The owner of the factory GIORGIO PIOTTO about the classics of the past and the future

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Giorgio Piotto heads the GIORGIO PIOTTO factory founded eighty years ago. The family business began with a workshop for the restoration of antique furniture. Today, the company produces furniture in exactly the same way and from the same materials as it was in a certain historical era. In an interview with SALON-interior magazine, the owner of the factory talks about the classics of the past and the future.SALON: Recently, many manufacturers of classics are compromising the requirements of the era. For example, in the fashion deco, and we see on the dressers in the style of Louis XVI inlays, made of exotic wood like rosewood or zebrano ... - This is not our style, because we create exact copies of the furniture of the past. In the 18th century, only British used exotic woods. In Europe, from the Middle Ages until the Art Deco era, cherry and walnut were considered the most expensive wood species. And still these are the most expensive wood species on the raw materials market.S: Even in classic furniture there are fashion trends. Now the most current style is Biedermeier ... - In the classic furniture, really, has its own fashion. It seems to me that Biedermeier’s popularity is explained precisely by the fact that it is chronologically closest to the era of modernity. But the world around us is changing. People travel a lot, are "infected" with different cultures. Now in the same interior you can find classic furniture, which stands in front of the chaise lounge from rattan.S: And which of the classic styles are chosen by such people? - These are styles of XVIII-XIX centuries, when great importance was attached to the color of varnish. It seems to me that bright lacquer is very relevant now. Many of us do not know this, but in the 18th century, French craftsmen made bureaus and chest of drawers covered with red, black, burgundy varnish. There were two furniture centers in the world, Paris and Venice, and in Venice they did much more luxurious things than in Paris.S: Do you say this as a patriot or as a historian? - It is hard to believe that a person who makes classic furniture considers himself to be a citizen of the world, but that’s just that. My homeland is the whole world.