IN CONVERSATION WITH THE EDIBLE RUINS OF ANDREA FERRERO, THESE Objects of contemplation inspired by the Grand Tours taken in the 17th and 18th centuries STAND IN AS mementos from a forgotten past.
THE GRAND TOUR
A delicate antique bust of Venus cast in Parian bisque porcelain, a medium developed in 1845 by the Staffordshire ceramic manufacturer Minton that was popular in the 19th century for imitating the fine Parian white marble found on the Greek island of Paros.
Dimensions: H8 x W6 x D4½ inches
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Shown in The Grand Tour installation featuring the edible sculptures of Andrea Ferrero’s Architectural Digestion. Learn More about the project here.
An original Sarah Espeute commission for Art/artefact
Exclusive to Art/artefact, the Grand Tour tablecloth is a visual delight featuring Sarah Espeute’s signature hand embroidered trompe l’oeil with motifs dreamed up in collaboration with our founder Audra Kiewiet de Jonge. To better accommodate a large centerpiece featuring the edible sculptures of Andrea Ferrero, Audra asked Sarah to shift her Grand Tour still life to the corners of the cloth and rotate them to suggest a debaucherous party with things falling off the table—evoking the bacchanals of ancient Rome and the reckless pleasure-seeking of 18th century travelers of the Grand Tour.
This delightful tablecloth is incribed with “Bibere a fonte civili”—To drink from the font of civilization in Latin spilling out of an upset wineglass.
Details include four detachable handmade Italian cotton tassels at the corners and a place setting for eight at a 60” round table.
Made in France for Art/artefact.
Dimensions: 120 inches square
Please allow 6 weeks for production. Customization available. Contact us at contact@artartefact.com for additional images and information.
Shown in The Grand Tour installation featuring the edible sculptures of Andrea Ferrero’s Architectural Digestion. Learn More about the project here.
A beautiful 19th century set of 12 silverplate forks with floral motif bands for salad or dessert service. The exquisite handles have a sumptous lustre and will add visual delight to any table.
Dimensions: L6⅝ inches.
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Shown in The Grand Tour installation featuring the edible sculptures of Andrea Ferrero’s Architectural Digestion. Learn More about the project here.
What better perch than to dine on the wonders of Rome?
Exclusive to Art/artefact, these chair overlays feature eight architectural wonders of ancient Rome from Giovanni Battista Piranesi’s famous 18th-century folio of etchings Vedute di Roma, printed ca. 1756, and highly collected by travelers of the Grand Tour.
Each chair overlay is printed in England on organic cotton using environmentally safe dyes and comes with a pair of detachable rayon chair tassels in black.
Dimensions: approx 27 inches square each.
Sold individually and made to order, allow us to choose the views for you, or work with us to select your own. Please allow 4-6 weeks for production. Customization available. Contact us at contact@artartefact.com for additional images and information.
Shown in The Grand Tour installation featuring the edible sculptures of Andrea Ferrero’s Architectural Digestion. Learn More about the project here.
The perfect vessel for your next summer soirée, these charming late 19th-century pressed glass yachts will add some whimsical wind to your snack and crudité sails.
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Dimensions: L10 inches
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Shown in The Grand Tour installation featuring the edible sculptures of Andrea Ferrero’s Architectural Digestion. Learn More about the project here.
Three beautiful pieces are the perfect serving dish for caviar. Made from nacre shell on sterling silver stands with English assay marks ca. 1900. Two carved with a scalloped rim, the third mounted with a basket handle.
These are the perfect vessel to elevate your caviar on a plate piled high with scalloped potato chips. Just fill with crushed ice and serve.
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Dimensions: H2½ x W5 x D2½ inches each.
Sumptuously gift wrapped with hand written note from the heart.
Order by February 9 for delivery by February 14.
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A stunning profile photograph of the famous Niké of Samothrace in the Louvre with raking light highlighting the incredible windswept movement in her marble robes and showing how the fabric intertwines with her legs and trail behind the goddess of victory.
This silver gelatin photograph was likely from an antique book of photographic plates depicting the art of antiquity.
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Shown in The Grand Tour installation featuring the edible sculptures of Andrea Ferrero’s Architectural Digestion. Learn More about the project here.
