The magic starts here: after having spread the water-based dye on the product to give color to the wood, the first step is the application of the “patina”.
This film enters the pores so as to bring out the grains, highlighting the material and accentuating the differences, the shading, the chiaroscuro.
A transparent varnish is applied. The paint is then dabbed with extreme care.
The third step involves the use of beeswax to give a touch of lived-in look to the finish.
The beeswax is then spread further and gently dried with a cloth.
Finally, the last step: the powder is distributed over the furniture, giving it its splendid final appearance.
Delicate and light, or bold and thick. Stripes are the 2022 trend in fashion and furniture: they are back strongly with their fresh and elegant air at the same time.
But had they ever really left?
Stripes are actually a great classic to give fabrics a refined and seductive look, never banal. Combined with other prints or other motifs – for example interspersed with delicate flowers in pastel tones – they are appreciated by everyone and suitable for every style.
But the stripes can also be contemporary and gritty.
The world of fashion knows this very well and in fact has always presented them on the catwalk in different moods: sailor-style, but not only. Two different styles, classic and contemporary, are composed around a single graphic element: the line.
Each fabric tells a different story. The origin of natural fibers, the methods of weaving, embroidery and processing, the finishing techniques trace different paths between countries, cultures and traditions.
Our journey around the world continues, with the spirit of the adventurous explorer of all time: our third stop is in a place full of mystery, scents and suggestions.
Today, we take you to Jaipur.
When Prince Albert came to Jaipur in 1876, the city palaces were dyed pink by order of the Maharaja, who wanted to impress him. Then and now, Jaipur isa city different from all the others, fragrant and mysterious. Ancient and modern at the same time, among its precious silks and fabrics once transported by caravans across the deserts.
Travelling to Jaipur is like dipping your hands into a basket filled with precious stones as colored as candy and bright as stars. Gold, jewels, cashmere and luxurious silks cover everything making it unique and special.
Weaving is so important that it is even represented on the Indian flag: the charka, the cotton spinning wheel, is depicted in the center of the Indian tricolor.
Finding these suggestions is simple in our living proposal.
A moodboard based on opulence, brilliance and saturation.
“India is not a promise, only an appeal” E.M.Forster
An exciting journey through the fabrics, colors and inspirations that the whole world can give us. From stage to stage, we stop like modern explorers to discover hidden or famous corners of the planet, taking full advantage of the suggestions that lights and cultures give us at each stop.
Today we stopped on the banks of the Blue Danube
Budapest was born on the water, defined by the course of the Danube, which has shaped its customs and culture. Sinuous, in its neoclassical architecture, it impresses with its red roofs with a Mitteleuropean air. Purple, poppy red, geranium and carnation are the colours that dominate the streets.
The tenacious imprint of the literary cafes of the early twentieth century runs deep in Budapest. As in Vienna and Paris, the culture was effervescent here: music, poetry and literature still make their echoes heard in the armchairs.
A suggested luxury, a whispered and never exhibited culture. The living room of Europe.
Budapest is a prime site for dreams (M. John Harrison)
Stories that deserve to be told often intertwine among the textures of a fabric. Each fabric, each material actually makes a journey through epochs, traditions and artisanal skills, giving value to our furniture through its stratifications.
Today the stage of our long journey stops next to the remains of a wall, halfway between the North and the Mediterranean.
Because today we are going to Berlin.
Berlin has a discreet charm, not always perceptible at first distracted glance. Marked by the war, divided and reunited, renewed and launched towards the future: it is perhaps the city most immersed in the classic and contemporary in the same way.
Its multiple faces are reflected in the tones of our moodboard, between the beige of the dried lime tree seeds that fly, light, in the blue of a clear and fascinating sky even when it is leaden. A cosmopolitan and free, elegant scenario. Also in this proposal declined for the bedroom.
A city that invites you to write about itself, sitting in an armchair, with the window open to the sky.
Ich hab noch einen Koffer in Berlin. (Marlene Dietrich)
Our journey around the world continues to tell the personality and mood of our fabrics. Our fabrics are indeed unique and precious, just like the most beautiful cities on our planet. We are ready to explore and get lost among hedges, nymphaeums and caves … have you guessed what the next stop is?
Green like Serpentine marble, pure like white marble and delicate like red Siena marble: our moodboard steals the colors of the bell tower of Florence, making them come alive on the finest fabrics.
