My Faux Intaglios

I was introduced to intaglios by Holly of the fabulous blog, Things That Inspire.
 Intaglios are figures or designs carved into stone or a hard material.
She sells them framed in her on-line store, Quatrefoil Designs.  

Framed Intaglio from Quatrefoil Designs

More Than One Framed

In A Grouping on a Wall

I absolutely loved the look and wanted to use it in my home.  Imagine my surprise when shopping in Baltimore with Meg of Pigtown Design  last year I came across what I'm going to call my faux intaglios.  One of the shops we visited was McClain Wiesand.  This fabulous shop carries a selection of antiques and vintage pieces and amazing artisan furniture.  I was intrigued by their castings from original architectural pieces.  You know me and my architectural fragment obsession.

McClain/Wiesand Castings

They had created some small castings to use as Christmas tree ornaments.  To me, they were intaglios.  These are the ones that I purchased.

I'm working on framing them.  I'll post when I get them done and on the wall. 
Please check back.

Kathy

FIY I also bought these ornament castings for my tree.
Love!!  Love!!

Holiday Shop Hop

Recently my husband and I were lucky enough to accompany Meg of Pigtown Design 

on her Holiday Shop Hop in Baltimore.

I'd been following and loving her blog for a while.  If you don't know, she appeared TWICE on the

Nate Berkus Show.  He liked what she'd done so much that he invited her back and called

her the Junk Whisperer.  Check out her blog to see segments of the show.

I was so excited when she invited readers to shop with her and that she was close by my home.

Here's a photo of the "Nate Girls" in one of the shops we visited,  Red Tree,

a unique shop with one-of-a-kind accessories, jewelry and furniture.

The owner is an artist.  Here are some of his creations.

Another shop we visited was McLain-Wiesand,

with a selection of antiques and vintage pieces and amazing artisan furniture.

Here is one of the artists at work, reproducing faux marble with the original as her model.

David Weisand has hundreds of castings from original architectural pieces.  Here are some small castings

and some larger architectural fragments.

Some of the castings were made into Christmas ornaments.  I purchased several not just for the

holidays, but for year round.  I'm going to have the oval ones with faces framed as intaglios.

I have to show you one last photo from the fabulous shop.  David custom designed and built this bookcase.

On to Housewerks Architectural Antiques.

The photos say it all.  I'm crazy for arquitectural and industrial pieces.  I was hinting about one of the

zinc- top  tables for Christmas.  It would be perfect on the screened porch.

I just loved everything.

We also had lunch at a rooftop restaurant with a birdseye view of Baltimore.

Thanks Meg for an absolutely wonderful day.

Kathy