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Mid-Century Italian Cenedese Murano Attributed Art Glass Stylized Bird Sculpture
By Cenedese
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This stylized art glass bird sculpture or figurine is unsigned, but being attributed to Cenedese Murano, and as such, originating from Italy and dating to approximately 1960 and done...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Sculptures
Materials
Art Glass
Biomorphic Line by Studio Chora, Task Table Lamp, White Lime Plaster, In Stock
By Studio Chora
Located in Albuquerque, NM
Designed by Studio Chora, 2024.
Biomorphic: ‘bios' meaning life and 'morphe' meaning form.
The Biomorphic series of organic light sculptures are one-of-a-kind and crafted by hand. ...
Category
2010s American Organic Modern Sculptures
Materials
Plaster, Paper
Biomorphic Line by Studio Chora, Task Table Lamp, White Lime Plaster, In Stock
By Studio Chora
Located in Albuquerque, NM
Designed by Studio Chora, 2024.
Biomorphic: ‘bios' meaning life and 'morphe' meaning form.
The Biomorphic series of organic light sculptures are one-of-a-kind and crafted by hand. ...
Category
2010s American Organic Modern Sculptures
Materials
Plaster, Paper
Biomorphic Line by Studio Chora, Task Table Lamp, White Lime Plaster, In Stock
By Studio Chora
Located in Albuquerque, NM
Designed by Studio Chora, 2024.
Biomorphic: ‘bios' meaning life and 'morphe' meaning form.
The Biomorphic series of organic light sculptures are one-of-a-kind and crafted by hand. ...
Category
2010s American Organic Modern Sculptures
Materials
Plaster, Paper
Italian Glass Murano Style Elephant
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This 1960's Italian sculpture hand-crafted out of Murano glass depicting an elephant in a clear and green color combination. This sculpture is in great condition and has no scratches...
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sculptures
Materials
Glass, Art Glass, Blown Glass, Murano Glass
Decorative Green Orbe Decor
Located in Dallas, TX
Decorative green orbe 12" diameter. Blown glass home decor. In my organic, contemporary, vintage and mid-century modern aesthetic.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Organic Modern Sculptures
Materials
Blown Glass
Set of 6 Green Handmade Unique Goto Murano Drinking Glasses
Located in Murano, VE
The Murano Glass Goto collection brings a piece of authentic Italian art to your dining table. Hand-blown with artistic expertise, these glasses are inspired by the traditional Venet...
Category
2010s Italian Minimalist Sculptures
Materials
Murano Glass
Pair of Chinese Green Glazed Pottery Recumbent Foo Dog Figurines
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine pair of Chinese foo dog figurines.
In a green, glazed pottery.
Depicting complementary recumbent foo dogs with slightly raised heads and upwa...
Category
20th Century Chinese Chinese Export Sculptures
Materials
Pottery
French Art Deco Pate-De-Verre Alligator Sculpture, Daum France
By Daum
Located in New York, NY
French Art Deco Pate-De-Verre Alligator Sculpture, Daum France.
Category
20th Century French Art Deco Sculptures
decorative ceramic to identify circa 1950
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
decorative ceramic to identify circa 1950
Category
Mid-20th Century European Mid-Century Modern Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Pair of Modernist Globular Vases in Translucent Emerald Green by Nick Leonoff
By Nick Leonoff
Located in New York, NY
This pair of globular vases have been hand blown by the esteemed Brooklyn based artist Nick Leonoff in an emerald hue of translucent glass. With their radiant palate and organic form...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Sculptures
Materials
Blown Glass
Set of 6 Green Turquoise Handmade Unique Goto Murano Drinking Glasses
Located in Murano, VE
The Murano Glass Goto collection brings a piece of authentic Italian art to your dining table. Hand-blown with artistic expertise, these glasses are inspired by the traditional Venet...
