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Detail of the Consolle

Pietro Piffetti

Quirinale Palace

Quirinale Palace
Rome, Italy

The Piffetti Library is one of the most evocative rooms in the Quirinale.
The wooden complex dates back to the first half of the 1700s and was born as a small studio for Carlo Emanuele III of Savoy in the Villa della Regina in Turin; it was transferred to Rome at the behest of Queen Margherita who, in 1879, had it adapted to the library of her apartment.
In the library there are two small consoles whose shelves are covered with plates of tortoiseshell and engraved ivory. The processing simulates sheets and prints that seem to rest on the surface, as if they had been accidentally abandoned.

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