PLACE REPRESENTED: Split , Croatia
ITEM: Wall Ornament
NOTES: A wood burnt etching (pokerwork or pyrography) of the Croatian seaside city of Split. Nothing says rustic like these pokerwork trinkets. This one depicts the Cathedral of Saint Domnius (known locally as the Saint Duja).
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1970s
MADE FROM: wood
MADE IN: unknown (probably locally)
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 18.5cm diameter.
PLACE REPRESENTED: Bergen , Holland
ITEM: Wall Ornament
NOTES: Google translates “De Heerlijkheid” as “the glory”. Bergen is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands, in North Holland. Depicted is a local windmill and the famous Ruïne church in the centre of the village of Bergen. Artists looking for a pastoral setting are drawn to the natural beauty of Bergen. It’s a pity the tilers weren’t as well because this wall tile is “Made in Turkey” as proudly displayed on the back.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1980s
MADE FROM: ceramic material
MADE IN: Turkey
MANUFACTURER: KS Tiles
DIMENSIONS: 15cm x 15cm
PLACE REPRESENTED: Sauda, Norway.
ITEM: Wall Ornament
NOTES: Kirke is Norwegian for Church. This church is located in the Sauda municipality of the Rogaland area of Norway (an area with low unemployment and high fertility apparently). Which church in the Sauda area this is I don’t know. They have a few and they are big, wooden and white.
http://haugen.jalbum.net/Kirker%20i%20Norge/kirkefoto/Kirker%20i%20Rogaland/index.html
This is remote Norway and the hand crafted wood burnt etching (pyrography) of the church is beautifully rustic.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1960s
MADE FROM: wood
MADE IN: unknown (probably locally)
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 19.5cm x 19.5cm
PLACE REPRESENTED: Korea
ITEM: Wall Hanging
NOTES: A plastic, rubber and cardboard wall hanging you would expect to see hanging in a Korean diner. Cheap it is, but there is a certain cute kitsch-y charm to it.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 2000s
MADE FROM: plastic , rubber , cardboard
MADE IN: Korea (probably)
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 29.5cm long x 14cm high
PLACE REPRESENTED: Kaprun , Austria
ITEM: Wall Hanging
NOTES: “Gruss aus Kaprun” means “Greetings from Kaprun”.
Kaprun is a municipality in western Austria famous for its glacier Kitzsteinhorn, skiing and tourism.
This well detailed hard resin wall hanging, is no doubt, made to replace the old traditional wooden wall carvings of the same style. It’s even made to look like it’s made of wood. The plate is detailed with the town, glacier, mountains and dams. I suppose it is post 2000 as the two funicular railways, the site of the Kaprun disaster of 2000, are not depicted.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 2000s
MADE FROM: resin
MADE IN: unknown
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 21cm diameter
PLACE REPRESENTED: Chile
ITEM: Wall Ornament
NOTES: A nice hand crafted (partially) wall ornament from Chile, in copper, naturally enough. Copper mining was (is) one of the biggest industries in Chile.
“Recuerdo de Chile” means “A Remembrance of Chile”.
Simple, effective and stylish.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1960s
MADE FROM: Copper
MADE IN: unknown (probably Chile)
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 13cm diameter
PLACE REPRESENTED: Cairns, Queensland , Australia
ITEM: Wall Ornament
NOTES: Simple and effective. Barramundi fish plus Australia equals Cairns. Cairns is, rightly so, famous for its barramundi fishing but this trinket could also have had “Darwin” substituted for Cairns (who knows maybe it was in the Darwin market) which also has its fair share of barramundi. In Australia, barramundi is an iconic eating fish revered as a quintessential Australian brand. But, far from being only native to Australia, barramundi are found in the Indo-West Pacific region from the Arabian Gulf to China, Taiwan and Papua New Guinea.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1990s
MADE FROM: wood , steel
MADE IN: unknown
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 20cm diameter across x 16cm top to bottom (at its longest)
PLACE REPRESENTED: Coastal towns, Croatia
ITEM: Display Plate
NOTES: A great wooden wall plate with clock hand depicting various towns along Croatia’s coast: Lovran, Kotor, Koper, Dubrovnik. Simple, evocative and stylish. Home is where the heart is. Decidedly old world and probably not mass produced.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1960s
MADE FROM: wood
MADE IN: Yugoslavia (as it then was) (handmade, in part?)
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 24cm
PLACE REPRESENTED: Burra, South Australia , Australia
ITEM: Wall Ornament
NOTES: Small hand painted (?) plate depicting the copper cliffs of Burra …which ended up being a very large copper mine. This is quite a beautiful small piece of individual art of a place which I hope still exists.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1950s
MADE FROM: ceramic material
MADE IN: unknown
MANUFACTURER: unknown
DIMENSIONS: 11.5cm x 8.5cm
PLACE REPRESENTED: Perth, Western Australia , Australia
ITEM: Wall Ornament
NOTES: Now, this I like. Locally made with local materials (I assume). A microcosm of Perth’s flora (albeit dried and lacquered) stuck onto a piece of wood. Beautiful.
YEAR (APPROXIMATE): 1970s
MADE FROM: wood
MADE IN: Australia
MANUFACTURER: Croft Craft
DIMENSIONS: 25cm long x 8cm wide