Category
2010s Italian Minimalist Sculptures
Materials
Murano Glass
Green Fluorite with QUartz from Yaogangxian Mine, Nanling Mountains, Hunan Provi
Located in New York, NY
From Yaogangxian Mine, Nanling Mountains, Hunan Province, China
Exceptionally large lustrous crystal of emerald green transparent fluorite with with colorless quartz crystals. The...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Chinese Sculptures
Materials
Crystal, Quartz
Green Hand Carved Serpentine Obelisk
Located in New York, NY
Green hand carved Serpentine Obelisk, a remarkable piece that exudes natural serenity and elegance. Meticulously crafted from serpentine stone, its stunning green hue and intricate h...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Sculptures
Materials
Serpentine
Clay Floorfan Medium Green by Maarten Baas
By Maarten Baas
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
The spontaneous and naïve designs of Maarten Baas’ Clay series express artistic vulnerability. Each piece is handmade of industrial clay, covering a steel fr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Sculptures
Materials
Clay
Dna Sequence iii, a Green & Aqua Glass Bottle Installation by Louis Thompson
Located in London, GB
'DNA Sequence III' is a unique glass installation (consisting of 5 individual elements) by the British artist, Louis Thompson.
Accomplished glass artist Thompson explores illusion...
Category
2010s British Organic Modern Sculptures
Materials
Glass, Art Glass, Blown Glass
Einar Luterkort - Lovely Green Art Deco Vase Relief, Upsala Ekeby, Sweden, 1930s
By Upsala Ekeby
Located in Stockholm, SE
A beautiful ceramic vase in lovely Art Deco-style designed by Einar Luterkort, the vase is designed at Upsala Ekeby in the 1930s. It is 27 cm (10.8") high and about 15 cm (6") in di...
Category
1930s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Hestian Light Series by Studio Chora, Table Lamp, Green Resin, Made-To-Order
By Studio Chora
Located in Albuquerque, NM
Designed by Studio Chora, Hestian, 2022.
The Hestian series of organic light sculptures are one-of-a-kind and hand moulded from a composite...
Category
2010s American Organic Modern Sculptures
Materials
Plaster, Paper, Resin
De Sede Leather Elephant Toy Accessory by Alfredo Häberli
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Miniature toy elephant accessory designed by Alfredo Ha¨berli for De Sede.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Sculptures
Materials
Leather
Goldscheider Art Déco Figure, 'Lydia' Dancer in Green Dress, Claire Weiss, c1937
Located in Vienna, AT
Very rare Goldscheider Vienna ceramic figure of the 1930s:
Young pretty lady, chin-length hair fastened with a hair band, posing in a long green dress with a wide, high-slit skirt decorated with flowers, which she holds up with both arms stretched out to the side, her head turned to the side with a straight look.
On a cream-colored oval base shaded on the side.
Manufactory: Goldscheider Vienna / Austria
Technique: handcrafted ceramics, finest hand painting, glossy finish
Designer: Claire Weiss /= Klára Herczeg (1906-1997)
Sculptor, childhood in Vienna, apprenticeship as a sculptor at the Vienna Arsenal Foundry, studies at the Budapest Art...
Category
1930s Austrian Art Deco Vintage Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Duck Murano Glass Vetri di Murano Italy Vintage Art Glass, 1950s
Located in Nuernberg, DE
A Venetian sculptural duck figurine in hand blown glass, produced on the isle of Murano, circa 1950s. A nice piece of art for any room.
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sculptures
Materials
Art Glass
Jade Green Resin Seated Buddha Sculpture
Located in New York, NY
A vintage bright jade green resin seated Buddha, in the Chinoiserie style, circa mid to late-20th century. Dimensions: 4" depth x 3.5" width x 3.38" height ...
Category
Late 20th Century Chinoiserie Sculptures
Materials
Resin
Hestian Light Series by Studio Chora, Table Lamp, Green Lacquer, Made-To-Order
By Studio Chora
Located in Albuquerque, NM
Designed by Studio Chora, Hestian, 2022.
