About Interi
Interi was created over 19 years ago by former Irish top model, Jean O’Reilly Barlow. Upon leaving the fashion industry, Barlow became inspired by Italian ecclesiastical art and design. She now works to preserve and transform 17-18th century Italian ecclesiastical fragment artifacts into sculptural modern art using artistic methods, natural specimens, and contemporary interpretations. Each fragment is reimagined and adorned with minerals, precious gems, baroque pearls, fossil agate coral, and fossil shells — creating a piece that appears to have evolved together over t...Read More
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Featured Pieces
19th Century Italian Gilded and Hand-Carved Angels on an Aragonite Cloud
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
19th century Italian hand-carved gilded angels mounted aragonite.
The hand-carved angels were once part of a heavenly, angelic depiction in a historic church in Tuscany. The aragon...
Category
Antique 19th Century Italian Rococo Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Quartz, Rock Crystal, Gold Leaf
Sculptural Free-Forming Black Obsidian Point with Natural Forming Indentions
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
Sculptural black obsidian point with natural forming indentions. The point was cut and polished to completion, but parts of this piece are left in its organic form to resemble a natu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Mexican Organic Modern Natural Specimens
Materials
Rock Crystal, Lava
Blue Celestite Heart Shaped Geode with Natural Forming Baroque Pearls on Lucite
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
Blue heart-shaped celestite geode adorned with coordinating naturally forming baroque pearls.
The name for this specific geode is derived from the Latin word Caelestis, meaning "cel...
Category
Antique 15th Century and Earlier Moroccan Organic Modern Natural Specimens
Materials
Rock Crystal
Sculptural 17th Century 'Florence Fragment' with a Fossil Shell and Crystals
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
Sculptural 17th century hand-carved Florence Fragment mounted with a fossil shell with barnacles and adorned with crystals.
This fragment is from a church in Florence. It was found ...
Category
Antique 17th Century Italian Baroque Mounted Objects
Materials
Rock Crystal
Sculptural 18th Century Italian Fragment with Elestial Quartz and Agate
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
Sculptural 18th century Italian fragment with elestial quartz and mounted on an agate slice.
The fragment was originally from a historical Italian church. It is mounted with the ele...
Category
Antique 18th Century Italian Rococo Mounted Objects
Materials
Rock Crystal, Agate, Quartz
18th Century Italian Silver Angel Wall Bracket with Mica and Pyrite in Matrix
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th century Italian silver leaf angel wall bracket mounted with mica and pyrite in matrix and baroque pearls.
The angel artifact is originally from a historical church or palazzo i...
Category
Antique 18th Century Italian Rococo Wall Brackets
Materials
Quartz, Rock Crystal, Pyrite, Silver Leaf
18th Century Italian Angel Wall Piece with Elestial Crystals and Baroque Pearls
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
Early 18th century Italian angel wall piece with a crown of elestial crystal quartz and coordinating baroque pearls.
The angle artifact has been naturally distressed with age. The c...
Category
Antique 18th Century Italian Rococo Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Quartz, Rock Crystal, Gold Leaf
18th Century Italian Gilded Tabernacle Door with Baroque Pearls
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th century Italian hand-carved and gilded tabernacle door adorned with baroque pearls. This door once belonged on a tabernacle which served the eucharist in a church. It has a heav...
Category
Antique 18th Century Italian Rococo Decorative Art
Materials
Gold Leaf
18th Century Italian Leaf Fragment with Pyrite in Magnetite and Baroque Pearls
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
Sculptural 18th century Italian hand-carved leaf fragment mounted on a formation of pyrite in a magnetite matrix and adorned with natural-forming baroque pearls.
The fragment artifa...
Category
Antique 18th Century Italian Rococo Mounted Objects
Materials
Rock Crystal, Pyrite, Gold Leaf
Sculptural Natural-Forming Black Obsidian on a Black Base
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
Large naturally formed black obsidian on a black base.
Obsidian is a naturally occurring volcanic glass formed when lava extruded from a volcano cools rapidly with minimal crystal g...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Mexican Organic Modern Natural Specimens
Materials
Rock Crystal, Lava
18th Century Italian Giltwood Base with a Chesapecten Fossil Shell Formation
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
Sculptural 18th century Italian hand-carved and gilded base with a Chesapecten fossil shell formation and natural-forming baroque pearls.
The Chesapecten shell cluster was found fro...
Category
Antique 18th Century Italian Rococo Mounted Objects
Materials
Shell, Wood, Mother-of-Pearl, Giltwood
Conch Shell with Coordinating Crystal Quartz Cluster
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
Complete conch shell mounted on a large crystal quartz cluster and adorned with two crystal points, highlighting the neutral and warm hues of the shell.
The piece was collected and ...
Category
Antique 15th Century and Earlier American Organic Modern Natural Specimens
Materials
Crystal, Rock Crystal
