Anna Mae Candlesticks
These AnnaMae candlesticks were created from sculptures hand-carved by the artist in 2003 for the AnnaMae Restaurant in Biloxi Mississippi at the Beau Rivage Resort Hotel. They were re-imagined as candlesticks and presented to his wife on her birthday.
AnnaMae was a Japanese-American restaurant. The restaurant drowned in Hurricane Katrina.
The design has a myriad of intertwined inspiration: the serendipity of the Japanese homonym "anime"; the curly willow trees that the artist learned, on a trip to Japan, symbolize grace and femininity; the heartbreaker "Little Anna Mae" from a Mississippi Muddy Waters blues song; the artist’s mother, mother-in-law and first born daughter all share the middle name Mae.
PROCESS + MATERIALS
Hand carved maple sculptures were cast in a variety of recycled bronze and copper alloys. The castings were polished. Some have been bathed in elixirs and flames for patina. Made in Chicago.
DIMENSIONS
H 13.5 in. x Dm 2 in.
H 34.29 cm x Dm 5.08 cm
DATE OF DESIGN/MANUFACTURE
2003/2018
VARIATIONS
Available in pairs or sets.
Available in red bronze, white bronze and copper in a variety of finishes: brushed, polished, with or without patina.
East Hotel is the reincarnation of the bombed out ruins of an old foundry in Hamburg, Germany as a boutique hotel featuring Asian-fusion menus.
DONUTS
The hotel’s center in an indoor/outdoor public space, a donut hole, created by sculpting brick and concrete out of the muscular foundry structure and excavating 24’ of earth from the yard separating the foundry ruins and the new guest room building…
Every detail of East’s architecture, art and design conveys the spirit of the old foundry and the surreality of a westerner’s first immersion in the east.
If architecture in frozen music (danke Göthe) thn ornament is the melody. It is the underlying concept which transforms structural rhythms, spatial and material harmonics and details into a meaningful personality which can create an emotional connection…the melody of architecture is its soul, the spirit of the place.
CREDITS
Photos of the sets of sit candlesticks were created by Tom Rossiter.
Doug Snower shot the AnnaMae restaurant.
The Oak Street Gallery shot is by Ms. Archer.
The watercolor painting is the artist's portrait of AnnaMae.
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