Notre Dame Fighting Irish Cane 1
Notre Dame Fighting Irish Cane 2
Notre Dame Fighting Irish Cane 3
Notre Dame Fighting Irish Cane 4

Notre Dame Fighting Irish Cane

$350

The customer asked me to design a cane featuring various of the statuary and architectural elements of the Notre Dame University. The first photo shows me with the 3 inch thick maple "ball bat" that I sculpted the cane from, no sandwiched/glued together skinny boards, one solid chunk of wood. Happily, the customer like Antoni Gaudi's architecture in Barcelona Spain as well as I do, so I patterned the cane with it's oval porticos to receive the oval cartouches in the manner of Gaudi's amazingly original organic architecture. After I left 70 percent of the baseball bat on the floor as scraps, I then applied 23 karat gold leaf to all of the cartouches and then patinated them to make the images more easily visible, and that's all folks!!!

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ralph mitchell

ralph mitchell

furnishings of intoxicating beauty

butler, OH
Member since: 2013
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Working alone, I state working alone because nearly everything that I design and make are works of art made by me alone and signed by me for 20+ years, Ralph produces furnishings and signs rebelling against "mechanical mediocrity" refusing to work within the limitations imposed by machines and produce objets d'art which can only be accomplished with many hours/days/weeks/months of hand tooling.
To summarize, I am an artisan, not merely a furniture maker. Thank you for your interest in my fascination.

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