The paper discloses a group of drawings from a private collection, sketched by the furniture maker Gaetano
Manzoni, to be turned into furniture intended to embellish the neoclassical apartment in the Papafava palace
in Padua, one of the most interesting houses in Italy during the same period.
This finding is of the uttermost importance, since there are very few sheets of this kind remaining, which attest
to the care given to every detail in that apartment, whose original state is documented in an article by B.
Brunelli published in the journal “Dedalo” in 1928.
