Един изключителен резбен ансамбъл в София
One Exceptional Wood-Carved Ensemble in Sofia

Summary/Abstract: This text is the first publication about an exceptional artistic ensemble in Sofia – the wood-carved furnishings in the office of the director of Unicredit Bank. It introduces consecutively the building Central Cooperative Bank for which the ensemble was created and the stages of its construction. Attention is paid to the originality of the architectural design of the office – its unusual apse structure, symbolic polysemy and excellent proportionality. The wood-carved ensemble, consisting of a desk and a cabinet (it can be assumed that a chair was also included, which is not been preserved), is examined; the author suggests a date, clarifies the creator of the work, conducts a stylistic analysis, finds parallels, and clarifies certain aspects of its interpretation. In this way, arguments are offered identifying Petar Kanchev as the creator, and the place and significance of the ensemble within his work is sought, as well as within the wider cultural context of searches for a Bulgarian style characteristic of the first half of the 1920s.

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