Inside secret rooms the medieval nobles conspired and ruled the fate of the city. A blast from the past and we already seem to live in the Medici era with their Renaissance fabrics.
Renaissance man is exalted by the architecture, painting and sculpture that lives on in the streets of Florence: an inestimable and unrepeatable human heritage, which we wanted to pay homage in the best possible way.
“I had reached that level of emotion where the celestial sensations given by the arts and passionate feelings meet” (Stendhal)
To tell the personality, the spirit and ultimately the soul of our fabrics we have chosen to leave … for a journey around the world. Among lights, colors, sounds and scents we will find our inspiration in the most fascinating corners of the planet, with the spirit of explorers of the unknown. Our journey starts on the notes of Rhapsody in Blue by Goerge Gershwin: can you guess which will be the first city?
The Big Apple, the City that never sleeps … there are many nicknames for New York, an eccentric and contemporary city. Our moodboard of fabrics with shades of Teal recalls it in every facet: the dynamic one, that of infinite opportunities, that of disruptive modernity.
Welcome to the convivial area of the house, the room in which to share a Manhattan in his iced glass with friends, while a distant gramophone plays some Jazz music. The eccentric spirit of New York is alive in the design, in the architecture, in the colors.
The atmosphere of this Living seems to have been extracted from a work by Woody Allen. Unique, bold, lively: just like our moodboard is.
“To him, no matter what the season was, this was still a town that existed in black and white and pulsated to the great tunes of George Gershwin”
The volcanic eruption of Vesuvius consigned the ancient city of Pompeii to history by forever freezing time among the streets, houses and frescoes. Everything is suspended, as if waiting for something. From the paintings on the walls of the Villa of the Mysteries we rediscover a world made of different but still current rituals, sensations and ways of living. Suggestions from an ancient and already modern world.
The Pompeian Red comes out of the frescoes to dye fabrics, velvets and upholstery. An antique moodboard that does not neglect the world of lacquers and craftsmanship on wood. An ancient world opens up, full of sounds and visions that were deemed irretrievably lost.
Refined wines and precious fabrics are fundamental for the Mystery rites. An ode to Bacchus and luxury relives today through a classic and unmistakable inspiration.
The patina of time transforms the furniture into contemporary and classic pieces at the same time.
Magic? A matter of details: SALDA brasses like small elzeviro decorate our collections making them unique and precious. Indeed, very precious.
Golden or silver colored, satin or patinated.
The brasses are the final touch of a skilful artisan path made of an unrepeatable manual experience.
They can recall the echoes of the footsteps in the rooms of Versailles and they never, ever can never be banal or go out of fashion.
The brasses give their best in the edges of tables, desks or dressers.
They keep secrets inside the drawers, enhance the mahogany and brown tones of the finest woods and essences. Precious and vibrant materials, beautiful finishes among the crystal glasses and bottles.
SALDA brass components are made in fusion and not industrially printed.
Such they are hand-mounted on each piece and on request they can be customised in the desired finishes.
It is no coincidence that in ancient Greece marble was called “marmaros”, meaning shining stone.
With its precious and always different veins and its eternal air, marble has been used in architecture since the earliest times for its beauty and ability to capture light.
Not just architecture: in the SALDA world, marble is the final touch of a story of style, the detail that makes a piece of furniture perfect and delivers it to history.
Palissandro
Pure and natural like rosewood, a marble that reveals all its essence in the most classic furnishings.
Almost powdery suggestions for a timeless finish that carries within itself the echoes of the Nordic forests.
Forest Green
A jungle green crossed by red, brown and brown veins: a topographical view that refers to the rainforests, to the timeless tropics crossed by uncontaminated paths and waterways.
Rare and very precious, a marble that is always different and always to be discovered as if it were the first time.
Nero Marquinia
Extracted from the quarries of Marquina, an ancient city near Bilbao, a fine-grained black marble with small puffs of white, candid and almost green veins.
Opulent, classic but tremendously contemporary: it is one of the finishes available in the SALDA catalogue.
Very elegant.
Breccia Viola
With its unmistakable purple colour, Breccia Viola marble is also known as Breccia Medicea because it was used in the past by the Medici of Florence to adorn monuments.
With an irresistible and seductive charm, a finish capable of transforming a piece of furniture and making it eternal.
Are you in love with all of them? Go to our website to discover all the marbles.
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