Leather
Architect: Alex Antonelli
Cover All Wooden Surfaces with Leather, Create and Insert Small Leather Welts Between Panels
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Designer, Sculptor, & Fabricator: Jan Girard
Designer, Sculptor, & Fabricator: Jan Girard
Design and Fabricate Table with Sculpted Leather on Top and Gilded Legs.
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Design and Fabricate Valence with Sculpted Leather and Gilding
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Designer, Sculptor, & Fabricator: Jan Girard
Design and Fabricate Table with Sculpted Leather on Top.
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Designer, Sculptor, & Fabricator: Jan Girard
Design and Fabricate Leaves sculpted in Leather.
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Working with Alex Antonelli, the architect, and Simply Elegant contractors, we covered an entire
Library and Foyer in natural cowhide. Only the entry doors remained natural wood. Walls, shelves, pilasters, moldings, baseboards….were all covered. A clever detail was employed to create beautiful, consistent piecing….. the leather fit into a small groove, and was covered with a very small leather covered cord.
Leather Covered Library
Leather is one of the most versatile, and interesting materials on the planet. It is a material that has challenged me and intrigued me most of my life…. Jan Girard
I designed and fabricated these pieces. The gilding was done by another artisan. The leather is all frozen in time. The tables and valance have many small pieces that are sculpted separately then skived, glued together, and applied to a skeleton table. The leaves are the parts of an ongoing art project.
Leather as Sculpture