French Theatrics Of Salvage

 BURLAP LUXE DESIGNS

My latest theatre of the arts, I design and create from

 rustic salvage wood.

Along with my bending of wire art and paper doll and 

cartapesta mice.

 

 Salvage Wood

Chosen and cut to dimensions, using the best pieces showing

signs of weathered and decaying inspiration.

Every piece gets wood glued and screwed, adding all the

rightness to a French theatre of song and

dance.

  

Theatre Taking Shape 

 Moldings, picture frames, chair rungs and drawer pulls for finials

are often found in pieces of furniture I salvage from their past.

History in such pieces inspire my art in building forgotten

 treasured play.

This Theatre hangs on a wall.

22" in height x 17" in width x 6" in depth.

 Ephemera

Vintage paper ephemera I collect, papering a backdrop wall.

Yet, I nudge along its brittle aged look with tearing and

piecing it together so this wall takes on a look

of centuries old.

 

 Paint And Tattered Curtians

A paint treatment I give it to preserve each piece rustically.

I have still yet to lay the planked stage flooring, adding

a bit more moldings and its vintage music box

under the stage base.

Hopeful in completion soon, old wood salvage finds can not be

rushed.

Threate Quote

 

"Look, a new day has

begun"...

Stage play

~CATS 

Looking forward to a creative new year ...

 

Curtain Call  

Nouvel An

(New Year)

 A Happy New Year

and all it 

inspires.

~2018~

  

Decayed Rustic French Fascination...Un Joyeux Noel

 

Burlap Luxe Home Studio Of Production

Designs And Creates, French Theatre's

Artist Dore Callaway

 of

Burlap Luxe

A performance of...

Un Joyeux Noel

  

 Salvage materials are collected and stored away until they call out to become an opulent decayed rustic French theatres of performances.

 

Trim and woodwork is a collection of old antique and vintage woods...
moldings, picture frames, French mirror frame pieces salvaged and desired.
Chair spindles, and furniture legs act as columns, 
drawer pull knobs act as cement finials.

 vintage oak for wood planked floors, and wire for my hand twisted chandeliers, 
ladders, and crowns. Wire is also used to create a body form for the creating 
of cartapesta mice.

 

Cartapesta Mouse

 

My latest addition to my French theatre is my art in creating

cartapesta mice, along with the creation of her tattered decayed old dress.

A pendant necklace studded with a gem, and her gem stone wire crown

that wraps around her sweet French head.

She goes by the French name of (Astrid)

Astrid is in the middle of her performance of

Douce Nuit - Silent Night, and performed in French opera.

 

My art in hand painting

Her patina is hand applied and gilded with aged gold.

 

The art of French wire-work, I bend and shape into chandeliers, ladders, and

body forms for cartapesta mice and crowns.

Aged banners add a bit of theatrical whimsy strung about.

 

French Rococo 

French rococo mirror salvage trim the header. 

French weathered old books created by my French hands.

Stained to appear old.

 

I create paper doll mice, they have come baring gifts and to be entertained

in a holiday performance this Joyeux Noel.

 

 Librairie Francaise

(French Book Shop)

An old decayed French shop.

 With cartapesta and salvage wood I created a French book shop of

theatrics where French and English language books of many can be found.

Seventeen hand-made books I created with vintage book ephemera and

cloth aged and water damage to give the appearance of an old dusty

book sellers shop in France.

Madam Colette tends to her old French shop.

Books are piled in  the attic, and hog warted in the book case.

 Old music books and travel books are some of her book selections

she has for holiday shoppers. The beauty in an old book,

a perfect gifting.

 

The attic is filled, and the charm of rustic decayed flooring and
walls show its age.

Happy New Year!

 

Merci

Thank you for being our audience.

Please visit special performance's here with,

Vera, by clicking link here...Row Home And CobbleStones

Lin, Instagram by clicking link here...A Tiny Cottage In The Woods

 Dore, Instagram by clicking link here...Burlap Luxe

 

Paix et Joie, Joyeux Noel

( Peace and Joy )

xx

Dore