All forms of expression, either intended to an ornamental use or to a functional and practical use, reflect the tastes of a society, the style of a period, the way of living.
Objects and furniture have each their own meaning and they gain so an abstract and concrete value at the same time, characterizing a man, an environment, a period.

To approach the antique means try to catch the relation between history and style.

The piece of furniture and its location, answering to practical needs, convey us immediately the culture and the taste of a period. But among the various ways of expression and interpretation there are also the individual ways, that give the personal touch of the artist, and the collective ones as the style, the formal costant that makes us recognise an epoch.