Texture You Want to Touch

These Eastern repousse panels are designed to function as sliding pocket doors to cover a large media screen on board the 69 meter super yacht, Samaya. In the original sample I was commissioned to create in 2016, I translated the client’s and the interior design company’s vision of sea turtles, which were inspired by aboriginal art, into dimensional hammered relief in copper. The client liked the variety of circular textures, so as I went from the 30 cm x 30 cm  sample to 1.1 meter x 2.1 meter door panels, the marks ranged from the smallest Eastern repousse planishing tool to conventional planishing hammers.

The texture on the shells took a little over two weeks to complete, not including the planishing and outlining work my studio assistant De Pastel did on the hundreds of higher domes. This project was truly a labor of love. Fortunately, billionaire clients tend to appreciate perfection.

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