The Hestian series of organic light sculptures are one-of-a-kind and hand moulded from a composite paper clay ...
Category
2010s American Organic Modern Sculptures
Materials
Plaster, Paper
Geometric Sculpture by Ken Bentley
Located in Dallas, TX
Green geometric sculpture by Ken Bentley.
Ken Bentley
San Antonio architect and sculptor, Bentley is a University of Texas at Austin graduate a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Green Fluorite Mineral Cluster From Hunan, China
Located in New York, NY
Green Fluorite Cluster from Yaogangxian Mine, Nanling Mountains, Hunan Province, China.
Complex intersecting formation of transparent emerald fluorite crystals showing a well def...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Chinese Antique Sculptures
Materials
Crystal, Rock Crystal
Abstracts Sculptures Monolith Murano Glass, Rotko Fluo
By Eros Raffael
Located in Martellago, IT
Murano artistic glass monolith. The Murano artistic glass sculpture is a creative and natural expression of the artist Eros Raffael, made with transparent and pastel glass rods with ...
Category
2010s Italian Arts and Crafts Sculptures
Materials
Art Glass, Blown Glass, Murano Glass
Hand-Sculpted Pate-de-verre Glass Four-Petal Clover in Emerald Green
Located in Istanbul, TR
A glass four petal clover in emerald green. Hand sculpted and kiln cast using pate-de-verre technique, The piece is 12.5 cm (5'') in diameter and is a sculpture that will have a visi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary European Sculptures
Materials
Glass
RETNA SMALL Eye Multicolor Decorative Cast Glass Piece
Located in Naucalpan, Edo de Mex
Born from a collision of ideologies, blending the traditional and the contemporary, with technical and artisanal methods. Under our commitment to offer the w...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Mexican Sculptures
Materials
Glass
Pair of Cactus Years 70 20th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Pair of Cactus Years 70
Pair of cactus in glazed porcelain. Italy years 70. Very good condition measures: 72 x 44 x 25 cm very decorative
Category
20th Century Italian Art Deco Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Beetle Cast Iron Shoe Horn or Boot Jack, Powder Coated Chartreuse, circa 1920's
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Vintage boot jack in cast iron freshly powder coated in bright chartreuse. The cast iron object is as functional as it is decorative. This bright and fun ...
Category
1920s American Folk Art Vintage Sculptures
Materials
Iron
"Gridded AP" Original Glass and Metal Wall Sculpture
By Karo
Located in Glendale, CA
Modern, 3D, architecturally inspired wall sculpture. Each piece is hand created by the artist Karo Martirosyan in his studio in Los Angeles. With a background in architecture, the ar...
Category
2010s American Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Geometric Sculpture in Polished Emerald Green Resin by Paola Valle
By Paola Valle
Located in Ciudad De México, MX
Geometric sculpture made in polished resin in variety of colors.
It is a modern and colorful piece that will liven up any space.
This sculpture is very versatile and fun! You can ...
Category
2010s Mexican Modern Sculptures
Materials
Resin
Italian Vintage Green Wooden Door from Capri
Located in Milano, IT
Wonderful Italian wooden door from Capri belonging to the 1960s, in a beautiful rustic chic style.
The door is a classic rectangular door, but lower than the current norm because houses were smaller before.
The door is made of fine wood and very durable, with clear scratches and wear, but this is what gives beauty to the object.
The lower part is decorated with two pairs of rectangles, finely carved.
The upper part, on the other hand, shows two glass rectangles, with a wooden bar dividing them in the middle.
The door has a lock and handle: both are made of brass in patina, attached to the wood with two screws.
The door is a wonderful piece of furniture to refer to the vintage and rustic...
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sculptures
Materials
Brass
Set of 6 Green Pea Handmade Unique Goto Murano Drinking Glasses
Located in Murano, VE
The Murano Glass Goto collection brings a piece of authentic Italian art to your dining table. Hand-blown with artistic expertise, these glasses are inspired by the traditional Venet...
