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
Pair of 18th Century Italian Figurative Candlesticks on Rutile Quartz Crystals
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
Pair of 18th century Italian mecca carved figurative candleholders on rutile in a crystal quartz matrix. The pair originally come from a historic church in Italy. They are thought to...
Category
Antique 18th Century Italian Rococo Candlesticks
Materials
Quartz, Rock Crystal, Gold Leaf, Metal
Pair of 19th Century Italian Gilded Angel Wings on Calcite Crystals in Matrix
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
Pair of 19th century Italian hand-carved and gilded angel wings on calcite crystal points in matrix.
The pair hand-carved gilded and gilded angel wings are originally from a histor...
Category
Antique 19th Century Italian Rococo Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Rock Crystal, Gold Leaf
Pair of 18th Century Italian Gilded Bases with Angel Wing Shells and Pearls
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
A pair of 18th century Italian gilded and hand-carved bases with two matching angel wing shells and adorned with coordinating natural forming baroque pearls. The hand-carved, gold le...
Category
Antique 18th Century Italian Rococo Mounted Objects
Materials
Gold Leaf
17th Century Italian Angel Putto with Peridot on Lucite and Framed with Emerald
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
17th century Italian hand-sculpted plaster angel head with coordinating peridot on lucite and framed with natural-forming emerald and mica. The putto (angel head in Italian) has been...
Category
Antique 17th Century Italian Rococo Wall-mounted Sculptures
Materials
Rock Crystal, Crystal
18th Century Italian Angel and Torch with Herkimer Diamond and Baroque Pearls
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th century Italian hand-carved gold-leaf angel holding a torch with a herkimer faceted diamond surrounded by coordinating naturally formed baroque pearls. The Herkimer diamond rest...
Category
Antique 18th Century Italian Rococo Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Quartz, Rock Crystal, Gold Leaf
18th Century Italian Candlestick with Natural Citrine Crystals and Sea Fan
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th century Italian hand-carved candlestick with hand-painted cream tones and distressed silver leaf detailing, darkened with age, with a coordinating fossil sea fan surrounded by u...
Category
Antique 18th Century Italian Rococo Mounted Objects
Materials
Coral, Crystal, Rock Crystal, Silver Leaf
Collection of Organic Modern Petrified Wood
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
A collection of four multi-toned polished petrified wood pieces on a coordinating petrified wood slab.
Petrified wood is a special type of fossilized wood. This type of mineralized...
Category
Antique 15th Century and Earlier American Organic Modern Natural Specimens
Materials
Petrified Wood
Large White Split Crystal Geodes with Natural Baroque Pearls
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
Large white crystal quartz geode split into two halves each with a large naturally forming baroque pearl.
Geodes are formed as gas bubbles within volcanic lava. Over time, the lava ...
Category
Antique 15th Century and Earlier Moroccan Prehistoric Natural Specimens
Materials
Rock Crystal
18th Century Italian Gilded Bird with Calcite Crystal in a Sphalerite Matrix
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th century Italian hand-carved and gilded bird on a cut phantom calcite crystal base. The missing wing of the bird has been replicated with a rare coordinating calcite crystal clus...
Category
Antique 18th Century Italian Rococo Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Quartz, Rock Crystal, Crystal, Gold Leaf
17th Century Italian Hand-Carved and Gilded Crown with Himalayan Diamonds
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
17th century Italian hand-carved and gilded crown adorned with herkimer diamonds and mounted on an antique gold base.
This was original from a historical Italian church and would ha...
Category
Antique 17th Century Italian Rococo Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Quartz, Rock Crystal, Gold Leaf, Metal
18th Century Italian Sunray with Tangerine Quartz on Phantom Red Calcite
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
18th century Italian gold sunray fragment with tangerine crystal quartz points on a polished optical calcite base. The hand-carved, hand-painted wood fragment sunray was once part of...
Category
Antique 18th Century Italian Rococo Mounted Objects
Materials
Quartz, Rock Crystal, Crystal
Sculptural 18th Century Italian Figure of Christ on Phantom Red Optical Calcite
By Interi
Located in Dublin, Dalkey
Sculptural 18th century Italian hand-carved wood figure of Christ on an optical calcite crystal base. The original red bole shows through on the artifact and coordinates with the pha...
Category
Antique 18th Century Italian Rococo Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Crystal, Rock Crystal, Quartz
