and fret-work and trimming decorations, this 3-seater bench is handmade with careful executive skills. It is characterised by a stylistic originality that reinterprets balanced formal synthesis.

Pasquale Farris|Nuoro
Sedia Sarda Liberty

The bunch of grapes, executed following the relief technique, enhances and characterises the high-backed chair, the bottom of which is made of intertwined marsh grass.

Arredointaglio by Bruno Spiga|Villamassargia
Cassa piccola con intaglio

The small and precious chest reinterprets traditional Sardinian intaglio chests with a new touch. Being made and decorated by hand using solid chestnut, it is painted with a particular and personal procedure that highlights the fine grain of the wood carvings and decorations.

Falegnameria Artigiana by Stefano Mereu|Villamassargia

Il settore

The woodcraft sector in Sardinia, with a its ancient and codified traditions, is expressed in contemporary productions with new and diversified interpretations. Featuring recognizable linguistic traits in its decorations or with new technical and stylistic solutions, the local master craftsmen continue to express the identity of the island through motifs and suggestions.

The traditional carving decoration is created in a masterly manner by means of a burin on the most precious artefacts, such as sa cascia, the hope chest, or with a curt touch in several objects of daily use in agricultural and pastoral contexts. In both cases the marks engraved serve as a language, a written story to be read again and again, the expression of a people with a strong identity.

Distinctive carnival masks made as part of local tradition. Being included in the carving section, they are crafted in the towns of Ottana and Mamoiada, and more recently in Oristano, worn during the traditional local carnivals, in dynamic and engaging performances.

The new interpretations range between free and recent experiences of local history, which resort to woodcraft to create decorative objects, intended as small sculptures. Artist and designer Eugenio Tavolara was the first who, during the first half of last century, designed a series of small dressed sculptures, the puppets, which portrayed characters and scenes of the traditional life in Sardinia.