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  • This fine rocking cradle with an elegant carved decoration masterly reinterprets the local craft tradition.

  • 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.

  • The”Sedattu” chair is the result of a successful design project, created by talented designer and artist Giovanni Antonio Sulas at the Farris joinery of Nuoro, that reminds the low chair used by the hearth in the Sardinian tradition reinterpreting the forms with innovative synthesis and dynamism.

  • This small original bottle and glass holder that can be hung on walls has an uneven white finish. It is part of the new line of home décor accessories and is available in different shapes, finishes and colour effects.

  • The SU chair, equipped with a wooden seat and back and a painted iron structure, embellished with removable cushions made in collaboration with the “Su Trobasciu” workshop in Mogoro.

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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.