Example of a desk with Don Simon Loscertales Bona.
Simón Loscertales Bona is a master craftsman of Spanish furniture. Born in Zaragoza, he was one of the most important master craftsmen of furniture in the history of Spain. History
In 1890 he created in Zaragoza a workshop of the furniture, forming craftsmen in the trade. This school workshop consisted of several departments as if a university were, beginning with the one of design and project followed by the one of cabinetmaking, marquetry, carving, ashlar, upholstery, gold, varnished, or the workshop of the famous bronzes and applications. with the set of these workshops the furniture was meticulously creating guild guild to form the coveted pieces of Loscertales.
He was a pioneer in the production of furniture, since a great part of the learning of all his craftsmen were based on the investigation of the new technologies of the time and were applied to avoid everything that gave a bad aging to the furniture, leading to sign the emblem of the firm, and create quality pieces designed for perpetuity.
Don Simón created spaces of such importance as the merchant casino of Zaragoza, venues of the Vizcaya bank, and important spaces, which made travel to his furniture by the Spanish peninsula, and quickly became known of the exquisiteness of his pieces . Once opened branches in Madrid and Seville, furniture Loscertales began to furnish the Spanish embassies and to be furniture supplier of the Spanish royal house. This being the most important step in the history of the workshop, since once exposed, anyone who saw them was perplexed, thus giving the springboard to furnish the houses of the most important families around the world.
Nowadays it is easy to find in American, European and South American antiquarians pieces signed by D. Simón Loscertales Bona, being highly valued by art experts. even auction houses like Christie's and Sotheby's include studio pieces in their auction lots.
The workshop closed its doors in the early 1980s, due to a change in market trends that changed the craft and guild values instilled by the workshop, due to the industrialization of the market and the depersonalization of the sector. furniture, losing the value of the exclusivity and distinction of the furniture and manufacturing a product without personality but at affordable costs to any pocket.
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