Roberto Romero works are inspired by Brazilian flora and fauna or studies of objects' shape, color, and shadow. This encounter of inspiration leads his pieces through three stages of creation until the final process—lines as geometric design, color as an imagery potential, and light as an expansion of their shapes.
Along this path, his projects cross the boundaries of design, architecture, and art, which expand to other understandings of these segments, considering the structures that address these challenges.
The production involves the participation of artisan labor from communities in Rio de Janeiro. These artisans are master craftsmen and welders who work in Carnival samba schools and collaborate with the modeling and welding of the pieces. In many cases, we are talking about small workshops where the workers are people from the same family, spouses, and children of the artisans, who participate in their manual work. In this way, it creates employment and allows the passing of technical knowledge to children from generation to generation.
The steel used to make the pieces is largely recovered and recycled from remains of costumes and carnival float structures, reusing the material. The main intention is to create more sustainable pieces, with the aim of reducing production costs and, at the same time, contributing to social awareness and reducing environmental pollution.
Amazoninan Victoria Regia Sculpture
By Roberto Romero
Located in Rio de Janeiro, BR
The sculptures are inspired by the VitóriaRégia leaves that are found floating in the rivers of the Amazon. With a minimalist expression, the lines represent the ribs or veins that t...
Steel
Vintage Herb Ritts Mid-Century Lucite Sculpture
By Herb Ritts
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Made of thick Lucite and shaped organically into a center piece or serving bowl resting on a flattened area on the bottom this bowl is attributed to the Ritts Company of Los Angeles ...
Lucite
Contemporary Ceramic "Geode" Sculpture by Agnès Debizet, 2020
Located in London, GB
"Coupe Geode" Sculpture by Agnès Debizet, 2020 Impressive and large stoneware bowl or cup covered with porcelain slip and glass. Evoking a rounded, hollow stone or rock, the inter...
Ceramic, Porcelain, Stoneware, Glass
Victoria Bowl
By Trish DeMasi
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Trish DeMasi. Victoria Bowl, 2022. Metallic glazed speckled stoneware. Measures: 5.25 x 21 x 20 in
Stoneware
Mid-20th Century Italian Woven Porcelain Sculpture
Located in Chicago, IL
A fantastic mid-20th century Italian handwoven porcelain sculpture constructed in a vase form of thinly hand-applied strips of porcelain, and then finished in a white glaze.
Porcelain
$2,060 / item
H 25.99 in Dm 11.82 in
Victoria Ceramic Flower Vase, by Marco Zanini from Memphis Milano
By Memphis Milano, Memphis Group, Marco Zanini
Located in La Morra, Cuneo
Victoria Flower vase in ceramic with ceramic flower, was originally designed in 1982 by Marco Zanini for Memphis Milano. Marco Zanini was born in Trento in 1954. He graduated in ar...
Ceramic
Murano Shell Sculpture
Located in Pasadena, CA
Beautiful mid-century Murano Shell sculpture or dish. This shell is beautifully designed with scrolls of toffee, honey and ivory cased in red glass. The impressive size of the shell ...
Blown Glass
Mid-Century Brass Sculpture Dish
By Tommi Parzinger
Located in New York, NY
A Mid-Century brass sculpture dish attributed to Tommi Parzinger. Solid Brass sculpture center mounted to a brass dish. Three detail cut-outs outline the base of the dish. Spectacu...
Brass
$150 / item
H 1.75 in Dm 5.75 in
Victoria Ironstone Flow Blue and White Chinoiserie Trinket Dish or Catchall Bowl
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
A ceramic chinoiserie flow blue and white catchall or trinket dish. This piece is marked on the bottom as Victoria Ironstone. The bowl is decorated both...
Ceramic, Paint
Contemporary Japanese Bamboo Sculpture Honma Hideaki
By Honma Hideaki
Located in Atlanta, GA
A bamboo table top sculpture by Japanese bamboo artist Honma Hideaki (b. 1959) made in early 2000s. The basket form sculpture was a creative ikebana and could be used as such or simply as a okimono (decorative piece). The piece is of an unusual oval dish form with the wall irregularly outlined with bent bamboo, thousand-line construction form the upper part of the wall and the patterned twining was added in the lower part to give it a visual shift from airiness to solidity. A large piece of bamboo was selected as the base. Signed "Hide" underneath. An American Midwest collection. Honma Hideaki was born in Sado, Niigata prefecture. He studied under Honma Kazuaki...
Bamboo
Erik Grønborg Ceramic Bowl / Sculpture
By Erik Gronborg
Located in Dallas, TX
Danish-born artist and craftsman Erik Gronborg (b. 1930) traveled to California in 1959 and never left, creating works in wood, clay and cast metal. This bowl shows his use of color ...
Ceramic
Contemporary Japanese Bamboo Sculpture Honma Hideaki
By Honma Hideaki
Located in Atlanta, GA
Titled "Cocoon", this wall hanging bamboo sculpture was made by Honma Hideaki (Japanese, b. 1959) in 2005 and originally purchased from Tai Modern, Sata Fe,...
Bamboo
Red sculpture, Jean François Reboul
By Jean François Reboul
Located in Paris, FR
Red cup made of concrete, pigments and paper. A “Certificate of Authenticity” is provided by the gallery. Dimensions: D 23" x H 12,7". Jean-François Reboul is a sculptor, born in ...
Concrete