Aldo Tura On Sale
Mid-20th Century Italian Hollywood Regency Dining Room Chairs
Goatskin, Wood
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Night Stands
Goatskin
Vintage 1960s Italian Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Wood, Parchment Paper
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Night Stands
Goatskin, Wood
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Brass
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Brass
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Brass
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Brass, Metal
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Goatskin
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Brass
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Wood
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Metal
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Aluminum
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Goatskin, Glass, Paint, Parchment Paper
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Goatskin
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Decorative Baskets
Wood
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Glass, Wood, Parchment Paper
20th Century Italian Modern Wine Coolers
Plastic, Mahogany, Goatskin
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Lacquer
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Brass
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Goatskin
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Walnut
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Glass, Goatskin
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Wood
Mid-20th Century Italian Hollywood Regency Dining Room Chairs
Goatskin, Wood
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Brass
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Brass
Vintage 1960s Italian Hollywood Regency Cabinets
Goatskin
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Metal
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Brass
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Wood
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Wood
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Goatskin, Mirror
Vintage 1970s Italian Modern Table Lamps
Brass
Vintage 1970s Italian Hollywood Regency Cabinets
Glass, Mirror, Goatskin
Vintage 1970s Italian Hollywood Regency Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Goatskin
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Brass
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Goatskin
20th Century Italian Hollywood Regency Tableware
Brass
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Decorative Baskets
Brass
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Brass
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
Goatskin
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Goatskin
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Goatskin
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Brass
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Barware
Metal
Vintage 1960s Italian Cabinets
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Night Stands
Goatskin
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Barware
Brass
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Brass
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Brass
Late 20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
Goatskin
Late 20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
Goatskin
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Brass
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Cabinets
Polyester, Wood, Parchment Paper
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Goatskin
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Brass
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Metal, Brass
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Metal
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One of the most enigmatic and polarizing figures to emerge in Italian design, Aldo Tura is an outlier in the world of mid-century furniture. The designer’s glamorous bar carts, coffee tables, cabinets and more resist categorization and draw inspiration from Art Deco, Art Nouveau, Baroque, Surrealist and modernist styles.
Tura moved through distinct phases in his career in terms of aesthetics, influences and finishes, rendering his life’s work exciting and diverse. Despite these phases, he held a singular devotion to one material: lacquered goatskin. Tura established a furniture production house in 1939 in Lombardy, and some of his early work focused on tables, decorative lamps and more. He later expanded to bar furnishings like rolling carts, cabinets and complementary barware accessories like ice buckets and cocktail shakers. The eccentric, gleaming and luxe surface of lacquered goatskin was a constant, along with eggshell, parchment and leather.
By the 1950s, Tura had begun to use hand-painted figural panels on the surface of cabinets, serveware (such as carafes) and other pieces. He even replicated famous works by artists like Monet and Bruegel the Elder and art from the Middle Ages, sometimes playfully embedding the paintings on cabinets shaped like oversize books. Even though he had a favored color palette of rich chocolate browns and deep emeralds, his style remained consistently hard to define.
Tura was unlike most of his Italian contemporaries but held a similar reverence for the nation’s traditional craftsmanship and artisanal techniques. He never followed the growing trend of mass-produced, industrial furniture and stuck to creating small, meticulously handcrafted collections. This principled choice means that today, a Tura piece is a rare and highly coveted collectible. The Tura firm continues to operate in Brianza, promoting Italian craftsmanship and the eclectic materials embraced by their namesake designer.
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