Savana
Savana
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.
Savana is the studio's series on the big cats. Each piece is a head-and-shoulders study - the leopard in three-quarter profile, the caracal with its tufted ear - drawn from the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century zoological plates that European naturalists made of the African savanna. The illustrations are hand-painted by the studio in full colour, the way the originals were hand-coloured at the time, and set on a deep matte-black ground so the animal sits forward off the page.
Each work is framed in a round, deep-black wooden frame.
This brand is named after one of them.
Exclusive to Australia.
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Product information
Hand painted prints of big cat heads with black background
Round black timber frame diameter 50cm
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.
