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Original Starburst Sculpture by Tony Duquette
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Iconic gold painted metal starburst sculpture, created by the legendary Tony Duquette. We have two available and the bases vary. Please contact us if you'd like images or additional ...
Category
1960s American Vintage Sculptures
William A. Hoffman (1920-2011) Bi-Color Crate Ceramic Sculpture
Located in Chicago, IL
A colorful take on his other "crates" sculptures by William August Hoffman (1920-2011), a ceramic sculptor and professor of ceramics at the prestigious Art Institute of Chicago. Originally part of a one man show at Lewis Towers, Chicago 1973. Single crate with orange glaze added to the white overall glaze to give added geometric detail. Two sided orange glaze with two rows on one side and a single row to the other side.
William Hoffman (1920-2011) was a respected artist, and professor of ceramics and sculpture at the Art Institute of Chicago and Loyola University. Born 1920, Roswell, NM. Attended School of the Art Institute of Chicago on the GI Bill, BA 1948. MFA Alfred University, 1952. From the Hoffman estate.
Category
20th Century American Sculptures
Charles Daidone Pivoting Marble Sculpture, circa 1976
By Charles Daidone
Located in New York, NY
Charles Daidone marble sculpture pivots on steel rod attached to square laminate base. Dated 1976. This sculpture by the artist received awards at various art exhibitions.
Sculptor...
Category
Late 20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Sculptures
Materials
Marble
1973 "Three Crates" Ceramic Sculpture by William A. Hoffman
Located in Chicago, IL
Three white glazed ceramic "crates", by William August Hoffman (1920-2011), a ceramic sculptor and professor of ceramics at the prestigious Art Institute of Chicago. Originally part of a one man show at Lewis Towers, Chicago 1973. With a piece of glass added this would make an uncommon side table or coffee table base, creating a work of functional art.
William Hoffman (1920-2011) was a respected artist, and professor of ceramics and sculpture at the Art Institute of Chicago and Loyola University. Born 1920, Roswell, NM. Attended School of the Art Institute of Chicago on the GI Bill, BA 1948. MFA Alfred University, 1952. From the Hoffman estate.
Category
1970s American Vintage Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
A White Marble Bust of a Gentleman by John Warrington Wood
By John Warrington Wood
Located in Sheffield, MA
John Warrington Wood
English, 1839-1886
The gentleman wearing a moustache and sideburns
Signed on verso of truncated shoulders
J.Warrington Wood, Sculpt.Rome 1874
Category
19th Century English Antique Sculptures
Materials
Marble
C.1930 French Carved Stone Relief Sphere
Located in Los Angeles, CA
French Carved Stone Sphere Depicting Grazing Deer
Category
1930s French Vintage Sculptures
Materials
Stone
Mounted Bird Nest Coral
Located in New York, NY
Bird Nest Coral, artfully displayed on a meticulously crafted Italian hand-turned custom black lacquer mount. This captivating piece effortlessly comb...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Other Sculptures
Materials
Coral
An Italian Murano Glass Opaline Sculpture of Lovers Embracing
Located in New York, NY
An Italian Murano glass abstract sculpture of two lovers, united in their embrace as one, produced circa 1970's-1980's, in varying shades of pink and white opaline glass. Very good c...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Sculptures
Materials
Opaline Glass
Chinese Tang Dynasty Painted Pottery Model of a Horse
Located in Austin, TX
A Chinese Tang dynasty pottery model of a horse. The majestic animal is portrayed standing foursquare on a rectangular plinth, head slightly turned. A saddle and saddle blanket are d...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Chinese Tang Antique Sculptures
Materials
Pottery
"Mourning Victory, " Sculpture by Daniel Chester French, Lincoln Memorial Artist
By Daniel Chester French
Located in Philadelphia, PA
One of the loveliest and most poignant sculptures ever created by an American artist, this study for the Melvin Memorial by Daniel Chester French, most famed for his beloved figure of Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial...
Category
Early 1900s American Belle Époque Antique Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
19th C. Carved Head of a Man in the Antique Style, Wearing a Crown of Laurels
Located in New York, NY
This marble head showcases a man in the antique style, wearing a laurel crown. It is presented on a square stone base, emphasizing its classical elegance and symbolizing achievement....
