Pandemonium
Pandemonium
Studio Puck
Studio Puck has been working from a collection of antique books in a Florentine atelier on the Lungarno Guicciardini since 1980 - taking plates from those books and bringing them onto new paper, by hand.
A pandemonium is the collective noun for a group of parrots. The word was coined by Milton, in 1667, for the capital of Hell - where the demons made the noise. It has been doing service for parrots, in the same key, ever since.
This series, then, is a pandemonium of its own: six head-and-shoulders portraits of parrots, drawn from antique ornithological plates and hand-painted in the workshop in full colour - vivid greens, reds, yellows and blues, set against backgrounds of pink and pale teal. Each is framed in a round white wooden frame.
They can be bought singly, or in any number of one another's company.
Exclusive to Australia.
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Product information
Hand painted prints of parrots
Round white timber frame diameter 34cm
About Studio Puck
Studio Puck is a Florentine print and decoration workshop on the Lungarno Guicciardini, just across the Arno from the historic centre. It opened in 1980 as a printmaking studio, and at its centre - then as now - sits a collection of antique books, the illustrated natural histories and decorative plates that European publishers produced through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The studio works from those images.
A plate is taken from the archive, transferred to a screen, printed onto paper or onto an object, and then - always, every one - coloured by hand. Each piece is finished by an artisan with a brush. The colour does not come out of a printer.
What started as paper has, over the years, moved onto other surfaces. The same images and the same hands now decorate vases, frames, lighting and furniture. The book is still the source: a serpent painted up the side of a vase was lifted from a centuries-old printed plate, and comes out the way it would have been hand-coloured then.
The studio is in the same building, on the same Florentine street, that it has worked from for over forty years.
Studio Puck is exclusive to Australia at The Leopard.
