From October 22 to 25, 2024, Cambi Auction House will bring to auction at the Mackenzie Castle in Genoa an extraordinarily important event titled Auction 1000: From an Important Piedmontese Mansion.

This exclusive event organized by the maison, the protagonist of the beginning of the second semester, will be an unmissable moment for all art and antiques enthusiasts, with a catalog of more than 1,000 unique pieces that tell the story and refinement of the collections of an eclectic Piedmontese entrepreneur.

“It was the month of September 2000 when in the splendid setting of Villa Toscanelli in Pontedera we met B.A., a distinguished gentleman who asked us to participate on numerous fine lots in what was the first House sale of our auction house. In the following years he would participate in dozens of our sales, beating hundreds of lots, from antique to 900, painted furniture but especially Gio Ponti porcelain and statuettes of the Lenci manufacture of which he was a great collector. He has been an important client for us who has accompanied us in our growth for almost twenty years and who in a way we feel is part of our history. And that is precisely why it is with immense pleasure that we decided to dedicate to him, on the occasion of our 1000 auction, a great sale with over 1,000 lots that retrace the taste and passions of a great collector who alongside the object purchased for purely furnishing has always aimed at the rarest and most interesting pieces in our auctions.” Explains Matteo Cambi, President of Cambi Auction House.

The sale will be divided into several rounds in which, in addition to furniture, antique paintings and antiques, a beautiful collection of 19th-century paintings with a predilection for Orientalist painting and a catalog devoted to 20th-century majolica and porcelain will be presented.

Among the Antiques treasures in the catalog are a pair of console tables with mirrors dating from the late 18th century, finely carved and gilded; a “Mazzarina-style” desk, inlaid with 18th-century Boulle-style decorations, testifying to the elegance and refinement of the period; a selection of 19th-century armchairs and sofas, featuring lacquered and gilded woods; and a center desk with riser, decorated in arte povera, a fine example of Piedmontese craftsmanship.

Twentieth-century decorative art is represented by works by Gio Ponti, including some vases from the Richard Ginori manufactory-such as the vase “St. Christopher” dated 1931 and the vase “Amazon with Lance” dated 1923-30-and sculptures by Helen König Scavini for Lenci, including Colpo di Vento and Zizi, which embody the innovation and charm of ceramics of the time.

Nineteenth-century paintings include masterpieces by such masters as Pietro Lucchini with The Lady of Constantinople, Alberto Pasini with At the Fountain, Eugène Alexis Girardet with The Caravan, and Étienne Dinet's top lot The Gathering: all works that are an open window on an era of great artistic ferment, capturing scenes and atmospheres of unforgettable beauty.