Category
19th Century French Classical Greek Antique Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Lisa Larson for K-Studio/Gustavsberg, Cat in Glazed Ceramic, Late 1900s
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Lisa Larson for K-Studio/Gustavsberg. Cat in glazed ceramic.
Late 1900s.
Measurements: H 14.5 cm. x L 10.5 cm.
In great condition.
Marked: K-Studio/Gustavsberg.
Lisa Larson (b...
Category
Late 20th Century Swedish Scandinavian Modern Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Lovely Yellow Art Deco Vase, Upsala Ekeby, Sweden, 1930s, Roman Urn Style
By Upsala Ekeby
Located in Stockholm, SE
A beautiful ceramic vase in shape of a classical roman urn, the vase is designed at Upsala Ekeby in the 1930s. It is 21.5 cm (8.6") high and about 18.5 cm (7.4") in diameter and in v...
Category
1930s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Unique Existentialist Statue, France 1970s
Located in NANTES, FR
Unique, large scale, handcrafted fiberglass statue from the 70s in France, unsigned.
It's existentialist manner is reminiscent of the works by Alberto Giacometti, Robert Couturier, a...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Brutalist Sculptures
Materials
Fiberglass
Bruno Gambone Stoneware Horse Set of 3
Located in Munich, DE
Cream white glazed ceramic horses made by Bruno Gambone in the 1970s, signed Gambone on the bottom. Wonderful set in excellent condition.
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Female Sculpture of Alabaster by Greeth Zwering
Located in Delft, NL
Female sculpture of Alabaster by Greeth Zwering
Greeth Zwering (1946-) sculpture of a female made of Alabaster on a black marble base.
This sculpture i...
Category
20th Century Dutch Sculptures
Materials
Alabaster
Italian Art Deco Carved Marble & Alabaster Polar Bear Motif Lamp
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Italian Art Deco carved marble & alabaster polar bear motif lamp.
Italy, Circa 1930s.
A unique period Art Deco whimsical carved marble and alabast...
Category
20th Century Italian Art Deco Sculptures
Materials
Alabaster, Marble, Metal
Unique Colorful Animal Sculpture, Ahryun Lee
By Ahryun Lee
Located in New York, NY
The ceramic designer Ahryun Lee was born in Seoul, South Korea in 1989 and lives and works in Munich, Germany. She graduated from the Royal College of Art, London in 2016, and studie...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
"Kogetsudai 'beige'", 2015 Coiled Rope Sculptural Fiber Vessel by Doug Johnston
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Kogetsudai (beige)", 2015
coiled nylon cord, sewing thread
"Kogetsudai (beige)" is one of four works made in the approximate shape of the Kogetsudai gravel mound in the garden of Ginkaku-ji in Kyoto, Japan. Upon my first visit to this garden, I was fascinated with the Kogetsudai, and the more I learned about it the more my interest was piqued. The feature is one of two special gravel mounds there, which are made from fine grey gravel or sand and re-shaped nearly every day by the gardeners. The name translates to something like "moon-viewing platform" but the reason for the name, the shape, and its significance has been lost to history. Some speculate that the name derives from how the top of the cone appears as a silvery moon-like reflection against a sea of gravel at night when viewed from the upper floor of the adjacent Silver Pavilion - and that the shape may be a reference to Mount Fuji. The Kogetsudai at Ginkaku-ji is a "frustum" shape about 2 meters tall and records show it being in its current shape and approximate dimension since the late 1700's. The shape is very powerful but it is made only of moistened sand. I made this series as a way to study the shape and understand its geometry and presence. I wanted to be able to sit with that shape in a room. I made the shape as a vessel to reinforce the idea of the shape itself, rather than as a solid mass. Furthermore, the dedication to the continual rebuilding of the form and object over and over through time, without a need for any "function" other than beauty and cultural continuity, was similar to how I have come to think of the act of vessel-making by humans. We likely inherited vessel-making skills from our pre-sapiens human ancestors, and have continued this activity over hundreds of thousands of years, and in a proliferation of materials from fibers, wood, clay, metal, glass, plastic, and more. Especially since the beginning of the Holocene, a certain amount of vessel making has had no function or purpose other than for cultural continuity and the cultural, formal, craft, and visual aesthetics within the multitude of human cultures. In this series of works, the continuous length of rope coiled into a conical helix also serves as an expression of this continuity through time, perhaps working towards a yet-unknown endpoint or goal, while creating a space that is simultaneously empty and loaded.
