The larger bowl is raised on flattened bun feet. The smaller footed bowl is raised on oval wood platform? resting on seated cast silver male figures. This luxurious hand-hammered silver centerpiece consists of two parts: The outstanding artistic design in the style of Novecento and its generous proportions combined with a remarkable handmade rendering make this magnificent centerpiece not simply a functional object but a true masterpiece of applied arts. The company also manufactured items by special private orders and commissions, and was a supplier to the court of the last Italian King, Victor Emmanuel III. Calderoni, a famous Italian firm of fine jewelers and silversmiths that was established in 1898 and achieved its greatest fame during Italian Art Nouveau and Novecento periods. This magnificent formal centerpiece was created around 1940 in Milan, Italy by S.A. People are afraid of the ocean, so the pianist relieves them by playing his terrific music.Weight: 160.14 troy ounces (5 kg 794 g), including non-silver material. The ocean was part of him, Novecento belonged only to it and to nowhere else. Was it just fear? Novecento wasn’t born on dry land, he was different from everyone else, so he felt he would’ve lost something important if he had left. But the world passed on that ship, with all its hopes and failures, and he watched it pass, never trying to follow it. Maybe the best.īut music was the only thing that made him happy. Novecento, with his inexplicable talent, charmed all the men and all the women with his music. The ocean was his only home.Īt night the passengers of the ship could hear a piano playing. He lived on it, traveling hundreds of times from Europe to America, and from America to Europe. A sailor found him and named him Novecento in honor of the 20 th century, which had just begun.Īt that time many people were emigrating from Europe in search of a better life, getting on board ships headed to America.
Novecento (which means “nine hundred” in Italian, and indicates the twentieth century) was abandoned on the transatlantic Virginian soon after his birth. Lemon Novecento, with the accompaniment of some fine jazz music.
Alessandro Baricco’s “Novecento” is a brilliant theatrical monologue which narrates the unique story of Danny Boodman T.D.
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