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š„Fantastic Mid Century Modern Brutalist Orb Metal Chandelier, Tom Greene 70s:
$2750.00
This is a Very RARE andFantastic Mid Century Modern Brutalist Orb Metal Chandelier Lamp, attributed to the designer Tom Greene for Feldman. This large chandelier is designed in a rough, hand torched Brutalist aesthetic and is shaped like an orb or sphere, which is one of the most desirable of all Brutalist chandelier types. Approximately dating to the late 1960's - 1970's. This work is comprised of brass, and retains its original chain, electrical cord, switches and lightbulbs. This lamp is un-tested and has not been hooked up to a power source. It looks to be in near-mint condition but may need re-wiring to properly function. Approximately 27 inches tall x 18 1/2 inches in diameter. Very good condition for age, with some minor chipping to the plastic candle coverings, some bent metal tips, and dustiness from age and storage (please see photos.) This is a very scarce Tom Greene chandelier, and I have not been able to find one comparable anywhere online. Acquired from a very old and swanky estate in Tarzana, California. Please check out my other listings for more wonderful and unique artworks!
Brutalist Sculptures
BRUTALIST STYLE
The term brutalismā which derives from the French wordbrut, meaning ārawā ā was coined to describe an architectural style that emerged in the 1950s featuring monumental buildings, usually made of unornamented concrete, whose design was meant to project an air of strength and solidity. Le Corbusieressentially created the brutalist style; its best-known iterations in the United States are the Marcel Breuer-designed Whitney Museum of American Art and Paul Rudolph's Yale Art and Architecture Building.
Lately, the word ābrutalistā has been adopted by the realms of furniture design and the decorative arts to refer to cabinet's, tables and accessory pieces such as mirror frames and lighting that are made of rougher, deeply textured metals and othermaterials that are the visual and palpable antithesis of the sleek, smooth and suave. Brutalist design encompasses that which is crafted, hewn and worked by hand ā an aesthetic rebuke (or, at least, a counterpoint) to furniture that is created using 21st-century materials and technology.
Paul Evans is Exhibit Afor brutalist design. His Sculpture Front cabinets laced with high-relief patinated steel mounts have become collector's items nonpareil, while the chairs and tables in his later Cityscape series and Sculpted Bronze seriesare perhaps the most expressive, attention-grabbing pieces in modern American design.Other exemplars of brutalist design are Silas Seandel,the idiosyncratic New York furniture designer and sculptor whose works in metal ā in particular his tablesā have a kind of brawny lyricism, and Curtis Jere,a nom-de-trade for the California team of Curtis Freiler and Jerry Fels.the bold makers of expressive scorched and sheared copper and brass mirror frames and wall-mounted sculptures.The names of other brutalist designers are, so far, unknown to history.When it comes to attitude and commanding presence, brutalist design has it in spades. Its primary gestation beganin the 50ās from the architectural movement known as New Brutalism, which evolved from the use of concrete as a building material to create monumental statements adapted from modernist ideals. Raw concrete in French is ābĆ©ton-brutā, which was a source of the name. Its use in architecture and sculpture added a confrontational rawness to it, which influenced the evolution and style of brutalist movement in the 60ās and 70ās. Brutalist art drew inspiration from the likes of Le Corbusierās architecture to the sculptures by Alexander Archipenko, Constantin Brancusi and Alberto Giacometti. With sculpture, conflicting asymmetrical geometries merged with mayhem and menace, usually constructed fromraw forms ofmetal and clay, to essentially define the brutalist aesthetic. It went on a tangent to the Mid Century modernism where you had artists like Paul Evans creating audacious, brash, heavily textured furniture with pure abandon. Brutalist architecture was quite often represented with repetitive angular geometries to a massive scale. It also was reactionary in the sense that the early Brutalismarchitects found the streamlined modernist designs too symmetrical and neat and wanted to introduce more abstract and unpredictable shapes to their brutalist buildings. The radical brutalist art had an element of risk to it and pushed the boundaries of abstract expressionism in modernist art.Rather than being easy on the eye it is moreantagonistic and even hostile, and a challenge for interior designers to integrate into any location. But for giving life into an inert environment, a brutalist piece is synonymous with edgy dynamics and primal honesty.
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