This work was first exhibited in 2015 at Patrick Parrish Gallery as part of my solo exhibition "what it is". It was later shown at the Haystack Mountain School of Craft in Deer Isle, Maine, as well as several other group exhibitions. It has also appeared in several design and art publications in print and online.
Since 2010 Doug Johnston has produced a wide range of functional and sculptural objects using a process of coiling and stitching rope using industrial sewing...
Category
2010s North American Modern Sculptures
Materials
Nylon
Venini Tyra Lundgren Murano Fully Signed Pink Italian Art Glass Bird Figurine
Located in Kissimmee, FL
Beautiful, and rare antique Murano hand blown Sommerso pink Italian art glass bird figurine / sculpture. Documented to designer Tyra Lundgren for ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Art Deco Sculptures
Materials
Glass, Sommerso, Murano Glass, Blown Glass, Art Glass
Pair of Early 20th Century Neoclassical Columns
Located in Chicago, IL
Pair of early 20th century Italian neoclassical-style alabaster columns, reminiscent of Grand Tour souvenirs, with carved acanthus leaf details, and each resting on square bases with...
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Neoclassical Sculptures
Materials
Alabaster
A Rare and Important American Marble Sculpture of Thomas Jefferson, Circa 1870
Located in New York, NY
A Rare and Important American White Marble Sculpture of Thomas Jefferson Holding The Declaration of Independence. Circa 1870, in the Manner of Horatio Stone (1808 –1875).
Inscribed on scroll: 'The Declaration of Independence, It becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another. etc. etc. T. Jefferson.
The present work is unsigned but is reminiscent of Horatio Stone's life-size marble figure of John Hancock...
Category
19th Century American American Classical Antique Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Vintage Folded Book Sculpture, Italy, Contemporary
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary Italian hand folded pages of a vintage book creates unique and very decorative sculpture.
The sculpture is created to appear as a book wit...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Sculptures
Materials
Paper
Art Nouveau Group 'Lady Feeding a Parrot', by E. Oehler, Meissen Germany, C 1910
Located in Vienna, AT
Very rare Meissen Art Nouveau porcelain group:
Young lady with her hair pinned up, in a white dress with embroidered borders over a flowered blouse, sitting cross-legged on an armch...
Category
1910s German Art Nouveau Vintage Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Monumental Tessellated Marble Clam Shell with Giant Pearl as Coffee Table Base
Located in Topeka, KS
Incredible monumental tessellated marble clam shell with a giant pearl in its center used as a coffee table base with a 48-inch glass top with ogee e...
Category
Late 20th Century Unknown Hollywood Regency Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Glazed Ceramic Sculpture by Jihokera Bechyně, 1960's
Located in Praha, CZ
Glazed ceramic sculpture of a canoeist made by Jihokera Bechyně in Czechoslovakia in the 1960's.
Category
Mid-20th Century Czech Mid-Century Modern Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
19th Century Marble Statue of Seated Nude Collecting Water
Located in Brighton, Sussex
A good quality late 19th century marble statue of a young female nude, seated on a rock holding a jug collecting water.
Category
Late 19th Century Italian Romantic Antique Sculptures
Materials
Marble
"Pan Et Nymphe" Carrara Marble Bas-Relief Sculpture Signed Octave Larrieu
Located in Brussels , BE
"Pan et Nymphe" Carrara marble bas-relief sculpture signed Octave Larrieu - France 1940s.
Category
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Sculptures
Materials
Carrara Marble
19th Century Neoclassical Carved Marble Statue of Canova's Dancing Woman
Located in Essex, MA
19th century carved marble statue of the Canova Dancing Woman
Beautifully carved in neoclassical dress, great detail.
Category
Mid-19th Century Italian Neoclassical Antique Sculptures
Materials
Marble
1980s Spanish Hand Painted Botijo of Glazed Dog Ceramic
Located in Marbella, ES
1980s Spanish hand painted Botijo of Glazed Dog ceramic.