This beautiful vase features Wedgwood’s famous white relief classical decoration on black basalt ground. The decorative frieze depicts an Arcadian sacrificial rite from antiquity.
Jasperware is a material invented by Josiah Wedgwood in 1775 following years of experimentation, the resulting matte porcelain resembles natural jasper stone. This iconic vase is made using black basalt ground with an applied decoration in white jasperware. Unlike many unglazed ceramics that give a matte effect, Jasperware porcelain is nonporous and suitable for water.
Dimensions: H7⅜ x Dia5½ inches
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Shown in The Grand Tour installation featuring the edible sculptures of Andrea Ferrero’s Architectural Digestion. Learn More about the project here.
A beautiful Italian wrapped leather octagonal box in a deep charcoal grey with hand applied gilt fleur-de-lis decoration. Mysteriously blind inscribed with I.V. Century B.C. on the front and the side of the box.
Dimensions: D2½ x H1¼ inches
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A stunning copper etching with beautiful, austere modern lines engraved by Fernando Campana after Niccolo Vanni from the Raccolta di Pitture d'Ercolano.
The term Palmo Romano refers to an antique local unit of measurement using the palm of the hand by which the viewer could imagine the scale of the original bust. A Roman palm was a different scale from a Palmo Napolitano (Naples), naturally.
Printed on laid paper and framed with a hand-marbled, bevel painted mat. This sheet was from a collection of 8 volumes printed between 1752 - 1762 by Nella Regia Stamperia in Naples. The collection chronicles the frescos and artifacts excavated in Herculaneum at the behest of King Carlos VII of Naples in 1738 following the discovery of the city in 1710.
Dimensions: plate - H14 x W9⅞ inches; frame - H20¼ x W15⅞ inches.
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Shown in The Grand Tour installation featuring the edible sculptures of Andrea Ferrero’s Architectural Digestion. Learn More about the project here.
This beautiful large-scale amphora has a stunning earthy patina and a deep, olive green glazed rim. Probably originally used to store olives or oil.
It would make an incredible vase for branches or other high-impact arrangement. Alternatively, leave it empty in a sunlit corner indoors or out.
Dimensions: H25 x Dia15 inches.
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Exquisitely hand cut from the reverse, this pendant features a mythological winged figure melancholically playing the flute, possibly a depiction of Eros, the god of love, whom some ancient sources reference as born from Chaos.
Set in sterling silver frame with 18 inch sterling chain.
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Shown in The Grand Tour installation featuring the edible sculptures of Andrea Ferrero’s Architectural Digestion. Learn More about the project here.
This elegant pair of silverplate candlesticks evokes the neoclassical obsessions of English travelers of the Grand Tour.
With a wonderful weight and patina, this pair shows a copper core under the finely rendered details of the acanthus leaf capital and fluted column.
Dimensions: H8½ inches
Kindly note: Candles not included
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Shown in The Grand Tour installation featuring the edible sculptures of Andrea Ferrero’s Architectural Digestion. Learn More about the project here.
This stunning antique Venetian mirror has a silvered surface that has developed a wonderfully golden-hued aged quality. The hand-cut bevels are nothing short of virtuosic. The scale is the perfect intimate size that falls between medium and small.
Dimensions: H30 x W16 inches.
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A beautiful example of carved jade grapes in a very realistic shade of green. Makes a subtle, elegant statement adorning a table or a shelf.
Dimensions: L7 inches
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Shown in The Grand Tour installation featuring the edible sculptures of Andrea Ferrero’s Architectural Digestion. Learn More about the project here.
A beautiful tome in printed cloth binding with numerous color plates was printed in 1962 and limited to just 2450 copies for sale. The translation by W.H. Auden and Elizabeth Mayer brings to life one of the most iconic pieces of travel writing ever completed and includes
536 pages printed by Pantheon Books, NY on Fabriano paper by Giovanni Mardersteig at the Stamperia Valdonega, Verona.
A lovely collectible copy to add to your library.
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Shown in The Grand Tour installation featuring the edible sculptures of Andrea Ferrero’s Architectural Digestion. Learn More about the project here.
A charming cast bronze figurine after a bacchanal faun found in the ruins of Pompeii. Most likely created as a souvenir of the Grand Tour.
