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Miranda Giraffe in Antique Gold

$236 USD
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$59 USD

The Miranda Giraffe in Antique Gold is covered in hand-embroidered silk velvet, the motif a scattered botanical of small open daisy flowers in white and cream with slate-blue centres, interspersed with gold leaf sprays and fine trailing stems. The embroidery runs from the legs up the full length of the neck, the pattern open and unhurried, the warm amber-gold velvet ground visible between each motif. The ossicones are worked in the same velvet, the face detailed and considered. The ground shifts between bright amber and deeper tobacco-gold as the pile moves in the light.

Designed in Germany and made by hand in India, each Miranda Giraffe is embroidered on the frame, piece by piece, with fabric dyed to Drechsel's own colour specifications.

Dimensions: 34H × 17L cm

Hand embroidered silk velvet.

ABOUT the MAKER

Anke Drechsel

Anke Drechsel has worked from her atelier in Karlsruhe since 1986, designing silk velvet cushions and home textiles that are made entirely by hand in India. Each piece is dyed to her own colour specifications and embroidered on the frame by skilled artisans, a process that is slow by intention, and visible in the result. Tessuti carries a curated selection of Drechsel's cushions and decorative objects: plain velvets finished with fringe, and embroidered pieces worked in silk thread on grounds that shift with the light. These are things made to be lived with.
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