Category
Late 20th Century Spanish Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
1980s "Trofeo" by Remo Brindisi Pottery Sculpture
Located in Brescia, IT
"Trofeo" by Remo Brindisi, 1988.
Category
1980s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sculptures
Materials
Pottery
Zoë Powell, Ceramic Vessel 05, Perianth Series, 2021
By Zoë Powell
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Title: Perianth 05
Year: 2021
Freeform ceramic sculpture made from a blend of porcelaneous and stoneware clays hand-collected by the artist in Minnesota. Its surface is hand-polished with diamond sandpaper to render a matte finish. Signed with the artist’s mark along the interior rim. Each piece is original and one of a kind.
The forms in this collection are influenced by botanical morphology - specifically, the ‘perianth’ or floral envelope, whose petals serve to protect the most sensitive part of the plant before the eventual dispersal of the fruit’s seed. Powell’s sculptures seek to evoke a similar feeling of comfort and protection, serving as reminders of another time, both past and future, when one's family is close and the world feels safe, offering an escape from the ephemerality of the present which can leave one feeling vulnerable and exposed. The Perianth series functions both as a personal etiology for the artist and as a broader exploration of the universal themes of nostalgia, sentimentality, and familial memory
In terms of process, Powell is interested in manipulating material into something it essentially is not - shaping crude, raw clay, still studded with naturally occurring sands and stones, into incredibly delicate forms. The resulting pieces are light and elegant — impossibly thin and balanced in surprising ways. Each sculpture’s surface, riddled with scrapes and craters, is astonishingly soft and sensuous to the touch and each piece feels precious in such a finessed and attenuated state.
This concept of defied expectations extends beyond the physical properties of the work in that Powell is also investigating the mutability of perception, specifically in terms of Perianth’s overarching nostalgia and memory themes - - the present is intimidating in its authenticity, with no space for embellishment or fantasy, while memories of, and the subsequent yearning for, an era, place or person can become nebulous and fictionalized with distance and time. In this way, the works in this series act as physical manifestations of the unanticipated and misremembered.
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Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Organic Modern Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Late 19th Century Paris Porcelain Standing Statue of Napoleon Bonaparte
Located in San Francisco, CA
Late 19th century Paris porcelain standing statue of Napoleon Bonaparte, circa 1880.
White porcelain with gilt decoration. Contrasting bisque face wi...
Category
Late 19th Century French Napoleon III Antique Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Isamu Noguchi Akari UF3-XN, Ozeki, 1951
Located in Lille, Hauts-de-France
An Akari model « UF3-XN » by Isamu Noguchi
Original shade in washi & bamboo rims Structure & base in black lacquered metal
Hand-made form realized by Ozeki...
Category
1950s Japanese Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Adorable Young Clowns with Cigarette Goldscheider Artist Signed Table Lamp
Located in Ferndale, MI
Fine porcelain table lamp signed Lavergue on backside of base . Marked Goldscheider made in Austria on underside . Small lighter bulb not working . Height of lampbase is 18.5 to top ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Austrian Hollywood Regency Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Cesare Lapini
Located in New York, NY
La Sorpresa
by Cesare Lapini (Italian, (1848 - 1910)
Alabaster
H 35 in. (88.9 cm)
Cesare Lapini was a sculptor of allegorical and genre subjects modeled after Antiquity. He contri...
Category
19th Century Italian Art Nouveau Antique Sculptures
Materials
Alabaster
'Her Masters Voice' Totem #2 by Selma Hamstra
Located in Amsterdam, NL
The collection of Rotterdam based designer Selma Hamstra was launched during Milan Design Week 2021. 'Her Masters Voice' collection contains glass design...
Category
2010s Dutch Other Sculptures
Materials
Glass
"You Could Be So Much More", Ceramic Stoneware and Mixed Media
By Stef Duffy
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Ceramic sculpture in stoneware, oil paint, glitter, enamel, and acrylic paint. Measures 32" x 12" x 9" approx, 2021.
