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Sunday, January 6, 2013

Peter Piffetti (Turin, August 17, 1701 - Turin, May 20, 1777) was an Italian cabinetmaker. After an apprenticeship in Rome, he returned to Turin, where his fame and skill, in 1731, he was appointed the first cabinet-maker to court by King Carlo Emanuele III. Will be considered until his death, the most important cabinetmaker Savoy era. The unique style of Piffetti, which creates furniture inlaid with precious wood, ivory, tortoiseshell and mother of pearl, according to A. González Palacios (one of the most important curators of exhibitions in the museums of the world) place it as "carpenter most of the peninsula in the eighteenth century but also one of the most original protagonists of the supreme furnishing the entire Western world ..."