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OYSTERS by Micah Heimlich
By Furbishure by unHeim, Micah Heimlich
Located in Yucca Valley, CA
DESERT BURL SERIES (“OYSTERS”)
ILLUMINATED SCULPTURE SCONCES
Black nickel and silver plated bronze, LED lights, 2020, 9 x 11 x 2.5 in.
The decorative metal plates mount over (2) t...
Category
2010s American Furbishure by unHeim Lighting
Materials
Bronze, Silver Plate, Nickel
DUMBO SQUID by Micah Heimlich
By Furbishure by unHeim, Micah Heimlich
Located in Yucca Valley, CA
DESERT BURL SERIES (“DUMBO SQUID”)
NATURAL LIGHT
Bronze-cast desert burl, fluorite, polished agate stones, LED lights, cloth-covered cord, 2019-20, 11.5 x 5 x 5 in.
Micah Heimlic...
Category
2010s American Furbishure by unHeim Lighting
Materials
Bronze
HYDROTHERMAL VENTS by Micah Heimlich
By Furbishure by unHeim, Micah Heimlich
Located in Yucca Valley, CA
SEA SPONGE SERIES (“HYDROTHERMAL VENTS”)
NATURAL LIGHT
Bronze-cast desert burl, Sonora Alandra double-terminated amethyst & ghost amethyst, milled aluminum base, LED lights, cloth-covered cord, 2019-20, 7.125 x 3.375 x 10 in.
Micah Heimlich is a versatile artist and designer whose Furbishure collections further demonstrate his California Surrealist sensibilities. Heimlich uses naturally sourced materials to create unique and thoughtful pieces that combine the functional with the fantastic, resulting in far-flung product designs such as furniture, fittings, and fine art. Heimlich’s uncanny looking assemblages can even be described as “art sponges,” with whimsical surfaces that belie their deep subterranean sources from art, architecture, and design.
While some Furbishure collections feature minerals such as mica and gemstones, others, like the recent “Oumuamua” series, incorporate organic remains such as sea sponges and desert burls. Heimlich makes colored metal casts of these found objects and then combines them to form lamps, standing “shadow pieces,” and other novelties. The resulting formal hybrids oscillate between fine art and Gebrauchskunst, on the one hand, and Baroque architecture and Bernard Palissy’s decorated grottos and ceramic dishes on the other.
As with another of Heimlich’s recent collections, the “Sea Sponge Series,” these new “Oumuamua” pieces chime with the traditional Wunderkammer, which, like the Opificio Delle Pietre Dure in Florence, Italy, is dedicated to the curiosities and rarities of the natural world. For “Oumuamua,” Heimlich’s multistoried sources include Yves Klein’s Blue Sponge paintings and objects, Jean Dubuffet’s impish sponge figures like Le danseur, and Piero Manzoni’s Lines of Infinite Length traced by an ink-soaked sponge. Furthermore, by extending these tracings to the Dutch designer Marcel Wanders’s “Kaleido of Life” and other organically intertwined works, such as his 1997 “Sponge Vase...
Category
2010s American Furbishure by unHeim Lighting
Materials
Bronze
INTERMICA (NIMBUS LIGHT #1) by Micah Heimlich
By Furbishure by unHeim, Micah Heimlich
Located in Yucca Valley, CA
INTERMICA (NIMBUS LIGHT #1)
WALL SCONCE, 2023
InterMica® laminated Starphire glass with green, gold & black mica flakes, LED bulb 14 x 14 x 2.75 in.
InterMica is an architectural s...
Category
2010s American Furbishure by unHeim Lighting
Materials
Steel
TARDIGRADE by Micah Heimlich
By Furbishure by unHeim
Located in Yucca Valley, CA
SEA SPONGE SERIES (“TARDIGRADE”)
NATURAL LIGHT
Bronze-cast sea sponge, epidote, golden calcite, E12 light bulb, cloth-covered cord, 2019-20, 4.25 2.5 x 5 in.
Category
2010s American Furbishure by unHeim Lighting
Materials
Bronze
INTERMICA (NIMBUS LIGHT #2) by Micah Heimlich
By Furbishure by unHeim
Located in Yucca Valley, CA
INTERMICA (NIMBUS LIGHT #2)
WALL SCONCE, 2023
InterMica® laminated Starphire and mirror with amber, gold & black mica flakes, LED bulb 14 x 14 x 2.75 in.
InterMica is an architectu...
Category
2010s American Furbishure by unHeim Lighting
Materials
Glass, Precious Stone
RHINOCEROS by Micah Heimlich
By Furbishure by unHeim
Located in Yucca Valley, CA
SEA SPONGE SERIES (“RHINOCEROS”)
NATURAL LIGHT
Powder-coated bronze-cast sea sponge, red agate, raw uncut rubies, halite stalactite, leather-wrapped lead straps, antique bronze foot...
Category
2010s American Furbishure by unHeim Lighting
Materials
Bronze
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