Similar examples are included in the permanent collection of the Harvard Art Museum; the original is on display at the Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples. (inv. no. 5002; h. 71 cm)
Dimensions: H6¼ x W2½ x D2½ inches
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Megabalanus Tintinnabulum is a large marine barnacle featuring pink and purple marbling that resembles a cluster of bells (thus the Latin tintinnabulum or ‘small bells’).
No Enlightenment collection was complete without specimens of the natural world, and travelers of the Grand Tour often returned home with examples of exotic geological and marine formations. Add this specimen to your shelf or tablescape for a bit of authentic curiosity.
Dimensions: H4¾ x W7 x 4½ inches
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A lovely rare early 19th-century small footed bowl by Wedgwood with fluted neoclassical pattern evoking an ancient Greco-Roman tazza.
Dimensions: H3 x Dia 4¾ inches
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A stunning silver gelatin photograph of the Apollo Belvedere—an ancient Roman copy of a Greek sculpture that was rediscovered in the 16th century and is in the Vatican.
Neoclassicists considered this sculpture to be the greatest artwork of antiquity and for centuries it was held as the standard of idealized beauty and aesthetics in the Western world.
This silver gelatin photograph was likely from an antique book of photographic plates depicting important art from antiquity. The margins show some trimmed text captioning under the print.
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A charming travel photography book printed in London in 1950, with page after page of timeless vintage black and white images of Italian sights, people, and countryside made for daydreams.
Rustic linen cloth binding with red lettering on the cover and spine and printed in three languages, English, French, and German; A lovely addition to your coffee table or travel library.
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Gorgeous pale green onyx obelisks with pink bands—absolutely beautiful color and luminescence when in sunlight.
"Onyx" derives from the Greek word for "claw" or "fingernail" and green onyx is said to protect against negative energy and act as a shield. Ancient Greek and Roman soldiers believed it offered protection in battle.
Green Onyx is also associated with renewal and emotional well-being.
Sold individually.
Dimensions: Extra Large - H18 inches; Large - 14 inches
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This depiction of Bacchanales—the ceremonial frenzied rites of pleasure performed for the Roman god Bacchus, god of wine and fertility—is an etching from the encyclopedic collection of 15 volumes L’Antiquité Expliquée, et Représentée en Figures by Bernard de Montfaucon printed in Paris ca. 1720. A compendium of forms, styles, and representations of concepts and ornament from the classical world, it was the resource for many architects and artists and graced many stately libraries.
This print would be a perfect invocation to the pleasures of life over a bar or in a wine cellar.
Dimensions: plate - H12⅞ x W7⅜ inches; sheet - H17⅜ x W10 inches
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An exceptionally carved cameo featuring the profile of a woman with windswept hair and a crown of leaves falling in soft tendrils and very fine features. The hand-shaped scrollwork frame is gold alloy.
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ANDREA
FERRERO
ARCHITECTURAL DIGESTION
Andrea Ferrero (b. 1991, Lima, Peru) is a Mexico City-based artist whose work engages concepts of memory, culture, and power through the lens of hospitality and humor. Her edible sculptures in the forms of Greco-Roman ruins are meant to be activated, enjoyed, and, ultimately, digested.
In the Art/artefact Salon, Audra Kiewiet de Jonge worked with Ferrero’s signature edible sculptures in pink marbled white chocolate to create an environment that would bring the concepts of travel for pleasure and consumption of culture to life in a domestic environment.
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Audra
Art/artefact is a nationally recognized art advisory and interior design practice founded by Audra Kiewiet de Jonge and known for placing a great collection at the heart of every interior.
Formally trained as a painter and an art historian, Audra’s modern sensibility is informed by her historical perspective—bringing art and objects into context and conversation with the way we live today.
Published in Galerie, Veranda, and Frederic, among others, Audra’s work carries the hallmark of an eye attuned to the exceptional and unexpected with an approachability that feels fresh and unencumbered.
Working with private and corporate clients nationally, Art/artefact interiors are meticulously curated and expertly built to be high on artistry, but not on pretense, informed by her years of experience in the art and interiors worlds, including with Galería OMR in Mexico City, Kate Brodsky of KRB in New York, and Maja Smith of Found by Maja in San Francisco.
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the Thrill of the Hunt
Drawing inspiration from the past, Audra trains her eye on the exceptional, searching the world over for antique and singular pieces with the power to balance, complete, or transform the spaces they will inhabit.
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