{"id":21541,"date":"2014-04-24T06:28:58","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T11:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=21541"},"modified":"2014-04-17T07:27:14","modified_gmt":"2014-04-17T12:27:14","slug":"artist-andre-lassen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=21541","title":{"rendered":"Artist Andre Lassen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/batdesk-e1397734492740-150x141.jpg\" alt=\"Bat Desk\" width=\"150\" height=\"141\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>Your mind had better give me cab fare, because I&#8217;m about to blow it.<\/p>\n<p>Intrepid commenter Pixel Pixie pointed me at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raven-armoury.co.uk\/index.html\">Raven Armoury<\/a>, which sells all sorts of amazing hand-forged swords, knives, jewelry, and sculptures.  Specifically, she mentioned the gorgeous (and, it pretty much goes without saying, insanely expensive), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raven-armoury.co.uk\/lassenset.htm\">skeleton cutlery<\/a> that they offer.  Although made by Raven, the pieces were designed by Andre Lassen, so I checked out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andrelassen.com\/\">his site<\/a> and whoa, Nelly; we have found a kindred spirit.<\/p>\n<p>In his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andrelassen.nl\/bio.html\">bio<\/a> he describes growing up being fascinated by arms and weaponry; at ten years old, a movie about the French Revolution inspired him to make model (working) guillotines.  He&#8217;s friends with H.R. Giger and has fabricated pieces that Giger designed.  He now owns The Tribe Gallery in Amsterdam, and sells his work there (and <em>possibly<\/em> takes commissions online as well; the site is a little unclear).<\/p>\n<p>The site, to engage in riotous understatement, is a little hard to navigate.  It&#8217;s worth persevering, though, because he has some insanely gorgeous stuff: Sculptures, knives and swords, jewelry, guitars (one of which Blondie played), and furniture.  His overall style, including the decorative detailing on his weapons, puts me in mind of <i>Conan<\/i>-era Frazetta, with overtones of Lovecraft.<\/p>\n<p>In particular, check out the gallery for his hand-carved wooden <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andrelassen.nl\/desk_Album\/index.html\">bat desk<\/a> and matching chair.  It has shot to the very top of my list of things I&#8217;ll own if I ever win the lottery.<\/p>\n<p>Also worth a look is the &#8220;Film&#8221; section of his portfolio, which has a bunch of in-progress pictures for props that he built.  They&#8217;d be a great source of inspiration for props or crafting.<\/p>\n<p><i>(Thanks, Pixel Pixie!)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your mind had better give me cab fare, because I&#8217;m about to blow it. Intrepid commenter Pixel Pixie pointed me at Raven Armoury, which sells all sorts of amazing hand-forged swords, knives, jewelry, and sculptures. Specifically, she mentioned the gorgeous (and, it pretty much goes without saying, insanely expensive), skeleton cutlery that they offer. Although [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-needful-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21541"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21586,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21541\/revisions\/21586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}