Intermediaries

This set of cups, saucers and sugars is entirely handmade from carved and superimposed sheets of goatskin parchment. Intermediaries is a study into the ornamental terpnopoietic (that which procures pleasure). This reflection on the ornamental reposes on the theory of the historian Oleg Grabar which presents the ornamental as an intermediary between the spectator and the work of art. Matéo Crémades explores, through the use of ornamentation, this transformation of the ordinary to the extraordinary, from the object to the work of art.