Each Studio Edition is hand-blown,
signed by Dale Chihuly and comes with a custom-designed
Plexiglas vitrine with a black base for secure and handsome
display.
Purchase of a Studio Edition also includes a beautiful book
describing the series to which it belongs — the Fioris,
Persians, Seaforms, Macchias or Baskets.
* All photographs by David Emery |
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 Royal
Raspberry Seaform Pair
studio edition 2007
approximately 11 inches wide
$5600 USD
Undulating and exquisite, Dale Chihuly’s
Seaforms are implicitly pliant and mobile, even in their
solid forms. “They open up and curl in a kind of
voluptuous solicitation, restorative and generous, in
a sensuous repose,” says art critic Joan Seeman
Robinson. These rippling forms are made by blowing the
hot glass into ribbed molds, producing radial lines that
add strength and allow the molten glass to be thinner,
creating an illusion of motion.
The 2007 Portland Press Studio Edition Royal Raspberry
Seaform Pair consists of two elements, both characteristically
weightless, but with an unusual body wrap that adds visible
depth and tangible texture, flattened and pale pink inside
the curves, though otherwise vivid and dimensional. Between
ripples of magenta, a vibrant lime green is revealed from
the insides of both pieces—catching the eye, intriguing
the connoisseur.
Engraved with Chihuly’s signature on the smaller
piece, this Studio Edition is handblown and measures approximately
eleven inches across. The artwork arrives with a Plexiglas
vitrine for display and Chihuly Seaforms,
a hardcover book containing forty-four color photographs
and essays by Joan Seeman Robinson and oceanographer Sylvia
Earle.
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 Honeysuckle
Yellow Basket Set
studio edition 2007
approximately 8 inches high
$7100 USD
Inspired by Northwest Native American
baskets collapsing under their own weight, Dale Chihuly
set out to express the aging and worn vessels in glass.
“Like an Indian youth at the climax of his spirit
quest, he felt some inexplicable connection with the baskets
and through them with something universal,” says
Northwest historian Murray Morgan.
The 2007 Portland Press Studio Edition Honeysuckle
Yellow Basket Set embodies the classic idea of
his Basket series with soft waves rippling along a relaxed,
slumping body. The large yellow Basket, delicately blown
through and nearly transparent, reveals two smaller elements
nestled inside, creating an airy, ethereal effect. Each
piece is accented with a contrasting black lip wrap.
The smallest piece of the handblown Honeysuckle Yellow
Basket Set is signed by Chihuly and the entire work measures
approximately eight inches high. Also included is a custom-designed
Plexiglas
display vitrine and Chihuly: Baskets,
a 148-page Portland Press publication detailing the pictoral
history of the Basket series with essays by former museum
curator Linda Norden and Murray Morgan.
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 Dragonfly
Persian
studio edition 2007
approximately 9 inches wide
$4600 USD
Dale Chihuly’s Persians
echo distant and exciting cultures, history stretching
back to ancient times, and a fascination with spontaneous
form and bold color. Of this series, museum curator Tina
Oldknow says, “Chihuly’s early Persians hint
at glass’s distant past: the small, dense, and rare
core-formed vessels that first appeared in Egypt about
1,500 BC and in Mesopotamia (Iraq) around 1,300 BC.”
Dragonfly Persian is at once both archetypal
and daring, both modern and ancient. A single orange piece
flaring open from a ball foot is rimmed with a royal blue
lip wrap. Dark blue and black flecks together with a warm
brown body wrap and an iridescent shimmer highlight the
back of the piece.
Handblown and measuring approximately nine inches across,
the 2007 Portland Press Studio Edition Dragonfly Persian
is signed by Chihuly. A Plexiglas display vitrine is included,
as is the hardcover book Chihuly Persians.
With sixty color photographs and an essay by curator of
modern glass at the Corning Museum Tina Oldknow, the book
provides an overview and history of the Persian series.
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 Celtic
Emerald Persian Pair
studio edition 2007
approximately 11 inches wide
$6100 USD
With their exotic, fluid
shapes, Dale Chihuly’s Persians swirl with kinetic
energy, mimicking ancient vessels or blending into a natural
landscape almost seamlessly.
“I love to juxtapose the man-made and the natural
to make people wonder and ask, ‘Are they man-made
or did they come from nature?’ That’s a very
important part of my work,” says Chihuly.
Celtic Emerald Persian Pair blazes with bright
and vibrant color. Measuring approximately eleven inches
across, the larger piece is blown through—bright
green in the center to a dark, shadowy green along the
edge, accented by a golden yellow lip wrap. Echoing these
same colors, a smaller, coiling element rests inside looking
as if it were a live garden creature reaching out to the
viewer. Winding around both elements, dark and light green
body wraps create a virtual glow.
The larger element of this handblown 2007 Portland Press
Studio Edition is signed by Chihuly. A Plexiglas vitrine
and Chihuly Persians, a hardcover book
featuring sixty color photos of the Persian series with
an essay by museum curator Tina Oldknow, are included.
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