Cometti Giacomo
( Turin 1863 - 1938 )
Sculptor
Trained in 1891 in the Accademia Albertina delle
Belle Arti in Turin under the guide of Davide Calandra and
Odoardo Tabacchi, in the following years Cometti becomes a
strict collaborator of Leonardo Bistolfi, staying by his side
for over twenty years. Author of some allegoric statues in the
Fontana di Mesi created by Carlo Ceppi in Turin, in 1898 he made
the commemorative plate for Giacinto Gallina in the foyer of the
Theatre Alfieri in the same city. Also active in the field of
the decorative and applied arts and in the cabinet-making, he is
author of furniture and fittings with a taste of Liberty, which
he had exposed in Paris (1900, honor medal), in Milan (1906) and
Antwerp (1894).
His Works of fornitures:
chairs
(
Translation by Alessandra Pigliasco )