Gold Leaf Serveware, Ceramics, Silver and Glass

Contemporary Italian handmade gold leaf accented bowl. freeform organic shape. Fine ceramic base. Similar bowls are available in 7" and 10" diameters. ARRIVING DECEMBER   

Splendid amber amphora by Modenese Luxury Interiors. Let your house shine with the bright glares coming from this precious item, which is delicately hand blown by skillful artisans c...

Géode Rectangular Plate by Matthieu Gicquel Dimensions: D 21 x W 46 x H 3 cm. Materials: Optical glass and gold leaf. Weight: 7 kg. Each piece is numbered. Please contact us. Praise for the moment Light shines through the glass. Details are revealed one by one: here a light bubble rises, there a changing reflection. To seek to understand Matthieu Gicquel’s glass art - because what we’re really talking about here is touching the senses of the material, of the work - is first and foremost to follow the path mapped out by Junichiro Tanizaki in In Praise of Shadows. For him, «[...] we forget what is invisible to us, we regard as non-existent what cannot be seen»; yet the creator’s entire will lies in this need to reveal to us what seems absent, to give substance to the mystery from a material so common that we no longer pay attention to it. Two words-concepts of Japanese origin-form the original basis of Matthieu Gicquel’s artistic philosophy: wabi-sabi and Yûgen. The first is the powerful idea that beauty is to be found in the banal, the everyday, the vile. To the European eye, at first glance, it seems hard to grasp: what beauty is there in a chipped bowl...

Géode Square Plate by Matthieu Gicquel Dimensions: D 29 x W 29 x H 3 cm. Materials: Optical glass and gold leaf. Weight: 6 kg. Each piece is numbered. Please contact us. Praise for the moment Light shines through the glass. Details are revealed one by one: here a light bubble rises, there a changing reflection. To seek to understand Matthieu Gicquel’s glass art - because what we’re really talking about here is touching the senses of the material, of the work - is first and foremost to follow the path mapped out by Junichiro Tanizaki in In Praise of Shadows. For him, «[...] we forget what is invisible to us, we regard as non-existent what cannot be seen»; yet the creator’s entire will lies in this need to reveal to us what seems absent, to give substance to the mystery from a material so common that we no longer pay attention to it. Two words-concepts of Japanese origin-form the original basis of Matthieu Gicquel’s artistic philosophy: wabi-sabi and Yûgen. The first is the powerful idea that beauty is to be found in the banal, the everyday, the vile. To the European eye, at first glance, it seems hard to grasp: what beauty is there in a chipped bowl...

Number 3 showtime 10 vase by Jaime Hayon Dimensions: Diameter 27 x height 42 cm Materials: Made up of two pieces in glazed stoneware, with a white finish and 24-carat gold plated decorations. Also available in other designs. His proposal was 24-carat gold, which has been a great success. To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Showtime Collection, we asked Jaime for new vase...

Contemporary Italian handmade gold leaf accented bowl. Free-form organic shape. Fine ceramic base. Similar bowls are available in 7" and 11.5" diameters.