Art by Nest Home Design and http://www.nestgallery.com/ as featured in the home staging at 5511 La Salle Ave, Oakland. For purchasing inquiries call our office at 510-839-3905 or you can call me directly (Obi Kaufmann, Art Director) at 510-914-8364. I love talking about our collection.
In this staging we are featuring work from what we call our "Artelier" collection, as well as orignal work from some of our represented artists. The Artelier Collection, (a play on words from the french word for studio, Atelier) is our inhouse, handpicked selection of signed, limited-edition Giclee prints. Our Design Panel has worked to find the very best collection of images that accents the widest array of design styles.
(pictured, above) "Stone Statue," Alexandra Walsh for the Artelier Collection, signed limited-edition Giclee print on stretched canvas, 28"x18", $230
(pictured, below) "Wheel," Alexandra Walsh for the Artelier Collection, signed limited-edition Giclee print on stretched canvas, 28"x18", $195
These two images are among our favorates in the Artelier Collection. Alexandra's photographs documenting her journeys through Eastern Europe are so evocative and textural. The tones of the print itself are amazingly consistant due to our inhouse,Giclee printing process where we use high quality, matte canvas whose effect is dramatic depth of field.
Obi Kaufmann for the Artelier Collection "Composition in white" oil and enamel on canvas, 60"x36", $500
Okay, so I painted this one. It came out well. The Artelier collection is made of what we call directed works as well. When the Design Panel finds an image they like they hire an artist (in this case me) to reproduce a similar idea using the original inspiration as a reference. This kind of Design oriented art makes for dramatic pieces that can be sold at a reasonable price point.
(pictured, left) Salma Aratsu "We Planted Together" from the Artelier Collection, Signed limited-edition Giclee print on canvas. 24"x24", $200, set of three $575
Salma's work came out so well as prints on stretched canvas that we end up using them all the time. Her pastoral scenes that invoke her native India are poetic and colorful. In this room that her work shares with the bold and organic abstractions of Jeff Riley, I can hardly even see the furniture beside the striking artwork!
"Metagenesis III" Jeff Riley, oil on canvas, 36"x36", 2006, $1800.
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(pictured below, left) Salma Aratsu "Waiting" from the Artelier Collection, Signed limited-edition Giclee print on canvas. 24"x24", $200, set of three $575
(pictured below, right) Salma Aratsu "Watching from the Balcony" from the Artelier Collection, Signed limited-edition Giclee print on canvas. 24"x24", $200, set of three $575
If you have been following our work, you know how much we love Jeff Riley, his work is all over this blog. Contemplating a painting by Jeff Riley is like taking a science course in the nature of form and color. He images that make reference to biology and the microscopic structure of things is always tempered with his trained eye and brush so it never feels stuffy.
