Sundays are not always the best day to go looking, but hey you never know what you will find. We always look for the unusual, and yesterday we ran into some interesting items. The most unlikely thing we found was a lucite optical cat from the 60's signed by the Brazilian Artist, Abraham Palatnik. We looked up the artist and found that he worked with Cinecromático art. Here is a you tube video to watch by Palatnik.
The cat we found has been used by the designer Johnathan Adler in some of his designs. So our little lucite opty cat has become quite the cat about town. Who knew!
On the other hand and to the extreme other end of the spectrum is the piece Lewis picked up during the week. He found an E. F. Caldwell Lamp. This lamp has an Chinese Ox Blood vase with ormolu bronze fittings. Caldwell designed early electric sconces and chandeliers as well as lamps. He was to early electric fixtures and lamps what Tiffany was to glass in the early 20th century. He started out as a portrait painter, and became a designer of decorative arts as an after thought. Caldwell lamps are rarer than his sconces and ceiling fixtures.
The fun thing about being able to go "tiquing" is that you never know where your finds will lend you or what stories or people you will discover..
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