Category
2010s American Modern Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Clay, Earthenware, Porcelain, Stoneware, Gesso, Paint
Meissen Large Pair of Figures Gardener Couple, by Kaendler & Schoenheit, Ca 1850
Located in Vienna, AT
Gardener couple consisting of two individual figures.
The female gardener wears rural rococo clothing: a dress with elaborate floral decoration and a pinned up apron, corset and borders made from fine dipped lace, a brimmed hat with floral arrangement, on the left arm a
basket full of flowers, a wreath of flowers in the right hand.The figure is supported by a rock and a tree and is based on a square earth plinth with white rocailles raised in gold.
The male gardener also wears the finest Rococo garb: the frock...
Category
Mid-19th Century German Baroque Antique Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
1973 Unglazed Stoneware "House" Sculpture by Pollack
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Unglazed stoneware "house" sculpture with clover, diamond, and square cut-outs for the windows and beaded, decorative trim.
Very good, vintage cond...
Category
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware
Yuri Zatarain Contemporary Beige Charcoal Equation and Diagram Design Decorative
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary large white ceramic decorative sphere with a printed pattern of pencil and charcoal equations, scribbles, and diagrams (designed by YURI ZATARAIN) (Matching decorative v...
Category
20th Century Post-Modern Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
1970s Abstract Stone Sculpture Japanese Masatoyo Kishi Kuki California
Located in Chula Vista, CA
1970s Sensual Stone Sculpture by abstract artist sculptor Japanese Masatoyo Kishi Kuki San Francisco, California
Signed Kuki and numbered.
Carved a...
Category
1970s American Organic Modern Vintage Sculptures
Materials
Stone, Alabaster
Hand Carved Marble Sculpture of Yin and Yang Cats Signed A. Fields
Located in Lambertville, NJ
An carved cat sculpture signed and dated by the Artist A. Fields 1979. The curled up cats as in Yin and Yang . the marble with a very variegated black and white color. 9.25 inches ta...
Category
1970s American Post-Modern Vintage Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Large Brass Long Horn Steer Sculpture
Located in New York, NY
Brass long horn wall sculpture. Has hook for hanging on wall. Hand polished.
Category
1970s Korean Hollywood Regency Vintage Sculptures
Materials
Brass
Superb French Art Deco Greyhound Sculpture
Located in Paris, FR
Unique and rare French Art Deco Greyhound dog, large size sculpture in ivory color, in a very good condition. Beautiful line, movements and wonderfu...
Category
Early 20th Century French Art Deco Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Blue Coral Organic Sculptural Specimen on Lucite Base
Located in San Diego, CA
A beautiful blue coral organic specimen mounted on a solid 1.5" thick wavy Lucite base, circa 1980s.
Category
Late 20th Century American Hollywood Regency Sculptures
Materials
Coral
Art Glass Sculptural Table Lamp by William Olivier for Antiques Mc, France, 2009
Located in Auribeau sur Siagne, FR
The creator is William Olivier, a lover of glass, wood and steel.
These piece has been made in 2009. This is a beautiful Art glass work that could be, as the same time a sculpture a...
Category
Early 2000s French Post-Modern Sculptures
Materials
Stainless Steel
Vienna Augarten Horse Piaffe Spanish Riding School 1590 Doebrich Made circa 1950
Located in Vienna, AT
Vienna Augarten Horse Spanish Riding School
Figurine type: Piaffe
The piaffe is a dressage movement where the horse is in a highly collected and cadenced trot, in place or nearly...
Category
1950s Austrian Other Vintage Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Collection Of Forty Two-Pottery And Porcelain Pug Dogs
Located in Essex, MA
Lifetime collection by many makers from many countries. All with cute expressions.
Category
1890s Antique Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Urban Mid-Century Modern Colored Pair of Murano Glass Vases, 1994
By Urban Glass
Located in Murano, Venezia
Fantastic processing of Murano glass, used to make this pair of multicolored "Canna" vases.
The placement of Canna of glass shall be carried out with care and precision by Murano ar...
Category
1990s Italian Mid-Century Modern Sculptures
Materials
Murano Glass, Art Glass, Blown Glass
Japanese Edo Carved Stone Bodhisattva Sculptures
Located in New York, NY
Japanese Edo period pair of carved stone female Bodhisattva sculptures, hand painted. The pair has incised markings on their backs and was made in circa 1...
