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Massimo Caiafa Interior design
I'm Massimo Caiafa, I am born into a family that since 1600 has always excelled in the artistic field with artists, painters, gold beaters, decorators and carvers. After years of cooperation with my father, the maestro Raffaele Caiafa from which I was able to acquire the fundaments of Art and painting, the secrets of the workmanship, from the antiquing patina to the techniques of gilding, I decided to "reborn" under a new guise and express myself in full autonomy . My desire was to experiment also other creative ways, while remaining true to the traditions and craftsmanship. So I realized my dream by opening an Atelier in which the artists who work there can freely express their art interpreting the masterpieces of the great masters and continuing the tradition of Italian and Neapolitan painting. In my Art studio, the artist draws directly on the canvas the subject to which he is inspired, creating a work that requires great talent, patience and virtuosity, in order to create a unique and original work, to be preserved over time. As an antique picture, the painting is realized on a fabric support of fine arts (canvas, jute, cotton), prepared as in ancient times, giving a fund based on plaster and animal glue, then using brushes and high professional quality colors. Once dried, is treated with the refined technique of crackle, to give the charm effect of "cracking" that is characteristic of old paintings. Subsequently, the painting is put back on the stand to be patinated, A special haze that gives an ancient flavor and taste . Being a studio where Art "is created", all the paintings can be custom made, reinterpreted and tailored to meet to satisfy every need of
furnishings and high decoration, to obtain a valuable work of Art, a unique piece of very high quality , which is an investment that lasts. Also, I design and make, together with my team, classic paintings such as ceilings, walls and medallions, boiserie, paintings with allegorical motifs, architectural and ornamental , as well as works of modern and contemporary Art. My frames are made with the wisdom of the old artisan workshops. Each one is an unique piece for the essence of the wood, the use of precious materials such as gold and silver leaf, marble, natural stones, artisanal finishes and lacquering. The process of leaf gilding is extremely fascinating and requires several stages before seeing the finished work, but the result certainly rewards the patience of those who engages in this art whose origins are lost over the centuries. Unlike frames that surround the painting, those made in my workshop, by tradition and historical culture, exclusivity and originality, give a strong connotation to the canvases, enhancing the content and giving uniqueness, elegance and style. Themselves become a valuable art object. The accuracy in details highlights the style and beauty of delicate Capodimonte porcelain that you find in my atelier. Vases, Art objects and statues, as well as the decorations of flowers and fruits mounted on frames, are created by a skilled master craftsman , heiress of the nobles secrets of ancient Neapolitan manufacture of Capodimonte, that models and decorates them by hand. The uniqueness and value of all works created in my studio consist in the precious characteristic of being completely "handmade"
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DESIGN My laboratory offers the service "to measure" on the customer's design. For interior decoration I intend enhancing of a space following aesthetic canons, using various painting techniques, interpreting the client's taste and considering furniture and architecture, having as its aim the beauty and elegance of the environment.I work around the world and ship everywhere the works of Art created in my Atelier. Personally I prefer the execution on canvas also of those paintings destined to a wall or a ceiling because the canvases can be easily transported and shipped all over the world, to be then professionally fixed and become themselves part of the architectural structure. As always the spirit that animates everything 'that I realize is based on respect for the integrity' and excellence handed down by the millenary culture of the great masters of the past and ancient tradition of my family. All my paintings and Art objects are emblem of a "Made in Italy" oriented to luxury, originality, creativity, and their exclusive process ensures value over time. 7
DRAPERY VEILS
NEW FIGURES INCORPORATED magazine fmr n.148 pg 21
TEMPL IN THE CLOUDS
CENTRAL CEILING ROSE approximately cm.60 x 70
SKETCH OF BALCONY
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0226A Battelship John Stevens oil on canvas cm. 140 x 160 gold leaf gilded and mohogany laquered wooden frame cm. 170 x 190
7083A In the harbour John Stevens oil on canvas cm. 80 x 100
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14F9A Landscape Angelo Granati oil on canvas cm. 80 x 130 025AA Landscape Antonio Montini oil on canvas cm. 170 x 195 gold leaf gilded and mohogany laquered wooden frame cm. 210 x 235
