Since I’ve been writing a lot about Frank Roop lately, I’ve become a bit obsessed with Curtis Jere wall sculptures. A couple of weeks ago, while sitting innocently on the sofa with my computer, I began searching for examples online. 1st Dibs, too expensive, obviously. Ebay, full of options. I cavalierly bid on about half a dozen different Curtis Jere and Curtis Jere-inspired sculptures of the leafy variety. (I’ve been particularly taken with the spray of trees Frank put in this little Morroccan reading nook in Nantucket. I like the “raindrops” style too, but they’re pretty pricey.) I’ve bid on stuff before. Never won a thing. So maybe the economy isn’t so great right now. Maybe people aren’t shopping wildly for vintage metal artworks. OK, so I won four auctions. New sculptures have been arriving pretty much daily. I’ll photograph them and give you a preview later this week. Maybe you’d like one for your own house? Here are some images for inspiration.
The one that started it all.
Photos: Frank Roop in Metropolitan Home; M. Design; Design Within Reach; Curtis Jere on Flickr-monkeysox; unidentified; Frank Roop in Boston Globe Magazine; David Jimenez; unidentified; Jamie Bush; Shiny Gorgeous Things; photographer Jason Madara; Shoot Factory; Room Envy; unidentified; Apartment Therapy Norway; unidentified; The Parker Hotel, Palm Springs on Flickr-georgiarae; Frank Roop in Elle Decor; Flickr-polycystin71; Flickr-Stewf; “Sculpture Group Symbolizing World’s Communication in the Atomic Age” (detail) Harry Bertoia at The Smithsonian – Flickr-davidgalestudios; Flickr-beeeeel.
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This is such a great roundup. I’ve been thinking about something like this for a tricky wall in my house.
Maybe you’ll like one of the options I just posted.
I absolutely love Jere sculptures. There are lots of copies out there (Kenneth Wingard, Crate & Barrel) but nothing quite matches his work. The sparkle of a mirror, with the uniqueness of art (oh, and the price tag of a designer sofa unfortunately!! Shame!)
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Wall sculpturing art is a subject to fixed standards and measurements but here our artist has another imagination where he used thickness not exceed than one centimeter with different width and heights.
Here creativity appears because it transmits the viewer to a live wall sculpturing through the reflected light on work, so it gives unreal deepness (sight Illusion).
The artist used this new technique that was originated by nature since 1982 in his earliest shape until it reached spontaneously to what it is now.
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i need some one’s help…i have what i believe is a jere wall sculpture, its a bed, table and hanging lamp, with a patchwork like quilt on the bed, its signed c with a circle around it c jere’ im curious if it is a jere, and if its authentic?? should i have it insured?…ive only seen one other one like it on ebay, but the owner knew less then i did….thanks
Hi Stacey – I’m not an expert… but I believe authorized Jeres are still being made, or at least have been being made beyond the mid-century era. Not sure how to tell the difference, but the mid-c ones are more valuable, from what I have gathered…