Turi Chest of Drawers by Turi Aquino for DESINE

Turi is a solid and reliable chest of drawers made of an unpolished walnut that you can’t help but touch if you want to understand how true and wise it is. A piece of furniture where you can keep a secret as if you were confessing it to your best friend (and the drawers’ secret is that the blue interior that can only be discovered by opening the drawers). A piece of furniture where you can store the objects of a collection, store many small pieces of your life, or even, simply, put things in order. The legs are an explosion of joy and strength, powerful and rooted in the ground, and able to push the drawers upwards, and to show us what vitality is.

Turi Aquino was born in 1948 in Grammichele and attended the Regional School of Art where he graduated as an art teacher in the Wood section. He enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Catania and at the same time he was hired as an interior designer in a well-known store in the city. After finishing his studies, in 1975 he returned to his hometown and continued to work as an interior and graphic designer. After several awards in the field of ceramics Aquino, eclectic artist, experiments and works only on the epidermis of majolica and begins to control the glass at high temperatures. 1988 receives the assignment for the teaching of Paintings at the Regional Institute of Art in Grammichele and since 1992 teaches Visual Education at the Art School of Caltagirone.