Artistic furniture pieces (Milan, historical models)

Around 1850 the artisan shops in Milan gradually stopped producing late Emp ire furniture and turned to the manufacture of historical revivals which we re largely appreciated by the bourgeoisie across Europe. While the Tuscan c arvers preferred the elaborate design of Renaissance taste, the Milanese eb ony workers, such a Pogliani, Speluzzi or Brambilla, looked at the monument al models of the 16th century and Baroque cabinets from which they got shap es and ornamental designs, thus starting a typical style that during the se cond half of the 19th century met the approval of art critics and of the we althy visitors of the numerous art exhibits.