Category
2010s Italian Minimalist Sculptures
Materials
Murano Glass
Venetian Murano Oggetti Formia Italian Sommeroso Vetri Art Glass Bird Sculpture
Located in San Diego, CA
Exquisite Venetian Murano Formia Oggetti Italian Sommeroso Vetri art glass gold fleck hand blown figural "Bird of Paradise" sculpture figure. Great form and color. Has gold fleck thr...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Sculptures
Materials
Art Glass
Seguso Murano Sommerso Green Golden Orange Art Glass Italian Bird Sculpture
Located in Kissimmee, FL
Beautiful tall vintage Murano hand blown Sommerso green to golden orange Italian art glass Heron bird sculpture. Documented to designer Archimede Seguso circa 1950s, with acid signed...
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sculptures
Materials
Glass, Art Glass, Blown Glass, Sommerso, Murano Glass
Venetian Murano Formia Italian Sommeroso Art Glass Chinese Figures Sculpture Pr
Located in San Diego, CA
Exquisite pair of Venetian Murano Formia Italian Sommeroso Vetri art glass hand blown figural pair of Chinese men figures/sculptures. Great form and color...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Sculptures
Materials
Art Glass
Mid-Century Modern Green Glazed Bird Figurines, a Pair
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
A pair of mcm or regency style ceramic glazed pheasant birds in a beautiful deep green. Each bird features a long outstretched tail and faces toward his back. We would love to see th...
Category
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Paint
Gio Ponti Green Ovoid Ceramic Glazed Shingles Tiles 100, by PdP Hotel Roma, 1964
By Gio Ponti
Located in Rome, IT
Exclusive group of 100 ovoid shingles tiles, glazed earthenware by Gio Ponti
produced by Ceramica JOO for the wall decoration of the Hotel Parco dei Principi,Roma 1964
Measures: He...
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
21st Century Skateboard Marcantonio Wood Inlay Scapin Light Blue Turquoise
By MARCANTONIO
Located in Tezze sul Brenta, IT
Life After Life Board
Old Skull Board/ Life After Life Board è una tavola da skateboard decorativa,
disponibile in due varianti colore e con un disegno intarsiato simbolo della con...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary European Modern Sculptures
Materials
Plywood
Murano Sommerso Glowing Uranium Green Italian Art Glass Owl Bird Sculpture
By Salviati, Livio Seguso
Located in Kissimmee, FL
Beautiful, and large, vintage Murano hand blown Sommerso glowing Uranium green Italian art glass owl bird sculpture standing on a clear ball base. Attrib...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Sculptures
Materials
Glass, Art Glass, Uranium Glass, Sommerso, Murano Glass, Blown Glass
Lime Green Semi Sphere Sculpture in Polished Resin by Paola Valle
By Paola Valle
Located in Ciudad De México, MX
This Geometric sculpture is handmade in polished resin in a variety of colors. It is a modern and colorful piece that will liven up any space.
Our Semi Sphere is a very cool and f...
Category
2010s Mexican Modern Sculptures
Materials
Resin
1980 Italy Post-Modern Set 6 Cardboard Sculptures Renato Borsoni Save the Tree
Located in Brescia, IT
This little and nice sculpture is a cardholder. Cardboard and newspaper print are the materials.
The recycled paper of the newspaper represents one of the first times when the word "to recycle" was used.
The tree that give a card is a gesture of love towards the nature and the men.
The set is useful as placeholder. The table setting become funny and contemporary with the artworks on a dinning table.