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8056P Landscape Angelo Granatii oil on canvas cm. 9 0 x 110
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0AADC Naples Ettore Ferrante oil on canvas cm. 30 x 60 gold leaf gilded wooden frame cm. 43 x 73
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W286 Fishermen in Naples Ettore Ferrante oil on canvas cm. 40 x 70 gold leaf gilded oval wooden frame cm. 56 x 86
127EA Mithological scene Angelo Granati oil on canvas cm. 100 x 80
10ACA Decoration for the boudoire of Marie Antoniette Gianluca D’este oil on canvas with silver leaf grey laquered wooden frame mis.100 x 100
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1004A Decoration for the boudoire of Marie Antoniette Angelo Granati oil on canvas with 12 karat white gold leaf mis.55 x 50
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02FDA The chariot race Angelo Granati oil on canvas cm. 60 x 110 imperial gold leaf gilded wooden frame cm. 90 x 140 7CFDA Merchant of flowers in Pompeii Angelo Granati oil on canvas cm. 80 x 120 hand engraved and gold leaf gilded wooden frame cm. 100 x 140
8A73F Horses Mark Majer oil on canvas cm. 40x40 gold leaf gilded and laquered wooden frame cm. 58 x 58
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K865 Horses Mark Majer oil on canvas cm. 40 x 40 gold leaf gilded and laquered wooden frame cm. 51 x 51
010EA Naples - View of Royal Palace Mario De Angeli oil on canvas cm. 140 x 180 neapolitan hand carved and gold leaf gilded wooden frame cm. 168 x 208 5D63P Naples - Donn’Anna palace Ettore Ferrante oil on canvas cm. 75 x 150 antiqued gold leaf gilded wooden frame cm. 115 x 190
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0771A Le rapture of Psyche Angelo Granati oil on canvas cm. 125x70 gold leaf gilded wooden frame with pleated ivory silk insert and fumè mirror inlayed cm. 165x110
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0AACA Flowers Giuseppe Pellegrini oil on canvas cm.115x80 gold leaf gilded wooden frame lapislazzuli laquered with decorated scagliola bordure mis.est. cm 137x122
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0256A Italian spring day Antonio Celli oil on canvas cm. 238 x 273
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804FP The Grand Canal and the Church of the Salute Mario De Angeli oil on canvas cm. 80 x 120 gold leaf gilded wooden frame cm. 112 x 152 W274 Grand Canal Giancarlo Gorini oil on canvas cm. 40 x 60 41CEB Palazzo Ducale and San Marco square Mario Rosario Allegretti oil on canvas cm. 28 x 40
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1A8AA The bath of Caracalla Angelo Granati oil on canvas cm. 90 x120
7CD9A Flowers Gianluca d’Est oil on canvas gold leaf gilded and pleated silk wooden frame cm. 100 x 80
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1994A Oriental market Angelo Granati oil on canvas cm. 210 x 210
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1A02A Oriental market Angelo Granati oil on canvas cm. 210 x 210
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470DA Italian landscape Mario Rosario Allegretti oil on canvas cm. 27 x 65 gold gilded wooden frame cm. 40 x 78
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6BB8A Landscape Luigi De Santis oil on canvas cm. 30 x 50 gold leaf gilded and ebony laquered wooden frame cm. 45 x 65
024EA Aurora Angelo Granati oil on canvas cm. 130 x 80 gold leaf gilded wooden frame with composition of porcellana di Capodimonte flowers decoration cm. 159 x 109
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02F3A Napoleon King of Italy Angelo Granati oil on canvas cm. 100 x 137 gold leaf gilded wooden frame inlayed with white Carrara marble cm. 144 x 181
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02F4A Portrait of a noblelady Angelo Granati oil on canvas cm. 90 x 135 gold leaf gilded wooden frame with pleated chocolate silk cm. 130 x 175
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0314A Lady in white dress Angelo Granati oil on canvas cm. 80 x 140 gold leaf gilded wooden frame cm. 104 x 164 1160A Comparisons Angelo Granati oil on board cm. 15 x25 original frame of the end of '800 in gilded bronze
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3DAFB Portrait Francesca Strino oil on canvas cm. 120 x 80 gold leaf gilded wooden frame cm. 150 x 110
06E5A Large “Ca’ Rezzonico” Lamp light - of high quality and finery, in crystal glass and polychrome glass paste, with ten lights, blown and pulled by pliers with “cabochon” cups, of approx 1890, Murano, Venice cm.136 x 130 x130
8C34F White flowers Bonetti oil on canvas cm. 50 x 80
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5568M Lady’s portrait Ciro De Rosa oil on canvas cm. 80 x 70 gold leaf gilded wooden frame cm. 99 x 89
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0C7EA Black horse Angelo Granati oil on canvas cm. 80 x 100 gold leaf gildedwooden frame turtle shell laquered insert H332 Hunting and horses Mark Majer oil on canvas cm. 60 x 40 frame all in lacquered and gilded wood, 22 karat gold.
