Photographies: Tesskey
The more one comes in touch with antiques, internal design, arts&crafts and original hand-work, the more picky and demanding and exigent you get. You start hating everything that exists in more than one version.
I've RE-discovered my love for wood and discovered a new one for carpets, antique textiles and porcelain.
Adding the fact of having a sister that creates amazing wonders in wood with her own hands, and a boyfriend that's always looking for that ONE exclusive, "only in the world" object, having a knowledge about different materials and chemistry that is above any other person I know....and adding me having a degree in history of art, and an obsession for asian art.
It all adds up to an eternal quest for original, warm objects that has a story to tell and a feeling to it that makes you want to caress it.
I keep seeing hideous chairs, tables and frames that looks like pieces torn out of an iron bridge. Photographs hanging on the walls of other people( always in hideous, cold, boring frames) that are so "banal" and as the Americans say "Euro trash", that it gives me a migraine.
Most people, and this includes most of today's internal designers, architects and creatives miss fantasy, passion, culture, education and taste.
Tess' list of the 5 most desirable objects
1. Handmade carpet with a detail from Sandro Botticelli's "The birth of Venus"(1486), Only available on request, after which you get the carpet more or less after a year.THAT'S how long it takes to produce this amazing rug by hand! A real piece of art. ( found in Turin, Italy)
2. Art Nouveau sculpture in terracotta and goldleaf of "Rebecca"( late 18th cent.) by Goldscheider ( always found in Turin)
3.Round , empty, spheres ( big enough to fit perfectly in the palm of your hand) made of transaprent, green and blue glas covered by a type of fishnet "string" ( From Norway, found at the "Antique fair" in Parma), which in the old days were used by the norwegian fisherman to find their nets thrown out in the sea.
4. Chinese, closed, four poster,bed from the 17th cent., made completely in red wood and goldleaf with AMAZING paintings. It's like a square tent in wood with parts of the "walls" that surround the bed which you can open up like little windows or doors.( found at the "Antique fair" in Parma)
5. Wooden and a very spartan two/three seater ( like a very simple sofa), made of the wood from an old olivetree, which has given the wood, with time, a greyish, silvery and silky texture. (found in Puglia, Italy)
