Like a lot of broke people with good taste, I often dream about my perfect home – what it would look like, what treasures I would fill it with. I am not talking about stainless steel appliances or heated floors, I mean the artwork that would adorn my walls and tables. When I come across sculptors like Evan Chambers, I put them into my home furnishings spank bank for that distant, doubtful day that I will have shitloads of money to spend on things other than food and rent. Chambers’ sculptures are in fact utilitarian – they are lamps that stand on clawed feet or dangle from tentacles, jars to hold your potions/cookies in and vases for your headless roses and thorn sticks. They have a steampunk vibe to them, with the portholes and rivets and his heavy use of copper, bronze and glass, but they look alive in the perfect way to stand alongside a two-headed taxidermy fanged squirrel skeleton. Not that I have one of those, but I might, one day. Chambers is a skilled metalworker and glass blower based in LA, whose one of a kind creations can be bought online here and viewed below.
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