sculptures

Cast Your Memories in Precious Metal

Filed under: Decor

Whether you're looking to preserve the memory of your new baby's tiny foot or your favorite pet's scruffy paw, Wrightson & Platt can help you lock those precious moments and keep them forever in the form of sculpture or jewelry. They use a fast setting jelly to take a cast of the desired body part (they can capture everything from a wiggly baby's fingers to a woman's pregnant belly) and then put that cast through what can only be described as a fascinating process to create the final product in your choice of materials including bronze, glass, platinum, and sterling silver. Prices start, for the smallest pieces like pins and cufflinks, at about £1200 and go up from there.

Via Lussorian

Gallery: Wrightson & Platt Memory Casts

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Tags: babies, baby, bronze, mementos, memories, sculpture, sculptures, sterling silver, SterlingSilver

Moody, Emotional Daum Crystal Sculptures

by Rigel Celeste (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Decor

Whether you see her as deeply forlorn about something, or just really exhausted from her last routine, this ballerina sculpture cast in green and amber pate de verre crystal and signed by the Daum designer certainly evokes thought as to what the inspiration was behind it. I love this sculpture, and most of the others in the gallery, because they're all so expressive. It's amazing to me how such simple lines and few colors can evoke so much mood and emotion.

The ballerina sits atop a crystal block and measures 12 1.2" high, $5,500.

Gallery: Daum Crystal Sculptures

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Tags: ballerina, crystal, daum, sculpture, sculptures

Art Glass Sculptures by Anthony Biancaniello

by Rigel Celeste (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Decor, Art

I've never been a big fan of fake fruit as decor but these fruit sculptures of glass by Anthony Biancaniello are really beautiful. Each of Biancaniello's designs have a common theme, be it a uniform shape or color scheme, used throughout and he usually works with pairs or groups of objects to create the desired artistic effect. He also, apparently, really likes fruit.

These sculptures are a great way to have the classic beauty of a fruit still life in your home without the often associated tackiness. Prices range from $245 to $1150.

Gallery: Art Glass Sculptures by Anthony Biancaniello

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Steel and Stone Cello Sculpture

by Rigel Celeste (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Art

Talk about a unique combination of materials, this Steel and Stone Cello Sculpture is created out of (yep, you guessed it!) steel and river stones. It's an amazingly life-like, free-standing, and full-sized rendition of the instrument complete with a copper-stringed bow. The fact that it's only the outline of the instrument keeps it a light and airy piece without sacrificing any of the the musical essence the artists (Nerio Festa and Heidi Hummler) wanted to capture. Can be placed indoors or out, made in California. $3800

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Tags: cello, music, sculpture, sculptures, steel, steel and stone, SteelAndStone, stone

Infusion Art Glass Sculptures

by Rigel Celeste (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Decor, Art

I'm one of those people that really buys into the way something is described, and I love how these Infusion Art Glass Sculptures are explained as "juicy drops of color trapped in ice." That's really perfect! Created by Jamie Harris, special glass blowing and carving techniques are used to mold colored and clear glass pieces together for a light-catching artistic result. Available in 3 sizes and a variety of color combinations you're sure to find either the single perfect one for your home -- or buying a group and displaying them together would be great too (that's what I would do, I don't think I could decide!). $1600-$2200

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Tags: art, decor, glass, hand blown, HandBlown, jamie harris, JamieHarris, sculpture, sculptures

Flaunt What You Got with a Money Sculpture!

by Rigel Celeste (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Decor

Even though the latest trend for the rich is "stealth wealth," there are bound to be those out there who just can't help but flaunt what they've got. One way to do it is to get yourself a money sculpture, or I suppose you could make your own if you have an artistic bend towards paper mache. You can easily customize it by using any dollar denomination you want (it cracks me up that this one is made of $1 dollar bills) and hey, if you're a little short on cash and don't want to hit the ATM you can just peel off a few bills and be good to go.

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Tags: bills, dollars, money, sculpture, sculptures

Demeter Chiparus Auction

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Auctions, Art

The Art Deco statues of Demeter Chiparus have a beautiful feminine beauty. Chiparus, who lived from 1886 to 1947 celebrated women with elegant statuettes in bronze with ivory inlays and chryselephantine, a substance which combines gold and ivory with different metal alloys. The chorus line acts of Paris in the 1920s and the Ballets Russes inspired Chiparus. The piece shown here, Les Girls, was edited in three different variations, including a single figure, a three-figure group, and a five-figure group. This versionis the only sculpture by Chiparus to feature five figures on a single base. It is the most expensive piece (estimated to sell for $800,000 to $1,000,000) in a Sotheby's auction on April 17 in New York which will feature 12 pieces from Chiparus that were in a private collection. The lowest priced piece is the Etoile de Mer (Starfish) which is estimated to sell for $100,000 – $150,000 proving that while Chiparus is hardly a household name, his acrobats and dancers are prized among collectors.

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