Twenty Limited Edition Snow Globes by Ligorano/Reese Celebrate the History of Art.

Designer and limited edition snow globes certainly have their appeal to the art world in addition to collectors of the shakeable snow-laden water-filled round glass objects.



I've previously featured the limited edition snow globes and c-prints by artists Walter Martin and Paloma Munoz, the 14 Architect-designed snow globes for the Dansk Architectural center and a series of Seven Deadly Sin Snow Globes by Ligorano/Reese - shown below.





Just this week Artware Editions announced the latest limited edition snow globes (also referred to as water globes, snowdomes and shakies) by art duo Ligorano/Reese. Twenty new signed, numbered and dated snow globes limited to 50 editions each call out specific influential art movements.

The 7.5" tall by 6" diameter glass globes are set on black wooden bases and feature the names of 20 different art movements, beginning with Fauvism and continuing through YBA (which stands for Young British Artists), designed to stylistically represent the genres. In my personal opinion, some do it successfully (Bauhaus, Minimalism, Surrealism, Superflat, Video Art) and others, not so much.

The full selection of globes includes the following:

Abstract Expressionism:

Bauhaus:

Conceptual Art:

Cubism:

Dada:

De Stijl:

Expressionism:

Fauvism:

Fluxus:

Futurism:

Minimalism:

New Media:

Op Art:

Performance Art:

Photo Realism:

Pop Art:

Superflat:

Surrealism:

Video Art:

YBA:


The individual globes are available to purchase for $400 each and ten complete sets of the twenty can be bought for $7,200.

Every snow globe is hand-made through a laser-cutting and laminating technique developed by the artists. Please allow 6 - 8 weeks for fabrication.

Buy the History of Art Snow Globes here

Man & Christmas Elf Explored In 14 Snowglobes By Various Architects

above: Magic Garden, one of fourteen snowdomes that exlpore the Nisse Landscape

This year DAC, the Dansk Architectural Center, invited architect firms Jaja, Primus and Masu to create new interpretations of the Christmas landscape in the form of snowglobes or snow domes, with modern pixies or elves (Nisse).



The project is a critical interpretation of the planning perspectives on the relationship between the elf, Santa Claus, the countryside and an investigation of the modern Nisses' influence on urban form and structural contexts, like the DAC to focus on a fundamental paradox in relation to the current pixie landscape.



On the one hand, continued development of 'modern city', with the expansion of modern nissehabitater, on the other hand, maintained the notion of 'the traditional pixie landscape' in the use of simple dichotomies 'city-country' and 'center-periphery' as understanding terms basis of planning. In practice this seems logical contradiction, however, mask or ignore. With respect to this masking plays the understanding of 'pixie landscape' as natural in contrast to the 'city' as a cultural importance.

This pixie landscape urban discourse seeks to establish the basis for a new dialectical synthesis between urban and pixie landscape planning, where pixie landscape refers to a common framework for Christmas in the urban and rural context. Based on this alternative understanding of pixie landscape, like the DAC to consider the possibility of anchoring the goblin and his little helpers in relation to the future planning of the urban-rural pixie landscape.



How does the Nisse live amongst us today? That was the fundamental question at this year's x-mas workshop at DAC. We chose to explore this seasonal topic through a variety of architectural and programmatic compositions, represented in these fourteen snow globes.

Xmas Bar:

Roof Garden:

Harbor Bath:

Xmas Rock:

Track and Bridge:

Xmas Traffic:

Stair House:

Shopping Ramp:

Bike Park:

Mix Doubles:

Double Facade:

Housing Bridge:

Stair House:

and Magic Garden shown at the top of this post.

via JAJA on NOTCOT
images courtesy of JAJA, information and text courtesy of DAC

Royal Asscher's Stars Of Africa, 18k And Diamond Snowglobe Rings

I promise this is the last snow dome-related post until next holiday season, but I simply couldn't ignore these. These unbelievable lust-worthy 18k gold and real floating diamond rings work like little snowdomes! By Royal Asscher, the collection is for their fundraising initiative Stars Of Africa.



The Stars of Africa by Royal Asscher™ jewelry collection was launched in November. The project’s name represents the largest diamond ever found, at 3,105 carats, which the Asscher family cut in 1908.

This collection of 18 rings is distinguished by floating diamonds, which are encased in a fluid-filled sapphire dome that allows them to fall freely.



The result of floating diamonds is that the stones emit light, fire and beauty as they move, similar to twinkling stars, according to the designers. The ring collection is available in white, yellow and rose gold in two sizes, with retail prices ranging from $4,950 to $7,900.



Lita Asscher, shown above, first introduced the Star of Africa program in New York during November of 2008. A year later, she explained that in partnering with charities and businesses, she could show the industry how it can have a positive impact on Africa, particularly Sierra Leone, which she visited in 2008. Asscher came away with a strong belief in "diamonds for development" and that became the main goal of the Star of Africa initiative. A portion of each ring purchase goes back to Africa.




To enquire about purchasing contact starsofafrica@royalasscher.com

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