Alfons Louis

"Disciples I" Mixed media work on wood 13" x 59" inch by Alfons Louis

2019

"Calligraphic Beam" Mixed media work on wood 14"x89"inch by Alfons Louis Wooden work with elements of Bronze, Glass, and Iron. ABOUT THE ARTIST Born in Cairo 1959- Graduated from ...

"Eternity" Mixed media work on wood 18.5" x 71" inch by Alfons Louis Wooden works with Mixed Media (Bronze) ABOUT THE ARTIST Born in Cairo 1959- Graduated from faculty of fine art (painting) Alexandria. In 1982 – Member of plastic art Egypt, member of Atelier Alexandria And member of Alexandria Work shop center...

"Encounter" Mixed media work on wood 58" x 14" inch by Alfons Louis "Old Turk Walnut Wood with Bronze using Floral & Animal Elements of Coptic & Andalusian & Islamic Arts...

"Bird of Fayoum" Mixed media work on wood 29.5" x 33.5" inch by Alfons Louis ABOUT THE ARTIST Born in Cairo 1959- Graduated from faculty of fine art (painting) Alexandria. In 1982 – Member of plastic art Egypt, member of Atelier Alexandria And member of Alexandria Work shop center...

Louis Comfort Tiffany “Turtle-Back” desk lamp, 1905 ca. Patinated bronze and marbled glass. 14 in high Shade marked "Tiffany Studios", base stamped "Tiffany Studios, New York, 71452".

This unusual garden torch "Flame" on an oxidised oak pedestal is a real eye-catcher for your garden. Customization possible and designed in 2010. Also available to order in stainless...

This outdoor lamp "Ikosaeder" is for the garden or entrance area. Customization possible and designed in 2010. Also available to order in stainless steel. This lamp impresses her un...

Bronze art deco ram sculpture by Paul A. Lobel from the RKO Roxy Theater, Rockefeller Center, New York. Hand wrought. Provenance: RKO, Roxy Center Theatre; Mr. Eugene Lee Schoen; Mr. Neal Prince & Mr. Herbert Wade Hemphill Jr.; Mr. Neal Prince; The Trust of the above; Heritage Auctions. Presented by Joseph Dasta Antiques Paul Lobel (1899 - 1983): The accomplishments of Paul A. Lobel, industrial designer, metalsmith, sculptor and cartoonist/illustrator, may be viewed as the quintessential American success story. Born in Romania, at the turn of the century, he emigrated to the United States while an infant, and, from humble beginnings on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, grew up to attain a one-man show in Paris in 1925, win two awards at the International Exposition of Decorative Arts in Paris in 1932, be the subject of two exhibitions at the American Museum of Art and The Museum of Modern Art in New York City. He also founded an innovative jewelry and metals studio/shop in New York’s Greenwich Village. Furthermore, his contemporaries regarded him with awe and almost everything he attempted came to fruition. In the summer of 1926 Lobel exhibited 35 works, including drawings, etchings, paintings, metalwork and sculpture, in a one-man show at the Grande Librairie Universelle in Paris. During the next year, he toured London, Rome, Florence, Rotterdam, Brussels and Berlin, then, broke, returned to America where he again rented desk space and tried to resume his advertising career. But he was haunted by the modern design that he had been exposed to in Paris. So, after borrowing money to open a metalwork studio on Lexington Avenue, he sought out architect Eugene Schoen, an enthusiast of modern design, whom he had formerly been introduced to by Boardman Robinson. Schoen was in the process of opening a gallery devoted to showing the work of designers and craftsmen imbued with the spirit of modernism...