Furniture
From a private collection in Buffalo, NY

Luigi Mastrodonato-signed desk. Renasissance Revival style	Detail: Luigi Mastrodonato-signed desk	Detail: Luigi Mastrodonato-signed desk	Detail: Luigi Mastrodonato-signed desk
Detail: Luigi Mastrodonato-signed desk. Renasissance Revival style	Detail: Luigi Mastrodonato-signed desk	Detail: Luigi Mastrodonato-signed desk	Detail: Luigi Mastrodonato-signed desk
Detail: Luigi Mastrodonato-signed desk	Detail: Luigi Mastrodonato-signed desk	Detail: Luigi Mastrodonato-signed desk. Renasissance Revival style
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Early 18th century Queen Anne Chinoiserie looking glass	Detail: Early 18th century Queen Anne Chinoiserie looking glass	Detail: Early 18th century Queen Anne Chinoiserie looking glass	Detail: Early 18th century Queen Anne Chinoiserie looking glass
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Brass fireplace fender	Detail: fireplace fender	Detail: fireplace fender The patera and swag are Federal style The lion's paw is Empire style
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Bed designed by Luigi Frullini (See below for Frullini biography)	Detail: Luigi Frullini-designed bed. Renasissance Revival style	Detail: Luigi Frullini-designed bed	Detail: Luigi Frullini-designed bed
Detail: Luigi Frullini-designed bed (See below for Frullini biography)	Detail: Luigi Frullini-designed bed	Detail: Luigi Frullini-designed bed. Renasissance Revival style	Detail: Luigi Frullini-designed bed
Detail: Luigi Frullini-designed bed (See below for Frullini biography)

Luigi Frullini 1839-1897 The Florentine woodcarver and furniture maker Luigi Frullini achieved international renown for his Renaissance Revival designs through highly visible displays at World's Fairs, most notably in London (1862), Venice (1873), and Paris (1867 and 1878). This exposure led in 1875 to a commission to design and execute the dining room and furnishings for Château-sur-Mer, the family cottage of George Peabody Wetmore in Newport, Rhode Island. Additional examples by Frullini can be found in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, and the Museum für Angewandte Kunst in Vienna. -- The Minneapolis Institute of Arts [Frullini's] elaborate pieces set the fashion for the last years of the 19th century ... In 1896, he went to the United States to exhibit more of his furniture at the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia. His works were inspired by the carved pieces of the Italian Renaissance. He created many wooden cabinets and beds with three-dimensional carvings of people, animals, and flowers. The pieces by Frullini were made by carving into a large block of wood; he did not apply small carved pieces to a large board. To accommodate all of the carved decorations, he made huge pieces. The headboard of the bed was usually more than 8 feet long by 6 feet wide. The armoire was almost 11 feet high. -- Ralph and Terry Koval

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