By Eric Schmitt, Christian Liaigre
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Bomarzo side table in solid bronze with black patina finish designed by Eric Schmitt for Christian Liaigre. Impressed marks ES POUR C. LIAIGRE. Made in France circa 2013
Biography via Galerie En Attendant les Barbares:
“My work is the consequence of the sculptor that I almost am, of the architect that I would have liked to have been and of the designer that I am not quite.”
Eric Schmitt began by forging his own pieces at the frontiers of sculpture. Fabulous totems, tables decorated with motifs evoking witchcraft, tall candlestick with cabalistic ornaments, reflect an incandescent imagination and express an unbridled and assumed fantasy.
He worked, blowtorch in hand, on the walls of the first showroom of the Galerie En Attendant les Barbares, in the rue du Faubourg Montmartre, which he “peels” and scarifies as he pleases.
Then a meeting with Pierre Basse...
Category
French Early 2000s Gueridon