Biomorphic Bronze Sconce
Designer/Manufacturer
Jonathan HansenCirca
2024
Description
Cast in bronze by the Alfa Arte Foundry in Spain, Jonathan Hansen’s ”Biomorphic Sconce” draws inspiration from a second-century Roman sculpture of the human body the artist had come across in the Greek and Roman galleries at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2007.
Jonathan Hansen
Jonathan Hansen
Born in the United States, artist-designer Jonathan Hansen was raised between Canada, England, and Singapore where he grew his layered, and multi-cultured artistic vocabulary.
Based in New York City today, the designer has built a significant portfolio of contemporary design pieces rooted in the artist’s longstanding fascination for antique Greek and Roman sculptures, as well as the eighteenth and nineteenth-century furniture design — which he studied at the North Bennet Street School in Boston. His deep understanding and genuine interest in craftsmanship techniques inform his design process and material selection.
The designer’s editions with Ateliers Courbet are sculptural, abstract expressions of the human body drawing inspiration from the second-century Greek and Roman sculptures of the human body. The designer has collaborated with artisans throughout Europe in marble, travertine, and bronze to suspend the movement of his design forms.
Jonathan Hansen
Born in the United States, artist-designer Jonathan Hansen was raised between Canada, England, and Singapore where he grew his layered, and multi-cultured artistic vocabulary.
Based in New York City today, the designer has built a significant portfolio of contemporary design pieces rooted in the artist’s longstanding fascination for antique Greek and Roman sculptures, as well as the eighteenth and nineteenth-century furniture design — which he studied at the North Bennet Street School in Boston. His deep understanding and genuine interest in craftsmanship techniques inform his design process and material selection.
The designer’s editions with Ateliers Courbet are sculptural, abstract expressions of the human body drawing inspiration from the second-century Greek and Roman sculptures of the human body. The designer has collaborated with artisans throughout Europe in marble, travertine, and bronze to suspend the movement of his design forms.