This set of sculptures...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Post-Modern Sculptures
Materials
Paper
Tourmaline
Located in New York, NY
Tourmaline
Rubaya, Bahunde, Masisi Territory, North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo
6.6 cm tall x 3 cm wide
This colorful tourmaline comes from the recent discoveries in ...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Congolese Antique Sculptures
Materials
Other
Mid Century Modern Dice Form Table Lamp
Located in Rochester, NY
Mid 20th century modern table lamp with original factory enamel painted metal dice form base. Measures 24" high to top of finial / dice base is just about 5...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Ore Totem in Iron Blue & Pale Turquoise with Platinum by Enemark & Thompson
Located in London, GB
'Ore Totem in iron blue & pale turquoise with platinum' is a unique glass sculpture by the collaborative artists Hanne Enemark (Danish) and Louis Thompson (British). The outer glass ...
Category
2010s British Organic Modern Sculptures
Materials
Platinum
Gufram Another Green Cactus CoatRacks Sculpture By Drocco/Mello
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Born in 1972, the Cactus Coat Rack has questioned the static and rigid world of interior design since its inception, revolutionizing the traditional furniture...
Category
2010s Sculptures
Materials
Other
Emerald Green Semi Sphere Sculpture in Polished Resin by Paola Valle
By Paola Valle
Located in Ciudad De México, MX
This Geometric sculpture is handmade in polished resin in a variety of colors. It is a modern and colorful piece that will liven up any space.
Our Semi Sphere is a very cool and f...
Category
2010s Mexican Modern Sculptures
Materials
Resin
Spectacular Copeland Spode Chelsea Fantasy Bird Bone China Figurine c 1915-20
Located in Rothley, Leicestershire
A magnificent and eccentric bone china Chelsea Fantasy Bird by Copeland, Spode, inspired by Meissen originals
The artist had free range regarding colours - resulting in this fantasti...
Category
Early 20th Century British Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Swarovski Crystal Macaw Chrome Green Large Parrot in Birds of Paradise #685824
By Swarovski
Located in Miami Beach, FL
A beautiful 9.25" tall Swarovski Crystal Macaw, chrome green, #685824 comes with original box and paperwork. This Paradise bird is made of green crystal and is beak is made of chrome...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Austrian Sculptures
Materials
Crystal
French Trompe l’Oeil Majolica Glazed Cherry Branch Wall Plaque, signed F. Perrot
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A French Palissy majolica glazed hand painted wall plaque, signed by the artist, circa 1890-1900.
In the trompe l’oeil style of fool the eye, a dimensional mold showing a branching ...
Category
Late 19th Century French Aesthetic Movement Antique Sculptures
Materials
Earthenware
Bitossi Kwan Yin Buddha Coin Bank, Ceramic, Blue, Green Paisley, Signed
By Aldo Londi, Bitossi
Located in New York, NY
Bitossi Kwan Yin Buddha Bank, Ceramic, Blue Paisley, Signed. A beautiful and calming female Buddha glazed in a royal blue, with a hint of green in her...
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
After Michelangelo's 'non-finito' Series Classical Nude Bronze, Green Patina
Located in Chicago, IL
This is an extraordinary bronze sculpture of a Classic male nude by artist Dean Kugler. Attention to detail and complete understanding of the human figure are evident. The figure stands with most of his weight on one foot, contrapposto, and his arm stretched overhead revealing a powerful, muscular physique. With inspiration from Michelangelo's unfinished series of sculptures housed at the Galleria Dell'Acadamia Museum in Florence, displayed in the hall leading to Michelangelo's David sculpture, this figure too is bound within its own material symbolizing the eternal human struggle to free themselves from material trappings. The sculpture is beautifully custom mounted on a stone base.
Dean Kugler
Slave (after Michelangelo)
bronze
Measures: 20 H x 5 W x 5 D in
50.80 H x 12.70 W x 12.70 D cm
DK0035
Kugler uses scale and the juxtaposition of disparate elements in order to engage and challenge the viewer. He combines elements such as strength and weakness or beauty and damage to be experienced simultaneously within the same piece of work to create a tense energy. Kugler also incorporates the technical skill of tight rendering with the dynamism of abstraction to create this energy to add additional excitement and intrigue to his aesthetic.
