Laura Citterio: “This grand piece of furniture is more like a small palazzo than a big buffet. However, despite the size, confident architectonics, signs of a classical order and great baroque carvings, the eye recognizes a piece of furniture with a well-defined function in this thing — to store silver and family porcelain. Not in any dining room such a buffet can be put. I see him in a spacious room with a pronounced representative function. And you know, the interior can be both in a classic style and in a modern one. I think such a thing, where every detail was manually worked out, where there are a lot of details in general — both amethyst columns, and mother-of-pearl plates, and silver-plated and gilded carvings, and marquetry made of precious wood — in a minimalist space will look even sharper. ”

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