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Nudes and palm fronds run the full circumference, so the composition only reveals itself as you turn it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHand-painted studio pottery of this kind was rarely signed and almost never produced twice. The artist is undocumented, which is common for the form. 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Wear consistent with age and use.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNote:\u003c\/strong\u003e This listing is for one stool. Measurements follow the longest, widest, and tallest points of the carved form.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCarved by Lobi artisans in Burkina Faso in the mid-1900s, each of these was worked from a single block of wood and finished with a braided leather cord for carrying. They were made as headrests: portable, personal, shaped to the body rather than to a room.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDecades of handling have brought up a deep patina across the surface. The form is spare enough to read as sculpture on its own, and low enough to work as a stool or a stand beside a chair.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sojourn Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42889077489879,"sku":"","price":195.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/1344\/2263\/products\/image_606bb127-9b6c-494a-8c51-6fb93e313b7d.heic?v=1654906361"},{"product_id":"vintage-handwoven-cane-bowl","title":"Vintage Handwoven Cane Bowl","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e D 10\" × H 3\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMaterial:\u003c\/strong\u003e Handwoven split cane\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEra:\u003c\/strong\u003e Vintage, date undocumented\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOrigin:\u003c\/strong\u003e Undocumented\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Excellent vintage condition. Wear consistent with age and use.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWoven from split cane by hand, worked outward from the base until the wall reached its height. The technique is old and practiced across many regions, and a piece like this carries no maker's mark, only the evenness of the hand that made it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLow and open. It holds fruit on a table, or nothing at all on a shelf.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sojourn Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43515493777623,"sku":null,"price":90.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/1344\/2263\/products\/image_c4160d0a-5746-405b-90c5-c5df9348b013.jpg?v=1669657021"},{"product_id":"green-verdigris-glass-coffee-table-in-the-manner-of-diego-giacometti","title":"Green Verdigris \u0026 Glass Coffee Table — In the Manner of Diego Giacometti","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e H 17\" × W 40\" × D 40\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMaterial:\u003c\/strong\u003e Verdigris-patina metal base, beveled glass top\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEra:\u003c\/strong\u003e Circa 1970s–1980s\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOrigin:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paris and Los Angeles workshop tradition, maker unrecorded\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Excellent vintage condition. Minor surface wear consistent with age. No cracks or repairs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDiego Giacometti built furniture in the Paris studio he shared with his brother Alberto, who filled the same rooms with sculpture. He became known as a master of patina for the greens and bronzes he drew out of metal, surfaces made to read as aged the moment they left his hand. His final commission was a full suite of furniture and lighting for the Musée Picasso, finished the year he died.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis table was built in that tradition, in the workshops of Paris and Los Angeles where his methods carried on after him. The maker's name went unrecorded, as it often does with this work. What remains is the evidence: a hand-shaped verdigris base beneath a beveled glass top, the patina settling exactly as the technique intends.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sojourn Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49490367807703,"sku":null,"price":2000.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/1344\/2263\/files\/GreenVerdigris_GlassCoffeeTable.jpg?v=1784875525"},{"product_id":"sculpted-studio-craft-table-american-circa-1980s","title":"Vintage Sculpted Studio Craft Coffee Table","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e H 16.5\" × W 31\" × D 45\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMaterial:\u003c\/strong\u003e Two-tone hardwood\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEra:\u003c\/strong\u003e Circa 1980s–1990s\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOrigin:\u003c\/strong\u003e American studio workshop\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Excellent vintage condition. Structurally sound throughout, with wear consistent with age and use.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the decades after the Second World War, a generation of American woodworkers left the factory line and opened studios of their own, working from a single conviction: that a piece of furniture could carry the mark of one person's hand and be worth more for it. The Studio Craft movement grew out of that refusal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis table comes from that lineage. The legs are sculpted rather than turned, the two woods chosen against each other for contrast, and the built-in cup holders make the argument of the entire movement in a single detail: an object can be sculptural and still be used.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe maker's name went unrecorded, and the signature left on this piece was never written down. 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