Dean Kugler is a seasoned interdisciplinary artist, painter, and figurative sculptor. His 3D work is featured primarily at Gallery Victor Armendariz in Chicago. In the last three years, Dean has also been featured at Abend Gallery in Denver, The Figge Art Museum, and Bereskin Gallery in Iowa. He has shown at SOFA Chicago in 2017, 2018, and 2019 and participated in ArtPrize in 2013, 2014, and 2015.
He sees himself primarily as a sculptor due to the challenges he finds and thrives on within the process. In all its beauty, crudeness, and subtleties, the figure offers infinite opportunities to express feelings and emotions. There is also a physicality to sculpture that requires the work to be experienced through movement in order to reveal more about the piece.
Dean has always been drawn to the interactive nature of large-scale sculpture that is available to the public - he loves the idea that his work entices the observer to go beyond what they can see and add tactility to the experience. By using both realism and abstraction, he creates a visual that challenges the viewer to resolve what they are seeing. Therefore, providing a greater connection between the artist and the viewer.
Education
1993 – AA from Blackhawk College.
1995 – BFA from Western Illinois University.
Texts
1995 – “Drawing: Skills, Means, Freedom”. Jan Clough / Ann Mullin. pub. 1995.
1993 – “Images” College publication featuring multiple pieces.
1992 – “Images” College publication featuring multiple pieces.
Bibliography
Dec 2022 - American Art Collector. “Room to grow”. Pages 48 and 49.
1 Oct 2018 – River Cities Reader. Article discussing a group show titled “Earth, Wind, and Fire” at Bereskin Gallery.
18 Aug 2018 – River Cities Reader. Article by Mike Schulz about my show titled “Relic” at the Quad City Arts.
1 Nov 2017 – Dispatch-Argus and QCOnline, Coverage of my showing at SOFA.
16 Dec 2016 – River Cities Reader. Article by Rick Martin about one-man art show titled “It Figures” at Black Hawk...
Category
2010s American Classical Greek Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Aldo Londi Bitossi Kwan Yin Buddha, Ceramic, Bust, Blue, Green
By Aldo Londi, Bitossi
Located in New York, NY
Bitossi Kwan Yin Buddha, ceramic, blue, green. Beautiful Kwan Yin bust glazed in dark blue with a hint of green in her tiara. Her base is decorated wi...
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Pottery
Transitional Object No. 11, Imaginary Friend Soft Sculpture
Located in Miami, FL
Gabriela Noelle welcomes us into an alluring and whimsical realm with the collection Imaginary Friends. Inspired by the subconscious of a child’s creative and inventive mind, the collection reveals the imagination to posses more power than concepts of reality instilled and defined in adulthood.
Her series Transitional Objects...
Category
2010s American Other Sculptures
Materials
Acrylic, Lucite, Lambskin, Fur, Terrazzo, Mohair
1950s Italian Modernist Green Glass Fish Sculpture
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Striking Murano fish glass glass sculpture, circa 1950s. Piece measures 5.25" high by 6" wide by 1.5" deep. Unsigned and in very good vintage condition.
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sculptures
Materials
Murano Glass
Italian Modern Green Plastic Props for Scenography, 1990s
Located in MIlano, IT
Green plastic props, 1990s
Green plastic props, the set consists of two cones, two large and two small balls. Made in Italy.
Good conditions, light sig...
Category
1990s Italian Modern Sculptures
Materials
Plastic
"Prickly Pears" Tree XXL Sculpture, Italy
Located in Rijssen, NL
Large handmade prickly pear prickly tree sculpture made of wrought iron. A true eyecatcher in your home!
The photo is purely indicative, each copy while respecting the indicated hei...
Category
2010s Italian Mid-Century Modern Sculptures
Materials
Wrought Iron
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.
Get started on decorating with sculpture now — find figurative sculptures, animal sculptures and more on 1stDibs today.
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