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05F7A Juno and Psyche Angelo Granati oil on canvas cm. 80 x 60 gold leaf gilded and ivory laquered wooden frame with composition of porcellana di Capodimonte flowers decoration cm. 106 x 86
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Porcellane di Capodimonte. The attention to details is essential to the realization of exclusive objects of art
7508P The education of Achilles terracotta sculpture signed Amedeo Gennarelli 1920 cm. 38 x 41
355BB A spring day romance Angelo Granati oil on canvas cm. 50 x 40 neapolitan hand carved and engraved gold leaf gilded wooden frame cm. 65 x 55
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07A4A Leopard Angelo Granati oil on canvas cm. 80 x 120 gold leaf gilded and ebony laquered wooden frame cm. 105 x 145
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49E3P Land battle Antonio Savisio oil on canvas cm. 60 x 90 gold leaf gilded wooden frame cm. 92 x 122
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456DB Land battle Antonio Savisio oil on canvas cm. 40 x 80
4606B Land battle Antonio Savisio oil on canvas cm. 40 x 80
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5A5DP Sailing in the bay of Naples John Stevens oil on canvas cm. 80 x 120 5A62P Sailing in the bay of Naples John Stevens oil on canvas cm. 40 x 60 7316P Race John Stevens oil on canvas cm. 80 x 120
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1509A Baths of Caracalla Angelo Granati oil on canvas cm. 90 x 120
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84BCF black cristal consolle wood and glass consolle, white marble top with geometric glass inlay cm. 135 x 65 OBE63 silver gilted obelisk cm. 63 x 16 508FP ostrich egg obelisk hand laquered wood cm. 55 x 12 4C15P red mediterranean coral branch on a silver cm. 36 x 27 x 8
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864FP Chinese girl Angelo Granati oil on canvas cm. 110 x 90
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84BCF black cristal consolle wood and glass consolle, white marble top with geometric glass inlay cm. 135 x 65 OBE90 red porphyry laquered obelisk cm. 90 x 20 26EEB Nude Venus Studio Massimo Caiafa hand painted sculpture cm. 45 x 15 782CP Pain of love bronze sculpture signed V. Giggiano Borriello cm. 40 x 23 7783P Like you my friend Massimo d’Orta oil on canvas cm. 100 x 100 white laquered NYC frame cm. 120 x 120
02156FA Blue figure Studio Massimo Caiafa Mix media on canvas cm. 130 x 180
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01EFA Phenomena of football 3 Stefano Iannone oil on canvas cm. 120 x 70
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01E0A Phenomena of football 4 Stefano Iannone oil on canvas cm. 120 x 70
083BA New York decò Studio Massimo Caiafa gold leaf and acrylic hand engraved on wood cm. 120 x 120
07D6A Figura n.3 bronze sculpture signed Di Tommaso cm. 50 x 30
075CA cocktail cabinet walnut burl and rosewood with brass applications cm. 80,5 x 124
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Untitled Gennaro Sardella wood and metal
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156FA On sofa Studio Massimo Caiafa Mix media on canvas cm. 80 x 120
73DDP Sheet N.2 Massimo D’Orta oil on canvas cm. 70 x 70
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7C21P The great winter AM8 Massimo D’Orta oil on canvas cm. 70 x 70
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1750A Shapes and volumes Alfonso Praiola oil on canvas cm. 90 x 60
1663A Dancer Studio Massimo Caiafa oil on canvas cm. 180 x 90
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All our works are provided with a certification of authenticity origin, quality, value, and originality.
Our long-term cooperation is with the following best partners.
Nationale Battitura Metalli gold and silver leaf
Pieraccini linen canvas
Maimeri oil colours and marten brushes
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CATALOGUE CREDITS Photos Biagio Ippolito Grafic design Sara Pollini Art director Stefano Tornincasa printed in Italy by Studio Moratti, Napoli ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Via Chiatamone, 6G - 80121 Napoli Tel. +39 0817649937 www.massimocaiafa.it - info@massimocaiafa.it
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