Category
1750s Japanese Edo Antique Sculptures
Materials
Stone
Art Deco Plaster or Stone Sculpture of Sleeping Lady
Located in Sheffield, MA
The Art Deco sculpture is of a lady wrapped in a sleeping pose. The material is plaster layered over a stone core. The engraved initials are "SC."
Category
Early 20th Century Unknown Art Deco Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
Modern Cup Coral Sculpture on a Lucite Base
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Modern cup coral sculpture designed and crafted by F.S. Henemader, having an organic form and variegated colors. Presented on a Lucite base.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Solomon Islands Organic Modern Sculptures
Materials
Coral
Pair of 19th Century Carved Alabaster Statues of Classically Draped Females
Located in Hudson, NY
Made in Italy circa 1860 this pair of figures are of good size and color with many Fine details. Certainly made as an export or tourist item speaking of the ancient days the pair wou...
Category
19th Century Italian Neoclassical Antique Sculptures
Materials
Alabaster
L.O.V.E. by Maurizio Cattelan/1/39 Scale Music Box, Edition by Seletti
Located in Kansas City, MO
L.O.V.E. Music Box. Produced as a statement against Fascism. It is the Fascist salute with all but one finger cut off. The hand turns as the music plays. This is a 1:39 Scale Reprodu...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Pair of Antique Mushroom Garden Ornaments
Located in Sheffield, MA
Charming pair of antique toad stool garden ornaments have separate tops and bottoms. They are made of molded cement. The tops have iron bars underneath that fit into holes of the bot...
Category
Late 19th Century Unknown Country Antique Sculptures
Materials
Cement
Rare Joe Descomps Art Deco Nude Sculpture
Located in Miami, FL
Sculpted in stone, a beautiful French Art Deco nude female with floral details and fabric draping, signed Joe Descomps, dated under the base, 11-6-26, June 11, 1926.
Category
1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sculptures
Materials
Stone
Early 19th Century English Coade Stone Statue Torso of a "Soane" Caryatid
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Coade stone otherwise known as "Lithodipyra," was used for Fine architectural detailing and garden ornaments in the late 18th and early 19th centuries and produced by appointment to ...
Category
1810s English Regency Antique Sculptures
Materials
Coade Stone
Antique, New and Vintage Sculptures
Styling your home with vintage, new and antique sculptures means adding a touch that can meaningfully transform the space. By introducing a sculptural work as a decorative finish to any interior, you’re making a statement, whether you tend toward the dramatic or prefer to keep things casual with modest, understated art.
A single, one-of-a-kind three-dimensional figurative sculpture mounted on your dining room wall is a guaranteed conversation piece, while a trio of abstract works arranged on your living room bookshelves can add spontaneity to the collection of first-edition novels or artist monographs you’re displaying as well as draw attention to them. Figurative sculptures are representational works that portray a specific person, animal or object. And while decorating with busts, which are sculpted or cast figurative works, hasn’t exactly topped the list of design trends every year, busts are back. According to designer Timothy Corrigan, “They give humanity in a way that a more abstract sculpture can’t give.” Abstract sculptures, on the other hand, are not meant to show something specific. Instead, they invoke a mood or scene without directly stating what they are portraying.
Busts made of stone or metal may not seem like a good fit for your existing decor. Fortunately, there are many ways for a seemingly incongruous piece to fit in with the rest of your room’s theme. You can embrace a dramatic piece by making it the focal point of the room, or you can choose to incorporate several elements made out of the same material to create harmony in your space. If an antique or more dramatic piece doesn’t feel like you, why not opt for works comprising plastic, fiberglass or other more modern materials?
When incorporating sculpture into the design of your home — be it the playful work of auction hero and multimedia visionary KAWS, contemporary fiber art from Connecticut dealer browngrotta arts or still-life sculpture on a budget — consider proper lighting, which can bring out the distinctive aspects of your piece that deserve attention. And make sure you know how the size and form of the sculpture will affect your space in whole. If you choose a sculpture with dramatic design elements, such as sharp angles or bright colors, for example, try to better integrate this new addition by echoing those elements in the rest of your room’s design.
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